NU Student Achievements
Hillytech Hackathon – NUtons Secure First Position
Hillytech Starter brings a unique Online Hackathon, under the aegis of Startup India and MSME. HillyTech Hackathon provides an opportunity to come up with innovative solutions for the societal problems faced by hilly areas and industries, under different themes on Science, Technology and Electronics to Pandemic, Networking and Business. A total of 120 teams from across India participated in the hackathon.
Team ‘BugSmashers’ who represented NU, secured first position in the hackathon. The team worked on ‘Outdoor Plant Monitoring and Tracking System’ and proposed a solution in both software and hardware category.
The proposed solution has the following functionalities:
- Automated Irrigation
- Organized care by providing real-time information about the plants
- Weather monitoring
- Soil quality measurement using pH and Npk value of soil
- A timely reminder for fertilizing plants
- Reminders for pest control
The team members are:
- Ish Chaudhary (Team Leader)
- Ankit Gupta
- Akshat Joshi
- Sahej Anand Singh
- Piyush Saklani
NASA Space Apps Challenge 2020 – Team - The Bug Slayers - receives Global Award Nominee
NASA Space Apps Challenge 2020 was organized by NASA in collaboration with Hacker's Tribe Foundation. Over 26,000 people participated from nearly 150 countries. The team ‘The Bug Slayers’ who represented NU received the Global Award Nominee in the Phase 1 Universal Event.
The team proposed a specialized algorithm that suggests sleeping slots and the number of sleeping cycles for the user to work at maximum efficiency. This will help the user’s body to rest properly and will help them balance their busy schedules. Also, depending on the user’s entered activity status and program, the daily calorie requirement and customized carbohydrate, protein and fat were shown.
The team members are:
- Priyanshu Joshi
- Anurag Porel
- Chirag Chawla
- Divyanshi Yadav
- G Shalom
- Karunesh Bamanjogi
NUtons Organise the Hult Prize OnCampus Event – NU team’s Biopure is judges Winner
The Hult Prize Foundation is a global learning platform that enables the new generation to deliver social change through education and entrepreneurship. The Hult Prize is presented by Hult International Business School and is a partnership between Hult International Business School and the United Nations Foundation.
Hult Prize OnCampus is a global program by the Hult Prize, which provides an excellent opportunity for students to deliver social change and make a global impact with their start-up ideas. The event was organized in the Aug-Dec 2020 semester by a team of NUtons lead by Aman Gupta (BTech CSE). A total of ten teams involving around 40 students participated in the OnCampus round. NU’s Team BioPure was the Winner of this round. The winning team will represent NU in the Regional Round which is held in various destinations across the globe.
Biopure is new-gen packaging startup that aims at revolutionizing packaging of grains for Indian farmers.
A massive amount of food is wasted each year due to moisture, rodents and fragility of packaging. Biopure produces nanotechnology-based biopolymer for affordable, reusable and durable packaging. This ensures effective storing and packaging of food, thus reducing overall wastage. At Biopure, all packaging is sourced responsibly, designed to be effective and safe throughout the life cycle, thus making it a valuable resource for subsequent generations.
The interdisciplinary team of Biopure consists of:
- Abhinav Gupta (B.Tech CSE & Team Leader)
- Somya Gupta (B.Tech BT)
- Parnika Jindal (iMBA)
- Govind Yadav (iMBA)
Anushree Krishania from B.Tech Computer Science & Engineering wins 1st Runner-Up prize at the i4C (Inter Institutional Inclusive Innovations Center) Blogathon
The Inter Institutional Inclusive Innovations Center (i4C) & Smart India Hackathon (SIH) provide a platform to showcase technical writing talents – i4C Blogathon. The technical blog-writing competition involved writing a technical blog article on any one of the following three topics:
- How Smart India Hackathon (SIH) participation has helped me to strengthen my competency and enhance my skillsets.
- Innovative Cyber security and Data Protection Practices for the Digitally Driven World.
- Student Innovation - Any topic on the themes of Renewable Energy OR Healthcare Automation.
According to i4C, 350+ entries received from participants from all over the country. The competition was open to UG/PG/PhD students.
Anushree's article was based on the theme – Renewable Energy & Healthcare Automation. Please read her winning article at https://blog.i4c.in/2020/06/i4c-blogathon-first-runner-up-winning.html
More about the blogathon at https://i4c.in/site/i4cBlogathon2020
Congratulations Anushree! You have made us proud! Keep writing!
Sumili Dey from B.Tech Biotechnology receives Best Paper Presenter award in 7th International Conference on Research in Life-Sciences & Healthcare 2019, Kuala Lumpur
Sumili Dey (Final Year B.Tech Biotech) has received the Certificate of Honour for the Best Paper Presenter for her paper titled 'Identification of novel dysregulated genes in ovarian cancer using NGS Data Analysis' in the 7th International Conference on Research in Life-Sciences & Healthcare (ICRLSH) held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in June 2019.
She and Riddhi Modi, carried out the research work as part of the R&D project course at NIIT University under Dr. Utkarsh Raj, Biotechnology & Bioinformatics Area.
Given below are the links to the conference details as well as the paper abstract.
https://eurasiaresearchcon.wixsite.com/eurasiaresearch/blog/eurasia-research-international-conference-held-at-kuala-lumpur-june-2019-1
https://hbsra.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/HBSRA-International-Conference-Kuala-Lumpur-June-2019.pdf
Riddhi Modi, NU B.Tech Biotech Final Year Student Published a Paper at the 7th International Conference on Research in Life-Sciences & Healthcare 2019, Kuala Lumpur
Riddhi Modi, a final year B.Tech Biotechnology student published a paper at the 7th ICRLSH 2019, Kuala Lumpur. Her research was in the highly critical area of malaria control. She worked under the guidance of Dr. Utkarsh Raj from the Biotechnology & Bioinformatics area.
The abstract of her paper titled 'Targeting Aminopeptidases of PFA-M1 for Finding Novel Malaria Inhibitors' can be found at https://hbsra.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/HBSRA-International-Conference-Kuala-Lumpur-June-2019.pdf
Read more about the conference at:
NU Team secures First Runner Up position at Smart India Hackathon 2019
The team, SpaghettiCoders working on 'Enhancing the online shopping experience by supporting it with augmented reality', a problem posed by Pepperfry in the Smart India Hackathon 2019 secured first runner up position.
The team consisted of:
- Sanya Kapoor (B.Tech 2nd year)
- Himanshu Nikhare (B.Tech 2nd year)
- Muskan Goel (B.Tech 1st year)
- Siddhi Lad (B.Tech 1st year)
- Mayank Garg (B.Tech 1st year)
- Harshit Budhraja (B. Tech 4th year)
Uddalak Bhaduri, Sarthak Tripathi and Shreyas Sanghvi received prize at Europe's largest Hackathon, 'Junction 2018'
NUtons – Uddalak Bhaduri, Sarthak Tripathi and Shreyas Sanghvi won the second prize at Europe's largest hackathon "Junction 2018" held at Aalto University, Finland. The event saw attendance of 740 students from 105 nationalities. The team received €1000 Euros and a six-month funding of their idea at Finland, if they decide to continue. They also worked at Espoo City Challenge under the Office of Mayor, Espoo City, Finland.
Hitesh Mittal's Paper gets Accepted for Poster Presentation at PHOTONICS 2018
Hitesh Mittal, (B.Tech CSE) with ECE Faculty - Dr. Nitin Bhatia submitted their paper titled 'Broadcasting a laser using Bragg grating for free-space optical communication' to PHOTONICS 2018.
It was accepted for Poster Presentation at the conference. The venue of PHOTONICS 2018 - The International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics - is Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India. Conference dates: 12th to 15th December 2018. In their paper, the authors demonstrate a technique for broadcasting a laser source in free-space using a Bragg grating. The multiple diffraction orders are used as multiple receiving points. They also show that cascaded gratings would increase the number of receiver points. This method is easy to implement, low-cost and scalable to a large number of receiver points.
NU Music Society performs tremendously well in BITS, Pilani - Oasis, India's third largest cultural fest
- Shubhra Pandey bagged the first prize in Western Solo Singing (Female)
- Keerthana Reddy bagged the second prize in Indian Classical Singing
- Sanya Kapoor reached the finals in Western Solo Singing (Female)
- Muskan Goel reached the finals in Eastern Solo Singing (Female)
- Yuvraj Singh and Deeptonabho Dutta reached the finals in Solo Guitar Competition
- Kawal Nain Singh reached the Top 8 in Solo Drums Competition
Other NUtons who performed really well in their respective competitions are:
- Debanshu Majumdar & Shashwat Mishra in Eastern Solo (Male)
- Sakshi Dhawan in Eastern Solo (Female)
- Mohini Mehrotra & Harsh Parmar in Indian Classical Singing
- Ninad Kanchan in Indian Classical Instrumental
- Gaurav Malhotra in Band Vocalist
NUtons Sarthak and Shreyas entry No-BrainR declared WINNER in the 'Best IoT Hack Using a Qualcomm Device' category at HackHavard 2018
Shreyas and Sarthak secured the first place in the Best Hardware Hack Using a Qualcomm device. The prizes were awarded by MLH (Major League Hacking).
You can read all about it at:
Rishi Pisipati's team Thirsty Scholars at Carnegie Mellon University received the top prize at the HACK THIS. HELP KIDS. Hackathon
Rishi Pisipati, now pursuing his masters at CMU, participated in a Hackathon at his university. His team Thirsty Scholars won the top prize of $5,000 from Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation. You can read about it at https://hcii.cmu.edu/news/2018/hacking-kids-upmc-hcii-students-1st-and-4th-place-teams . The HACK THIS. HELP KIDS. Hackathon was sponsored by Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation.
Image Courtesy: https://hcii.cmu.edu/news/2018/hacking-kids-upmc-hcii-students-1st-and-4th-place-teams
