Zoom Platform for Research Meeting
11-Apr-2020
Dr. Ananth Prabhu G, Professor, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, hosted an online meeting using the Zoom platform with his 5 Research Scholars who are registered for PhD under his guidance with Sahyadri as the Research Centre.
A guest lecture was organized by Dr. Varadraj Gurupur, Associate Professor in the University of Central Florida, USA.
Dr. Gurupur is a recipient of two international awards, one national award, and several regional and institutional awards. His core research is focused on software engineering decision support systems for healthcare and education. Dr. Gurupur has more than 90 publications which include: edited book, book chapters, journal articles, conference papers, abstracts, and published reviews. His articles have been published in high impact journals such as Expert Systems with Applications, Health Informatics Journal, Journal of Medical Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies.
Also reputed researchers Dr. Mustafa Bastikodi, Dr. Sudeepa K and Dr. Steven Lawrence Fernandes were present.
The topic of the meeting was - "Research During Lockdown". Some of the key take aways during this workshop were:
• Zooniverse, which sets volunteers to work on subject matters ranging from literature to space exploration, recorded 5 million “classifications” (images processed) last week – four times its usual number. Over the same period, 30,000 new contributors signed up. https://www.zooniverse.org/
• About VTU circular for innovative ideas to curb COVID 19 https://vtu.ac.in/administration-circulars/innovative-ideas-an-research-projects-to-curb-covid-19-issues/
• Online Learning - Learn as much as possible and complete certification courses. Many are offering certain courses for free as a Lockdown feature https://www.edx.org/
• Project students have worked on to track COVID patients. For more ideas on other projects too, visit science.nasa.gov/citizenscience
• To approach companies working on COVID if we have any Data analytics or other solutions to collaborate
• With Lockdown, there would be a Paradigm shift. From conventional offline mode, we will shift to Online Mode. So, there is tremendous potential in this area.
There was a long discussion, followed by Q and A. Later on, the Research Scholars updated their 6 months progress reports.
