Semester VII Civil Engineering Results – Sahyadri at 95.87%

VTU results of Seventh Semester Civil Engineering are declared. Out of 121 students who appeared for the VTU Examination, 116 students have passed

Kudos to the Semester VII Civil Engineering Toppers

Savithashree M SGPA - 9.58	Anu D SGPA - 9.58	Greeshma Chandran SGPA - 9.58	Parayil Mithula Prakash SGPA - 9.33	Zulaika Rahila SGPA - 9.33

JCI Sen. Soujanya Hegde conducts a Workshop – “Unleash the Real You” for the MBAs

JCI Sen. Soujanya Hegde, Mrs Popular – Mrs India Worldwide 2017, Administrative Head of Namma TV Channel, Managing Director of ‘Lets Party’ – A Complete Party Store, facilitated a workshop for the 1st year MBA students on “Unleash the Real You” focusing on Communication, Leadership, Creative Thinking and Power of Values. Her sessions were completely activity-based and more number of students had an opportunity to be on stage and present their views. She emphasised on ‘Look Good’, ‘Feel Good’ and ‘Do Good’ factors that contribute to the overall development of an individual. Soujanya encouraged students to form a Junior JCI group in the campus at college level and create a platform for MBAs and their juniors from the UG colleges for Self Development.

This workshop was organized to induce creative thinking and also to enhance leadership abilities of the Management students

Department of Computer Science & Engineering conducts technical talks

Department of Computer Science & Engineering in association with CLOUDS, organized technical talks on “Security Challenges in Computer Architecture: Spectre and Meltdown” and “Recent Research Trends”. The first talk was delivered by Dr. Basavaraj Talawar, Assistant Professor, CSE department NITK. He gave brief explanation about the computer architecture and spectre and meltdown vulnerabilities in modern processors.

The second technical talk was delivered by Dr. Kiran M, Assistant Professor, IT Department NITK. He spoke about Blockchain and gave a brief introduction about its working and the applications. He also discussed the various innovations and research opportunities in Blockchain. The talks were very informative and were well accepted.

Faculty presents a Paper at ICCS 2019

Dr. Shamanth Rai, Head of the Department, Information Science and Engineering, presented a Paper “Sentiment Analysis using Machine Learning Classifiers: Evaluation of Performance”, at the IEEE 4th International Conference on Computer and Communication Systems – ICCS 2019, held at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. The session was chaired by Dr. Geoff Skinner, Professor, The University of Newcastle, Australia.

The paper was co-authored by faculties, Prof. Sweekriti M. Shetty, of Computer Science and Engineering Department and Prof. Prakhyath of Information Science and Engineering department.

Sahyadrian Recruited by Subex Limited

Ms. Varsha a student of Computer Science and Engineering from 2019 outgoing batch was recruited by Subex Limited, for the position of 'Software Engineer Trainee' with a package of Rs.5 Lakhs per Annum, in the recently held Campus Recruitment Drive at Sahyadri.

Subex is a trusted global telecom solutions provider for 75% of the world’s top 50 telcos. Founded in 1992, the year when the video-telephone was launched, they have been part of the evolution of mobile technology. Today they are consultants to global telecom carriers for operational excellence and business transformation by driving new revenue models, enhancing the customer experience and optimizing the enterprise.

Mentor-Mentee System at Sahyadri

Department: Information Science & Engineering
Introduction of Mentor:
Mrs. Akhila Thejaswi R. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science & Engineering. She has pursued B.E from KVGCE, Sullia and M.Tech from NMAMIT, Nitte. She has 9.5 years of teaching experience. Her research area includes data security, networking, and wireless networks etc. She has published various research articles in reputed journals.

Details of Mentees
• Adam Mohammed Muzammil is from Mangaluru. He did his schooling in Holy Family School, and PUC in St. Aloysius PU College, Mangaluru. His hobbies include playing football, cricket and listening to music. He has participated in “Wessenaire” and won first place in Water Rocket held at IIT, Bhubaneswar. He is keen on exploring new technologies and interested to learn networking. His aspiration is to excel in the field of cyber security.
• Deepika M. is from Mangaluru. She did her schooling in NITK English Medium School, and PUC in Govinda Dasa PU College, Mangaluru. Her hobbies are listening to music & playing musical instruments, anchoring, playing badminton, and gardening. She aspires to be an efficient speaker and a successful engineer.
• Lavanya S.R. is from Mangaluru. She did her schooling in Canara High School, and PUC in Sharada Pre-University College, Mangaluru. Her hobbies are singing, painting, gardening and reading. She has won prizes in painting competitions. She aspires to be an engineer and serve the society.
• Prithvi Vasanth is from Mangaluru. She did her schooling in Canara High School, and PUC from Sharada PU College, Mangaluru. She is interested in table tennis, drawing and singing. She has participated and won prizes in singing. She aspires to be a successful IT engineer.
• Samruddhi is from Mangaluru. She did her schooling in St. Agnes Girl's High School, and PUC in Yenepoya PU College, Mangaluru. She has participated in Bridge Building and Manoeuvre competitions held at IIT, Kanpur. Her hobbies are dancing and coin collection. She aspires to be a successful IT engineer.
• Srijan S Naik is from Karwar. He did his schooling in K.L.E School, Haveri and PUC from Poornaprajna PU College, Udupi. His hobbies include painting, playing football, cricket and listening to music. He has participated in “Abiyantran” and won first place in Line Follower and Hydraulic Arm held at NIT, Sikkim. He has a keen interest to explore new technologies and is interested in learning networking. His aspiration is to excel in the field of data analytics.

Quote for the day

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."
- Benjamin Franklin