Monthly Coverage Dossier January 2020

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Date: 1st January 2020 Publication: Shiksha Edition: Online Journalist: NA Headline: IIT Madras organizes alumni reunion day URL: https://www.shiksha.com/b-tech/articles/iit-madras-organizes-alumni-reunion- day-blogId-27837

IIT Madras organizes alumni reunion day IIT Madras joined forces with IIT Madras Alumni Association to organise the yearly alumni reunion on its campus recently. During the reunion, the organization also offered the Distinguished Alumnus Awards for the year 2020. Alongside the event, “IITM: A Tech expo” was also prearranged with a number of student teams and IIT Madras-reared startups displaying their innovation to the alumni. The event brought out 12 Project Teams and four Competition Teams from the Centre for Innovation (CFI), a 'Student Lab' at IIT Madras founded with resources from alumni.

The organisation also laid a foundation stone for a new Institute Chair supported by Distinguished Alumnus Awardee (2004) - Professor Marti G. Subrahmanyam. Prof. Subrahmanyam, an alumnus of 1967 batch (B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering), contributed $1,00,000 to establish “Marti Mannariah Gurunath Institute Chair” in the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras Prof. Raghunathan Rengaswamy, also an alumnus of IIT Madras (1990, BTech (Chemical Engineering)) and presently a faculty in Department of Chemical Engineering, is to be the first inhabitant of the Chair.

Moreover, BTech batch of 1994 also vowed more than $1 million to IIT Madras. This amount will be funded throughout a period of two to three years. This will be utilised for merit-cum-means scholarships, cultivating the emotional wellness of students and specific engineering departments.

A Distinguished Alumnus Award for 2019 was also given to Dr. Parthasarathy Ranganathan (1994, B.Tech, (Electrical Engineering)), an eminent Engineer at Google. Prior to this, he was an HP Fellow and Chief Technologist at Hewlett Packard Labs where he managed their research on systems and data centres.

Apart from this, many CFI teams and startups participated in 'IITM: A Tech expo', which include Avishkaar Hyperloop, Envisage, Electronics Club, Horizon, Involve, E-Plane, Ghost Vision, Anveshak, Abhiyaan, CVI, iBot Club, and the Pre-Incubation Cell Nirmaan along with e-cell.

Date: 7th January 2020 Publication: The Telegraph Edition: Kolkata Page No: 13 Journalist: NA Headline: Auld land syne at IIT Madras

Date: 22nd January 2020 Publication: Forbes India Edition: Magazine Page No: 50-52 Journalist: Naandika Tripathi Professor: Prof Mahesh Panchagnula Headline: A New Play at Drawing Foreign Students

Date: 23rd January 2020 Publication: Down To Earth Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Shweta Agarwal Headline: IIT Madras student to improve algorithms in lattice cryptography URL: https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/science-technology/iit-madras-student- to-improve-algorithms-in-lattice-cryptography-68927

IIT Madras student to improve algorithms in lattice cryptography

Shweta Agrawal from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, has become one of the 14 recipients of the Swarnajayanti Fellowship 2020. It was instituted by the Centre to commemorate the golfen jubilee of India's independence and is funded by the Department of abd Technology.

Agarwal said she would like to use the fellowship to conduct a deep study on one of the most promising approaches for post-quantum cryptography — lattice-based cryptography to improve algorithms and understand gaps between theory and practice. Lattice-based cryptography, resistant to attack by both classical and quantum computers, is the leading candidate for post quantum cryptography and design of a cryptographic system for the future.

Cryptography is a branch of theoretical computer science that seeks to provide guarantees to the art of secret keeping. This field balances itself on the tightrope of mathematical beauty on one side, and practical importance on the other. The scientific charm of this field lies in the deeply paradoxical questions it poses.

The simplest goal of cryptography is to hide information so that learning a message from a cryptographically sealed envelope implies a solution to some well known mathematical problem. By suitably choosing the underlying mathematical problems to be difficult, we may rest assured that an attacker’s chances of learning secret information are extremely small.

Typically, an attacker is modelled as a classical computer. However, recent times have seen significant advances in the construction of quantum computers, which are based on the laws of quantum rather than classical physics. Most modern-day cryptography relies on the difficulty of problems which, while difficult for classical computers, are efficiently solvable by quantum computers. Thus, most modern-day cryptography breaks down if quantum computers are used by the attacker.

A few weeks ago, Google claimed to have demonstrated “quantum supremacy” by constructing a quantum computer that can experimentally demonstrate a massive speedup over a classical computer. Soon after, Chinese researchers claimed that they expect to demonstrate quantum supremacy by next year. Thus, the advent of quantum computers has crossed the realm of scientific fantasy and looms as a real threat in the near future. Therefore, it is imperative to redesign cryptography ground up to resist quantum computers — that is, to design post-quantum cryptography. This is the focus of Agrawal’s work. (DST media cell)

Developing expertise in post-quantum cryptography is of national importance. Aside from its practical importance, this is a rich and emerging area of cryptography, and construction of state of the art systems in this field can significantly enhance the visibility of India in the global arena. Not only does her proposed work help create intellectual property, but it also creates expertise within the country that will lead to intelligent post-quantum cryptography design for the use of our government, military, industry and society alike.

In her current work, Agrawal has provided constructions of advanced cryptographic protocols that are believed to be resistant to quantum computers. She has particularly focused on the emerging field of ‘computing on encrypted data’, which may allow (for instance), machine learning algorithms to be run on encrypted genetic data, leading to advances in the field of personalized medicine. Such algorithms, if realised efficiently, can have wide applications in areas as diverse as medicine, governance, social sciences, and many others, leading to an elegant synthesis of disparate sciences.

This is a young field, and there are significant gaps in the understanding of this area. Her research agenda is to tackle fundamental questions in lattice based cryptography, to endeavour to fill in these gaps. She hopes to create national expertise in lattice based cryptography that will benefit society by creating knowledge and applications alike.

Date: 26th January 2020 Publication: Hindustan Times Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthy, Prof. Venu Srinivasan, Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Alumni: Mr. Prem Watsa Headline: IIT Madras congratulates its professors, alumnus on being conferred with Padma awards URL: https://www.hindustantimes.com/education/iit-madras-congratulates-its- professors-alumnus-on-being-conferred-with-padma-awards/story- lZHypBXbqONVYnAMxCEWgK.html

IIT Madras congratulates its professors, alumnus on being conferred with Padma awards

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras on Saturday congratulated its professors and an alumnus who have been conferred with Padma awards.

In a statement, IIT-Madras Director Baskar Ramamurthy said, “The institute congratulates all three awardees for the well deserved honour in recognition of their work and contributions”.

Noted industrialist and TVS Motor Company Chairman, Venu Srinivasan who is an honorary professor at the premier institute was conferred with the Padma Bhushan -- the third-highest civilian award in the country.

While Pradeep Thalappil, a professor in the chemistry department of the institute and Prem Watsa, Founder-Chairman of Fairfax Financial Holdings and IIT-Madras alumnus (1971 batch) were awarded the Padma Shri-- the fourth highest civilian honour of the country.

Date: 26th January 2020 Publication: NDTV Edition: Online Journalist: Maitre Baral Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthy, Prof. Venu Srinivasan, Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Alumni: Mr. Prem Watsa Headline: IIT Madras Faculty, Alumnus Conferred With Padma Awards URL: https://www.ndtv.com/education/padma-awards-2020-iit-madras-faculty- alumnus-conferred-with-padma-awards-2169827

IIT Madras Faculty, Alumnus Conferred With Padma Awards

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras on Saturday congratulated its professors and an alumnus who have been conferred with Padma awards.

In a statement, IIT-Madras Director Baskar Ramamurthy said, “The institute congratulates all three awardees for the well deserved honour in recognition of their work and contributions”.

Date: 26th January 2020 Publication: The Week Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthy, Prof. Venu Srinivasan, Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Alumni: Mr. Prem Watsa Headline: IIT-Madras congratulates its professors alumnus on being conferred with Padma awards URL: https://www.theweek.in/wire-updates/national/2020/01/26/mds18-tn- iit%20madras.html

IIT-Madras congratulates its professors alumnus on being conferred with Padma awards

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras on Saturday congratulated its professors and an alumnus who have been conferred with Padma awards.

In a statement, IIT-Madras Director Baskar Ramamurthy said, “The institute congratulates all three awardees for the well deserved honour in recognition of their work and contributions”.

Date: 26th January 2020 Publication: Business Standard Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthy, Prof. Venu Srinivasan, Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Alumni: Mr. Prem Watsa Headline: IIT-Madras congratulates its professors, alumnus on being conferred with Padma awards URL: https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/iit-madras-congratulates- its-professors-alumnus-on-being-conferred-with-padma-awards-120012600020_1.html

IIT-Madras congratulates its professors, alumnus on being conferred with Padma awards

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras on Saturday congratulated its professors and an alumnus who have been conferred with Padma awards.

In a statement, IIT-Madras Director Baskar Ramamurthy said, “The institute congratulates all three awardees for the well deserved honour in recognition of their work and contributions”.

Date: 26th January 2020 Publication: India Today Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthy, Prof. Venu Srinivasan, Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Alumni: Mr. Prem Watsa Headline: IIT Madras congratulates its professors, alumnus on being conferred with Padma awards URL: https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/news/story/iit-madras- congratulates-its-professors-alumnus-on-being-conferred-with-padma-awards- 1640223-2020-01-26

IIT Madras congratulates its professors, alumnus on being conferred with Padma awards

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras on Saturday congratulated its professors and an alumnus who have been conferred with Padma awards.

In a statement, IIT-Madras Director Baskar Ramamurthy said, “The institute congratulates all three awardees for the well deserved honour in recognition of their work and contributions”.

Date: 26th January 2020 Publication: Outlook Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthy, Prof. Venu Srinivasan, Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Alumni: Mr. Prem Watsa Headline: IIT-Madras congratulates its professors, alumnus on being conferred with Padma awards URL: https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/iitmadras-congratulates-its-professors- alumnus-on-being-conferred-with-padma-awards/1717831

IIT-Madras congratulates its professors, alumnus on being conferred with Padma awards

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras on Saturday congratulated its professors and an alumnus who have been conferred with Padma awards. In a statement, IIT-Madras Director Baskar Ramamurthy said, "The institute congratulates all three awardees for the well deserved honour in recognition of their work and contributions".

Date: 26th January 2020 Publication: Your Story Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthy, Prof. Venu Srinivasan, Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Alumni: Mr. Prem Watsa Headline: Naukri.com founder gets Padma Shri; Padma Bhushan for Anand Mahindra, Venu Srinivasan URL: https://yourstory.com/2020/01/naukri-founder-padma-shri-mahindra-tvs-chief- republic-day

Naukri.com founder gets Padma Shri; Padma Bhushan for Anand Mahindra, Venu Srinivasan

Date: 26th January 2020 Publication: Devdiscourse Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthy, Prof. Venu Srinivasan, Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Alumni: Mr. Prem Watsa Headline: IIT-Madras congratulates its professors, alumnus on being conferred with Padma awards URL: https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/education/846874-iit-madras- congratulates-its-professors-alumnus-on-being-conferred-with-padma-awards

IIT-Madras congratulates its professors, alumnus on being conferred with Padma awards The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras on Saturday congratulated its professors and an alumnus who have been conferred with Padma awards. In a statement, IIT-Madras Director Baskar Ramamurthy said, "The institute congratulates all three awardees for the well deserved honour in recognition of their work and contributions".

Date: 26th January 2020 Publication: Latestly Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthy, Prof. Venu Srinivasan, Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Alumni: Mr. Prem Watsa Headline: IIT-Madras Congratulates Its Professors, Alumnus on Being Conferred with Padma Awards URL: https://www.latestly.com/agency-news/iit-madras-congratulates-its-professors- alumnus-on-being-conferred-with-padma-awards-1494246.html

IIT-Madras Congratulates Its Professors, Alumnus on Being Conferred with Padma Awards

Date: 26th January 2020 Publication: The Federal Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthy, Prof. Venu Srinivasan, Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Alumni: Mr. Prem Watsa Headline: IIT-M congratulates its professors, alumnus on being conferred with Padma awards URL: https://thefederal.com/states/south/tamil-nadu/iit-m-congratulates-its- professors-alumnus-on-being-conferred-with-padma-awards/

IIT-M congratulates its professors, alumnus on being conferred with Padma awards

Date: 26th January 2020 Publication: Navjeevan Express Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthy, Prof. Venu Srinivasan, Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Alumni: Mr. Prem Watsa Headline: Three from IIT Madras among Padma awardees URL: https://navjeevanexpress.com/three-from-iit-madras-among-padma- awardees/

Three from IIT Madras among Padma awardees

Date: 26th January 2020 Publication: The Hindu Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Venu Srinivasan and Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Headline: Padma Awards 2020: Grateful for honour, say awardees from Tamil Nadu, Puducherry URL: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/grateful-for-honour-say- padma-awardees-from-tn-puducherry/article30655332.ece

Padma Awards 2020: Grateful for honour, say awardees from Tamil Nadu, Puducherry

Date: 26th January 2020 Publication: The Hindu Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Headline: Padma Awards 2020: Seven unique achievers bring laurels for Kerala URL: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/seven-unique-achievers- bring-laurels-for-state/article30654325.ece

Padma Awards 2020: Seven unique achievers bring laurels for Kerala

Date: 26th January 2020 Publication: The Times of India Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Alumni: Mr. Prem Watsa Headline: Padma honour for eight Malayalis URL: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/thiruvananthapuram/padma-honour- for-eight-malayalis/articleshow/73625843.cms

Padma honour for eight Malayalis

Date: 26th January 2020 Publication: The Economic Times Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Venu Srinivasan Headline: Anand Mahindra, Venu Srinivasan to be honoured with Padma Bhushan; Naukri.com founder to get Padma Shri URL: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/andhra-hc- orders-status-quo-on-jagans-capital- plan/articleshow/73569820.cms?utm_source=ETMyNews&utm_medium=ASMN&utm_ campaign=AL1&utm_content=10

Anand Mahindra, Venu Srinivasan to be honoured with Padma Bhushan; Naukri.com founder to get Padma Shri

A three-member special bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Thursday ordered status quo on shifting of the state capital from Amaravati.

The interim order came on public interest litigations filed by farmers of the Amaravati region, a day after the legislative council dominated by the opposition Telugu Desam Party resolved to send the bills on the capitals to a select committee. On Monday, the assembly dominated by chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s YSRCP had passed the bills that propose three capitals for the state — legislative in Amaravati, executive in Visakhapatnam and judicial in Kurnool — and to repeal the Amaravati Capital Region Development Authority.

The bench headed by Andhra Pradesh Chief Justice JK Maheswari directed the government not to relocate any of the offices away from Amaravati till the next hearing on February 26, responding to the concerns of the petitioners that the government may resort to such a move in the absence of the court’s orders.

Thousands of farmers in the Amaravati region had pooled around 34,000 acres for the capital city’s construction, responding to a call by Reddy’s predecessor, N Chandrababu Naidu. Dozens of them moved the court challenging the Reddy government’s decision to move much of the capital’s functions out of Amaravati.

The chief justice instructed the advocate general to arrange copies of relevant reports to the petitioners, responding to a plea of the petitioners to see the report of a high-powered committee on the capitals.

Date: 26th January 2020 Publication: Times Tabloid Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Venu Srinivasan and Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Headline: Padma Awards 2020: Thankful for honour, say awardees from Tamil Nadu, Puducherry URL: https://timestabloid.com/2020/01/25/padma-awards-2020-thankful-for-honour- say-awardees-from-tamil-nadu-puducherry/

Padma Awards 2020: Thankful for honour, say awardees from Tamil Nadu, Puducherry Social employee Krishnammal Jagannathan, industrialist Venu Srinivasan and littérateur Manoj Das were selected for the Padma Bhushan awards from Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.

Carnatic vocalists C. Lalitha and C. Saroja, artist Manohar Devadoss, social employee S. Ramakrishnan, nagaswaram vidwans Kalee Shabi Mahaboob and Sheik Mahaboob Subani and IIT-Madras professor Pradeep Thalappil from Tamil Nadu, and artist V.Ok. Munusamy from Puducherry are the recipients of the Padma Shri awards.

Krishnammal Jagannathan, 94, heads the Land for Tillers’ Freedom (LAFTI), an NGO running for the upliftment of ladies belonging to the Scheduled Castes and their households, in particular within the Thanjavur area. Her daughter Sathya mentioned Ms. Jagannathan had labored broadly in spaces like Kilvenmani following the bloodbath in 1968, when 44 other people belonging to the SC group had been burnt through henchmen from an intermediate caste.

“She has helped over 14,000 landless labourers grow to be landowners and is these days serving to the sufferers of Cyclone Gaja safe land that they’d misplaced,” she mentioned.

Venu Srinivasan, Chairman and Managing Director of TVS Motor Corporate India, thanked the federal government and mentioned, “It is a nice honour and I’m humbled to be recognised. It is a reputation for hundreds of staff and associates who’ve labored with me – their efforts were recognised.”

One of the vital main bilingual literary figures in Odia and English, Manoj Das has an lively presence within the literary and cultural scene of Puducherry. Since 1963, he has been a resident of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, the place he teaches literature and Aurobindo’s philosophy at Sri Aurobindo World College. “I at all times really feel thankful in my middle for the reaction I am getting for my writings,” he mentioned.

Carnatic vocalists C. Saroja and C. Lalitha, referred to as the Bombay Sisters, got here to Chennai after they had been simply out in their teenage years. “We got here to Chennai on a Govt of India scholarship and joined the Central Faculty of Track, the place Shri. Govinda Rao used to be educating. We learnt underneath him for 50 years,” mentioned Ms. Saroja.

It used to be whilst running on a ebook on Madras that Manohar Devadoss, the artist who has sketched Madurai’s temples and streets in nice element, gained the inside track that he were decided on for the Padma Shri. After a retired IAS officer, Jayanthi, talented his drawing of Meenakshi Kalyanam to High Minister Narendra Modi, he mentioned Mr. Modi wrote to him, appreciating his artwork. Mr. Devadoss, whose imaginative and prescient has deteriorated over time, can’t see now.

Incapacity no bar

S. Ramakrishnan, founder-president of Amar Seva Sangam (ASS) in Tirunelveli, has been running in opposition to the rehabilitation of the differently-abled in over 300 villages. Paralysed neck-down, he works on empowering the ones with disabilities in rural spaces.

The Nagaswaram vidwans, Sheik Mahaboob Subhani and his spouse Kaleeshabi Mahaboob, hail from Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh and feature settled in Srirangam. “We hail from a protracted line of musicians, who performed the Chilakluripet Paani. We’re the eighth technology, and our son Sheik Ferose Babu is the 9th in that line. We believe this award a reputation for our lineage,” mentioned Mr. Mahaboob Subhani.

Pradeep Thalappil, professor, Chemistry division, Indian Institute of Era-Madras, mentioned he and his group had advanced inexpensive and protected ingesting water answers the usage of nano fabrics, which had already benefitted about nine million other people. V.Ok. Munusamy, who used to be selected for the Padma Shri, has taken the artwork of terracotta sculpture in every single place. He learnt the talent of terracotta sculpting from his folks and has devoted himself to this craft for over 4 many years. He has sculpted a wide selection of unconventional gadgets along conventional sculptures.

Date: 27th January 2020 Publication: The New Indian Express Edition: Chennai Page No: 4 Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Headline: Providing safe drinking water is his mission

Date: 27th January 2020 Publication: The Hindu Edition: Chennai / Kochi Page No: 4 Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Headline: Seven unique achievers bring laurels for State

Date: 27th January 2020 Publication: Deccan Herald Edition: Online Journalist: ETB Sivapriyan Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Prof. Venu Srinivasan, Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Alumni: Mr. Prem Watsa Headline: IIT professors, alumnus get Padma awards URL: https://www.deccanherald.com/national/south/iit-professors-alumnus-get- padma-awards-798309.html

IIT professors, alumnus get Padma awards

Date: 27th January 2020 Publication: The Indian Express Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Prof. Venu Srinivasan, Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Alumni: Mr. Prem Watsa Headline: IIT-Madras professor, two alumni members conferred with Padma awards URL: https://indianexpress.com/article/education/iit-madras-faculty-alumni- conferred-with-padma-awards-iitm-ac-in-6236308/

IIT-Madras professor, two alumni members conferred with Padma awards

Date: 27th January 2020 Publication: Inventia.com Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Prof. Venu Srinivasan, Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Alumni: Mr. Prem Watsa Headline: Naukri.com founder gets Padma Shri; Padma Bhushan for Anand Mahindra, Venu Srinivasan URL: https://www.inventiva.co.in/trends/divya/naukri-com-founder-gets-padma-shri- padma-bhushan-for-anand-mahindra-venu-srinivasan/

Naukri.com founder gets Padma Shri; Padma Bhushan for Anand Mahindra, Venu Srinivasan

Date: 27th January 2020 Publication: Skill Outlook Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Prof. Venu Srinivasan, Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Alumni: Mr. Prem Watsa Headline: Media Statement -IIT Madras URL: https://skilloutlook.com/event/media-statement-iit-madras

Media Statement -IIT Madras The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras on Saturday congratulated its professors and an alumnus who have been conferred with Padma awards. In a statement, IIT-Madras Director Baskar Ramamurthy said, "The institute congratulates all three awardees for the well deserved honour in recognition of their work and contributions".

Date: 27th January 2020 Publication: The Hindu Edition: Chennai Page No: 7 Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Headline: Grateful for honour say Padma awardees from T.N. Puducherry

Date: 27th January 2020 Publication: Dinamani Edition: Chennai Page No: 12 Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Headline: Padma Award Winners

Date: 27th January 2020 Publication: The Hindu Edition: Online Journalist: NA Headline: CM, Stalin greet Padma awardees URL: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/cm-stalin-greet-padma- awardees/article30661047.ece

CM, Stalin greet Padma awardees Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami and DMK President MK Stalin greeted the Padma awardees from the State on Sunday.

Date: 27th January 2020 Publication: The Hindu Edition: Online Journalist: NA Headline: Padma Awards 2020: Seven unique achievers bring laurels for Kerala URL: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/seven-unique-achievers- bring-laurels-for-state/article30654325.ece

Padma Awards 2020: Seven unique achievers bring laurels for Kerala

Date: 27th January 2020 Publication: Deccan Herald Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Headline: Tamil Nadu CM Edappadi K Palaniswami greets Padma awardees from state URL: https://www.deccanherald.com/national/south/tamil-nadu-cm-edappadi-k- palaniswami-greets-padma-awardees-from-state-798272.html

Tamil Nadu CM Edappadi K Palaniswami greets Padma awardees from state

Date: 27th January 2020 Publication: American Bazaar Edition: Online Journalist: Zofeen Maqsood Alumni: Mr. Prem Waste Headline: Indian American Jag Sheth gets Padma Bhushan URL: https://www.americanbazaaronline.com/2020/01/26/indian-american-jag- sheth-gets-padma-bhushan-440011/

Indian American Jag Sheth gets Padma Bhushan

As India celebrated its 71st Republic Day with the usual pomp and glory, the country also honored Indians abroad who have made exemplary contributions on a global scale and made the country of their birth proud.

This year’s list includes four Indian Americans topped by well-known marketing guru Jagdish Sheth, who gets Padma Bhushan, India’s third highest civilian honor, for literature and education.

S.P. Kothari and Prasanta Kumar Pattanaik were honored with Padma Shri, the fourth highest award, in the same category. Romesh Tekchand Wadhwani got the Padma Shri for trade and industry.

Sheth’s book Theory of Buyer Behavior, which he co-authored with John Howard, who was his professor and mentor, is known as a “bible” in the field of consumer psychology and marketing.

“Cleary I am very humbled by the recognition and thankful to the nation and the Indian government,” Sheth, the Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Business at Emory University Goizueta Business School, told the American Bazaar by phone on Sunday.

The Atlanta resident said there are “several reasons” he was happy. “It is a recognition for the Indian American academic community, as well,” he said. “While the academic community in the fields of science and technology is already recognized for their accomplishments, it is for the first time that the efforts of marketing and business discipline are recognized in India.”

Sheth was born in Myanmar, which was then known as Burma, in 1938. After Japan invaded Burma in 1940, all the minorities were forced to flee the country. His family was forced to leave Burma when he was barely 2-and-a-half years old. “I am a refugee from Burma, and I would have been a merchant,” he said. “But I am educator. This should be an inspiration for the youngsters. If I can do it, anybody can.”

The professor encouraged members of the diaspora to give back to India. “India invested in our education,” he said. “We as NRIs should repay our debt to the country.”

Prior to joining Emory, Sheth was the Robert E. Brooker Professor of Marketing at the University of Southern California and the Walter H. Stellner Distinguished Professor of Marketing at the University of Illinois.

He has been on the faculty of Columbia University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has a PhD and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh.

With a B. Com degree from Madras University, Sheth is a fellow at American Psychological Association and a former president at Association for Consumer Research.

Sheth is married to Madhu Sheth and the couple lives in Atlanta.

Padma Shri award recipient S.P. Kothari is the Gordon Y Billard Professor of Accounting and Finance at the Sloan School of Management.

He also served as global head of equity research for Barclays Global Investors. Earlier, Kothari was Head of the Department of Economics, Finance, and Accounting at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Kothari received his BE (Hons) from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani and MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He also received a PhD from the University of Iowa.

Prasanta Kumar Pattanaik, emeritus professor at the Department of Economics, University of California, is a pioneer of the alternative methods of measuring social and cultural deprivation.

Along with Amartya Sen and Kenneth Arrow, Pattanaik is also an advisory editor for Social Choice and Welfare.

Pattanaik got his degree in economics from Odisha, India, where he hails from. He then went on to study for his master’s and doctorate, both in economics, at Delhi School of Economics in Delhi.

Romesh Wadhwani is the founder and CEO of Symphony Technology Group. A bachelor from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Wadhwani came to the US from Karachi at the time of India’s partition. He then did his masters at Carnegie Mellon University.

The Padma Shri was also awarded to American Buddhist author and academic Robert Thurman for literature and education besides Indo-Canadian businessman Prem Watsa for trade and industry.

Thurman, Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, is the co- founder and president of the Tibet House US, New York. He translated the Vimalakirti Sutra from the Tibetan Kanjur into English.

An IIT Madras alumnus, Hyderabad born Prem Watsa is an Indo-Canadian billionaire businessman. Founder, chairman, and chief executive of Fairfax Financial Holdings, based in Toronto, he has been called the “Canadian Warren Buffett.”

Date: 27th January 2020 Publication: DT Next Edition: Chennai Page No: 1 & 8 Journalist: NA Headline: Jaitley, Sushma, Fernandes given Padma Vibhushan posthumously

Date: 28th January 2020 Publication: The New Indian Express - Edex Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Prof. Venu Srinivasan, Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Alumni: Mr. Prem Watsa Headline: IIT Madras professors and an alumnus conferred with prestigious Padma awards URL: https://www.edexlive.com/happening/2020/jan/27/iit-madras-professors-and- an-alumnus-conferred-with-prestigious-padma-awards-10028.html

IIT Madras professors and an alumnus conferred with prestigious Padma awards Distinguished members from the IIT Madras family were conferred with the Padma awards recently. Pradeep Thalappil, a professor at the Department of Chemistry; and Prem Watsa, Founder-Chairman, Fairfax Financial Holdings, and Distinguished Alumnus, Batch of 1971; won the Padma Shri while Venu Srinivasan, Chairman, TVS Group and Honorary Professor of Practice, IIT Madras, was conferred the Padma Bhushan.

'The Institute congratulates all three awardees for this well-deserved honour in recognition of their work and contributions' the Director of IIT Madras Bhaskar Ramamurthy said in a statement.

A total of 141 citizens received the Padma award this year which comprises seven Padma Vibhushan, 16 Padma Bhushan and 118 Padma Shri awards. Congratulating the recipients for their contributions in the respective fields, Prime Minister Modi wrote on Twitter, “Congratulations to all those who have been conferred the Padma Awards. The awardees include extraordinary individuals who have made exceptional contributions to our society, nation and humanity.”

Date: 28th January 2020 Publication: Careers 360 Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Prof. Venu Srinivasan, Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Alumni: Mr. Prem Watsa Headline: Three from IIT-M community bag Padma Awards 2020 URL: https://news.careers360.com/three-from-iit-m-community-bag-padma-awards- 2020

Three from IIT-M community bag Padma Awards 2020

Distinguished members from the IIT Madras family were conferred with the Padma awards recently. Pradeep Thalappil, a professor at the Department of Chemistry; and Prem Watsa, Founder-Chairman, Fairfax Financial Holdings, and Distinguished Alumnus, Batch of 1971; won the Padma Shri while Venu Srinivasan, Chairman, TVS Group and Honorary Professor of Practice, IIT Madras, was conferred the Padma Bhushan.

'The Institute congratulates all three awardees for this well-deserved honour in recognition of their work and contributions' the Director of IIT Madras Bhaskar Ramamurthy said in a statement.

Date: 28th January 2020 Publication: The Times of India - Education Times Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Venu Srinivasan, Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Alumni: Mr. Prem Watsa Headline: Padma Awards: IIT Madras professor conferred with Padma Shri for developing affordable water solutions using nanotechnology URL: https://www.educationtimes.com/article/newsroom/73657042/padma-awards- iit-madras-professor-conferred-with-padma-shri-for-developing-affordable-water- solutions-using-nanotechnology.html

Padma Awards: IIT Madras professor conferred with Padma Shri for developing affordable water solutions using nanotechnology

Honouring his work to develop affordable and safe drinking water solutions using nanomaterials that has impacted nearly 9 million people across India, a professor from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) has been conferred with Padma Shri. Thalappil Pradeep is among the 118 winners from different backgrounds who have won the coveted award.

Besides Pradeep, Prem Watsa, an alumnus of 1971 batch of IIT Madras and the founder-chairman of Fairfax Financial Holdings has won the Padma Shri 2020. Venu Srinivasan, chairman of TVS Group and honorary professor of practice, IIT-M has been conferred with the Padma Bhushan.

Pradeep is one of the participants of the International Centre for Clean Water (ICCW) – a nanoscience unit of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) – that is housed at the IIT Madras research park. He was awarded The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) prize for Chemistry in 2018.

This year, a total of 118 individuals have been awarded the Padma Shri whereas the Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan have been given to 16 and 7 people, respectively.

Date: 28th January 2020 Publication: News D Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Venu Srinivasan, Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Alumni: Mr. Prem Watsa Headline: Republic Day 2020: IIT-Madras professor, two alumni honoured with Padma awards URL: https://newsd.in/republic-day-2020-iit-madras-professor-two-alumni-honoured- with-padma-awards/

Republic Day 2020: IIT-Madras professor, two alumni honoured with Padma awards

This year, a total of 118 individuals have been awarded the Padma Shri whereas the Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan have been given to 16 and 7 people, respectively.

Date: 28th January 2020 Publication: College Dekho Edition: Online Journalist: Diksha Sharma Professor: Prof. Venu Srinivasan, Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Alumni: Mr. Prem Watsa Headline: IIT Madras: Two Alumni and One Professor Endowed with the Padma Awards URL: https://www.collegedekho.com/news/iit-madras-alumni-professor-confer- padma-awards-18390/

IIT Madras: Two Alumni and One Professor Endowed with the Padma Awards

This year, a total of 118 individuals have been awarded the Padma Shri whereas the Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan have been given to 16 and 7 people, respectively.

Date: 28th January 2020 Publication: The Hindu Tamil Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Venu Srinivasan, Prof. Pradeep Thalappil Alumni: Mr. Prem Watsa Headline: பேரா殿ரியர்கள் , 믁ன்னாள் மாணவ쏁க்埁 ேத்ம ힿ쏁鏁கள் : ஐஐ羿 பே쏁뮿தம் URL: https://www.hindutamil.in/news/vetrikodi/news/536815-iit-madras-faculty- alumnus-conferred-with-padma-awards.html

பேரா殿ரியர்கள் , 믁ன்னாள் மாணவ쏁க்埁 ேத்ம ힿ쏁鏁கள் : ஐஐ羿 பே쏁뮿தம்

Date: 29th January 2020 Publication: NDTV Edition: Electronic Journalist: Mr. Sam Daniel Professor: Prof T. Pradeep Headline: IIT Madras Teacher, A Padma Shri Awardee, On Affordable Technology To Purify Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BFgp9Qcm58 URL: https://we.tl/t-dKoeyBK0I6

Date: 29th January 2020 Publication: India Web 2 Edition: Online Journalist: NA Headline: 96 Indian Universities Make It to QS World University Rankings URL: https://www.indianweb2.com/2020/01/28/96-indian-universities-make-it-to-qs- world-university-rankings/

96 Indian Universities Make It to QS World University Rankings

Date: 31st January 2020 Publication: Big Show Prime Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. T. Pradeep Headline: T. Pradeep IIT Madras receives Padma Shri 2020 in Science & Technology - Suresh Menon & Alexa URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJLY7S7cRTw

T. Pradeep IIT Madras receives Padma Shri 2020 in Science & Technology - Suresh Menon & Alexa

IIT Madras is a multicultural institute

Date: 1st January 2020 Publication: India Today Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Prof M.S. Sivakumar and Prof Shaikh Faruque Ali Headline: IIT Madras to host student-run tech festival Shaastra URL: https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/news/story/iit-madras-to-host- student-run-tech-festival-shaastra-1632905-2019-12-31

IIT Madras to host student-run tech festival Shaastra

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) is all set to host Shaastra 2020, one of the largest tech festivals in India to be completely run by students. This flagship event will be held between January 3 and 6, 2020 with a host of events planned. This will be the 20th Edition of this annual event. Nearly 40 events and 30 workshops have been scheduled this year with a total footfall of over 40,000 students, participants and visitors expected. An exhibition featuring student innovations, startups and visiting college teams is being organized at the KV Grounds in IIT Madras campus on all four days, which will be open to the public.

The theme for this year's edition of Shaastra is 'Parsec to Plank,' focussing on miniaturization, the technological trend in which the sizes of mechanical, electronic and optical products are constantly being scaled down in size while maintaining the same or superior quality. The first 'computer' to be invented, ENIAC, occupied around 18,000 square feet and weighed almost 50 tons!

Benefitting one and all with the fest Addressing a Press Conference on campus today (December 31, 2019), Prof Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Director, IIT Madras, said, "We have many clubs to encourage co- curricular activities. This event is completely run by students, with faculty only having an advisory role. Various parts of the Institute are connected to Shaastra and through this event, they learn how to go beyond the classroom and reach out to a large student community across the country. Everybody benefits, we learn and our students learn along with the visiting students. This is an event to connect with students across the country."

This year, IIT Madras students have introduced 'Assistive Technology (AT) Makeathon' in collaboration with IIT Madras' TTK Center for Rehabilitation Research and Device Development (R2D2), which developed India's first indigenously designed standing wheelchair. The objective is to provide effective solutions by combining students' ideas and innovations with the resources of R2D2. This will help enhance the quality of life for the elderly, adults and children with disabilities by implementing successful prototypes designed by students. This will also create a mindset for social entrepreneurship among engineering students by providing them with a platform to showcase their ideas and enabling them to set up their start-ups.

Highlighting the unique aspects of Shaastra 2020, Prof M.S. Sivakumar, Dean (Students), IIT Madras, said, "As a premier institute leading in the fields of engineering, technology and sciences, we put extensive efforts in building an ecosystem that provides opportunities to learn, collaborate and innovate. These efforts culminate into the mega-event that Shaastra is."

This year, Shaastra is collaborating with defence technology start-ups, manufacturers and the military to host a 'Defence Expo', which will shed light on the technological advancements in the robust and dynamic Defence Technology space."

Also, the Global Disability Innovation (GDI) Hub, a movement based in UCL, London, to accelerate disability innovation, will be the mentoring the 'Assistive Technology (AT) Makeathon,' GDI hub aims to build a movement to accelerate disability innovation for creating a fairer world. In addition to the prize money, winners will have the opportunity to be supported with business acceleration at GDI Hub as part of a new Inclusive Innovation Ecosystem.

Elaborating on the event, Prof Shaikh Faruque Ali, Faculty Advisor, Shaastra, IIT Madras, said, "Shaastra has always believed in giving back to the society in meaningful ways and creating grassroots impact. Shaastra 2020's social endeavour, BLINK, continues this legacy by empowering the visually impaired and enabling them to realise their full potential."

Further, Prof Shaikh Faruque Ali said, "We also have 'The Institute Open House' this year, an event through which we wish to showcase our innovation. Along with this, we will be hosting participants at the IIT Madras Research Park"

In a novel initiative named 'BLINK,' IIT Madras students have been working with organizations across the city to transform the pedagogy for visually-impaired students, particularly for those in primary and secondary schools. The campaign has reached out to over 200 students so far and the team is currently looking to expand their reach to other cities in Tamil Nadu.

The Institute Open House at Shaastra 2020 will be a two-day event happening on the January 3 and 4, 2020 dedicated to providing an insight into the pathbreaking research work, student projects and the numerous advanced facilities present at IIT Madras.

Sharing the student experiences in organizing such a massive event, Kollipara Pravallika, Co-Curricular Affairs Secretary, IIT Madras, said, "Every edition of Shaastra rolls out multiple events, shows, lectures and workshops with a single goal in mind, to promote 'the Spirit of Engineering.' Shaastra 2020 upholds the same spirit through the myriad of events it organises. This year's Shaastra will be hosting prominent leaders from various fields, such as Dr VK Saraswat, former director general of DRDO and Lord Meghnad Desai, eminent economist." Kollipara Pravallika added, "We are also holding competitions at an unprecedented scale, like Boeing's National Aeromodelling Competition and the Indian Drone Racing League."

Alexandre Agular, Vice President, Engineering of Socure, Shaastra 2020's title sponsor, added, "Socure is proud to associate with South India's largest technical festival and we are looking forward to the events and workshops scheduled during the 4 days of Shaastra and to engage with the student community."

Shaastra 2020 will also host Defence Tech Summit, which consists of lectures from the best minds in the field, live demos, hands-on workshops, a defence expo showcasing tech from the Armed Forces, defence tech companies and start-ups, and competitions that will challenge the participants to go beyond their boundaries.

The Defence Expo is an exhibition of the products of nascent defence technology start-ups, established manufacturers and the military. It will be conducted over the course of the 3 days of the Summit. Through this, the Defence Tech Summit intends to bring exposure to the participants of both Summit and Shaastra alike in the Defence Technology space.

Publication: India Education Diary Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Prof M.S. Sivakumar and Prof Shaikh Faruque Ali Headline: IIT Madras set to host Shaastra, one of India’s largest Student-run Tech Festivals URL: https://indiaeducationdiary.in/iit-madras-set-to-host-shaastra-one-of-indias- largest-student-run-tech-festivals/

IIT Madras set to host Shaastra, one of India’s largest Student-run Tech Festivals

Date: 1st January 2020 Publication: UNI Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Prof M.S. Sivakumar and Prof Shaikh Faruque Ali Headline: Defence expo at IIT-Ms tech fest Shaastra 2020 URL: http://www.uniindia.com/~/defence-expo-at-iit-m-s-tech-fest-shaastra- 2020/States/news/1838704.html

Defence expo at IIT-Ms tech fest Shaastra 2020

Date: 1st January 2020 Publication: DT Next Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi and Prof M.S. Sivakumar Headline: Miniatures to make maximum show at IIT-M’s Shaastra 2020 URL: https://www.dtnext.in/News/City/2020/01/01010742/1206951/Miniatures-to- make-maximum-show-at-IITMs-Shaastra-.vpf

Miniatures to make maximum show at IIT-M’s Shaastra 2020

Date: 1st January 2020 Publication: Telangana Today Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Prof M.S. Sivakumar and Prof Shaikh Faruque Ali Headline: IIT Madras to host Shaastra, one of the largest student-run tech festival URL: https://telanganatoday.com/iit-madras-to-host-shaastra-one-of-the-largest- student-run-tech-festival

IIT Madras to host Shaastra, one of the largest student-run tech festival

Nearly 40 events and 30 workshops have been scheduled this year with a total footfall of over 40,000 students, participants and visitors expected. An exhibition featuring student innovations, startups and visiting college teams is being organised at the KV Grounds in IIT Madras campus on all four days, which will be open to the public.

The theme for this year’s edition of Shaastra is ‘Parsec to Plank,’ focussing on miniaturisation, the technological trend in which the sizes of mechanical, electronic and optical products are constantly being scaled down in size while maintaining the same or a superior quality. The first ‘computer’ to be invented, ENIAC, occupied around 18,000 square feet and weighed almost 50 tons!

Addressing a press conference on IIT Madras campus on Tuesday, Prof Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Director, IIT Madras, said, “We have many clubs to encourage co- curricular activities. This event is completely run by students, with faculty only having an advisory role. Various parts of the Institute are connected to Shaastra and through this event, they learn how to go beyond the classroom and reach out to a large student community across the country. Everybody benefits, we learn and our students learn along with the visiting students. This is an event to connect with students across the country.”

This year, IIT Madras students have introduced ‘Assistive Technology (AT) Makeathon’ in collaboration with IIT Madras’ TTK Center for Rehabilitation Research and Device Development (R2D2), which developed India’s first indigenously designed standing wheelchair. The objective is to provide effective solutions by combining students’ ideas and innovations with the resources of R2D2. This will help enhance the quality of life for the elderly, adults and children with disabilities by implementing successful prototypes designed by students. This will also create a mindset for social entrepreneurship among engineering students by providing them a platform to showcase their ideas and enabling them to set up their start-ups.

Highlighting the unique aspects of Shaastra 2020, Prof M.S. Sivakumar, Dean (Students), IIT Madras, said, “As a premier institute leading in the fields of engineering, technology and sciences, we put extensive efforts in building an ecosystem that provides opportunities to learn, collaborate and innovate. These efforts culminate into the mega-event that Shaastra is.”

This year, Shaastra is collaborating with defence technology start-ups, manufacturers and the military to host a ‘Defence Expo’, which will shed light on the technological advancements in the robust and dynamic Defence Technology space.” Also, the Global Disability Innovation (GDI) Hub, a movement based in UCL, London, to accelerate disability innovation, will be the mentoring the ‘Assistive Technology (AT) Makeathon,’ GDI hub aims to build a movement to accelerate disability innovation for creating a fairer world. In addition to the prize money, winners will have the opportunity to be supported with business acceleration at GDI Hub as part of a new Inclusive Innovation Ecosystem.

Elaborating on the event, Prof Shaikh Faruque Ali, Faculty Advisor, Shaastra, IIT Madras, said, “Shaastra has always believed in giving back to the society in meaningful ways and creating grassroots impact. Shaastra 2020’s social endeavour, BLINK, continues this legacy by empowering the visually impaired and enabling them to realise their full potential.” Further, Prof Shaikh Faruque Ali said, “We also have ‘The Institute Open House’ this year, an event through which we wish to showcase our innovation. Along with this, we will be hosting participants at the IIT Madras Research Park”

In a novel initiative named ‘BLINK,’ IIT Madras students have been working with organisations across the city to transform the pedagogy for visually-impaired students, particularly for those in primary and secondary schools. The campaign has reached out to over 200 students so far and the team is currently looking to expand their reach to other cities in Tamil Nadu. The Institute Open House at Shaastra 2020 will be a two- day event happening on the 3rd and 4th of January 2020 dedicated to providing an insight into the pathbreaking research work, student projects and the numerous advanced facilities present at IIT Madras.

Sharing the student experiences in organising such a massive event, Ms. Kollipara Pravallika, Co-Curricular Affairs Secretary, IIT Madras, said, “Every edition of Shaastra rolls out multiple events, shows, lectures and workshops with a single goal in mind, to promote ‘the Spirit of Engineering.’ Shaastra 2020 upholds the same spirit through the myriad of events it organises. This year’s Shaastra will be hosting prominent leaders from various fields, such as Dr. V.K.Saraswat, former director general of DRDO and Lord Meghnad Desai, eminent economist.”

Date: 1st January 2020 Publication: Notice Board Edition: Online Journalist: Shivam Sharma Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi Headline: Shaastra’20 – IIT Madras’ Technical Fest [Jan 3-6]: Registrations Open URL: https://www.noticebard.com/shaastra-20-iit-madras-technical-fest/

Shaastra’20 – IIT Madras’ Technical Fest [Jan 3-6]: Registrations Open

Date: 1st January 2020 Publication: Daily Thanthi Edition: Online Journalist: NA Headline: வகக போட்羿க쿁டன் பென்கன ஐ.ஐ.羿.뾿ல் பதா펿ல்ꏁட்ே 鎿쏁ힿழா நாகள ம쟁நாள் பதாடங் 埁垿ற鏁 URL: https://www.dailythanthi.com/News/State/2020/01/01024355/Technology- Festival-at-IIT-Madras-Tomorrow-starts.vpf

வகக போட்羿க쿁டன் பென்கன ஐ.ஐ.羿.뾿ல் பதா펿ல்ꏁட்ே 鎿쏁ힿழா நாகள ம쟁நாள் பதாடங்埁垿ற鏁

மாணவர்களின் அ잿ힿயல் ஆர்வத்தத ஊக்埁ힿக்埁ம் ힿதமாக சென்தன 垿ண்羿뾿ல் உள்ள ஐ.ஐ.羿. வளாகத்鎿ல் சதா펿ல்ꏁட்ப 鎿쏁ힿழா (ொஸ்த்ரா - 2020) நதடசபற உள்ள鏁. இ鏁 சதாடர்பாக நநற்쟁 ஐ.ஐ.羿. இயக்埁னர் பாஸ்கர் ராம믂ர்த்鎿 நி쏁பர்க쿁க்埁 நபட்羿யளித்தார். அப்நபா鏁 அவர் 埂잿யதாவ鏁:-

ஐ.ஐ.羿.뾿ல் கடந்த 20 வ쏁டங்களாக இந்த சதா펿ல்ꏁட்ப 鎿쏁ힿழா நதடசப쟁垿ற鏁. என்玿னீயரிங் என்ப鏁 ꯁத்தகத்鎿ல் ப羿க்埁ம் பாடம் மட்翁ம் இல்லாமல், மாணவர்களின் சதா펿ல்ꏁட்ப 鎿றன்கதள뿁ம், ꯁ鎿ய சதா펿ல்ꏁட்ப எண்ணங்கதள செயல்வ羿வங்களாக மாற்ற இந்த 鎿쏁ힿழா உதퟁ垿ற鏁. இந்த சதா펿ல்ꏁட்ப 鎿쏁ힿழா 믂லம் மாணவர்க쿁க்埁 நல்ல பலன் 垿தடத்鏁 வ쏁垿ற鏁.

சென்தன 垿ண்羿 ஐ.ஐ.羿. வளாகத்鎿ல் தவத்鏁 நதடசப쟁ம் இந்த சதா펿ல்ꏁட்ப 鎿쏁ힿழாힿல் இந்鎿யாힿன் 믁க்垿ய நகரங்களில் உள்ள பள்ளி மற்쟁ம் கல்쯂ரி뾿ன் 40 ஆ뾿ரத்鏁க்埁ம் நமற்பட்ட மாணவர்கள் பங்நகற்க உள்ளனர். இந்த 鎿쏁ힿழாힿன் 殿றப்ꯁ அம்ெமாக ரா迁வ தளவாடங்கள் மற்쟁ம் சதா펿ல்ꏁட்பங்கள் கண்காட்殿 அதமக்கப்பட உள்ள鏁.

இந்த கண்காட்殿뾿ல் இந்鎿ய ரா迁வத்鎿ல் பயன்ப翁த்தப்ப翁ம் நퟀன சதா펿ல்ꏁட்பங்கள் , ரா迁வ தளவாடங்கள் உள்ளிட்டதவகள் மாணவர்களின் பார்தவக்காக தவக்கப்பட உள்ள鏁. இதன் 믂லம் மாணவர்க쿁க்埁 இந்鎿ய ரா迁வத்鎿ன் சதா펿ல்ꏁட்பங்கள் மற்쟁ம் செயல்பா翁கள் 埁잿த்鏁 சதரிந்鏁சகாள்ள உதힿயாக இ쏁க்埁ம்.

இந்த சதா펿ல்ꏁட்ப 鎿쏁ힿழாힿல் மாணவர்க쿁க்埁 40 வதகயான நபாட்羿க쿁ம் நடத்தப்பட உள்ளன. நம쯁ம் பா鏁காப்ꯁ ஆராய்ெ்殿 மற்쟁ம் நமம்பாட்翁 கழகத்鎿ன் 믁ன்னாள் இயக்埁னர் செனரல் ힿ.நக.ெரஸ்வத் உள்ளிட்ட பல்நவ쟁 믁க்垿ய ஆராய்ெ்殿யாளர்கள் கலந்鏁 சகாள்ள உள்ளனர்.

இந்த 鎿쏁ힿழாힿன் 믁க்垿ய நிகழ்வாக உதힿ சதா펿ல்ꏁட்ப கண்翁ꮿ羿ப்ꯁ நபாட்羿 நதடசபற உள்ள鏁. இந்த நபாட்羿뾿ல் மாணவர்க쿁க்埁 24 மணிநநரம் ஒ鏁க்கப்ப翁ம், அந்த நநரத்鎿ல் மாற்쟁த்鎿றனாளிகள் மற்쟁ம் 믁鎿யவர்க쿁க்埁 உதퟁம் வதக뾿ல் ꯁ鎿ய கண்翁 ꮿ羿ப்ꯁகதள தயாரிக்கநவண்翁ம்.

நாதள ம쟁நாள் (சவள்ளிக்垿ழதம) 믁தல் 6-ந்நத鎿 வதர 4 நாட்கள் இந்த சதா펿ல்ꏁட்ப 鎿쏁ힿழா நதடசப쟁垿ற鏁. இந்த 鎿쏁ힿழாힿல் சபா鏁மக்கள் இலவெமாக கலந்鏁 சகாள்ளலாம். நபாட்羿களில் பங்埁சப쟁ம் மாணவர்க쿁க்埁 ஐ.ஐ.羿. வளாகத்鎿ல் உள்ள ஆய்ퟁக்埂டங்கள் , மாணவர்களின் வ羿வதமப்ꯁகள் உள்ளிட்டதவகதள பார்தவ뾿டퟁம் வ펿வதக செய்யப்ப翁ம். இவ்வா쟁 அவர் 埂잿னார்.

Date: 1st January 2020 Publication: Aithority.com Edition: Online Journalist: NA Headline: Socure Named as Title Sponsor of Shaastra 2020 Student Tech Festival in Chennai URL: https://www.aithority.com/machine-learning/socure-named-as-title-sponsor-of- shaastra-2020-student-tech-festival-in-chennai/

Socure Named as Title Sponsor of Shaastra 2020 Student Tech Festival in Chennai the leader in Day Zero digital identity verification, announced that it has been named the title sponsor of Shaastra 2020, the world’s first ISO 9001:2015 certified, wholly student-run tech festival, being held January 3-6 at IIT Madras in Chennai, India. The four-day festival, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2020, fosters innovation through engineering across numerous industries. Shaastra sessions include unique design and build challenges, machine learning workshops, technical forums, “B- school-style”competitions, and a Socure-sponsored online Hackathon on January 3rd at 1pm IST.

Socure named the title sponsor of Shaastra 2020 Student Tech Festival in Chennai

“During my many years at Cognizant, I gained a deep appreciation of the quality of education delivered by IIT Madras,” said Tom Thimot, CEO, Socure. “As such, we could not be more excited about supporting these world-changing students as the title sponsor of Shaastra 2020. This is an extremely unique event showcasing the wealth of talent in the Chennai region and bringing together some of the best young minds to creatively solve major engineering and technical challenges.”

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Thimot continued, “As a fully student-focused conference, we are especially passionate about doing our part to champion the next generation of data scientists through Shaastra’s innovative forum, as we continue to expand our presence in the area.”

Socure, with facilities in New York, San Francisco, San Diego and Chennai, is dedicated to “Identifying More Real People in Real Time.” The company has garnered numerous recent accolades for its breakthrough work in the areas of artificial intelligence and machine learning, including being named to the Forbes’ AI 50 list as one of America’s most promising AI companies, winning a 2019 API World’s Best Data API award, receiving a 2019 TIMMY Award for Best Tech Startup in New York City, and being honored with a 2019 FinTech Breakthrough Award for Innovation in Transaction Security.

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Socure applies artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques with trusted online/offline data intelligence from email, address, phone, IP, social media and the broader Internet to verify identities in real-time. Socure’s Day Zero Identity Magic focuses on starting identity verification during the onboarding phase, which has the dual advantage of preventing fraudsters from penetrating systems while maximizing auto approval rates. In addition to providing unmatched accuracy and nearly instant customer identification, Socure gives organizations an instant, data-driven view of digital reputation and fraud risk, helping them unlock innovation and growth.

Its customers include three of the top five U.S. banks, seven of the top 10 U.S. card issuers, as well as the majority of leading digital banks, lenders and insurers across the U.S

Date: 1st January 2020 Publication: ETV Bharat Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Bhaskar Ramamurthi Headline: பென்கன ஐஐ羿뾿ல் பதா펿ல்ꏁட்ே கண்காட்殿 மற்쟁ம் க쏁த்தரங்埁! (IIT Madras hosts tech expo and workshops) URL: https://www.etvbharat.com/tamil/tamil-nadu/city/chennai/exhibition-starts-in- chennai-iit-about-students-discovers-and-defence-department-discovers/tamil- nadu20191231183058563

பென்கன ஐஐ羿뾿ல் பதா펿ல் ꏁட்ே கண்காட்殿 மற்쟁ம் க쏁த்தரங்埁! (IIT Madras hosts tech expo and workshops) 鏁சதாடர்பாக சென்தன ஐஐ羿 இயக்埁நர் பாஸ்கர் ராம믂ர்த்鎿 இன்쟁 செய்鎿யாளர்கதளெ் ெந்鎿த்தார். அப்நபா鏁, “ சென்தன ஐஐ羿 வளாகத்鎿ல் மாணவர்கள் நடத்தக்埂羿ய சதா펿ல்ꏁட்பக் கண்காட்殿 மற்쟁ம் க쏁த்தரங்埁 நிகழ்ெ்殿கள் வ쏁ம் 3ஆம் நத鎿 믁தல் 6ஆம் நத鎿வதர நதடசப쟁垿ற鏁. பள்ளி, கல்쯂ரி மாணவர்கள், சபா鏁மக்கள் இததன பார்ப்பதற்埁 இலவெமாக அꟁம鎿க்கப்ப翁வார்கள் .இந்鎿யப் பா鏁காப்ꯁத் 鏁தற뾿ன் கண்翁ꮿ羿ப்ꯁகள் , மாணவர்களின் பல்நவ쟁 கண்翁ꮿ羿ப்ꯁகள் இங்நக காட்殿ப்ப翁த்தப்பட இ쏁க்垿ன்றன. கண்காட்殿뾿ல் மாற்쟁த்鎿றனாளிகள் மற்쟁ம் 믁鎿நயா쏁க்கான ெக்கர நாற்கா쮿, பார்தவயற்நறா쏁க்கான ஊன்쟁நகால், 믁鎿நயா쏁க்கான ஊன்쟁நகால் ஆ垿யவற்தற கண்翁ꮿ羿ப்ப鏁埁잿த்த ஹாக்கத்தான் நபாட்羿뿁ம் நதடசப쟁垿ற鏁. இக்கண்காட்殿뾿ல் நத殿ய அளힿலான மாணவர்கள் உட்பட சதா펿ற்கல்ힿ ப뾿லக்埂羿ய 毁மார் 40 ஆ뾿ரம் மாணவர்கள் கலந்鏁சகாள்வார்கள் என எ鎿ர்பார்க்கப்ப翁垿ற鏁 “ என்றார்.

Date: 2nd January 2020 Publication: News J Edition: Electronic Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Prof M.S. Sivakumar and Prof Shaikh Faruque Ali Headline: IIT Madras set to host Shaastra, one of India’s largest Student-run Tech Festivals URL: https://we.tl/t-g4t4voMcrR

Date: 2nd January 2020 Publication: DD Podhigai Edition: Electronic Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Prof M.S. Sivakumar and Prof Shaikh Faruque Ali Headline: IIT Madras set to host Shaastra, one of India’s largest Student-run Tech Festivals URL: https://we.tl/t-g4t4voMcrR

Date: 2nd January 2020 Publication: News 7 Edition: Electronic Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Prof M.S. Sivakumar and Prof Shaikh Faruque Ali Headline: IIT Madras set to host Shaastra, one of India’s largest Student-run Tech Festivals URL: https://we.tl/t-g4t4voMcrR

Date: 2nd January 2020 Publication: Thanthi TV Edition: Electronic Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Prof M.S. Sivakumar and Prof Shaikh Faruque Ali Headline: IIT Madras set to host Shaastra, one of India’s largest Student-run Tech Festivals URL: https://we.tl/t-g4t4voMcrR

Date: 2nd January 2020 Publication: The Hindu Edition: Chennai Page No: 2 Journalist: NA Headline: IIT-Madras Shaastra to be held from January 3 to 6 URL: https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/iit-ms-shaastra-to-be-held- from-january-3-to-6/article30447192.ece

Date: 2nd January 2020 Publication: News Today Edition: Chennai Page No: 3 Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi and Prof M.S. Sivakumar Headline: IIT-M’s Shaastra 2020 to focus on miniaturisation URL: https://newstodaynet.com/index.php/2020/01/01/iit-ms-shaastra-2020-to-focus- on-miniaturisation/

Date: 2nd January 2020 Publication: The New Indian Express Edition: Chennai Page No: 3 Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi Headline: IIT-M tech fest Shaastra from Jan 3-6 URL: https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2020/jan/01/iit-m-tech-fest- shaastra-from-jan-3-6-2083393.html

Date: 2nd January 2020 Publication: The Times of India Edition: Chennai Page No: 4 Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi and Prof M.S. Sivakumar Headline: Lights lasers robots — biggest tech fest is here URL: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/all-set-for-shaastra-2020-at-iit- madras/articleshow/73044313.cms

Date: 2nd January 2020 Publication: Deccan Chronicle Edition: Chennai Page No: 4 Journalist: NA Headline: 40k students expected to participate in IIT-M fest

Date: 2nd January 2020 Publication: DT Next Edition: Chennai Page No: 8 Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Prof M.S. Sivakumar and Prof Shaikh Faruque Ali Headline: Miniatures to make maximum show at IIT-Ms Shaastra 2020 URL: https://www.dtnext.in/News/City/2020/01/01010742/1206951/Miniatures-to- make-maximum-show-at-IITMs-Shaastra-.vpf

Date: 2nd January 2020 Publication: Rajasthan Patrika Edition: Chennai Page No: 3 Journalist: NA Headline: IIT-M tech fest Shaastra from 3rd January 2020

Date: 2nd January 2020 Publication: Nyoooz Edition: Online Journalist: NA Headline: IIT-M tech fest Shaastra from Jan 3-6 URL: https://www.nyoooz.com/news/chennai/1426697/iitm-tech-fest-shaastra-from- jan-36/

IIT-M tech fest Shaastra from Jan 3-6 IIT-Madras will host Shaastra 2020, one of the largest student-run tech festivals in India between January 3-6. This will be the 20th edition of the annual event. The theme for this year is ‘Parsec to Plank,’ focussing on miniaturisation, the technological trend in which the sizes of mechanical, electronic and optical products are constantly being scaled down in size while maintaining the same or a superior quality. This will help enhance quality of life for the elderly, adults and children with disabilities. Updates about Shaastra can also be obtained on their social media channels.

Date: 3rd January 2019 Publication: The Hindu Business Line Edition: Chennai / Delhi / Mumbai / Pune / Bangalore / Hyderabad / Kolkata / Kochi / Ahmedabad / Chandigarh Page No: 7 Journalist: NA Headline: 20th Edition of Shaastra URL: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/top-five-new-stories-to-watch-out- for-on-january-3-2020/article30462386.ece

Date: 3rd January 2019 Publication: The Times of India Edition: Chennai Page No: 6 Journalist: NA Headline: Shaastra 2020

Date: 4th January 2020 Publication: The Hindu Edition: Chennai Page No: 2 Journalist: NA Headline: IIT's tech fest begins

Date: 5th January 2020 Publication: The Hindu Business Line Edition: Online Journalist: Bijoy Ghosh Headline: IIT Madras: Drones take to the sky at Shaastra 2020 URL: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/multimedia/photo/iit-madras-drones- take-to-the-sky-at-shaastra-2020/article30478072.ece/photo/1/

IIT Madras: Drones take to the sky at Shaastra 2020

As part of the annual Shaastra Festival of IIT Madras, Students participating in the Drone racing league. As many as 17 teams from various colleges and flying clubs across the country participated in the finals of the drone racing league with the winner getting to walk away with prize money of Rs 50,000. Photo: Bijoy Ghosh.

Date: 6th January 2020 Publication: The Times of India Edition: Chennai Page No: 3 Journalist: NA Headline: IIT-M Saarang from Jan 8 to 12

Date: 7th January 2020 Publication: The Economic Times Edition: Delhi Page No: 7 Journalist: NA Headline: Baidu looking talented people in India

Date: 7th January 2020 Publication: Analytics Insight Edition: Online Journalist: NA Headline: BAIDU SEEKS TO COLLABORATE WITH INDIAN INSTITUTES ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE URL: https://www.analyticsinsight.net/baidu-seeks-collaborate-indian-institutes- artificial-intelligence/

BAIDU SEEKS TO COLLABORATE WITH INDIAN INSTITUTES ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Date: 7th January 2020 Publication: Nyoooz Edition: Online Journalist: NA Headline: Blindfolded walk with a message at IIT Madras URL: https://www.nyoooz.com/news/chennai/1427581/blindfolded-walk-with-a- message-at-iit-madras/

Blindfolded walk with a message at IIT Madras IIT Madras’ serene campus is punctuated with the chirping of birds, the chattering of students and screeching of monkeys. Around 250 students wearing black t-shirts had gathered under a banyan tree near the Central Lecture Theatre inside the premises. India Vision Institute (IVI) joined hands with IIT-Madras’ BLINK Shaastra 2020 and organised an awareness walk on vision health and refractive error, a major cause of avoidable blindness in India. IVI’s Walk in the Dark campaigns have previously been held in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Delhi, Mumbai, Goa, Kolkata and Aizwal in Mizoram. “IVI provides access to vision screening and a pair of glasses to the needy.

Date: 7th January 2020 Publication: E27 Edition: Online Journalist: NA Headline: When AI becomes common, smartphone may become outdated, says Baidu founder Robin Li in India URL: https://e27.co/when-ai-becomes-common-smartphone-may-become- outdated-says-baidu-founder-robin-li-in-india-20200106/

When AI becomes common, smartphone may become outdated, says Baidu founder Robin Li in India Robin Li, Founder and CEO of Chinese search engine giant Baidu, has said that in the next 10 years, people would be less and less dependent on mobile phones, and when Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes common, smartphones may become outdated.

“Because, wherever you go, there will be surrounding sensor infrastructure that can answer your question and that can serve you. So, you don’t have to pull out your mobile phone,” he said in a talk at IIT Madras’s tech fest, Shaastra 2020, titled “Innovation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”.

According to him, the next decade will be an intelligent economy powered by AI. This is in contrast to the decade that has just passed when people were more dependent on mobile phones for everything right from payments, food delivery, retail to ride- hailing.

AI is transforming many sectors, including banking, insurance, customer services, education and pharma. Banks which find it difficult to open physical branches can now use virtual assistance to help customers open accounts. AI will also be useful in telecom industry, wherein it will enable customers to choose a suitable tariff plan in quick time, he noted.

Date: 7th January 2020 Publication: The Logical Indian Edition: Online Journalist: NA Headline: ‘India’s Goal To Become $5 Trillion Economy By 2025 Is Impossible’: Former RBI Governor Rangarajan URL: https://thelogicalindian.com/news/rangarajan-indian-economy/

‘India’s Goal To Become $5 Trillion Economy By 2025 Is Impossible’: Former RBI Governor Rangarajan

Former Reserve Bank of India governor and former chairman of Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council C Rangarajan said that India’s aim to become a $5 trillion economy by 2025 is not possible with the ongoing economic growth rate.

“People have been talking about India becoming a $5 trillion economy by 2025. It is an aspirational goal. Today, our GDP is close to $2.7 trillion. Therefore, reaching $5 trillion is almost close to doubling our GDP,” Rangarajan said while interacting with students on “The $5 Trillion Goal” at IIT Madras Tech Fest ‘Shaastra’.

“If you have to move from $2.7 trillion to $5 trillion economy, it will take seven years if the economy grows at 9% per annum and eight or nine years if it grows at 8% per annum,” he said.

India’s growth rate has been slipping for five quarters now. The GDP growth for the September quarter slumped to a six-year low of about 4.5 per cent.

“Reaching $5 trillion by 2025 is rules out as we are not in that region at all. The GDP growth may not exceed 5% for 2019-20. For 2020-21, perhaps the economy may pick up and even then, growth may not exceed 6%. Therefore, we are not anywhere near 8% or 9% of growth which is required to reach the $5 trillion economy,” he said.

He said that sustained growth of the economy between 8% and 9% was needed to achieve it and the per capita income also should be doubled from $1,800 to $3,600.

Speaking about the economic slowdown, Rangarajan said: “As of now, the economy is slowing down. The GDP, which is a measure of the overall performance of the economy has slowed down considerably. The investment rate has fallen from 35.2% six years ago to around 27% now. There is a significant decline in the investment rate. If the economy needs to grow, the investment rate is one of the important factors. We need to address the issue.”

In a few remarks that Rangarajan made in the past, he claimed that the government could increase its expenditure as one of the measures to boost the economy. He said that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) was not providing “enough revenue” as projected earlier.

He also added that disinvestment can help in providing funds to the government to a certain extent.

Date: 7th January 2020 Publication: The Economic Times - ET Auto Edition: Online Journalist: A Ragu Raman Headline: India’s aim to become $5 tn economy by 2025 is impossible: C Rangarajan URL: https://auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/industry/indias-aim-to- become-5-tn-economy-by-2025-is-impossible-c-rangarajan/7312687

India’s aim to become $5 tn economy by 2025 is impossible: C Rangarajan

India’s aim to become a $5 trillion economy by 2025 is not possible with the current economic growth rate, former Reserve Bank of India governor and former chairman of Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council C Rangarajan said here on Sunday.

Rangarajan was interacting with students on "The $5 Trillion Goal" as part of IIT-Madras tech festival Shaastra .

“People have been talking about India becoming $5 trillion economy by 2025. It is an aspirational goal. Today, our GDP is close to $2.7 trillion. Therefore, reaching $5 trillion is almost close to doubling our GDP,” he said.

“If you have to move from $2.7 trillion to $5 trillion economy, it will take seven years if the economy grows at 9% per annum and eight or nine years if it grows at 8% per annum,” he said.

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3rd Edition of ETAuto EV Conclave-Decarbonising India “Reaching $5 trillion by 2025 is ruled out as we are not in that region at all. In fact, in the first quarter of the year, the GDP growth is 5% and in the second quarter, it was 4.5%. For 2019-20, the growth rate may not exceed 5%. For 2020-21, perhaps the economy may pick up and even then, growth may not exceed 6%. Therefore, we are not anywhere near 8% or 9% of growth which is required to reach the $5 trillion economy,” he said.

He said a sustained rate of growth of economy between 8% and 9% was needed to achieve it and the per capita income also should be doubled from $1,800 to $3,600.

On economic slowdown, he said, “As of now, the economy is slowing down. The GDP, which is a measure of overall performance of the economy, has slowed down considerably. The investment rate has fallen from 35.2% six years ago to around 27% now. There is a significant decline in investment rate. If the economy needs to grow, investment rate is one of the important factors. We need to address the issue.”

Date: 7th January 2020 Publication: The Hindu Edition: Chennai Page No: 3 Journalist: NA Alumni: Prof. Subra Suresh Headline: IIT-M sets up lecture series in alumnus’ name URL: https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/iit-m-sets-up-lecture-series- in-alumnus-name/article30498667.ece

Date: 8th January 2020 Publication: The Hindu Edition: Chennai Page No: 2 Journalist: NA Prof. M S Sivakumar Headline: IIT’s cultural fete from today URL: https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/iits-cultural-fete-from- today/article30508014.ece

Date: 8th January 2020 Publication: DT Next Edition: Chennai Page No: 8 Journalist: NA Headline: Saarang 2020

Date: 8th January 2020 Publication: The Times of India Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. M S Sivakumar and Prof. Nandita Das Gupta Headline: Silver jubilee edition of Saarang to be held from January 8 to 12 URL: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/silver-jubilee-edition-of- saarang-to-be-held-from-january-8-to-12/articleshow/73141015.cms

Silver jubilee edition of Saarang to be held from January 8 to 12

Date: 8th January 2020 Publication: India Education Diary Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. M S Sivakumar and Prof. Nandita Das Gupta Headline: Silver Jubilee Edition of IIT Madras ‘Saarang,’ one of India’s largest student- run Cultural Fests, to be held from 8-12 January URL: https://indiaeducationdiary.in/silver-jubilee-edition-of-iit-madras-saarang-one- of-indias-largest-student-run-cultural-fests-to-be-held-from-8-12-january/

Silver Jubilee Edition of IIT Madras ‘Saarang,’ one of India’s largest student-run Cultural Fests, to be held from 8-12 January

The 25th Edition of Saarang, one of India’s largest annual cultural festival organized annually by IIT Madras, will be held between 8th and 12th January 2020. Every year, Saarang hosts more than 100 events and a footfall of 70,000 from over 500 colleges.

The Theme of the Silver Jubilee Edition of this festival, which is completely organized by IIT Madras students, is ‘Madras Memoirs.’ It is all set to evoke the memories of its decades’ worth of history, and tap into the rich heritage and culture of its mother city.

The festival kicks off with a ‘Classical Night’ on 8th January 2020. The Asia Book Record holder Mr. Rajhesh Vaidhya, a pioneer in his field of South Indian music with his use of electric and amplified strings, will grace the Open Air Theatre of Saarang.

Addressing the Press Conference here on Tuesday (7th January 2020), Prof M.S. Sivakumar, Dean (Students), IIT Madras, “This is a festival of joy and culture and is one of the largest cultural festivals in South India to be completely organized by students. We expect over 70,000 footfall for over 100 events. There are over 850 students involved in this effort. There are many regular features with one being a theme around which the event revolves. This year’s theme is ‘Madras Memoirs.’ Socially relevant campaigns were also undertaken. All the five days will end with pleasant performances by artistes in the event.”

In the past years, the organizers have successfully taken up causes such as cancer awareness, child welfare, and water conservation through Eunoia, Sukriti, and Boondh respectively, which garnered tremendous support and attention.

Addressing the Press Conference, Prof Nandita Das Gupta, Faculty Advisor, Saarang 2020, IIT Madras, said, “An event of this scale cannot be successful without the active participation of the students. A lot of different teams have put in hard work to organize Saarang 2020.”

This year, they have taken up the responsibility of continuing their mission of making education more accessible from the previous year, taking LEAP- Learning and Education Accessibility Project, to further heights of impact. The goal of LEAP is to make and provide tools and resources of education to the underprivileged and create an impact through paper recycling campaigns, manufacturing and distribution of eco-friendly notebooks to Government school children, career counselling opportunities, book donations, among other things.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Abhinav Kankane, Cultural Affairs Secretary (Literary), IIT Madras, “We always have a lot of college students from across India coming for the event. From the renowned Mr. A.R. Rahman to Mr. Benny Dayal, many big names have performed in ‘Mardi Gras,’ as Saarang use to be known earlier. We have the biggest intercollegiate student’s festival and we have international judges for choreo events. We have artistes coming from 67 differnt countries for dance events, band performances and graffiti.”

Mr. Shashwath Bacha, Cultural Affairs Secretary (Arts), IIT Madras, “This year we have special events for school students to compete in four events. We learn a lot by conducting events of such scale.”

The night of 9th January 2020 will witness the largest inter-collegiate, semi-professional dance competition in South India – ‘the Choreo Night.’ Succeeding this, Saarang’s EDM night promises to be one of the biggest ones yet with electrifying powerhouse Olly Esse opening the night and legendary Dutch duo, Dubvision performing as the headliner.

Saarang is also venturing into new avenues; Vernacular Fest, India Fest and the Film Fest add to the formidable span of interests that Saarang caters to, with a conscious effort to support and encourage niche events.

Another feather in Saarang’s cap is the Spotlight lectures, for which the line-up includes illustrious names in a variety of fields like the singer Mr. Sid Sriram, the noted historian and author Mr. Manu S. Pillai, the author Christopher C. Doyle, and the skilful ‘Chennayin FC’ players, to name a few.

The fest is all set to rock the metal head crowd with the ethnic rock band Motherjane headlining; opening the night on 11th January 2020, is the very talented Indie rock band ‘When Chai Met Toast.’

The pot of gold at the end of Saarang’s metaphorical rainbow, the Popular Night on January 12th is at the top of everyone’s bucket list. The gilding on the gold is the timeless sensation, Maestro Shankar Mahadevan headlining the night, with the six- piece experimental funk fusion band, ‘Karnautic’ opening the night of indescribable entertainment.

Date: 8th January 2020 Publication: The Times of India Edition: Chennai Page No: 3 Journalist: NA Headline: At 25 Saarang says Thank You Chennai

Date: 8th January 2020 Publication: DT Next Edition: Chennai Page No: 2 Journalist: NA Headline: Dancers with Down Syndrome to perform at Saarang

Date: 8th January 2020 Publication: The New Indian Express Edition: Chennai Page No: 3 Journalist: NA Headline: Shaastra 2020

Date: 8th January 2020 Publication: Dinamani Edition: Chennai Page No: 6 Journalist: NA Headline: The 25th Edition of Saarang URL: https://bit.ly/2N4Z7pj

Date: 8th January 2020 Publication: Dinamlar Edition: Chennai Page No: 6 Journalist: NA Headline: IIT Madras students introduce Social Campaign of Saarang

Date: 9th January 2020 Publication: News Today Edition: Chennai Page No: 3 Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. M S Sivakumar Headline: 25th edition of ‘Saarang’ kicks off at IIT-M, Chennai URL: https://newstodaynet.com/index.php/2020/01/08/25th-edition-of-saarang- kicks-off-at-iit-m-chennai/

Date: 9th January 2020 Publication: The Hindu Business Line Edition: Hyderabad / Bangalore / Chennai Page No: 3 Journalist: TE Raja Simhan Headline: How Baidu uses Artificial Intelligence to trace missing people in China URL: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/how-baidu-uses-artificial- intelligence-to-trace-missing-people-in-china/article30516654.ece

Date: 9th January 2020 Publication: The Times of India Edition: Chennai Page No: 2 Journalist: NA Headline: The sound of musical

Date: 8th January 2020 Publication: Navjeevan Express Edition: Online Journalist: NA Student: Rishika Varma K. Headline: Saarang all set to leave its ‘IMPRINTS’ among school students URL: https://navjeevanexpress.com/saarang-all-set-to-leave-its-imprints-among- school-students/

Saarang all set to leave its ‘IMPRINTS’ among school students

As part of the Siver Jubilee edition of the country’s largest cultural festival for college students organised by the students of IIT, Chennai, “Imprints’’, a programme to reach out to schoolchildren will be held on Thursday.

One of the organisers Rishika Varma K of Saarang said the Imprints have expanded the horizon of Saarang for school students to exhibit their inherent talent through culture events.

4 competitions for school students

Imprints 2020 has constituted four competitions, namely Alankar (Light music solo singing contest. Songs sung should be predominantly of any Indian language at 1.30 p.m.) Elocution (Participants are expected to speak about a specified topic. The theme will be “Cultures of Madras at 9 a.m.). Poster-Making (Themed poster making contest. The theme will be announced on the spot at 9 a.m.) And Quiz competition (General quiz contest for teams of two at 1.30 p.m.) The competitions will be held on January 9.

The competitions will be held at Ramanujan Block in IIT Madras. Participants can register at http://bit.ly/Imprints_typeform. Winners will be awarded prizes worth Rs. 20,000 and the best performing School will be recognized as “Imprints Champion, Saarang 2020”

Date: 10th January 2020 Publication: The Times of India - Chennai Times Edition: Chennai Page No: 3 Journalist: NA Headline: Its music to ears IIT-Ms inter-collegiate festival is back

Date: 10th January 2020 Publication: News Today Edition: Chennai Page No: 3 Journalist: NA Headline: Sabre partners with IIT-M for Saarang

Date: 11th January 2020 Publication: The Times of India - Chennai Times Edition: Chennai Page No: 10 Journalist: NA Headline: When Chai Met Toast Genre Folk-Pop URL: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/music/when-chai-met- toast-to-release-their-first-album-this-year/articleshow/73189316.cms

Date: 12th January 2020 Publication: Patrika Edition: Online Journalist: Navyavesh Navrahi Headline: IIT Mas Mamhov 'Sarang' Dhoom, 500 Sixty thousand of colleges covered URL: https://www.patrika.com/miscellenous-india/festival-sarang-in-iit-madras-more- than-sixty-thousand-students-from-500-colleges-participated-5628405/

Date: 13th January 2020 Publication: The Times of India Edition: Chennai Page No: 8 Journalist: NA Headline: EVENTS

Date: 13th January 2020 Publication: The Times of India Edition: Chennai Page No: 2 Journalist: NA Headline: JAMMING TO SOME INDIE FOLK

Date: 13th January 2020 Publication: The Times of India Edition: Chennai Page No: 2 Journalist: NA Headline: HITTING THE RIGHT NOTES

Date: 14th January 2020 Publication: The Times of India Edition: Online Journalist: Purnima Sah Headline: 'When Chai Met Toast' to release their first album this year URL: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/music/when-chai-met- toast-to-release-their-first-album-this-year/articleshow/73189316.cms

'When Chai Met Toast' to release their first album this year

Date: 14th January 2020 Publication: The Times of India Edition: Chennai Page No: 3 Journalist: NA Headline: IIT-M Fests grand finale rocked the crowd

Date: 15th January 2020 Publication: The Times of India Edition: Online Journalist: NA Headline: CFC players drop in at Saarang '20 URL: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/cfc-players-drop-in-at- saarang-20/articleshow/73251492.cms

Date: 16th January 2020 Publication: Biometric update Edition: Online Journalist: Luana Pascu Headline: Digital identity roundup: Socure taps India, Freja eID secures gaming, IDology expands, FCT joins Verified.Me URL: https://www.biometricupdate.com/202001/digital-identity-wrap-socure-taps- india-freja-eid-secures-gaming-idology-expands-fct-joins-verified-me

Digital identity roundup: Socure taps India, Freja eID secures gaming, IDology expands, FCT joins Verified.Me

Socure is interested in expanding its digital ID verification services to the Indian fintech market, writes the Hindu Business Line, following industry reports estimating it will reach some $31 billion in 2020. “The digital fintech movement has already started in India and we want to be part of that,” Socure CEO Tom Thimot told BusinessLine recently. “There is barely a new fintech in America that is not using Socure. Hopefully, we can be an enabler to help fintechs in India as well.” Thimot trusts Socure will be part of the Indian marketing in 6-18 months, noticing increased interest in its commercial service already. To verify identity in real time, Socure leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms combined with data intelligence extracted from email, address, phone, IP and social media accounts. Socure has developed proprietary predictive analytics for banks and financial institutions to cut down the number of fraud attempts, optimize review processes and auto approval rates for new account opening. Socure claims its verification platform ID+ has been implemented by more than 100 bans, lenders, brokers and payment providers around the world. Clients include three out of the top five US banks, two of the top global remittance providers and five of the top 10 card issuers as its customers. The latest version of the ID+ Identity Verification Platform, version 3.0, includes sigma fraud scoring with machine learning and artificial intelligence, which the company says reduces manual review time by up to 90 percent, as well as document verification, which combines with biometric selfie and liveness detection, and KYC/CIP checks with proprietary ML techniques for auto-approval rates higher than 90 percent. “We are in the game of volume. There are seven countries which have 80 per cent of the population and India is among the top three, and clearly the next investment,” said Johnny Ayers, co-founder and SVP, Socure, who was also part of the interaction. With offices in San Francisco and San Diego, an Indian subsidiary in Chennai counting 30 employees was also opened in 2017. “Globally, we have 125 people and our goal is to double our employee headcount to around 270, proportionately adding more employees in India,” Thimot said. Plans for India include doubling the headcount to 75-100 employees by 2020, and expanding to other cities. Socure sponsored the annual student tech fest Shaastra 2020, held at IIT-Madras last week. “We place tremendous value on the education system here. We know we could get really good talent and one of the things we are proud of is we didn’t have even one attrition last year in Chennai,” Thimot said. Included as one of America’s most promising AI companies in the Forbes AI50 list, Socure has raised some $60 million in capital investment from as Scale Venture Partners, Commerce Ventures and Flint Capital. Videoslots adds Freja eID to secure gambling, compliance across Nordics Online casino Videoslots has adopted the Freja eID tool across the Nordics to ensure safer gambling for its customers, the company announced. By adopting the Freja eID tool, Videoslots guarantees legal verification of all gambling requirements in the region, including checks on age and location, and optimizes the sign-up process for new players. The app delivers more transparency on which data is stored and grants user access to their detailed history. All terms and conditions are presented in the app so the user can give consent for usage of personal data. “We believe gambling should be safe and simple as well as fun. Freja eID will help us ensure we protect players and respect their data both on sign-up and while they enjoy our casino,” said Ulle Skottling, COO at Videoslots.com. “We invest a lot of time and resources into ensuring we not only comply with regulatory requirements but surpass them and this new tool will be implemented in order to attain the highest standards.” “The agreement with Videoslots in the Nordics shows Freja eID can be the iGaming industry’s key to fast customer on-boarding, KYC, payments, increased customer interaction and global scalability,” added Johan Henrikson, CEO Verisec. “An e-ID is about much more than meeting regulatory requirements. It’s about the user experience and customer loyalty which is becoming increasingly important in a digitalised world.” IDology delivers global capabilities, expands country portfolio IDology’s ExpectID solution will offer global support and capabilities for an additional number of countries from North America, South America and Europe, which will now be able to verify and authenticate customers in real time, the company announced. Companies use ExpectID to access international data sources that hold billions of public records and verify identity, and receive predictive information to reduce fraud. ExpectID simplifies onboarding and authentication for customers from multiple countries. “Fraud and criminals operate across borders, so it’s only natural that identity verification solutions enable secure and friction-free cross-country capabilities,” said Chris Clark, CEO of GBG. “Today’s announcement is a compelling proof point that GBG is executing on our mission of helping any business, anywhere, reach and identify any customer across the world.” McKinsey estimates the identity verification as a service industry will grow by $20 billion over the next two years, with a Total Addressable Market (TAM) growth of 9–15 percent annually.

IIT Madras is an research focused institute

Date: 6th January 2020 Publication: The New Indian Express Edition: Bangalore / Kochi Page No: 14 Journalist: NA Headline: Enzyme hypertension link found at IT-Madras

Date: 9th January 2020 Publication: The Times of India Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof RI Sujith Headline: Research by IIT Madras is among the top papers cited by Chief Advisor to UK PM URL: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/research-by-iit-madras-is- among-the-top-papers-cited-by-chief-advisor-to-uk-pm/articleshow/73169922.cms

Research by IIT Madras is among the top papers cited by Chief Advisor to UK PM

An Indian Institute of Technology Madras Research paper was among the papers cited by Mr. Dominic Cummings, Chief Special Adviser to U.K. Prime Minister Mr. Boris Johnson, to revamp decision-making strategies

Published in the reputed peer reviewed international journal Scientific Reports of Nature.Nature, the research paper titled ‘Early warning signals for critical transitions in a thermoacoustic system’ was the first research cited by Mr. Dominic Cummings in his blog. The Research paper looked at early warning systems in physics that could be applied to other areas from finance to epidemics.

Mr. Dominic Cummings substantiates his stand for applying these novel technologies for a nation’s strategy building exercise. He hopes to create a set of experts consisting of Physicists, Mathematicians and Data Scientists to deal with the major social and economic issues of UK.

These Indian scientists applied the tools from nonlinear dynamics to develop robust precursory measures for detrimental transitions observed in canonical thermoacoustic systems. Although there existed early warning measures for predicting transitions in mathematical models, Prof. Sujith and his collaborators were the first to prove the efficacy of the same in predicting transitions in real physical systems

Highlighting the applications envisaged in this research, Dr. R. I. Sujith, the lead researcher and Chair Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras, said, “We used analytics to detect transitions that lead to failure in engineering systems such as gas turbine engines. Other applications which we envisaged were the transitions that happen in financial markets, instabilities in power grids leading to blackout and sudden failure of vital organs in the human body.”

Further, Dr. Sujith said, “It is very heartening to see the open-mindedness and courage shown by a country such as the U.K. to embrace the cutting-edge tools from physics and mathematics. We believe that this will open up a lot of opportunities for the young talent in the world and we are really happy to be a part of this exciting scientific exploration. We are of the firm opinion that we can avail such technologies in India also to improve our socio-economical systems.”

The Research paper was published by a team lead by Dr. R. I. Sujith, Chair Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras, and comprising Dr. E.A. Gopalakrishnan (currently, Assistant Professor, CEN, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham) who did his PhD with Prof. Sujith, Mr. Tony John (PhD student, Georgia Institute of Technology) who did his Master’s thesis with Prof. Sujith, Prof. Partha Sharathi Dutta (Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, IIT Ropar) and Ms. Yogita Sharma (currently Post-Doctoral Researcher, UC Berkeley) who did her PhD with Prof. Dutta.

The problem statement the researchers looked at was that many complex systems such as stock markets, climate systems, human body and neurons in the mammalian brain exhibit sudden change in their qualitative behaviour by transiting into an alternate state termed as ‘tipping.’ The alternate state to which the system transits need not always be desirable as in the case of a stock market crash, extinction of a species in an ecosystem, sudden collapse of a healthy human being so on and so forth. This catastrophic nature of tipping demands the development of precursory measures which will forewarn these impending transitions

In this paper, the Researchers investigated the efficacy of early warning measures based on ‘critical slowing down,’ where the system responds slowly to the perturbations as the system approaches transition.

In such complex systems, before a catastrophic event takes place, the system (be it any complex system such as ecological or physiological or economic or engineering system) gives indications of the impending transition. If these signals can be detected early enough, before the system hits a tipping point, initiating appropriate management strategies become feasible.

Prof RI Sujith added, “Take for instance a complex system such as the earth’s climate. We would start seeing a lot of variability in the climate in an extreme manner. Many temperature records may be broken as a threshold for climatic change is approaching. We will start running into the hottest summers, coldest winders, wettest rains and driest droughts. Sahara Desert, which was once having a thick vegetation is now a desert, which implies that a critical transition occurred. Extreme fluctuations are observed in other areas such a finance, epidemics etc., which are complex systems. And similar events indeed happen in thermoacoustic systems before critical transitions occur.”

Over the years, many early warning measures were developed to detect such critical transitions. However, these measures are often tested only in mathematical models and not in real physical systems. Testing these measures in physical systems is the only way in which we can find out if they really work. Such testing is very critical to establish the reliability and robustness of early warning signals (known in the community as EWS).

The study was funded by the Office of Naval Research Global (ONRG, USA), as thermoacoustic systems are good testbeds for testing out tools such as EWS for analyzing complex systems.

Date: 9th January 2020 Publication: UNI Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof RI Sujith Headline: IIT-M Research paper cited by UK PM's Chief Advisor to revamp decision making strategies URL: http://www.uniindia.com/iit-m-research-paper-cited-by-uk-pm-s-chief-advisor- to-revamp-decision-making-strategies/south/news/1847873.html

IIT-M Research paper cited by UK PM's Chief Advisor to revamp decision making strategies

The study was funded by the Office of Naval Research Global (ONRG, USA), as thermoacoustic systems are good testbeds for testing out tools such as EWS for analyzing complex systems.

Date: 9th January 2020 Publication: India Education Diary Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof RI Sujith Headline: IIT Madras Research among the top papers cited by Chief Advisor to UK PM to revamp Decision-Making Strategies URL: https://indiaeducationdiary.in/iit-madras-research-among-the-top-papers- cited-by-chief-advisor-to-uk-pm-to-revamp-decision-making-strategies/

IIT Madras Research among the top papers cited by Chief Advisor to UK PM to revamp Decision-Making Strategies

The study was funded by the Office of Naval Research Global (ONRG, USA), as thermoacoustic systems are good testbeds for testing out tools such as EWS for analyzing complex systems.

Date: 10th January 2020 Publication: DT Next Edition: Chennai Page No: 4 Journalist: NA Professor: Prof RI Sujith Headline: UK PMs Chief Advisor cites from IIT-M study

Date: 10th January 2020 Publication: India TV Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof RI Sujith Headline: UK PM Boris Johnson's aide cites IIT-M paper to revamp decision making URL: https://www.indiatvnews.com/science/iit-madras-research-paper-uk-pm-boris- jhonson-aide-citation-577941

UK PM Boris Johnson's aide cites IIT-M paper to revamp decision making Most complex systems, like stock markets, climate systems, human body and neurons in the mammalian brain, give out the signal that it's reaching a tipping point and if that can be identified, many catastrophic events could be avoided. With the early detection of such signals of the impending transition, appropriate management strategies could be implemented, according to the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, research that encompasses both pure and applied sciences.

The research has been underlined by Dominic Cummings, Chief Special Adviser to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, for revamping the decision-making strategies there.

According to an IIT statement here, the paper 'Early warning signals for critical transitions in a thermoacoustic system', published in the international journal Scientific Reports of Nature, was the first research cited by Cummings.

The research looked at early warning systems in physics, which could be applied to finance to epidemics.

According to the IIT, Cummings substantiated his stand for applying these novel technologies for the strategy building exercise. He hopes to create a set of experts, comprising physicists, mathematicians and data scientists, to deal with the major social and economic issues of the UK.

Highlighting applications envisaged in the research, R.I. Sujith, lead researcher and Chair Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras, said, "We used analytics to detect transitions that lead to failure in engineering systems, like gas turbine engines.

"Other applications, which we envisaged, were transitions that happen in financial markets, instabilities in power grids leading to blackout and sudden failure of vital organs in the human body."

"It's heartening to see the open-mindedness and courage shown by a country, like the UK, to embrace the cutting-edge tools from physics and mathematics. It will open up a lot of opportunities for young talent. We can avail such technologies in India also to improve socio-economic systems," Sujith said.

The researchers realised that many complex systems, like stock markets, climate systems, human body and neurons in the mammalian brain, exhibit sudden change in qualitative behaviour by transiting into an alternate state termed as 'tipping'.

This alternate state need not always be desirable as in the cases, like a stock market crash, extinction of a species in an ecosystem, sudden collapse of a healthy person. This catastrophic nature of tipping demands development of precursory measures, which will forewarn these transitions.

In the paper, researchers investigated the efficacy of early warning measures based on 'critical slowing down', where the system responds slowly to perturbations as the system approaches transition.

The research paper was published by a Sujith-led team and comprised A. Gopalakrishnan (Assistant Professor, CEN, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham), Tony John (PhD student, Georgia Institute of Technology), Partha Sharathi Dutta (Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, IIT Ropar) and Yogita Sharma (Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of California, Berkeley).

Date: 10th January 2020 Publication: NDTV Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof RI Sujith Headline: UK PM's Aide Cites IIT Research Paper To Revamp Decision Making URL: https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/dominic-cummings-boris-johnson-aide-cites- iit-madras-research-paper-to-revamp-decision-making-2161634

UK PM's Aide Cites IIT Research Paper To Revamp Decision Making

Most complex systems, like stock markets, climate systems, human body and neurons in the mammalian brain, give out the signal that it's reaching a tipping point and if that can be identified, many catastrophic events could be avoided. With the early detection of such signals of the impending transition, appropriate management strategies could be implemented, according to the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, research that encompasses both pure and applied sciences.

The research has been underlined by Dominic Cummings, Chief Special Adviser to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, for revamping the decision-making strategies there.

The research looked at early warning systems in physics, which could be applied to finance to epidemics.

"Other applications, which we envisaged, were transitions that happen in financial markets, instabilities in power grids leading to blackout and sudden failure of vital organs in the human body."

In the paper, researchers investigated the efficacy of early warning measures based on 'critical slowing down', where the system responds slowly to perturbations as the system approaches transition.

Date: 10th January 2020 Publication: The New Indian Express Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof RI Sujith Headline: UK PM Boris Johnson's aide cites IIT Madras paper to revamp decision making URL: https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2020/jan/10/uk-pm-boris- johnsons-aide-cites-iit-madras-paper-to-revamp-decision-making-2087445.html

UK PM''s aide cites IIT-M paper to revamp decision making

The research has been underlined by Dominic Cummings, Chief Special Adviser to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, for revamping the decision-making strategies there.

The research looked at early warning systems in physics, which could be applied to finance to epidemics.

"Other applications, which we envisaged, were transitions that happen in financial markets, instabilities in power grids leading to blackout and sudden failure of vital organs in the human body."

In the paper, researchers investigated the efficacy of early warning measures based on 'critical slowing down', where the system responds slowly to perturbations as the system approaches transition.

Date: 10th January 2020 Publication: Outlook Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof RI Sujith Headline: UK PM''s aide cites IIT-M paper to revamp decision making URL: https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/uk-pms-aide-cites-iitm-paper-to- revamp-decision-making/1704526

UK PM''s aide cites IIT-M paper to revamp decision making

The research has been underlined by Dominic Cummings, Chief Special Adviser to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, for revamping the decision-making strategies there.

The research looked at early warning systems in physics, which could be applied to finance to epidemics.

"Other applications, which we envisaged, were transitions that happen in financial markets, instabilities in power grids leading to blackout and sudden failure of vital organs in the human body."

In the paper, researchers investigated the efficacy of early warning measures based on 'critical slowing down', where the system responds slowly to perturbations as the system approaches transition.

Date: 10th January 2020 Publication: Navjeevan Express Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof RI Sujith Headline: IIT Madras research among the top papers cited by Chief Advisor to UK PM to revamp Decision-Making Strategies URL: http://navjeevanexpress.com/iit-madras-research-among-the-top-papers- cited-by-chief-advisor-to-uk-pm-to-revamp-decision-making-strategies/

IIT Madras research among the top papers cited by Chief Advisor to UK PM to revamp Decision-Making Strategies

The research has been underlined by Dominic Cummings, Chief Special Adviser to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, for revamping the decision-making strategies there.

The research looked at early warning systems in physics, which could be applied to finance to epidemics.

"Other applications, which we envisaged, were transitions that happen in financial markets, instabilities in power grids leading to blackout and sudden failure of vital organs in the human body."

In the paper, researchers investigated the efficacy of early warning measures based on 'critical slowing down', where the system responds slowly to perturbations as the system approaches transition.

Date: 10th January 2020 Publication: News Dig Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof RI Sujith Headline: UK PM Boris Johnson's aide cites IIT-M paper to revamp decision making URL: https://newsdig.in/news/268843851/UK-PM-Boris-Johnsons-aide-cites-IIT-M- paper-to-revamp-decision-making

UK PM Boris Johnson's aide cites IIT-M paper to revamp decision making

The research has been underlined by Dominic Cummings, Chief Special Adviser to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, for revamping the decision-making strategies there.

The research looked at early warning systems in physics, which could be applied to finance to epidemics.

"Other applications, which we envisaged, were transitions that happen in financial markets, instabilities in power grids leading to blackout and sudden failure of vital organs in the human body."

In the paper, researchers investigated the efficacy of early warning measures based on 'critical slowing down', where the system responds slowly to perturbations as the system approaches transition.

Date: 10th January 2020 Publication: News D Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof RI Sujith Headline: UK PM’s aide cites IIT-M paper to revamp decision making URL: https://newsd.in/uk-pm-s-aide-cites-iit-m-paper-to-revamp-decision-making/

UK PM’s aide cites IIT-M paper to revamp decision making

The research has been underlined by Dominic Cummings, Chief Special Adviser to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, for revamping the decision-making strategies there.

The research looked at early warning systems in physics, which could be applied to finance to epidemics.

"Other applications, which we envisaged, were transitions that happen in financial markets, instabilities in power grids leading to blackout and sudden failure of vital organs in the human body."

In the paper, researchers investigated the efficacy of early warning measures based on 'critical slowing down', where the system responds slowly to perturbations as the system approaches transition.

Date: 10th January 2020 Publication: Shiksha.com Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof RI Sujith Headline: IIT Madras alumnus donates Rs 1 crore to establish robotics research laboratory URL: https://www.shiksha.com/articles/iit-madras-alumnus-donates-rs-1-crore-to- establish-robotics-research-laboratory-blogId-28501

IIT Madras alumnus donates Rs 1 crore to establish robotics research laboratory

The research has been underlined by Dominic Cummings, Chief Special Adviser to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, for revamping the decision-making strategies there.

The research looked at early warning systems in physics, which could be applied to finance to epidemics.

"Other applications, which we envisaged, were transitions that happen in financial markets, instabilities in power grids leading to blackout and sudden failure of vital organs in the human body."

In the paper, researchers investigated the efficacy of early warning measures based on 'critical slowing down', where the system responds slowly to perturbations as the system approaches transition.

Date: 10th January 2020 Publication: New Kerla Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof RI Sujith Headline: UK PM's aide cites IIT-M paper to revamp decision making URL: https://www.newkerala.com/news/2020/4447.htm

UK PM's aide cites IIT-M paper to revamp decision making

The research has been underlined by Dominic Cummings, Chief Special Adviser to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, for revamping the decision-making strategies there.

The research looked at early warning systems in physics, which could be applied to finance to epidemics.

"Other applications, which we envisaged, were transitions that happen in financial markets, instabilities in power grids leading to blackout and sudden failure of vital organs in the human body."

In the paper, researchers investigated the efficacy of early warning measures based on 'critical slowing down', where the system responds slowly to perturbations as the system approaches transition.

Date: 10th January 2020 Publication: Orissa Post Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof RI Sujith Headline: Advisor to British PM cites IIT Madras paper to revamp decision making URL: https://www.orissapost.com/advisor-to-british-pm-cites-iit-madras-paper-to- revamp-decision-making/

Advisor to British PM cites IIT Madras paper to revamp decision making

The research has been underlined by Dominic Cummings, Chief Special Adviser to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, for revamping the decision-making strategies there.

The research looked at early warning systems in physics, which could be applied to finance to epidemics.

"Other applications, which we envisaged, were transitions that happen in financial markets, instabilities in power grids leading to blackout and sudden failure of vital organs in the human body."

In the paper, researchers investigated the efficacy of early warning measures based on 'critical slowing down', where the system responds slowly to perturbations as the system approaches transition.

Date: 10th January 2020 Publication: Daily World Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof RI Sujith Headline: UK PM’s aide cites IIT-M paper to revamp decision making URL: http://dailyworld.in/uk-pms-aide-cites-iit-m-paper-to-revamp-decision-making/

UK PM’s aide cites IIT-M paper to revamp decision making

The research has been underlined by Dominic Cummings, Chief Special Adviser to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, for revamping the decision-making strategies there.

The research looked at early warning systems in physics, which could be applied to finance to epidemics.

"Other applications, which we envisaged, were transitions that happen in financial markets, instabilities in power grids leading to blackout and sudden failure of vital organs in the human body."

In the paper, researchers investigated the efficacy of early warning measures based on 'critical slowing down', where the system responds slowly to perturbations as the system approaches transition.

Date: 10th January 2020 Publication: The Weekendleader.com Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof RI Sujith Headline: UK PM's aide cites IIT-M paper to revamp decision making URL: http://www.theweekendleader.com/Headlines/48233/uk-pm-s-aide-cites-iit-m- paper-to-revamp-decision-making.html

UK PM's aide cites IIT-M paper to revamp decision making

The research has been underlined by Dominic Cummings, Chief Special Adviser to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, for revamping the decision-making strategies there.

The research looked at early warning systems in physics, which could be applied to finance to epidemics.

"Other applications, which we envisaged, were transitions that happen in financial markets, instabilities in power grids leading to blackout and sudden failure of vital organs in the human body."

In the paper, researchers investigated the efficacy of early warning measures based on 'critical slowing down', where the system responds slowly to perturbations as the system approaches transition.

Date: 11th January 2020 Publication: Nyoooz Edition: Online Journalist: NA Headline: UK PM Boris Johnson's aide cites IIT Madras paper to revamp decision making URL: https://www.nyoooz.com/news/chennai/1428259/uk-pm-boris-johnson39s-aide- cites-iitmadras-paper-to-revamp-decision-making/

UK PM Boris Johnson's aide cites IIT Madras paper to revamp decision making

The research has been underlined by Dominic Cummings, Chief Special Adviser to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, for revamping the decision-making strategies there. According to an IIT statement here, the paper 'Early warning signals for critical transitions in a thermoacoustic system', published in the international journal Scientific Reports of Nature, was the first research cited by Cummings. The research looked at early warning systems in physics, which could be applied to finance to epidemics. According to the IIT, Cummings substantiated his stand for applying these novel technologies for the strategy building exercise. In the paper, researchers investigated the efficacy of early warning measures based on 'critical slowing down', where the system responds slowly to perturbations as the system approaches transition.

Date: 10th January 2020 Publication: We for News Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. RI Sujith Headline: UK PM’s aide cites IIT-M paper to revamp decision making URL: https://www.wefornews.com/uk-pms-aide-cites-iit-m-paper-to-revamp- decision-making/

UK PM’s aide cites IIT-M paper to revamp decision making

The research has been underlined by Dominic Cummings, Chief Special Adviser to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, for revamping the decision-making strategies there.

The research looked at early warning systems in physics, which could be applied to finance to epidemics.

"Other applications, which we envisaged, were transitions that happen in financial markets, instabilities in power grids leading to blackout and sudden failure of vital organs in the human body."

Date: 13th January 2020 Publication: Telangana Today Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. R I Sujith Headline: IIT-M paper cited by chief advisor to UK PM URL: https://telanganatoday.com/iit-m-paper-cited-by-chief-advisor-to-uk-pm

IIT-M paper cited by chief advisor to UK PM

An Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) research paper was among the papers cited by Dominic Cummings, Chief Special Adviser to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, to revamp decision-making strategies.

Published in the reputed peer reviewed international journal Scientific Reports of Nature, the research paper titled ‘Early warning signals for critical transitions in a thermoacoustic system’ was the first research cited by Dominic Cummings in his blog.

The research paper looked at early warning systems in physics that could be applied to other areas from finance to epidemics. Cummings substantiates his stand for applying these novel technologies for a nation’s strategy building exercise. He hopes to create a set of experts consisting of physicists, mathematicians and data scientists to deal with the major social and economic issues of UK.

Highlighting the applications envisaged in this research, Dr RI Sujith, the lead researcher and Chair Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras, said, “We used analytics to detect transitions that lead to failure in engineering systems such as gas turbine engines. Other applications which we envisaged were the transitions that happen in financial markets, instabilities in power grids leading to blackout and sudden failure of vital organs in the human body.”

The Research paper was published by a team lead by Dr. R. I. Sujith, Chair Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras, and comprising Dr. E.A. Gopalakrishnan (currently, Assistant Professor, CEN, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham) who did his PhD with Prof. Sujith, Tony John (PhD student, Georgia Institute of Technology) who did his Master’s thesis with Prof. Sujith, Prof. Partha Sharathi Dutta (Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, IIT Ropar) and Yogita Sharma (currently Post-Doctoral Researcher, UC Berkeley) who did her PhD with Prof. Dutta. The study was funded by the Office of Naval Research Global (ONRG, USA). Date: 14th January 2020 Publication: Mail Today Edition: Delhi / Chandigarh Page No: 13 Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. R I Sujith Headline: Can Physics predict stock market?

Date: 17th January 2020 Publication: The Asian Age Edition: Mumbai Page No: 5 Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Tiju Thomas Alumni: Dr. A. Malek Headline: IIT-M develops device to produce 'clean' hydro fuel from seawater

Date: 17th January 2020 Publication: Punjab Kesri Edition: Delhi Page No: 12 Journalist: NA Headline: Equipment developed to make hydrogen fuel from sea water

Date: 17th January 2020 Publication: Dainik Jagran Edition: Delhi Page No: 16 Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Tiju Thomas Alumni: Dr. A. Malek Headline: Hydrogen fuel will be made from sea water

Date: 17th January 2020 Publication: Deccan Chronicle Edition: Chennai / Hyderabad Page No: 1 & 2 Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Tiju Thomas Alumni: Dr. A. Malek Headline: IIT-M device to produce hydrogen fuel

Date: 17th January 2020 Publication: Hindustan Edition: Delhi Page No: 16 Journalist: NA Headline: Hydrogen fuel will be made from sea water

Date: 17th January 2020 Publication: Andhra Bhoomi Edition: Hyderabad Page No: 5 Journalist: NA Headline: An innovative device

Date: 17th January 2020 Publication: Eenadu Edition: Hyderabad Page No: 2 Journalist: NA Headline: Hydrogen from seawater

Date: 17th January 2020 Publication: Sakshi Edition: Hyderabad Page No: 5 Journalist: NA Headline: Hydrogen fuel from seawater

Date: 17th January 2020 Publication: DT Next Edition: Chennai Page No: 8 Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Tiju Thomas Alumni: Dr. A. Malek Headline: IIT-M develops tech to produce hydrogen fuel from seawater URL: https://www.dtnext.in/News/TamilNadu/2020/01/17020558/1209776/IITM- develops-tech-to-produce-hydrogen-fuel-from-seawater.vpf

Date: 17th January 2020 Publication: Dinakaran Edition: Chennai Page No: 2 (Supplement) Journalist: NA Alumni: Dr. Abdul Malek Headline: எ鎿ர்காலத்鎿ல் காற்쟁 மா毁கவ பவ埁வாக 埁கறக்埁ம் கடல் நீரி쮿쏁ந்鏁 கைட்ரஜன் எரிபோ쏁ள் தயாரிே்ꯁ: பென்கன ஐஐ羿 ힿஞ்ஞானிகள் ொதகன (Hydrogen can be produced from sea water to reduce future air pollution: IIT Madras scientists achievement) URL: http://www.dinakaran.com/News_Detail.asp?Nid=556706

Date: 17th January 2020 Publication: Dinathanthi Edition: Chennai Page No: 11 Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Tiju Thomas Alumni: Dr. Abdul Malek Headline: கடல்நீரில் இ쏁ந்鏁 கைட்ரஜன் எரிபோ쏁ள் தயாரிக்埁ம் க쏁ힿ; பென்கன ஐ.ஐ.羿. ஆராய்ெ்殿யாளர்கள் கண்翁ꮿ羿ே்ꯁ (Device to extract hydrogen from sea water: IIT Madras invention) URL: https://www.dailythanthi.com/News/India/2020/01/17005540/Hydrogen-fuel- making-equipment-from-seawater-IIT-Chennai.vpf

Date: 17th January 2020 Publication: The Times of India Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Tiju Thomas Alumni: Dr. A. Malek Headline: IIT-Madras develops eco-friendly way to produce hydrogen fuel from seawater URL: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/iit-madras-develops-eco- friendly-way-to-produce-hydrogen-fuel-from-seawater/articleshow/73294967.cms

IIT-Madras develops eco-friendly way to produce hydrogen fuel from seawater

Using the technology, described in the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, hydrogen can be produced on-demand at the point of use, and hence it need not to be stored.

This overcomes the storage-related challenges associated with hydrogen as its highly inflammable and may cause an explosion, the researchers said.

Hydrogen can be a good source of energy for the future. Combustion of hydrogen does not produce carbon dioxide, unlike fossil fuels, making it a 'clean' source of energy, they said.

Considering the increased levels of air pollution globally, the researchers are even targeting running cars and bikes by seawater using hydrogen power.

"The solid starting materials can be transported from one place to another place very conveniently. This bypasses the transportation bottleneck associated with hydrogen sector," Malek told PTI.

The researchers noted that hydrogen is produced at a tunable rate without heat, electricity or sunlight. The starting materials are all eco-friendly.

The process is amenable to all scales of production that is relevant for the hydrogen economy -- hence sectors such as automotive, aviation etc. would benefit from this technology, they said.

The researchers, including Tiju Thomas, Associate Professor at IIT Madras, said they are on the way to customise and design a proper hydrogen system for vehicles.

"We are looking forward to delivering solutions for the global energy sector," Malek said.

The technology is used to generate hydrogen from any source of water. However, as seawater covers two-thirds of the surface of the Earth, the researchers are keen on utilising it.

The easy-to-use prototype device can produce hydrogen fuel with the push of a button, which adds water from one compartment to the other, the scientists said.

"We are working towards making it like a coffee machine so that any common man can press a switch and produce hydrogen when required," Malek said.

The device contains two compartments stacked one above the other.

Users can add seawater or tap water from the top compartment. In the bottom section, there are materials which can produce hydrogen by splitting water.

As soon as water reaches the bottom compartment, hydrogen production occurs and can be collected via an outlet, the researchers said.

The outlet tube can be connected to customised engines which run vehicles or produce electricity.

"The water addition rate can control the amount of hydrogen produced and flow depending on the requirement. The technical details are patent protected, Malek said.

"The process is scalable. The amount can be produced according to the need. Hence hydrogen for mobility such as for cars etc is eminently possible via due customisation," he said.

The researchers noted that commercial method requires high temperature about 1,000 degrees Celsius, and nearly 25 bar pressure.

However, the new process works at the room temperature, and atmospheric pressure which is 1 bar, they said.

"Our current estimates indicate that the cost is likely comparable to the available prices -- things could change with scale. However, the key selling point is enhanced safety, and elimination of point-of-use environmental pollution," added Malek.

Date: 17th January 2020 Publication: The Economic Times Edition: Online Journalist: NA Professor: Prof. Tiju Thomas Alumni: Dr. A. Malek Headline: IIT-M develops eco-friendly way to produce hydrogen fuel from seawater URL: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/productline/power- generation/iit-m-develops-eco-friendly-way-to-produce-hydrogen-fuel-from- seawater/articleshow/73296049.cms

IIT-M develops eco-friendly way to produce hydrogen fuel from seawater