5-day faculty development programme commenced at Bhaderwah Campus
Bhaderwah Campus to sign (MoU) with IIT Roorkee
Bhaderwah November 7 : Department of Computer Science and IT,
BhaderwahCampus, University of Jammu in collaboration with Indian
Institute ofTechnology–Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) inaugurated weeklong
faculty development programme on REAL WORLD SCIENTIFIC AND NUMERIC
COMPUTING USING DEEP LEARNING WITH PYTHON.
The workshop was inaugurated by Col Rajat Parmar, Commanding Officer
4RR, Chief guest of this FDP, in the presence of Patron of this
Seminar Rector Bhaderwah Campus Prof. Rahul Gupta, Guest of Honor, Dr.
Manish Anand,CEO and Board Member of iHUBDivyasampark, IIT Roorkee,
Special Guest, Dr. Karan Nathwani, Assistant Professor, Dept. of
Electrical Engineering, IIT Jammu.
The co-convenor, Dr. Jatinder Manhas, Head of Computer Scienceand IT,
Organizing secretary,Dr. Abid Sarwar, various faculty members,
scholars of Bhadewah Campus, and computer experts from different
universities of the state also graced the event with their presence.
The workshop commenced with the conventional lighting of the camp. In
his address Col Rajat Parmar, pointed out the lack of awareness among
the public about the latest technologies which are used in the real
world for solving scientific and numeric problems. Adding to this he
further said that this one-week faculty development program (FDP) on
REAL WORLD SCIENTIFIC AND NUMERIC COMPUTING with a special focus on
Python from Nov 7 to 11, 2022 will help to overcome those problems.
Rector Bhaderwah Campus Prof. Rahul Gupta who addressed the gathering
through online mode congratulated the Dr Jatinder Manhas Co-convenor
for organising such event. He said that Bhaderwah Campus will organise
such workshops in future also. “Such events are also fruitful for the
society as well as students,’ he added
Dr. Manish Anand while speaking in the occasion said that Python is a
general-purpose programming language that is becoming more and more
popular for doing data science.”Companies worldwide are using Python
to harvest insights from their data and get a competitive edge. It is
a great experience to work with the department of computer sciences
Bhaderwah campus and this workshop will further strengthen the
relations between IIT Roorkee and Bhaderwah Campus,” he added
Bhaderwah Campus and Indian Institute of Technology–Roorkee (IIT
Roorkee will also sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) under which
the students of the Bhaderwah campus will be trained at IIT, Roorkee
on regular basis.
The co-convenor, Dr. Jatinder Manhas, Head ofthe department also
addressed the inaugural and formally welcomed the esteemed guests.
While addressing the audience he said, “The workshop on FDP will
discuss issues relating to artificial intelligence, deep learning, and
image analytics with particular emphasis on the emerging research
paradigms in data science concerning its applications in various
fields”.Toward the end of the event, Dr. Abid Sarwar, assistant
professor and the Organizing secretary of the programme presented a
vote of thanks to the speakers, faculty, and the esteemed chief
guest.He exclaimed that Teacher’s learning is a continuous process
that promotes teachers’ teaching skills, master new knowledge, and
develops new proficiency, which in turn, help improve students’
learning. He further said that only consistent and dedicated efforts
can improve a teacher’s academic standards.
More than 60 participants (academic and research scholars)from
different universities of the state and outside the state are
attendingthis workshop. This workshop aims to make aware budding
computerexperts about real-world scientific and computing problems and
to solve them by using deep learning.Prof. Mansaf Alam, Professor,
Dept. of Computer Science, Jamia Milia Islamia,Dr. Yamuna Prasad,
Assistant Professor,Dept. of Comp. Sc. &Engineering,IITJammu.andDr.
Karan Nathwani, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering,
IIT Jammu will deliver the lectures in the field of Data Science and
Machine Learning.The rector Bhaderwah campus and patron of
theworkshop, Prof. Rahul Guptaalso congratulated the department of
computer scienceand IT, Bhaderwah Campus, and the Indian Institute of
Technology –Roorkee (IITRoorkee) for organizing the workshop on the
latest technology.
On the occasion, Dr Shayan Javed , Dr. Ashok Sharma,Dr. Neeraj
Kumar,Mr. Ajay Lakhnotra, Mr. Arif Khateeb (External Relations
Officer), Mrs. Bablu Sharma,Mr. Waseem Akram, Mr. Mohammad Avais,Dr.
Umesh Chaudhary,Mr. Rachit Gupta, Mrs. Priya Rani, Mrs. Shallu Kotwal,
Ms. Diksha Sambyal, and Ms. Ayushi Kotwal were also present.
Dr Abid Sarwar organising secretary of the workshop presented formal
vote of thanks while as Shallu Kotwal, Ms. Diksha Sambyal conducted
the proceddings of the event.
