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MoM Approval of AGM 2020

1.1 Executive Summary ...... 9 1.2 Message from Chair (2020) ...... 10 1.3 Section Executive Committee Member List ...... 11 1.4 Section Highlights ...... 12 1.5 Major Events (International, National) ...... 12 1.5.1 IEEE Storage and Data Summit (IEEE DSS 2020) ...... 12 1.5.2 Bangalore Technology Conclave (BTC) ...... 13 1.5.3 Bangalore – Humanitarian Technology Conference (B-HTC) ...... 14 1.5.4 5G World Forum ...... 17 1.5.5 CONECCT 2020 (2-4 Jul) ...... 19 1.6 Major Chapter Activities ...... 22 1.6.1 Chapter chair meeting ...... 22 1.6.2 Organizing Technical Track in IEEE CONECCT 2020 ...... 22 1.6.3 Resolving/Reviving the Issue with the Society Chapters ...... 22 1.6.4 Opening New Society Chapters ...... 23 1.6.5 New Chapter & Affinity Group ...... 23 1.6.6 Financial Support to the Chapters ...... 23 1.7 Major Student and Affinity Group Activities ...... 24 1.7.1 Student Activities ...... 24 1.7.1.1 Gurukul ...... 24 1.7.1.1 Branch Counsellor Meet ...... 24 1.7.1.2 District Coordinators Meeting ...... 24 1.7.1.3 Student Humanitarian Technology Project Funding ...... 26 1.7.2 Affinity Group Activity ...... 26 1.7.2.1 Women in Engineering (WIE) ...... 26 1.8 Major Awards and Recognition ...... 27 1.8.1 Award Received by the Section ...... 27 1.8.2 Award Received by Individual members in Section ...... 27 1.8.3 Special Recognition of the Individual Members in Section ...... 29 1.8.4 National and Global IEEE Level Representation and Achievement of Individual Members from Section 30 1.9 Financial Report ...... 33 1.9.1 Summary (as per submitted on NetSuite) ...... 35 1.9.2 Any other financial activities ...... 37 2.1 Membership Development Activities ...... 43 2.1.1 Total number of active members in the past 3 years ...... 43 2.2 Summary and evidence of work done to improve the value of membership, which leads to retention and growth of members ...... 45 2.2.1.1 Efforts in Senior Member Elevation ...... 45

2.2.1.2 Virtual IEEE Conclave for Non-IEEE Faculty Members (25 Apr 2020) ...... 54 2.2.1.3 Virtual Student Conclave for Non IEEE Students, (9 May 2020) ...... 55 2.2.1.4 Mission-2020 Challenge Competition (Membership Development) ...... 56 2.2.1.5 Membership Drive ...... 56 2.3 Chapter Activities ...... 56 2.3.1 Total number of Chapters in the Section ...... 56 2.3.2 Number of Chapters formed in the current year ...... 57 2.3.3 Number of active Chapters (Chapters who have reported required number of meetings during the year) 57 2.3.4 Summary of Chapter activities (Chapter wise with attachment table/information) ...... 58 2.3.4.1 AEROSPACE & ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS SOCIETY (AESS) ...... 58 2.3.4.2 ...... 59 2.3.4.3 AP-MTT Joint Chapter ...... 59 2.3.4.4 Circuit and System Society (CASS) Bangalore Chapter ...... 61 2.3.4.5 Control Systems Society ...... 63 2.3.4.6 Communication Society (ComSoc) - Bangalore Chapter ...... 64 2.3.4.7 Computer Society Bangalore Chapter ...... 66 2.3.4.8 Computer Intelligence Society Chapter ...... 70 2.3.4.9 Consumer Electronics, now consumer technology society (CTSoc) ...... 73 2.3.4.10 Education Society ...... 74 2.3.4.11 Electronics Packaging Society (EPS) ...... 75 2.3.4.12 Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) ...... 76 2.3.4.13 GRSS Bangalore Section ...... 77 2.3.4.14 Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Bangalore Chapter IE13 ...... 78 2.3.4.15 Power and Energy Society (PES) Bangalore Chapter ...... 80 2.3.4.16 Power Electronics Society (PELS) Bangalore Chapter (PEL35 - CH10805) ...... 83 2.3.4.17 Photonics Society Bangalore Chapter ...... 85 2.3.4.18 Robotics and Automation Society Chapter ...... 87 2.3.4.19 Sensors Council ...... 88 2.3.4.20 SSIT ES Joint Bangalore chapter ...... 90 2.3.4.21 Signal Processing Society (SPS) ...... 91 2.3.4.22 Technology and Management Society (TEMS) Bangalore Chapter ...... 92 2.3.4.23 Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) ...... 92 2.4 Professional and Continuing Education Activities ...... 93 2.4.1 Reach the Locals R10 program initiative taken up at Mangalore Sub-section ...... 93 2.4.2 Webinar and Workshops Series ...... 94 2.4.3 EAC and PAC ...... 97 2.5 Students Activities ...... 97 2.5.1 Total number of Student Branches in the Section ...... 97 2.5.2 Number of Student Branches formed in the current year ...... 98 2.5.3 New SB Chapter: 31 ...... 99 2.5.4 New WiE AG: 04 ...... 101

2.5.5 Section level student activities (student congress, paper and other contests, awards etc) ...... 101 2.5.5.1 IEEE BLR SAC Learning Series: Virtual Mode, 26 Apr – 1 May 2020 (6-7 PM ) ...... 101 2.5.5.2 Virtual Student Conclave for Non IEEE Students ...... 101 2.5.6 Summary of Student Branch activities (Student Branch wise with attachment table/information) ..... 105 2.5.6.1 Amrita School of Engineering ...... 105 2.5.6.2 ATME College of Engineering ...... 105 2.5.6.3 Atria Institute of Technology, Bengaluru ...... 106 2.5.6.4 B M Sreenevasiah College of Engineering ...... 106 2.5.6.5 Ballari Institute of Technology and Management...... 106 2.5.6.6 Bangalore Institute of Technology, Bangalore ...... 107 2.5.6.7 Basaveshwar Engineering College IEEE 35261 Student branch ...... 107 2.5.6.8 BLDEACET IEEE STUDENT BRANCH ...... 108 2.5.6.9 IEEE Student Branch BMSIT & MDE ...... 108 2.5.6.10 IEEE-BNMIT Student Branch ...... 109 2.5.6.11 CAMBRIDGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ...... 109 2.5.6.12 CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF KARNATAKA ...... 110 2.5.6.13 IEEE CMRIT Student Branch ...... 110 2.5.6.14 GSSS Institute of Engineering and Technology for Women, Mysuru ...... 111 2.5.6.15 IEEE IISc Student Branch ...... 111 2.5.6.16 IEEE Student Branch Jyothy Institute of Technology ...... 112 2.5.6.17 K S INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ...... 112 2.5.6.18 K S SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT ...... 113 2.5.6.19 KLS‘s Gogte Institute of Technology ...... 113 2.5.6.20 Kristu Jayanti College ...... 114 2.5.6.21 MALNAD COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING - Hassan ...... 114 2.5.6.22 IEEE STUDENT BRANCH MANIPAL ...... 115 2.5.6.23 The National Institute of Engineering – Mysore ...... 115 2.5.6.24 NIE Institute of Technology ...... 116 2.5.6.25 NITK IEEE Student Branch ...... 116 2.5.6.26 PACE IEEE STUDENT BRANCH ...... 117 2.5.6.27 PES Institute Of Technology (PESIT) ...... 117 2.5.6.28 IEEE PESCE Mandya Student Branch ...... 118 2.5.6.29 Ramaiah Institute of Technology ...... 118 2.5.6.30 IEEE Student Branch RNSIT ...... 119 2.5.6.31 REVA University ...... 119 2.5.6.32 Rashtreeya Vidyalaya College Engineering ...... 119 2.5.6.33 SAMBHRAM INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ...... 120 2.5.6.34 IEEE SJCE ...... 120 2.5.6.35 Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology ...... 121 2.5.6.36 VVIET IEEE STUDENT BRANCH ...... 121 2.5.6.37 IEEE Student Branch- The National College, Jayanagar ...... 122 2.5.6.38 University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (IEEE UVCE) ...... 122

2.5.6.39 Sai Vidya Institute of Technology ...... 123 2.5.6.40 KLE Dr. MSSCET Belagavi IEEE Student Branch ...... 123 2.6 Affinity Group Activities ...... 124 2.6.1 Young Professional (YP) ...... 124 2.6.2 Women in Engineering (WIE) ...... 125 2.6.3 Life Member (LM) ...... 131 2.7 Awards & Recognition Activities ...... 132 2.7.1 Award constituted by the Section for the Volunteers and the Chapters and SBs ...... 132 2.7.2 Special Recognition for the ExeCom Volunteers in the Constrained Situation of Pandemic ...... 133 2.7.3 Industry Awards Constituted by the Section to Recognize Significant Contribution in the Field of Technology ...... 134 2.7.4 First time IEEE Journal Author Recognition-2020 of The Section ...... 139 2.8 Communication Activities (Newsletter, Home Page, E-mail etc.) ...... 139 2.8.1 Newsletter (name and number of issues in the year) ...... 139 2.8.2 Home Page of the Section (give the URL and how often it is updated) ...... 143 2.8.2.1 ECIM Year end report ...... 143 2.8.3 Other means of contacts with Section members including social media ...... 145 2.9 Industry Relations ...... 145 2.9.1 Membership growth and retention ...... 146 2.9.2 Activities for/with industrial members ...... 146 2.9.2.1 IEEE Bangalore Section International Speaker Series ...... 146 2.10 Humanitarian Technology Activities ...... 147 2.10.1 Humanitarian Technology related activities supported by the Section including collaboration with other OUs. 147 2.10.2 SIGHT Activities ...... 147 2.11 Community Activities ...... 149 2.11.1 IEEE Social activities (Family day, IEEE day, Engineers Week)‖ ...... 149 3.1 Special Events...... 150 3.2 Relationship with National and International Societies and Non-Government Organizations (NGO) .... 150 3.3 Details of joint activities ...... 150 3.4 Collaboration with other IEEE Sections ...... 150 3.4.1 Joint activities with any other Section ...... 150 3.4.1.1 International Collaboration ...... 150 3.4.1.2 India Council Joint Event ...... 151 3.4.2 Support extended to Sub-sections & Society Chapters within the Section ...... 151 3.4.2.1 Joint activity with subsection ...... 151 3.4.2.2 Support extended for organising technical, educational and professional activities ...... 152 3.4.3 Joint activities for membership development ...... 154 3.4.4 Support extended for the formation of a Sub-section or transition of a Sub-section into a full Section 154 3.4.4.1 North Karnataka Subsection ...... 154 3.4.4.2 Mysore Subsection ...... 154

3.5 Best Practices of your Section (which you would like to share with other Sections for the benefits of members) ...... 155 3.6 Problems anticipated and suggestions for solutions, if any ...... 156 3.6.1 Renewal (retention) of Membership ...... 156 4.1 Continuation of project/activity in progress and their implementation plans ...... 157 4.2 Goals and Future Plans ...... 157 4.3 Any innovative ideas to make IEEE more creative and value added for sustaining the membership retention and recruitment goals...... 158 4.4 Business Plan for Sustainable Growth and Financial Stability...... 158

Approval of AGM 2020

Minutes of AGM 2020 held on January 5th, 2020 at RIT, Bangalore

Secretary, Rajashekhar presented report on activities of 2019. He gave few highlights of the year. Some of them are:  As on Dec 31st, we are the second largest section in India, sixth globally.  More than 1250 technical events reported.  Academic projects support and travel grants increased.  Webinars & TechIcon series introduced and well received.  Technically sponsored 8 International conferences in 2019.  Section will be hosting R10 HTC event in 2021

He explained some of the improvement areas in terms of governance, compliance, trainings etc. An overview of events organized by section has been given. Also, awards & recognitions received by section and its members has been shown. The motion for acceptance of secretary report is tabled and it is accepted by Mr Rajarao and seconded by Dr Manohar Pai. Section treasurer Sadhana gave presentation of the 2019 Financial Report. Section has a healthy financial position. A good amount of money has been given for SB & chapter support apart from HQ support. Mr Gopal Rao requested for breakup of all expenses. This has been shown to the entire audience and member accepted the explanation. Mr Basavaraj had a query on SB support and periodicity of disbursement. Sadhana explained the process and systems in place. Dr Ramakrishna requested a clarification on differences in 2018 & 2019 HQ support amount. The same has been explained by Puneet to the satisfaction of members. The motion for acceptance is proposed by Mr Gopalrao and seconded by Mr Harish Mysore. A motion has been tabled for reappointing of Auditor Usha and Associates as Auditor of IEEE Bangalore Section for the year 2020 for the same fees of 2019. It has been accepted by members. Dr D Das has accepted the motion and seconded by Prof KVS Hari. Mr Abhishek Appaji, SIGHT Chair gave overview of YP, WiE and SIGHT activities of 2019 and Dr Chandrakantha Chapters-Coordinator gave a report on Chapters' activities. SAC Coordinators Prof. Shrikant Tangde and Prof Raghavendra Prasad reported on Student branches activities. Dr Manohar Pai & Dr UC Naranjan presented Mangalore Sub-section activities of 2019 and vision for 2020. Dr NVR Naidu, Principal RIT, gave overview of host Institution and explained their support for IEEE and other technical activities. Dr Naidu has been felicitated by the EXECom for his support for Bangalore section.

Awards Presentation: Mr Puneet Mishra, Awards Committee Chair 2019 handled the session. The following are the awards and are presented to the recipients.  Medal of Honor: Dr. V K Atre  Most Promising Student Branches: BMS Institute of Technology & Managmenet Bangalore and Cambridge Institute of Technology, Bangalore  Outstanding Large Chapter: WIE Afiinity Group  Outstanding Large Student Branch: BMSCE, Bangalore  Outstanding Large SB Branch Counselors: Kiran K., UVCE Bangalore & M S Bhat, NITK  Outstanding Medium Chapter: Computational Intelligence Society Chapter  Outstanding Medium Student Branches: RIT, Bangalore & GSSSIET for Women, Mysore  Outstanding Medium Student Branch Counselor: Manjula Raja, BIT&M Ballari  Outstanding Small Chapter: TEMS Chapter  Outstanding Small Student Branch: SIT Tumkur  Outstanding Small Branch Councilor: Jaysudha B S K, KSIT, Bangalore

 Outstanding Student Branch Websites: SJCE, Mysore & SSIT Tumkur  Outstanding Student Volunteers: Shashank Simha R, NIE Mysore, Mahith Shetty, UVCE Bangalore, Sneha, CUK Gulbarga, Rosa A George, NITK Surathkal, Prashant Patil, BEC Bagalkot  Outstanding WIE Volunteer: D N Sujatha  Outstanding YP Volunteer: Dr. Ashwini Appaji  Outstanding Volunteers: Abhishek Mahesh Appaji & Shrikant S Tangade

The immediate Past Chair Mr. Sudeendra Kaushik is felicitated for his services.

Slate Nomination Committee Chair, Sudeendra Kaushik presented 2020 Slate. He explained the process and discussions that have been made by the committee before finalizing the slate.

Secretary Rajashekhar informed the audience that no petitions have been received. Hence slate committee recommendations are formally ratified by AGM.

Execom for 2020 Chair Mr Puneet Kumar Mishra Chair-Elect Dr. Bindhumadhava Vice Chair Ms Divya M Secretary Dr Navin Kumar Treasurer Dr Prasant Misra Members: Mr. Rajashekhar S Dr. Abhishek Appaji Dr. Chandrakanta Kumar Dr. Shrikant Tangade Dr. Pushpamala Mr Mahesh Varier Ms Ashwini Holla Ms Vasantha Erraguntla Dr. Krishna Kumar M Dr. Soma Pandey Mr Jibin Sabu Mr Chengappa M R Mr Manjunath Iyer Dr. V. N. Muralidhara Ms Krishna Paul

Mr Puneet Mishra, Chair for 2020 explained his vision for 2020. His proposed ways of involving members towards Mission 2020 and how to transform Bangalore section to be the largest section globally and to be recognised across for its activities.

Dr Ravikumar, Vice-Chair proposed Vote of Thanks. Members disbursed for lunch at 1.00 pm.

PART A - SECTION SUMMARY

1.1 Executive Summary

Bangalore section is one of the dynamic and most vibrant sections not only in India but at global level. Our volunteers show the professionalism in the activities and task they perform. Volunteers of the section have been engaging and volunteering at region and global level. With overall membership of close to around 10,000; section remains on top 4 positions in the world. Leveraging the benefits of industrial hub, a very good representation from industry is visible. At the same time, student representations and professional from academia is equally balanced. During this year, we could add 3-society, 1-chapter got revived and another approved, pending official letter. One affinity group also got formed this year. 15 student branches and many student branch chapters too formed and many of them got revived this year. While the global trend of membership has seen a decline of around 6% overall, the section has gained 8% in the membership as compared to year 2019. The year 2020 started with AGM where slate committee elected 25 volunteers with Mr Puneet Kumar Mishra as the chair. The chair has very rich experience of volunteering. He thanked the past team and slate committee and highlighted his task for the year as Mission 2020. He set many goals for the year and gave a brief of them in the very first ExCom meeting on the same day. The team accepted the challenge and assured him the full support. Some of the key achievements during the year are: Formation of two sub-sections (North Karnataka and Mysore); Maintaining the membership growth rate even during this economic slow down and pandemic (almost whole year); initiated new international conference like Bangalore- Humanitarian Technology Conference (B-HTC); reviving and giving different dimension of flagship conference CONECCT 2020; shaping another flagship conference of SmarTech to Bangalore Technology Conclave (BTC), and many more. We also would like to highlight that creating portfolio as district coordinator (DC) has been very effective and we now have over 12 DCs from rural area colleges to connect whole of the Karnataka region. Additionally, formation of two subsections would also something to be recognized. We believe, section has taken most advantage of pandemic by organizing over 100 expert technical seminars and many educational training, workshops, hackathon, challenges conducted online. We ensured the design of program to catered for all grades of membership. All these activities and past performance helped the section to receive many BEST/FIRST awards at region and global level. Many of our volunteers are recognized as outstanding. We believe, even in the pandemic situation, the section has performed extremely well under the chairmanship of Mr Puneet Kumar Mishra. His team has given full support to bring to this level. At the same time, all members and IEEE office staff in Bangalore, who has extended full support to us. The ExCom would like to thank all the members (professionals and students) and their families who have given full support and freedom to do our best. We would also like to thank IEEE office staff for their cooperation and support. We extend our gratitude to all staffs and associates who are helping Bangalore section directly or indirectly.

1.2 Message from Chair (2020)

Dear Members, At AGM 2020 on January 5, 2020, I have identified 10 action points to be accomplished in the year 2020 in mission mode namely #Mission 2020. I am happy to share that we performed exceedingly well in all the 10 action points. Following is the brief Summary of performance on those 10 action points 1. With 9521 members as on Dec 31, 2020, Section is No.1 Section in India, No. 2 in R10 and No. 4 among 342 sections across Globe. This is the highest membership achieved by section since its inception. For the first time we have more than 3400+ Professional Members, 940+ Senior Members and 1000+ Graduate Student Members. 2. A Record number of 57 New Organization Units (2 New Subsections, 4 Society Chapters, 15 New Student Branches, 32 Student Branch Chapters, 4 Student Branch Affinity Groups) were created in last 1 year. 3. As part of digital transformation, a revamped section website, payment gateway integrated event registration portal having member authentication feature, online TCS Application form, online reimbursement portal, daily update of activities on all Social Media plateformes (Facebook, twitter, instagram, linkedin, youtube). 4. To keep members engaged and motivated, Bangalore section initiated pioneering Webinar Series on daily basis during lockdown period and conducted 166 webinars. Content of all these webinars are also uploaded in section you tube channel and more than 10,000 views with 693 hours of view time are registered. This is huge and satisfying milestone achieved in short span of time. 5. Section has conceived and successfully organized 4 Flagship programs namely: 1. Bangalore- Humanitarian Technology Conference, Bangalore Technology Conclave, WiE Global Summit and YP Global Summit. All these events were huge success and attended by doyens of respective fileds. Cumulative attendance in all these events were close to 3000 delegates. 6. CONECCT scope was increased and chapters and AGs were encouraged to utilize the CONECCT plateform to organize and host a dedicated track in their respective field. 2020 CONECCT had 15 technical tracks and 4 special tracks involving 12 chapters and affinity groups. 7. Section has initiated Student Humanitarian Technology Project Funding and funded 72 such project with overall funding of 3,60,000 to 21 SBs. Also, with sections proactive efforts IEEE MOVE initiated will be implemented in India under the aegis of India office. 8. As part of Industry Engagement, 3 new Industry awards (Technology Team, Technology Corporate (Large) and Technology Corporate (Medium) is added) are being added and a new series of Industry Focused Bangalore Technology Conclave is successfully organized where more than 25 Industry CEOs/CTOs participated and shared their expertise. Under International Industry Webinar series, 10 webinars were organized involving international industry experts. 9. As part of member engagement and creation of new avenues for volunteering, Distric coordinators, Membership development chairs were appointed in each district and student branches respectively. 10. To further align section bylaws w.r.t. MGA operation manual and to keep section volunteers ready for global position (which mostly involve election), bylaws amendment is proposed and will be taken during AGM of 2021. In the proposed amendment, election process is being proposed for Chair-Elect position and more freedom is provided to chair in deciding EXECOM members.

When I am writing this message I feel contended and satisfied. I am sure with above pathbreaking initiatives section will continue to be the model section for others to learn and implement the best practices of Bangalore Section. We are just 350 member short of global no 2 position and 2000 member short of No.1 position. I am sure we can achieve both in 2021. Wishing you and your Family a happy, healthy and prosperous new year.

With Regards Puneet Kumar Mishra Chair, IEEE Bangalore Section

1.3 Section Executive Committee Member List

S.No. Name 2020 1 Mr. Puneet Kumar Mishra: Chair 2 Dr. Bindhumadhava: Chair Elect 3 Dr. Prasant Misra: Treasurer 4 Dr. Navin Kumar: Secretary 5 Ms. Divya M G: Vice Chair

6 Dr. Chandrakanta Kumar: Member 7 Dr. Abhishek Appaji: Member 8 Dr. Shrikant Tangade: Member 9 Dr. Pushpamala: Member 10 Mr. Mahesh Varier: Member 11 Ms. Ashwini Holla: Member 12 Ms. Vasantha Erraguntla: Member 13 Dr. Krishna Kumar M: Member 14 Dr. Soma Pandey: Member 15 Mr. Chengappa M R: Member 17 Mr. Manjunath Iyer: Member 18 Dr. V. N. Muralidhara: Member 19 Mr. Rajashekhar S: Member 20 Mr. Narayan Subramanian: Member 21 Dr. Ashok Das: Member 22 Dr. Raghvendra Prasad S.G: Member 23 Dr. Sujatha D N: Member 24 Dr. Sunil Vuppala: Member 25 Ms. Sadhana Attavar: Member 26 Dr. Ashwini Appaji: Member

IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIRS 28 Mr. Keshav Bapat (2019) 29 Dr. Sudeendra Kaushik (2018)

SPECIAL INVITEES 30 Prof. Lawrence Jenkins 31 Mr. Harish Mysore 32 Mr. Prasad Mantri 33 Mr. Kishor Sharma 34 Mr. Kundan Kumar 35. Mr. Ruthvik Raj

1.4 Section Highlights

Year 2020 has been very productive, fruitful, numerous recognitions and awards even during pandemic. Bangalore Section, the winner of ‗2019 the Outstanding Large Section Award‘ among 337 sections across the globe; R10 ‗2020 Outstanding Large Section‘ award; R10 ‗2020 Young Professionals Outstanding Section Affinity Group‘ award and; 3-individual best volunteer award for the year 2020 has always been in the forefront. Getting five recognition and awards out of 17 different awards shows the volunteer‘s professionalism as well as the section‘s dynamism. From India council as well, the section has received many awards in 2020. Section is also delighted to see the chair of India council for 2022, Prof Debabrata Das, who has been past chair of this section. Similarly, many of our past chairs Prof K V S Hari who is now volunteering at the global level.Furthermore, Mr Ravikiran, Dr Sudheendra Kousik, Dr Ramakrishanan and many others are volunteering at regional and global levels at various capacities. During 2020, the section visibility has reached to a great height, be it at domestic level or international level. IEEE leaders from across the globe look for the Bangalore section and appreciate our achievements. The section volunteers and members are very supportive, dynamic and committed. In 2020, while IEEE at global level has seen a decline of 5-6% in the membership, but the Bangalore section has grown by close to over 7-8%. Thanks to members of all grades who have shown faith and believe in volunteers, activities carried out for the entire society and IEEE at large. Section has very quickly adapted to the new normal of working, delivering the technical content through webinar, engaging volunteers of all grades, designing programs and arranging world class speakers and professional to interact with many young and new members. In this pandemic situation, the section has in fact, became the role model in IEEE as a whole. A couple of section‘s conferences organized has not only attracted the largest audience so far, but also conducted in such professional way not less effective than the physical conference. Many existing conferences like flagship conference of the section CONECCT 2020 (July), a new initiatives of IEEE Bangalore Humanitarian Technology Conference (https://ieeebangalore.org/bhtc/) Oct 2020, Bangalore Technology Conclave (Dec 2020) and many others witnessed a very large number of audience and international speakers. Similarly, flagship conference of IEEE future network initiatives ‗5G World Forum‘ (Sep 2020) (https://ieee-wf-5g.org/) jointly organized by the section found a large number of volunteers from the section in organizing and getting involved in the event, which is again a virtual. Group of international experts joined the section during April 13th to 23rd to share their thought on the way forward to deliver the urban amenities to the rural areas to a larger audience through webinar series. Similarly, section accommodates a large number of students. During this situation, we arranged ―Gurukul‖ (taken from Sanskrit – ―Place for Learning‖). Under Gurukul, we arranged flagship webinar series addressing any gap in learning of the final and pre-final year engineering graduates. Section arranged learning webinar series for over 30 days, 2-4 hrs everyday and covering range of courses and topics from electronics, to signal processing and artificial intelligence. For this, a pool of university professors came forward to deliver the webinar. This webinar was kept open for non IEEE student member as well. Over 1000 students attended and learnt. There are numerous unique initiatives to support present chair section objective of ‗Mission 2020‘. Through a verities of ideas, concepts, engagements; we are following our objective.

1.5 Major Events (International, National)

1.5.1 IEEE Storage and Data Summit (IEEE DSS 2020) https://dss-2020.ieeebangalore.org/ Organized an industry specific event called "Data & Storage Summit", connecting technology leaders across various segments of the data management and storage world. This two-day summit brought together technology leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs & thought provokers who are passionate about addressing impactful problems by turning ideas into solutions. Industry stalwarts and technology practitioners, together shared their vision on future technologies and how they will impact our way of working and living. This event is sponsored by Huawei technology India and going forward next year, we expect more and more such events to take place in IEEE Bangalore section banner.

This event has industry representation from Huawei, SODA, SNIA, Coughlin Associates, Google, Nutanix, RelianceJio, HPE, Intel, Walmart, Lendingkart, and an array of professors from the leading universities like IISc, IITB, IITD, University of Utah, University of Southern California.

1.5.2 Bangalore Technology Conclave (BTC)

Home - Bangalore Technology Conclave 2020 (ieeebangalore.org) (3-7 Nov 2020) IEEE Bangalore Section has initiated a new Industry focused mega event, namely Bangalore Technology Conclave from 3-7 Nov 2020. BTC objective is to bring together technology leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs & thought provokers who are passionate about addressing impactful problems by turning ideas into solutions. Industry stalwarts and technology practitioners, together, will share their vision on future technologies and how they will impact our way of working and living. The conclave is exclusively focused on Artificial Intelligence Technologies. It is designed with 4 tracks AI in Industry, Advances in AI, AI in Health Care/AI for Social Good and Ethical AI. BTC had following 4 main components: Thematic Bangalore Technology Conclave(BTC) (This year Theme is "AI For All") on Nov 3-4, 2020. Two Sessions each day [Morning: 8AM-11.30 AM IST, Evening: 6PM-9PM IST]. 2020 IEEE President and CEO Prof. Toshio Fukuda inaugurated the conclave. Women in Engineering Global Summit (WiEGS) on Nov 5, 2020 [Morning: 8AM-11.00 AM IST, Evening: 5.30PM-9PM IST followed by Cultural Dance using AI]. 2021 IEEE President and CEO Ms. Susan Kathy Land inaugurate the Summit. Workshop on Space and Defense Technology on Nov 6 [Morning: 8AM-1.00 PM IST]. 2020-2021 IEEE AESS President, Dr. Walter Downing inaugurated the Workshop. Young Professionals Global Summit (YPGS) on Nov 6-7, 2020 [ Nov 6, Evening: 5.30PM-9PM IST, Nov 7, 2020 [8.30 AM to 8.30 PM IST]. The conclave includes keynote addresses, plenary talk and Panel discussions from eminently personalities. We could arrange 50+ Plenary/Keynote/Panel Speakers to deliver their talk and provide their perspective on different topics.Targeted audiences are from Corporate, Academia, and Industry. We could lined up Who's who from the Industry to deliver Keynote and share their perspective as panel speaker. Keynote speakers for BTC were as following:

 Prof. Toshio Fukuda, 2020 IEEE President and CEO  Rajeev Rastogi, VP, Amazon India  Ravi Vijayraghavan, VP & Head-Analytics and Decision Science, Flipkart  Shailesh Kumar, Sr. VP, Reliance Jio  Vishal Chahal, AP Leader, IBM Data Warehouse & AI  Hans Hofstraat, VP, Philips Research, Royal Philips, Netherlands  Mallik Tatipamula, CTO, Silicon Valley, Ericsson R&D  Vinay Jammu, VP, GE Digital  Suparna Bhattacharya, Distinguished Technologist, HPE  Ajay Sharma, Sr. Director, Walmart LABS  Nishant Chandra, Sr. Director, VISA  Manish Gupta, Director, Google Research  Narayanan Subramanian, Technology Leader, Nutanix  Katina Michael, ASU, USA  Rajkumar Buyya, UoM, Australia  Amardeep Lakhtakia, MD, Delloit  Prof. U Dinesh Kumar, IIM Bangalore  Neil Sahota, 2021 IEEE TEMS President

Workshop on Space and Defense had 3 sessions: 1. Deep Learning Based RF Target Classification: Recent Results and Technical Challenges by Dr. Uttam K. Majumder, AFRL ,USA, 2. CubeSat for Solar Particles (CuSP) by Walter Downing, President, IEEE AESS and 3. Measurement Facilities for Target Detection, AoA and other defence and space applications by Richard Liu, WavePro. YPGS had focused sessions on 5G, V2X, IoT, computing, semiconductors, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and space and satellite technologies. Following Keynote Speakers participated and delivered the talk:

 Nacer Chahet, JPL, NASA  Quenton Bond, GFSC, NASA  Lorenzo Lo Monte, Chief Scientist, Telephonics  Nicole McFarlane, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN  Taimoor Abbas, CEO, ICV-TECH AB, and Principal researcher at Huawei Technologies  Simay Akar, Chief Commercial Officer, Innoses -Ruiyi (Shanghai).  Nikhil Mathur, Amazon Internet Services Pvt. Ltd  Siddhesh Talokar, R Jio  Regional YP Chairs of all the 10 Regions of IEEE  YP Chairs of all the Indian Sections

1.5.3 Bangalore – Humanitarian Technology Conference (B-HTC) https://ieeebangalore.org/bhtc/ B-HTC has been envisaged as an annual event focused on Humanitarian Technology aspects of IEEE. It is a new initiative of this section and the 2020 edition was the inaugural one. The objective of organising this conference was to explore the use of various technologies in order to improve the life of rural and semi urban people and help in developing a sustainable model to overcome the challenges. The conference focused around the Sustainable Development Goals 2 to 8 and 11 to 15 of the United Nations.In tune with the theme, the conference was initially planned at a smaller city of Bijapur of Karnataka where the people actually lack the penetration of the technology, and the speaker and participants can have first hand interactions with the echo systems. But, due to the pandemic situation this has to be converted into a virtual event and held during October 8-10, 2020. But, representation of all sections of people and stakeholders were ensured. Starting from the ‗Sarpranchs‘ (i.e. village representative) to the top management of Govt. NGOs, Financial Organizations, working in these areas, could express their views as the speakers with Prof. Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Advisor to the Govt. of India, as the chief guest for the inaugural session. More than 50

national/international Plenary/Keynote/Panel Speakers deliberated through the three days and provided their perspective on different topics. This conference has sessions for presenting the contributory papers on the humanitarian technologies revolving around the SDGs. Around 250 contributory papers were received and 98 out of them were selected and presented during the conference. The conference proceeding has been published in IEEE Xplore. The event was highly appreciated by all the participants and the speakers too.

A glimpse of the program can be seen here:

8th Oct'20 8.00-9.00 AM Registration & Virtual Networking Session Inauguration 9:00-9:30 Inaugural Plenary: Prof.K.VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Advisor to Government AM PS1A of India 9:30-10:00 SDGs, Poverty and Covid-19 - The interlinkages: Dr. Harish Hande, Founder, SELCO, AM PS1B Ramon Magsaysay Award Winner 10:00-10:30 If you don‘t measure the Social Impact, does it exist? : Karthik Kulkarni, Chair, IEEE AM PS1C Humaniterain Activities Committee 10:30-11:00 AM Tea Break 11.00-1.00 TS1 TS2 TS3 TS4 1:00-2:00 PM Lunch Break Theme: Sustainable Smart Villages 2:00-2:40 Sustainability 4.0, Prof. Farrokh Mistree, Systems Realization Laboratory, University of PM PS2A Oklahoma, USA Voice of the Stakeholders - Customers: Village Sarpanch: Ajay Singh, Rajeev Narayan, Bhakti Sharma, 2:45-3:30 PS2B Social Entrepreneurs: Amitava Ghosh, Uthara Narayan, Ashok Das Voice of the Stakeholders - Finance: Smart Village Research Group: Sir Brian Heap, Cambridge, UK Government of India: Nagendra Sinha, Secretary Rural Development Rural Bank: Jiji Mammen, Nabard Finance 3:30-4:15 PS2B CSR: Poornima Dore, Naima Orooj, Sandeep Joshi Voice of the Stakeholders - Ecosystem: 4:15-5:00 Prof. D.N. Rao, Prof. John Hall, Ram Pappu, Divjijay Choudhari, Sanjay Patki, PM PS2B Bhagabati Pattnaik 5:00-6:00 PM Tea Break 6:00-6:30 PM PS2C Development of Sustainable Smart Villages, Dr. Hari Sharan, Chairman, DESI Power Workshop on Roadmap for Developing Sustainable Smart Villages: 6:30-8:30 Prof. Farrokh Mistree, Ram Pappu, Sanjay Patki, Sir Brian Heap, Prof. Janet Allen, PM PS2D Ranjit Majumdar, Atul Bhatnagar, Abhishek Yadav 9th Oct'20 Theme: Climate Change 8.00-8.30 Satellite applications for Climate Action by Rajeev Jyoti, Distinguished Scientist & AM PS3A Deputy Director, SAC, ISRO 8:30-9.00 Renewable Energy Policy by V Subramanian, Former Secretary, Ministry of New and AM PS3B Renewable Energy, Govt of India 9:00-9:30 Climate Change by Prof Jayaraman Srinivasan, Distinguished Scientist, Divecha Centre AM PS3C for Climate Change, IISc 9:30 - 9:50 The Climate Crisis and Ethics in Engineering by Narayanan Subramaniam, Director of AM PS3D Engineering, Nutanix 9:50-10:30 YP-Panel Discussion: Millennials as the Torch-bearer for Climate Change: Moderators: AM PS3E Prof Jayaraman Srinivasan and Narayanan Subramaniam 10:30-11:00 AM Tea Break

11.00-1.00 PM TS5 TS6 TS7 TS8 TS9 1:00-2:00 PM Lunch Time 2:00-5:00 PM PS4 Students Humanitarian Technology Project (SHTP) Exhibition Theme: Good Health and Well being Opening Remarks by Track Chair : Jayakrishnan Divakaran (former R&D Engineering 6:00-6.10PM PS5A Manager, Philips Healthcare) Plenary 1: Dr. K. Ganapathy, Director, Appolo Telehealth Services and Telemedicine 6:10-6:30PM PS5B Networking Foundation India 6:30-6:50PM PS5C Plenary 2: Amit Phadnis, Chief Digital Officer, GE Healthcare, USA Plenary 3: Robert Metzke, Head of Sustainability, Strategy and Innovation, Royal 6.50-7.10PM PS5D Philips, Netherlands Plenary 4: Dr.Sanjaya Viswamitra, Head of Radiology, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher 7.10-7.30PM PS5E Medical Sciences and Adjunct Faculty, Centre for Neuroscience IISc Panel Discussion - MedTech, Opportunities and Challenges Panelists: Prof.Sujatha Srinivasan, IIT Chennai; Dr.Akhila Surendran, NISH TVM; Balamurali D (ex-GE), MD 7:30-8:30 Calixto Systems; Prof.H.S.Jamadagni, former chair of CEDT, IISc; Amal Dev, PM PS5F Healthtech Research Lead, IIT Mumbai; Prof. Colin Paul, CS Department, IIT Delhi 8:30-9:30 PM Cultural Program 10th Oct'20 Theme: Sustainable Cities, Connectivity and Industry Innovation 8.00-8.30 MOVE with Purpose: Mary Ellen Randall, Director, IEEE MOVE Community Outreach AM PS6A Program 8:30-9:00 Panel Discussion: Urban Livelihood (Moderator: Daniel Lottis; Panelist: Thaysa AM PS6B Maximo, Blanca Gutierrez, Rohan ) Panel Discussion: Emerging Technologies for Greener Planet (Moderator: Preet Yadav, 9:30-10:30 WIPRO, Panelist: Prof. Ram Gopal Rao, IIT Delhi, Sanjay Gupta, NXP India, Helene AM PS6C Thibieroz, We Grow Green Tech, Prof. Kaushik Ranjan, IIM-L) 10:30-11:00 AM Tea Break 11.00-1.00 PM TS10 TS11 TS12 TS13 2:00-3:30 Workshop on SIGHT/HAC projects - Proposal Development, Project Execution and PM PS7A Impact Assessment - Jayakrishnan Divakaran HAC CoP Lead IEEE HAC Efforts on COVID-19 response: Dr. Supavadee Armvith, Chair, 3.30-3.50PM PS7B Communication Committee, IEEE HAC 3.50-4.15 PM PS7C Applying IoT to Achieve a Sustainable & Smart Agro Storage: Dr. Soma Pandey, RJio 4.15-4.40 Thinking Ecologically about Indian Cities: Prof. Harini Nagendra, Azim Premji PM PS7D University 4.40-5.00 PM PS7E Agriculture 4.0 : Himani Shah, Co-Founder, Intello Labs Theme: Education, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Policy Research 6:00-6:20 PM PS8A Plenary 1: R.Ramanan, Mission Director, Atal Innovation Mission, Govt. of India 6.20-6.40PM PS8B Plenary 2: Dr.Jay Asundi, Centre for study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP) Plenary 3: Dr. S.K Ramesh, Professor and former Dean, California State University, 6.40-7PM PS8C Northridge, USA 7:00-7:30 PM Best Paper Awards and Closing Ceremony

A couple of snap shots from the event and speakers are:

1.5.4 5G World Forum https://ieee-wf-5g.org/ The flagship annual conference of IEEE Future Network Initiative (FNI) the 3rd 5G World Forum although virtual but organized jointly by IEEE Bangalore section during 10-12 Sep 2020. 5GWF‘20 was aimed to bring experts from industry, academia and research to exchange their vision as well as their achieved advances towards 5G and encourage innovative cross-domain studies, research, early deployment and large-scale pilot showcases that address the challenges of 5G. 5G systems should unveil a novel mobile network architecture that not only improves physical data rate, but also creates a new ecosystem allowing the deployment of novel services and applications. A key target is to build a novel network architecture that should support not only classical mobile broadband applications and services but also vertical industry (e.g. Intelligent Transport, Industrial IoT, eHealth, etc.) and other 5G-based services. The conference continued to be registered and viewed by audience on demand for over more than a month and recorded the highest registration so far. Some of the key findings of the conference are:

Key Findings

• Over eight in ten (80%) respondents were satisfied with the 2020 5G World Forum. • Over six in ten (62%) of respondents said not having to travel positively influenced their decision to attend the 2020 5G World Forum. • Nearly half (48%) indicated they are likely to attend the 2021 5G World Forum in North America,assuming global travel has resumed. Much more (79%) said they would attend the 2021 5G World Forum if it is virtual. • Over eight in ten (81%) respondents indicate they are likely to recommend the conference to colleagues. • Eight in ten (80%) respondents attended the 5G World Forum for the first time. Two in ten have attended before either once (13%) or two or more times (7%). • Nearly nine in ten (85%) found the content presented at the 5G World Forum relevant. • About eight in ten (79%) felt the value of the conference was high.

 Nearly nine in ten (87%) respondents who submitted a paper were satisfied with the paper submission process. • Over four in ten (43%) of respondents would have attended the conference if they were not an author or co- author of an accepted paper. • Out of the 9% of respondents that reviewed a paper, all were satisfied with the procedure.

Program: Virtual conference details and overview The 2020 5G World Forum has concluded its live content. However, you can still register and access all live and on-demand content until 2 November 2020. Registration closes 7 October 2020.

Session Descriptions Plenary Keynotes (FREE):Plenary Keynote Speakers

Day 1: Thursday 10 September Day 2: Friday 11 September Gerhard Fettweis, Technische Universität Dresden Vipin Pande, Anritsu Title: 5G Device Testing Title: 6G – Just a better 5G? Wanshi Chen, Qualcomm Title: Propelling 5G Chung-Huan Li & Rong-Chung Liu, WavePro Forward – a close look at R16 and a first look at R17 Title: Compact Antenna Test Range Designs for 5G Sudhir Kayamkulangara, Cisco Engineering Title: FR1/FR2 OTA Tests “Birds of a Feather Flock Together”: New Age Thyaga Nandagopal, US National Science Foundation Transport & Multi-Access Edge Compute Title: AI in 5G Networks: Why, When and How? Sumedha Limaye, Intel Title: 5G Infrastructure & Monisha Ghosh, US Federal Communications technology for New World Commission Adrian Scrase, ETSI Title: The 5C‟s of 5G IoT Title: Blurring the lines between licensed and Benoit Pelletier, Ciena Title: Openness and unlicensed: 6G or 6GHz Collaboration enabling Innovation in the 5G Digital Chih-Lin I, China Mobile Ecosystem Title: The Next Phase of 5G: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities Day 3: Saturday 12 September 5G Technical Paper Tracks Bilel Jamoussi, ITU Standardization Bureau Title: 5G-T1: 5G Technologies 1 Machine Learning for 5G 5G-T2: 5G Technologies 2 Karim Chaari, Airbus Title: Mission Critical Push To 5G-T3: 5G Technologies 3 Talk (MCPTT) & Secure Communications Services 5G-AP: 5G Application and Services Over Broadband (LTE / 5G) for MNO, Governments 5G-SEC: 5G IoT, Security, and Privacy and Industries 5G-EXP: 5G Trials, Experimental Results, and Jorge Pereira, European Commission Title: 5G for Deployment Scenarios Connected and Automated Mobility – Challenges 5G-H: 5G Hardware and Test / Measurements towards Deployment : the Cross-border Corridors use 5G-SVT: 5G Special Verticals and Topicals case Radha Krishna Ganti, TSDSI Title: Low Mobility Large Cell Requirements in 5G Robert Fish, IEEE Title: IEEE Standards Association – A New Era: Raising the World‟s Standards

Workshops Forums and Panels WS1: Workshop on 5G Security: Current Trends, WWIF: 2020 Worldwide 5G Industry Fora Challenges and New Enablers WWIF 1: 2020 Worldwide 5G Industry Fora Panel 1 WS2: Workshop/Industry Panel: 5G Validation Trials WWIF 2: 2020 Worldwide 5G Industry Fora Panel 2 Across Multiple Vertical Industries EIF: Entrepreneurship and Innovations Forum WS3: Workshop on Satellite and Non-Terrestrial IF1: 5G for Industrial IoT and other applications needing Networks for 5G URLLC services: Challenges and the Way Forward WS4: Workshop on 5G: From Theory to Practice IF2: Affordable Broadband Networks: Connecting the (5GToP) Unconnected in 5G & Beyond WS5: Workshop on IMT 2020 Radio Interface IF3: Commercialized and Emerging 5G Mm-Wave Technologies Radiation Technologies and Solutions

5G Topical/Vertical Tracks Tutorials TV 1: AI/ML 5G Applications Tutorials TV 2: 5G E-Health TUT02 – Critical issues, myth and reality of self-driving TV 3: Vertical Testbeds: Designs, Implementation vehicles empowered by 5G Experiences, Obstacles and the role of Open Source TUT03 – Role of Blockchain in Beyond 5G Networks TV 4: Security and Privacy Vertical TUT04 – Neighborhood Discovery for Autonomous TV 5a: 5G and Smart Cities Vertical Driving in Connected and Non-Connected Vehicles

TV 5b: 5G and Smart Cities Vertical TUT05 – eHealth over 5G: A Signal Processing-based TV 6: 5G Mission Critical Solutions for PPDR – approach Public Safety, First Responder and beyond during TUT07 – 5G Technology Survey for Industry 4.0 to cater Covid19 Pandemic to Smart Manufacturing Industry TV 7: 5G Technology that fuels massive- IoT Growth TUT08 – Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency TV 8: Standard and Deployment Communications for Industry 4.0 TV 9: 5G-Satellite Vertical Core 5G Tutorials TV 10: Dialogues between 5G and Vertical Domains TUT06 – Free space optics: Potentials, challenges, and Demonstrations: perspectives Intelligent Reconfigurable Wideband Spectrum TUT09 – 5G Functional Splits for vRAN and Future RAN Characterization for 5G Applications Cloudification Voice-enabled Mobile Clinical Prescribing Systems TUT10 – Private 5G – trends and architecture evolution for 5G Networks TUT11 – Wireless Virtualization for Enhancing Network A Novel way to provide Post Quantum Cryptography Capacity, Coverage, Energy Efficiency and Security or enabled Security Protocols in 5G Deployments 5G and Beyond 5G networks and hybrid positioning by real-time TUT12 – Challenges and Opportunities in the Analysis kinematic (RTK) technique are combined to support and Optimization of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks new 5G services for drones and vehicles TUT13 – Beyond Massive MIMO — Promising Research An Emulation Framework for End-to-End 5G Directions for Antenna Arrays Systems TUT14 – Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications Accenture 5G Network Planner (URLLC) in 5G: From Theory to Reality Turkish Cross Border Corridor Pilot Demo(5G V2X TUT15 – Practical approach to 5G Network slicing Greek) and Portugal Cross Border Corridor Pilot TUT16 – Narrow-Band Wireless Wide-Area Network Demo(5G V2X Spain) Technologies; Overview and Performance Evaluation for AI/ML Based Closed Loop Assurance Using ISNA 5G use cases E2E 5G slice management using Infosys 5G Slice TUT17 – Doherty Power Amplifier Design for 5G Manager Cellular Infrastructure Immersive Virtual Presence Solution TUT18 – Performance Analysis of 5G Networks: New Blockchain based 5G Telco infra market place Directions Dynamic Network Slice Orchestration TUT19 – Quantum computing for 5G networks 5G Indoor AU TUT20 – Process offloading architecture over the 5G 5G Smartphone / FWA Products networks Performance Optimized LEO Sat-Comm based C2 for UAS

Patron Exhibits (FREE) WavePro, Anritsu, Cisco, Qualcomm, IEEE Standards Association, Intel, Ciena, COMSNETS, Polaris Networks, Airbus, Renesas, Upcoming: Virtual Workshop on 5G Technologies for First Responder and Tactical Networks, IEEE Entrepreneurship, IEEE Future Directions, JV Micronics

1.5.5 CONECCT 2020 (2-4 Jul)

http://ieee-conecct.org/

IEEE CONECCT is an annual conference and a flagship event of the Bangalore section initiated in 2014. The 2020 edition has been the 6th one. However, this year the CONECCT appeared in a completed revamped version. The CONECCT platform was extended to all the technical society chapters and affinity groups to encourage a stronger cohesion. They could organize a technical tract in CONECCT with the section taking the logistic responsibilities. Fifteen chapters/AGs took part in this initiative making this event a grand success from many perspectives. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic this event had to be organized in virtual mode through WebEx. It was indeed an altogether new challenge and experience for the organizing team. But, the team came out as triumphant with managing 7 parallel tracks through webex and coordinating with the speakers across the world in different time zones . Some of the key features are as follows:

• Number of Tracks: 15 and 4 special tracks, including WiE. • Number of technical sessions: 42 • 19 Keynotes, by well recognized international personalities in their fields/IEEE • Contributory Paper: 689 initial submissions • 150 papers took the advantage for early submission discount, which was also a new initiative, and it was well received by the authors and helped in the review process. • Accepted papers: 255

• 7-parallel session for presenting the papers: this was a new learning/experiment in virtual mode • 7-parallel workshops/tutorial,  Financially also, for the first time CONECCT has made surplus which is very important considering the sustainability of it.

Details of the sections in CONECCT

IEEE CONECCT 2020 02-03-04 July 2020 Virtual Conference 2-Jul-20

8.00 - 8.30 AM Registration 8.30 - 9.00 AM CONECCT Workshop/Tutorial Inauguration 9.00-9.30 AM Workshops/Tutorial Inauguration TRACK TRACK-1 TRACK-2 TRACK-3 TRACK-4 TRACK-5 TRACK-6 ExeCom Dr. Ashwini Dr. Shrikant Ms. Neha Dr. Sujatha D N Prof. Prof. Ashwini Volunteers Appaji Tangade Kumari (sujatha_bms@ie Raghavendra Holla (ashwini.am (s.s.tangade@ieee (neha.kumari ee.org, Prasad (holla.ashwini @ieee.org) .org) @ieee.org, 9880333446) (raghavendra.pr @gmail.com, (Mob: (Mob:998055035 9731769313) [email protected] 9480165312) 8970968798) 4) g, 9845003187) 9.30-10.00 Workshops Nonlinear Real- Tutorial on Overview of IEC Tutorial on WiE Keynote: on time Optimal Cryptographic 61850: Dr. Sarasij Cognition in the Shailaja Electromagne Control using Engineering: Das, IISc Edge: Case Mullangi, tic Diffraction MPSP Dr. Srinivas study and Use Director, Modelling for Optimal Vivel, IIIT-B cases: Nishant Customer and Guidance of Krishna, Co- Experience, Simulation : Aerospace Founder and CISCO 10.00-10.30 Dr. Levent Vehicles Chief Architect, Recent Trends Sevgi : Prof. Radhakant TechMAchiner in Padhi, IISc y Labs Millimeter/THz Wave Vacuum Electron Beam Devices : Dr. Yuvaraj, NIT Andhra Pradesh 10.30 AM - Tea Break 11.00 AM 11.00-11.45 Workshops Connected Tutorial on Grid Integration Tutorial on Workshop on AM on Ecosystem and Secret-sharing of Inverters: Mr. Cognition in the Problem Based Electromagne Future of Flight: and Vishal Anand, Edge: Case Learning: Dr tic Diffraction Adishesha Applications Bloom Energy study and Use Daniëlle Modelling Sivaramasastry to MPC: Dr. cases: Nishant Verstegen, 11.45 - 12.30 and USA Traffic Ashish Exploring Krishna, Co- Maastricht PM Simulation: Management- Choudhary Unidirectional Founder and University, Dr. Levent Evolution and Three-Phase Chief Architect, Netherlands Sevgi Challenges: High-Frequency TechMAchiner Session Chair: Prasanna Link Inverter y Labs Dr. Abhishek Ramamurthy Topologies for Appaji Grid Integration of Utility-scale Photovoltaics: Mr. Anirban Pal, IISc 12.30 - 1.30 PM Lunch 1.30-3.00PM T1: mmWave T2: T3: T4: Power Energy T5: VLSI-I (35, T6: and THz Communication-I Computing-I and Power 38, 47, 58, 94, Biomedical-I (Paper ID: (Paper ID: 45, (Paper ID: 41, Electronics-I 137, 176) (Paper ID: 88, 358, 499, 561, 103, 136, 172, 77, 85, 180, (Paper ID: 23, 26, 98, 138, 166, 668, 672) 189, 236, 240) 183, 210) 27, 73, 82, 84) 259, 295) Session Chair Dr. S. Dr Shobha K R Dr B G Anirban Pal Ayan Datta Dr. C K Yuvaraj Prasad Narayanappa

3.00 - 3.30 PM Tea Break 3.30 -5.00 PM T7: Antenna-I T8: T9: Nano T10: Power T11: VLSI-II T12: Photonics- (Paper ID: 17, Communication- Technology Energy and (Paper ID: 191, I (Paper ID: 18, 44, 66, 128, II (Paper ID: 247, and Remote Power 199, 225, 275, 97, 101, 132, 135, 147, 283, 311, 334, Sensing Electronics-II 282, 304, 315, 144) 151) 343, 348, 357) (Paper ID: (Ppaper ID: 154, 318) 503, 95, 433, 159, 168, 173, 534, 636) 195, 218) Session Chair Dr. Mahesh A Dr. Ganesan Dr. Saroj K Sarasij Das Dr. Dr. Thyagrajan Mehar Parameshachari Gopalkrishna B D Hegde 5.00-6.00 PM Break 6.00-6.45PM Conference Inauguration 6.45 PM -7.30 Using IEEE Software & System Engineering Standards to support America's Army Gaming PM Development: Dr. Susan Kathy Land, IEEE President- Elect 7.30 -8.00 PM Engineering+Inspiration= Innovation in Action: Prof. S K Ramesh, Director AIMS, CSU, USA 8.00-8.30 PM Microwave Sensing Through the Subsurface for Addressing the Water Puzzle: Dr. Mahta Moghaddam, IEEE APS President 3-Jul-20

8.30 - 9.00 AM How is Wireless AI Changing our World: Dr. Ray Liu, University of Mariland, USA 9.00 - 9.30 AM Recommendation Systems: Dr.Chunche Lance Fung, Emeritus Professor, Murdoch University, Australia 9.30-10.00 AM Feature Object Extraction: Evidence Accrual Applied to Information Assurance and Other platforms: Prof. Kathleen Kramer, Univ. of San Diago, USA 10.00-10.15 AM The Next Generation of Phased Array Simulation Technology with HFSS:Dr. Nijas Kunju, Ansys 10.15 - 10.45 AM Why 6G and some research problems in MAC of 6G: Prof. Debabrata Das, IIIT Bangalore 10.45 - 11.00 AM Tea Break 11.00 - 12.30 AM T13: Antenna-II T14: T15: Computing-II T16: WiE-I (Paper ID: T17:Edge Intelligence-I (Paper ID: 167, Communication- (Paper ID: 211, 219, 40, 91, 93, 134, 140, (Paper ID: 30, 245, 246, 305, III (Paper ID: 260, 263, 291, 294) 142, 146) 39, 100, 165, 192, 198, 309, 319) 391, 406, 437, 292) 444, 465, 490, 493) Session Chair Dr. Chandrakant Dr. Tushar Vrind B Thangaraju Dr. D N Sujatha Dr. Siddesh G M 12.30 - 1.30 PM Lunch 1.30-3.00 PM T18: Aerospace- T19: Signal T20: Computing-III T21: WiE-II (Paper ID: T22: Biomedical-II I (Paper ID: 152, Processing-I (Paper ID: 301, 303, 163, 264, 272, 289, 323, (Paper ID: 340, 411, 248, 252) (Paper ID: 169, 308, 320, 322, 324) 328, 382) 412, 423, 424, 475, 194, 203, 239, 491) 271, 288, 314) Session Chair Dr. Hema Singh Dr U. C. Niranjan Dr. Uma Mudenagudi Supriya Kamthania Dr. K Vijayalakshmi 3.00 - 3.30 PM Tea Break 3.30-5.00PM T23: Aerospace T24:Signal T25: Computing-IV T26: WiE-III (Paper ID: T27: VLSI-III (Paper and Aircraft Processing-II ( (Paper ID: 341, 353, 387, 392, 443, 468, 471, ID: 335, 350, 388, (Paper ID: 535, Paper ID: 321, 413, 419, 461, 473) 604, 624) 407, 434, 489, 536) 685, 676) 394, 463, 513, 556, 680) Session Chair Dr. Hema Singh Dr Deepu Divya MG Anandi Giridharan Dr Jalaja S Vijayasenan 5.00-6.00 PM Break 6.00-6.30PM From Engineering Electromagnetics to Electromagnetic Engineering: Dr. Levant Sevgi, Istanbul Okan University, Istanbul 6.30 -7.00 PM 5G Security: Challenges and Opportunities: Dr. Ashutosh Dutta, Co-Chair, IEEE 5G Initiative 7.00 -7.30 PM Over-the-air and Direct UAS-to-UAS Communications and its Importance in UAS Traffic Management and Urban Air Mobility: Prof. Kamesh Namuduri, UNT, USA 7.30-8.00 PM An Energy Internet Platform for Sensor-driven Transactive Energy Applications, Prof. Saifur Rahman, Virginia Tech, USA 8.00-9.30 PM Cultural Program 4-Jul-20

1.6 Major Chapter Activities

Vibrancy in the section has percolated to its constituent chapters too. The section made a conscious effort to bring the chapters closer. Multiple initiatives like multiple coordination meeting, encouraging them to host their tracks in the the flagship conference CONECCT of the section, supporting with platforms for hosting Webinar, Workshops, Seminar, ExeCom, AGM etc., sorting out administrative issues in a few chapters, and additional financial support from to section based on the events conducted, etc. This has significantly increased the reporting of the events to vTool which stands at more than 450 for the year 2020. This increased traction has led to record numbers of reports submitted to the section by the chapters. More significantly 3 new chapters have been opened and revival of 2 chapters have been revived resulting in a total of 27 chapters Some of the initiatives are elaborated below.

1.6.1 Chapter chair meeting

During this year, the section has organized three meetings with the chairs and other office bears of the chapters chair meeting. These meetings deliberated on the aspirations/issues of the chapters and on the different aspects where the section can support. In the first meeting new office bearers were briefed on the operating aspects of the chapters and reporting of events to vTools. The first meeting could be organized on 8th Feb could be held in physical mode and the other two held on 17th May and 11th Oct was held in virtual mode. some of the snaps from the meetings are shown below. On an average 35 office bearers representing 20 chapters participated in each meeting.. The response of this meeting has been quite well and appreciated from all chairs.

Panoramic view of the meeting with the chapter office bearers on 7th Feb 2020

1.6.2 Organizing Technical Track in IEEE CONECCT 2020

An altogether new initiative was floated by the chair of the section, where the section took care of all the logistics of requirement in CONECCT 2020 conference and the chapter was offered to host and manage the technical tracks. This unique initiative could bring 15 different chapters together. Most of them had a workshop/Tutorial, Keynote and contributory papers in their tracks. This made the conference also a very successful one.

1.6.3 Resolving/Reviving the Issue with the Society Chapters

It was noted by the IEEE Bangalore Section that CAS Society Bangalore Section Chapter (CASS-BSC) was not adhering to the MGA guideline for the election of the new office-bearers. Significant amount of effort has been put by the section in discussing with the office-bearers of the CAS chapter of that time to resolve the issue amicably. However, all effort went in vain. To regularize that, in consultation with IEEE CAS President, VP- RAM, IEEE CAS, IEEE Region 10 Director and Chapter and Section Coordinator, IEEE Region 10 new office bearers were elected in a special AGM of CASS Chapter approved the same for the year 2020. Similarly it was also noted that the EMB chapter is also having some issues. That also was taken up and has been resolved in a meeting held on 31st Dec., and a new ExeCom with a blend of academia and industry representatives has been placed. The chapter is expected to come to the fold of the section with a lot of vibrancy. Meeting of new EMBS ExeCom on 31st Dec to bring back the chapter into vibrency

1.6.4 Opening New Society Chapters

Constant effort was put to form new technical chapters where the required number of members and expertise were found in the section. With this effort, following three chapters were formed in the year 2020

1.6.5 New Chapter & Affinity Group

Sl NO Date Society Chapter Reference # Geo-code Chapter Chair Radhakant 1 31-05-2020 IEEE Bangalore Section Control Systems 200601-000426 CH10931 Padhi 2 28-09-2020 IEEE Bangalore Section Education Society 201026-000230 CH10951 Dr. Sivareddy IEEE Bangalore Section Information B D 3 22-12-2020 Theory Society 201229-000758 CH10956 Parmeshachari IEEE Bangalore Section Consultant 4 19-03-2020 Networks 200504-000842 CN00119. Jibin Sabu

1.6.6 Financial Support to the Chapters

Based on the activities carried out by different chapters the section provided financial support to them. In the year 2020 about INR75000 support for different chapters has also been disbursed. Additionally based on the technical activities, one each from small, medium and large chapters has been awarded as best performing in their respective categories. The list of the winners can be found in the section 2.7.

1.7 Major Student and Affinity Group Activities

1.7.1 Student Activities

1.7.1.1 Gurukul

Gurukul (is a Sanskrit word- meaning is ─ ―Place for Learning‖. This is a program initiated by the Membership Development Committee (Academia) of IEEE Bangalore Section in order to provide a platform for students to continue learning and revising despite the inconveniences caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Colleges and universities being shut down due to the virus has affected students by hampering their access to direct coaching from the teaching Fraternity. This inconvenience is only made worse for final year and pre- final year students who are set to graduate this year and next year respectively. This gap in learning would deprive them of many core concepts and skills that would be expected of them upon graduation. First Years - to be graduates are also among the affected since the absence of in-person coaching by Professors will leave them with very poor basics and fundamental knowledge of foundational topics in engineering. In order to combat this challenge and assist the students, Gurukul was introduced. Gurukul is an online webinar based learning system that covers courses in the Engineering Curriculum. Professors, from engineering colleges all over Karnataka volunteered to teach modules of various courses and help the student community. With the exam season coming up in Universities, this has served as an effective revision bridge for many students. By ensuring uninterrupted education, the Gurukul initiative has stood by its original meaning ‗Place for Learning‘. Many webinar series were conducted on a daily basis. Few subject covers are highlighted in this poster.

1.7.1.1 Branch Counsellor Meet

Student’s Branch Counselors Meeting 1 09/02/2020 Branch Counselor Meet 1: Two-Three students from each branch 250 @ BNMIT, Bangalore were invited for discussion/ training 2 18/04/2020 Branch Counselor Meet 2 : Steps Taken by section & IEEE 54 Webex towards COVID-19, various research and Funding opportunities. Discussion related to engaging students and Non IEEE Faculty Members with IEEE 3 25/09/2020 Branch Counselor Meet 3 : Interaction with BC‘s and SB chairs. 250 Webex Clarification to BCs for finance related queries. ( Dr. Prasant Mishra & Usha)

1.7.1.2 District Coordinators Meeting

Under the new initiative to engage and offer opportunities to more volunteers, the section identified and elected district coordinator in each district. Some of them have been identified while we need to find more volunteers in some districts.

List of District Coordinators of Bangalore Section S.No. District Coordinator Mail id Remark 1 Chikamagaluru Dr. Anil Kumar [email protected] Under 2 Dakshina Kannada Prof. Manju Kiran [email protected] Mangalore Sub- (Mangalore) Section 3 Udupi Prof. Murali [email protected] Krishna 4 Uttara Kannada Prof. Vikas Balikai [email protected] (Karwar) 5 Shivamogga Prof. Hemanth [email protected] Kumar 6 Mandya Dr. Y L [email protected] Under Chandrashekhar Proposed 7 Hassan Dr. Shivashankar [email protected] Mysore Sub- S Section 8 Chamarajanagar Dr. Shashidhara H [email protected] R 9 Mysore Dr. Archana N V [email protected] 10 Kodagu Dr. Divakar S S [email protected] 11&12 Dharwad & Gadag Mr. Ravi [email protected] Under Hoshmani Proposed North 13 Vijayapur(Bijapur) Mr. Veeresh [email protected] Karnataka Sub- Gonal Section 14 Kalaburgi Dr. Santosha [email protected] Kumar A 15 Yadgir Mr. [email protected] Prashantkumar S. 16 Belagavi Mr. Shrivatsav [email protected] P.Madabal 17 Bagalkot Dr. Kiran [email protected] Bendigeri 18 Bidar 19 Raichur Directly under 20 Davanagere Dr. Chandrashekhar [email protected] Bangalore K Section 21 Haveri 22 Bangalore Rural 23 Bangalore Urban 24 Ramanagara 25 Chikkaballapura

District Coordinators meeting DC Meet 1: To interact with the newly appointed district 1 06/05/2020 9 Webex coordinators to discuss their work after their appointment.

DC Meet 2: Each of the district coordinators discussed their effort, plans and achievements in reaching to different institutions 2 20/06/2020 35 Webex in their district for membership development, organizing IEEE events, strategies for starting student branch.

DC Meet 3: Each of the district coordinators detailed their effort 3 19/07/2020 in contacting institutions in rejuvenating the SB, starting new SB 19 Webex

DC Meet 4: Regular practice was followed. Each of the DC‘s 4 02/10/2020 presented their updates 16 Webex DC Meet 5: Chair took the details of all the DC‘s work. He has appreciated the work of all DC‘s, encouraged them to approach 5 03 / 11/2020 new institutions to create awareness about IEEE and membership 12 Webex development

1.7.1.3 Student Humanitarian Technology Project Funding

Section instituted project funding for the student to encourage build and develop humanitarian related projects. Under this scheme, over 35K INR was given to 7 different student teams from 5,000/- to 12,000/- INR. Details given in the student activity section.

1.7.2 Affinity Group Activity

1.7.2.1 Women in Engineering (WIE)

International Women in Engineering day was observed on June 23 2020 by in collaboration with international organizations like Swissnex by organizing Indo Swiss entrepreneurs meet where women entrepreneurs from India and Switzerland shared their success stories.

Women in Engineering Global Summit 2020 Women in Engineering Global Summit was conducted under the aegis of IEEE Bangalore Technology Conclave (BTC) held between November 3rd-7th 2020, organized by IEEE Bangalore section. The objective of the summit was to provide an ultimate platform for leading tech innovators and pioneers to showcase their insights and perspectives on how to address the fundamental questions and challenges of how Artificial Intelligence can positively shape our future. Among the 5 days of BTC, WIE GS was scheduled on November 5th,2020.The Global summit started with the inauguration at 8.00AM IST by Susan Kathy Land IEEE President 2021 and CEO followed by Keynote on ―Lead beyond your horizons‖. Virtual sessions by trailblazing global women leaders in AI , Panel discussions, live fireside chat were a part of the summit.Very special AI- themed cultural event was planned in the evening. The theme for the event was ―An Ethical Future with Artificial Intelligence‖.There is much concern – and even fear – in the world today that artificial intelligence may have a negative impact on society. Some predictions go so far as to say that artificial intelligence will destroy the human race. IEEE, and particularly the IEEE Standards Association, is proposing a solution that will help ensure that artificial intelligence will serve humanity through ethical design practices.

1.8 Major Awards and Recognition

Consistently over the past several years Bangalore Section work like a closely knit family. This brings vibrancy to the section with a continuously increasing reach among different parts of Karnataka. The section takes a leadership role in many technical and social activities among the different sections of IEEE spread across the globe. This gets recognized by different forums of IEEE like India Council, R10 and IEEE Global. As in previous years this year too the sections won many recognitions. Many of its volunteers have been recognized with individual awards leadership positions. Some of these accomplishments are mentioned below.

1.8.1 Award Received by the Section

 Bangalore Section has received the R10 Outstanding Large Section Award, in recognition and appreciation of valuable service and contribution.

 YP Affinity group of the section received „R10 Outstanding Section YP Group Award 2020‟

 CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION: R10 awarded IEEE BANGALORE SECTION for their excellent efforts in contributing to the Project 'Reaching Locals' organized by the IEEE Asia- Pacific Region (R10).

1.8.2 Award Received by Individual members in Section

Divya MG

Recipient of “2020 IEEE Women in Engineering Inspiring Members of the Year Award” from IEEE Global

Dr. Debabrata Das

R10 Outstanding Volunteer Award in recognition of outstanding contribution and services to IEEE Bangalore Section and IEEE R10

Divya MG

Recipient of “R10 Women in Engineering Outstanding Professional Volunteer Award-2020”

Dr Shrikant Tangade

R10 Students Activity Committee Outstanding Volunteers Award, in recognition of outstanding contributions and service for SAC program and to the IEEE Bangalore Section

Dr. Ramakrishna K

Lifetime Achievement Award of India Council

Dr D N Sujatha

Recipient of IEEE India Council Outstanding Volunteer Award 2020 (>35 Years)

Dr Ashwini Appaji

Chair, Young Professionals, Bangalore Section: Recipient of IEEE India Council Outstanding YP Volunteer Award 2020

 Ms. Shaik Suraiah Thaseen: Recipient of IEEE India Council Outstanding YP Volunteer Award 2020  Mr. Yeshwanth L M: Recipient of IEEE India Council Outstanding Student Volunteer Award 2020  Mr. Shashank Simha M R: Recipient of IEEE India Council Outstanding Student Volunteer Award 2020

1.8.3 Special Recognition of the Individual Members in Section

Divya MG

R10 WiE Personality of the Month October

Sudeendra Koushik

R10 Personality of the Month October

1.8.4 National and Global IEEE Level Representation and Achievement of Individual Members from Section

Professor K V S Hari, IISc

Vice President – Membership (1 Jan 2020 – 31 Dec 2022)

Prof Debabrata Das IIIT Bangalore

IEEE India Council Chair Elect 2021

Dr Sunil Kumar Vuppala Ericsson

 Zinnov Technical Role Model award in Emerging Technology - AI and Big Data Analytics 2020.  Qualified as Independent director from Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Govt. of India.  Selected as ACM Distinguished speaker for 2020-2023  Received IEEE TEMS Engineering Manager of the Year (EMOTY) 2020  Selected as one of India's future CIOs in the list of NEXT100 by IT NEXT Magazine in 2020.

Prof. B. S. Daya Sagar Indian Statistical Institute-Bangalore

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society GRSS) Distinguished Lecturer (DL) for the period between 2020-2022.

H K Anasuya Devi H K Anasuya Devi MGM Award of $90 Prof and Past Chair IEEE SSIT ES B O G IEEE SSIT Joint Bangalore Chapter Membership Chair IEEE SSIT Dr. Megha. P Arakeri Dr. Megha. P. Arakeri Ph.D(NITK, Associate Professor, Received funding of $2000 from IEEE CIS for implementing 'High Dept. of Information Science & School Outreach Program' Engg., MSRIT, Bangalore

Hiranmay Ghosh Author Affiliation: Former Adviser and Principal Scientist, TCS Book published by IEEE Research, Senior Member IEEE Title: Computational Models for Cognitive Vision Book home Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press Ms Gnanapriya Chidambaranathan Infosys

 IBM - Infosys Call for Code 2020 Hackathon event, won the team award for the 'Remote Education on the Fly' solution  Winner of the 2020 Global Women in Telco & Tech Award for 'Outstanding Achievement' under Disruptor category, by Capacity Media, https://www.capacitymedia.com/articles/382 6477/global-women-in-telco-and-tech-awards-winners-2020  Infosys Award for Excellence 2019-20 for Outstanding Achievement in Best New Service Offering, for Enterprise Eco System Collaboration, August 2020  Infosys Convergence 2020 award, 'Spirit of Collaboration' for the exceptional delivery and commitment to Navigate your Next! (Technology Modernization)

Subhas Mondal Chief Architect, Wipro

IEEE BoG Standard Association

Ravikiran A CEO & MD, Numocity

 Vice President, Membership, Marketing and Communications, IEEE TEMS Society  Board of Governors, TEMS (2021-22)  Co-Chair, Education in IEEE Future Networks Initiative.

Dr Sudeendra Kaushik Chief Innovator & Cofounder PRASU

 Vice President Conferences IEEE TEMS  Chair IEEE TEMS India  Innovation and Entrepreneurship Coordinator of IEEE Region 10 Industry Relations Committee 2021-2022

Adwaith S

Volunteered as Region 10 lead for IEEEXtreme14.0 (Largest Programming competition organized by IEEE) Roobini G

Volunteered for IEEE Rising Stars Conference 2021, Region 6. Member, Education Committee of IEEE Smart cities

1.9 Financial Report

Audior of Section

Usha and Associates

Chartered Accountants

Independent auditors’ report to the members of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers- Bangalore Section. Report on the financial statements We have audited the accompanying financial statements of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers- Bangalore Section, which comprise the Balance Sheet as at 31st December 2020, and the Income and Expenditure account for the year then ended, and a summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory information.

Management responsibility for the financial statements The Executive Committee of the Society is responsible for the preparation of these financial statements that give a true and fair view of the financial position, financial performance and cash flows of the Society in accordance with the Accounting principles generally accepted in India. This responsibility also includes the maintenance of adequate accounting records for safeguarding the assets of the Society and for preventing and detecting the frauds and other irregularities; selection and application of appropriate accounting policies; making judgment and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and design, implementation and maintenance of internal financial control, that were operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the accounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentation of financial statements that give a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

Auditor’s responsibility Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. We have taken into account the accounting and auditing standards and matters which are required to be included in the audit report. We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing issued by ICAI. Those standards require that we comply with ethical requirements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free from material misstatement.

An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditor’s judgement, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of the accounting estimates made by the Society’s Execom, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion on the financial statements.

Opinion In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the financial statements give a true and fair view in conformity with the accounting principles generally accepted in India: a. In the case of balance sheet, of the state of affairs of the Society as at 31st December 2020 b. In the case of the statement of income and expenditure, of the loss for the period ended on that date.

For Usha and Associates, FRN 013099S Chartered Accountants

Usha.S.C Proprietor M. No. 224749 UDIN: 21224749AAAAAB8972

Place: Bangalore Date: 05.01.2021

Schedules to financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2020

IEEE Bangalore Section is society of Electrical and Electronics Engineers registered under the Karnataka Societies Registration Act,1960 with the registration number BLU-S707-2006-07

Summary of significant accounting policies 1. Basis of preparation The financial statements are drawn up based on historical costs .

2.Recognition of Income Sponsorship, registration fee for events are recognized on the basis of receipts and as per the bank advice available. The funds received from GIEEE are accounted as and when received.The funds received from HQ and GIEEE on behalf of other chapters are transferred as per the instructions received .These are reimbursements of expenses.

3.Committed Funds

The registration fees, sponsorship, awards and support funds received with a specific instruction and understanding that are to be paid to other Chapters/Society and earmarked Events/Conference/Projects are recognized when received by the section and when the disbursements are made, it is books as expense

4. Miscellaneous i) The Society has kept all the unutilized amounts in the form of bank balances and term deposits with scheduled banks, which are in conformity with section 11(5) of the Income Tax Act,1961 ii) Fixed Deposits are disclosed excluding accrued interest net of Tax Deducted at Source. iii) The expenditure for conference/events are recognized in the year in which such conference/event is held iv) Previous years' figures have been regrouped, wherever necessary.

As per our report of even date For Usha and Associates For IEEE Bangalore Section FRN 013099S Chartered Accountants

Puneet K Usha.S.C Mishra Prasant Misra Navin Kumar Proprietor Chairman Treasurer Secretary Membership No. : 224749 UDIN:21224749AAAAAB8972

Place: Bangalore Date:05.01.2021

1.9.1 Summary (as per submitted on NetSuite)

Balance Sheet as at 31st December 2020

Schedule 31-Dec-20 31-Dec-19

I. SOURCES OF FUNDS 1)Funds and Reserves

Corpus 20,000 20,000

Committed Funds -

Uncommitted Funds General Reserve 1 1,48,26,203 1,06,11,296

Total 1,48,46,203 1,06,31,296 II.APPLICATION OF FUNDS

Current Assets, Loans and Advances (a) Fixed Deposits 1,25,11,423 63,76,742 (b) Cash and Banks Balances 25,39,224 34,39,987 (c) Advances and other 3 18,86,555 receivables 11,41,770

Less: Current Liabilities and 2 (20,90,999) provisions (3,27,203) Net Current Assets

Total 1,48,46,203 1,06,31,296 Summary of significant 9 accounting policies The accompanying schedules are an integral part of the financial statements

For Usha and Associates For IEEE Bangalore Section FRN 013099S Chartered Accountants

Usha.S.C Puneet K Mishra Prasant Navin Kumar Misra Proprietor Chairman Secretary Treasurer Membership No. : 224749 UDIN:21224749AAAAAB8972 Place: Bangalore Date: 05.01.2021

1.9.2 Any other financial activities

IEEE-Bangalore Section Schedules to financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2020

4.Section Support 31-Dec -20 31-Dec-19 Rs. Rs. A To Chapters: IEEE Bangalore Section YP

54,024 -

IEEE GRSS Chapter 1,61,150 - IEEE Photonics Society Bangalore

Chapter 25,202 39,086

IEEE Mangalore Sub Section 1,67,873 4,39,390 IEEE Communication Society

Bangalore Chapter 1,67,092 1,84,327 IEEE ED/SSC Chapter 43,710 IEEE Consumer Electronics

Society 26,557 - IEEE MTT AP Society

3,05,064 28,607 IEEE Nano Tech Council

16,557 87,954 IEEE Geo Science and Remote

Sensing Chapter 16,557 - IEEE CIS Bangalore

1,77,913 17,500 IEEE Computer Society Chapter

1,27,952 2,98,588 IEEE EMBS Chapter Disbursed

- 20,509 IEEE PELS Chapter

1,41,060 10,000 IEEE SP Chapter

22,202 3,98,769 IEEE SSIT ES Joint Chapter

42,710 31,600 IEEE Aerospace Chapter

45,046 - IEEE Bangalore CPMT Chapter-

Disbursed 17,557 68,800 IEEE Computational Chapter

- 20,508 IEEE EPS Section

- 5,000 IEEE IES Chapter

21,409 10,000 IEEE PES Chapter

2,11,978 2,40,235 IEEE Robotics Automation RAS 6,200

Chapter 17,557 IEEE Sensor Council

5,000 20,508 Support to TEMS-HQ Funds

60,076 1,94,075 Support to WIE related

events,AGM,Adalovelace Event 1,50,620 18,000

Subtotal (A)

19,81,156 21,83,366

B To Student Chapters: 31-Dec-20 31-Dec-19 IEEE IISC NSC JSC - 72,660 IEEE BMSCE Student Branch 1,86,515 50,000 IEEE DSCE Student Branch 40,212 77,486 IEEE KSIT SB 31,400 94,835 IEEE MCE Student Branch 9,634 6,394 IEEE NIE Student Branch 50,000 - IEEE Reva University SB 55,849 1,14,416 IEEE SIT Student chapter 10,700 13,062 IEEE Comsoc Amrita College Student Chapter 1,06,140 - IEEE Student Branch VVIET 70,981 27,892 IEEE SSIT SB Tumkur 26,482 - IEEE Student Branch of PESCE Mandya 56,029 27,420 IEEE Student Branch PESIT 23,728 48,449 IEEE IISC SB 2,11,565 67,013 IEEE UVCE 1,13,068 50,000 Branch Counselors Meet 89,339 1,02,329 RVCE IEEE SB 46,874 35,032 SAC Meeting Reimbursement - 1,517 Sambram Institute SB 20,924 17,470 IEEE RNSIT 25,978 31,243 MVJCE IEEE Student Branch - 30,999

IEEE PELS Amrita School of Eng HPSB - 17,738 IEEE BNMIT Student Branch 37,256 - IEEE NITK SB 5,07,068 3,27,264 IEEE NMAMIT SB 18,500 18,190 IEEE SJCE SB 1,67,954 41,850 SYWL Congress Meet - 63,062 JCE IEEE Student Branch 28,976 - MSRIT Student Branch 85,529 33,210 AMCEC IEEE SB 12,146 35,915 BEC-IEEE Student Branch 54,782 81,389 BS-SIP Funding for 6 Projects 50,377 45,490 CUK IEEE SB 92,430 15,294 Dec 18 and June 19 SB Rebate Disbursed - 6,81,558 EPCET IEEE SB - 22,329 GSSS IETW SB Rebate 1,66,661 9,455 IEEE Bangalore Inst of Tech 15,504 17,690 IEEE BITM SB 41,892 46,815 IEEE BMSIT SB 56,181 17,640 IEEE BNMIT SB - 28,365 IEEE Canara Eng College Student Branch - 38,308 IEEE CMD Chapter Contest HQ Fund Disbursed - 1,12,918 IEEE GIT Belgaum 18,062 18,690 IEEE KJC Kristu Jayanti SB 20,907 17,700 IEEE New Horizon SB 6,472 25,780 IEEE SB ASE 60,480 21,284 IEEE SB MIT 35,815 42,928 IEEE SB RUAS - 15,000 IEEE JCE Student Branch - 24,000

IEEE SMUITM Bantakal - 17,250 KLEIT IEEE SB 6,125 3,924 NIE National Inst of Tech Mysore SB 61,713 1,81,566 Standards Education Student Grant Disbursed - 36,425 Student Travel Grant 50,000 1,25,000 ATME IEEE Student Branch 15,000 - BLDEA's IEEE Student Branch - Dr.PG Halakatti College 65,000 - Christ University-SIGHT Fund Support 18,313 - IEEE CMRIT SB 20,441 - IEEE GIC SB 8,900 - IEEE SB BVB 6,170 - IEEE SB Cambridge 52,869 - IEEE SB GEC K R PET 15,000 - IEEE SB KS School of Eng 15,000 - IEEE SB Manipal 39,498 - IEEE Srinivas University SB 15,000 - IEEE Student Branch Dayanand Sagar 73,580 - IEEE Student Branch JNNCE 15,000 - IEEE VCET SB 16,310 - IEEE XREME Mock Coding Contest 6,750 - IEEE Xtreme Contest Prizes 32,524 - Jyothy Institute of Technology SB 16,858 - KLE DR MSSCET IEEE STB5029 15,000 - Membership development challenge Awards 44,457 - NCE Student Branch 15,000 - PACE IEEE Student Branch 15,000 - Saint Joseph Engineering College- Mangalore SJEC SB 29,050 - SGBIT IEEE SB 15,000 - Sharnbasva University IEEE Student Branch 15,000 - Shri Madhwa Vadiraja ( IEEE Student Branch) 16,149 - Siddaganga Inst of Tech SB 26,943 - S J C Inst of Tech SB 7,376 - TOCE IEEE SB 14,135 - UAV Innovation CHallenge- Phase I 3,20,000 - Subtotal (B) 37,35,571 30,52,244

Total Section Support ( A+ B) 57,16,727 52,35,610

5. Programme and Event Expenditure 31-Dec -20 31-Dec -19 Rs. Rs. i TEMS Industry Forum 1,200 1,08,540 ii Conference Organisers Workshop 37,500 92,874 iii SMARTECH - 4,78,615 iv IPR and Innovation Workshop - 46,275 v Authorship Workshop 25,415 - vi AISYWC Event 15,000 2,59,928 IB HTC Conference including 4,27,420 vii Awards viii CONECCT including Awards 4,39,208 6,69,352 R10 Conference Leadership - 80,410 ix Program x Websites and Internet for Events 38,978 18,654 Antenna Analysis Workshop- 22,794 - xi RVCE xii IEEE BTC 1,07,666 - Events Webex, Momentos 2,93,570 3,18,077 xiii reimbursements-all events xiv Faculty Conclave 29,828 - xv Blockchain - 52,190 IEEE Talks and Distinguished - 6,350 xvi Lectures Honorarium for IEI-IEEE Joint 20,000 - xvii Awards Jury xviii TTTC VLSI test seminar - 29,207 IEEE Dignitaries, Global Leaders 18,772 13,371 xix Meetings xx Sunday Walk with IEEE Fellow 2,077 20,412 xxi Section Congress - - xxii Sponsorship /misc written off - 2,53,014 iAIM and YPINSPACE - 4,783 xxiii Expenditure IEEE Bangalore Section Industry 20,000 - xxiv Awards: Honorarium IEEE Entrepreneurs Catalysts - 16,535 xxv Workshop xxvi IEEE DSS 2020 1,39,055 - xxvii IEEE PES APPEEC - 9,71,699 xxviii IEEE Hackathon 1& 2 22,500 - xxix IEEE CAS Events - 5,57,973 xxx SIMPLE Event - 11,800 xxxi Tech Day Expenses Reimbursed - 10,000 VITM APP Development Course - 4,240 xxxii on Android xxxiii COMSNETS Associations - 1,06,140

IEEE Senior Women Members - 5,220 xxxiv Meeting xxxv Volunter Momentos 21,984 xxxvi Wireless Module Workshop 3,690 xxxvii ILS and WIECON - 25,26,498 16,86,657 66,62,157

6.Other Administrative and General Expenditure 31-Dec-20 31-Dec -19 Rs. Rs. i Execom Meeting Expenses 54,080 1,00,839 ii Accounting and Professional Fee 1,57,500 1,57,500 Office and Admin Executive 95,810 3,24,465 iii Support iv Bank Charges 500 189 Section Website renewal, dropbox 92,333 48,656 v and development vi Postage and Courier 5,467 2,226 vii Printing and Stationery 35,400 16,123 Govt Fees and Expenses- - 40,000 viii Registrar of Societies Miscellaneous expenses/Foreign ix Currency Fluctuation - 1,039 x GST -Ineligible Input 10,134 60,947 xi Promotional Materials and PINS 8,000 46,690 xii Digital Signature Costs 2,000 xiii Annual PT 2,500 2,500 xiv Audit Fee 30,000 30,000 Travel reimbursement payable of 1,04,881 xv 2019 Event and GIEEE

5,98,605 8,31,174

PART B - ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES

2.1 Membership Development Activities

2.1.1 Total number of active members in the past 3 years

2020 December

2019 December

2018 December

2.2 Summary and evidence of work done to improve the value of membership, which leads to retention and growth of members

2.2.1.1 Efforts in Senior Member Elevation

Section has another flagship event (SIMPLE) for elevation to senior member. At least two events are orgnanzied where eligibile professional members are invited. We explain the requirements and criteria. We help them to complete the application. Apart from this, our ExCom, society leaders identify senior professional and invite them to complete the application. This year, a total of over 300 members identified, nominated and got elevated. This would be one of the records in any section. Details of elevated senior member this year are:

Member/ Last Name First Name Middle Name Name Grade Grade Effective Customer Name Prefix Suffix Date Number 1 Srinivasan Ranganathan Dr. Ph.D. Senior 22-Dec-20 Member 2 N VASUDEV Dr. Senior 11-Dec-20 Member 3 Mondal Krishnendu Mr. Senior 9-Dec-20 Member 4 Gopinath Kanchi Professo Senior 23-Nov-20 r Member 5 Kalidas Sateesh Mr. Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 6 Nadgir Madhusudhan M ENG Ph.D. Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 7 MISHRA PRIYANKA Mrs. Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 8 BHOWMIK BISWAJIT Dr. Ph.D. Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 9 M Rajeswari Dr. Ph.D. Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 10 Balavalad Kirankumar Dr. Ph.D. Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 11 K VINOTH KUMAR Dr. Ph.D. Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 12 Cheriyan Anish Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 13 R Deepu Professo Senior 23-Nov-20 r Member 14 Chintalapudi Balu Mr. Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 15 N Shylashree Dr. Ph.D. Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 16 A S Mamatha Dr. Ph.D. Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 17 Maradithaya Sumana Dr. Ph.D. Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 18 R Renuka Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 19 Arakeri Megha P Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 20 Kumar Yogesh Mr. Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 21 Sonnad Shashidhar Basavar Mr. Senior 23-Nov-20 aj Member 22 Mane Pallavi R. Dr. Ph.D. Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 23 Bairy Muralidhar G Dr. Ph.D. Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 24 G Rathnakumar Mr. Senior 23-Nov-20 Member

25 Murthy Srikanta Dr. Ph.D. Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 26 Vasantha Geetha Dr. Ph.D. Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 27 Mavuloori Hemanth Mr. Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 28 SHETTAR RAJASHREE Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 29 Gupta Pooja Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 30 Sharma Rinki Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 31 Hesaraghatta Viswanath Lakshm Dr. Ph.D. Senior 23-Nov-20 anrao Member 32 Benadit P Julian Dr. Ph.D. Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 33 S S Dr. Divakara Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 34 Neelappa Dr. Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 35 S BHAGYAMMA Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 36 Ravikumar Dr. Pushpa Dr. Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 37 Parvati Vasudev Prof. Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 38 Nunna Ramakrishna Rao Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 39 H S Dr. Mohana Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 40 Bidve Dr. AnilKumar G. Dr. Ph.D. Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 41 Rathi Aparna Mrs. Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 42 Singh Dhiraj Kumar Dr. Ph.D. Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 43 SODHI MANJIT SINGH Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 44 D C Dr. Vinutha Dr. Ph.D. Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 45 A GEETHASHREE Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 46 M SUCHITRA Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 47 Tigadi Dr. Arun Dr. Ph.D. Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 48 Karchi Prof. Nalini Prof. P.Eng. Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 49 Naik Dr. Udaykumar Professo Ph.D. Senior 23-Nov-20 r Member 50 R SHILPA Senior 23-Nov-20 Member 51 G Shobha Dr. Ph.D. Senior 17-Nov-20 Member 52 GONAL VEERESH SHASH ENG Sr. Senior 28-Oct-20 IDHAR Member 53 Goudappanav Sangamesh Yamana Mr. Senior 9-Oct-20 ar ppa Member 54 Saha Kaustuv Mr. Senior 6-Oct-20 Member 55 Singh Rajiv Ranjan Dr. Ph.D. Senior 6-Oct-20 Member 56 Munipalli Kumar N Mr. Senior 6-Oct-20 Member 57 Chinthalapudi G K Reddy Mr. Senior 6-Oct-20

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122 N Srinivasa Rao Dr. Ph.D. Senior 17-Aug-20 Member 123 J Mohana Lakshmi Dr. Ph.D. Senior 17-Aug-20 Member 124 OD Naidu Senior 17-Aug-20 Member 125 Patil Prof.Siddaram Dr. Ph.D. Senior 17-Aug-20 Member 126 K Reddy Sudharshana Dr. Ph.D. Senior 17-Aug-20 Member 127 Annegowda Geetha Kiran Dr. Ph.D. Senior 17-Aug-20 Member 128 Sampath Sridhar Dr. Ph.D. Senior 17-Aug-20 Kumar Member 129 Kumar Nitesh Mr. Senior 17-Aug-20 Member 130 Chandrasekar Hareesh Dr. Senior 17-Aug-20 Member 131 Duraiswamy Punithavathi Senior 17-Aug-20 Member 132 Varughese Suma Mrs. Senior 17-Aug-20 Member 133 Kulkarni Ravichandra Senior 17-Aug-20 Member 134 PERUMAL KALIAPPAN Senior 17-Aug-20 Member 135 N shamala Dr. Ph.D. Senior 17-Aug-20 Member 136 Reddy B Roja Senior 17-Aug-20 Member 137 Srinivasan Radha Senior 17-Aug-20 Member 138 BARANIYA SHAILENDRA Mr. Ph.D. Senior 17-Aug-20 Member 139 Thomas Merin Senior 17-Aug-20 Member 140 D B Anitha Prof. Senior 17-Aug-20 Member 141 Patil Dr. Sujata N Senior 17-Aug-20 Member 142 Jawaligi Dr. Shivkumar S Senior 17-Aug-20 Member 143 Kanchan Pradeep Mr. Senior 17-Aug-20 Member 144 Mathapati Dr. Basavaraj S Dr. Senior 17-Aug-20 Member 145 Kamlapurkar Mrs. Sujata Subhshc Prof. Senior 17-Aug-20 handra Member 146 Shastri Dr. Lingraj Senior 17-Aug-20 Member 147 Shrivastava Mayank Dr. Ph.D. Senior 13-Aug-20 Member 148 Deekshit Ravi Dr. Ph.D. Senior 12-Aug-20 Member 149 Melkote Vinay Mr. Senior 1-Aug-20 Member 150 Fernandes Steven Lawrenc Dr. Senior 31-Jul-20 e Member 151 M R Dr. Sunitha Dr. Ph.D. Senior 1-Jul-20 Member 152 Alex Sini Anna Mrs. Senior 30-Jun-20 Member 153 Sankaran Sridharan Mr. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 154 Sengupta Sambit Mr. Senior 24-Jun-20

Member 155 Sitapati Kartik Dr. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 156 Tahiliani Mohit Prakash Dr. Ph.D. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 157 Kumar Achanna Anil Dr. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 158 Rajashekara Swamy Mr. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 159 Guruprasad KR Dr. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 160 J Lakshmi Dr. Ph.D. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 161 Kannan Ramasamy Mr. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 162 JOSYULA VENKAT NARASIMHAM Mr. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 163 marupu krishnam raju Mr. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 164 Karve Sharad Ganapat Mr. Senior 24-Jun-20 i Member 165 Dubey Rahul Kumar Dr. Ph.D. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 166 Kollimada Pushpavathi Pemmai Mrs. Senior 24-Jun-20 ah Member 167 SEETHARA SUBRAMANYAM Senior 24-Jun-20 MU Member 168 Chandra Girish Dr. Ph.D. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 169 Mannava Uttara Kumari Prof. Ph.D. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 170 Banerjee Kunal Mr. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 171 YAJNANAR VIJAYA PARAMPALLI Dr. Senior 24-Jun-20 AYANA Member 172 Agarkhed Jayashree S Dr. Ph.D. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 173 Meruva Girish Babu Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 174 patel satish Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 175 Bhat Raghavendra S Mr. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 176 Rao Bindu Prabhak Senior 24-Jun-20 ar Member 177 Gowda Gowtham N Prof. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 178 KURUP RAJU G Prof. Ph.D. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 179 Subramanian Rajarajeswari Dr. Ph.D. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 180 Addya Sourav Kanti Dr. Ph.D. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 181 C R Prashanth Dr. Ph.D. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 182 TUPAKULA RATNA RAHUL Dr. Ph.D. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 183 Chitnis Kedar Satish Mr. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 184 Kalbhavi Praveen Kumar Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 185 RANGASWA SHANTA Dr. Ph.D. Senior 24-Jun-20 MY Member 186 Agrawal Sandeep Senior 24-Jun-20 Member

187 SATAPATH SAMIR KANTA Senior 24-Jun-20 Y Member 188 Kulkarni Dipak Balkrish Senior 24-Jun-20 na Member 189 B K Dr. Madhu Dr. Ph.D. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 190 Nath Digbijoy N Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 191 KUMAR DR. S MOHAN Dr. Ph.D. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 192 A Sriramakrishnan Mr. Senior 24-Jun-20 Govindarajan Member 193 Rao Desu Damodara Mr. Senior 24-Jun-20 Venkatahanumantha Member 194 Patil Chandrashekar M Dr. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 195 Menon Rajalakshmi Dr. Ph.D. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 196 N V Dr Archana Dr. D.Eng. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 197 D V Rajeshwari Devi Dr. Ph.D. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 198 K M Dr. Rudrappa Dr. Ph.D. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 199 H R Roopashree Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 200 M C Dr. Rajalakshmi Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 201 S SHIVASHANKARA Prof. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 202 P RAVIRAJ Dr. Ph.D. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 203 Srinivasan Dr. A D Prof. Ph.D. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 204 M Vasantha Kumara Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 205 H R Dr. Shashidhara Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 206 M Dr. ROOPA NANDINI Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 207 Y L Dr. ChandraShekar Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 208 A L Dr. Choodarathnakara Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 209 AMBALGI DR.AMBRESH Dr. Ph.D. Senior 24-Jun-20 PRABHAKAR Member 210 Patil Dr.Lakshmi Balbhim Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 211 T Dr. Shreekanth Dr. Ph.D. Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 212 Bhairannawar Dr. Satish Shidleppa Senior 24-Jun-20 Member 213 Kannan Srividhya Dr. Ph.D. Senior 23-Jun-20 Member 214 Honnungar Rajini Vishwa Dr. Ph.D. Senior 23-Jun-20 nath Member 215 Ittoopunny Paul Mr. Senior 23-Jun-20 Member 216 VARMA TATHAGAT Mr. Senior 18-Jun-20 Member 217 Sirdeshpande Nandakishor S Prof. Sr. Senior 10-Jun-20 Member 218 Srihari Pathipati Dr. Ph.D. Senior 6-Jun-20 Member 219 Biswas Soma Dr. Senior 25-May-20

Member 220 balasubrmania venkatesaperumal Prof. Ph.D. Senior 25-Apr-20 n Member 221 Satish Malathi Dr. Ph.D. Senior 10-Apr-20 Member 222 S Rekha Mrs. Senior 10-Apr-20 Member 223 Kappagantu Uma Devi Prof. Senior 10-Apr-20 Member 224 A Parkavi Dr. Ph.D. Senior 10-Apr-20 Member 225 Patil RAJENDRA R Dr. Ph.D. Senior 10-Apr-20 Member 226 Kapinaiah Viswanath Professo Ph.D. Senior 10-Apr-20 r Member 227 JAGWANI SHEFALI Dr. Senior 10-Apr-20 Member 228 kesavan selvaraj Dr. Ph.D. Senior 10-Apr-20 Member 229 prabhakar parimala Dr. Ph.D. Senior 10-Apr-20 Member 230 Jose Jomy Mr. Senior 10-Apr-20 Member 231 Dasan Meena Dr. Ph.D. Senior 10-Apr-20 Member 232 S J Sushma Prof. Senior 10-Apr-20 Member 233 K Vivekananda Bhat Dr. Ph.D. Senior 10-Apr-20 Member 234 Nandhini VL Senior 10-Apr-20 Member 235 KRISHNAN PRABU Senior 10-Apr-20 Member 236 MEENAKSHI SUBRAMANIAM Dr. Ph.D. Senior 10-Apr-20 SUNDARAM Member 237 G Manjula Prof. Ph.D. Senior 10-Apr-20 Member 238 K Indira Dr. Ph.D. Senior 10-Apr-20 Member 239 S sreeja C Ms. Senior 10-Apr-20 Member 240 Raghunathan Varun Dr. Senior 10-Apr-20 Member 241 Mandal Atri Mr. Senior 10-Apr-20 Member 242 Avasthi Sushobhan Dr. Senior 10-Apr-20 Member 243 MAHADEVA SHIVAKUMAR Dr. Ph.D. Senior 10-Apr-20 PPA Member 244 RAJASHEKA Dr. Dr. Ph.D. Senior 10-Apr-20 RAPPA Member 245 padmashree Srinivasan Senior 10-Apr-20 Member 246 pathak Lalit Senior 10-Apr-20 Member 247 Khan Roshan Mr. Senior 10-Apr-20 Member 248 MALLANNA RAVI KEMPA Dr. Ph.D. Senior 10-Apr-20 NAPUR Member A 249 Mruthyunjaya H S Dr. Ph.D. Senior 10-Apr-20 Member 250 V V Srinivasan Mr. Senior 7-Apr-20 Member 251 Gupta Kiran Professo Ph.D. Senior 5-Apr-20

r Member 252 Mohankumar N Dr. Ph.D. Senior 31-Mar-20 Member 253 yaragatti Udaykumar Professo Ph.D. Senior 23-Mar-20 r Member 254 S PURUSHOTHAMAN Senior 21-Mar-20 Member 255 Thomas Likewin Dr. Ph.D. Senior 19-Mar-20 Member 256 Banu Dr.Reshma Senior 12-Mar-20 Member 257 Venkatapathia Suma K Dr. Ph.D. Senior 11-Mar-20 h Member 258 KAMATH ANANT SHANK Mr. Senior 11-Mar-20 AR Member 259 Jalan Saket Mr. Senior 10-Mar-20 Member 260 Patted Pushpa Vishwa Dr. Ph.D. Senior 10-Mar-20 nth Member 261 J AMBIKA Ms. Senior 9-Mar-20 Member 262 Rao K A Radhakrishna Senior 7-Mar-20 Member 263 Tyagi Himanshu Mr. Senior 4-Mar-20 Member 264 Narayanam Ramasuri Dr. Senior 2-Mar-20 Member 265 DWIVEDI DEVESH Dr. Ph.D. Senior 1-Mar-20 Member 266 GANESHAIA GOPALAKRIS SRING Dr. Ph.D. Senior 25-Feb-20 H HNA ERI Member 267 Nukala Ramesh Babu Dr. Ph.D. Senior 23-Feb-20 Member 268 Narayanan Venkateswaran Dr. Senior 23-Feb-20 Member 269 Hegde Subbarao Mr. Senior 22-Feb-20 Member 270 Baskaran B Mr. Senior 21-Feb-20 Member 271 SATEESH TIPTUR K Senior 21-Feb-20 Member 272 Dongre Shashidhara Mr. Senior 21-Feb-20 Member 273 Subramoney Sreenivas Mr. Senior 21-Feb-20 Member 274 Peddigari Venkat Ramana Dr. Senior 21-Feb-20 Member 275 Dasgupta Kalyan Dr. Senior 21-Feb-20 Member 276 V Prasanth Dr. Senior 21-Feb-20 Member 277 Jha Ashutosh Kumar Mr. Senior 21-Feb-20 Member 278 K R Usha Rani Dr. Ph.D. Senior 21-Feb-20 Member 279 Saha Anindya Mr. Senior 21-Feb-20 Member 280 Udupa Pramod Dr. Ph.D. Senior 21-Feb-20 Member 281 Mekali Harish V Mr. Senior 21-Feb-20 Member 282 Rajendran Balaji Dr. Senior 21-Feb-20 Member 283 Kannambadi Gurudatta Mr. Senior 21-Feb-20 Member

284 V. Prema Dr. Ph.D. Senior 21-Feb-20 Member 285 H.A Vidya Dr. Ph.D. Senior 21-Feb-20 Member 286 Mohanchandr Kusuma Dr. Ph.D. Senior 21-Feb-20 a Member 287 Sampathila Niranjana Dr. Ph.D. Senior 21-Feb-20 Member 288 Kumari M Sheeba Ms. Senior 21-Feb-20 Member 289 Hiremath Basavaraj N Mr. Sr. Senior 21-Feb-20 Member 290 Bajpai Ambar Dr. Senior 21-Feb-20 Member 291 Aisur Vishal Anand Senior 21-Feb-20 Gopalakrishna Member n 292 kumar pavan Dr. Senior 21-Feb-20 Member 293 DEVI MANJU Senior 21-Feb-20 Member 294 Darla Ramesh Babu Mr. Senior 21-Feb-20 Member 295 H S Prashanth Dr. Ph.D. Senior 21-Feb-20 Member 296 Natarajan Thangadurai Dr. Senior 21-Feb-20 Member 297 Thakre Arpita Dr. Ph.D. Senior 20-Feb-20 Member 298 Kumar Uttam Prof. Senior 20-Feb-20 Member 299 APPAJAPPA MAHESH Dr. Ph.D. Senior 20-Feb-20 Member 300 BENNI NIRMALKUM SIDDA Mr. Senior 20-Feb-20 AR PPA Member 301 SIVADAS APU Dr. Ph.D. Senior 20-Feb-20 Member 302 Kodeswaran Palanivel Senior 20-Feb-20 Member 303 Indukuri Venkata Raju Senior 20-Feb-20 Member 304 Misra Hemant Dr. Ph.D. Senior 3-Feb-20 Member 305 Chandru Vijaya Senior 31-Jan-20 Member 306 Guruswamy Veena Mysore Dr. Ph.D. Senior 28-Jan-20 Member 307 Patil Abhinandan H Mr. Senior 23-Jan-20 Member 308 Raikwar Avinash Kant Dr. Senior 11-Jan-20 Member

2.2.1.2 Virtual IEEE Conclave for Non-IEEE Faculty Members (25 Apr 2020)

To attract and share the IEEE information to non IEEE member from academic institution, we organized faculty conclave. Over 386 faculty members attended and appreciated the program. Many of them now is the branch counsellor after initiative SB in their campus. To create awareness about the necessity and advantages of IEEE membership for faculty members to excel in their professional career. Prof K V S Hari interacted with faculty members and gave convincing solutions to the questions raised by participants during Q & A session

Many faculties from 8 different states were also present. 98% of attendees expressed that attending the conclave was worthwhile which enhanced their knowledge about the benefits of IEEE membership and the activities of IEEE Bangalore section

2.2.1.3 Virtual Student Conclave for Non IEEE Students, (9 May 2020)

To create awareness about the advantages of IEEE Membership for students to excel in their career and profession. 85 students 4 execom members joined the event. Many of them became student members and even SB office bearers.

2.2.1.4 Mission-2020 Challenge Competition (Membership Development)

Mission 2020 Challenge competition is planned basically to drive the membership encourage different volunteers especially from students grade to participat and win some prize for their efforts in order to gifting IEEE membership. Few such competitions were organized, some of them are given as:

Fastest Member Get a Member Reward – Student Branch Nov-23, 2020 to Dec-26, 2020 Level‖

Best Teacher Award – Student Branch Level‖ Nov-23, 2020 to Dec-26, 2020

Best Researcher Award – Student Branch Level Nov-23, 2020 to Dec-26, 2020 My IEEE Experience – Social Media Video Nov-23, 2020 to Dec-26, 2020 Competition‖

Best ExeCom Volunteer Award – Student Branch Level‖ Nov-23, 2020 to Dec-26, 2020

Top 10 Branch Counselor of Nov-Dec: Fastest 10 Nov-23, 2020 to Dec-26, 2020 Top 5 District Coordinators of Nov-Dec: Fastest 3 Nov-23, 2020 to Dec-26, 2020 Top 10 SAC Volunteers Nov-23, 2020 to Dec-26, 2020 Top 10 MDC Volunteers Nov-23, 2020 to Dec-26, 2020

2.2.1.5 Membership Drive

Various membership drives were conducted at different locations such as during technical fest in college, during conference at the venue, in various colleges, etc. This includes in industry such as Infosys, Electronics for You, etc. Few of them are listed below.

Membership Drive at Japan Habba, IISc Bangalore 9-10 Feb 2020 Electronics For You (EFY): IoT Expo 14-15 Feb 2020 Membership Drive at IISc Open Day-2020 29 Feb 2020 Membership Drive at Infosys 04 Mar 2020 Membership Drive at SJB Institute of Technology (SJBIT) 17 Mar 2020 Online Seminar on IEEE Awareness to Faculty Members 08 Apr 2020 Virtual IEEE Student Branch MDC (SB-MDC) Meet-1 15 May 2020

2.3 Chapter Activities

2.3.1 Total number of Chapters in the Section

Section currently has 27 active chapters and 4 Affinity Groups. Most of them are carrying out quality technical activities and reporting to the section and to vTools. A list of the chapter/councils/affinity groups are provided below.

Sl Society Chapter/Affinity Group/Council Sl. Society Chapter/Affinity Group/Council Name No Name No 1 Aerospace and Electronic System Society 17 Robotics and Automation Society Chapter

2 Antenna and Propagaton Society and 18 Sensor Council Microwave Theory and Technique Society (Joint) 3 Circuit and System Sociey 19 Signal Processing Society 4 Computer Society 20 Society on Social Implications of Technology 5 Communication Society 21 Technology and Engineering Management Society 6 Computational Intelligence Society 22 Vehicular Technology Society 7 Consumer Electronics, now consumer 23 Nanotechnology Council technology society (CTSoc) 8 Control System Society 24 Industry Application Society 9 Education Society 25 Electro Device-Solid State Circuits Society 10 Electronics Packaging Society 26 Engineering in Medicine andBiology Society 11 Electromagnetic Compatibility Society 27 Intelligent Transportation System (approved) 12 Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society 13 Industrial Electronic Society AG-1 Consulting Networks 14 Photonic Society AG-2 Women in Engineering 15 Power and Energy Society AG-3 Young Professional 16 Power Electronics Society AG-4 Life Member

2.3.2 Number of Chapters formed in the current year

 Education Society (Newly formed)  Control System Society (CSS) Revived this year  Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) approved in Dec

2.3.3 Number of active Chapters (Chapters who have reported required number of meetings during the year)

Twenty two chapters and three affinity groups of the section have reported the required numbers of events to the vTools as well as sent their report to the section. Considering the trend this is a significant improvement compared to the earlier years. Following is the summary of the chapters that are NOT reporting the events properly in spite of several reminders:

Name of the Chapter/Council/AG Report to Section Nos of event in vTool (as on 24th Dec) Electromagnetic Compatibility No 0 Nano Technology Council No 1 Industry Application No 0 Engineering in Medicine and Biology Yes 0 Electro Device-Solid State Circuits No 19 Consulting Networks No 0 Life Member Yes 1

2.3.4 Summary of Chapter activities (Chapter wise with attachment table/information)

The activity reports as submitted by the respective chapters and the councils are appended in the following subsections. Their order is mostly random:

2.3.4.1 AEROSPACE & ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS SOCIETY (AESS) http://ieee-aess.org/chapter/bangalore-section-chapter IEEE AESS BLR chapter has been vibrant and proactive in organizing Distinguished Lectures (DL), Invited Talks, Workshops and supporting student activities. With a new slate in place, this year there were a series of planned activities. However, the pandemic has slowed down the tempo. Notwithstanding to these changes, and in line with the Bangalore Section, AESS quickly adopted to the situation and utilized the new normal phase to provide its members, and many keen audiences, with a new learning experience. Accordingly, four DLs were organized with two of them jointly with Control Systems Society and one more in queue. Experts from industry and academia were invited to enlighten the interested audience with their experiences and expertise. The details of the DL programs organized are briefly captured and shown below. The chapter owned a track in IEEE CONECCT conference on the advanced research topic ―Connected Aircraft and Air Traffic Management‖ and organized the following talks. ―Nonlinear Real-time Optimal Control using MPSP for Optimal Guidance of Aerospace Vehicles‖ by Prof. Radhakant Padhi. ―Connected Ecosystem and Future of Flight‖ by Adishesha Sivaramasastry ―USA Traffic Management-Evolution and Challenges‖ by Prasanna Ramamurthy Apart from the technical activities, there were periodic EXECOM meetings. This year started with Chapter‘s AGM held on 5th Jan 2020 together with section AGM to discuss on the activities of previous year and approve the slate. Three EXECOM meetings were conducted on 18th January, 1st March and 10th October to discuss on the planned activities and roadmap for the future. All the technical and administrative events were timely reported in vTools. Activities planned during the remaining part of the year: DL on ―A Hierarchical Approach to Control of Complex Energy and Power Systems for Air Vehicles‖ by Prof. Andrew Alleyne, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA on 4th December. Invited Talk on ―Quantum Radar‖ on 27th November by Dr. Vadiraj A M, University of Waterloo, Canada. A consolidated list of all the technical activities are listed below: Organizing Date Speaker Title of talk Participan Team ts DL 14th Feb Prof. Maruthi R. Robust Adaptive Control for Autonomous 82 AESS Akella Space Vehicle Proximity Operations 14th May Dr. Surendra Pal Satellite Navigation: Indian Paradigm 304 CONECCT – 2nd July Prof. Radhakant Nonlinear Real-time Optimal Control using 90 2020 Padhi MPSP for Optimal Guidance of Aerospace Special track on Vehicles ―Connected 2nd July Dr. Adishesha Connected Ecosystem and Future of Flight 90 Aircraft and Air Sivaramasastry Traffic 2nd July Dr. Prasanna USA Traffic Management-Evolution and 90 Management‖ Ramamurthy Challenges DL 21st July Dr. Randal W. Vision-Based Tracking using small UAVs 162 AESS & CSS Beard DL 23rd Oct Prof. Jagadeesh Fantasy of Hypersonic Flight: Conquering 66 AESS Gopalan the last frontier Invited talk 27th Nov Dr.A.M. Vadiraj Quantum Radar Upcoming DL 4th Dec Dr. Andrew Alleyne A Hierarchical Approach to Control of Upcoming AESS & CSS Complex Energy and Power Systems for Air Vehicles Some of the snap shots from some of the events are given here:

2.3.4.2

2.3.4.3 AP-MTT Joint Chapter

A new ExeCom took over the charge during the AGM on 5th January for the year 2020. In spite of the pandemic situation the team AP-MTT, could engage the online tools very effectively for delivering the technical content to its members. The activities of this year as provided in the Table AP-MTT-1 covered all the aspects like administrative, professional and technical development. A series of technical writing workshop have been conducted. Very high quality technical talks including a DLT on ‗Lens Antennas: Fundamentals and Present Applications‘ by Prof. Oscar Quevedo-Teruel of School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden has been organized. A glimpse of these events are captured in the Fig. AP-MTT-1. The Technical talks included different areas like SAW technology, Phase Array RADAR, Computational Electomagnetics, Massive MIMO systems. etc. The speaker for these workshops had very diverse background like from Industry, Academia, Indian and from abroad. Some of the ExeCom members also delivered very effective sessions in their areas of expertise. The chapter also have two ExeCom meetings and participated the co-ordination meeting with the Bangalore Section. It has also taken care of process of electing the new execom for 2021 following the due process as laid down in the MGA manual. The chapter took very proactive step in organizing a track entitled ‗Antenna Systems for Futuristic Application‘ in the IEEE CONECCT-2020 held during July 2-4, 2020 in Virtual Mode. The TPC worked hard in making this track very rich in technical content. This included a Pre-Conference Workshop: ‗EM Diffraction Modeling & Simulations‘ and Keynote: on ‗Engineering Electromagnetics to Electromagnetics Engineering‘: by Prof. Dr. Levent Sevgi, FIEEE; Istanbul OKAN University. Total of 26 research papers were submitted and after rigorous review the TPC accepted 19 high quality papers which were presented in three technical sessions and one paper each from academia and industry category were presented with the best paper award. Glimpse of the events are captured in Fig. AP-MTT-2

Table AP-MTT-1: Complete list of activities of the AP-MTT Team During 2020 Organizing Date Event Speakers Particip. Team (approx) AP-MTT 5/01/2020 AGBM AGBM 20 AP-MTT/ UVCE 14/01/2020 Authorship Workshop Chandrakanta Kumar & 55 Navin Kumar AP-MTT & BS 08/02/2020 Ch-coordination Meeting Chair/Co-ordinator/ General 48 Chair CONECCT AP-MTT & 22/02/2020 Workshop on Antenna Analysis and Chandrakanta Kumar & 80 RVCE Application Dr. Balarmathi AP-MTT & 22/02/2020 Authorship Workshop Chandrakanta Kumar & 90 RVCE Dr. Dhanu AP-MTT & BS 12/05/2020 Signal processing with surface- Prof. RG Kulkarni 93 acoustics-wave (SAW) devices AP-MTT & BS 17/05/2020 Chapter coordination meeting-II Chair/Co-ordinator/ General 47 and CONECCT TPC-III Meeting Chair CONECCT AP-MTT & BS 25/05/2020 EasyChair Training for the TPC of Chandrakanta Kumar 5 B-HTC 2020 AP-MTT 30/05/2020 ExeCom Meeting ExeCom Members 11 AP-MTT & 15 to 17th Practical RF/Microwave Active Manjunath Reddy 90 RVCE /06/2020 Circuit Design & Analysis AP-MTT 16/06/2020 Electromagnetic Aspects of 5G Debdeep Sarkar 137 Massive MIMO Systems: Antenna Design and Channel Modelling AP-MTT & 24th to 26th RF Basics Antennas and Srinivasa Rao Appalla 120 RVCE /06/2020 Measurements Ashutosh Kedar AP-MTT & BS 2-4/7/2020 CONECCT-2020: AP-MTT track Workshop/ Keynote paper 60 ―Antenna Systems for Futuristic presentation Application‖ AP-MTT 31/07/2020 Phased Array Antennas: System Ashutosh Kedar 68 Engineering Perspective AP-MTT & 24-29th One Week Workshop on Manoranjan Sahoo 38 RVCE /08/2020 Computational Electromagnetics P G Siddheshwar and Applications SANJEEV YADAV Balamati Choudhury Mahesh A Shushrutha K S AP-MTT & 29/08/2020 IEEE Authorship Workshop III Chandrakanta Kumar & 70 Christ Univ Navin Kumar AP-MTT & 17/09/2020 Opportunities in Electromagnetics Dr. Cynthia Furse 77 RVCE and Microwave Engineering AP-MTT & 19/10/2020 Lens Antennas: Fundamentals and Oscar Quevedo-Teruel (DLT) 60 RVCE Present Applications AP-MTT 1/11/2020 ExeCom Meeting ExeCom Members 9

AP-MTT 8- Workshop on Microwave and Prof. Satish.K.Sharma 175+ 13/12/2020 Antenna Applications in 5G Dr.Debdeep Sarkar Dr. C J Reddy Dr.Bibhudatta Sahoo Dr.S.Aniruddhan Prasad Bhat Nazim Ahmed

AP-MTT-1. Glimpse of different webinars and workshops during 2020

AP-MTT-2. Glimpse of the events for the AP-MTT Track in the CONECCT-2

2.3.4.4 Circuit and System Society (CASS) Bangalore Chapter https://ieee-cas.org/ The IEEE circuits and system society Bangalore chapter new committee was formed on 26thApril 2020, with Mr. Puneet Kumar Mishra, IEEE Bangalore section chair 2020, Prof. Lawrence Jenkins, Chair (IEEE Bangalore Section Chair, 1996-1997), Dr. S Pal, Member, (IEEE Bangalore Section Chair, 2004-2005), Dr. Ramakrishna K, Member (IEEE Bangalore Section Chair, 2008-2009) and 20 IEEE volunteer members. IEEE CAS Bangalore Chapter started with the following mission and vision. MISSION Build an sustainable ecosystem to foster innovation, learning and knowledge sharing in the field of circuit and system through active participation from academia, Industry and interdisciplinary community in Karnataka. VISION

To build a vibrant CAS chapter dedicated to the technical advancements, innovation and learning in the field of Circuits and Systems. CASS Bangalore chapter is taking lead role in membership drive from April 2020. CAS new Exec. Comm. came on board w.e.f. April 26th under Leadership of Dr. Devesh Dwivedi. Team added 21 new members to CAS chapter in less than 2 months‘ time. Bangalore CASS membership drive also added CAS student chapter, District coordinators &Regional coordinators in Karnataka state. This comes out to be very useful in reaching out and addressing the need of the remote part even during lockdown. CASS Bangalore chapter regular conduct Execom Committee meeting to review progress, challenges and action plan to achieve CAS chapter goal. To expanded CAS Execom Committee team added with two new experts (Dr. Vishal Khatri, Samsung Research, Mr. Rajanikanth, Global Foundries) from industry to Execom Committee. During lockdown period CAS Bangalore section initiated with 8 CAS student chapters. Apart from the regular activities, the Bangalore CASS Chapter has also successfully conducted the held productive discussion with Prof. Amara Amara, CASS President. He discussed the proposal to make CAS Bangalore chapter more vibrant and how CAS can help industry, academia and society. Chapter also conducted webinar on ―IEEE CAS regional activity and how to run CAS chapter‖ by Dr Yoshifumi Nisho vice President (Regional and membership activities) IEEE CAS USA. To engaged high-end technical and management skills CASS Bangalore Chapter organized many webinars from industry and academia stalwart. It covers different emerging topics in the area of circuit & systems to meet the needs of students, faculty and professional members.

Organizing Date Speaker Affiliation Participa Team nts (approx) CASS 25.09.2020 Dr Pradip Bose Distinguished RSM & Manager – 70 Bangalore Efficient & Resilient Systems, Thomas J. Chapter Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY USA 12.09.2020 Dr YoshifymiNishio Vice President (Regional and membership 66 activities), IEEE CAS USA 01.08.2020 Mr Kishore CEO & co-founder, Morphient Inc. 111 Yerrapragada 31.07.2020 Mr. SambaranMitra Intel Corporation 42 25.07.2020 Dr.Clay Cranford Distinguish Engineer IBM and 64 Globalfoundaries USA 02.07.2020 Mr. Krishnan Santhana Technical Lead, Infineon Technologies 99

21.07.2020 Dr SupavadeeArsmvith Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 82 Chulalongkorn university, Thailand

05.07.2020 Mr Sunil Kumar H V Vivartan Technologies 124 and Mr Abilash G IEEE connect 04.07.2020 Mr Sunil Kumar H V Vivartan Technologies 124 2020 and Mr Abilash G CASS 20.06.2020 Mr. Sanjay Churiwala Senior Director Xilinx - Hyderabad 326 Bangalore 30.05.2020 Dr. Neha Sharma, Secretary for Data Science 421 Chapter

2.3.4.5 Control Systems Society http://ieeecss.org/ The formation of the Bangalore chapter of the Control Systems Society (CSS) was approved in May, 2020; its geo-code is CH10931. This chapter was dormant and was revived with a petition. Prior to finalising the office- bearers, Prof Radhakant Padhi, Dept of Aerospace Engineering, IISc, had sent an invitation to several academicians and people from industry on reviving this chapter. Based on the enthusiasm and interest that was shown in this meeting, a few of the attendees volunteered their time to act as office bearers of the Society. To make a mark quickly, the CSS took advantage of the COVID situation where webinars and online lectures have become the norm, and hosted, jointly with the AESS Bangalore chapter, the first event of CSS in July 2020. This was a Distinguished Lecture (DL) by Dr Randal Beard, Brigham Young University, on July 21, 2020. The subject of this talk was on ―Vision-based Tracking with small UAVs‖. The talk was well attended by participants from both the control and aerospace communities. The CSS then hosted its independent event, which was also a DL, in September 2020. This was a talk by Prof Kristine Pettersen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, on Snake Robotics with applications in ocean exploration. This DL too was well received by the controls community, with even a few attendees from outside India. The Society had its first ExCom meeting in October 2020. Discussions ranged from planning future events as well as outreach and educational activities. Several members put forth their suggestions on potential speakers and topics as well as modes of increasing visibility of the Society. As part of this discussion, the next DL, scheduled for December 2020, was planned. This will be a talk on Power Management in Air Vehicles by Prof Andrew Alleyne of UIUC. Though this will also be jointly hosted with the AESS, the primary host will be the CSS.

Organizing Team Date Speaker Title of talk /Affiliation Particip ants Joint with AESS, B‘lore July 21, 2020 Dr Randal Brigham Young University 100 Chapter Beard CSS Sept 14, 2020 Prof Kristine Snake robots – bioinspiration gives 30 Pettersen efficient robots for ocean exploration, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Oct 10, 2020 CSS members ExCom 7

Dec 4, 2020 Prof Andrew A Hierarchical Approach to Control of Alleyne Complex Energy and Power Systems for Air Vehicles, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

2.3.4.6 Communication Society (ComSoc) - Bangalore Chapter https://site.ieee.org/bangalore-com/ IEEE ComSoc Bangalore chapter has been quite vibrant. We have been contributing to technical forums, in-depth workshops, student contests, and other initiatives. We are fully leveraging the online collaboration, virtual forums, and video conferencing to sustain our continuous learning and knowledge dissemination. We conducted a series of webinars on different topics which includes Technologies underlying 5G, Role of AI/ML in 5G Networks, Quantum Communication, ―Computer Vision in Autonomous Car‖ and many other emerging topics. It was our privilege to host IEEE 5G World Forum in Sept 2020 in virtual mode. This year‘s summer school has been called off, but we have re-applied on the theme '5G and IoT' for June 2021. This year, we focused on advanced workshops and deep-tech sessions in 5G, SDN/NFV, Blockchain, Intelligent Transportation Systems, and other cutting-edge technologies. We also completed events such as GraTE-7 in June‘20 and PhD EDITS in Nov. `20 which are the unique events by ComSoc. The GraTE-7 is the Masters/Ph.D. thesis contest (GraTe-7) jointly organized with Kerala and Hyderabad sections. The PhD EDITS is a PhD colloquium with a remarkable set of visionary invited/inaugural talks delivered by industry experts and research problems presented by scholars. The PhD scholars will exchange their experiences and innovative ideas to a panel of experts from industry. The platform offers an open floor discussion on research directions such as accuracy and applicability of problems, methodology of approach, availability of solution and applications, availability of collaborative opportunities and the like. Our few upcoming events are ITS (28th Nov) and Open Source in Communications (5th Dec.) plus two execom meetings (19th Nov. and 19th Dec.). Further, our student branches are organizing interesting sessions. We have been monitoring the events conducted by ComSoc student branches. The ComSoc Bangalore chapter organized one week workshop on Wireless Communication in collaboration with all ComSoc student branches. As a part of operation, the chapter has been successfully conducting the monthly Execom meeting in virtual mode. Our society has good representation from Industry and Academia. We are finding avenues to leverage this mix judiciously in all our activities.

S.N Date Event Title (Venue) Speakers /Affiliation Partici- pants (approx) 1. 9/4/2020 Experiments in Autonomous Navigation Prof.K V S Hari 250 5pm-6pm (Virtual Event) (IISc, Bangalore) 2. 11/4/2020 5G New Radio, Research and Stack Mr Sreeram 102 3pm-4pm Implementation Challenges (Virtual Event) (iSignal Research Labs, Bangalore) 3. 2/5/2020 Edge Compute and 5G- – Unlimited Gnanapriya C 60 2pm-5pm possibilities (Associate VP, Infosys) (Virtual Event) 4. 15/5/2020 Free Space and Underwater Visible Light Chao Shen, -- 7:30pm- Communications: An Emerging Technology (Co-Founder, SaNoor 8:30pm for Industry 4.0 (Virtual Event) Technologies Inc. USA) 5. 31/5/2020 Leveraging AI in 5G and Wireless Networks Ravikanth Pasumarthy --- 10am-1pm (Virtual Event) (Aricent) Subhas Mondal (Wipro) Dr. Saptarshi Chaudhuri (Radisys) 6. 1/6/2020 One week Webinar Series 5G and Beyond- Anindya Saha --- 7:30pm- Introduction to ATSC3.0, the next generation (Saankhya Labs) 8:30pm Broadcast Standard (Virtual Event) 7. 2/6/2020 One week Webinar Series 5G and Beyond- Tushar Vrind --- 7:30pm- 5G from Systems/Modem Chip Perspectives (Samsung Electronics) 8:30pm (Virtual Event) 8. 3/6/2020 One week Webinar Series 5G and Beyond- Dr Dilip Krishnaswamy --- 7:30pm- Blockchain and Quantum Processing for 5G (Reliance Jio) 8:30pm and Beyond (Virtual Event) 9. 4/6/2020 One week Webinar Series 5G and Beyond- Prof Sanjeev G --- 7:30pm- Non-orthogonal Multiple Access for 5G (PES University) 8:30pm Communication Systems (Virtual Event)

10. 5/6/2020 One week Webinar Series 5G and Beyond- Jomy Jose, ---- 7:30pm- 5G for Massive IoT (NB IoT/eMTC/NR (L&T Technology Services Ltd) 8:30pm Light) (Virtual Event) 11. 6/6/2020 One week Webinar Series 5G and Beyond- Dr. Ganesan Thiagarajan, --- 7:30pm- Massive MIMO in 5G (Virtual Event) (MMRFIC Pvt Ltd.) 8:30pm 12. 13/6/2020 GraTE-7 2020 --- 10am- (Virtual Event) 12:30pm 13. 13/6/2020 Quantum Communication: An Intuitive Mr. Anand M --- 3-4:30pm Introduction (CDoT) 14. 27/6/2020 The Era of Programmable Networks (Virtual Subhas Mondal, Swaminathan --- 10am- Event) S (Wipro) 1:30pm Subodh Gajare (Cisco) 15. 2/7/2020 - IEEE CONNECT 2020 356 4/7/2020 (COMMUNICATION TRACK) (Virtual Event) 16. 18/7/2020 Nurturing Career Amidst Adversities during Dr. Aloknath De 535 10am- Pandemic (Samsung India) 12:30pm (Virtual Event) Dr. Dilip Krishnaswamy (Reliance Jio) Dr. Navin Kumar (Amrita School of Engineering) Subhas Mondal (Wipro) Dr. Uttara Vidyasagar (Doctor) Subodh Gajare (Cisco) 17. 25/7/2020 Intellectual Property: how to write your first Dr. Aloknath De --- 10am-12pm Patent (CTO, Samsung India) (Virtual Event) Sujith Subramanian & Neelmani Jha (Senior Manager, Intellectual Property, Samsung India) 18. 18/8/2020 Research Methodology and AuthorshipLab Dr A M Ramesh, Dr. --- 10am-12pm Workshop jointly with KSTA -Inaugural, ALoknath De, Dr. Prakash Defining Research Problem Sobarad, (Virtual Event) Dr. G S Javed

19. 19/8/2020 Research Methodology and AuthorshipLab Mr M S Srinivas --- 10am- Workshop jointly with KSTA -Addressing Dr. Navin Kumar 2:15pm the Research Problem-Authorship (How to write a quality paper and publish) (Virtual Event) 20. 20/8/2020 Research Methodology and AuthorshipLab Dr. Navin Kumar --- 11am- Workshop jointly with KSTA -Peer Review Dr. Ramesh Shahabadkar 1:45pm Process-IPR (Filing Procedure) (Virtual Event) 21. 21/8/2020 Research Methodology and AuthorshipLab Mrs Apoorva H R ---- 10am-1pm Workshop jointly with KSTA -Tools for Documentation (Virtual Event)

22. 29/8/2020 Cloud Native Computing Architecture in 5G Subhas Mondal, 131 10am-1pm (Virtual Event) Aravind Ajad Yarra Bharat Kasimani, Dr. Magesh Kasthuri, Abhinivesh Jain (Wipro Technologies) 23. 2/9/2020 Wireless Communication Workshop- Raghunandan N V Sr (Design 100 6pm-8pm Experimental Testbeds in V2X Research Engineer, National Instruments) (Virtual Event) 24. 3/9/2020 Wireless Communication Workshop- Radio Dr. Sudhindra K R (Associate 100 6-7:30pm Technologies in LTE (Virtual Event) Professor Dept of ECE, BMSCE

25. 4/9/2020 Wireless Communication Workshop- Use A T Kishore Chief (Executive 100 6pm-pm cases of ML, AI Algorithms in 5G and Officer Vidhya Sangha Beyond (Virtual Event) Technologies Pvt Ltd)

26. 5/9/2020 Wireless Communication Workshop- Dr. K.S. Shivaprakasha 100 6pm-7pm Mathematical foundation for Error Control (Professor, Dept. of ECE, Coding (Virtual Event) NMAM Institute of Technology) 27. 7/9/2020 Wireless Communication Workshop- MCM Dr. S Ravishankar (Professor, 100 6pm- and MIMO for DSL and LTE Dept. of ECE, RV College of 7:30pm (Virtual Event) Engineering) 28. 8/9/2020 Wireless Communication Workshop- D2D Dr. Jagadeesh R B (Associate 100 6pm-7pm Communication Prof. , Dept. of ECE SJEC, (Virtual Event) Mangaluru)

29. 26/9/2020 Hyper Efficient and Intelligent Future ArunPrashanth S, Suresh K 372 9:15am- Networks (Nokia) 2pm (Virtual Event) Kaitki Agarwal (Parallel Wireless) Srinivasan Selvaganapathy, Satish K, Dani Korpi (Nokia Bell Labs) Dr. Dilip Krishnaswamy (Reliance Jio) Ms. Gnanapriya c (Infosys) Subodh Gajare (CISCO) 30. 10/10/2020 Introduction to Quantum Communication Dr. Ganesan T 88 6pm-8pm Systems (Virtual Event) (MMRFIC)

31. 22/10/2020 DL -Full Duplex Radio Dr. Chan-Boung Chae --- (Virtual Event) 32. 7/11/2020 UAV System: 3GPP Perspective Prof. Kamesh Namuduri --- 9:15am- (Virtual Event) (Univ of North Texas, USA) 4:30pm Samir Satapathy (Chief Architect, TCS) Niranth Amog (Regional Director,Huawei) Anandaraj T (DMTS Senior Member & CTO Robotics Practice) Sayandeep Purkayasth (CEO, Deepcyan Software) Abhiroop Bhatnagar (Founder, Algopixel Technologies) 33. 8/11/2020 IEEE PhD EDITS 2020 (PhD Colloquium on 25 Industry Experts and 32 51 8:30am- Ethically Driven Innovation and Technology Scholars 6pm for Society (EDITS) (Virtual Event)

2.3.4.7 Computer Society Bangalore Chapter http://cs.ieeebangalore.org/ IEEE Computer Society Bangalore Chapter, recipient of the 2019 Outstanding Chapter Award from IEEE Computer Society and the 2018 Outstanding Large Chapter Award from IEEE Bangalore Section is one of the most vibrant chapters within Bangalore Section and across India. The chapter has been actively conducting events for its member base over the past few years and have always been very innovative in the events conducted with a focus on both the deep technical aspects by concentrating on niche areas of computing, and in membership development through various volunteering opportunities for its members. Despite a tough Y2020 due to the pandemic situation, the chapter has performed well by quickly switching to virtual online meetings and event platforms since March and conducting several high-impact events (70+) for the

members throughout the year. The first quarter was marked with events including invited talks and panel discussions with a lot of premier institutions as our co-hosts. The chapter was able to co-host ―Ideathon‖ at NMIT Bangalore, a workshop to mark the International Women‘s Day at UVCE Bangalore and also host the ―IEEE GirlGeeksHack‖, a hackathon focused on empowering women engineering students. This helped gain a good momentum and get the events going which fueled the chapter‘s motivation to excel through the rest of the year. Despite the pandemic that started to kick in during Q2, the chapter quickly adapted by starting the ―Celebrating Computing Webinar Series 2020‖ which enabled the experience of invited lectures over the virtual meetup platforms. The webinar series featured expert technologists sharing their experiences on niche areas of computer science and information technology. The speakers were carefully chosen from both academia and industry and the webinar series garnered good response from all the major corporate players and academic institutions. Along with the webinar series, the chapter also partnered with different organizational units across India to organize online workshops and technical sessions as well. On the membership development front, the chapter conducted multiple events for the student chapters and provided the student community with insights into the benefits of IEEE Computer Society. This included events promoting IEEE Xtreme 14.0 and membership drives conducted in partnership with student chapters in other sections as well. Additionally, the chapter was able to initiate two new IEEE CS Student Chapters at GSSSIETW Mysore and Christ University Bangalore, bringing the total count of active CS student chapters to 10. The most awaited event of the year for the chapter was ―IEEE DeepTech.AI 2020‖, the third event in the series of annual events and the celebration of AI, themed on ―AI Life Cycle: Industry Challenges and Research Frontiers‖. The two-day flagship symposium featured eminent speakers from both industry and academia across the world and had over 157 registrations and participation. The event received great feedback from all who attended, and the speakers were impressed by the chapter‘s coordination of the event. The event was supported by Intel, Honeywell and IEEE Bangalore Section and membership drives were an integral part of the event. The current membership count of the chapter is 786 which is ~24% increase over last year (631) and is a direct result of the consistent efforts by the chapter in bringing noteworthy events and programmes for the benefit of its members and depicts how the efforts from the chapter have directly impacted its members and has motivated many to continue and retain their CS membership. Of this number, 434 are student members and 352 are professional members. The various events that the chapter & its volunteers have conducted during MY2020 are listed below: Type of Date Event Name and/or Topic Organized or Co- Speaker and Participa Event hosted by Affiliation nts Count Conferen 7/1/2020 Talk: Ant taxi to Pie COMSNETS Bengaluru Snehanshu Saha, 175 ce Passenger-Distributed Ride APPCAIR, BITS Goa strategies Invited 12/1/2020 Parsimony Computing: U,Tehran, Iran Snehanshu Saha, 95 Talk Non-tuning methods in APPCAIR, BITS Goa Neural Nets Tech Talk 29/1/2020 Demystifying Blockchain RVCE Bengaluru Nagendra, Skill 50 Velocity Worksho 8/2/2020 Project based RVCE Bengaluru Nagaraja G S, RVCE 50 p implementation issues and Thesis writing Ideathon 10/2/2020 Ideathon NMIT Not applicable 72

Invited 18/02/202 The Mathematics of BITS Goa Snehanshu Saha 65 Talk 0 Activation Functions Worksho 20- Python and Data Science RVCE Bengaluru Nagaraja G S, RVCE 40 p 22/02/202 0 Worksho 21/2/2020 MSR Engineering Week | MSRIT Bengaluru Seema Chopra, 50 p Trending Technologies in Boeing Research aerospace Industries Invited 24/02/202 Deep Learning models from NMIT Soma S Dhavala, ML 71 Talk 0 Ground-up Square Hackatho 4-5/3/20 GirlGeeksHack 2020 NMIT NA 38 n Worksho 6/3/2020 Workshop on Cyber UVCE Bengaluru Seema Chopra 50 p Physical Systems/IoT/AI Achal Moudgal (marking Intl Women's Day Vishwas Lakkundi 2020)

Conferen 7/5/2020 ICCTAC 2020 | Technical Kristu Jayanti College Vishwas Lakkundi 96 ce Session on 'Zero Trust Security Framework' Webinar 15/5/2020 Guidelines on writing a CCWS 2020 Team Seema Chopra, 76 Research Paper: Industry Boeing Research Perspectives Webinar 22/5/2020 Cognitive Modelling in HCI CCWS 2020 Team Sanjay Ghosh, Google 34

Webinar 29/5/2020 AdaSwarm: Optimization in CCWS 2020 Team Snehanshu Saha, 50 ML APPCAIR, BITS-G Panel 30/5/2020 IoT: Maximising Value & IET Industry Institution Vishwas Lakkundi 465 Discussio RoI with AIoT & IoHT Summit 3.0 n Invited 30/5/2020 Introduction to IoHT: IEEE SB Jeppiaar Engg Vishwas Lakkundi 46 Talk Internet of Hacked Things College Webinar 5- Research and Industry NMIT Snehanshu Saha, 73 22/6/2020 Perspective on Data Science Nithin Nagaraj, Soma Mukherji, Ruma, Vidyadevi, Pavan Thada Webinar 12/6/2020 Introduction to LaTeX CCWS 2020 Team Udayasree Gorantla, 30 CDOT Webinar 19/6/2020 ML Data: Assessment of X CCWS 2020 Team Hima Patel, IBM 30 in Y=F(X) Webinar 3/7/2020 Infusing Trust in Data and CCWS 2020 Team Sameep Mehta - IBM 25 AI Life Cycle Webinar 11/7/2020 Unsupervised Techniques CCWS 2020 Team Sriparna Saha - IITP 30 for Search Result Clustering and Summarization Worksho 18/7/2020 WSN/IoT Protocols Skill Dev Program in Vishwas Lakkundi 30 p IoT - BLR Section Webinar 24/7/2020 Single Image Dehazing CCWS 2020 Team Bhabatosh Chanda - 20 Method ISI Webinar 15/8/2020 Zero-shot Knowledge CCWS 2020 Team Anirban Chakaborty- 30 Distillation in Deep Nets IISc Webinar 21/8/2020 Teaching Conversational CCWS 2020 Team Asif Ekbal-IITP 30 Machines with Human Affects Webinar 24/8/2020 Ethics and Code of Conduct Co-hosted by IEEE CS Dr Saibal Kar 75 in Research Bangalore Chapter Webinar 26/8/2020 How to write a good Co-hosted by IEEE CS Dr. Chandrabhas 72 proposal for a funding Bangalore Chapter Narayana- JNCASR agency? Webinar 27/8/2020 Every Company is an AI CCWS 2020 Team Amit Sheth - USC 50 Company: Now, Near USA Future, or Distant Future? Webinar 27/8/2020 How to work in latex Co-hosted by IEEE CS Mrs. Udayasree 72 Bangalore Chapter Gorantla Webinar 28/8/2020 How to Publish Without Co-hosted by IEEE CS Dr. Shobhana 75 Perishing Bangalore Chapter Narasimhan - JNCASR

Webinar 29/8/2020 Fostering Creativity & Co-hosted by IEEE CS Dr Ashok Misra – 71 Innovation Technology & Bangalore Chapter IISc Bangalore Science Invited 29/8/2020 AIoT: IoT with AI for Avian Aerospace Vishwas Lakkundi 50 Talk Digital Transformation Workshops | Invited Talk

Invited 10/9/2020 AIoT for Digital IEEE CS SB BMSITM | Vishwas Lakkundi 50 Talk Transformation Invited Talk

Webinar 11/9/2020 Accelerate Deep Learning CCWS 2020 Team Pooja Baraskar - Intel 50 Inference using Intel® Technologies Webinar 18/9/2020 Simplifying IoT from Cloud CCWS 2020 Team Shailendra Miglani - 30 to Intelligent Edge Microsoft Webinar 18/9/2020 Reimagining Memory and Joint Webinar - IEEE Madhusudan Sampath 50 Storage Systems BLR Section | Webinar - xMicron/xSamsung

Webinar 25/9/2020 Compute Express Link Joint Webinar - IEEE Madhusudan Sampath 50 (CXL) for Heterogeneous BLR Section | Webinar - xMicron/xSamsung Computing Webinar 26/9/2020 The Game Changing CCWS 2020 Team Rajeev R - Mistral 35 Technologies of 21st Century Hackatho 2/10/2020 NASA International Space NASA International Vishwas Lakkundi 100 n Jury - Apps Challenge 2020 in Space Apps Challenge 4/10/2020 collaboration with IET 2020 | Hackathon Jury Chennai Flagship 30/10/202 IEEE DeepTech.AI 2020 Flagship Symposium Multiple 150 Symposiu 0 - m 31/10/202 0 Hackatho 30/10/202 National Level Hackathon in collaboration with Multiple 100 n 0 - (GovTech-Thon) Oracle, NIC & IEEE 1/11/2020 India Office | Hackathon Panel 31/10 to IEEE CSIS 2020 Symposium - panel Vishwas Lakkundi 200 discussio 1/11/20 discussion n Webinar 20/11/202 Ransomware: Emerging CS DVP Webinar CRS Kumar - DRDO Upcoming 0 Threats to Cyber Security Event Webinar 27/11/202 Sustainable Development Special Webinar on Chetana Koulagi Upcoming 0 Goals for budding creating Social Impact Event Engineering Professionals Worksho 5,12,19,2 AI/ML Workshop Series GirlGeeks Event, NMIT Multiple Speakers Upcoming p 6/12/20 Bangalore Event Conferen 11/12/202 Technical Support for IEEE CS Bangalore Multiple Speakers, Upcoming ce 0 - MPCIT 2020 - JNNCE Chapter ExCom | TPC Event 12/12/202 Shimoga Conference 0 Worksho 11/12/202 National Level RVCE Bangalore Multiple Speakers Upcoming p 0 - Distinguished Lecture series Event 12/12/202 on "Research and 0 Application perspective of Emerging trends in Computer Science"

2.3.4.8 Computer Intelligence Society Chapter https://cis.ieee.org/ Following activities are conducted to enhance the technical knowledge in the areas of computational intelligence, machine learning, Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing concepts and applications for professionals, faculty and students of engineering courses by giving preference to IEEE members with some more benefits to IEEE CIS members. These activities have motivated the professionals, faculty and student community to become a member and in turn helped them in their respective professional growth through the feed back reports received in the areas Computational Intelligence. We laos planned for the following events like Local Industry interactions supported by IEEE CIS head office, Guest Lectures, Training programs, Academic Curriculum Development, Partial Delivery of courses 1. Workshop on Edge Intelligence and Computing 20th to 24th January Edge computing is transforming the way data is being handled, processed, and delivered from millions of devices around the world. While Edge Intelligence is to enable and realize the true value of the Internet of Things, Edge Intelligence pushes processing for data intensive applications away from the core of the cloud to the edge of the network. Topics Covered: •Embedded Linux, Systems Thinking, SOS, Edge Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Internet of Things, Embedded Wireless Sensor Networks, Power Management, Edge Computing, Data Collection, Data Consistency – resource Constraints, Multiplexing – Clock Speed, Optimization, Security in Edge Intelligence, Hands on sessions and demonstrations – Embedded and Sensor Devices using MQTT 2. Workshop on Demystify Design Thinking in Multidisciplinary Engineering: IT Approaches 27th July to 1 Aug 2020. Design thinking is a process for creative problem solving. Design thinking draws on logic, imagination, intuition and systemic reasoning to explore the possibilities of what could be, and to create desired outcomes that benefit the end user. A design mind-set is not problem-focused, it‘s solution-focused, and action-oriented. It involves both analysis and imagination. Design thinking is linked to an improved future and seeks to build ideas up— unlike critical thinking, which breaks them down. 3. Webinar on Advanced IT Technologies -23rd to 27th May 20202 This Webinar was conducted for faculty and students under IEEE CIS. It covered various advanced topics like cognitive computing Machine learning, Hadoop ecosystem, Medical Image analysis, Big data analytics and iOS app development. This webinar helped students to know the recent technologies and their applications. 4. Webinar ―Research And Development Opportunities in 5G, B5G and NTN‖ Speaker: Flt. Lt. A T Kishore, IEEE Senior Member, CEO, Vidhya Sangha Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Host: Online Hosted by CSE UVCE., Date and time: Saturday, October 03, 2020, 11:00 AM, Description: ‖In this webinar,

we look at synergistic evolutions of complementary communication paradigms between SatComm, Non Terrestrial and Communication Service Providers network offer of 4G, 5G towards applications such as UAV‖. 6. Intelligent Edge Computing Techniques for Diverse Applications 2nd to 7th Nov 2019 Intelligent Edge Computing aims at making the life of people easier by performing faster computations using embedded technologies. The aim of this workshop is to educate faculty and industry personals on various Intelligent edge computing methodologies and diverse applications. AI and machine learning techniques to the edge to support the services and applications to the edges of the network. Latency is significantly reduced as data is analysed and processed closer to its origin. Objectives of the Short-Term Training Program (STTP) • To introduce Edge computing to process the large volume of data generated, through the Internet of objects (IO) and things(IOT). • To familiarize the participants to modularize machine learning, data analytics, deep learning and artificial intelligence for Intelligent Edge Computing. • To disseminate the usage of intelligent edge computing methodologies in various applications. • To expose the participants to the real world scenarios through demos and live projects.

Following events are planned to conduct in the month of November to December 2020

• Local Industry interactions supported by IEEE CIS head office. last week of Nov. 2020 • Guest Lectures - 3rd week of Nov 2020 • Training programs - 3rd week of Dec. 2020 • Academic Curriculum Development - On going activities • Partial Delivery of courses - on going activities Projects Approved by IEEE CIS (head office) 1) Interaction with Local Industry ($1580): Project is to have interaction between local industry and academic institutions to bridge the gap between industry and the academic institute and make new innovations in science and technology. This interaction is through programs like Guest lecturers, Curriculum development, Training Programs, Partial Delivery of Course etc. 2) High School Outreach Program ($2000): The outreach program is designed to expose high school students of grade 8-10 to the field of computational intelligence. Mentoring and career/personal development sessions with faculty, researchers, and industry experts will further enable students‘ personal growth and an opportunity to explore career interests in CI.

Organizing Date Speaker Affiliation Participants Team approx Edge 20th January Sreenivasa Chary Philips research, Founder BelBird Technologies 60 Intelligence and 2020 Cofounder, Gaia Smart Cities Computing Bipin Pradeep Kumar 21st January Nishant Krishna Co-Founder and CTO - Tech Machinery and 60 4 sessions More Pvt Ltd 22nd January Sriram Pullela Green Sense Werks 60 Vijaya Kumar Ivaturi Cofounder and CTO, Crayon Data (IVK) Engineering Head, Ather Energy Sirish Batchu Assistant Professor, IISc Dr. Yogesh Simhan

23rd January Chetan Kumar S CEO and Cofounder, AiKaan Labs 60 Dr. Nayanjeet Visiting Professor, Community Medicine MSR Chaudhary Medical College Flt. Lt. A T Kishore Chief Executive Officer at Vidhya Sangha Dr. Nandakumar Technologies Pvt. Ltd Ashwin Amarapur Associate Professor, MSR Medical College IISc, Algo vision Medical Imaging

24th January Industry Visit 60 Demystify 27th July 202 Dr. Vijaya Kumar B.P, Professor & Head Department of ISE,RIT Design Thinking HOD Founder and CEO at Sesovera 50 in Mr. Bipin Pradeep Associate Professor, Ramaiah Medical College Multidisciplinary Kumar Director Engineering: IT Dr. Nanda Kumar B.S Ramaiah Public Policy Center Approaches Dr. Arkalgud Ramprasad

28th July 2020 Mr. Aditya Garg Agile Testing Alliance, Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd, India, NSE.IT 50 Program Director Yash Technologies Mr. Lokesh Sapre Professor & Head Department of CSE, SDMIT, Dr. Thyagaraju G.S. Ujjire

29th July 2020 Dr. Prabhu N.Ganesh Professor,IIM, Bangalore Swaroop S P Software Engineer in 5G core R&D Team, Shruthi G and CISCO Systems Ashwitha A Assistant Professor, MSRIT Prashanth Kambli and Assistant Professor, MSRIT 50 Evangeline

30th July 2020 Dr. Mohith kumar Goel Associate VP, Data science Mr. Nishant Krishna Chief Technology Officer, Tech Machinery Labs Mr. Rajendra Bendre Founder, Creative Wandering Dr. Annapurna P Patil Professor MSRIT. Dr.Prathibha R J Assistant Professor, JSSSTU, Mysore 50

01st Aug. 2020 Dr. Kaushik Kumar Associate Professor, Dept. of Mech, Birla Institute of Technology 50 Dr. Niranjan Murthy Assistant Professor, MSRIT

Webinar on 23rd May 2020 Dr. Vijaya Kumar B P Professor and Head, Information science and Advanced IT Engineering, RIT 80 Technologies 26th May 2020 Dr. Siddesh G M Associate Professor, Information science and 80 Engineering, RIT 30th May 2020 Dr. Megha p Arakeri Associate Professor, Information science and 80 Engineering, RIT 26th May 2020 Dr. Sumana M Associate Professor, Information science and 80 Engineering, RIT 27th May 2020 Shashidhara H S Associate Professor, Information science and 80 Engineering, RIT CIS UVCE 3rd Oct 2020 Flt. Lt. A T Kishore, IEEE Senior Member, CEO, Vidhya Sangha 60 Webinar Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Intelligent Edge 2nd Nov. 2020 Mr Sandeep Agarwal Executive Vice President & Chief Operating 45 Computing Officer, DBS, Happiest Minds Techniques for Mr Bipin Pradeep Co-Founder of GAIA Diverse Kumar Lead Developer Phase Power Private Limited Applications Mr Lokesh R

Similar event 3rd Nov. 2020 Mr Chetan Kumar S (2 CEO and Co-Founder at AiKaan Labs Pvt Ltd will be repeated sessions) Associate Professor, Dept of ISE 45 on 19th to 24th Dr Sumana M Dec 2020 under 4th Nov. 2020 Dr Vijaya Kumar B P Professor & Head , Dept of IS&E, MSRIT 45 AICTE (Short Founder and Director, BelBird Technologies Term Training Dr Priya Ranjan Mishra Software Engineer, CISCO Programme) Mr Swaroop S P 5th Nov. 2020 Dr Hareesha K S Professor, Department of Computer Applications, 45 MIT, Manipal Dr Yogesh Simhann Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science Head, Data and Intelligence Service Line, 45 Mr Manoj Karanth Mindtree Technologies Lead , IoT Practice , Data and Intelligence Service Mr Ramprasadh T V & Line, Mindtree Technologies 45 Mr Bharathan Lead, Technology solutions , IoT Practice , Data KuduvaSanthanam and Intelligence Service Line

45 6th Nov. 2020 Dr Nishant Krishna Co-founder and CTO – TechMachinery Labs 45 Sr Network Security Engineer, Mphasis Private Mr Ravikiran A M Limited

7th Nov. 2020 Dr Sumit D Chowdury Founder, Sesovera 45 Dr Megha Arakeri Associate Professor, Dept of ISE

2.3.4.9 Consumer Electronics, now consumer technology society (CTSoc) https://ewh.ieee.org/r10/bangalore/ces/ Webinar: Covid-19 situation has created a major gap to reach out and conduct physical seminars/workshops for the learning community.IEEE CES has explored the opportunity to reach out to the learning community via an online platform. With the collaboration with IEEE Mangalore sub section, IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Bangalore Chapter conducted a webinar to engineers interested in the IoT technology, whether novice or professional. The whole intention of this talk is to unveil the "IoT Fundamentals and How can I engage myself to it". Talk is well received by over 150 participants over webex. Also feedback has been received to conduct more

Org Team Date Speaker Title of Talk/Affiliation Participant

CT-SoC, IEEE 23-May-20 Satish Patel Introduction and Application of IoT 150 Mangalore Sub Section (System Consultant, Hivebriq)

CT-SoC, REVA Uni. 28-March-20 Dr. Vivek Research Proposals - How to proceed 50 CT-SoC 6-Oct-20 Satish patel Internship - Touch surface using UltraSonic 3 Sensors CT-SoC 6-Oct-20 Prabindh Internship - Object detection for consumer 2 Sundareson e-waste in Indian Context CT-SoC 6-Oct-20 Kousik Sankar Internship - Practical applications of deep 7 learning to challenges in radiology CT-SoC 6-Oct-20 Arun Shanka Internship - Analysis of RISC-V solutions 2 for low-power edge-AI applications such webinars. Research Proposals - How to proceed: The event was organized by the computer science department of REVA university on March 28 2020.Professors from CS and Electronics team were part of the workshop The workshop was focused on how to write the research proposals for the Govt Labs and MNCs to execute projects. The talk also included budgeting till execution. Around 50 Professors were part of the program

CTSoc - Intership : IEEE-Consumer Technology Society (CTSoc), Bangalore Chapter in association with IEEE Bangalore Section, is offering an opportunity for IEEE-student members to intern with IEEE-CTSoc-chapter remotely. Execom members of CTSoc-Bangalore, who have vast industrial work experience, will mentor the interns. In addition, each of the teams will also associate themselves with a faculty from academia, who will be both an internal guide and a proctor. The Internship-projects have already been selected by the mentors. 4 different internship projects are under execution with this program. They are mainly

 Touch surface using UltraSonic Sensors  Practical applications of deep learning to challenges in radiology  Analysis of RISC-V solutions for low-power edge-AI applications  Object detection for consumer e-waste in Indian Context.

2.3.4.10 Education Society https://ieee-edusociety.org/chapter/bangalore-section-joint-chapter Organizing Team Date Speaker Title of talk /Affiliation Participa nts IEEE Education 1.11.2020 Dr.Vishnukant S Chatpalli Inauguration Of IEEE Education 23 Society And Society Bangalore Chapter Bangalore Chapter Puneet Kumar Mishra Role of Education Society in implementing New Education Policy Education Society 14.11.2020 Execom Members General meeting to discuss 22 Bangalore Chapter Activities to be conducted for the month of November and December IEEE Education Society, Bangalore Chapter was officially approved on 28th September 2020. Currently the chapter has 32 members from academia and industry. The chapter was inaugurated on 1st November 2020 by Dr. Vishnukant S Chatpalli, Vice Chancellor Karnataka State Rural Development and Panchayat Raj University, Gadag and presided by Sri.Puneet Kumar Mishra, Chair IEEE Bangalore Section.

Virtual Inauguration Photo

2.3.4.11 Electronics Packaging Society (EPS) https://eps.ieee.org/ Unlike every other year, this year presented unprecedented challenges and hardships all around the globe due to the prevailing pandemic. This essentially meant that the physical meetings, events, workshops and Execoms that the IEEE EPS Bangalore regularly used to conduct, now needed to be switched to a virtual mode. Conducting large-scale events using digital media and platforms was something that the chapter was experimenting for the first time. Nevertheless, every crisis brings to the table a lot of positives, new experiences and learnings. This crisis was no exception. Having switched to a virtual mode for the technical events, the chapter saw even more diversity in its participation, ranging across industries, academia, disciplines, applications and even geographical extents. The first exe-com meeting was organized by the chapter on 8th May 2020. The meeting was held to discuss and plan the timeline of events for 2020 and to thoroughly strategize the use of digital platforms for conducting such events henceforth. The first technical webinar this year was organized on 12th June 2020. Prof. Christian Schuster from The Hamburg University of Technology was roped in as the speaker for the event. The event saw global participation with participants signing-in from US, Europe and Asia Pacific geographical regions. The talk explained the use of Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning in the field of Electromagnetic Interference/Compatibility (EMI/EMC). On 5th October 2020, another executive committee meeting was organized by the chapter. In addition to the regular office-bearers, this meeting was also attended by Prof. Prosenjit Sen from the Indian Institute of Science. The agenda of this meeting was to plan towards the expansion of packaging related activities across India with the help of international peers and experts in this field. A recent technical event was conducted by the chapter on 12th November 2020. The theme of the event was similar to the previous technical event – Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning in Hardware Systems. The speaker for the event was Sriram Natarajan from CISCO Systems India. The event was pretty well received especially with a lot of attention and interest from the student community in India. Organizing Date Speaker Title of talk /Affiliation Participants (approx) Team IEEE EPS 8th May 2020 IEEE EPS Execom Meeting 8 (IEEE members) Bangalore 12th June Prof. ―Artificial Neural Networks for 73 (50 IEEE + 23 non- 2020 Christian EMC Engineering‖ / Hamburg IEEE) Schuster University of Technology 5th October IEEE EPS Execom Meeting 5 (IEEE members) 2020 12th Mr. Sriram AI/ML in Hardware Systems / 41 (12 IEEE + 29 non- November Natarajan CISCO Systems India IEEE) 2020

2.3.4.12 Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS)

Event Date Title/Speakers Particiapants workshop on Non 06th - 11th Day 1: Dr Ganesh Naik, University of Western Sydney, Linear Bio Jan,2020 Australia Inaugurated the workshop and delivered the key Medical Signal note address. His title of talk was on : Blind Source Processing Separation using Independent Component Analysis. Ms.Supriya Babu, Biomedical Engineer discussed about the basic bio signals and its characteristics ―Know your signals‖. She gave a brief introduction on the origin of EEG signals, EEG measurement system and its clinical applications. Dr Harikumar, Bannari Amman Institute of Tech, TN, spoke about Modelling of Biomedical Signals. Dr. N. Sriraam delivered a talk on ―Overview on Non Linear Biomedical Signal Processing‖. He highlighted about the characteristics of various physiological signals. Mrs. Purnima B.R. briefed a hand on session on detecting the presence of rhythm in EEG channel. The session mentioned about usage of FDA tool for filtering techniques. Dr. Basavaraj Hiremath gave a demonstration of analysis of EEG signals using MATLAB. Physiological Signal Analysis Using Machine Learning & Hands-on session on Physiological Signal Analysis. DISTINGUISHED 7-11-01- Brain Cancer Chip for Precision Medicine by Metin Akay, LECTURE 2020 Ph.D PROGRAM(DLP) From Lab Scans to Home Diagnostics by Chandra Mohan, M.D., Ph.D. MODEL BASED SIGNAL PROCESSING IN NEUROCRITICAL CARE By Prof. Thomas Heldt (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States); BRINGING ‗BIG DATA‘ ANALYSIS TO THE BEDSIDE: REDUCING FALSE MONITORING ALARMS IN CRITICAL CARE By Prof. Thomas Heldt (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States); Immunomodulatory Functional Foods & Nutraceuticals Webinar 25-06-2020 Elements of Color Image Processing‖ Dr.Ramesh R.Galigekere Workshop 3-8-08-2020 Fundamentals to Advances, Scope & Applications Five Days hands 24- 28-8, Real Time Operating System Using on training 2020 Texas Instruments Tiva-C Microcontrollers

Webinar 21-12-2020) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and embedded System

DISTINGUISHED LECTURE PROGRAM(DLP)

2.3.4.13 GRSS Bangalore Section https://site.ieee.org/bangalore-grss/ Event Chapter Cost Status and Highlights Workshop on HPC in Remote Bangalore and Online Webinar on "Successful scientific publishing: from sensing (13th April 2020) Hyderabad the project to the advertising― by Prof. Alejandro Frery, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil. BHOO-MANDAL TALK SERIES Bangalore Online Uploaded in youtube: (JULY 10, 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oMzluTzTc4& Speaker : Dr. P. G. Diwakar, Director, t=10s Earth Observation Applications & Disaster Management; and Distinguished Scientist, ISRO BHOO-MANDAL TALK SERIES Bangalore Online Uploaded in youtube: (Aug. 14, 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ya5wyH_SoY Speaker : Prof. Ravi Nanjundiah, &feature=youtu.be Director, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, (IITM Pune); BHOO-MANDAL TALK SERIES (Sep. Bangalore Online Uploaded in youtube: 11, 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWB0gU24Z- SPEAKER: Mr. Ujaval Gandhi, Spatial I&feature=youtu.be Thoughts. BHOO-MANDAL TALK SERIES (Oct. Bangalore Online To be uploaded in youtube:..... 16, 2020) SPEAKER: Dr. Rajani M. B., Associate Professor, NIAS Workshop On Geospatial Startups- Bangalore and Online Organised on Sept. 11, 2020 Academia: Oppo- rtunities And Kerala Challenge: Part-I Workshop On Geospatial Startups- Bangalore and Online Organised on Sept. 25, 2020 Academia: Opport- unities And Kerala Challenge: Part-II

2.3.4.14 Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Bangalore Chapter IE13 http://www.ieee-ies.org/ IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Bangalore Chapter has been very active in the past year. This year, the chapter was focussed on organising multiple guest lecture series which has brought significant value to all IEEE members. Researchers from all across the planet presented their current recent research activities for the benefit of Student Members as well as professional members. Along with webinars the chapter also organised week long workshops. The first workshop of the year was focussed on Electric Vehicle Technology, the workshop dealt with current research being done to electrify different modes of transportation in this era. The workshop had speakers for industry and academia. The workshop aimed to improve research skills of educators in the power electronics field. The second workshop was concentrated on design, analysis and practical application of power converters. This workshop hosted majority of the speakers from industry, attendees had an opportunity to simulate basic power converters using open source circuit simulators. The workshop was very beneficial to all attendees as it enabled participants to continue their research work despite the pandemic. Webinars and talks were organised on a wide range of areas, the year started with an in-person talk on Wide bandgap semiconductor devices. The speaker presented the opportunities and limitations of these devices. A series of webinars were organised during the pandemic. The first webinar of this year was centred around the concept of using solar energy for charging electric vehicles. Later on, a webinar on Resiliency of Microgrids Against Cyber Attacks was held which described the need to strengthen cyber security measures in Microgrids. In June a webinar related to Flash Charging Technology was conducted, this talk gave an overview of charging for Electric Busses. Moving on to inverter-based systems a talk on Virtual Oscillators was delivered in mid-June. The chapter continued the talks, High Frequency Integrated Power Electronics was the next topic that helped all attendees comprehend the technology behind key consumer electronics. The webinars then focussed on the electric drive trains, explaining the research trends in electric motors. As part of Women in Engineering initiative we had women researchers describing their work related to Phase Disposition Modulation With Sorting Algorithm for Cascaded Multilevel Converters and Piezoelectric Resonators. Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Bangalore Chapter will continue conducting more fruitful activities next year too. List of all activities has been listed below.

List of All Events held under the aegis of IEEE IES Bangalore Chapter for the year 2020

Event Date Name of Activity Type of Sub- no Activity category 1 5th Jan 2020 Annual General Meeting Administrati ExeCom ve 2 17th - 21st Jan Faculty Development Program at MS Ramamiah Institute Technical Talks 2020 of Technlogy on Electric Vehicle Technology – Opportunities and Challenges 3 12th Feb 2020 Wide bandgap Semiconductor impact on Power Technical Talks Electronics 4 11th April Power Electronics in Traction applications (locomotive Technical Talks 2020 and High speed) 5 11th - 15st Five Day online workshop on ―Design, Analysis and Technical Workshop May 2020 Application of Power Electronics Converters 6 17th May IEEE Chapter chairs meeting Administrati ExeCom 2020 ve 7 29th May Webinar: Charging Electric Vehicles from Solar Energy Technical Talks 2020 8 10th June Webinar: Resiliency of Microgrids Against Cyber Technical Talks 2020 Attacks 9 13th June Webinar: Flash Charging Technology for New Technical Talks 2020 Generation eBus 10 18th June Webinar: Virtual Oscillator Controllers for Inverter-based Technical Talks 2020 Power Systems 11 21dt June Execom Administrati ExeCom 2020 ve

12 25th June Title: Innovation in low-carbon vehicle technologies- Technical Talks 2020 high frequency integrated power electronics and vehicle to grid (V2G) systems 13 1st July 2020 Webinar: Driverless Anything and the Role of LiDAR Technical Talks

14 2 - 4 July 20 IEEE Connect Conference Workshop 15 4th July 2020 Webinar: Electric Power Train - Design Process and Technical Talks Challenges 16 6th July 2020 Webinar: Fast Analytical Modeling of PM Assisted Technical Talks Synchronous Reluctance Machines for Automotive Applications 17 19th July 2020 Pulsewidth Modulated Inverter Fed Induction Motor Technical Talks Drive 18 20th July 2020 Asymmetric Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter: Technical Talks Advantages and Challenges 19 21st July 2020 Design Automation of Power Electronic Converters Technical Talks 20 22nd July Study on High Performance Topologies for On-Board Technical Talks 2020 Charger 21 25th July 2020 ZVZCS SRI Guides Optimal Use of Copper and Core for Technical Talks Air-Cooled Nanocrystalline Transformer for Induction Heating 22 26th July 2020 Execom Administrati ExeCom ve 23 27th July to Simulation tools for power converters and Applications Technical Workshop 31st July 24 27th July to Power Converters for Transportation Electrification Technical Workshop 31st July Applications 25 5th Aug 2020 Capacitively Coupler Excitation Systems for Wound Technical Talks Field Synchronous Machines 26 6th Aug 2020 Exploring the Realm of Power Electronics Based on Technical Talks Piezoelectric Resonators 27 8th Aug 2020 Wide Bandgap (WBG) Power Electronics for Heavy- Technical Talks Duty Vehicles 28 13th Aug 2020 Phase Disposition Modulation With Sorting Algorithm Technical Talks for Symmetrical Cascaded Multilevel Converters

29 26th July 20 Execom Administrati ExeCom ve 30 8th Oct 2020 Hierarchical-based Research for DC Microgrids and One Technical Talks Application in the Real World

2.3.4.15 Power and Energy Society (PES) Bangalore Chapter https://r10.ieee.org/bangalore-pes/about/ IEEE PES Bangalore Chapter (India), the winner of 2019, the Outstanding Large PES Chapter Award among the PES chapters across the globe, has always been in the forefront in innovative programme design catering to the need of the larger section of IEEE PES members and the technical education at large. In the prevailing situation of the pandemic, the section very quickly adopted to the new normal of delivering the technical content through electronic means. WebEx and Google meet facility provided by IEEE has been extensively used for on-line webinar, conferences, events, ExeCom meetings. PES Bangalore chapter in the year 2020 hosted major events like POWERCON2020 virtual International Conference, in addition to regular activities such as Tech Talks, Webinars, Young Researchers Meet, Women in Power Engineering, Industry-Academia Conclave, student congress etc. The IEEE PES and CSEE sponsored conference in Region 10 has been hosted by IEEE PES Bangalore Chapter during September 14-16, 2020 through virtual mode. The objective of the conference was to discuss the ―Transformations in Power Grids: Producers to Prosumers‖. Renewable Energy Resource Planning, Cyber Security in Power Transmission system and Urban E-Mobility and the future opportunities. 3 keynotes, 3 panel sessions, 2 industry sessions, 4 plenary talks, 3 invited talks and 12 paper tracks were organized during the event, to encircle the conference theme. The conference had organized 12 paper tracks with 59 accepted papers. The paper tracks covered traditional power engineering topics such as Power System Analysis, Modelling & Simulation, power system optimization and power markets along with emerging areas like electric mobility, smart grid technologies, microgrids and machine learning applications. The conference was attended by all the 59 authors, 115 registered delegates, 28 speakers and 65 committee members, volunteers & delegates from sponsors. IEEE PES Bangalore chapter presented, IEEE PES Outstanding Service Award 2020 to Mr. M.M. Babu Narayanan in recognition of his contribution to the power engineering field, IEEE PES Outstanding Engineer Award 2020 to Dr. Kannan Tinnium and IEEE PES Outstanding Engineer Award 2020 (Young Professionals) to Dr. Manohar Singh. IEEE PES Bangalore chapter in association with DSCE (DAYANANDA SAGAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING) has organized the faculty advisor meet (Physical event) for the benefit of Student chapter to detail about the benefits with IEEE and activities that can be taken up in the year 2020. IEEE PES Bangalore chapter in association with Amrita Engineering College has organized the faculty advisor meet (Virtual event) for the benefit of Academic faculty to interact with Industry members to understand the industry challenges and research areas. IEEE PES Bangalore chapter in association with BMSCE (B.M.S. College of Engineering) has organized 3-day event on IEEE STUDENT CONGRESS 2020 (Virtual Event) for all PES Student Chapters in India. The activities like keynotes, panel discussions, workshops and quiz are conducted as part of the event to encourage students in technical activities. IEEE PES Bangalore Chapter has organized Women in Power Engineering event as parallel event during POWERCON-2020 international conference and as independent event in association with Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering. IEEE PES Bangalore Chapter in association with Central University of Karnataka has planned the event ‗Young Researcher Meet‖ on 18-19 Nov 2020 for the benefit of young researcher with keynote from reputed institutions and planned mentoring sessions to guide the research students.

Table: Event details organized by IEEE PES Bangalore Chapter

Event Name Date & Location Durat Organized by Speaker/s Participa ion nts

(hr:m (approx) in) Faculty Advisor Meet Date: Feb 29, 2:30 IEEE PES Bangalore Dr. GKV Raju, 30 (Physical event) 2020 Chapter in association Dr. Atla, Dr. Time: 10:00 AM with EEE Vidya, and Dr. to 12:30 PM Department, Abhishek, IEEE Venue: C D DAYANANDA PES Bangalore Sagar Auditorium, SAGAR COLLEGE Chapter DSCE OF ENGINEERING

Industry-Academia Date: Aug 3, 2020 2:00 IEEE PES Bangalore Dr. Veena S 57 Conclave (Virtual Event) Time: 04:30 PM Chapter in association Chakravarthi; to 06:30 PM with Amrita School Mr.Rajesh Gopal; of Engineering (ASE) Dr.K S Sridhar Date: Aug 4, 2020 2:00 Dr.Rajagopal; 45 Time: 04:30 PM Dr.Narendranath to 06:30 PM Udupa; Mr.Yogananda Jeppu Date: Aug 5, 2020 2:00 Dr. Abhishek 50 Appaji; Mr.S.Rajashekhar; and Panellists IEEE PES STUDENT Date: Aug 28, 4:00 IEEE PES Bangalore Atheeth 60 CONGRESS 2020 2020 Chapter in association Shivalinga Prasad, (Virtual Event) Time: 10:30 AM with EEE IISc; to 11:30 AM Department, BMSCE, and other 3:00 to 4:00 PM Bangalore Panellists 5:00 to 7:00 PM Date: Aug 29, 3:00 Sarthak Goyal, 45 2020 Akamai Time: 02:00 PM Technologies; to 03:00PM and other 4:00 to 5:00 PM Panellists 5:00 to 7:00 PM Date: Aug 30, 2:30 Workshop and 90 2020 quiz Time: 11:00 AM to 01:00 PM 5:30 to 6:00 PM POWERCON-2020 Date: Sep 14, 11:00 IEEE PES Bangalore Shri Mahendra 200 international conference 2020 Chapter Jain; (Virtual Event) Time: 09:00 AM Dr. Frank to 08:00 PM Lambert; Mr. Shujun Lu; Mr. Mustafa Wajid; Keynote and panel speakers Paper Tracks Date: Sep 15, 11:15 Keynote and panel 150 2020 speakers Time: 09:00 AM Paper Tracks to 08:15 PM Date: Sep 16, 08:30 Keynote and panel 90 2020 speakers Time: 09:00 AM Paper Tracks to 05:30 PM Woman in Engineering Date: Sep 15, 01:30 IEEE PES Bangalore Ms. Monika Rathi, 60 2020 Chapter Head-Business Time: 05:00 PM Development to 06:30 PM India/ SEA; Praveena Kandula Date: Nov 6, 2020 2:00 IEEE PES Bangalore Dr. Celia Shahnaz, 45 Time: 06:00 PM Chapter in association EEE, BUET, to 08:00 PM with Vidyavardhaka Bangladesh

Date: Nov 7, 2020 2:00 College of Ms. Staji Wlison, 25 Time: 06:00 PM Engineering TCS to 08:00 PM Young Researchers Meet Date: Nov 18, 6:00 IEEE PES Bangalore Dr. SD Sudarsan; 80 (Virtual event) 2020 Chapter in association Dr. Gurunath (expected Time: 10:00 AM with Central Gurrala; and ) to 04:00 PM University of Mentoring Karnataka Sessions Date: Nov 19, 6:00 Dr. Balakrishna P; 50 2020 Dr. Manjunath (expected Time: 10:00 AM Rao ) to 04:00 PM and Mentoring Sessions Webinar-1: Substation Date: March 26, 1:30 IEEE PES Bangalore Mr. Bhargav N, 57 Automation and IEC 61850 2020 Chapter OSI, Bengaluru Time: 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM Webinar-2: E-Mobility: Date: April 09, 1:30 IEEE PES Bangalore Mr. Hitender 67 Future of sustainable 2020 Chapter Vigamal, ABB mobility Time: 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM Webinar-3: Use of IOT and Date: April 16, 1:30 IEEE PES Bangalore Mr. Praveen 45 Data Analytics/Machine 2020 Chapter Dadhich, Director, Learning in Energy Time: 8:00 PM to SavEn India Efficiency 9:30 PM Energy Management Pvt Ltd Webinar-4: How to write an Date: Aug 6, 2020 1:30 IEEE PES Bangalore Prof. Saifur 164 effective Technical paper Time: 5:30 PM to Chapter Rahman 7:00 PM Webinar-5: Optimal Date: Sep30, 2020 1:30 IEEE PES Bangalore Dr Surender 15 Operation of Power Time: 6:00 PM to Chapter Reddy Salkuti Systems with Renewable 7:30 PM Energy Sources and Energy Storage Webinar-6: Transient Date: Oct 11, 1:30 IEEE PES Bangalore Dr Sudipta Ghosh 20 Stability Assessment and 2020 Chapter Online Coherency Based Time: 4:00 PM to Wide Area Damping 5:30 PM Controller Webinar-7: Improved Date: Nov 01, 1:30 IEEE PES Bangalore Prof Sairaj 25 Power System Protection 2020 Chapter Dhople and Control in a Robust Time: 6:00 PM to Smart Grid Future 7:30 PM Sustainable Power Systems

2.3.4.16 Power Electronics Society (PELS) Bangalore Chapter (PEL35 - CH10805) https://www.ieee-pels.org/ IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) Bangalore Chapter has been very active in the past year. This year, the chapter was focussed on organising multiple guest lecture series which has brought significant value to all IEEE members. Researchers from all across the planet presented their current recent research activities for the benefit of Student Members as well as professional members. Along with webinars the chapter also organised week long workshops. The first workshop of the year was focussed on Electric Vehicle Technology, the workshop dealt with current research being done to electrify different modes of transportation in this era. The workshop had speakers for industry and academia. The workshop aimed to improve research skills of educators in the power electronics field. The second workshop was concentrated on design, analysis and practical application of power converters. This workshop hosted majority of the speakers from industry, attendees had an opportunity to simulate basic power converters using open source circuit simulators. The workshop was very beneficial to all attendees as it enabled participants to continue their research work despite the pandemic. Webinars and talks were organised on a wide range of areas, the year started with an in-person talk on Wide bandgap semiconductor devices. The speaker presented the opportunities and limitations of these devices. A series of webinars were organised during the pandemic. The first webinar of this year was centred around the concept of using solar energy for charging electric vehicles. Later on, a webinar on Resiliency of Microgrids Against Cyber Attacks was held which described the need to strengthen cyber security measures in Microgrids. In June a webinar related to Flash Charging Technology was conducted, this talk gave an overview of charging for Electric Busses. Moving on to inverter-based systems a talk on Virtual Oscillators was delivered in mid-June. The chapter continued the talks, High Frequency Integrated Power Electronics was the next topic that helped all attendees comprehend the technology behind key consumer electronics. The webinars then focussed on the electric drive trains, explaining the research trends in electric motors. As part of Women in Engineering initiative we had women researchers describing their work related to Phase Disposition Modulation With Sorting Algorithm for Cascaded Multilevel Converters and Piezoelectric Resonators. Power Electronics Society (PELS) Bangalore Chapter will continue conducting more fruitful activities next year too. List of all activities has been listed below.

Summary: List of All Events held under the aegis of IEEE IES Bangalore Chapter for the year 2020

Event Date Name of Activity Type of Sub- no Activity category 1 5th Jan 2020 Annual General Meeting Administrative ExeCom 2 17th - 21st Jan Faculty Development Program at MS Ramamiah Technical Talks 2020 Institute of Technlogy on Electric Vehicle Technology – Opportunities and Challenges 3 12th Feb 2020 Wide bandgap Semiconductor impact on Power Technical Talks Electronics 4 11th April 2020 Power Electronics in Traction applications (locomotive Technical Talks and High speed) 5 11th - 15st May Five Day online workshop on ―Design, Analysis and Technical Workshop 2020 Application of Power Electronics Converters 6 17th May 2020 IEEE Chapter chairs meeting Administrative ExeCom 7 29th May 2020 Webinar: Charging Electric Vehicles from Solar Technical Talks Energy 8 10th June 2020 Webinar: Resiliency of Microgrids Against Cyber Technical Talks Attacks 9 13th June 2020 Webinar: Flash Charging Technology for New Technical Talks Generation eBus 10 18th June 2020 Webinar: Virtual Oscillator Controllers for Inverter- Technical Talks based Power Systems 11 21dt June 2020 Execom Administrative ExeCom 12 25th June 2020 Title: Innovation in low-carbon vehicle technologies- Technical Talks high frequency integrated power electronics and vehicle to grid (V2G) systems

13 1st July 2020 Webinar: Driverless Anything and the Role of LiDAR Technical Talks

14 2nd - 4th July IEEE Connect Conference Workshop 2020 15 4th July 2020 Webinar: Electric Power Train - Design Process and Technical Talks Challenges 16 6th July 2020 Webinar: Fast Analytical Modeling of PM Assisted Technical Talks Synchronous Reluctance Machines for Automotive Applications 17 19th July 2020 Pulsewidth Modulated Inverter Fed Induction Motor Technical Talks Drive 18 20th July 2020 Asymmetric Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter: Technical Talks Advantages and Challenges 19 21st July 2020 Design Automation of Power Electronic Converters Technical Talks

20 22nd July 2020 Study on High Performance Topologies for On-Board Technical Talks Charger 21 25th July 2020 ZVZCS SRI Guides Optimal Use of Copper and Core Technical Talks for Air-Cooled Nanocrystalline Transformer for Induction Heating 22 26th July 2020 Execom Administrative ExeCom 23 27th July to 31st Simulation tools for power converters and Applications Technical Workshop July 24 27th July to 31st Power Converters for Transportation Electrification Technical Workshop July Applications 25 5th Aug 2020 Capacitively Coupler Excitation Systems for Wound Technical Talks Field Synchronous Machines 26 6th Aug 2020 Exploring the Realm of Power Electronics Based on Technical Talks Piezoelectric Resonators 27 8th Aug 2020 Wide Bandgap (WBG) Power Electronics for Heavy- Technical Talks Duty Vehicles 28 13th Aug 2020 Phase Disposition Modulation With Sorting Algorithm Technical Talks for Symmetrical Cascaded Multilevel Converters

29 26th July 2020 Execom Administrative ExeCom 30 8th Oct 2020 Hierarchical-based Research for DC Microgrids and Technical Talks One Application in the Real World

2.3.4.17 Photonics Society Bangalore Chapter https://www.photonicssociety.org/ With an aim to enhance photonics education, research and technology, IEEE Photonics Society Bangalore Chapter has taken up several programs and initiatives in 2020. The Chapter conducted the One Day workshop on Recent Trends in Optical Communication and Photonics in association with IEEE RUSA student branch. During Pandemic the chapter initiated the ―Online Webinar Series on Photonics topics‖, through which eminent speakers shared their knowledge with students and research scholars. In the month of the July, the chapter has initiated Photonics Students Internship and Mentoring program, where students do a one semester project under the mentorship of a photonics experts. Chapter has organized many Online Webinar in association with different engineering colleges and our chapter members have also delivered the talk in many webinars. The following is the list of the events

Organizing Team Date Speaker Affiliation Parti. (app.) IEEE Photonic Society Student 4th February Dr T Srinivas Associate Professor -IISC 60 Chapter NIT, Kurushetra 2020 IEEE Student Chapter- PES 25th Dr Preeta Professor The Oxford College of 30 University February Sharan Engineering Bangalore 2020 4th March Dr Arun K Adjunct Professor, Colorado State 50 2020 Majumdar University USA 4th March Dr E Shivaleela Associate Professor IISC 50 2020 IEEE Photonic Society 4th March Dr T Srinivas Associate Professor IISC 50 Bangalore Chapter in association 2020 IEEE RUAS Student Branch 4th March Dr Malathi S Professor MSRUAS 50 2020 Photonic Society Bangalore 16th May Dr Gopal Associate Professor IISC 60 Chapter 2020 Krishna Hegade Photonic Society Bangalore 16th May Dr. Naresh Associate Vice President of 100 Chapter and IEEE MCE Joint 2020 Chand Chapter Relations, IEEE Photonics and ComSoc Photonics Society USA. 23rd May Dr Rajani V H Associate Professor RNSIT 60 IEEE Photonic Society 2020 Bangalore Chapter 2nd July Dr Srinivas Rao Retd Wing Commander Indian 30 2020 Air Force 18th July Dr Triveni C L Assistant Professor MCE Hassan 30 2020 20th August Dr. Chrispin JiJi Assistant Professor TOCE 30 2020 Bangalore IEEE Photonic Society 29th August Professor Professor and Head of 150 Bangalore Chapter in association 2020 Chennupati Semiconductor Optoelectronics with IEEE SVIT Photonics Jagadish and nanotechnology Group, Student Chapter Research School of Physics, Australian National University Photonic Society Bangalore 29th August Ms. Niketa Ex-employee, (DAAD), an 150 Chapter in association with SVIT 2020 Dedhia academic exchange service of the Photonics SBC German government IEEE TOCE Photonics SBC in 10th August Dr.Muhammad Professor Kulalamapur University 150 association with DSTAM 2020 Kamrul Hasan Bangalore IEEE DSTAM Photonic SBC 19th Sept. Dr T Srinivas Associate professor IISC 200 2020

2.3.4.18 Robotics and Automation Society Chapter https://site.ieee.org/bangalore-ras/ After the AGM in Jan, 2020, the chapter office beaers decided to keep MECO focus on the following taking a leap from previous year: 1) Membership Drive 2) Expert Lecture/Talks 3) Conference 4) Opportunities to Connect The action plan and emphasis were on the following activities: ▸ Membership Drive by creating more buzz around Robotics and RAS - Basic and Intermediate workshops for all IEEE RAS chapter students - Robotic competitions under RAS umbrellas in colleges - RAS related stalls during student induction programs ▸ Expert talks from industry/academics - Take opportunities to invite international and national level experts to discuss their work and demos ▸ Conference - Proposal in progress: IEEE RAS support in RASA conference and IEEE CONNECT 2020 ▸ Opportunities to connect - Make attempts and get connected to Robotic startups and bigger companies for industrial visits, internships, problem statements - Connect IEEE RAS student chapters to plan events - Webinars Summary of the progress against the action plan is as below: · Three RAS student chapters added from Mysore alone: Jaya Chamarajendra Institute of Technology, Maharaja Institute of Technology and GSS Institute of Technology for Women · Added about 40+ student members with 3 Student chapters getting included · 3 Technical Webinars and 1 Webinar on IEEE standardisation conducted · About 7 activities conducted in Student chapters conducted were all extended to Bangalore section · Office bearers and members from RAS chapter supported IEEE CONNECT 2020 being part of TPC review committee and also organising the Robotic related track sessions on conference day. The office bearers have met 3 times to discuss the plan of action and brainstorm the ideas.

Organizing Date Speaker Title of talk /Affiliation Participants Team (All in 2020) (approx) IEEE-RAS 29th April Mr.Aditya Marathe, An overview of advances in 80 Bangalore CEO, NugenixRobots Robotics Chapter 07th May Srikanth Chandrasekaran, IEEE Standards Overview and 30 Sr. Director, Standards and Standards in Robotics Technology, IEEE India 13th May Mr.Manohar, CEO, Precision Agriculture 30 Green Robotics Machinery Robotics, Challenges and Pvt Ltd Technologies 22nd May Dr. Kumar Padmanabh, Predictive Maintenance of 35 Senior Scientist in EBTIC Large Industrial Equipments (a research lab of British using IoT Systems Telecom) PESU-EC 5th Feb Hands-on Workshop on Student Robotic ARM Development Chapter Amrita 25th Feb ROBOPHILIA: Hands-on School of ArduinoSimulation with Engineering TinkerCard . PESU - EC 31st March Quiz on Quartine and Robo Campus knowledge PESU- EC 9th March Student Webinar: VREP Campus Simulation

PESU - RR Round1: Ideathon Contest Campus 24thApril

Round 2: 14thMay PESU-RR 11th May to Student Webinars: Campus 15th May – 1 Mathematical Intuition for hour each Robotics Amrita 16th May Student Webinar: Arduino School of Simulation with TinkerCad Engineering GSSS 15th Sept RAS Student Chapter Institute of Inauguration in GSSS Institute Eng. and of Engineering and Technology Technology for Women for Women MIT, Mysuru 10th to 12th Televox Valedictory and IEEE Oct day celebrations (All events were online because of Covid-19)

2.3.4.19 Sensors Council https://ieee-sensors.org/ The IEEE Sensors council is an active chapter trying to promote technical activities in the domain of Sensors, their development and applications. The current officer bearers are Chair : Dr. S.B. Bhanu Prashanth, BMSCE, Bangalore Secretary : Dr. Pradeepa, Jain University Treasurer : Dr. Chandashree Das, BMSCE, Bangalore In the year 2019-2020 the chapter took good initiatives to organize and conduct a range of technical activities benefiting students, research scholars and faculty, despite the constrained situations in 2020. The chapter, in association with premier technical institutes had organized three week-long faculty develop programs on themes relate to sensors, their fabrication and diverse applications. The chapter was fortunate to get the support of very distinguished speakers in the domain. In this direction, the one-week webinar series on ―Smart Sensors & IoT- A case study approach‖ became a flagship program of the chapter. Knowing the importance of student participation, the chapter took the initiative to foster the interest of the students at Amritha School of Engineering, where, a Student chapter was started. Further a technical competition event on Circuit hunt was also organized. The chapter, in future has plans to focus on programs that develop technical skills, benefit the society at large, and imbibe professional practices in the participating community.

Organizing Date Speaker Affiliation Participants Team (approx) Sensors 27-4-2019 Ms. Sabiha Sultana Senior Faculty Technologist – Process 300 Council Integration, CeNSE, IISc Sensors 23-1-2020 Dr. S.B. Bhanu Prashanth Professor, Medical Electronics, BMSCE 75 Council & Amrita General Manger, Reliance Jio Infocomm School of Ms Soma Pandey Limited Engineering 13.07.2020 Dr.M. Manjunath Nayak Emeritus Professor, CeNSE, IISc 600 Sensors Coucil 14.07.2020 Dr. K. Natarajan Professor and Functional Head-Avionics, 600 & Department of Aerospace Engg, Jain Vemana University Institute of 15.07.2020 Dr.PreetaSharan Professor, Department of Electronics 600 Technology & Communication Engineering, The Oxford College of Engineering 16.07.2020 Dr. T. Srinivas Professor, Applied Photonics lab, 600 Department ofECE, IISc 17.07.2020 Dr. Gopal Krishna Hegde Technology Manager, CeNSE, IISc 600 17.07.2020 Dr.PrashantaKumar Chief Scientist & Head, Material 600 Panda Science Division, National AerospaceLaboratories

Sensors 03.08.2020 Dr. Ashok Kumar Associate Dean & Professor, Dept. of 60 Council Electrical Engineering, PSGTech & Coimbatore RVCE 03.08.2020 Dr. Ramesh Thamankar Assistant Prof, Dept. of Physics, VIT 60 04.08.2020 Dr. Srinivasan Technical manager, HHV 60

05.08.2020 Dr. Subodh Professor, Macquire University, NSW, 60 Mukhopadyay Australia member of IEEE sensors council 06.08.2020 Dr. Sanjeev Sambandan Associate Professor,IISc 60 07.08.2020 Dr. S.B. Bhanu Prashanth Professor, Medical Electronics, BMSCE, 60 Sensors 03.08.2020 Dr.S.B.Bhanu Prashanth, Professor, Medical Electronics, BMSCE, 125 Council 03.08.2020 Dr. K R V Subramanian Professor, MED ,RIT 125 & RIT 04.08.2020 Mr.Mallesh Tigali CULTIVATE 125 04.08.2020 Dr. Nagaraju Kottam Professor, Chemistry Department ,RIT 125 05.08.2020 Dr. HardikJ.Pandia IISc, Bangalore 125 05.08.2020 Dr.Sweta Pant IISc, Bangalore 125 06.08.2020 Dr. ManoharPai MAHE-MIT 125 06.08.2020 Dr Narayan Dean from Sai Vidya Institute of 125 technology 07.08.2020 Dr. Pandian DRDO 125 07.08.2020 Dr. Gautam G Bacher 125 24.08.2020 PadmashreeDr.VKAatre Former SA to RM and Director General- 130 Sensors DRDO Council 25.08.2020 Vijayarajan A Founder & CTO, InnAccel 130

26.08.2020 Dr. Shobha K R RIT, Bangalore 130 26.08.2020 Dr.G.S.Javed Founder, Kings Consultants 130

27.08.2020 Sri.Ravindra B Shet Director, Smart Things IoT Team, SRIB, 130 INDIA 28.08.2020 Dr G. K. Ananthasuresh Professor, Mechanical engineering, IISc 130 BMSCE-PES 11.10.2020 Technical Competition – NA 80 & Sensors Circuit Hunt Council

2.3.4.20 SSIT ES Joint Bangalore chapter https://ieeebangalore.org/ieee-society-for-social-implication-of-technology-education-society-ssit-es/ IEEE SSIT ES is a twin Society focusing on both the Societies objectives while conducting the activities. The activities for the current year were planned to cater to the needs of the IEEE SSIT ES joint Bangalore chapter members and society at large. All the activities were conducted online due to the present pandemic situation. Hands on workshops were organized in association with other societies (PELS, PES and IEEE PES) to facilitate active learning experience for the students and faculty. A Webinar on ‖Sociological, Psychological Issues and Possible Remedies During COVID-19‖ was organized on 29th Aug 2020 to discuss the impact of COVID -19 on sociological and psychological issues with practical examples. The possible remedies through pranayama and meditation was also highlighted. Many technical seminars were conducted for the benefit of students and faculty that included Hands on workshop in the area of Power Electronics, Embedded applications. The chapter also successfully conducted AGM on 2/5/2020. The office bearers, members and past chairs were present for the meeting. IEEE SSIT ES Execom meeting was conducted on 8th Aug 2020 to discuss the activities carried out and to plan for the activities for the remaining duration of the year. The office bearers and the members are enthusiastic to reach the goals of the chapter. The list of activities carried out and the respective flyers are provided below:

Organizing Date Speaker Affiliation Participants Team (approx) IEEE SSIT ES 11 th May Mr. Vishal Anand A G Principal Engineer at Bloom Energy 233 (support to To 15th May Bengaluru, IEEE-PELS, 2020 Dr. Rex Joseph Associate Professor, IES, IEEE Five day Dept. of EEE, PES) workshop PES University Bengaluru. Mr. Karimulla Baig Senior Engineer- Power Management Applications, Rohm Semiconductor India Product Definer- High Speed Mr. Sreenidhi Patil Amplifiers Texas Instruments Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science, IEEE SSIT ES Dr. Kaushik Basu Chair, IEEE PELS

25th and 26th Dr. Geethishree Mishra Associate Profeesor, 60 May 2020 (Two Dept. of ECE, days workshop) B.M.S.C.E.

IEEE SSIT ES 27th to 31st July Mr. Hemanth Kumar PG student, IISc 96 (support to 2020 Mr. Saif Absar, BOSCH Engg, and Business solutions IEEE-PELS, (Five days Mr. Shreenidhi Patil Texas Instruments IES) workshop) Dr.Tousif Khan SRM University Dr.Arjun Mudlapur IISc IEEE SSIT ES 7/6/2020. Dr. Geethishree Mishra Associate Profeesor, 60 (Technical Dept. of ECE, seminar) B.M.S.C.E. 29/8/2020 Dr.MalaVenugopal Private Practitioner, 135 (Webinar) Clinical Psychologist

2.3.4.21 Signal Processing Society (SPS) https://signalprocessingsociety.org/bangalore-chapter The main activity of the chapter during this year was in the organization of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication (SPCOM) 2020 held during July 19-24, 2020 virtually. This was one of the largest virtually held conferences in India and was technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society Bangalore Chapter. The chapter also hosted the IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecture by Prof. Janusz Konrad, Boston University. There were several other seminars that were hosted by the chapter. The details are provided below.

Organizi Date Speaker Title of talk /Affiliation Participants ng Team (approx) Chapter January 6, 2020 Prof. Paris New Twists for New Tricks, Making Audio 30 Smaragdis Deep Learning Practical/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign January 10, Christina Utilizing Real-time MRI to Investigate 30 2020 Hagedorn, Speech Articulation Disorders/City University of New York – College of Staten Island January 7, 2020 Suraj Srinivas Neural Network Interpretability using Full- 40 Gradient Representation/Idiap Research Institute and EPFL, Switzerland

January 16, Prof. Janusz Towards Autonomous Video 50 2020 Konrad Surveillance/Boston University

January 20, Prof Thomas Model-based Signal Processing in 60 2020 Heldt Neurocritical Care/Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

February 4, Dr. Pierre Borgnat Decomposition of dynamical networks with 25 2020 tensor decomposition/CNRS, ENS Lyon, France February 6, Dr. Patrice Abry Deep Learning for multivariate fractal texture 20 2020 synthesis: Does it work? How do we know that it works?/ CNRS, ENS Lyon, France February 26, Badri Narayana Towards Understanding Vision and 55 2020 Patro Language Systems: Controllability, Uncertainty and Interpretability for VQA and VQG/Google Research India July 19-23, SPCOM 2020 International Conference on Signal 1000 2020 Processing and Communication (SPCOM)

2.3.4.22 Technology and Management Society (TEMS) Bangalore Chapter https://www.ieee-tems.org/ Office Bearers of IEEE TEMS Chapter for 2020 Chair: Dr YVS Lakshmi Chair-Elect: Arun Tankseli Vice Chair: Aloke Das Secretary: Dr G S Javed Treasurer: Dr Abhishek Appaji Immediate Past Chair: Dr Sudeendra Koushik

Reported Event Title Speakers Event Event Event Particip Date Categor Sub- ants y category approx Membership Development at CETI Dr G S 9/13/2020 Humanit SIGHT 45 Hyd Javed 12:30 arian Careers in ECE Engineering | Dr G S Dr G S 9/12/2020 Humanit SIGHT 85 Javed Javed 11:30 arian HIGH SPEED SERIAL Dr G S 7/10/2020 Technica Not 40 COMMUNICATION at 20Gbps Javed 18:00 l Available Research Methodology | Dr G S Dr G S 5/10/2020 Technica Not 151 Javed Javed 22:30 l Available

2.3.4.23 Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) https://vtsociety.org/ The VTS Chapter Bangalore is approved in Dec 2019 with over 32 professional members onboard. Dr Navin Kumar initiated the chapter formation and he was the interim chair for the chapter. AGM was immediately conducted on 05 Jan 2020 along side the section AGM. Few members joined the meeting and not much discussion took place but agreed on to have official inauguration of the chapter. On 9 Feb, 2020 the inauguration is scheduled. Dr Ravikumar from Texas Instrument (TI) volunteered for hosting the inauguration. 9 members were present. Dr Navin was requested to continue as chair and lead the society. We also agreed to elect secretary and treasurer – Dr Shrikant T as treasurer and Nikhil from ISRO as secretary.

One of the major events initiated jointly with Bangalore section is the UAV Innovation Challenge for students. A fund of 8000USD was approved from VTS HQ with the support from UAV innovation (a part of VTS global) Prof Kamesh Namuduri, UNT, USA and Prof K V S Hari, IISc for this challenge. Additional committee members are Mr Puneet Mishra, the section chair and Navin Kumar, chair VTS. It was planned to organize this event in two phases, screening and idea based on 3-4 pages of IEEE format and demonstration of working UAV to UAV or UAV to ground controller communication. 11 teams selected in the first phase and each was awarded 32,000/- INR to design the hardware and demonstrate. In the final round 3 teams would be selected and each would receive Rs 1L. Initially, event was planned to finalize with IEEE CONECCT 2020 (Jul 2-4). But, because of pandemic, it has been postponed beyond AGM that is Jan 15, 2021. Several other events were organized and successfully completed. Some of them are listed in the table. Event Title Event Date Title/Speaker Participants Webinar 25-03-2020 UAV to UAV Communication and Innovation 56 16:30 Challenge; Navin Kumar and Puneet Mishra Experiments in Autonomous Navigation; Prof Kamesh 45 09-04-2020 Namuduri, UNT USA 20-05-2020 Future Transportation by Drone; Dr Susheel Sumeet, 209 International Institute of Aviation 22-07-2020 Introduction to Simulink for System Modeling and 89 Webinar Series Matlab Simulation; Mathworks application and Dev. 23-07-2020 Data Science with MATLAB; Mathworks 178

24-07-2020 5G Beamforming Design : Mathworks 87 28-07-2020 Signal Processing for Machine Learning and Deep 156 Learning : 29-07-2020 Introduction to MATLAB : 111 30-07-2020 Predictive Maintenance with MATLAB: A Data-Based 68 Approach Workshop 23-10-2020 UAV Innovation challenge for students - First Stage : 64

07-11-2020 UAV System: 3GPP Perspective - 82 VTS Conf Track, paper 03-07-2020 VTS Track conference with CONECCT; Dr Navin 36 presentation Kumar

2.4 Professional and Continuing Education Activities

Summary of continuing Educational activities including conferences, technical activities, training courses, and distinguished lecture programs with attachment table / information

2.4.1 Reach the Locals R10 program initiative taken up at Mangalore Sub-section

Reach the locals initiative project proposals were called for by R10 EAC at the time of COVID19. There has been a steep rise in the need for developers and data scientists, despite the pandemic, the local talent from non- metros are often unable to rise to the occasion hence courses taught in the medium of local Languages can go a long way in empowering them with the right tools for jobs. The courses pitched under this project in Kannada were chosen so as to enable students to learn the IT tools, languages etc. This has been one of the express wishes put up by the Mangalore SubSection Chair Prof U C Niranjan when he resumed office. Under this scheme a workshop series with partners- a start up in EdTech Platform by name MicroDegree Pvt Ltd. deployed carefully curated content on request from the Execom members in Kannada at educational institutes catering to degree colleges and Polytechnic institutes around. A total of 9 events could be organized since July 15th as against the 12 that were planned. 5 Days on JavaScript 27th to 31st July 2020 initiated by Prof Raghu HOD CSE Government Engineering College Hassan Karnantaka . This was followed by series on JavaScript 14th -August 2020 at PA College of Engineering initiated by Prof. Habeeb Ur Rehman EC Dept. A series on JavaScript was taken up from 25th to 27th August 2020 at SMVITM by Prof Praveen Naik, Asst. Professor, CSE SMVITM. This was followed by another series on JavaScript & Python in a Nutshell 2 - 4 September 2020 at Canara engineering College initiated by Prof Ashwini V R PACC Bangalore Section. In association with Bangalore section PACEthe

remaining activities as listed were conducted by the partners with no charge levied on anyone/ A two day series on Python & IT Career Opportunities 17, 18 Sept 2020 for Diploma Colleges Colleges. Series on Python & IT Career Opportunities on 29-Sep-20 and Kannadadalli web development on 23-Oct-20. The event 'Engineering ? 30-Oct-2020 was organized to orient students towards engineering and computing as career options and discussing the pervasion of computing in all disciplines . The participants were given access to courses that were free in addition to heavy discounts for other courses offered by MicroDegree Pvt Ltd. Many participants have gone on to do multiple certifications the founders Gaurav Kamath Manikanta Nair Rakesh Kothari , happily report. MicroDegree won the Elevate 2 grant for startups under social entrepreneurship and EdTech Space by Startup Karnataka.

Figure: Screenshots from the speakers Prof Raghavendra S G and Dr Niranjan U C addressing participants on 23 October prior to the session on Kannadadalli WebDevelopment.

2.4.2 Webinar and Workshops Series

Bangalore Section has always been in the forefront in innovative programme design catering to the need of the larger section of IEEE members and the society at large. In the prevailing situation of the pandemic, the section very quickly adopted to the new normal of delivering the technical content through electronic means. Apart from the regular activities, in time of lockdown, to keep the members motivated, more specifically to keep up the momentum of learning and honing and expanding their skillset activities for the second quarter of the year were aptly designed to take care of all those needs. As a precursor to the IEEE Bangalore Humanitarian Technology Conference organised in October 8-10; 2020, in association with the institute of BLDEAC at the suburb of Vijayapura, an array of international experts were brought in, during April 13th to 23rd to share their thought to a larger audience through webinars, on the way forward to deliver urban amenities to the rural areas. The theme & focus of these webinar series were on United Nations sustainable development goals where we had the following speakers providing insights on respective topics. Needs of Professional members were catered to by engaging them via high-end technical and management talks. During the week of May 4th, International Speaker Series, had special invited sessions by eminent global experts. The unique nature of the webinar was evident from the title of the talk and the expertise of the speakers.. Following this the IEEE Society Chapter Webinar Series was scheduled for the week of May 12th, in association with IEEE-AP-MTT Bangalore Chapter. Week of May 18th webinar session on Technology, Management & Industry in associating with IEEE TEMS Bangalore Chapter. A series of weeklong webinars were delivered in association with the SAC, WiE, Industry co-ordination group, and different technical society chapters of the Section by the PACE.In the sections efforts in reaching out and addressing the need of the people in remote parts of the state in the time of lockdown to upskill themselves, reach the locals projects floated by Dr Lance from R10 a series of talks were conducted. All in all the year seemed very productive with learning and networking opportunities despite or because of the pandemic.

Organizing Team Date Speaker PACE and industry 17th Mar Dr Shivkumar Kalyanaraman.-EGM Growth Offerings -GE Power forum Conversion PACE + MSS 19 Mar. Dr. Dhanukumar Pattanashetti -IEEE India Operations PACE and industry 23 Mar. Vasantha E-Industry co-ordination group Bangalore Section forum PACE and VTS 25th Mar Dr. Kamesh Namuduri-Prof EEE & Director of Autonomous Systems Laboratory University of North Texas PACE 27th & 28th Dr. YVS Lakshmi- IP lead CDOT, Chair TEMS Bangalore Chapter 2020 - Mar PACE + MSS 30th Mar Sri Chandra -IEEESA , India operations PACE+WIE 1st Apr Ragini Randhawa -Director, CEO, Innovations Unlimited PACE+MSS 3rd Apr Dr. Wing-Kai Hon-Prof. NTHU Taiwan PACE+MSS 6th Apr Dr U C Niranjan-Chair MSS, Director R&TManipal Dot Net SECTION 7th Apr Dr Navin Kumar, Secretary IEEE Bangalore Section SECTION 8th Apr Dr.Prasant Misra-Scientist with TCS R&I

VTS 9th Apr Prof K V S Hari-Chair IEEE SPS, Prof ECE IISc B-HTC 13&14th Apr Ashok Das, FounderCEO, SunMoksha - 15&16th Apr Jayakrishnan Divakaran - Co-Founder and VP, Engineering Product Engineering Sevices - VNJ Systems LLP 17th Apr Dr.Farrokh Mistree Professor at the University of Oklahoma, 18&19th Apr Mr. Narayanan Subramaniam, Senior Staff Architect & Director Of Engineering, Nutanix 21st Apr Mr.Ravikiran Annaswamy - CEO & CO-founder, Numocity Technologies 22nd Apr Dr.Daniel Lottis - Chair SIGHT Steering ommittee, Physiscist CLSEConsulting, 23rd Apr Puneet Kumar Mishra, - Scientist ISRO, and Chair IEEE Bangalore Section Consultants Network 18th Apr John Kuruvilla, - Co-Founder & CRO at Kalpnik Technologies AG 24th Apr Senapathy Gopalakrishnan, Co hairman Infosys Technologies Industry co-ordination 4th May Dejan Milojicic group FIEEE, Distinguished Technologist HPE Labs, USA 5th May Geo Murickan, - Chair Sequoia Technology, CEO, TranfInnovation IoT, USA 6th May Prakash Ramachandran - Board member Openstack & Principal Architect Dell, San Jose, US 7th May Suprith Tumkur, -Big Data Architect, Parrot Analytics, Auckland, New Zealand 8th May Steven Tan- Chair SODA Foundation, CTO Cloud Storage Futurewei, USA Society Chapters AP- 12th May Dr.Raghavendra G. Kulkarni - PES University, Bangalore, MTT RAS 13th May Manohar Sambandam - Founder, CEO, Green Robot Machinery AESS 14th May Dr.Surendra.Pal- Dr. D S Kothari Chair, DRDO PES, PACE 15th May Dr.Roberto Saracco, - IEEE Future Directions, Co-chair Digital Reality Initiative IEEE. CAS 15th May Dr.Samar Saha Circuits and Automation Society, Bangalore chapter CES +MSS+PACE 23 May Mr.Satish Patel -Secretary, IEEE CES- Bangalore Chapter India Council 29th Apr Mr. Ramanan Ramanathan, - Director - Atal Innovation Mission, Panel discussion Dr.Tushar Sharma, R&D RF Design Engineer, NXP SemiConductors. sessions with panellists 7th May Dr. Frank Lambert -President, IEEE PES Prof. S N Singh, Chair IC & VC, MMMTU, 19th May Prof. Manoj Tiwari-DIrector, NITIE Mumbai Gorakhpur 23RD May Prof. Navkant Bhat-Chair CeNSE IISc & Mr. Puneet Kumar 24RD May Prof. Ashuthosh Sharma-Secretary DST GOI, Mishra, Secretary, IC Jun 12 Prof. Asoka K Das -Vice Chair, Odisha Higher Education Council, Former & Chair, Bangalore VC, Utkal University. Section Jun 21 Prof. Saifur Rahman, -Director Advanced Research Institute, Virginia Tech, USA | Prof. Bikas C. Pal, Imperial College London

Industry Forum 18th May Gnanapriya C, AVP, Infosys Technologies 19t, May Dr. Sumeet Suseelan, Group Chairman, International Institute of Aviation Pvt Ltd. 19th May Prof. Manoj Tiwari, DIrector, NITIE Mumbai 20th May Mr.Sishir Kolli, VP of Product Management, MPL Gaming - A startup,

21st May Dr. Sunil Kumar Vuppala, Director, Data Science, Ericcson., Industry Engagement Bangalore Section 23RD May Prof. Navkant Bhat, 24RD May Prof. Ashuthosh Sharma Industry co-ordination 30th May Mr, Sankhdeep Mitra, for Non Conventional Ist Jun Giri Krishnan -CEO -Futures and careers careersled by 2th Jun Arjun Vellal -Founder – CEO ProAtWiz Rajashekhar 3th Jun Basavaraj N T-Nelli IP services 4th Jun Raja Shekhar - Head Training and Documentation – OSI Bangalore

5th Jun Mr.Amit Rao, Mr.Amit Tiwari Mr. Giri Krishnan , Mr. Basavaraj NT Santa Clara Section 5th Jun Danny Lange-VP of AI at Unity Technologies Learning series 8th Jun Prof. Debatosh Guha- Associate Editor, IEEE Transaction on Antenna & Bangalore Section Propogation, CU PACE 9th Jun Prof. Mayank Shrivasatava - Professor, CeNSE, IISc 10th Jun John Day - IEEE MGA 11th Jun Prof. Mayank Shrivasatava- Professor CeNSE, IISc MSS 13June Prof. Prithviraj Umesh-,NITK, Suratkal, ExeCom members in 24th Jun Mr.Anurag Jaiswal Sr.Manager -Open Systems International association with SAC 25th Jun Dr. Prasant Mishra Scientist TCS (Corp R&I) on special request 26th Jun Chengappa Munjandira Hewlett Packard Enterprise R&D, Network Function Virtualization 27th Jun Dr. Sunil Vuppala Director- Data Science, Ericsson Global AI Accelerator (GAIA), Banaglore 28th Jun Kishore O Sharma Sr. Software Engineer, RBEI Pvt. Ltd 29th Jun Narayanan Subramaniam Director of Engineering, Senior Staff Architect, Nutanix PAC / Skill Jul 8th by development Program Kiran Marathe Founder dtri.in 13th Jul Dr. Parkavi Leadership of Prasant Associate Professor, CSE Department, SPOC NPTEL MSRIT 15th Jul Anima Majumdar Scientist, TCS Research & Innovation, Bangalore 18th Jul by Vishwas Lakkundi Principal Architect & Head of Information Security, Smarten Spaces Society & Chapters Jul 31st DR. ASHUTOSH KEDAR, AP-MTT Senior Scientist - LRDE, DRDO 18th Sep Mr.Madusudhan Sampath - Expert, Individual Consultant, Innovation Catalyst 25th Sep Mr.Madusudhan Sampath In association with 3rd Aug Tathagat Verma- Strategy & Operations, Walmart Labs IEEE India Council 19th Jul Panelists: 1.Dr.SudhakarRao IEEE Life Fellow, Technical Fellow, Northio Grumman Space System 2. Prof. S N Singh- Chair, IEEE India Council Santa Clara Valley, Jul 14th Stefano Galli Past Chair, IEEE Fellow Committee Boston Section and IEEE Industry Engagement Committee. IEEE GRSS - 11th Sep Mr. Ujval Gandhi, Spatial Thoughts Bhoo - Mandal Talk Series PACE 6 October Colonel Anand Mohan, CEO ESDS Pvt Ltd. PACE+MSS + SAC+ 27-31 Jul Team MicroDegree, Prof Niranjan U C Prof Habeeb Microdegree Team for 14-Aug Team MicroDegree, Prof Niranjan U C Prof Raghu reaching to the locals 25,27 Aug Team MicroDegree, Prof Niranjan U C Prof Praveen

2 - 4 Sep Team MicroDegree, Dr. Niranjan U C Prof Ashwini Holla 17, 18 Sep Team MicroDegree, Prof Niranjan U C Prof Ashwini

29-Sep-20 Team MicroDegree, Prof Niranjan U C Mr Yathi TJ IEEE SA Prof Ashwini Holla 23-Oct-20 Team MicroDegree, Prof Niranjan U C Prof Raghavendra, Prof Sujatha Prof Ashwini Holla 30-Oct-20 Team MicroDegree, Prof Niranjan U C Prof Ashwini Holla

IEEE Bangalore section has organized a Webinar series on "Non-Conventional career opportunities for Engineering professionals" to give a basic understanding of different career options for Technical professionals. This series is aimed at regular students and professionals in their early career. Rajashekhar, Chengappa, Abhishek and Ashwini Holla coordinated this event. The program details are as following: The series had five sessions.

01 June, 2020: "HR & Recruiting as a career for Technical professionals" by Giri Krishnan, CEO Futures and Careers. 02 June, 2020: "Opportunities in Sales & Marketing" Arjun Vellal, Founder, ProaWitz Leadership Inc. 03 June, 2020: "Technical careers in Legal services" Basavaraj NT, Founder, Nelli IP Services 04 June, 2020: "Scope in Training & Technical writing" Rajashekhar S, Head, Training & Documentation,Open Systems International (OSI), Bangalore 05 June, 2020: Panel Discussion on "Future with unconventional careers", with the above speakers moderated by Dr Surrendera Koushik, past-Chair, IEEE Bangalore Section.

This event has been attended by nearly 500 participants on all five days

2.4.3 EAC and PAC

IEEE STUDENT BRANCH CEC & Educational activity Board joint presentation of ―Webinar in kannada on JavaScript and Python for Students‖ 2nd September 2020 EAB organised seminar on 24th July 2020 evening 7 pm Topic : Career and Study Opportunities for Graduating students in India and Abroad Audience : primarily ECE and CSE Grad and UnderGrad students Organised WiE track for Comsnets 2020 TPC for 17th & 18th December 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communication, Computing, and Industry 4.0 (C2I4) Keynote at B-HTC Track chair B-HTC Reviewer B-HTC This is besides attending the IEEE EAB Section Education Outreach Orientation May 6, 2020 Consolidating 30 industry CEO and director data and emails in my network and sharing with Puneetji for membership drive to which mails were also sent Circulation of the membership advantages and benefits mail within my organisation Jio to compensate for the missed out MD

2.5 Students Activities

2.5.1 Total number of Student Branches in the Section

Currently, section has 106 student branches. Out of this, there are 75 active branches.

2.5.2 Number of Student Branches formed in the current year

New Student Branches formed during the year 2020

Date Student Branch Student School S B Chair Address name Branch Code Code 1 16-03- S.G. Balekundri STB102 6017398 MANOJKUMAR House No 650, U Khanapur, 2020 Institute of 19 7 PATIL Taluk Hukkeri, Belagavi- Technology (manojcpatil17@gm 591221 Student Branch ail.com) 2 16-03- The National STB102 6015784 Shashank R The National College Jayanagar, 2020 College Jayanagar, 18 4 (nhsshashank@gmai 36th B cross, 7th Block Student Branch l.com) Jayanagar, Bangalore - 560070 3 17-03- Presidency STB102 6011299 S Bhatnagar ( Presidency University, 2020 University – 20 6 thakuraditya360@g Itgalapura, Rajanukunte, Bangalore Student mail.com) Yelahanka, Bangalore-560064 Branch 4 18-05- Srinivas University STB117 6017752 Vinayachandra K Srinivas University 2020 Student Branch 70 4 ([email protected] City Campus, Pandeshwar, om) Dakshina Kannada Mangalore 575001 5 08-06- Government Engr. STB646 6018004 Rashmi Raju Gowda Government Engineering 2020 College- 32 4 (rajugowdarashmi98 College Kushalnagar @gmail.com) Mysore, Madikeri Road Student Branch Kushalnagar - 571234 6 17-06- IEEE Government STB357 6018174 Shashi Kiran N K Government Engineering 2020 Engineering 33 4 (shashikirankrpet@g College College-KR Pet mail.com) Krishnarajapet - 571426 Student Branch India 7 12-07- SDM College of STB357 6002011 Leena Srija SDM College of Engg and 2020 Engg & Tech- 40 4 (leenasrijak@gmail. Technology, Dept. of CSE Dharwad Student com) Dhavalagiri, Dharwad Branch Karnataka, India 580 002 8 12-07- Sharnbasva STB357 6018326 Sanjeevkumar J Research Scholar, Dept. of ECE 2020 University- 39 4 (sanjeev.jeevangi@g Sharnbasva University Kalaburagi Student mail.com) Kalaburagi – 585105, India Branch 9 31-07- ATME College of STB357 6018364 JOSHUA H ATME College of Engineering, 2020 Engineering 44 4 RAYAPURI Mysuru, Dept. oF EEE, Student Branch (joshuarayapuri1999 Bangalore Road, Mysuru – @gmail.com) 570028, India 10 31-07- BGS Institute of STB502 6018094 Anusha A Bgs institute of Technology 2020 Technology, 93 4 (anushaananth2000 Anusha A d/o Ananthashayana Mandya Student @gmail.com) honnavara post,nagamangala Branch mandya,Karnataka, Nagamangala Karnataka, India 571802 11 03-08- KLE Dr. M.S. STB502 6018518 Dhanashree Ganesh Student Dept. of ECE 2020 Sheshgiri College 95 4 Hampiholi KLE Dr MSSCET, Belgaum of Engg & Tech (dhanashreehampiho Karnataka, India 590008 Student Branch [email protected])

12 27-08- Navkis College of STB987 6018558 Deepak H A Dept. of ECE 2020 Engineering- 24 6 (deepakgowda1@gm Navkis College of Engineering- Hassan Student ail.com) Hassan, Hassan - 573217 Branch 13 25-09- P A College Of STB993 4589194 Ameer Musthaq B M Electronics Andcommunication 2020 Engineering- 68 5 (ameerparekar66@g Engineering, P A College Senior Mangalore Student mail.com) Boys Hostel, Nadupadav, Branch Montepadav Post, Kairangala Mangalore - 574153 14 27-10- Veerappa STB993 6018742 Prema Salimath Electrical and Electronics 2020 Engineering 71 4 (premasalimath46@ Engineering, Veerappa Nisty College Shorapur gmail.com) Engineering College Shorapur Student Branch Yadgir - 585220 15 03-11- KLS STB993 201230- Vikas R Balikai KLS Vishwanathrao Deshpande 2020 Vishwanathrao 77 000436 (vikas.r.balikai@gm Inst of Tech-Haliyal Deshpande Inst of ail. com) 60187444 Tech-Haliyal

2.5.3 New SB Chapter: 31

Date Society Chapter Reference Geo-code S B Chair Chapter # Advisor 1 23-01-2020 Saint Joseph Engineering College- 200205- SBC63401C Neema Neema Keith Fernandes Mangalore, Technology and 000744 Engineering Management Society 2 23-01-2020 National Institute Of Technology- 200205- SBC98631D SANTOSH Mandeep Singh Karnataka, Photonics Society 000738 SAHU 3 27-01-2020 Rashtreeya Vidyalaya College of 200205- SBC11651C Shabarish B V MAHESH Engineering, Antennas and 000929 APPAJAPPA Propagation Society 4 02-03-2020 Reva University Technology and 200319- SBC20146A Piriyal Goyat Rajashekhar Engineering Management Society 000392 Biradar 5 10-03-2020 Reva University Power & Energy 200319- SBC20146B Meghana Singh Santoshkumar Society 000765 Hampannavar 6 18-04-2020 K S Institute Of Technology Signal 200506- SBC61941 Devale jayasudha bsk Processing Society 000894 Sudarshan 7 10-06-2020 Reva University Vehicular 200611- SBC20146C Abhishek G shrikant tangade Technology Society 000367 8 07-07-2020 Rashtreeya Vidyalaya College of 200707- SBC11651D S J Ruthvik Nagmani K Engineering Signal Processing 000526 Society Student Branch Chapter 9 02-07-2020 Ballari Institute Of Technology & 200702- SBC10169 ULAGANATH A. Haroon Management Circuits and Systems 000366 AN J Society Student Branch Chapter 10 12-07-2020 Bangalore Inst Of Tech Circuits and 200713- SBC434591 Vineeth V Dr. Jalja Systems Society Student Branch 000567 Chapter 11 07-07-2020 GSSS Inst. of Engg and Tech for 200722- SBC17861A Nayana C G M.G Women Circuits and Systems Society 000918 Student Branch Chapter 12 30-07-2020 Sharnbasva University-Kalaburagi 200731- SBC35739 Praveen S. Sonnad

Circuits and Systems Society Student 000484 Hipparge Branch Chapter 13 01-07-2020 Sri Jayachamarajendra College of 200803- SBC28991A Shashank K S S. Patilkulkarni Engrg Robotics and Automation 000454 Society Student Branch Chapte 14 07-08-2020 Manipal Institute of Technology 200807- SBC09891 Pooja prabhu Signal Processing Society Student 000386 Branch Chapter 15 27-08-2020 Manipal Institute of Technology 200827- SBC09891A Krithika Pai Communications Society Student 000512 Branch Chapter 16 27-08-2020 GSSS Inst. of Engg and Tech for 200827- SBC17861B Basavanna M Women Robotics and Automation 000744 Society Student Branch Chapter 17 27-08-2020 Sharnbasva University-Kalaburagi 200827- SBC35739A SHIVAKUMA Computer Society Student Branch 000766 R KAGI Chapter 18 27-08-2020 Dayananda Sagar University- 200827- SBC14026 Abhishek S Bangalore Technology and 000905 Engineering Management Society Student Branch Chapter 19 27-08-2020 Nitte Mahalinga Adyanthaya 200828- SBC34551 Shridhara Bhat Memorial Inst Of Tech IEEE Signal 000363 P Processing Society Student Branch Chapter 20 05-09-2020 GSSS Inst. of Engg and Tech for 200908- SBC17861C Harshitha N Women Computer Society Student 000589 Branch Chapter 21 25-09-2020 Reva University Communications 201016- SBC20146D Bhoomika M Society Student Branch Chapter 000238 22 25-09-2020 Manipal Institute of Technology 201016- SBC09891B Ritish Maram Engineering in Medicine and Biology 000237 Society Student Branch Chapter 23 25-09-2020 Navkis College of Engineering- 201016- SBC98724 Deepak H A Hassan Circuits and Systems Society 000235 Student Branch Chapter 24 25-09-2020 KLE Dr. M.S. Sheshgiri College of 201016- SBC50295 Pratik.S Engg & Tech Circuits and Systems 000227 Kulkarni Society Student Branch Chapter 25 25-09-2020 National Institute of Engineering- 201016- SBC96261 Shruthi R Mysore Circuits and Systems Society 000217 Student Branch Chapter 26 31-10-2020 Christ University-Bangalore 201230- SBC17341B Ishan Dubey Computer Society Student Branch 000481 Chapter 27 31-10-2020 Rashtreeya Vidyalaya College of 201230- SBC11651E Nagesh B Engineering Robotics and 000424 Automation Society Student Branch Chapter 28 13-12-2020 R N S Inst of Tech Signal Processing 201217- SBC05041B VAISHNAVI Society Student Branch Chapter 000638 BHANDARKA R 29 13-12-2020 BMS Institute of Technology Signal 201216- SBC14611B Akshaya N A Processing Society Student Branch 000744

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Chapter 30 13-12-2020 Manipal Institute of Technology 201216- SBC09891C Abhishek Computer Society Student Branch 000506 Srivastav Chapter 31 06-11-2020 Vidya Vardhaka College of 201110- SBC63251B Thejas Jake Engineering Robotics and 000498 Automation Society Student Branch Chapter

2.5.4 New WiE AG: 04

Date Affinity Group Reference # GEOCODE 12-02- Sri Siddhartha Inst of Tech Women in Engineering 200313- 2020 Student Branch 000837 31-07- Government Engineering College-Kushalnagar 200803- SBA64632 2020 Women In Engineering Student Branch Affinity Group 000632 22-08- Manipal Institute of Technology Women in 200824- SBA09891 2020 Engineering Student Branch Affinity Group 000551 11-05- Bangalore Inst of Tech Women In Engineering Student 2020 Branch Affinity Group

2.5.5 Section level student activities (student congress, paper and other contests, awards etc)

2.5.5.1 IEEE BLR SAC Learning Series: Virtual Mode, 26 Apr – 1 May 2020 (6-7 PM )

510 (Avg 85 participants per day) Objective: To engage students in learning technologies during Covid-19 pandemic Date Topic Speaker 26 Apr 2020 Artificial Pancreas Development Radhakant Padhi, Chair AESS and Professor, IISc, Bangalore. 27 Apr 2020 Automation : Why is it even more Sugandha Srikanteswaran,Vice President, relevant now ? Journey to Cloud Centre, IBM. 28 Apr 2020 Introduction to Data Science Gopal Krishna Sharma, Director - Digital Channels, Fiserv India,Bangalore. 29 Apr 2020 Graduate Studies in Engineering in Sudha Kumar, Director, USC Viterbi, India Office. the US 30 Apr 2020 Mind Hunter : Decoding cyber threats Shyamsundar Ramaswami, Lead threat researcher – using mind Umbrella Org, Cisco Systems. 1 May 2020 Headless setup of Raspberry pi Guruprasad Belthur, DevOps and Agile Coach, Cognizant The recordings are available in the following link https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY7bot1QKu9DcMP3FFRv5Fq-XczRPqfcK

2.5.5.2 Virtual Student Conclave for Non IEEE Students

9 May 2020, 85 students 4 execom members Objective: To create awareness about the advantages of IEEE Membership for students to excel in their career and profession.

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3. Virtual Meeting of Membership Development Chairs / SAC Chairs / IEEE India Council Executive Committee Members on 14 Jun 2020. Raghavendra Prasad SG, SAC Chair, D N Sujatha SAC Co-Chair, SSR Mr. Ruthvik attended. Raghavendra Prasad SG, SAC Chair gave overview of various strategies implemented by IEEE Bangalore Section towards membership development. Described the strategy of inducting district coordinators by Puneet Mishra, Chair in reaching to more institutions. Explained the efforts of voluenteers in contributing to growth of membership inspite of COVID pandemic to gain the 4th position in the globe with 7200 members. 4. BLDEA's V P Dr PG Halakatti College of Engineering & Technology, Vijayapura IEEE student branch in association with SAC team IEEE Bangalore Section arranged webinar series from industry experts for the benefit of Undergraduate, Postgraduate students from 24 Jun 2020 – 30 Jun 2020. 300 students registered. 85 participating every day.

SAC Team Bangalore Section has won IEEE R10 SAC Membership Development and Leadership Training (MDLT) Fund 2020 of $750 under the project title ―Volunteer – Lead – Achieve Mission 2020- Bangalore Section ‖ Events organized 1. Membership development Challenge for student branches ( Duration 5 Aug – 15 Oct 2020) was announced. Six awards $ 100, $ 85, $ 80, $ 75, $ 70, $ 65 and one special recognition award $ 134 were announced for membership development. Outcome: Good increase in the membership in spite of COVID-19 pandemic. (292).

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 Membership development Special Recognition Award: $134  Prerana Educational Social Inst of Tech & Mgmt - STB11482

2. On 29 Aug 2020, A talk followed by discussion on ―Competitive Programming‖ by Dr. Muralidhara, Co Chair for Technical & Conference Sponsorship, Bangalore Section. To give an overview of IEEEXTREME 14.0 , preparation and guidance. 94 students participated.

3. On 13 Sep 2020 : IEEEXTREME Mock coding contest 1 was conducted between 14:00 IST to 20:00 IST. 94 teams registered and participated. Prizes I – Rs.1000, II – Rs. 750 and III – Rs 500. ( All three prizes won by IEEE SB NITK Suratkal, with Team leaders K Dharmick Sai, Aditya Chirania and Chaithanya Shyam D respectively) 4. On 11 Oct 2020 : IEEEXTREME Mock coding contest 2 was conducted between 14:00 IST to 20:00 IST. 26 teams registered and participated. Prizes I – Rs.2000, II – Rs. 1500 and III – Rs 1000. ( All three prizes won by IEEE SB NITK Suratkal with Team leaders Chaithanya Shyam D,K Dharmick Sai and Janmansh Agarwal respectively) 510 Teams from Bangalore Section registered for IEEEXtreme 14.0 which is approximately 1/7 th of the global registration. A wide awareness was created among student members about the competition. Bangalore Section grabbed the first position in the number of team registrations all over the world. 5. On 13 Oct 2020 – Training on ―vTools, leadership, membership development, volunteering‖ was arranged. (i) Dr. Ashwini Appaji, Chair-Young Professionals motivated the participants with a talk and discussion on ―Leadership and Qualities‖. (ii) Dr. Srikanth Tangade, Chair-Membership Development, SAC mentor, trained the participants on vTools : Events, Officers management, Officers Reporting, Student Branch Reporting. (iii) Dr. D N Sujatha, Co-Chair, SAC discussed on Best Practices for Student Branch. (iv) Mr. Chengappa, Co- Chair:Membership Development, discussed about ―Membership benefits and Volunteering‖. 100 participants (included branch counsellors, chair, vice chair of student branches) actively participated and took the training. Outcome : The office bearers of 14 newly formed student branches along with existing student branches underwent training on Leadership and Qualities, vTools : Events, Officers management, Officers Reporting, Student Branch Reporting, Best Practices for Student Branch, Membership benefits and Volunteering. The participants expressed that the training was very much needed and helpful in future awareness creation, membership development and achieving Mission 2020 of Bangalore Section.

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HAC-SAC 1.0 - IEEE Bangalore Section SAC Description: IEEE Hackathon event, Hac-Sac 1.0 was entirely hosted and managed by the IEEE Bangalore section SAC Team in collaboration with IEEE SIGHT. The main motive was to create a perfect opportunity to collaborate and blend with others in their field of expertise, and challenge the fellow teammates to exhibit their ability to innovate and create compelling, real-world solutions, utilizing the latest devices and technology. We received great responses from around the nation and we shortlisted the hackathon into three stages and conducted the hackathon successfully. The hackathon comprised of three tracks. The tracks /field were taken by considering their present growth and the need for modern or tech support.

The hackathon comprised of three tracks. The tracks /field were taken by considering their present growth and the need for modern or tech support. 1. Agriculture 2. Healthcare 3. Automation in Consumer Technology

Details of the event: Registrations: 17th October 2020 – 30th October 2020 Total Registrations: 25 The theme of the event: Hackathon Stages and qualifications: Stage 1- 25 teams. Stage 2- 17 teams. Stage 3- 11 teams. Dates: a. Stage 1: 15th November 2020 b. Stage 2: 30th November 2020 c. Stage 3, Finale: 5 th December 2020

Judges for the finale: Dr. Sudeendra Koushik Dr. Bindu Madhava Ms. Soma Pandey. Winners: First place: Team Srushti Sphurana. Second place: Team Reflow. Third place: Team Enigma Prize Money: First place: Rs. 10,000 INR Second place: Rs. 7,500 INR Third place: Rs. 5,000 INR

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2.5.6 Summary of Student Branch activities (Student Branch wise with attachment table/information)

2.5.6.1 Amrita School of Engineering

Student Branch Name Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore SB Code STB63931

Counselor Dr. Navin Kumar Chair Mr. Shashank BJ Vice-Chair Mr. Dara Ekanth Secretary Ms. K.M Dikshitha

Treasurer Mr. P.V. Sai Vivek Webmaster Mr. K.V. Vinay

Amrita School of Engineering Bangalore (ASEB) campus IEEE Student Branch is a dynamic and active IEEE student branch located at Kasavanahalli, Bangalore with a strength of over 100 IEEE members; consisting of students, facilitators and Researchers — pioneers in various fields of Research, striving to push the limits of technological innovation at the university. IEEE Student community at amrita shows remarkable growth in terms of member strength and student activity and over the past year boasts of 5 awards, 120+ Events and 100+ successful projects. It is also home for 6 successful IEEE Student Chapters (IEEE ComSoc, IEEE PELS, IEEE RAS, IEEE WIE, IEEE PES-IAS, Sensors),1 SIG (I^2 Innovation club), a very committed IEEE SIGHT GROUP and stands as an exemplary student branch involved in various community discussions, with the exceptional students and faculty members dedicated to realize IEEE‘s objective ―to advance technology for the benefit of humanity‖.

2.5.6.2 ATME College of Engineering

Student Branch ATME College of Engineering SB STB35744 Name Code

Counselor Dr. Parthasarathy L Chair JOSHUVA H RAYAPURI Vice-Chair Rakshitha N Secretary YASEEN ULLA KHAN Treasurer Shashank S N Webmaster Sheetal K Athreya

ATME College of Engineering has organized around 4 events in the year 2019-20. Since its inception of the student branch on 15th September 2020. The International webinar for faculties & Researchers, webinar series for students across all branches in Role of Electric Vehicle in 21st century and relevance to India & Clean Energy technologies & Technology aided Education as pillars for environmental sustainable rural Livelihoods and Webinar on IPR & is role in innovation was conducted.

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2.5.6.3 Atria Institute of Technology, Bengaluru

Student Branch Atria Institute of Technology, Bengaluru SB Code STB20234 Name

Counselor Dr. Ambar Bajpai

Chair Mr. Pramod B N Vice-Chair H R Pramath Secretary Sanjeeva Kumar Treasurer Adithya M Webmaste Aishwarya M F P r

Our branch was started in 2017, but rejuvenated again in Aug. 2020. Within the span of 4 months; - We had 3 Membership Development drive, from SAC Team, MDC Team and Dr. Ashwini Appaji, Chair, IEEE-YP as a resource person. - We have conducted 2 FDP‘s; i) 5-Days National Level Online Faculty Development Programme on "Research Writing in High Quality International Journal/Conferences‖ on 10-14 Aug. 2020 ii) 3 Day‘s Online Faculty Development Programme on ―Role of IoT and Wireless Sensor Network in Knowledge Engineering‖ on 14-19 Sept. 2020, under the banner of IEEE- STB on which 128 and 262 registered participant respectively, from India and abroad. - We have conducted 1 International workshop on ―Ethical Hacking and Cyber Security‖; we had 500+ participants from 22+ countries. - We organized 2 contests on IEEE Day; i) Logo Design, ii) Poster Design - We have organized a workshop on ―Digital Image Processing; Basic to Advance level‖. - We have many more events lined up in upcoming months.

2.5.6.4 B M Sreenevasiah College of Engineering

Student B M Sreenevasiah College of Engineering SB STB04431 Branch Code Name

Counselor Dr Rajeshwari Hegde Chair M G Aditya Vice-Chair Rahul P Krupani Secretary Chaitanya B Treasurer Prithvi Raghavan C S Webmaster Samartha S, Mohit Raj Bhurat

BMSCE IEEE has been one of the best performing student branches in the past few years in the R10 region. With a wide range of activities and the top member count in the Bangalore section for the past few years we have been the recipients of a wide range of awards such as the Darrel Chong award(2013,15,16,18,19), best student branch award(2019), the largest outstanding student branch award(2017,2018) and others. We have collaborated with a wide range of industry professionals and have hosted renowned worldwide conferences such as REV-2019 and ICOMBI-2020 and have been lauded for our execution.We strive to further our achievements and goals and get back to the top spot that we once occupied.

2.5.6.5 Ballari Institute of Technology and Management.

Student Branch Name Ballari Institute of Technology and Management. SB Code STB10169

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Counselor Dr. Abdul Lateef Haroon P.S. Chair Archana J Vice-Chair Amara Naaz Secretary Indu M Treasurer Rahimunnisa Naheen Webmaster Koli SaiKeerthi

IEEE SB BITM has developed to a great extent within a span of 2 years of establishing IEEE in our college. We have organized a number of events, conducted a state level event SYWLC-19 and successfully implemented minimum 2 to 3 events per month based on different topics and technology even during the pandemic situations. We also have the Circuits and Systems Society Chapter at our Branch. We look forward to conducting more events at our Branch.

2.5.6.6 Bangalore Institute of Technology, Bangalore

Student IEEE Bangalore Institute of Technology, Bangalore SB Code STB34591 Branch Name

Counselor Dr Jalaja S Chair Pratik P Vice-Chair Vikas Secretary Shamika Treasurer Ruthika Webmaster Rajalakshmi

IEEE BIT Student branch was revived in the year 2007. The IEEE BIT new committee was formed on February 2020 under Leadership of Dr.Jalaja S. Team added 70 new members to run IEEE BIT Student branch in less than 2 months‘ time. In the prevailing situation of the pandemic, the student chapter very quickly adopted to the new normal of delivering the technical content through electronic means. Apart from the regular activities, in time of lockdown, it is even more important to keep the members motivated. More specifically the student-members and faculties need to keep up the momentum of learning and honing and expanding their skillset. To engaged high-end technical and management skills CASS Bangalore Chapter organized many webinars from industry and academia stalwart. It covers different emerging topics in the area of circuit & systems to meet the needs of students, faculty and professional members. As a part of nominal operation, the IEEE BIT Student Branch has also successfully approved to run IEEE CAS and WIE affinity group.

2.5.6.7 Basaveshwar Engineering College IEEE 35261 Student branch

Student Branch Basaveshwar Engineering College IEEE 35261 Student branch SB Code 35261 Name

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Counselor Dr.S.H. Jangamshetti Chair Mr.Ramakarunananda M Vice-Chair Ms.Swati Angadi Secretary Mr.Mahesh Ballolli Treasurer Mr. Akhil R K Webmaster

BEC-IEEE 35261 Student branch conducts activities throughout the year that has enhanced the skills and experience of participants of our events and broaden their knowledge about technology.Some of the main events conducted by our student branch are GGSY (Gandhi global solar Yatra )in association with IIT Bombay and Student leadership program to enhance the networking skills of the participants and our student branch conducts a National level symposium NOVOUS and many more.

2.5.6.8 BLDEACET IEEE STUDENT BRANCH

Student Branch BLDEACET IEEE STUDENT BRANCH SB Code STB30721 Name

Counsel Prof. V. S. or Gonal Chair Prasanna Maidargi Vice- Shrishanti R Chair Gadad Secretar Geeta Nidoni y Treasure Narsimha r Joshi Webmas Ramchandra ter Kulkarni

Our BLDEACET IEEE STUDENT BRANCH (STB30721) is very much active. This IEEE Student branch has got very much active, enthusiastic and talented student members, Counselor, Office Bearers and as well as Faculty members. So, our branch is doing well and good going. We have achieved 2nd rank in allover Karnataka for the highest IEEE memberships in our student branch/ college. This gave us more name and fame to our college. Not only this, recently our BLDE IEEE Student branch has won the first prize in Karnataka with a cash prize of $100 (Rs 8000) in the Membership development Challenge held between 5th Aug 2020 to 15th Oct 2020. So we feel very happy & proud about this. More than these, we also completed IEEE B-HTC International Conference with a grand success by successfully presenting selected projects and research papers of our college. And we got two best paper awards also. So we the office bearers worked very hard to reach this point of success in terms of membership development and also the volunteering in the conference. We achieved these many successes only because of team work and coordination of our branch office bearers, our branch counselor. Moreover the success tribute/thanks goes to our branch counselor for their guidance and spirited support, and also the special tribute goes to our student branch Chair, Vice chair and Secretary for their hard work, dedication and determination towards IEEE to achieve a grand success.

2.5.6.9 IEEE Student Branch BMSIT & MDE

IEEE Student Branch BMSIT & MDE de STB14611 Student Branch Name

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Counselor Dr. Anjan Krishnamurthy Chair Mr. Pranav Raikote Vice-Chair Mr. Gaurav Sethia Secretary Ms. Likitha Madhav M.R Treasurer Ms, K Narmadha Webmaster Mr. Shrinidhi Hegde ; Ms Sai Sparsha

IEEE Student Branch BMS Institute of Technology & Management has always been an enthusiastic Student Organization that aims to organize events that provide opportunity for student members to enhance and develop their skills to help them become efficient engineers and leaders. We have been a recipient of the ―Best Annual Plan Report‖ award for the year 2018. We were also awarded ―The most promising Student Branch‖ in 2020 at the Annual General Body meeting by IEEE Bangalore Section. We compose occasions to assist students with improving their skills by organizing a wide range of online webinars, hackathons, and events to propagate knowledge in specialized domain improvement. We are a team that is continuously trying to develop and create opportunities for growth and learning aligned with our objectives. Our success is achieved through dedication in thought, word, action, our ethical conduct and sincerity of purpose, through our student branch, making us proud to be part of IEEE.

2.5.6.10 IEEE-BNMIT Student Branch

Student Branch IEEE-BNMIT Student Branch SB STB14831 Name Code

Counselor Dr Bindu S Chair Shreyas B Vice-Chair Rachna RV Secretary Srinidhi SP Treasurer Shreya JS Webmaster Prateek Joshi

The IEEE BNMIT Student Branch is committed to encouraging students to take part in various technical and non-technical activities organised over the course of the academic year. For 2020-21, we held multiple webinars as well as our flagship event 'IEEE Week-BNMIT', which recieved a very positive response. We continue to take this forward while constantly improving, and strive to be an inspiration to all students.

2.5.6.11 CAMBRIDGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

CAMBRIDGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SB Code STB11483 Student Branch Name

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Counselor Basavaraju C

Chair Vishnu Srinivas

Vice-Chair Nitish Adi Reddy

Secretary A Devipriya

Treasurer SaiKiran G

Webmaster Veerappa C

According to IEEE-Cambridge the major objective of the IEEE student chapter is to assist and contribute in the overall development of top graduates required by industries and other organizations. We find it as an opportunity for students to demonstrate their technical skills and also get them trained to be good leaders.

2.5.6.12 CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF KARNATAKA

Student Branch CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF KARNATAKA SB STB14017 Name Code

Counsellor Dr.Apeksha (3D Printing- 3 day workshop organised under IEEE SB CUK) Madhukar Chair Sneha Vice-Chair Adwaith S Secretary Sahithi Treasurer Aryaman Lal Webmaster Abdul Khader M A

IEEE Student branch of CUK was inaugurated on 30th August 2018 and with high efforts by student members and volunteers won ‗Most Promising Student Branch Award 2018‘ from IEEE Bangalore section, within 2 years of existence, SB achieved ―Region 10 exemplary student branch award‖ twice (2019, 2020). Through its active membership drives and promotional activities, in one-year number of IEEE members were made to 102 from 17 initial members at the inauguration of the student branch. This year we have conducted 37 events as of 14th OCT 2020.

2.5.6.13 IEEE CMRIT Student Branch

IEEE CMRIT Student Branch SB Code STB64241 Student Branch Name

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Counselor Dr. Chetan H Chair Ms. Rashmi T Vice-Chair Mr. C Raghavendran Secretary Ms. Bindu R Treasurer Ms. Anushka Jemima

IEEE CMRIT Student Branch is one of the active branches established under the IEEE Bangalore Section. The main aim of our Student Branch is to help student members to bridge the gap between academics and industry needs and requirements. We conduct multi-disciplinary events, such as workshops, technical talks, conferences and much more, which encourages members to explore and gain an interest in various fields of science and Technology.

2.5.6.14 GSSS Institute of Engineering and Technology for Women, Mysuru

Student GSSS Institute of Engineering and Technology for Women,Mysuru SB Code STB17861 Branch Name

Counselor Dr. Parameshachari B D Chair Manasa G T Vice-Chair Kavya G Secretary Bhaveena M Treasurer Drushya T S Webmaster Neha KowshikV

GSSSIETW has established IEEE Student Branch (SB) in 2015. The SB is dedicated for the professional development of students with advanced technical support from IEEE. GSSSIETW, IEEE Student Branch has more than 153 student members and conducts several events for the benefit of students at National/International levels. In 2019, the GSSSIETW Student Branch has received the ―Outstanding Medium Student Branch Award‖ in recognition of outstanding contribution during the year 2019 by IEEE Bangalore Section. GSSSIETWIEEE SB has successfully organized 4 ―IEEE International Conferences on Electrical, Electronics, Communications, Computers Technologies and Optimization Techniques‖ (ICEECCOT) in association with IEEE Bangalore Section. 23 projects done by students of GSSSIETW have been selected by IEEE BANGALORE SECTION for funding under the scheme IEEE BS-SHTPF 2020.

2.5.6.15 IEEE IISc Student Branch

Student Branch IEEE IISc Student Branch SB Code STB06731 Name

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Counselor Mrs. Japan Habba Tech Fair Anandi Giridhara n Chair Mr Kundan Kumar Vice-Chair Ms Saumya Srivasta va Secretary Mr Rudrashis Maju mder Treasurer Mr Aditya Hegde Webmaster

The IEEE Indian Institute of Science Student branch was established in 1989. The IEEE IISc Student branch is motivated with the goal of enriching the technical activities, within the institute and around, through workshops, talks, and summer schools. IEEE-IISc student branch is recognized as one of the most active student branches by IEEE, under IEEE-University Partnership Program (IEEE-UPP), along with 17 other universities in the world. The IEEE-IISc has the international honour society IEEE Eta Kappa Nu Mu Xi Chapter. IEEE-IISc has various technical societies, and affinity groups such as the Communications Society, Computational Intelligence Society, Computer Society, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Photonics Society, Signal Processing Society, SENSORS, and Nano Council, Industrial Electronics Society, Industry Applications Society, and IEEE Women in Engineering.

2.5.6.16 IEEE Student Branch Jyothy Institute of Technology

Student Branch IEEE Student Branch Jyothy Institute of Technology SB Code STB11454 Name

Counselor Dr. Chinmayi Chair Swathi R Vice-Chair Secretary Karthik Hebbar M Treasurer Sreelakshmi A B Webmaster Skandapriya B N

IEEE-JIT Student Branch was inaugurated on 24th April 2019. In just over a year, 18 events were conducted successfully and were reported in vtools. Over 60 students became members and joined IEEE-JIT Student Branch. This branch aims to enrich the students with the latest technologies and get well equipped to meet the standards in today's technology.

2.5.6.17 K S INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Student Branch K S INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SB Code STB61941 Name

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Counselor JAYASUDHA B S K Chair KETAN K Vice-Chair - Secretary ANIRUDH K N Treasurer AKKSHAY U L Webmaster NAGALEKHA RAMESH

The IEEE Student Branch was inaugurated in KSIT in the year 2002. The branch aspires to enrich the students of KSIT with the latest developments in various ﬁelds of technology and research developments. IEEE KSIT SB along with its WIE Entity and IEEE KSIT SPS conduct various technical and sevmi-technical events to ensure that the students' competency levels are enhanced to meet the required standards in today's industry. IEEE KSIT strives to invigorate the experience of organization and participation in the students through events that are conducted through the year. INNOVACEEEA is the Mega event conducted by the student branch having participants from various colleges. IEEE KSIT along with its WIE Entity conducted a 5K MARATHON with the theme "We Run, You Learn" in the year 2019 which had 200 plus participants. The SB also conducted an online programming challenge in the year 2020 "CODE\n WIN 1.0" which had about 500 participants.

2.5.6.18 K S SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT

Student K S SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT SB Code STB12681 Branch Name

Counselor Dr. Karthik. P Chair Likitha Shree R J Vice-Chair Pragathi. U Secretary Vishnu. K Treasurer Dinesh. G

Webmaster Suchetha. R

Our student branch was started in the month of March 2020. With a strength of 17 students, we have organized several Webinars and events which have kept the students active post and pre lockdown. We have ensured that students participate with zeal and enthusiasm to keep their creativity alive during these tough times.We are hoping to spread our wings and improve our membership count in the upcoming year.

2.5.6.19 KLS’s Gogte Institute of Technology

Student Branch Name KLS‘s Gogte Institute of Technology SB Code STB28191

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Counselor Abhishek Deshmukh Chair Prasad G. Kadam Vice-Chair Shreya Gadatarannavar Secretary Vijaylakshmi Lokhande Treasurer Shreejit Savadatte Webmaster Aniruddha Kapileshwari

The student branch was officially established on 17th June 2003, and is an active student branch since past 17 years. Members of the institute are associated with IEEE since past 3 decades. FIVE professional members have been elevated to IEEE Senior Membership till now. Members of the student branch hold key positions in the North Karnataka Sub-Section executive committee. The student branch received STAR program funding of $300 in the year 2015. Institute also has an active PES Student Chapter formed in the year 2018.

2.5.6.20 Kristu Jayanti College

Student Branch Name Kristu Jayanti College SB Code STB18221

Counselor Dr. Velmurugan R Chair Ms. Neha Elizabeth Prince Vice-Chair Mr. Nikhil Hari Secretary Ms. Apoorva Bahuleyan Treasurer Webmaster

Kristu Jayanti College is the first Arts and Science College to get recognised as an IEEE Student branch. The branch organises various activities like Tech-Talk Sessions, Industry Institute Interface Sessions, Inter & Intra Collegiate Fests, Webinar Series, Conferences, Technical Community Sessions and Workshops for the benefit of Faculty members and Students.

2.5.6.21 MALNAD COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING - Hassan

Student MALNAD COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING - Hassan SB Code STB02381 Branch Name

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Counselor Dr. P. C. Srikanth Chair Chalana S. Vice-Chair Ashritha H. A. Secretary Apoorva S. Patwal Treasurer Dr. Indira Bahaddur Webmaster Chalana S.

IEEE MCE Student Branch has conducted many online events during the academic year 2020 under Bangalore Section‘s Photonics society, Communication Society and Power and Energy Society. The events conducted include PES DAY 2020, webinar on "Photonics: Opportunities and Challenges in India", webinar on "Narrow Line width Fiber Amplifiers for Coherent Beam Combination", webinar on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, webinar on Purify a Survey: Reliability and Construct Validity, webinar on ―Mathematical foundation for error control coding‖, Online Membership Drive and the Benefits of IEEE webinar, LEKHANI : National level idea presentation.0

2.5.6.22 IEEE STUDENT BRANCH MANIPAL

Student Branch IEEE STUDENT BRANCH MANIPAL SB Code STB09891 Name

Counselor DR. PALLAVI R. MANE

Chair SAMIK GANDHI

Vice- ANJLIKA SAHU Chair Secretary MAITREYEE PAIRA

Treasurer HRITIK BANSAL

Webmaste ABHISHEK SRIVASTAV r

Established in 1984 IEEE Student Branch Manipal is one of the oldest and largest student bodies in Manipal. At IEEE SBM, we uphold the mission and vision of IEEE through our technical events and activities dedicated towards the student community throughout the academic year. Our recent achievements include: 1- Fourth place in 'Membership Development Challenge' under IEEE Bangalore Section's "Volunteer-Lead-Achieve Mission 2020" . 2- Second place for 'Innovative and successful conduction of activities in the year 2019' - IEEE Mangalore Sub-Section AGM held at MIT, Manipal on 18th January 2020.

2.5.6.23 The National Institute of Engineering – Mysore

Student Branch The National Institute of Engineering – Mysore SB STB96261 Name Code

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Counse Dr. Rohini lor Nagapadma Chair Tejasvi Kashyap Vice- C. Ramprakash Chair Secreta Ayushi Mishra ry Treasur Muhammad er Mustafa MC

Webma Veer Pratap Singh ster

The IEEE NIE Student Branch is one of the most vibrant Student Branches in Karnataka, and the biggest technical unit in the college. INSB conducts various events ranging from workshops, hackathons, webinars and Industrial Visits. INSB strives to reach further heights everyday by its outreach programs and by providing a platform for members to network and build up their profile.

2.5.6.24 NIE Institute of Technology

Student Branch Name NIE Institute of Technology SB Code STB18781

Counselor Raghavendra M Chair Sakshi B K Vice-Chair Ponnamma A H Secretary Hrishikesh K S Treasurer Shrijith Bhat Webmaster Vishnu Boddu

The IEEE student branch began recently in our college. We are planning to conduct several events targeting various skill sets along with workshops and lectures for the benefit of IEEE student members of NIEIT. We recently organized an online event: ―New Beginnings‖, in which the speaker addressed the students regarding the current job market and the skill requirements. The picture added is the screenshot taken during this event. We execom members together as a team are aiming to a better functioning of the student branch.

2.5.6.25 NITK IEEE Student Branch

Student Branch NITK IEEE Student Branch SB Code STB98631 Name

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Counsel Prof. M.S. Bhat or Chair Deeksha M S Vice- Arpitha Raghunandan Chair Secretar Suraj Jagannath y Treasure Karthik Rao r Webmas Adharsh Kamath ter

We are an enthusiastic student branch with a strong presence in the Mangalore Subsection. We pride ourselves on our ability to draw in young sophomores through our mentorship programs, as well as our efforts to have a positive effect on schools and colleges in surrounding regions. We are active in conducting technical projects, workshops, talks, hackathons and competitions that may help generate interest in various technical fields ranging from artificial intelligence to aeronautics and nanotechnology.

2.5.6.26 PACE IEEE STUDENT BRANCH

Student Branch PACE IEEE STUDENT BRANCH SB Code STB99368 Name

Counselor Prof.Mohammed Zakir Bellary Chair Mr Yakshith Vice-Chair Mr Shaheed Sameez Secretary Mr.Mohammed Shakir Treasurer Mr.Ameer Mustaq Webmaster Mr.Mohammed Zakir

PACE IEEE student branch got approval on September 25.We conducted totally 4 technical webinars on recent trends in the technology for students and staffs.We are going to have an offline workshop in the month of December. Planning to conduct many events in the coming year 2021.

2.5.6.27 PES Institute Of Technology (PESIT)

Student Branch Name PES Institute Of Technology (PESIT) SB Code STB12711

Counselor Dr. D Annapurna

Chair Anjali Deshpande Vice-Chair Laasya Gadi Secretary Siddhesh V Jain

Treasurer Annette Antony Webmaster Rajat Shetty

Founded in the year 2012, IEEE PESIT Student Branch provides an environment to foster learning and developing real world skills. We ensure that our principles are inline with the collective goal of encouraging the students to make use of their diverse talents to innovate for the benefit of humanity. Various events are targeted at improving the skill sets of the students and to motivate them. As part of the IEEE Student Branch in PESIT South Campus, we have had the opportunity to host more than 30 events in the past 2 years. KALPANA has been our flagship event. This event was named in honour of the famous personality,

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Kalpana Chawla. And it has two facets, technical and humanitarian. The former is to encourage students to put their learning to test and get the better out of them for doing good to the society they live in. The latter is to build a society of individuals that help one another. We have also hosted multiple other events, workshops, quizzes, etc on various relevant topics. IEEE Student Branch of PESIT South Campus has always strived to inspire students to innovate for a better tomorrow.

2.5.6.28 IEEE PESCE Mandya Student Branch

Student Branch IEEE PESCE Mandya Student Branch SB Code STB96251 Name

Couns Dr. K A Radhakrishna Rao elor Chair Shubam Kumar Singh

Vice- Ashutosh Pathak Chair Secret Tanusha A ary Treasu Ajay M rer Webm Varsha V

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About IEEE PESCE: IEEE PESCE aims at providing the quality technical skills to all of its participants and has succeeded in doing so. IEEE PESCE would always look forward to set a platform for the students where they can get the maximum opportunity to develop as in person and also their skills.

2.5.6.29 Ramaiah Institute of Technology

Student Branch Ramaiah Institute of Technology SB Code STB62841 Name

Counselor Dr. Shobha K R Chair VenuGopal K A Vice-Chair Pratheek K Secretary Vandana P M Treasurer Aman Bhatnagar Webmaster Divya R

The IEEE-RIT Student Branch was inaugurated in RIT in November 2003. The branch endeavours to enrich the students of RIT with the latest developments in various fields of technology and research and ensure that their competency levels meet all the required standards in today‘s industry and participation in a kaleidoscope of technical events throughout the year, implicitly emphasizing on extra-curricular activities in a student‘s life. The IEEE-RIT Student Branch was inaugurated in RIT in November 2003. The branch endeavours to enrich the students of RIT with the latest developments in various fields of technology and research and ensure that their competency levels meet all the required standards in today‘s industry and participation in a kaleidoscope of technical events throughout the year, implicitly emphasizing on extra-curricular activities in a student‘s life. Currently PES, SPS, COMSOC, CIS, EMBS are the chapters that are actively organising various activities to all students across college. This year we have organised 30 events which are a mixture of Technical and Non- technical events.

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2.5.6.30 IEEE Student Branch RNSIT

Student IEEE Student Branch RNSIT SB Code STB05041 Branch Name

Counselor Rajini V Honnungar Chair Smitha R D Vice-Chair Ipsita Sanyal Secretary Akhilesh Patil Treasurer Harish Webmaster Aishwarya

The branch has conducted various webinars and workshops during 2020.We also had an Industrial visit to Applied Photonics Lab, IISc, Bangalore. There were 10 events conducted including the Webinars in both Technical and Non- Technical Domains.The new Execom was also formed during August 2020. We are striving to do more events and also increase the membership.

2.5.6.31 REVA University

Student Branch Name REVA University SB Code STB20146

Counsellor Dr M Devanathan Chair Meghana Singh M Vice-Chair Saket Savarn

Secretary K Rajalakshmi

Treasurer Shahid Khan A Webmaster Adarsh Anand

Founded in the year 2016, IEEE Student Branch REVA University catalyses and helps spread awareness about technology, its advancements and building essential skill sets.Being a part of the student branch has provided us with an opportunity to organize various events which include international conferences, hands-on workshops, quizzes, seminars and fun events. We organize a diverse range of events that not only enhances the students‘ knowledge about the recent trends in technology but also inspires students to develop new skill sets, showcase them, build friendship and learn teamwork by interacting and collaborating with each other.At IEEE SBRU, we will always strive to inspire students to innovate for a better tomorrow and provide them a platform to grow and showcase their talents.

2.5.6.32 Rashtreeya Vidyalaya College Engineering

Student Branch Rashtreeya Vidyalaya College Engineering SB Code STB11651 Name

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Counselor Dr M Uttara Kumari Chair S J Ruthvik Vice- Srinivas Prabhu Chair B Secretary Deekshith Nayak Treasurer Prajwal S Telkar Webmaste Srinivas Prabhu r B

Founded in the Year 2018 IEEE RVCE has shown tremendous progress over the years. What started out as 5 Student Members and 1 Faculty Advisor has grown into a student Branch with 150+ Student Members and 50+Professional Members and 5+ Senior Members. During the year 2020 IEEE RVCE has shown tremendous growth and has brought significant improvements. We started the year with around 45 Student Members, over the period of one year the membership count has increased to 150+, We have initiated 3 new societies namely – APS, RAS, SPS and a SIGHT affinity group. We have shown immense dedication to conduct events that the students benefited from. Implemented substantial changes in organization to prioritize skill development for student members. Given autonomy to society chairs to organize and conduct events which made them better and more confident leaders. Giving opportunity to any and all members of IEEE RVCE for the project initiative. We have organized various events ranging from seminars, distinguished lectures, technical talk, hands on workshops, competitions etc. The student Branch has even organized 15 days Faculty Development Programmes as well accounting to more than 50+ events in the year 2020. The motive of the student Branch is to work tirelessly towards encouraging students and support them in their contributions for Technology for the benefit of humanity.

2.5.6.33 SAMBHRAM INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Student Branch SAMBHRAM INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SB STB06681 Name Code

Counsellor Dr.K.Ezhilarasan Chair Priya M Vice-Chair Aparna P V Secretary Namratha S Treasurer Prasanth Kumar Sharma Webmaster Dr.K.Ezhilarasan

Our Student branch consists of 16 members, then We the Students branch actively involving technical and Non- Technical Activities, Workshops, seminars and Skill development program. Our Student branch will celebrate every year International Women‘s Day, National Science Day. The student branch has received project fund from IEEE Bangalore section, we will motivate the students to become an IEEE Member and we try increase the numbers in future. Our Branch has affinity group IEEE SIGHT, Recently we celebrated the IEEE SIGHT Week Celebration.

2.5.6.34 IEEE SJCE

Student Branch SB Code STB28991 Name IEEE SJCE

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Counselor Dr. Sudharshan Patilkulkarni Chair Sharath M Vice-Chair Shreyas J Secretary Arun Louis Treasurer Bijwal B Jain Webmaster Shruthi Keerthi

IEEE SJCE Student Branch which started as an elite group 29 years ago, today has sprawled throughout the campus of SJCE, making the students technically more competitive, more professional and enhancing their abilities as an engineer by conducting various workshops, technical talks and webinars. TUXEDO and CYBERIA are two annual fests conducted by IEEE SJCE.

2.5.6.35 Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology

Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology SB Code STB00362 Student Branch Name

Counselor Dr M Z Kurian Chair Aishwarya S M Vice- Sharadhi R Chair Secretary Shreeraksha K V Treasurer Vishvas N Webmaste Shilpashree M P r

SSIT IEEE Student Branch has been technically effective to encourage students in developing their interest towards the growth of Advancing Technology for Humanity since 10 years. We have the decent growth of IEEE members in our student branch and have organised various events, Tech talks, distinguished lectures, Industrial trips, hands on workshops, Hackathons, Competitions etc in 2019-2020. We have initiated IEEE Affinity group WOMEN IN ENGINEERING to encourage women in their interest towards Technology. We have shown the tremendous growth of IEEE students members along with the support of faculties. Our student branch aims to provide quality information and experience on the trending and on-demand technical skills. We have set the unique growth of all the SSIT IEEE STUDENT BRANCH members which is the greatest strength on building the well versed developing ambience. As a part of IEEE Bangalore Section, our student branch tirelessly works to upskill students in Technology and encourage them for self-development as well as to contribute more to society.

2.5.6.36 VVIET IEEE STUDENT BRANCH

Student VVIET IEEE STUDENT BRANCH SB STB08181 Branch Code Name

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Counselor Dr. Bindu A Thomas Chair Mr. Chinmay Datt YESIST 12- INNOVATION CHALLENGE CONTEST Student Leadership Program Vice-Chair Mr. Anvesh B Secretary Ms. Manusha B Treasurer Mr. Jhenkar S Webmaster Mr. J Mark Steve

VVIET IEEE Student Branch To provide VVIETians with technical know-how necessary to sustain the growing competition. To inspire the budding engineers for new ideas Help students prioritize their careers by providing them with support and access to the esteemed IEEE journals Under VVIET IEEE student branch conducted unique activities like AISYWC in the year 2018, YESIST 12- INNOVATION CHALLENGE CONTEST and Student Leadership Program in the year 2019 and 2020

2.5.6.37 IEEE Student Branch- The National College, Jayanagar

Student Branch IEEE Student Branch- The National College, Jayanagar SB Code STB10218 Name

Counselor Prof Deepika S Chair Shashank R Vice-Chair Kishan Secretary Jagath Treasurer Amrutha Webmaster Shashank A

IEEE student branch- The National College, Jayanagar was established on June 9 2020. We are proud to declare ourselves as the first non-engineering college to be associated with IEEE. We have conducted a 5-day Virtual Hands-on workshop on Augmented Reality in association with RV college of Engineering. We are looking forward to continuously host similar events in association with IEEE Bangalore Section.

2.5.6.38 University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (IEEE UVCE)

Student Branch University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (IEEE UVCE) SB STB34411 Name Code

Counselor Dr. Kiran K

Chair Kennith O Koshy

Vice-Chair Hamsa Shree N A Sandya Shree N Vishal M Kanthi Secretary Pruthvi Raj R Treasurer Rajat R Lingadalli

Webmaster Manoj Kumar A

We at IEEE UVCE aim at developing the Technical and Interpersonal skills of all our members. Even with the pandemic, this was achieved with webinars on a variety of topics with the help of technical experts from different fields. We conducted a National level hackathon and inventive monthly challenges which focussed on different streams of Engineering. The creative thinking of members was kept intact through fun events and several interactive stories were posted on social media consistently. We also organized events for IEEE Day Celebrations, IEEEXtreme, IEEE Membership Drive and spread the value of their membership through all these events in every aspect.

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2.5.6.39 Sai Vidya Institute of Technology

Student Branch Sai Vidya Institute of Technology SB Code STB11371 Name

Counselor Dr. Venkatesha M Chair Ms. Bina R Vice-Chair Ms. Nandana C H

Secretary Mr. Sourabh V Bhat Treasurer Mr. Sunil H Kote Webmaster Ms. Eshanya B

IEEE Sai Vidya Institute of Technology student branch has four chapters, IEEE Photonics, IEEE EMB, IEEE Power Electronics and IEEE CS and ComSoc Joint chapter. The Vision of our student branch is to network and collaborate with technical professionals and gain the knowledge of evolving technologies. More than 22 of our IEEE student members have visited abroad and presented their papers at top IEEE Flagship Tier-1 international conferences held in the USA, Canada, Germany, Portugal and Czech Republic in Europe. Many of the students have received international travel grants from IEEE Photonics Society and IEEE Bangalore section.

2.5.6.40 KLE Dr. MSSCET Belagavi IEEE Student Branch

Student Branch KLE Dr. MSSCET Belagavi IEEE Student Branch SB STB5029 Name Code

Counselor Dr. Sujata N Patil Chair Dhanashree G Hampiholi Vice-Chair Allamaprabhu V Bevinakoppamath Secretary Pratik Kulkarni

Treasurer Akshay J Bhosale

Webmaster Vaibhav A

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2.6 Affinity Group Activities

2.6.1 Young Professional (YP) http://yp.ieeebangalore.org/ Young Professionals Affinity Group in Bangalore Section (India), winner of 2020 Region 10 Outstanding Young Professionals Affinity Group award, focusing on delivering value to its members through innovative seminars, workshops, industry visits, mentorship programmes and webinars spanning diverse disciplines to cater to the diverse background of its members. The Young Professionals Team strives to bridge the gap between academia and industry through its flagship industry visit program. In 2020, the Young Professionals team organised an industry visit to the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Bengaluru where the delegates got an overview of high performance computing and were shown various supercomputers in the facility. With multiple such visits planned in the pipeline, it could not be executed due to the ongoing pandemic. Year 2020 started off with the organizing of an ―Online Website Contest‖ for student members of Bangalore Section. There were a good number of teams that participated and a winner was selected from amongst them who were given the opportunity to design a website for the Young Professionals team of Bangalore Section. Following this, a mentorship programme namely ―Mentor4You‖ was launched to engage the YP members of Bangalore and provide an opportunity for student members to gain from the experience and expertise of seasoned industry and academia professionals. In the first edition, 100+ students benefited from 30+ mentors who mentored these students. The Young Professionals team adapted quickly to the ongoing pandemic and converted all events to a virtual format which enabled inviting speakers from across the globe and delivering quality events to the participants so that learning could continue even in the times of adversity. A broad spectrum of webinars were organised spanning the domains of computer science, electronics, startups, entrepreneurship, emerging technologies, professional development, etc. Young Professionals team members were invited to deliver talks at various platforms on a wide variety of topics - skill development, website designing, about present day technologies, innovation and many more. To address the needs and challenges that might occur during the pandemic, various webinars on how to adapt ourselves to the new normal and go ahead with whatever we are working on were organised by the young professionals team, some of them jointly with sister IEEE societies of Bangalore Section. The Young Professionals Team also participated actively in organising the Bangalore Humanitarian Technology Conference (B-HTC) and were fortunate to be able to organise a separate Young Professionals track as part of this conference. Call for papers were circulated, papers were reviewed, the track was publicized and solely managed by Young Professional members and it was indeed a great opportunity for the team. In November 2020, Young Professionals Global Summit has been planned in a virtual format and this two day extravaganza is set to feature established young professionals as speakers and panelists from different parts of the globe for the various events planned as part of the summit. Additionally, Young Professionals Regional Meetup as well as YP India Chairs Meetup is planned as part of the summit to discuss best practices and common problems faced by YP Affinity Groups and a common platform to come up with ideas to solve them collectively.

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2.6.2 Women in Engineering (WIE) http://wie.ieeebangalore.org/ WIE IEEE Bangalore Section has grown into a movement over the decade and is truly committed to IEEE‘s motto of Technology for humanity.WIE AG of Bangalore Section has been instrumental in empowering women technologists and academicians through its various focused women centric activities.

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IEEE WIE Bangalore Section AGM 2020 was held on 5th January 2020 at Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore.

The first event was parichaya held on Feb 9 2020 where we all WIE members met up to plan for 2020; International women‘s day was celebrated with the theme ―Each for Equal‖ in association with Infosys ON mARCH 4 2020 AT Infosys Campus Bangalore

A self defence demonstration was conducted and Surakhsa App was demonstrated for women safety at International Womens day organised by IEEE WIE Bangalore Section in partnership with VITM at VITM Bangalore on March 9 2020. ;The pre university programme App development course on Android for high school

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girl students was organised during June 15-20 2020 online in partnership with VITM to encourage girls to enter Engineering and Technology

Special wie Track was organised as part of IEEE CONECCT 2020 during July 2-4 2020 which enabled women researchers to present their work. WIE AG has been innovative and have created new programs and events to engage with our members and community like Covid 19 Mask making contest for students which was a video contest organised during May 2020.

With the Pandemic many of our activities are virtual and all the webinars and events have been attended by thousands of students, professionals and entrepreneurs.WIE had organsied webinars by academic, industry professional and women leaders WIE webinar series in partnership with DRDO showcasing the contribution women scientists in DRDO.

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WIE AG Bangalore Section won the IEEE R10 SYWLC 2020 WIE poster contest in the R10 SYWLC congress held during September -October 2020.

Special WIE Track was organised as part of IEEE BHTC during October 8-10 2020 which enabled women researchers to present their research works.

Ada Lovelace day hacakthon for students on AI based Poetry(Sonnet) generation which is interdisciplinary extending STEM into STEAM was organised during September 13-October 13 2020

Three new student branch WIE AG this year one in IISC Bangalore(January 2020) and the other at Manipal Institute of Technology at Manipal(September 6 2020) and one at BIT during November 2020;IEEE WIE Global Summit was organised on November 5 2020 which included keynote talks ,panel discussions and AI based dance.

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On the occasion of International day of disabilities organised an event WIE SignTech on December 3 2020 to showcase technology for hearing impaired. Speakers were introduced through Sign language. For the first time wie Bangalore Section organised an event for differently abled people for social inclusion.

Women in Engineering Global Summit was conducted under the aegis of IEEE Bangalore Technology Conclave(BTC) held between November 3rd-7th 2020, organized by IEEE Bangalore section. The objective of the summit was to provide an ultimate platform for leading tech innovators and pioneers to showcase their insights and perspectives on how to address the fundamental questions and challenges of how Artificial Intelligence can positively shape our future.

Among the 5 days of BTC, WIE GS was scheduled on November 5th. The Global summit started with the inauguration at 8.00 AM IST by Susan Kathy Land IEEE President 2021 and CEO followed by Keynote on ―Lead beyond your horizons‖. Virtual sessions by trailblazing global women leaders in AI, Panel discussions, live fireside chat were a part of tis summit. Very special AI-themed cultural event was planned in the evening. B-HTC 2020 WiE Activity: WIE Track on Technology for Women Empowerment for IEEE Bangalore Humanitarian Technology Conference was scheduled on 9th/10th October 2020. WIE Track included keynote speakers along with paper presentations. The papers with at least one author being women were qualified to be included in WIE Track. WIE Track with CONECCT (International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technology) was held on 3rd July 2020. WIE Track for CONECCT included Keynote sessions/panel discussions along with separate WIE track for paper presentation and poster sessions. The papers with at least one author being women was included in WIE Track. The topics were remain the same as the main conference of CONECCT 2020. WIE had 3 parallel tracks.T16 ,T21 and T26, The track received 28 Papers out of which 4 papers were rejected and 24 selected papers were distributed accordingly in the track as follows. We would like to thank Track chairs Dr Sujatha, Mrs. Supriya and Mrs. Sadhana for being in panel. I thank Committee and Chair IEEE WIE AG Mrs Sadhana, for assigning me role of Technical Program Committee Chair.

The Global summit started with the inauguration at 8.00 AM IST by Susan Kathy Land IEEE President 2021 and CEO followed by Keynote on ―Lead beyond your horizons‖. Virtual sessions by trailblazing global women leaders in AI, Panel discussions, live fireside chat were a part of the summit.Very special AI-themed cultural event was planned in the evening. Schedule Time Speaker Title Morning Session 8.00 AM to Susan Kathy Land Inauguration 8.30 AM IEEE President 2021 and CEO Keynote talk 1 Lead beyond your horizons 8.30 AM to Rama Akkiraju Keynote talk 2 9.00 AM IBM Fellow, CTO AI Operations ,IBM Master Inventor, Making AI work for Member IBM Academy of Technology companies 9.00 AM to Geetha Manjunath Keynote talk 3 9.30 AM Co- Founder and CEO Niramai Artificial Intelligence for Medical Imaging 9.30 AM to Sushmita Mitra Keynote talk 4 10.00 AM INAE Chair Professor, Fulbright-Nehru Senior Researcher, Intelligent Analysis Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, of Brain Images Kolkata 10.00 AM to Pankajam Sridevi Keynote talk 5 10.30 AM Managing Director Common wealth bank of Australia AI in Banking 10.30 AM to Paulina Yenbic Chan Keynote talk 6 11.00 AM Chair, IEEE Hong Kong Section Innovative Leadership and Leadership in Innovation 11.00 am to Panelists: Sruthi Kannan, Head, Cisco Launch Pad Interactive Round Table on 12.00 noon Saurav Agarwala, Co-Founder and CTO, CRON AI ―Technologies for Post Neha Satak, CEO and Co-Founder, Astrome Technologies Pandemic world‖ Moderator: Suma Rao, Serial Entrepreneur Evening Session

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5.30 PM to Panellists: Panel Discussions on 6.30 PM Jeniffer Castillo leadership with IEEE WIE IEEE Global WIE Chair 2021 Global WIE Chair 2021 and Charlotte Blair all Region WIE Chairs IEEE Region 1 WIE Chair Carole Carey IEEE Region 2 WIE Chair Liang Downey IEEE Region 4 WIE Chair Ana Cigarán RomeroIEEE Region 8 WIE Chair Rosa Meja IEEE Region 9 WIE Chair Emi Yano IEEE Region 10 WIE Chair Sadhana Attavar IEEE Bangalore Section WIE Chair Region 10 Moderator: Puneet Kumar MishraChair IEEE Bangalore section 6.30 PM to Leila De Floriani Keynote talk 7 7.00 PM 2020 President of the IEEE Computer Society Representation and Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, USA topology-based clustering methods for spatial data analysis and visualization 7.00 PM to Panellists: Fireside Chat on 8.00 PM Manuela VelosoManaging Director, Head of AI Research, "Technical Leadership JP Morgan Chase Secrets‖ - Across Laxmi Mukund Generations and Cultures Principle Engineer, Cisco Jayanta Dey, VP Engineering, VMWare Storage and Data Management Richa Saini, Lead Data Scientist, Accenture Bhavana Kanukurthi, IISc Vikram Sharma, UIUC Moderator: Pamela Kumar 8.00 PM to Karen Bartleson Keynote talk 8 8.30 PM IEEE President and CEO-2017 An Ethical Future with Artificial Intelligence 8.30 PM to Cecilia Metra Keynote talk 9 9.00 PM Past Chair, IEEE CS 9.00 PM to Team from IEEE WIE Bangalore Section Cultural Programme 9.15 PM AI based Dance 9.15 PM to Puneet Kumar Mishra, General Chair, IEEE WIE Global Valediction 9.30 PM Summit and Chair, IEEE Bangalore Section

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2.6.3 Life Member (LM)

The formation of the LMAG of the Bangalore Section was approved by IEEE during 2019, so 2020 is its first full year of operation. The following activities have taken place during the year: 1. A Webinar was offered by Prof Solomon Darwin of the University of California, Berkeley on November 2, 2019. The topic of the webinar was ―Smart Villages and Why Humanity Needs Them More Than Smart Cities‖. He discussed issues regarding to how villages can be made into self-sustaining entities by selecting small-scale manufacturing facilities that best suit their environment and by providing both skill development activities for their inhabitants and marketing of their products. The author illustrated the approach through the example of the work done at his native village in Andhra Pradesh, which has been supported by the state government and local organizations. The Webinar was organized with very active support from the EXCOM of the Bangalore Section, and all members of the Section were invited to participate. The attendance was good, and a lively question-and- answer session followed the presentation. 2. An online interaction among the members of the LMAG is planned for December 28, 2020. The purpose of this interactive meeting is to plan the activities for the coming year. In the early part of the year, these activities will have to be inline; once the current situation improves sufficiently, we should be able to return to in-person interactions, which of course is preferred by the members. The primary limitation with regard to the functioning of the LMAG arises from its conditions of membership, namely that the sum of a member‘s age and the number of years of his/her membership of IEEE should not be less than 100. Hence, there is no effective way to increase the number of members. Currently we have just over 30 members, most of whom been retired for a number of years. Since we currently have just two office-bearers, we are making attempts to encourage more members to serve on the committee. But many of them have constraints that inhibit such participation. We hope to meet with success on this front in the coming year. Many of the members on the YMAG are former office-bearers of the Bangalore Section, and they continue to maintain their presence in its activities as well as in those of the various Society Chapters. The social distancing constraints have recently limited such interactions to on-line ones, but they will go back to normal when the situation improves. Because of the limitations of the LMAG, we depend heavily on the support of the Section. Such support has been very generously extended; it sustains us, and will enable growth in our activities in the future.

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2.7 Awards & Recognition Activities

2.7.1 Award constituted by the Section for the Volunteers and the Chapters and SBs

In order to recognize the efforts of volunteers, Student Branches, Society Chapters and Affinity Groups the Section has announced the following awards for contributions during the year 2020. The awardee under each category is also mentioned. Name of the award The winner

1. IEEE Bangalore- Medal of Honor 2020 (Through Nomination Only)

Prof. R M Vasagam, Past Chair (1984-1985), IEEE Bangalore Section 2. IEEE Bangalore-Outstanding Large ComSoc Bangalore Chapter Chapter/Affinity group 2020 3. IEEE Bangalore-Outstanding Medium IEEE CASS Bangalore Chapter Chapter/Affinity group 2020 4. IEEE Bangalore-Outstanding Small AP/MTT Joint Bangalore Chapter Chapter/Affinity group 2020 5. IEEE Bangalore-Outstanding Large Student National Institute of Technology Karnataka Branch 2020 Surathkal 6. IEEE Bangalore-Outstanding Medium Student IISc, Bangalore and RVCE Student, Bangalore Branch 2020 7. IEEE Bangalore-Outstanding Small Student MIT Manipal and KLEIT , Hubali Branch 2020 8. IEEE Bangalore-Most Promising Student Branch BIT, Bangalore 2020 9. IEEE Bangalore-Outstanding Large Student Veeresh Gonal, VP Dr.PGHCET, Vijayapur Branch Counselor 2020 10. IEEE Bangalore-Outstanding Medium Student Dr. Shobha Shankar, RIT Branch Counselor 2020 11. IEEE Bangalore-Outstanding Small Student Krupa Rasane JCE Belagavi & Dr. Ravichandra, Branch Counselor 2020 MIT, Mysore 12. IEEE Bangalore-Outstanding Student Branch SSIT Tumkur & GIT Belagavi Website 2020 13. IEEE Bangalore-Outstanding Student Volunteer S J Ruthvik, Ketan Keshav, Aakash Reddy, Monisha 2020 Gowda, Prasanna Maidagiri 14.IEEE Bangalore-Outstanding WIE Volunteer 2020 Jaysudha B.S.K., KSIT Bangalore & Ashwini V.R. Holla, CEC, Canara 15. IEEE Bangalore-Outstanding YP Volunteer 2020 Mohit Prakash Tahiliani NMAMIT, Udupi & Neha Kumari, Rio, Bangalore 16. IEEE Bangalore-Outstanding Volunteer 2020 Parmeshachari B D, GSSSIET, Mysore

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2.7.2 Special Recognition for the ExeCom Volunteers in the Constrained Situation of Pandemic

The year 2020 is completely different. A lot of different types of efforts were required to keep the flag of the Bangalore Section flying high. In this process all the members of the ExeCom innovate in their respective areas. To encourage the members in the time of Pandemic an unique initiative of identifying the top 5 performers of the sections on an half-yearly basis was taken. In this process two sets of volunteers were identified as follows (This is in addition to the best volunteer of the section award).

Top performers of Jan-June 2020 Top performers July-Dec 2020

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2.7.3 Industry Awards Constituted by the Section to Recognize Significant Contribution in the Field of Technology

The Bangalore section instituted these awards to recognize the seminal contributions by an individual or a team or an organization, who, in the opinion of the jury, has made outstanding contributions in a field of interest of IEEE. The contributions should be of extraordinary depth and influence and also their positive impact on humanity at large that can be perceived. The contribution by the individual (for individual awards), team (for team award) corporate, governmental, PSU entity (for startup/corporate), must be within the fields of interest to IEEE. Any individual, IEEE Member/Non-member, can nominate the deserving individual/team/organization for these Awards in six different categories. For the year the Honorable Jury was constituted with very eminent personalities in the field of R&E, Academia and Industry. The jury committee was as follows: 1. Dr. K Radhakrishnan (Chair), Chairman-BOG-IITK & Former Chairman, ISRO 2. Prof. Navakant Bhat, Chairman, CeNSE, IISc, Infosys Prize Winner 3. Dr. Aloknath De, CVP& CTO, Samsung India

The jury committee for the industry award of the section

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The pamphlet for the call for nominations

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2.7.4 First time IEEE Journal Author Recognition-2020 of The Section

Apart from very strong professional contribution, the IEEE Bangalore Section members also contribute in a very significant way towards the high quality technical publications of IEEE. In order to encourage the budding researcher and to recognize their effort in early days, IEEE Bangalore Section proposes to honour the first time authors of IEEE Journal (conventional, non predatory) with a certificate/citation. The period of consideration for the award for 2020 was 1st Dec 2019 to 30th Nov 2020. The section is very happy and wishes to recognize the following first time authors and wish for many more publications from them.

Name of the Author Affiliation Designation DOI of the article

R. JAYAGOWRI BMS College of Engineering Associate 10.1109/TCPMT.2020.3003503 Professor Siddhartha Bhattacharyya Christ University, Bengaluru, Professor 10.1109/TCSS.2019.2956957 India Priya J. Nadkarni Indian Institute of Science Research Scholar 10.1109/TQE.2020.3027035 Sooraj Sanjay Indian Institute of Science PhD Student 10.1109/TED.2020.3009083 (CNSE)

Veena Karjigi Siddaganga Inst. of Tech., Associate 10.1109/JSTSP.2019.2949912 Tumkur Professor

Bala Venkata Ramulu Indian Institute of Science PhD student 10.1109/TWC.2019.2939131 Gorantla Kannan Nagajothi ISRO Scientist/Engineer 10.1109/JSTARS.2019.2955986

2.8 Communication Activities (Newsletter, Home Page, E-mail etc.)

2.8.1 Newsletter (name and number of issues in the year)

Newsletter (name and number of issues in the year)

The IEEE Bangalore Section Newsletter is a quarterly that was started in January 2020. IEEE Bangalore Section encourages its members to submit content in the following formats: personal experiences in STEM, articles, announcements of upcoming events along with news items.

The purpose of the newsletter is to communicate with its members announcements – Short, topical, news oriented including the Bangalore Section Conferences along with Affinity group and society reports and other relevant information that would benefit its members. The newsletter also publishes important awards and recognitions received by its members, chapters, and societies. Creativity and technical curiosity are encouraged through the publication of Major Articles which include an in-depth discussion of current topics. All articles are reviewed and edited for appropriateness and relevance before being published.

So far, three issues of the newsletter have been published corresponding to each quarter of 2020. The review and design of the fourth quarter issue is in progress and will be released at the Section AGM.

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2.8.2 Home Page of the Section (give the URL and how often it is updated)

Section Home Page https://ieeebangalore.org/

2.8.2.1 ECIM Year end report

Section has revived the webpage this year. Lot of new information and necessary information is available. The page is updated every two weeks. It is my immense pleasure to present this report from the Electronics Communication and Information Management team. We started the year with the announcement of a new website at the AGM and the promise of member authentication for events to ensure member benefits. I am delighted to let you know that we were able to achieve both these objectives. While the new website was live within 10 days of the AGM, we had to move a mountain to get the member authentication work on the site. This involved working with IEEE HQ, our website development team and a third party developer to build some customization. Starting with IEEE Bangalore Humanitarian Conference, we were able to process orders on our own website and I am happy to report that we were able to process a total of 1876 orders with 2397 event registrations across BHTC, YPGS, WIEGS and IEEE Data & Storage Summit amounting to a revenue of INR 3,80,160. This isn‘t what I would bring your attention to. What I am really proud of is the value that we have delivered to our members. The exclusivity that we are able to bring to our member community. We were able to allow IEEE members to register for events at 0 cost and know exactly what their membership was. We had 1148 IEEE members across all grades from Student members to Fellows registered for our events this time and the total value of these registrations that were either free or discounted is at a whopping INR 18,74,240. At the same time, we also served 420 non-members at our events totalling a gross sales of INR 22,54,400 as of 21st November, 2020. Things don‘t stop at this. With the inclusion of a service desk to review conference submissions, our esteemed reviewers have brought down the average time taken to review and approve or provide feedback to a conference organizer has reduced to less than a week. Extending this to address queries during conferences also has improved the way people interact with the section and there is much transparency in the process. This brings an additional level of trust in the members that their concerns aren‘t confined to an email which may go unread, but a system which keeps track of it forever and also looked into by a team. You can find some of the metrics around the requests and their handling in below reports, Cumulative Report of All Tickets

Average Time to Respond and done for all tickets

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Average Time to Respond on Conference Review requests

All the automation is providing information and updates to the conference organizers is highly appreciated by them. We have an average customer satisfaction rating of 4.8 on the service desk and I highly encourage all of you to review your experience whenever you use this. Here are some responses from the people who have left a review,

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Metrics: Orders handled

BTC Main events - Professionals 328 IEEE Data & Storage Summit 326 BTC Main events - Students 302 BTC - YP Global Summit Student Registration 300 BTC - WIE Global Summit Professional Registration 238 BTC - YP Global Summit Professional Registration 231 BTC - WIE Global Summit Student Registration 209 BHTC IEEE Student Member Registration 207 BHTC IEEE Member Registration 136 BHTC Non IEEE Member Student Registration 77 BHTC Non Member Registration 38

While these are the things that we could achieve, there are many more that we can do and haven‘t been able to only because of time and resource crunch. I hope we can capitalize on the start we have had and take this opportunity to achieve a new height in the upcoming years. It is very important for all members to take part in this digital transformation and support us in this journey. Please feel free to provide your inputs and also volunteer if you have time to make this happen.

Event Registration

BTC 1308

B-HTC 458

IEEE Data Storage Summit 326

2.8.3 Other means of contacts with Section members including social media

Information on the events mentioned above may please be found in the following Social media links of the Bangalore Section:  YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP5O7GrQaAgAPjvNIRhuiyQ  Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/IEEEBangaloreSection/  Instagram - https://instagram.com/ieeebangalore?igshid=1w0pfl5351wag  LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/ieee-bangalore-section  Twitter - https://twitter.com/ieee_section?s=09

2.9 Industry Relations

The year has been very fruitful. We could establish not only good repo but also a healthy relationship with many of them. For example, we collaborated with Huawei to conduct a joint 2-day event on Data Storage workhop. They were excited to see our approach and dedication of volunteers. They would like to host this even on annual

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basis or even with more frequency. Even at society level, many societies have very good and long relationship with industry. For example,

2.9.1 Membership growth and retention

There has been rise in the professional members this year and industry contribution is equal at par with academia. Many industries were contacted and provided with advantages of being professional members of IEEE. On such approach many came forward with scheme to sponsor many of their employess to become professional members. We will continue this attempt and concept to approach industry.

2.9.2 Activities for/with industrial members

2.9.2.1 IEEE Bangalore Section International Speaker Series https://twitter.com/ieee_section/status/1255867146871201799 In the middle of Pandemic, in the first half of the year, Bangalore section organized a weak virtual speaker event. Five industry leaders delivered the sessions on various interesting topics including how to battle the COVID 19 pandemic successfully in the business world. The dignitary speakers include a distinguished scientist from HPE, CEO of a startup company dealing with Healthcare portfolio, Openstack stack Board Member, Chairman SODA Foundation - all four from USA and a Data Engineer working at NewZealand. This is one of the first of the kind events organized by an IEEE section to disseminate the knowledge effectively in the COVID19 early days. We will continue to look for similar much better avenues including a large number of international speakers in the coming years.

 Elevation of IEEE Fellows from Industry–Perception & Reality

SPEAKER: Stefano Galli, Past Chair of IEEE Fellows Committee This Program is organized in association with Santa Clara Valley Section, Boston Section and IEEE Industry Engagement Committee. This webinar is exclusive for Industry Professionals, who are eligible to be an IEEE Fellow: DATE: Tuesday, July 14, 7:30-8:30 am PT (Pacific Timezone) | July 14, 8.00-9.00 PM, IST ABSTRACT: In this talk, we will debunk false myths and perceptions about Industry Fellow elevation and confirm a reality that is much better than what commonly believed: Industry members have very good elevations rates, often better than Academics. We then provide some guidance and simple suggestions on how to write an effective nomination for an industry member.

 Skill development on Antenna Design and Fundamentals of RF Instruments by M/S Anritsu India

IEEE Bangalore Section in association Ms/ Anritsu India with is pleased to organize a Webinar on Skill development on Antenna Design and Fundamentals of RF Instruments following: August 4, 2020: 6PM-7.30PM  Introduction to Anritsu  Designing of Antenna + Simulation + Fabrication  Fundamental of Vector Network Analyser  Basics of Transmission Line  VNA for Passive and Active device  VNA Architecture  Characterization of antenna using VNA  Anritsu - Vector Network Analyser Portfolio  Shock line VNA + HH + Vector Star for passive device  Q&A

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2.10 Humanitarian Technology Activities

2.10.1 Humanitarian Technology related activities supported by the Section including collaboration with other OUs.

2.10.2 SIGHT Activities

IEEE SIGHT group of Bangalore section has been very active for two years and has started various initiatives. There are currently 9 active SIGHT student branches groups in the past two years under the Bangalore Section including PES IT, Manipal Institute of Technology, Christ University Student Branch, Amrita School of Engineering Bangalore, Visvesvaraya Univ College of Engineering, Ballari Institute of Technology & Management, Dayananda Sagar University, Sambhram IT, and NMAMIT. Apart from the regular webinars and workshops listed below, IEEE SIGHT had done unique events to suit the pandemic situation. Also IEEE HAC/SIGHT global has funded the project titled ―3D Printed Self Care Kit for Underserved Community in Urban Slums‖ (20-COV-41)‖ which has created a greater impact in Bangalore slums and to an extent solved the problem. IEEE SIGHT group of Bangalore Section has also won first prize in IEEE Region 10 TENHUMCH2020 Project titled ―3D printed kit for the technology deprived underprivileged to combat COVID19‖. The SIGHT group has also been actively involved with sponsorship from HAC for two major flagship conferences in the year 2020 viz., 11/01/2020 - COMSNETS -NetHealth Track on 11 January 2020 and IEEE CONECCT 2020 from 2 to 4 July 2020. IEEE SIGHT had organised two COVIDMOVE hackathons to bring awareness about pandemic and was largely attended by participants pan India. The summary of the events conducted by the SIGHT group and their pictures/screenshots are provided below: S Date Speaker Event details Participants No (approx) 1 11 Jan Dr. Sharmila Mande, TCS COMSNETS NETHEALTH 2020 80 Dr. Mridula GOesl, BITS Pilani Dr.Manish Arora, IISc Raj Agarwal - Sr MgBaxter Gopal Krishna, 3D Usher Dr. L.Vijayashree,BNMIT Dr Mridula Goel, BITS Goa 2 12 Mar Dr. Abhishek Appaji IEEE SIGHT and Humanitarian 60 Activities webinar 3 30 Mar to Dr. Srinivas Dorasula IEEE COVIDMOVE Hackathon 1.0 650 2 Apr 4 20 Apr Dr. Abhishek Appaji Writing a competitive research grant 255 proposal 5 17 to 19 Mahesh M B, CP, Hyderabad IEEE COVIDMOVE Hackathon 2.0 300 Apr Dr. A K Saxena, AIIMS Patna 6 28 April Dr. Abhishek Appaji IEEE SIGHT Day Celebration 100 7 28 April Payal Khanwani, Dubai IEEE SIGHT day celebration 140 through Yoga 8 30 April Dr. Srikant Tangade How to apply online conference 45 application to organise IEEE International Conference 9 12 May Dr. Abhishek Appaji Free MOOC for Engineering 953 Education 10 20 May Dr. Abhishek Appaji IEEE reference management tool for 1263 research articles and thesis writing 11 5 June Dr. Abhishek Appaji IEEE SIGHT Environment Day 230 celebration 12 30 June Dr. Abhishek Appaji Effective technical online teaching 100

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in Pandemic 13 2 July Dr. Danielle Verstegen, Maastricht Tutorial on Problem Based Learning 70 University, NL 14 4 July Karthik Kulkarni If you don‘t measure the Social 80 Impact, does it exist? 15 2-5 July NA HAC Sponsored CONECCT 100 Biomedical for Humanities track 16 28 Aug Dr. Abhishek Appaji IEEE SIGHT and HAC funding 120 opportunities 17 17 Oct Puneet Mishra, Niranjan, Chandrakanta, IEEE Region 10 sponsored 80 Abhishek, Manjunath, Annappa, Conference Organisers Education Ashwini, Dhanu, Mohit, Workshop IEEE Bangalore and Mangalore Section 18 5 Oct Sampathkumar Veeraraghavan, SIGHT IEEE Bangalore Section SIGHT 60 Steering Committee Chair, Deepak Conclave and IEEE SIGHT Week Mathur, Puneet, Mishra, Dr. Abhishek Celebration Appaji

IEEE SPECTRUM Article: IEEE Sections Receive Grants for Their Innovative Ways of Helping to Fight the Coronavirus Photos and Links https://photos.app.goo.gl/JK9BGbDmLp4yqxZ77

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2.11 Community Activities

2.11.1 IEEE Social activities (Family day, IEEE day, Engineers Week)”

Some activities as mentioned below completed during this year and may be first time (some of them)

Sl. Date Description partici- Remark (dd/mm/yy) pants Family and Team Building 1. 08/12/19 ExeCom Meeting and Dinner with family 37 Section Funding of $500 2. 11/01/20 Section Mission 2020 ExCom Strategic and 35 Section Funding of Planning Meeting for achieving the mission $750 2020 is achieved with family (full day event) Walk and Breakfast with IEEE Fellow on a Sunday 1. 11/01/20 Prof Neelesh Mehta, IISc. 11 Jan 2020 (24) 24 Section Funding of $100 2. 16/02/20 Dr. Surendra Pal, Indian Space Research 28 Section Funding of Organization $100

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PART C - OTHERS

3.1 Special Events

Bangalore humanitarian conference (B-HTC) was conceived as special event. However, it might become a regular event. There are lot of NGOs and other group working on such area. It attracted attention at international plateform and social media. Resulted in good visibility of the section.

Funding – Close to around 10 L INR is received as funding from industry. Some of them funded for the whole year while few for some specific event.

3.2 Relationship with National and International Societies and Non- Government Organizations (NGO)

Section works with few NGOs and state and government organization. However, limited to some activities and on personal reach out. There is no MoU signed as such. However, for IEEE MOVE, section partiicaption is vital and agreement has been singed and accepted.

3.3 Details of joint activities

Many join activities with India council and internation section were organized. Section member got the opportunity to understand their approach, activity and understanding. Since, most of the events was virtual, no registration cost incurs as such.

Section looked more vibrant this year. While, overall decline in membership is seen at global level, Bangalore grew by almost 8%. It is because of involvement of ExCom and excellent execution of events across the world. One of the feedbacks form medium management position in industry reads “I felt proud to be part of IEEE and must have felt very sad, why I am not IEEE member”

3.4 Collaboration with other IEEE Sections

3.4.1 Joint activities with any other Section

3.4.1.1 International Collaboration

With TOP 5 IEEE sections in the world (Bangalore, SantaClara, Boston, New York, Shenzhen). During the year 2020, first Saturday of every month, the 5 big IEEE sections in the world met and discussed various activities in their sections and shared learnings from each other. Milojicic, Dejan S (Distinguished Scientist Hewlett Packard Labs) was the coordinating organizer of this meeting and throughout the year he was a very big supporter of our section activities. Each of this meeting Bangalore section presented our activities and know-how from it, which other section office bearers appreciated very well. Along with that we also received very good participation from those big sections in terms of advertising, speakers, panel members for our Bangalore Technology Conclave, etc. several events. Not only that, the Bangalore section also helped those big sections in terms of speakers, propagation/advertising their events, and also participation from our section members. Overall it was the first of the kind activity that happened in the IEEE history with several big sections coming together and sharing their knowledge bases and resources to make IEEE a true international collaborative body.

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The Bangalore section being part of these mega meetings, is a true testament that we could play an international role and feel our impact to the globe in much bigger and better ways.

3.4.1.2 India Council Joint Event

 Role of Indian Space Program in New Space Age

IEEE Bangalore Section in association with IEEE India Council had organized a Webinar on above subject by Dr. K Radhakrishnan, Former-Chairman ISRO and Secretary, Department of Space,Chairman, BOG- IIT Kanpur & Standing Committee of IIT Council as part of Centenary Birth Celebrations of Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, the Father of Indian Space Program, as per following: The webinar was conducted on Aug 8, 2020 Session Chair: Prof. S N Singh, Chair, IEEE India Council Moderator: Puneet Kumar Mishra, Secretary, IEEE India Council and Chair, IEEE Bangalore Sectio

 Understanding the world of Complexity

IEEE Bangalore Section in association with IEEE India Council is pleased to organize a Webinar on Understanding the world of Complexity as per following: Date: August 3, 2020 Speaker: Tathagat Varma. Sr Director, Strategy & Operations, Wallmart Labs Synopsis: Have you ever wondered how thousands of birds can fly together without colliding with each other without a leader telling them how to fly? Or, how come we suddenly find ourselves in a traffic gridlock, and then just as it happened, it slowly opens up – seemingly all by itself? What is the explanation behind these real-life phenomenon? In this introductory talk, we shall explore the world of complexity around us, and discuss how some of these phenomenon could be explained. We shall also discuss why it is important to study the field of complexity science, and how can we design better systems using those ideas.

 Innovation: What, Why & How?

IEEE Bangalore Section in association with IEEE India Council is organizing a Webinar on Innovation: What, Why & How? Dr. Sudhakar Rao, IEEE Life Fellow, Technical Fellow, Research Technology & Engineering Division, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems will be delivering the Seminar on July 19, 2020. Abstract: Innovation is the key to develop advanced technologies needed for the 21st century. It has tremendous impact on commercial and military products as well as economic and societal impacts. Great examples of innovation are light bulb, wheel, automobile, transistor, iphone, GPS, internet, World Wide Web, computer to name a few. United States is planning to spend $100 Billion over the next five years through "Endless Frontier Act" to maintain global leadership in technology and innovation in ten key technology areas including advanced communication systems. This talk briefs about what is innovation, why engineers innovate and how to proceed with the process of innovation and patent filing. Few examples of innovations by the presenter will be given at the end of the talk.

3.4.2 Support extended to Sub-sections & Society Chapters within the Section

3.4.2.1 Joint activity with subsection

"Open Source Product Development for Experiential Learning"' IEEE Bangalore section, Mangalore Sub section hosted a webinar in association with KLEIT Hubli Student Branch on: 13-6-2020 10:30- 11:30AM

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by Prof. Prithvi Raj Umesh NITK Suratkal DATE & TIME: Saturday, 13 June 2020 | 10:30-11:30 AM ABSTRACT: The talk shall encompass the use of GIS, 3D printing, SMART labs, UAV for Experiential Learning, with use cases from teams that were formed by a Trans - discipline approach. The webinar will mostly try to showcase products / solutions developed in house for practical problems by students as part of experiential learning. It shall NOT be recorded for broadcast or stored. Hence please schedule your events to accommodate the webinar. SPEAKER BIO: Dr. PRUTHVIRAJ UMESH - A Faculty | Researcher | Technology Integrator, is Currently Assistant Professor in Applied Mehanics and Hydraulics NITK Suratkal. He has been involved in design and implementation of flipped classroom teaching setup for NITK apart from mentoring students for industry projects and assisting in product development and implementation along with research & development for externally funded projects. With a total of 24 projects he has been able to aggregate a huge amount to the tune of several crores for various research projects at NITK in association with other institutes ministries etc. He has contributed for 8 journal publications and 69 conference publications. The bulk of his time is however is spent on Product Development projects, 19 of which he has mentored in addition to the 6 consultancy projects that he has taken up. An alumnus of NITK, his Research Interests are in the fields of Open Source Product Development, Wildlife Conservation, Autonomous Navigation Systems.

3.4.2.2 Support extended for organising technical, educational and professional activities

Conferences Supported

3rd International Conference on Advances in Electronics, Computers and Communications 2020 (ICAECC) 2020 Date: Nov 6-7 2020 College/Company: School Of Electronics & Communication Engineering, REVA University, Bengaluru, India Website: reva.edu.in/icaecc-2020/ Contact (GC): [email protected]

IEEE International Conference for Innovation in Technology 2020 Date: Nov 6-8 2020 College/Company: Nagarjun College of Engineering & Technology, Bengaluru, India Website: http://inoconf.org/ Contact (GC): [email protected]

International Conference on Communication, Computing and for Industry 4.0 2020 Date: Dec 17-18 2020 College/Company: CMR Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, India Website: http://www.c2i4.com Contact (GC): [email protected]

5th International Conference on Recent Trends in Electronics, Information, Communication & Technology (RTEIC) 2020 Date: Nov 12, 2020 College/Company: Sri Venkateshwara College of Engineering, Bengaluru, India Website: www.irteict.in Contact(GC): [email protected]

5th International Conference on Research in Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (ICRCICN) 2020 Date: Nov 26-27 2020

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College/Company: CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Kengeri Campus, Bengaluru, India Website: http://icrcicn.in/ Contact(GC): [email protected]

Gracehopper Celebration 2020 Date: Oct 28-30, 2020 Website: https://ghcindia.anitab.org Contact (GC): [email protected]

2021 International Conference on Intelligent Technologies (CONIT) Date: June 25-27 2021 College/Company: KLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, HUBBALLI Website: http://inconf.in/ Contact (GC): [email protected]

2nd International Conference for Emerging Technology, Belagavi Date: May 21-23 2021 College/Company: Jain College of Engineering and Research, Belagavi Website: http://www.incet.org/ Contact (GC): [email protected]

Third International Conference on Multimedia Processing, Communication and Information Technology, MPCIT-2020 Date: December 11-12 2020 College/Company: J N N College of Engineering, Shivamogga, Karnataka Website: www.jnnce.ac.in/mpcit2020.htmlhttp://www.jnnce.ac.in/mpcit2020.html Contact (GC):[email protected]

Workshop Supported

IEEE COEW workshop, 17th October 2020 (virtual event)

IEEE Mangalore Sub Section (MSS) and IEEE Bangalore Section (BS) jointly organized and conducted the Conference Organizer Education Workshop (virtual event). This workshop was sponsored by IEEE Region 10. It provided the complete insights on execution model of a conference from application submission till conference proceedings submission. Resource persons talked on topics such as ―Why IEEE Conference is known for Quality‖, ―Application process for applying IEEE Conference‖, ―Building Your Team & Successfully running the Conference‖, ―Technical Co-Sponsorship and Financial Co-Sponsorships‖, ―IEEE Xplore, Open Access and IEEE Author center‖, ―Managing Conference Technical Program‖, ―Managing Finances and Sponsorship‖, ―Dos and Dont's in a Conference‖, ―Issues, and Challenges in organizing conferences‖ and ―Managing online conference‖. The event witnessed 115 registrations (13 non-IEEE members and 102 IEEE members) and 57 attendees from various education institutes and a corporate company from Karnataka, TamilNadu, Maharashtra, Telangana, Goa and Andhra Pradesh. 70% attendees expressed that they are interested in conducting IEEE conference at their Institute and 28% said may be. The event was conducted through webex from 9:00 – 17:25.

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Day wise registrations Expression of interest

3.4.3 Joint activities for membership development

Many activities of membership drive were conducted jointly with chapters. For example, industry membership drive with PES, ComSoc towards professional membership. Similarly, for student member drives, section supported to branch counsellors and helped them in getting members joined. At many conference and events, based on society focussed area, drive were conducted.

3.4.4 Support extended for the formation of a Sub-section or transition of a Sub-section into a full Section

The year 2020 has been very fruitful even during the pandemic. Two new subsection formed and inaugurated during this year.

3.4.4.1 North Karnataka Subsection

IEEE North Karnataka Subsection Inauguration (NKSS)

The subsection was inaugurated on Sep 14, 2020 in the presence of many R10 and India council leaers. The detail agenda of inauguration is:

Date and Time: Monday, September 14, 2020| 6:00-7.00 pm| India Time (Mumbai, GMT+05:30) Agenda: 6.00-6.05 PM: Welcome Address: Dr. Bindumadhav, Chair-Elect, IEEE Bangalore Section 6.05-6.10 PM: About IEEE North Karnataka Sub Section: Mr. Puneet K Mishra, Chair, IEEE Bangalore Section 6.10-6.15 PM: Presentation of Slate and Election of Office Bearers of NKSS: Dr. Sudeendra Koushik, Chair, Nominations Committee 6.15-6:25 PM: Address by Incoming NKSS Chair 6.25-6.30 PM: Special Address: Prof. S N Singh, India Council 6.30-6.35 PM: Special Address: Dr. Supavadee Armvith, Section & Chapter Coordinator, IEEE R10 6.35-6.40 PM: Special Address: Dr. Ramakrishna K, MGA Chair, MELCC & Vice-Chair, Member Development 6.40-6.47 PM: Special Address: Mr. Deepak Mathur, Director-Elect IEEE R10 6.47-6.55 PM: Inaugural Address: Prof. Akinori Nishihara, Director, IEEE R10 6.55-7.00 PM: Vote of Thanks: Dr. Navin Kumar, Secretary, IEEE Bangalore Section You are cordially invited to join this historic moment and encourage the newly elected office bearers of North Karnataka Subsection. Kindly join using following link:

3.4.4.2 Mysore Subsection

IEEE Bangalore Section announced the formation of it's third Subsection namely: Mysore Subsection (MSS). Inauguration is attended and witnessed by many R10 and India council leaders. Inaugural ceremony is planned on 21st December 2020 as per following:

IEEE Mysore Subsection Inauguration Date and Time: Monday, December 21, 2020| 6:30-7.45 PM| India Time (Mumbai, GMT+05:30) Agenda: 6.30-6.35: Welcome Address by Dr. Parameshachari B D, GSSSIETW, Mysuru 6.35-6.40: About IEEE Mysore Subsection and IEEE Bangalore Section: Mr. Puneet Kumar Mishra, Chair, IEEE Bangalore Section 6.40-6.45: Presentation of Slate: Mr. Keshav Bapat, Nomination Committee Chair 6.45-6.50: Address by Incoming Mysore Subsection Chair Dr. Bindu Thomas

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6.50-6.55: Special Address by Dr. Debabrata Das, IEEE India Council, Chair-Elect 2021 6.55-7.00: Special Address by Dr. K R Suresh Nair, IEEE India Council, Chair-Elect 2020 7.00-7.05: Special Address by Prof. S N Singh, Chair-IEEE India Council 7.05-7.10: Special Address by Dr. Supavadee Aramvith, IEEE R10-Section and Chapter Coordinator

7.10-7.15: Special Address by Dr. Ramakrishna K, MGA Chair, MELCC & Vice-Chair, Member Development

7.15-7.25: Special Address by Prof. Akinori Nishihara, Director, IEEE Region 10

7.25-7.35: Special Address by Ms. Maike Luiken, IEEE Vice President, MGA 2021

7.35-7.45: Special Address by Ms. Susan K Land, IEEE President USA 2021 7.45-7.50: Vote of Thanks by Mysore District Coordinator Dr. Archana N V, NIEIT, Mysuru.

Master of Ceremony: Ms Shilpa S J, CEO, Visualam Digital Pvt Ltd., Mysuru

3.5 Best Practices of your Section (which you would like to share with other Sections for the benefits of members)

Some of the highlights or strong points along with best practice are as follows:

 A strong team with passion of volunteering and contributing towards society.  Mix of experienced and new to volunteering service  Mix of industry and academia professionals  Strong encouragement towards developing leadership

Best practices:

 Subgroup with different assignments and responsibilities  Engage experienced industry experts  Identify and encourage to apply for senior membership. Workshop (SIMPLE) to let them know the process  Identify and encourage senior member to apply for Fellow, Workshop (FINE)  Student focussed activities  Free or discounted registration for student members for many events  Encourage and promote students for conference volunteering

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3.6 Problems anticipated and suggestions for solutions, if any

3.6.1 Renewal (retention) of Membership

We miss many people who do not renew their membership especially, from students and membership grades. At least half of the members do not renew. We start building and work towards new members joining. Sometimes, we fail to reach what we had in the December of previous year or manage to get the same of possible few percentage increase if we work really very hard. Suggested Possible Solutions:

 One way to retain them is to follow up. We do, but may be some more follow up.  We might identify more closely and do the data analysis for few years and look at the pattern and do some corrective action.  Branch counsellor should be supported by section during passing out or otherwise to follow up the students.  Create a data base and follow them.  Take a survey to understand their mind and thinking.

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PART D - GOALS AND PLANS

4.1 Continuation of project/activity in progress and their implementation plans

Let us keep the best practice ongoine, the chair remarks. Most of the events/activities will continue as the success rate has been very high. However where possible, slight variation can be made. Some of the flagship events are planned as given.

CONECCT 2021 – The 6th editon of section‘s flagship conference will continue and we will encourage more all chapters/AG to participate. The date is decided to be 9-11 July 2021. The mode of conference is yet to be finalized. Most probably, we might have hybrid mode. Already, 22 chapters/AGs have expressed the willingness to participate and lead a track in CONECCT 2021.

HTC (R10) 2021 – Since R10 humanitarian technology conference is being hosted by the section, Bangalore –HTC will be integral part and not separate event. The date for R10 is 30 Sep – 2 Oct 2021.

Bangalore Technology Conclave (BTC) 2021 – This event will also continue and some of the workshops like Data Storage and others would become the part of the conclave.

Medium and small size events like 1 day, half day, webinar etc, will continue and subgroups will lead the events.

Joint activitis across chapters, across SBs, chapters and section should be encouraged and bring into practice.

4.2 Goals and Future Plans

Empowering all ExCom members by delegating responsibility to lead and work in team. Goal is to bring some improvement in all areas, for example, membership count, fund/grant from HQ, government interface/connect, etc. Chair also suggested to strengthen ExCom members. We are all highly skilled and experienced, let us deliver montly seminar/workshop to some of the student branches, chair informed. The meeting would be action oriented and quarterly review to investigate, what is set and what is achieved.

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4.3 Any innovative ideas to make IEEE more creative and value added for sustaining the membership retention and recruitment goals.

Chair informed that chapters and student branches should be always active. We have to empowered them and involve them on regular basis. Each ExCom to monthly visit a SB, give talk, interact with management, chairs and office bearers. Such activity will encourage and motivate them. We should visit remote areas SB. Should have regular communication and interaction. Chair also suggested to celebrate some of the events in a big way. For example, 8 March 2021, International women day; if possible do it at social places like ground, shopping malls, etc. Similarly, IEEEDay to be planned very well. We might bring some celebraty and organize this event. For example, we might reach out to Anil Kumbhle, great cricketer. Such activity will give a wide reach to IEEE. Keeping track of membership every month and particularly focusing in March and August in a planned manner.

4.4 Business Plan for Sustainable Growth and Financial Stability.

Chair informed the members that government is normally not closely associated with IEEE. We are organizing and conducting lot of events, social reach but we could not interface properly with government. He suggested to bring/conduct some events aligned to government objective. For example –

 Quantum Computing conference/workshop: This is one of the areas, government is paying more attention. We might organize a conference or workshop jointly with government.  Cyper physical system (CPS) – CPS is another activity where we can join with government and do event.

Involvement of industry and government is very necessary. This will provide both sustainability and financial stability. Let us reach out to them as early as possible, chair suggested.

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