Seminars

The fifth lecture in the Prof. M N Neelakantan Memorial Lecture Series was given by Dr Benny George Kenkireth, Assistant Professor, Dept of CSE, IIT Guwahati and an NITC alumnus on the topic “A panoramic view of matching algorithms under preferences” on 29-09-2015,Tuesday in the CSED Seminar Hall.

Dr Benny George Kenkireth,an alumnus of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, is the recipient of Microsoft Outstanding Young Faculty Award in 2011. His main research interests include word combinatorics, combinatorics, algorithms and randomness in computation.

The lecture focused on various aspects of matching algorithms like Gale-Shapeley algorithm, the stability of matching and on various practical examples of matching problems.

The talk was attended by faculty, staff and students of  NIT Calicut. The lecture was presided over by Dr K A Abdul Nazeer,HoD,CSED. Dr. Vinod Pathari, Asst. Professor, CSED spoke about  Prof. M.N Neelakantan and his services to NIT Calicut and CSE Department .The event came to a close with an interactive session with the speaker and a photo session.

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CSED has organized an expert lecture on the topic- OSDDlinux: A Customized Operating System for Drug Discovery  by Dr. G P S Raghava, Scientist and Head of Bioinformatics centre at IMTECH, Chandigarh

Profile of the speaker:

                        Dr.G P S Raghava, Scientist and Head of Bioinformatics centre at Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), Chandigarh, India. He did M.Sc from Meerut University, M.Tech from IIT Delhi PhD from IMTECH Chandigarh. He worked as Postdoctoral fellow at Oxford University UK (1996-98), Bioinformatics specialist at UAMS, USA (2002-3& 2006) and visiting professor at POSTECH, South Korea (2004).

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Talk was attended by Students, Faculties and Staff of NIT Calicut, Faculties from KMCT  Engineering College and Dayapuram Arts and Science College.

As per the Industry collaboration with SAP LABS Bangalore, CSED has organized two invited lectures on 26.11.2013.

The details of the talks are as follows:

1.      Non Functional Testing

Resource Person: Mr.Ganesh Moorthy Duraisamy

Mr.Ganesh Moorthy Duraisamy has 8 years of IT experience in performance analysis, Sizing of ABAP and JAVA Applications. He was selected as a High Potential employee for the year 2012 from SAP LABS India.

2.      Big Data and Mobile Testing

Resource Person: Bevita Serrao

Ms. Bevita Serrao is a B.E. graduate from VTU and currently working as an Associate Manager at Suite Test Center at SAP Labs India. She is currently working on the Performance Testing of the Mobile applications.

  The talk was well attended by the Students, Faculties and Staff members of the CSE department.

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Dr. Wolf with the faculty members of the Department

(from left to right) Dr. Vineeth Paleri(Faculty Sponsor, NITC ACM Students Chapter), Dr. Alexander Wolf, Dr. V K Govindan (Dean, NITC), Dr. S D Madhukumar (HOD, CSED), K A Abdul Nazeer (Associate Professor,CSED)

The third lecture in the Prof. M N Neelakantan Memorial Lecture Series was given by Supriya Kanneri, Advisory Software Engineer, IBM and an NITC alumnus on the topic "Open Virtualization and the Cloud". Supriya Kannery has been working with Linux kernel support and validation of KVM for cloud solutions at Linux Technology Centre, IBM for 5 plus years. The event was organised by the NITC ACM Students chapter and Computer Science and Engineering department, in memory of Prof. M N Neelakantan, who was the first Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in NITC.

The lecture was attended by students and faculty members from various departments.

A Talk on "Cyber Crimes and Cyber Forensics" was organized by NIT Calicut ACM Student Chapter and Computer Science & Engineering Association, NIT Calicut and presented by Dr. P Vinod Bhattathirippad, Cyber Forensic Consultant  to police, judiciary income tax department and banks in India and abroad on cvil/criminal cases concerning software priracy and digital data recovery issues, since 2007. He is the first Asian and one among the very few in the world with a Doctorate in forensic area.

The talk was on the topics of Cyber crime in general, Jurisdiction against cyber crime and Dr. Vinod also shared instances from his experiences as a Cyber-Expert Witness. He also inaugurated the CSEA website and the CSEA wiki.