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-- phpMyAdmin SQL Dump -- version 4.4.15.6 -- http://www.phpmyadmin.net -- -- Host: localhost -- Generation Time: Sep 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM -- Server version: 5.7.14-log -- PHP Version: 5.4.16 SET SQL_MODE = "NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO"; SET time_zone = "+00:00"; /*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@@CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */; /*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@@CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */; /*!40101 SET @OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION=@@COLLATION_CONNECTION */; /*!40101 SET NAMES utf8mb4 */; -- -- Database: `blog` -- -- -------------------------------------------------------- -- -- Table structure for table `wp_commentmeta` -- CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `wp_commentmeta` ( `meta_id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL, `comment_id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `meta_key` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL, `meta_value` longtext ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8; -- -------------------------------------------------------- -- -- Table structure for table `wp_comments` -- CREATE TABLE IF NOT 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I''m positive I will reply with, <em>"My college time has been my most valuable experience."</em></span>\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<span style="font-weight:400;">It might not be surprising to you if I tell you that as a kid, all I wanted was to grow up. Living on my own, being responsible for myself and experiencing the freedom of </span><span style="line-height:1.7;">adulthood plagued my thoughts since pupilage. Needless to say, coming to college was my ticket to experiencing the world of grownups.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight:400;">And it was the first step. But not just to being old and mature. IIITD provided me with a plethora of values, experiences and skills that I know I will cherish for as long as I live. Continuing along the lines of me looking forward to the college experience, I was not a scared rat in a desert. Rather, I was the opposite.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight:400;">I remember the first time I visited the campus, it was not what I had expected. It was spotless, clinical almost, as I had termed it then. But the cleanliness got the hygiene checked off of my mother''s checklist, which contained several checkboxes but was broadly categorized under - Hygiene, Education, and Students.</span>\n\n<em><span style="font-weight:400;">One down, two more to go.</span></em>\n\n<span style="font-weight:400;">It didn''t take long for the other two to be ticked off.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight:400;">If you didn''t know already, the faculty at IIITD consists of highly qualified doctorates from esteemed universities, with extensive research and teaching experience. Meeting a couple of them on the day of the admission convinced my parents and me that I was going to be the next Einstein. The knowledge and methodology that the teaching staff seemed to possess was flabbergasting. In awe and with slight anxiety on my part, we moved on to the third and the final item - Students.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight:400;">The IIITD community (or the IIITD family, as we like to call ourselves) are an exciting bunch. The enthusiasm and dedication for our goal leave many speechless (left me speechless at the time), and our ability to add an element of fun to the most mundane things is unparalleled. As I came to know, the cultural aspect of the Institute was also on par with some of the most culturally developed colleges, with the efficient organization of cultural events and fests (both technical and artistic). All this was reflected prominently in the few student volunteers that I spoke to, on the same day as my admission. (Yes, we also help out on critical days!)</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight:400;">The checklist was complete. My parents went home happy, I was a little apprehensive but excited all the same.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight:400;">That was a year and a half ago. And not one day since then, has been the same.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight:400;">Some may argue that the deadlines and the strenuous workload are the constants in our life; the back-to-back lectures are exhausting, and that our feet are more acquainted with the floor tiles of the library than the concrete of the basketball court. But not entirely. There is always something new to learn with each assignment, something that pushes us to strive harder and reach our goal. Even with numerous deadlines, you can always hear the strumming of the guitar, coming from the music room, be it day or night, or students strolling leisurely alone or in a group, chatting and laughing throughout the campus.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight:400;">Having completed three (grueling, back-breaking but exhilarating) semesters, I can familiarize myself with different software in about two days (I should know, I''m familiar with about 7). Working closely with the faculty in pursuit of some research aspects, I can also say that coffee proves a much better friend than any other when you have to stay up all night reading. Oh! I also redesigned the institute''s IT Portal and am currently developing a website.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight:400;">At the same time, I can now head the literary society of my institute, be an active member of the editorial board, write for the college newsletter, and be an active part of an initiative that aims at teaching students from underprivileged backgrounds about fundamental problem solving and communication skills.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight:400;">And I''m still alive.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight:400;">My time at IIITD has taught me to participate and explore. To have a strong work ethic and to make an impact wherever I go. To pay attention to the little things. IIITD will teach you how to be a grown-up and how to act like one. But it will also teach you never to let go of the child in you.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight:400;">Taneea S Agrawaal\n</span><span style="font-weight:400;">B.Tech 2014</span>', 'Growing Up', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'growing-up', '', '', '2019-04-10 16:09:30', '2019-04-10 10:39:30', '', 0, 'https://iiitdelhi.wordpress.com/?p=72', 0, 'post', '', 0), (74, 3, '2016-02-16 18:46:29', '2016-02-16 18:46:29', '', '2483960964_f280f13f2b', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', '2483960964_f280f13f2b', '', '', '2016-02-16 18:46:29', '2016-02-16 18:46:29', '', 72, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/2483960964_f280f13f2b.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0), (78, 1, '2016-02-16 18:56:58', '2016-02-16 18:56:58', '<p style="text-align:left;">IIIT-Delhi student <span class="highlightNode">Vrinda Malhotra</span> when interviewed by Education Times says that "a competitive course can train students for the professional world while instilling a certain work ethic in them..."</p>\n\nTo read the whole article, visit <a href="http://www.educationtimes.com/article/79/20160125201601221907284069abc180b/The-best-of-times.html" target="_blank">this link</a>.', 'Education Times Student Speak', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'education-times-student-speak', '', '', '2016-02-16 18:56:58', '2016-02-16 18:56:58', '', 0, 'https://iiitdelhi.wordpress.com/?p=78', 0, 'post', '', 0), (82, 3, '2016-02-16 18:59:12', '2016-02-16 18:59:12', '', '12644865_561669660667451_450240195655199528_n', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', '12644865_561669660667451_450240195655199528_n', '', '', '2016-02-16 18:59:12', '2016-02-16 18:59:12', '', 78, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/12644865_561669660667451_450240195655199528_n.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0), (84, 3, '2016-02-16 19:01:52', '2016-02-16 19:01:52', '', '12644865_561669660667451_450240195655199528_n__1455649282_59.178.191.168', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', '12644865_561669660667451_450240195655199528_n__1455649282_59-178-191-168', '', '', '2016-02-16 19:01:52', '2016-02-16 19:01:52', '', 78, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/12644865_561669660667451_450240195655199528_n__1455649282_59-178-191-168.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0), (85, 3, '2016-02-16 19:03:58', '2016-02-16 19:03:58', '', 'Capture', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', 'capture', '', '', '2016-02-16 19:03:58', '2016-02-16 19:03:58', '', 78, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/capture.png', 0, 'attachment', 'image/png', 0), (87, 1, '2016-05-17 11:54:54', '2016-05-17 11:54:54', '', 'cover', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', 'cover-2', '', '', '2016-05-17 11:54:54', '2016-05-17 11:54:54', '', 0, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cover.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0), (88, 1, '2016-05-17 11:55:10', '2016-05-17 11:55:10', '', 'cropped-cover.jpg', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', 'cropped-cover-jpg', '', '', '2016-05-17 11:55:10', '2016-05-17 11:55:10', '', 0, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cropped-cover.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0), (93, 12, '2016-06-03 04:40:10', '2016-06-03 04:40:10', '<h3><strong>What is Esya?</strong></h3>\r\nEsya, the annual technical fest of IIIT-Delhi, provides a platform for students to showcase their talents and knowledge in various fields of Computer Science, Electronics and Communication, and various Non-Technical fields. We aim to cross boundaries of the imaginable, and let everyone discover a world unknown to them, be it about technology, or more.\r\n<h3><strong>Throwback</strong></h3>\r\nGoing back to the last year, Esya went nationwide for the first time. With over 10,000 participants from over 800 colleges and schools, pan India, Esya has been successfully recognised nation-wide. Last year saw epic proportions of awesome, fully loaded in events from all arenas.\r\n\r\nAmongst the CSE events, ProCon Jr and Bug-Finding events were a major hit, while the Electronics sections pulled up the crowds for CircuitRix Jr and Hack-IIITD, the one day long Hackathon.\r\n\r\nNot to forget, we had a plethora of Non-Tech Events with great response from participants, both in number and in quality participation. Rebuttal was a two-day long grand debate with tensions running high as the stage became hotter with every succeeding round. FOQs, the photography event, had submissions which could define the word “Aesthetic”. Faking the Research, Hunt IT-the Treasure Hunt, ChakraVyuha- an online cryptic hunt,Minimal Design, were some of the other crowd pulling Non-Tech Events.\r\n<h3>Esya ‘16 - Going Beyond</h3>\r\nOn Esya’s 6th anniversary, new horizons will be touched as Esya reaches the previously unexplored areas of Entrepreneurship and Community Service.\r\n\r\nThis year, we aim to provide a platform for students and veterans in the field of Business to interact and grow together. E-Talks will help budding entrepreneurs to showcase their ideas and learn from their colleagues. Other business-centric events such as Mock-Stocks and Be The Tycoon, ensure that this fest will be a delight for our money-shifters and players. Next, we aim for students to take larger steps towards the development of the nation, by providing a platform to carry out plans for rural development on a larger scale in collaboration with The Government of India.\r\n\r\nComing to a well deserved mention to the Astronomy Club at IIIT-Delhi, Esya ‘16 is proud to present yet another area to be explored this year round, the world of our worlds- the vast and infinite space. We hope to see all you Astro-Nuts to be there to get all the timey-wimey wibbly-wobbly action!\r\n\r\nThis year at Esya ‘16, not only will people explore new domains, “Things” shall too, discover new domains, devices and friends, and form one magnificent functioning unit. 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Next, we aim for students to take larger steps towards the development of the nation, by providing a platform to carry out plans for rural development on a larger scale in collaboration with The Government of India.\r\n\r\nComing to a well deserved mention to the Astronomy Club at IIIT-Delhi, Esya ‘16 is proud to present yet another area to be explored this year round, the world of our worlds- the vast and infinite space. We hope to see all you Astro-Nuts to be there to get all the timey-wimey wibbly-wobbly action!\r\n\r\nThis year at Esya ‘16, not only will people explore new domains, “Things” shall too, discover new domains, devices and friends, and form one magnificent functioning unit. Esya ‘16 is proud to declare this year’s theme as <strong><em>Internet of Things</em></strong> - an emerging field in the world of technology, which in essence, involves communication of devices over the Internet.\r\n\r\nCome join and enjoy the Esyatic experience all over again, discover new worlds, make new friends, and most of all Have a Good Time!\r\n\r\n<hr style="color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; width: 100%;" />\r\n\r\nFor more information about Past Achievements, Event Details, Sponsorship Details, have a look at The <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5D69UB2Zzg8XzVycDBtRV9kOHc">Esya ‘16 Brochure</a>.', 'Esya ''16: The Sixth Edition is Gonna be Sick!', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '93-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-06-03 18:03:32', '2016-06-03 18:03:32', '', 93, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/93-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (100, 12, '2016-06-03 18:40:37', '2016-06-03 18:40:37', '<h3><strong>What is Esya?</strong></h3>\r\nEsya, the annual technical fest of IIIT-Delhi, provides a platform for students to showcase their talents and knowledge in various fields of Computer Science, Electronics and Communication, and various Non-Technical fields. We aim to cross boundaries of the imaginable, and let everyone discover a world unknown to them, be it about technology, or more.\r\n<h3><strong>Throwback</strong></h3>\r\nGoing back to the last year, Esya went nationwide for the first time. With over 10,000 participants from over 800 colleges and schools, pan India, Esya has been successfully recognised nation-wide. Last year saw epic proportions of awesome, fully loaded in events from all arenas.\r\n\r\nAmongst the CSE events, ProCon Jr and Bug-Finding events were a major hit, while the Electronics sections pulled up the crowds for CircuitRix Jr and Hack-IIITD, the one day long Hackathon.\r\n\r\nNot to forget, we had a plethora of Non-Tech Events with great response from participants, both in number and in quality participation. Rebuttal was a two-day long grand debate with tensions running high as the stage became hotter with every succeeding round. FOQs, the photography event, had submissions which could define the word “Aesthetic”. Faking the Research, Hunt IT-the Treasure Hunt, ChakraVyuha- an online cryptic hunt,Minimal Design, were some of the other crowd pulling Non-Tech Events.\r\n<h3>Esya ‘16 - Going Beyond</h3>\r\nOn Esya’s 6th anniversary, new horizons will be touched as Esya reaches the previously unexplored areas of Entrepreneurship and Community Service.\r\n\r\nThis year, we aim to provide a platform for students and veterans in the field of Business to interact and grow together. E-Talks will help budding entrepreneurs to showcase their ideas and learn from their colleagues. Other business-centric events such as Mock-Stocks and Be The Tycoon, ensure that this fest will be a delight for our money-shifters and players. Next, we aim for students to take larger steps towards the development of the nation, by providing a platform to carry out plans for rural development on a larger scale in collaboration with The Government of India.\r\n\r\nComing to a well deserved mention to the Astronomy Club at IIIT-Delhi, Esya ‘16 is proud to present yet another area to be explored this year round, the world of our worlds- the vast and infinite space. We hope to see all you Astro-Nuts to be there to get all the timey-wimey wibbly-wobbly action!\r\n\r\nThis year at Esya ‘16, not only will people explore new domains, “Things” shall too, discover new domains, devices and friends, and form one magnificent functioning unit. Esya ‘16 is proud to declare this year’s theme as <strong><em>Internet of Things</em></strong> - an emerging field in the world of technology, which in essence, involves communication of devices over the Internet.\r\n\r\nCome join and enjoy the Esyatic experience all over again, discover new worlds, make new friends, and most of all Have a Good Time!\r\n\r\n<hr style="color: #000000;background-color: #000000;height: 2px;width: 100%" />\r\n\r\nFor more information about Past Achievements, Event Details, Sponsorship Details, have a look at The <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5D69UB2Zzg8XzVycDBtRV9kOHc">Esya ‘16 Brochure</a>.', 'Esya ''16: The Sixth Edition is Gonna be Sick!', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '93-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-06-03 18:40:37', '2016-06-03 18:40:37', '', 93, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/93-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (101, 3, '2016-08-22 17:08:05', '2016-08-22 17:08:05', 'Infosys/Foundation is giving IIIT-Delhi a multi-million dollar grant to establish the Infosys Center for Artificial Intelligence, the formal inauguration of which was held on April 4, 2016. It was a historical day for IIIT-Delhi. Mr. Pravin Rao, Chief Operating Officer of Infosys, inaugurated the Infosys Center for AI. He also unveiled the website of the Center: <a class="Xx" href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fcai.iiitd.ac.in&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEOSGEzgk0odNHhxG2A-aNwg2_jRA" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://cai.iiitd.ac.in</a>.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\nThis is one of the largest industry-supported research centers in an academic institution in the country and is a monumental leap for IIIT-Delhi.\r\nMr. Rao spoke about the grant in his vision for the center, “Research is very critical for technological advancement and Infosys is happy to extend support to the center. This is the era of Artificial Intelligence.”\r\nThe Director of IIIT-Delhi, Professor Jalote, remarked, “You can’t be a global player in the education sector if you aren’t a global player in research… This collaboration is a shining example for industry to support research and academia to be worthy of it.” He further said, "The AI Center is an opportunity to show that when generous support comes from industry, academia can rise to the challenge.” The Chairman of IIIT-Delhi also commented on the lack of funding for research in India and said, “We are one of the poorest spenders when it comes to R&D. We are behind China, U.S.A., and Israel... Maybe this can pave the way for a new model in which the government provides funds for the infrastructure, and the industry provides funds for software technologies required for research.”\r\nThe center is being headed by Srikanth Saripalli, who is an expert in Robotics and UAVs. He will be spending his sabbatical at IIIT Delhi. It will facilitate research in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Large Scale Data Analytics, etc.\r\n\r\nPlease find Mr. Narayana Murthy, Executive Chairman, Infosys Ltd. talking about the same here\r\n\r\n[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWofa-4Ziws[/embed]', 'Infosys Grants IIITD 24 Crore For Artificial Intelligence Center', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'infosys-grants-iiitd-24-crore-artificial-intelligence-center', '', '', '2016-08-22 17:08:05', '2016-08-22 17:08:05', '', 0, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?p=101', 0, 'post', '', 0), (102, 3, '2016-08-22 17:07:55', '2016-08-22 17:07:55', '', 'AI_LAB_2', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', 'ai_lab_2', '', '', '2016-08-22 17:07:55', '2016-08-22 17:07:55', '', 101, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/AI_LAB_2.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0), (103, 3, '2016-08-22 17:08:05', '2016-08-22 17:08:05', 'Infosys/Foundation is giving IIIT-Delhi a multi-million dollar grant to establish the Infosys Center for Artificial Intelligence, the formal inauguration of which was held on April 4, 2016. It was a historical day for IIIT-Delhi. Mr. Pravin Rao, Chief Operating Officer of Infosys, inaugurated the Infosys Center for AI. He also unveiled the website of the Center: <a class="Xx" href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fcai.iiitd.ac.in&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEOSGEzgk0odNHhxG2A-aNwg2_jRA" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://cai.iiitd.ac.in</a>.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\nThis is one of the largest industry-supported research centers in an academic institution in the country and is a monumental leap for IIIT-Delhi.\r\nMr. Rao spoke about the grant in his vision for the center, “Research is very critical for technological advancement and Infosys is happy to extend support to the center. This is the era of Artificial Intelligence.”\r\nThe Director of IIIT-Delhi, Professor Jalote, remarked, “You can’t be a global player in the education sector if you aren’t a global player in research… This collaboration is a shining example for industry to support research and academia to be worthy of it.” He further said, "The AI Center is an opportunity to show that when generous support comes from industry, academia can rise to the challenge.” The Chairman of IIIT-Delhi also commented on the lack of funding for research in India and said, “We are one of the poorest spenders when it comes to R&D. We are behind China, U.S.A., and Israel... Maybe this can pave the way for a new model in which the government provides funds for the infrastructure, and the industry provides funds for software technologies required for research.”\r\nThe center is being headed by Srikanth Saripalli, who is an expert in Robotics and UAVs. He will be spending his sabbatical at IIIT Delhi. It will facilitate research in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Large Scale Data Analytics, etc.\r\n\r\nPlease find Mr. Narayana Murthy, Executive Chairman, Infosys Ltd. talking about the same here\r\n\r\n[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWofa-4Ziws[/embed]', 'Infosys Grants IIITD 24 Crore For Artificial Intelligence Center', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '101-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-08-22 17:08:05', '2016-08-22 17:08:05', '', 101, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/101-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (104, 3, '2016-08-22 17:09:25', '2016-08-22 17:09:25', '<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Start-up Fair 2016 was organized by IIIT-Delhi placement cell on 29th April 2016.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">The fair was open for all students from 2nd year to pre-final year including Masters, and Bachelors .Over 30+ promising start-ups such as Little Black Book, Design Bids, Campk12 ,Medhoop ,Healers at Home, Fit-nut Insta Bounce and many more doing interesting work participated in the event.</span>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">These start-ups offered various internships openings - technical as well as non-technical roles. It was a great opportunity for students to gain experience of working in a start-up environment.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">One of our faculty, Dr. Rahul Purandare presented some key points about Lorrykhoj, a start-up which will soon be incubated in IIIT-Delhi and opened the available internship opportunity. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">It''s our continuous effort to aid our students and give them the best opportunities. We hope that our students will utilize these resources and always put in their best effort.</span>', 'Start-up Fair 2016 Organized by IIIT-Delhi placement cell', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'start-fair-2016-organized-iiit-delhi-placement-cell', '', '', '2016-08-22 17:09:25', '2016-08-22 17:09:25', '', 0, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?p=104', 0, 'post', '', 0), (105, 3, '2016-08-22 17:09:17', '2016-08-22 17:09:17', '', 'StartUp_Fair2', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', 'startup_fair2', '', '', '2016-08-22 17:09:17', '2016-08-22 17:09:17', '', 104, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/StartUp_Fair2.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0); INSERT INTO `wp_posts` (`ID`, `post_author`, `post_date`, `post_date_gmt`, `post_content`, `post_title`, `post_excerpt`, `post_status`, `comment_status`, `ping_status`, `post_password`, `post_name`, `to_ping`, `pinged`, `post_modified`, `post_modified_gmt`, `post_content_filtered`, `post_parent`, `guid`, `menu_order`, `post_type`, `post_mime_type`, `comment_count`) VALUES (106, 3, '2016-08-22 17:09:25', '2016-08-22 17:09:25', '<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Start-up Fair 2016 was organized by IIIT-Delhi placement cell on 29th April 2016.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">The fair was open for all students from 2nd year to pre-final year including Masters, and Bachelors .Over 30+ promising start-ups such as Little Black Book, Design Bids, Campk12 ,Medhoop ,Healers at Home, Fit-nut Insta Bounce and many more doing interesting work participated in the event.</span>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">These start-ups offered various internships openings - technical as well as non-technical roles. It was a great opportunity for students to gain experience of working in a start-up environment.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">One of our faculty, Dr. Rahul Purandare presented some key points about Lorrykhoj, a start-up which will soon be incubated in IIIT-Delhi and opened the available internship opportunity. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">It''s our continuous effort to aid our students and give them the best opportunities. We hope that our students will utilize these resources and always put in their best effort.</span>', 'Start-up Fair 2016 Organized by IIIT-Delhi placement cell', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '104-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-08-22 17:09:25', '2016-08-22 17:09:25', '', 104, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/104-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (107, 3, '2016-08-22 17:12:04', '2016-08-22 17:12:04', '<span style="font-weight: 400;">IIIT-Delhi wishes their heartiest congratulations to the fifteen students who have been selected </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Google-Summer-of-Code/108765615824966"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Google Summer of Code</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">! They will spend their summer learning and be contributing to the most exciting open source projects.</span>', 'Fifteen Students of IIIT-Delhi Selected for Google Summer of Code', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'fifteen-students-iiit-delhi-selected-google-summer-code', '', '', '2016-08-22 17:15:59', '2016-08-22 17:15:59', '', 0, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?p=107', 0, 'post', '', 0), (108, 3, '2016-08-22 17:11:56', '2016-08-22 17:11:56', '', 'GSOC', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', 'gsoc', '', '', '2016-08-22 17:11:56', '2016-08-22 17:11:56', '', 107, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/GSOC.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0), (109, 3, '2016-08-22 17:12:04', '2016-08-22 17:12:04', '<span style="font-weight: 400;">IIIT-Delhi wishes their heartiest congratulations to the fifteen students who have been selected </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Google-Summer-of-Code/108765615824966"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Google Summer of Code</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">! They will spend their summer learning and be contributing to the most exciting open source projects.</span>', 'Fifteen Students of IIIT-Delhi Selected for Google Summer of Code', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '107-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-08-22 17:12:04', '2016-08-22 17:12:04', '', 107, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/107-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (110, 3, '2016-08-22 17:19:49', '2016-08-22 17:19:49', '<span style="font-weight: 400;">We are proud of our students at IIIT-Delhi who have been selected in the prestigious </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Rails-Girls-Summer-of-Code-620914904656191/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rails Girls Summer of Code</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (RGSoC) 2016! Of the 4 teams to be selected from India, 3 are from IIIT-D. They are out of the 20 teams selected from all over the world. A total of 92 teams had applied.</span>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">The two teams selected to be sponsored for their project:</span>\r\n<ol>\r\n <li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/vrinda.m.8"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vrinda Malhotra</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TanSA05"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Taneea S Agrawaal</span></a></li>\r\n <li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/srishti.sengupta.18"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Srishti Sengupta</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/soumya.sharma13"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Soumya Sharma</span></a></li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">We also have a volunteer team selected from our institute: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mansi.goel07"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mansi Goel</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sahar.siddiqui.779"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sahar Siddiqui</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Congratulations, girls!</span>', '3 Teams from IIIT-Delhi Out Of 20 Across The World Selected in Rails Girls Summer of Code 2016', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', '3-teams-iiit-delhi-20-across-world-selected-rails-girls-summer-code-2016', '', '', '2016-08-22 17:19:49', '2016-08-22 17:19:49', '', 0, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?p=110', 0, 'post', '', 0), (111, 3, '2016-08-22 17:19:43', '2016-08-22 17:19:43', '', 'News_RGSOC', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', 'news_rgsoc', '', '', '2016-08-22 17:19:43', '2016-08-22 17:19:43', '', 110, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/News_RGSOC.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0), (112, 3, '2016-08-22 17:19:49', '2016-08-22 17:19:49', '<span style="font-weight: 400;">We are proud of our students at IIIT-Delhi who have been selected in the prestigious </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Rails-Girls-Summer-of-Code-620914904656191/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rails Girls Summer of Code</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (RGSoC) 2016! Of the 4 teams to be selected from India, 3 are from IIIT-D. They are out of the 20 teams selected from all over the world. A total of 92 teams had applied.</span>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">The two teams selected to be sponsored for their project:</span>\r\n<ol>\r\n <li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/vrinda.m.8"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Vrinda Malhotra</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TanSA05"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Taneea S Agrawaal</span></a></li>\r\n <li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/srishti.sengupta.18"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Srishti Sengupta</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/soumya.sharma13"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Soumya Sharma</span></a></li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">We also have a volunteer team selected from our institute: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mansi.goel07"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mansi Goel</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sahar.siddiqui.779"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sahar Siddiqui</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Congratulations, girls!</span>', '3 Teams from IIIT-Delhi Out Of 20 Across The World Selected in Rails Girls Summer of Code 2016', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '110-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-08-22 17:19:49', '2016-08-22 17:19:49', '', 110, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/110-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (113, 3, '2016-08-22 17:21:18', '2016-08-22 17:21:18', '<span style="font-weight: 400;">Aurora, IIIT-Delhi''s UAV team competed at the 14th edition of the coveted Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Student Unmanned Aerial Systems (AUVSI SUAS) Competition held at the Naval Air Base in Maryland, USA from 15th-19th June 2016. This is one of the largest unmanned systems competition in the world.</span>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">A total of 56 teams from all over the world registered for the competition, 43 were accepted and only 24 could make it to the final round. IIIT-Delhi cleared all milestones and deliverables and successfully made it to the final Flight Demonstration round. Aurora used a fixed-wing platform for their Unmanned Aerial System. The team was able to showcase a successful autonomous flight with auto take-off and came in 20th overall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Team Aurora garnered a lot of appreciation from the judges for it''s modular and lightweight aircraft and payload design. The competition was conducted on the lines of actual flight readiness checks for the NAVY, complete with Flight Readiness Review and Security Inspections.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Congratulations:</span>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://www.facebook.com/ritvik.agarwal.146"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ritvik Agarwal</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/parikshit.maini"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Parikshit Maini</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/silentkillerhimanshu"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Himanshu Chandna</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mandeepsingh.manku.7"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mandeep Singh Manku</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and Aditya Jain</span>\r\n\r\n[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofj7f16Dzuw[/embed]', 'IIIT-Delhi''s Team Completes 14th at AUVSI SUAS!', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'iiit-delhis-team-completes-14th-auvsi-suas', '', '', '2016-08-22 17:21:18', '2016-08-22 17:21:18', '', 0, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?p=113', 0, 'post', '', 0), (114, 3, '2016-08-22 17:21:18', '2016-08-22 17:21:18', '<span style="font-weight: 400;">Aurora, IIIT-Delhi''s UAV team competed at the 14th edition of the coveted Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Student Unmanned Aerial Systems (AUVSI SUAS) Competition held at the Naval Air Base in Maryland, USA from 15th-19th June 2016. This is one of the largest unmanned systems competition in the world.</span>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">A total of 56 teams from all over the world registered for the competition, 43 were accepted and only 24 could make it to the final round. IIIT-Delhi cleared all milestones and deliverables and successfully made it to the final Flight Demonstration round. Aurora used a fixed-wing platform for their Unmanned Aerial System. The team was able to showcase a successful autonomous flight with auto take-off and came in 20th overall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Team Aurora garnered a lot of appreciation from the judges for it''s modular and lightweight aircraft and payload design. The competition was conducted on the lines of actual flight readiness checks for the NAVY, complete with Flight Readiness Review and Security Inspections.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Congratulations:</span>\r\n\r\n<a href="https://www.facebook.com/ritvik.agarwal.146"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ritvik Agarwal</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/parikshit.maini"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Parikshit Maini</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/silentkillerhimanshu"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Himanshu Chandna</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mandeepsingh.manku.7"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mandeep Singh Manku</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and Aditya Jain</span>\r\n\r\n[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofj7f16Dzuw[/embed]', 'IIIT-Delhi''s Team Completes 14th at AUVSI SUAS!', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '113-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-08-22 17:21:18', '2016-08-22 17:21:18', '', 113, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/113-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (115, 3, '2016-08-22 17:25:12', '2016-08-22 17:25:12', '<span style="font-weight: 400;">The latest initiative of IIIT-Delhi delves into its philanthropic roots: Helping Hands. It originated from another social initiative, that of teaching financially challenged government school students.</span>\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Valedictory Ceremony of the five weeks long Summer School program was held recently, in which school students expressed their experiences and learning. The day ended with certificate and prize distribution, fantastic skits and a wonderful show by all the students.</span>\n\n<img class="aligncenter wp-image-116 size-full" src="http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Summer_School_9.jpg" alt="Summer_School_9" width="960" height="640">\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">This was a humble initiative by our B. 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We, at IIIT-Delhi, look forward to holding more events like the DMMF in the future!</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/169969413423406/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular&action_history=null&source=3&source_newsfeed_story_type=regular"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Funstore IoT Workshop</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> was a huge hit among the visitors of the </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/DelhiMiniMakerFaire/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Delhi Mini Maker Faire</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">! Everything from quantum computing, to robotics was discussed along with a hands-on session where special IoT kits were distributed among the audience. The workshop sure did motivate all students and visitors towards the Maker culture!</span>', 'IIIT-Delhi Hosts the Delhi Mini Maker Faire!', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'iiit-delhi-hosts-delhi-mini-maker-faire', '', '', '2016-08-22 18:13:14', '2016-08-22 18:13:14', '', 0, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?p=120', 0, 'post', '', 0), (121, 3, '2016-08-22 17:38:59', '2016-08-22 17:38:59', '', 'DMMF_5', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', 'dmmf_5', '', '', '2016-08-22 17:38:59', '2016-08-22 17:38:59', '', 120, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/DMMF_5.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0), (122, 3, '2016-08-22 17:39:54', '2016-08-22 17:39:54', '', 'DMMF_4', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', 'dmmf_4', '', '', '2016-08-22 17:39:54', '2016-08-22 17:39:54', '', 120, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/DMMF_4.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0), (123, 3, '2016-08-22 17:40:02', '2016-08-22 17:40:02', '<span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/DelhiMiniMakerFaire/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Delhi Mini Maker Faire</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, being hosted by IIIT-Delhi kicked off with an enlightening talk about Innovations and Innovators by Arvind. “Be different, and celebrate it,” was how the session began, progressing to the 10 most innovative inventions across the globe and more! 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I was surprised when I discovered this, but I’m convinced it’s true.\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Most people I know who are doing a masters in the US or Europe are doing so because its considered a path to better (read: more lucrative) opportunities, or perhaps a means to immigrating to the US. I’d be lying if I claimed that these things are not appealing to me, and these reasons are no worse or better than mine. My reasons are just different.</span>\r\n\r\nI came to grad school because I wanted to understand and build large-scale distributed systems. I find these systems incredibly interesting and my goal was to become a world-class engineer in this area. That’s harder to do without spending another couple of years in school figuring out the theory and building stuff in collaboration with the absolute best people in the area. Lots of people have ambitious goals, but what’s different about mine is that throughout my time at IIIT-D, it seemed like it was something that was achievable given enough effort and luck.\r\n\r\n<b>That’s because the best thing to me about IIIT-D, is that I felt I had as good a shot at anybody else in the world at achieving my goal.</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Even without taking a course in my specific area*, I knew that my foundational CS education was at par with the best in the world. I also knew that if I wanted to be doing, say, biometrics or machine learning or security instead of systems, that I could do those things too, because my classmates and professors were doing cool stuff in those areas all the time. I knew that all the coursework I did do was up-to-date and relevant, because I actually needed tons of it when I worked in the industry. I knew that I could build and ship products that people might want to use, because I tried and didn’t fail completely. I knew that I could solve hard problems, because I’d struggled with and finally beaten them every semester. I knew that I was going to be able to present myself and my ideas just fine, because my communication skills had been evaluated and improved through multiple courses. I knew that I could read and write research papers, because I had multiple opportunities to do so even as an undergrad. I knew that I could go work at a competitive tech company and not be in over my head, because I’d already done it by the time I applied for grad school. I knew that I could get stuff done and make an impact on my environment and the people around me because IIIT-D gave me dozens of opportunities to do exactly that.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">In my opinion, there are perhaps a handful of other places in India that can do this. How well both the institution and my classmates are doing is testament to the fact that we’re bold enough to believe we can do stuff, and well-trained enough to get it done. I don’t think this was an accident - I think that a bunch of smart people deliberately made a lot of excellent decisions to achieve exactly this effect.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">There are other universities where if you want to do something great really badly, you won’t face too many obstacles. There are other universities where you’re free to do things that interest you because they don’t require as much commitment from you, or give you as much.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Then there is IIIT-D, which treats you like the adult you are and demands immense amounts of time, effort and engagement. In return, it gives you all the opportunities and exposure you need to be a world class researcher or engineer. Whether this sounds good to you, of course, is an intensely personal choice.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">I, for one, couldn’t be happier with my decision to choose IIIT-D.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">*There weren’t any foundational courses on distributed systems offered during my senior years at IIIT-D, unfortunately. That would have made this a more natural progression, but perhaps a less interesting story.</span>\r\n\r\n<i>Written By\r\n</i><i>Raghav Sethi (B.Tech CSE ‘13)\r\n</i><i>Contact information is available on his </i><a href="http://raghavsethi.org/"><i>website</i></a>', 'Everything I Need', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'everything-i-need', '', '', '2016-10-18 15:12:12', '2016-10-18 09:42:12', '', 0, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?p=133', 0, 'post', '', 0), (134, 6, '2016-09-07 15:29:07', '2016-09-07 09:59:07', '<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Raghav Sethi (B.Tech CSE ‘13) will soon be completing his MSE at Princeton, and will join Facebook as a software engineer in August. Contact information is available on his </span></i><a href="http://raghavsethi.org/"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">website</span></i></a><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></i>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Here’s a truth I realized sometime over the past year: I probably wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing now, or even *want* to be doing it, if it weren’t for IIIT-D. I was surprised when I discovered this, but I’m convinced it’s true.</span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Most people I know who are doing a masters in the US or Europe are doing so because its considered a path to better (read: more lucrative) opportunities, or perhaps a means to immigrating to the US. I’d be lying if I claimed that these things are not appealing to me, and these reasons are no worse or better than mine. My reasons are just different.</span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">I came to grad school to learn about distributed systems, which happens to be an area of computer science that is wildly interesting to me. I wanted to learn about this because I hope to one day be the absolute best engineer in this area that the world has ever seen. That’s somewhat hard to do without spending a couple of years more in school figuring out the theory and actually building stuff in collaboration with the absolute best people in my field. Having crazy goals is not hard to do, but what’s different about my engineering goal is that throughout my time at IIIT-D, it seemed like it was something that was within my grasp.</span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<b>That’s because the best thing to me about IIIT-D, is that I felt I had as good a shot at anybody else in the world at achieving my goal.</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Even without taking a course in my specific area*, I knew that my foundational CS education was at par with the best in the world. I also knew that if I wanted to be doing, say, biometrics or machine learning or security instead of systems, that I could do those things too, because my classmates and professors were doing cool stuff in those areas all the time. I knew that all the coursework I did do was up-to-date and relevant, because I actually needed tons of it when I worked in the industry. I knew that I could build and ship products that people might want to use, because I tried and didn’t fail completely. I knew that I could solve hard problems, because I’d struggled with and finally beaten them every semester. I knew that I was going to be able to present myself and my ideas just fine, because my communication skills had been evaluated and improved through multiple courses. I knew that I could read and write research papers, because I had multiple opportunities to do so even as an undergrad. I knew that I could go work at a competitive tech company and not be in over my head, because I’d already done it by the time I applied for grad school. I knew that I could get stuff done and make an impact on my environment and the people around me because IIIT-D gave me dozens of opportunities to do exactly that.</span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">In my opinion, there are perhaps a handful of other places in India that can do this. How well both the institution and my classmates are doing is testament to the fact that we’re bold enough to believe we can do stuff, and well-trained enough to get it done. I don’t think this was an accident - I think that a bunch of smart people deliberately made a lot of excellent decisions to achieve exactly this effect.</span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">There are other universities where if you want to do something great really badly, you won’t face too many obstacles. There are other universities where you’re free to do things that interest you because they don’t require as much commitment from you, or give you as much.</span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Then there is IIIT-D, which treats you like the adult you are and demands immense amounts of time, effort and engagement. In return, it gives you all the opportunities and exposure you need to be a world class researcher or engineer. Whether this sounds good to you, of course, is an intensely personal choice. </span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">I, for one, couldn’t be happier with my decision to choose IIIT-D.</span>\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">*There weren’t any foundational courses on distributed systems offered during my senior years at IIIT-D, unfortunately. That would have made this a more natural progression, but perhaps a less interesting story.</span>\r\n\r\n ', 'Everything I Need', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '133-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-09-07 15:29:07', '2016-09-07 09:59:07', '', 133, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/133-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (135, 1, '2016-09-10 16:25:34', '2016-09-10 10:55:34', 'It is an amazing and indeed a fortunate opportunity to be among the first few students of the Institute and your advisor. Why? Because being the first few puts you in the experimental zone, especially for the advisor; this allows all parties (institute, advisor and oneself) to explore the best way growing together. Institute was new and flexible, rules were still to be imposed, Prof. Jalote and other professors would interact on a daily basis and it was a flat open culture. I believe and in my experience, those were the most productive and professionally healthy years, but the organisation and structure followed and a little of the culture got lost.\r\n\r\nThis blog is not about cribbing; It is about learning, appreciation and growing up. I am writing of my nostalgic 6 years at Precog and IIIT-Delhi. I am writing of the time, that had constantly pushed me out of my comfort zone. I am writing of the time when I grew to maturity. My advisor, and Institute were excited to have first of their PhD students. But, allow me to focus on PK’s excitement over the years and the learning I had from him.\r\n\r\n<strong>Lead</strong>: People say that I have a part of PK’s personality in me now. PK has a wonderful charisma and ability to lead. He started Precog, founded CERC, first in the Institute to help establish the brand, organised SPSymposium, collaborate, and network. He actually has a ‘following’ of every genre of professional career and that shows the impact of his leadership. I tried to learn a bit of it on a small scale. Learn to drive and push group sessions (Brainstorm paper reading), lead a small group to competitions, motivate fellow PhDs and help them, and most importantly lead myself! Long way to do things at the scale PK does.\r\n\r\n<strong>Generous</strong>: I have always been a generous person, not in money but in time. PK has been a generous person both in money and in time (to me, because we had little distractions in initial years of my PhD and this is the advantage of being the first few). I have heard from many that their advisors pay a little heed on what you are doing, most forget the problem their PhD students are working. PK fluctuates in this behaviour. He micromanages at some times, else leave to let us swim on our own. He generously gives away his travel, invitations, talks, etc., when any of us starts complaining of his time. Well, I believe it needs courage to prioritise students over oneself. He made sure that he was there to help fulfil our dreams, he certainly did mine. Working with such an advisor made me realise the organisation of priorities. I try to work with fellow PhDs as much as I can to offer time, review cycles and help. I have now become generous in money too, btw!\r\n\r\n<strong>It’s okay to fail</strong>: I really wish to talk about the group dynamics and behaviour here. I just love and appreciate Precog’s true culture of helping and criticising, sharing and fighting, growing together and selfishless attitude. <a href="http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/people/niharika/">Niharika</a>, <a href="http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/people/srishti/">Srishti</a>, <a href="http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/people/prateek/">Prateek</a>, <a href="http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/people/anupama/">Anupama</a>, Aditi, are the few fortunate ones to have worked with me! (:P) The group made sure that everyone is doing fine, technical errors were thrashed (not humiliated). We still complement each other and I believe that is the power of Precog. It is important to have calm, confused, impatient, strong, hyperactive, and mature people, all seated in the same room together. They constitute a part of my support structure and they were there when I ‘Failed’! So, whenever the group has a rejection, we celebrate! Funny! I distributed chocolates when I got my rejections. The group teaches you the power of collaboration, company and failure. I really missed all of you at the convocation!\r\n\r\nMy fellow future PhD graduates, I really wish that you make the best of the opportunity (or create a few for you / others). In industry, I see the importance of independence, the attitude of running with one’s problem and most importantly, fall in love with your work each day.\r\n\r\nGood luck Precog and to IIIT-Delhi PhD students. Strive, Fight, Connect, Learn from Other’s Failures, Talk, Present, Do the Quality Work, No Shortcuts, Trust your advisor, Trust yourself, Believe and Fight Back!\r\n<blockquote>“It’s not how hard you hit. It’s how hard you get hit…and keep moving forward.”<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/287960.Randy_Pausch"> Randy Pausch</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3364076">The Last Lecture</a></blockquote>\r\nTo maturity, to success!\r\n\r\nCheers!\r\n\r\n- Dr. Paridhi Jain\r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_136" align="aligncenter" width="368"]<img class="wp-image-136 size-full" src="http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/PJ_Graduation1.jpg" alt="Dr. PK with Dr. PJ at Convocation''16!" width="368" height="247" /> Dr. PK with Dr. PJ at Convocation''16![/caption]\r\n\r\nLink to original blog: <a href="http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/blog/2016/09/the-last-blog/">http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/blog/2016/09/the-last-blog/</a>', 'Dr. Paridhi Jain writes The Last Blog!', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'last-blog-precogers-perspective', '', '', '2016-09-10 16:30:31', '2016-09-10 11:00:31', '', 0, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?p=135', 0, 'post', '', 0), (136, 3, '2016-09-10 16:11:31', '2016-09-10 10:41:31', '', 'pj_graduation1', 'Dr. PK with Dr. PJ at Convocation''16!', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', 'pj_graduation1', '', '', '2016-09-10 16:12:13', '2016-09-10 10:42:13', '', 135, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/PJ_Graduation1.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0); INSERT INTO `wp_posts` (`ID`, `post_author`, `post_date`, `post_date_gmt`, `post_content`, `post_title`, `post_excerpt`, `post_status`, `comment_status`, `ping_status`, `post_password`, `post_name`, `to_ping`, `pinged`, `post_modified`, `post_modified_gmt`, `post_content_filtered`, `post_parent`, `guid`, `menu_order`, `post_type`, `post_mime_type`, `comment_count`) VALUES (137, 3, '2016-09-10 16:25:34', '2016-09-10 10:55:34', 'It is an amazing and indeed a fortunate opportunity to be among the first few students of the Institute and your advisor. Why? Because being the first few puts you in the experimental zone, especially for the advisor; this allows all parties (institute, advisor and oneself) to explore the best way growing together. Institute was new and flexible, rules were still to be imposed, Prof. Jalote and other professors would interact on a daily basis and it was a flat open culture. I believe and in my experience, those were the most productive and professionally healthy years, but the organisation and structure followed and a little of the culture got lost.\r\n\r\nThis blog is not about cribbing; It is about learning, appreciation and growing up. I am writing of my nostalgic 6 years at Precog and IIIT-Delhi. I am writing of the time, that had constantly pushed me out of my comfort zone. I am writing of the time when I grew to maturity. My advisor, and Institute were excited to have first of their PhD students. But, allow me to focus on PK’s excitement over the years and the learning I had from him.\r\n\r\n<strong>Lead</strong>: People say that I have a part of PK’s personality in me now. PK has a wonderful charisma and ability to lead. He started Precog, founded CERC, first in the Institute to help establish the brand, organised SPSymposium, collaborate, and network. He actually has a ‘following’ of every genre of professional career and that shows the impact of his leadership. I tried to learn a bit of it on a small scale. Learn to drive and push group sessions (Brainstorm paper reading), lead a small group to competitions, motivate fellow PhDs and help them, and most importantly lead myself! Long way to do things at the scale PK does.\r\n\r\n<strong>Generous</strong>: I have always been a generous person, not in money but in time. PK has been a generous person both in money and in time (to me, because we had little distractions in initial years of my PhD and this is the advantage of being the first few). I have heard from many that their advisors pay a little heed on what you are doing, most forget the problem their PhD students are working. PK fluctuates in this behaviour. He micromanages at some times, else leave to let us swim on our own. He generously gives away his travel, invitations, talks, etc., when any of us starts complaining of his time. Well, I believe it needs courage to prioritise students over oneself. He made sure that he was there to help fulfil our dreams, he certainly did mine. Working with such an advisor made me realise the organisation of priorities. I try to work with fellow PhDs as much as I can to offer time, review cycles and help. I have now become generous in money too, btw!\r\n\r\n<strong>It’s okay to fail</strong>: I really wish to talk about the group dynamics and behaviour here. I just love and appreciate Precog’s true culture of helping and criticising, sharing and fighting, growing together and selfishless attitude. <a href="http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/people/niharika/">Niharika</a>, <a href="http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/people/srishti/">Srishti</a>, <a href="http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/people/prateek/">Prateek</a>, <a href="http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/people/anupama/">Anupama</a>, Aditi, are the few fortunate ones to have worked with me! (:P) The group made sure that everyone is doing fine, technical errors were thrashed (not humiliated). We still complement each other and I believe that is the power of Precog. It is important to have calm, confused, impatient, strong, hyperactive, and mature people, all seated in the same room together. They constitute a part of my support structure and they were there when I ‘Failed’! So, whenever the group has a rejection, we celebrate! Funny! I distributed chocolates when I got my rejections. The group teaches you the power of collaboration, company and failure. I really missed all of you at the convocation!\r\n\r\nMy fellow future PhD graduates, I really wish that you make the best of the opportunity (or create a few for you / others). In industry, I see the importance of independence, the attitude of running with one’s problem and most importantly, fall in love with your work each day.\r\n\r\nGood luck Precog and to IIIT-Delhi PhD students. Strive, Fight, Connect, Learn from Other’s Failures, Talk, Present, Do the Quality Work, No Shortcuts, Trust your advisor, Trust yourself, Believe and Fight Back!\r\n<blockquote>“It’s not how hard you hit. It’s how hard you get hit…and keep moving forward.”<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/287960.Randy_Pausch"> Randy Pausch</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3364076">The Last Lecture</a></blockquote>\r\nTo maturity, to success!\r\n\r\nCheers!\r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_136" align="aligncenter" width="368"]<img class="wp-image-136 size-full" src="http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/PJ_Graduation1.jpg" alt="Dr. PK with Dr. PJ at Convocation''16!" width="368" height="247" /> Dr. PK with Dr. PJ at Convocation''16![/caption]', 'The Last Blog! A Precoger''s Perspective.', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '135-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-09-10 16:25:34', '2016-09-10 10:55:34', '', 135, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/135-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (138, 3, '2016-09-10 16:30:00', '2016-09-10 11:00:00', 'It is an amazing and indeed a fortunate opportunity to be among the first few students of the Institute and your advisor. Why? Because being the first few puts you in the experimental zone, especially for the advisor; this allows all parties (institute, advisor and oneself) to explore the best way growing together. Institute was new and flexible, rules were still to be imposed, Prof. Jalote and other professors would interact on a daily basis and it was a flat open culture. I believe and in my experience, those were the most productive and professionally healthy years, but the organisation and structure followed and a little of the culture got lost.\n\nThis blog is not about cribbing; It is about learning, appreciation and growing up. I am writing of my nostalgic 6 years at Precog and IIIT-Delhi. I am writing of the time, that had constantly pushed me out of my comfort zone. I am writing of the time when I grew to maturity. My advisor, and Institute were excited to have first of their PhD students. But, allow me to focus on PK’s excitement over the years and the learning I had from him.\n\n<strong>Lead</strong>: People say that I have a part of PK’s personality in me now. PK has a wonderful charisma and ability to lead. He started Precog, founded CERC, first in the Institute to help establish the brand, organised SPSymposium, collaborate, and network. He actually has a ‘following’ of every genre of professional career and that shows the impact of his leadership. I tried to learn a bit of it on a small scale. Learn to drive and push group sessions (Brainstorm paper reading), lead a small group to competitions, motivate fellow PhDs and help them, and most importantly lead myself! Long way to do things at the scale PK does.\n\n<strong>Generous</strong>: I have always been a generous person, not in money but in time. PK has been a generous person both in money and in time (to me, because we had little distractions in initial years of my PhD and this is the advantage of being the first few). I have heard from many that their advisors pay a little heed on what you are doing, most forget the problem their PhD students are working. PK fluctuates in this behaviour. He micromanages at some times, else leave to let us swim on our own. He generously gives away his travel, invitations, talks, etc., when any of us starts complaining of his time. Well, I believe it needs courage to prioritise students over oneself. He made sure that he was there to help fulfil our dreams, he certainly did mine. Working with such an advisor made me realise the organisation of priorities. I try to work with fellow PhDs as much as I can to offer time, review cycles and help. I have now become generous in money too, btw!\n\n<strong>It’s okay to fail</strong>: I really wish to talk about the group dynamics and behaviour here. I just love and appreciate Precog’s true culture of helping and criticising, sharing and fighting, growing together and selfishless attitude. <a href="http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/people/niharika/">Niharika</a>, <a href="http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/people/srishti/">Srishti</a>, <a href="http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/people/prateek/">Prateek</a>, <a href="http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/people/anupama/">Anupama</a>, Aditi, are the few fortunate ones to have worked with me! (:P) The group made sure that everyone is doing fine, technical errors were thrashed (not humiliated). We still complement each other and I believe that is the power of Precog. It is important to have calm, confused, impatient, strong, hyperactive, and mature people, all seated in the same room together. They constitute a part of my support structure and they were there when I ‘Failed’! So, whenever the group has a rejection, we celebrate! Funny! I distributed chocolates when I got my rejections. The group teaches you the power of collaboration, company and failure. I really missed all of you at the convocation!\n\nMy fellow future PhD graduates, I really wish that you make the best of the opportunity (or create a few for you / others). In industry, I see the importance of independence, the attitude of running with one’s problem and most importantly, fall in love with your work each day.\n\nGood luck Precog and to IIIT-Delhi PhD students. Strive, Fight, Connect, Learn from Other’s Failures, Talk, Present, Do the Quality Work, No Shortcuts, Trust your advisor, Trust yourself, Believe and Fight Back!\n<blockquote>“It’s not how hard you hit. It’s how hard you get hit…and keep moving forward.”<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/287960.Randy_Pausch"> Randy Pausch</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3364076">The Last Lecture</a></blockquote>\nTo maturity, to success!\n\nCheers!\n\n- Dr. Paridhi Jain\n\n[caption id="attachment_136" align="aligncenter" width="368"]<img class="wp-image-136 size-full" src="http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/PJ_Graduation1.jpg" alt="Dr. PK with Dr. PJ at Convocation''16!" width="368" height="247" /> Dr. PK with Dr. PJ at Convocation''16![/caption]\n\nLink to original blog:', 'Dr. Paridhi Jain writes The Last Blog!', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '135-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-09-10 16:30:00', '2016-09-10 11:00:00', '', 135, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/135-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (139, 3, '2016-09-10 16:29:23', '2016-09-10 10:59:23', '', 'cropped-test2-2', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', 'cropped-test2-2', '', '', '2016-09-10 16:29:23', '2016-09-10 10:59:23', '', 135, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cropped-test2-2.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0), (140, 3, '2016-09-10 16:30:31', '2016-09-10 11:00:31', 'It is an amazing and indeed a fortunate opportunity to be among the first few students of the Institute and your advisor. Why? Because being the first few puts you in the experimental zone, especially for the advisor; this allows all parties (institute, advisor and oneself) to explore the best way growing together. Institute was new and flexible, rules were still to be imposed, Prof. Jalote and other professors would interact on a daily basis and it was a flat open culture. I believe and in my experience, those were the most productive and professionally healthy years, but the organisation and structure followed and a little of the culture got lost.\r\n\r\nThis blog is not about cribbing; It is about learning, appreciation and growing up. I am writing of my nostalgic 6 years at Precog and IIIT-Delhi. I am writing of the time, that had constantly pushed me out of my comfort zone. I am writing of the time when I grew to maturity. My advisor, and Institute were excited to have first of their PhD students. But, allow me to focus on PK’s excitement over the years and the learning I had from him.\r\n\r\n<strong>Lead</strong>: People say that I have a part of PK’s personality in me now. PK has a wonderful charisma and ability to lead. He started Precog, founded CERC, first in the Institute to help establish the brand, organised SPSymposium, collaborate, and network. He actually has a ‘following’ of every genre of professional career and that shows the impact of his leadership. I tried to learn a bit of it on a small scale. Learn to drive and push group sessions (Brainstorm paper reading), lead a small group to competitions, motivate fellow PhDs and help them, and most importantly lead myself! Long way to do things at the scale PK does.\r\n\r\n<strong>Generous</strong>: I have always been a generous person, not in money but in time. PK has been a generous person both in money and in time (to me, because we had little distractions in initial years of my PhD and this is the advantage of being the first few). I have heard from many that their advisors pay a little heed on what you are doing, most forget the problem their PhD students are working. PK fluctuates in this behaviour. He micromanages at some times, else leave to let us swim on our own. He generously gives away his travel, invitations, talks, etc., when any of us starts complaining of his time. Well, I believe it needs courage to prioritise students over oneself. He made sure that he was there to help fulfil our dreams, he certainly did mine. Working with such an advisor made me realise the organisation of priorities. I try to work with fellow PhDs as much as I can to offer time, review cycles and help. I have now become generous in money too, btw!\r\n\r\n<strong>It’s okay to fail</strong>: I really wish to talk about the group dynamics and behaviour here. I just love and appreciate Precog’s true culture of helping and criticising, sharing and fighting, growing together and selfishless attitude. <a href="http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/people/niharika/">Niharika</a>, <a href="http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/people/srishti/">Srishti</a>, <a href="http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/people/prateek/">Prateek</a>, <a href="http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/people/anupama/">Anupama</a>, Aditi, are the few fortunate ones to have worked with me! (:P) The group made sure that everyone is doing fine, technical errors were thrashed (not humiliated). We still complement each other and I believe that is the power of Precog. It is important to have calm, confused, impatient, strong, hyperactive, and mature people, all seated in the same room together. They constitute a part of my support structure and they were there when I ‘Failed’! So, whenever the group has a rejection, we celebrate! Funny! I distributed chocolates when I got my rejections. The group teaches you the power of collaboration, company and failure. I really missed all of you at the convocation!\r\n\r\nMy fellow future PhD graduates, I really wish that you make the best of the opportunity (or create a few for you / others). In industry, I see the importance of independence, the attitude of running with one’s problem and most importantly, fall in love with your work each day.\r\n\r\nGood luck Precog and to IIIT-Delhi PhD students. Strive, Fight, Connect, Learn from Other’s Failures, Talk, Present, Do the Quality Work, No Shortcuts, Trust your advisor, Trust yourself, Believe and Fight Back!\r\n<blockquote>“It’s not how hard you hit. It’s how hard you get hit…and keep moving forward.”<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/287960.Randy_Pausch"> Randy Pausch</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3364076">The Last Lecture</a></blockquote>\r\nTo maturity, to success!\r\n\r\nCheers!\r\n\r\n- Dr. Paridhi Jain\r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_136" align="aligncenter" width="368"]<img class="wp-image-136 size-full" src="http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/PJ_Graduation1.jpg" alt="Dr. PK with Dr. PJ at Convocation''16!" width="368" height="247" /> Dr. PK with Dr. PJ at Convocation''16![/caption]\r\n\r\nLink to original blog: <a href="http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/blog/2016/09/the-last-blog/">http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/blog/2016/09/the-last-blog/</a>', 'Dr. Paridhi Jain writes The Last Blog!', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '135-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-09-10 16:30:31', '2016-09-10 11:00:31', '', 135, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/135-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (143, 1, '2016-10-18 15:17:07', '2016-10-18 09:47:07', '[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1024"]<img class="size-medium" src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6127/5931171740_14fea8385d_b.jpg" alt="Image taken from Google Images" width="1024" height="658" /> Image taken from Google Images[/caption]\r\n\r\nIt has been a while since the last day at IIIT Delhi. A long while since we last sat down to remember our Alma mater and how our lives were carefully shaped. Everyone is so caught up in the rat-race, trying to get to the top that these little pleasures are forgotten. Just like everyone else on this planet, I kept procrastinating something as enjoyable as penning down experiences for many months, completely caught up in the hustle-bustle of everyday life.\r\n\r\nAs a member of the first batch, my batch mates and I have seen how much it took to build the institute... in the literal sense too. There is maddening competition now to get through IIIT Delhi. But back in 2008, each one of us was apprehensive. We even had the guts to question Dr. Jalote during the orientation if our futures were safe. Our apprehensions were put to rest with time by Dr. Jalote’s confidence and perseverance. From awfully early morning and late evening classes with NSIT’s borrowed professors to our own little space in the NSIT campus... From the foundation-laying ceremony by Sheila Dikshit to the start of full-fledged operations on campus... From explaining to every employer that the existence of ‘Indraprastha’ in the institute’s name has nothing to do with IP University to IIIT Delhi becoming a sought-after premier institute... It has been one hell of a journey and we have come a long way! And everyone riding along has benefited. The 12 AM deadlines prepared me to control sleep – a necessary skill needed when something goes wrong during release. I got my BFFs while staying in the hostel. Preparing for cultural performances taught me teamwork. The heated discussions during student council meetings trained me to stand up for something you truly believe in, and to let go of that wretched ego when those ideas are thwarted like a housefly subject to a fly swatter. The Disciplinary Action Committee meetings educated me on how to weigh pros and cons to strike a suitable balance during decision-making. I picked up organizational skills from experiences and mistakes while organizing events under the cultural club. I learned how to market a product while trying to get more ACM members on board. Losing ESYA elections taught me how to deal with failure (that seems very big at that moment). That scary B.Tech. Project Panel Presentation trained me on how to handle stressful situations without going insane. The open-book take-home assignments forced creativity and ingenuity. The humongous workload and assignments conditioned me to prioritize. Every minute of involvement in something new leaves an imprint that stays forever. These learnings are larger than what the world thinks you are meant to learn in an institute. Bigger than CGPA. Greater than awards. The freedom IIIT Delhi provides to its students to learn what they like is what makes it unique. And the top-notch faculty pumps life with every heartbeat into this growing baby.\r\n\r\nSharing my experience has been a homecoming for me. That extraordinary feeling of nostalgic joy experienced around familiar surroundings and people. Hoping you will find some takeaways in it!\r\n\r\n<em>Written By\r\nIshita Jain\r\nBTech 2012</em>', 'Ishita Jain Talks About What No One Tells You about IIIT Delhi', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'ishita-jain-talks-no-one-tells-iiit-delhi', '', '', '2016-10-18 15:21:01', '2016-10-18 09:51:01', '', 0, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?p=143', 0, 'post', '', 0), (144, 1, '2019-04-01 16:09:16', '2019-04-01 10:39:16', '<span style="font-weight: 400;">When I joined IIIT-Delhi in 2009, the institute was still in its infancy. In fact, there were only 60 students more senior than I was! Even at the counselling, there were clues that I was entering an institution that thought differently about education. Rather than encourage everybody to join, Dr. Jalote instead warned the incoming batch that "if you do not believe in hard work, this place is not for you”. Joining IIIT-Delhi turned out to be one of the best decisions I''ve ever made, and I am writing this to share with future IIITians why this is the case.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">\n</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">In true 2015 Buzzfeed listicle style, this post is about eight things I learnt during my time at IIIT-Delhi. Although I sometimes wish I''d known them at the beginning, I realise that part of the journey was figuring these out on my own!</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">\n</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">\n</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">1. Coming out of high school, I believed that even if I could achieve 95% of my goal with 75% of effort, I did a good job. In my first few semesters, I put just enough thought and work into courses and projects to get a decent grade. I was ridiculously wrong about this. There are no shortcuts. There are no easy paths. Giving 100% effort is the only way. The good thing, I realized, about putting complete effort is that even if you don''t succeed, there is nothing more you could have done - so at least you feel satisfied. I started putting in 100% effort and thought in my courses and more importantly projects in the second half of my BTech. As a result, I was able to work on impactful projects like an even recommender and personalization app called What''s Next Up and research projects which resulted in papers presented at international conferences and workshops</span><b>.</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">\n</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">2. It is very common to measure achievement from ones successes. Rejections and failures let me down a lot. One of my papers got rejected from conferences a few times. My partner and I failed to get funding for What''s Next Up. It was a slow process but the rejections made me realize that my aim should not be success all the time. I needed to give more importance to the learning part of these experiences. I learned to appreciate the learning involved in every experience. I owe this to IIIT-Delhi simply because I had so many opportunities to try new things - I failed at some while succeeded at others.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">\n</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">3. Another thing about opportunities is that it is important to explore them. I realized the importance of doing breadth first search rather than depth first search so I could explore more during this learning period. Coming out of school, I did not know what particular area of computer science interests me, what problems appeal to me. At such a stage, it is very important to explore more. The lesson here is that even if you think you have found a project or an area that you are sure appeals to you, do not stop expanding your breadth. This is the only time you will get to explore the breadth of the field. After graduation, at work or higher studies, one usually is busy exploring the depths of problems. In my four years at IIIT-Delhi, I explored topics as varied as privacy and security, application development, artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, randomized algorithms, machine learning, data mining, linear algebra and social science courses like ethics. And yet there was so much at IIIT-Delhi that I could not explore such as psychology, cryptography, bioinformatics and economics, not to mention all the extra-curricular activities!</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">\n</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">4. As one of my friend says "if you are going home after classes, you are missing out on a lot". I learnt the importance of learning outside of classes. The professors at IIIT always have their doors open. They welcome student collaborators. I loved the algorithms design course and while I was talking to my algorithms professor, he mentioned an opening in their group about a research project. That''s how I started my first research project outside of classes. There are a lot of projects that students are doing on their own. That''s how I started working on projects like What''s Next Up. There are PhD students who love to work with undergrad collaborators. That''s how I started working with a PhD on community detection and analysis on Twitter. Apart from this, there are a lot of student run clubs and groups about competitive programming, hacking and so on. One can also contribute to IIIT''s annual tech fest. I was fortunate enough to live in the hostel in my final semester and it was a tremendously rewarding experience!</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">\n</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">5. It is very important to realize the importance of communication. There are a ton of opportunities but they are not useful if you do not express your interest in them. There are a lot of professors and fellow students who are willing to collaborate with you but that''s not useful if you do not communicate with them. There are a lot of people who would be happy to help you when you are stuck but that''s not useful if you do not communicate. You may have some great ideas but if you do not communicate and discuss you will never know that another student was working on a similar idea and you could have worked together to get a better solution out. IIIT-Delhi offers courses in communication and organizational behavior to strengthen these aspects.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">\n</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">6. It is okay to not know what you want from life. Even in my last year, I was not sure if I wanted to pursue a PhD or masters in computer science. I knew I loved distributed systems but did not know what topic within distributed systems appeals to me. If you do not know, there is no harm in exploring. I talked to Dr. Jalote and Dr. Bedathur before starting my masters and the feedback I got made me feel good about not knowing what I want to do - "you are young so explore, it doesn''t matter if you are wrong”. Now that I talk to people who were sure about what they wanted from life, they tell me that they have realized that they don''t know either.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">\n</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">7. I have realized the importance of balance between the love for your work and the ability to pivot when needed. The two extremes are dangerous. I have experienced both extremes. I have refused to change my idea when stuck in project because of my affection for the work done so far and I have given up on ideas because of insignificant issues. I have realized that it is by experience alone that you learn when to keep working and when to look to pivot.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">\n</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">8. Surround yourself with people who not only have fun with you but motivate you when needed. This is very important. I found myself in tough situations a lot of time in the four years. It''s these situations that teach you a lot about your support system. As an example, I would have never applied for higher studies had my friends not motivated me.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">\n</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">\n</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">I owe these to IIIT-Delhi because of the general atmosphere here about “doing things yourself”. If you are passionate about computer science and want to spend four years in an atmosphere where you learn by doing things, IIIT-Delhi is the place for you.</span>\n\n \n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Mayank Pundir</span>', 'How IIITD Changed My Life', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'how-iiitd-changed-my-life', '', '', '2019-04-10 16:53:38', '2019-04-10 11:23:38', '', 0, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?p=144', 0, 'post', '', 0), (145, 3, '2016-10-18 14:49:29', '2016-10-18 09:19:29', 'It has been a while since the last day at IIIT Delhi. A long while since we last sat down to remember our Alma mater and how our lives were carefully shaped. Everyone is so caught up in the rat-race, trying to get to the top that these little pleasures are forgotten. Just like everyone else on this planet, I kept procrastinating something as enjoyable as penning down experiences for many months, completely caught up in the hustle-bustle of everyday life.\r\n\r\nAs a member of the first batch, my batch mates and I have seen how much it took to build the institute... in the literal sense too. There is maddening competition now to get through IIIT Delhi. But back in 2008, each one of us was apprehensive. We even had the guts to question Dr. Jalote during the orientation if our futures were safe. Our apprehensions were put to rest with time by Dr. Jalote’s confidence and perseverance. From awfully early morning and late evening classes with NSIT’s borrowed professors to our own little space in the NSIT campus... From the foundation-laying ceremony by Sheila Dikshit to the start of full-fledged operations on campus... From explaining to every employer that the existence of ‘Indraprastha’ in the institute’s name has nothing to do with IP University to IIIT Delhi becoming a sought-after premier institute... It has been one hell of a journey and we have come a long way! And everyone riding along has benefited. The 12 AM deadlines prepared me to control sleep – a necessary skill needed when something goes wrong during release. I got my BFFs while staying in the hostel. Preparing for cultural performances taught me teamwork. The heated discussions during student council meetings trained me to stand up for something you truly believe in, and to let go of that wretched ego when those ideas are thwarted like a housefly subject to a fly swatter. The Disciplinary Action Committee meetings educated me on how to weigh pros and cons to strike a suitable balance during decision-making. I picked up organizational skills from experiences and mistakes while organizing events under the cultural club. I learned how to market a product while trying to get more ACM members on board. Losing ESYA elections taught me how to deal with failure (that seems very big at that moment). That scary B.Tech. Project Panel Presentation trained me on how to handle stressful situations without going insane. The open-book take-home assignments forced creativity and ingenuity. The humongous workload and assignments conditioned me to prioritize. Every minute of involvement in something new leaves an imprint that stays forever. These learnings are larger than what the world thinks you are meant to learn in an institute. Bigger than CGPA. Greater than awards. The freedom IIIT Delhi provides to its students to learn what they like is what makes it unique. And the top-notch faculty pumps life with every heartbeat into this growing baby.\r\n\r\nSharing my experience has been a homecoming for me. That extraordinary feeling of nostalgic joy experienced around familiar surroundings and people. Hoping you will find some takeaways in it!', 'Ishita Jain Talks About What No One Tells You about IIIT Delhi', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '143-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-18 14:49:29', '2016-10-18 09:19:29', '', 143, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/143-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (146, 3, '2016-10-18 15:14:48', '2016-10-18 09:44:48', ' \n\nHere’s a truth I realized sometime over the past year: I probably wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing now, or even <em>want </em>to be doing it, if it weren’t for IIIT-D. I was surprised when I discovered this, but I’m convinced it’s true.\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Most people I know who are doing a masters in the US or Europe are doing so because its considered a path to better (read: more lucrative) opportunities, or perhaps a means to immigrating to the US. I’d be lying if I claimed that these things are not appealing to me, and these reasons are no worse or better than mine. My reasons are just different.</span>\n\nI came to grad school because I wanted to understand and build large-scale distributed systems. I find these systems incredibly interesting and my goal was to become a world-class engineer in this area. That’s harder to do without spending another couple of years in school figuring out the theory and building stuff in collaboration with the absolute best people in the area. Lots of people have ambitious goals, but what’s different about mine is that throughout my time at IIIT-D, it seemed like it was something that was achievable given enough effort and luck.\n\n<b>That’s because the best thing to me about IIIT-D, is that I felt I had as good a shot at anybody else in the world at achieving my goal.</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Even without taking a course in my specific area*, I knew that my foundational CS education was at par with the best in the world. I also knew that if I wanted to be doing, say, biometrics or machine learning or security instead of systems, that I could do those things too, because my classmates and professors were doing cool stuff in those areas all the time. I knew that all the coursework I did do was up-to-date and relevant, because I actually needed tons of it when I worked in the industry. I knew that I could build and ship products that people might want to use, because I tried and didn’t fail completely. I knew that I could solve hard problems, because I’d struggled with and finally beaten them every semester. I knew that I was going to be able to present myself and my ideas just fine, because my communication skills had been evaluated and improved through multiple courses. I knew that I could read and write research papers, because I had multiple opportunities to do so even as an undergrad. I knew that I could go work at a competitive tech company and not be in over my head, because I’d already done it by the time I applied for grad school. I knew that I could get stuff done and make an impact on my environment and the people around me because IIIT-D gave me dozens of opportunities to do exactly that.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">In my opinion, there are perhaps a handful of other places in India that can do this. How well both the institution and my classmates are doing is testament to the fact that we’re bold enough to believe we can do stuff, and well-trained enough to get it done. I don’t think this was an accident - I think that a bunch of smart people deliberately made a lot of excellent decisions to achieve exactly this effect.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">There are other universities where if you want to do something great really badly, you won’t face too many obstacles. There are other universities where you’re free to do things that interest you because they don’t require as much commitment from you, or give you as much.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Then there is IIIT-D, which treats you like the adult you are and demands immense amounts of time, effort and engagement. In return, it gives you all the opportunities and exposure you need to be a world class researcher or engineer. Whether this sounds good to you, of course, is an intensely personal choice.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">I, for one, couldn’t be happier with my decision to choose IIIT-D.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">*There weren’t any foundational courses on distributed systems offered during my senior years at IIIT-D, unfortunately. That would have made this a more natural progression, but perhaps a less interesting story.</span>\n\n<i>Written By\n</i><i>Raghav Sethi (B.Tech CSE ‘13)\n</i><i>Contact information is available on his </i><a href="http://raghavsethi.org/"><i>website</i></a>', 'Everything I Need', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '133-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-10-18 15:14:48', '2016-10-18 09:44:48', '', 133, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/133-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (147, 3, '2016-10-18 15:04:52', '2016-10-18 09:34:52', '<span style="font-weight: 400;">Here’s a truth I realized sometime over the past year: I probably wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing now, or even <em>want </em>to be doing it, if it weren’t for IIIT-D. I was surprised when I discovered this, but I’m convinced it’s true.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Most people I know who are doing a masters in the US or Europe are doing so because its considered a path to better (read: more lucrative) opportunities, or perhaps a means to immigrating to the US. I’d be lying if I claimed that these things are not appealing to me, and these reasons are no worse or better than mine. My reasons are just different.</span>\r\n\r\nI came to grad school because I wanted to understand and build large-scale distributed systems. I find these systems incredibly interesting and my goal was to become a world-class engineer in this area. That’s harder to do without spending another couple of years in school figuring out the theory and building stuff in collaboration with the absolute best people in the area. Lots of people have ambitious goals, but what’s different about mine is that throughout my time at IIIT-D, it seemed like it was something that was achievable given enough effort and luck.\r\n\r\n<b>That’s because the best thing to me about IIIT-D, is that I felt I had as good a shot at anybody else in the world at achieving my goal.</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Even without taking a course in my specific area*, I knew that my foundational CS education was at par with the best in the world. I also knew that if I wanted to be doing, say, biometrics or machine learning or security instead of systems, that I could do those things too, because my classmates and professors were doing cool stuff in those areas all the time. I knew that all the coursework I did do was up-to-date and relevant, because I actually needed tons of it when I worked in the industry. I knew that I could build and ship products that people might want to use, because I tried and didn’t fail completely. I knew that I could solve hard problems, because I’d struggled with and finally beaten them every semester. I knew that I was going to be able to present myself and my ideas just fine, because my communication skills had been evaluated and improved through multiple courses. I knew that I could read and write research papers, because I had multiple opportunities to do so even as an undergrad. I knew that I could go work at a competitive tech company and not be in over my head, because I’d already done it by the time I applied for grad school. I knew that I could get stuff done and make an impact on my environment and the people around me because IIIT-D gave me dozens of opportunities to do exactly that.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">In my opinion, there are perhaps a handful of other places in India that can do this. How well both the institution and my classmates are doing is testament to the fact that we’re bold enough to believe we can do stuff, and well-trained enough to get it done. I don’t think this was an accident - I think that a bunch of smart people deliberately made a lot of excellent decisions to achieve exactly this effect.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">There are other universities where if you want to do something great really badly, you won’t face too many obstacles. There are other universities where you’re free to do things that interest you because they don’t require as much commitment from you, or give you as much.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Then there is IIIT-D, which treats you like the adult you are and demands immense amounts of time, effort and engagement. In return, it gives you all the opportunities and exposure you need to be a world class researcher or engineer. Whether this sounds good to you, of course, is an intensely personal choice.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">I, for one, couldn’t be happier with my decision to choose IIIT-D.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">*There weren’t any foundational courses on distributed systems offered during my senior years at IIIT-D, unfortunately. That would have made this a more natural progression, but perhaps a less interesting story.</span>\r\n\r\n<i>Written By\r\n</i><i>Raghav Sethi (B.Tech CSE ‘13)\r\n</i><i>Contact information is available on his </i><a href="http://raghavsethi.org/"><i>website</i></a>', 'Everything I Need', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '133-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-18 15:04:52', '2016-10-18 09:34:52', '', 133, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/133-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (148, 3, '2016-10-18 15:10:49', '2016-10-18 09:40:49', 'It has been a while since the last day at IIIT Delhi. A long while since we last sat down to remember our Alma mater and how our lives were carefully shaped. Everyone is so caught up in the rat-race, trying to get to the top that these little pleasures are forgotten. Just like everyone else on this planet, I kept procrastinating something as enjoyable as penning down experiences for many months, completely caught up in the hustle-bustle of everyday life.\r\n\r\nAs a member of the first batch, my batch mates and I have seen how much it took to build the institute... in the literal sense too. There is maddening competition now to get through IIIT Delhi. But back in 2008, each one of us was apprehensive. We even had the guts to question Dr. Jalote during the orientation if our futures were safe. Our apprehensions were put to rest with time by Dr. Jalote’s confidence and perseverance. From awfully early morning and late evening classes with NSIT’s borrowed professors to our own little space in the NSIT campus... From the foundation-laying ceremony by Sheila Dikshit to the start of full-fledged operations on campus... From explaining to every employer that the existence of ‘Indraprastha’ in the institute’s name has nothing to do with IP University to IIIT Delhi becoming a sought-after premier institute... It has been one hell of a journey and we have come a long way! And everyone riding along has benefited. The 12 AM deadlines prepared me to control sleep – a necessary skill needed when something goes wrong during release. I got my BFFs while staying in the hostel. Preparing for cultural performances taught me teamwork. The heated discussions during student council meetings trained me to stand up for something you truly believe in, and to let go of that wretched ego when those ideas are thwarted like a housefly subject to a fly swatter. The Disciplinary Action Committee meetings educated me on how to weigh pros and cons to strike a suitable balance during decision-making. I picked up organizational skills from experiences and mistakes while organizing events under the cultural club. I learned how to market a product while trying to get more ACM members on board. Losing ESYA elections taught me how to deal with failure (that seems very big at that moment). That scary B.Tech. Project Panel Presentation trained me on how to handle stressful situations without going insane. The open-book take-home assignments forced creativity and ingenuity. The humongous workload and assignments conditioned me to prioritize. Every minute of involvement in something new leaves an imprint that stays forever. These learnings are larger than what the world thinks you are meant to learn in an institute. Bigger than CGPA. Greater than awards. The freedom IIIT Delhi provides to its students to learn what they like is what makes it unique. And the top-notch faculty pumps life with every heartbeat into this growing baby.\r\n\r\nSharing my experience has been a homecoming for me. That extraordinary feeling of nostalgic joy experienced around familiar surroundings and people. Hoping you will find some takeaways in it!\r\n\r\n<em>Written By\r\nIshita Jain\r\nBTech 2012</em>', 'Ishita Jain Talks About What No One Tells You about IIIT Delhi', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '143-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-18 15:10:49', '2016-10-18 09:40:49', '', 143, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/143-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0); INSERT INTO `wp_posts` (`ID`, `post_author`, `post_date`, `post_date_gmt`, `post_content`, `post_title`, `post_excerpt`, `post_status`, `comment_status`, `ping_status`, `post_password`, `post_name`, `to_ping`, `pinged`, `post_modified`, `post_modified_gmt`, `post_content_filtered`, `post_parent`, `guid`, `menu_order`, `post_type`, `post_mime_type`, `comment_count`) VALUES (149, 3, '2016-10-18 15:12:12', '2016-10-18 09:42:12', '[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="960"]<img src="https://scontent.fdel1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/12106755_10153588538267184_3185699495287788196_n.jpg?oh=df16f0aa73169cd70571e60c867659fe&oe=58603BCB" width="960" height="640" /> Image belongs to Raghav Sethi[/caption]\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nHere’s a truth I realized sometime over the past year: I probably wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing now, or even <em>want </em>to be doing it, if it weren’t for IIIT-D. I was surprised when I discovered this, but I’m convinced it’s true.\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Most people I know who are doing a masters in the US or Europe are doing so because its considered a path to better (read: more lucrative) opportunities, or perhaps a means to immigrating to the US. I’d be lying if I claimed that these things are not appealing to me, and these reasons are no worse or better than mine. My reasons are just different.</span>\r\n\r\nI came to grad school because I wanted to understand and build large-scale distributed systems. I find these systems incredibly interesting and my goal was to become a world-class engineer in this area. That’s harder to do without spending another couple of years in school figuring out the theory and building stuff in collaboration with the absolute best people in the area. Lots of people have ambitious goals, but what’s different about mine is that throughout my time at IIIT-D, it seemed like it was something that was achievable given enough effort and luck.\r\n\r\n<b>That’s because the best thing to me about IIIT-D, is that I felt I had as good a shot at anybody else in the world at achieving my goal.</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Even without taking a course in my specific area*, I knew that my foundational CS education was at par with the best in the world. I also knew that if I wanted to be doing, say, biometrics or machine learning or security instead of systems, that I could do those things too, because my classmates and professors were doing cool stuff in those areas all the time. I knew that all the coursework I did do was up-to-date and relevant, because I actually needed tons of it when I worked in the industry. I knew that I could build and ship products that people might want to use, because I tried and didn’t fail completely. I knew that I could solve hard problems, because I’d struggled with and finally beaten them every semester. I knew that I was going to be able to present myself and my ideas just fine, because my communication skills had been evaluated and improved through multiple courses. I knew that I could read and write research papers, because I had multiple opportunities to do so even as an undergrad. I knew that I could go work at a competitive tech company and not be in over my head, because I’d already done it by the time I applied for grad school. I knew that I could get stuff done and make an impact on my environment and the people around me because IIIT-D gave me dozens of opportunities to do exactly that.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">In my opinion, there are perhaps a handful of other places in India that can do this. How well both the institution and my classmates are doing is testament to the fact that we’re bold enough to believe we can do stuff, and well-trained enough to get it done. I don’t think this was an accident - I think that a bunch of smart people deliberately made a lot of excellent decisions to achieve exactly this effect.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">There are other universities where if you want to do something great really badly, you won’t face too many obstacles. There are other universities where you’re free to do things that interest you because they don’t require as much commitment from you, or give you as much.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Then there is IIIT-D, which treats you like the adult you are and demands immense amounts of time, effort and engagement. In return, it gives you all the opportunities and exposure you need to be a world class researcher or engineer. Whether this sounds good to you, of course, is an intensely personal choice.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">I, for one, couldn’t be happier with my decision to choose IIIT-D.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">*There weren’t any foundational courses on distributed systems offered during my senior years at IIIT-D, unfortunately. That would have made this a more natural progression, but perhaps a less interesting story.</span>\r\n\r\n<i>Written By\r\n</i><i>Raghav Sethi (B.Tech CSE ‘13)\r\n</i><i>Contact information is available on his </i><a href="http://raghavsethi.org/"><i>website</i></a>', 'Everything I Need', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '133-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-18 15:12:12', '2016-10-18 09:42:12', '', 133, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/133-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (150, 3, '2016-10-18 15:17:07', '2016-10-18 09:47:07', '[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="960"]<img class="size-medium" src="https://pixabay.com/static/uploads/photo/2015/01/07/15/51/woman-591576_960_720.jpg" alt="Image belongs to Pixabay" width="960" height="640" /> Images taken from Google Images[/caption]\r\n\r\nIt has been a while since the last day at IIIT Delhi. A long while since we last sat down to remember our Alma mater and how our lives were carefully shaped. Everyone is so caught up in the rat-race, trying to get to the top that these little pleasures are forgotten. Just like everyone else on this planet, I kept procrastinating something as enjoyable as penning down experiences for many months, completely caught up in the hustle-bustle of everyday life.\r\n\r\nAs a member of the first batch, my batch mates and I have seen how much it took to build the institute... in the literal sense too. There is maddening competition now to get through IIIT Delhi. But back in 2008, each one of us was apprehensive. We even had the guts to question Dr. Jalote during the orientation if our futures were safe. Our apprehensions were put to rest with time by Dr. Jalote’s confidence and perseverance. From awfully early morning and late evening classes with NSIT’s borrowed professors to our own little space in the NSIT campus... From the foundation-laying ceremony by Sheila Dikshit to the start of full-fledged operations on campus... From explaining to every employer that the existence of ‘Indraprastha’ in the institute’s name has nothing to do with IP University to IIIT Delhi becoming a sought-after premier institute... It has been one hell of a journey and we have come a long way! And everyone riding along has benefited. The 12 AM deadlines prepared me to control sleep – a necessary skill needed when something goes wrong during release. I got my BFFs while staying in the hostel. Preparing for cultural performances taught me teamwork. The heated discussions during student council meetings trained me to stand up for something you truly believe in, and to let go of that wretched ego when those ideas are thwarted like a housefly subject to a fly swatter. The Disciplinary Action Committee meetings educated me on how to weigh pros and cons to strike a suitable balance during decision-making. I picked up organizational skills from experiences and mistakes while organizing events under the cultural club. I learned how to market a product while trying to get more ACM members on board. Losing ESYA elections taught me how to deal with failure (that seems very big at that moment). That scary B.Tech. Project Panel Presentation trained me on how to handle stressful situations without going insane. The open-book take-home assignments forced creativity and ingenuity. The humongous workload and assignments conditioned me to prioritize. Every minute of involvement in something new leaves an imprint that stays forever. These learnings are larger than what the world thinks you are meant to learn in an institute. Bigger than CGPA. Greater than awards. The freedom IIIT Delhi provides to its students to learn what they like is what makes it unique. And the top-notch faculty pumps life with every heartbeat into this growing baby.\r\n\r\nSharing my experience has been a homecoming for me. That extraordinary feeling of nostalgic joy experienced around familiar surroundings and people. Hoping you will find some takeaways in it!\r\n\r\n<em>Written By\r\nIshita Jain\r\nBTech 2012</em>', 'Ishita Jain Talks About What No One Tells You about IIIT Delhi', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '143-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-18 15:17:07', '2016-10-18 09:47:07', '', 143, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/143-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (151, 3, '2016-10-18 15:17:46', '2016-10-18 09:47:46', '[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="960"]<img class="size-medium" src="https://pixabay.com/static/uploads/photo/2015/01/07/15/51/woman-591576_960_720.jpg" alt="Image belongs to Pixabay" width="960" height="640" /> Image taken from Google Images[/caption]\r\n\r\nIt has been a while since the last day at IIIT Delhi. A long while since we last sat down to remember our Alma mater and how our lives were carefully shaped. Everyone is so caught up in the rat-race, trying to get to the top that these little pleasures are forgotten. Just like everyone else on this planet, I kept procrastinating something as enjoyable as penning down experiences for many months, completely caught up in the hustle-bustle of everyday life.\r\n\r\nAs a member of the first batch, my batch mates and I have seen how much it took to build the institute... in the literal sense too. There is maddening competition now to get through IIIT Delhi. But back in 2008, each one of us was apprehensive. We even had the guts to question Dr. Jalote during the orientation if our futures were safe. Our apprehensions were put to rest with time by Dr. Jalote’s confidence and perseverance. From awfully early morning and late evening classes with NSIT’s borrowed professors to our own little space in the NSIT campus... From the foundation-laying ceremony by Sheila Dikshit to the start of full-fledged operations on campus... From explaining to every employer that the existence of ‘Indraprastha’ in the institute’s name has nothing to do with IP University to IIIT Delhi becoming a sought-after premier institute... It has been one hell of a journey and we have come a long way! And everyone riding along has benefited. The 12 AM deadlines prepared me to control sleep – a necessary skill needed when something goes wrong during release. I got my BFFs while staying in the hostel. Preparing for cultural performances taught me teamwork. The heated discussions during student council meetings trained me to stand up for something you truly believe in, and to let go of that wretched ego when those ideas are thwarted like a housefly subject to a fly swatter. The Disciplinary Action Committee meetings educated me on how to weigh pros and cons to strike a suitable balance during decision-making. I picked up organizational skills from experiences and mistakes while organizing events under the cultural club. I learned how to market a product while trying to get more ACM members on board. Losing ESYA elections taught me how to deal with failure (that seems very big at that moment). That scary B.Tech. Project Panel Presentation trained me on how to handle stressful situations without going insane. The open-book take-home assignments forced creativity and ingenuity. The humongous workload and assignments conditioned me to prioritize. Every minute of involvement in something new leaves an imprint that stays forever. These learnings are larger than what the world thinks you are meant to learn in an institute. Bigger than CGPA. Greater than awards. The freedom IIIT Delhi provides to its students to learn what they like is what makes it unique. And the top-notch faculty pumps life with every heartbeat into this growing baby.\r\n\r\nSharing my experience has been a homecoming for me. That extraordinary feeling of nostalgic joy experienced around familiar surroundings and people. Hoping you will find some takeaways in it!\r\n\r\n<em>Written By\r\nIshita Jain\r\nBTech 2012</em>', 'Ishita Jain Talks About What No One Tells You about IIIT Delhi', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '143-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-18 15:17:46', '2016-10-18 09:47:46', '', 143, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/143-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (152, 3, '2016-10-18 15:18:46', '2016-10-18 09:48:46', '[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1024"]<img class="size-medium" src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6127/5931171740_14fea8385d_b.jpg" alt="Image taken from Google Images" width="1024" height="658" /> Image taken from Google Images[/caption]\r\n\r\nIt has been a while since the last day at IIIT Delhi. A long while since we last sat down to remember our Alma mater and how our lives were carefully shaped. Everyone is so caught up in the rat-race, trying to get to the top that these little pleasures are forgotten. Just like everyone else on this planet, I kept procrastinating something as enjoyable as penning down experiences for many months, completely caught up in the hustle-bustle of everyday life.\r\n\r\nAs a member of the first batch, my batch mates and I have seen how much it took to build the institute... in the literal sense too. There is maddening competition now to get through IIIT Delhi. But back in 2008, each one of us was apprehensive. We even had the guts to question Dr. Jalote during the orientation if our futures were safe. Our apprehensions were put to rest with time by Dr. Jalote’s confidence and perseverance. From awfully early morning and late evening classes with NSIT’s borrowed professors to our own little space in the NSIT campus... From the foundation-laying ceremony by Sheila Dikshit to the start of full-fledged operations on campus... From explaining to every employer that the existence of ‘Indraprastha’ in the institute’s name has nothing to do with IP University to IIIT Delhi becoming a sought-after premier institute... It has been one hell of a journey and we have come a long way! And everyone riding along has benefited. The 12 AM deadlines prepared me to control sleep – a necessary skill needed when something goes wrong during release. I got my BFFs while staying in the hostel. Preparing for cultural performances taught me teamwork. The heated discussions during student council meetings trained me to stand up for something you truly believe in, and to let go of that wretched ego when those ideas are thwarted like a housefly subject to a fly swatter. The Disciplinary Action Committee meetings educated me on how to weigh pros and cons to strike a suitable balance during decision-making. I picked up organizational skills from experiences and mistakes while organizing events under the cultural club. I learned how to market a product while trying to get more ACM members on board. Losing ESYA elections taught me how to deal with failure (that seems very big at that moment). That scary B.Tech. Project Panel Presentation trained me on how to handle stressful situations without going insane. The open-book take-home assignments forced creativity and ingenuity. The humongous workload and assignments conditioned me to prioritize. Every minute of involvement in something new leaves an imprint that stays forever. These learnings are larger than what the world thinks you are meant to learn in an institute. Bigger than CGPA. Greater than awards. The freedom IIIT Delhi provides to its students to learn what they like is what makes it unique. And the top-notch faculty pumps life with every heartbeat into this growing baby.\r\n\r\nSharing my experience has been a homecoming for me. That extraordinary feeling of nostalgic joy experienced around familiar surroundings and people. Hoping you will find some takeaways in it!\r\n\r\n<em>Written By\r\nIshita Jain\r\nBTech 2012</em>', 'Ishita Jain Talks About What No One Tells You about IIIT Delhi', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '143-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-18 15:18:46', '2016-10-18 09:48:46', '', 143, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/143-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (153, 5, '2016-10-18 16:17:11', '2016-10-18 10:47:11', '', 'ecell-white', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', 'ecell-white', '', '', '2016-10-18 16:17:11', '2016-10-18 10:47:11', '', 0, 'http://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ecell-white.png', 0, 'attachment', 'image/png', 0), (155, 1, '2017-05-25 00:48:43', '2017-05-24 19:18:43', '<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">IIIT-Delhi</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> brings in so many memories and cherished experiences all at once in a flash. It is hard to write my heart out, but I will give a fair attempt. In a few words...</span>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">“IIIT-D has nurtured us from a young sapling to a fruit bearing plant. The skills which laid latent within us, have been brought to the forefront which can be encashed and used for the welfare of others.”</span></em></p>\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">The journey began in the year 2013 when I first heard about the institute. It sounded cool since it did contain the name of my dream college. Belonging to Gurgaon and being labelled as an outside-Delhi student felt a bit harsh, and I wondered if I would get the few CS seats for which students across the country apply. I was lucky to be amongst the first ones to get an admission. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">I remember the first day I visited the campus, it felt like a long walk from the Metro to the campus on a sunny day. The campus was a pleasant surprise, built beautifully in a lush green environment. I was impressed when I looked at the classrooms and the facilities. After interacting with a few seniors and getting to know about the academic culture, I knew this was the place for me!</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">On the first day (when the attendance is full) I was overwhelmed by the batch strength, a simple way out seemed to be to just sit in the first row and easily interact with the Professors. The lecturers were full of energy and I could easily connect with them and be inspired to learn. I attended every single class, and there was even a day when I was the only one out of 170 students to show up for a class. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Apart from academics I volunteered for Esya, organised Procon Junior interacted with students, teachers and parents from across the country. Being in the sponsorship team for Odyssey, I even went to ask for funds. Every year I managed the Induction Session for the incoming batch, and I relived the ecstasy to be admitted into IIIT-D with every single one of them.</span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_156" align="aligncenter" width="676"]<img class="wp-image-156 size-large" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DSC_0382-1024x683.jpg" alt="dsc_0382" width="676" height="451" /> BTech 2013 batch Honors Students. Picture courtesy: Dr Dheeraj Sanghi[/caption]\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">In the Summer of 2014, I volunteered to teach underprivileged students mathematics and science. It was a different world altogether, spending 4 hours every day in the slums of a village in Haryana (at times without electricity) teaching and interacting with them. They were so eager to learn, that I never felt a shred of uneasiness. On the last day when the kids organised a small farewell party, adding their savings along with a parting gift for me, I was overwhelmed with emotions. That was the grandest party I had ever been to.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">I became friends with my Professor, Dr.HB Acharya, who introduced me to the field of research in Networks and Security. I went to his office post my classes, read and discussed new concepts and Research problems. We often went to hang out and conducted intellectual discussions. After a lot of hard work, I was able to get a Core-A Publication in Network Protocols. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Equipped with my skills, doing group projects and coursework I was able to crack an internship at the IBM Research Labs. At the same time I was selected into Precog (</span><a href="http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/blog/2017/05/24/the-precog-journey/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/blog/2017/05/24/the-precog-journey/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">). I was lucky enough to be associated with PK, he has been my guide and a mentor helping me become more efficient in life. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">The 4 years of graduation enhanced my personality. Interacting with people having different perspectives and skill sets, increased my experience manifold. It was fun exploring Nepal, Goa and Solang. Each trip strengthened our bond and helped us to not only get to know each other but also find our own identity.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Placement Season was a grilling experience. Facing rejections gracefully is one of the hardest quality to have. I used to come back to my hostel room and cry at times, however by the grace of God I got into IBM-IRL by the end of the first week. Being the batch topper, over the semesters finally paid off well.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">I loved to teach, and hence I taught Linear Algebra and Probability Statistics to my juniors. The respect and admiration I received for my work were inspiring. I was further motivated at every step to help more, as a result, I became quite popular.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">The best day at IIIT-D was my Farewell when I was awarded the title <strong><em>‘Million Dollar Smile’</em></strong>. Two of my best friends (Shivam and Virender) carried me on their shoulders to the stage and all the organisers gathered on the stage to present the title. That moment felt like a culmination of all the love, respect and honour gathered over the four years.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Even years down the line, when I will come back and walk the same pebbled tracks I will cherish and recollect all the precious moments savoured here.</span>\r\n\r\n<strong><em>Ayush Shah</em></strong>\r\n<strong><em>BTech Class of 2017</em></strong>', '13027@IIIT-D | Ayush Shah, Class of 2017', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', '13027iiit-d-ayush-shah-class-2017', '', '', '2017-05-25 00:48:43', '2017-05-24 19:18:43', '', 0, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?p=155', 0, 'post', '', 0), (156, 3, '2017-05-25 00:34:50', '2017-05-24 19:04:50', '', 'dsc_0382', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', 'dsc_0382', '', '', '2017-05-25 00:34:50', '2017-05-24 19:04:50', '', 155, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DSC_0382.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0), (157, 3, '2017-05-25 00:38:44', '2017-05-24 19:08:44', '', 'img_0431', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', 'img_0431', '', '', '2017-05-25 00:38:44', '2017-05-24 19:08:44', '', 155, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IMG_0431.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0), (158, 3, '2017-05-25 00:42:34', '2017-05-24 19:12:34', '<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">IIIT-Delhi</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> brings in so many memories and cherished experiences all at once in a flash. It is hard to write my heart out, but I will give a fair attempt. In a few words...</span>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">“IIIT-D has nurtured us from a young sapling to a fruit bearing plant. The skills which laid latent within us, have been brought to the forefront which can be encashed and used for the welfare of others.”</span></em></p>\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">The journey began in the year 2013 when I first heard about the institute. It sounded cool since it did contain the name of my dream college. Belonging to Gurgaon and being labelled as an outside-Delhi student felt a bit harsh, and I wondered if I would get the few CS seats for which students across the country apply. I was lucky to be amongst the first ones to get an admission. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">I remember the first day I visited the campus, it felt like a long walk from the Metro to the campus on a sunny day. The campus was a pleasant surprise, built beautifully in a lush green environment. I was impressed when I looked at the classrooms and the facilities. After interacting with a few seniors and getting to know about the academic culture, I knew this was the place for me!</span>\r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_156" align="aligncenter" width="676"]<img class="wp-image-156 size-large" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DSC_0382-1024x683.jpg" alt="dsc_0382" width="676" height="451" /> BTech 2013 batch Honors Students. Picture courtesy: Dr Dheeraj Sanghi[/caption]\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">On the first day (when the attendance is full) I was overwhelmed by the batch strength, a simple way out seemed to be to just sit in the first row and easily interact with the Professors. The lecturers were full of energy and I could easily connect with them and be inspired to learn. I attended every single class, and there was even a day when I was the only one out of 170 students to show up for a class. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Apart from academics I volunteered for Esya, organised Procon Junior interacted with students, teachers and parents from across the country. Being in the sponsorship team for Odyssey, I even went to ask for funds. Every year I managed the Induction Session for the incoming batch, and I relived the ecstasy to be admitted into IIIT-D with every single one of them.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">In the Summer of 2014, I volunteered to teach underprivileged students mathematics and science. It was a different world altogether, spending 4 hours every day in the slums of a village in Haryana (at times without electricity) teaching and interacting with them. They were so eager to learn, that I never felt a shred of uneasiness. On the last day when the kids organised a small farewell party, adding their savings along with a parting gift for me, I was overwhelmed with emotions. That was the grandest party I had ever been to.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">I became friends with my Professor, Dr.HB Acharya, who introduced me to the field of research in Networks and Security. I went to his office post my classes, read and discussed new concepts and Research problems. We often went to hang out and conducted intellectual discussions. After a lot of hard work, I was able to get a Core-A Publication in Network Protocols. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Equipped with my skills, doing group projects and coursework I was able to crack an internship at the IBM Research Labs. At the same time I was selected into Precog (</span><a href="http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/blog/2017/05/24/the-precog-journey/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/blog/2017/05/24/the-precog-journey/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">). I was lucky enough to be associated with PK, he has been my guide and a mentor helping me become more efficient in life. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">The 4 years of graduation enhanced my personality. Interacting with people having different perspectives and skill sets, increased my experience manifold. It was fun exploring Nepal, Goa and Solang. Each trip strengthened our bond and helped us to not only get to know each other but also find our own identity.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Placement Season was a grilling experience. Facing rejections gracefully is one of the hardest quality to have. I used to come back to my hostel room and cry at times, however by the grace of God I got into IBM-IRL by the end of the first week. Being the batch topper, over the semesters finally paid off well.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">I loved to teach, and hence I taught Linear Algebra and Probability Statistics to my juniors. The respect and admiration I received for my work were inspiring. I was further motivated at every step to help more, as a result, I became quite popular.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">The best day at IIIT-D was my Farewell when I was awarded the title ‘Million Dollar Smile’. Two of my best friends (Shivam and Virender) carried me on their shoulders to the stage and all the organisers gathered on the stage to present the title. That moment felt like a culmination of all the love, respect and honour gathered over the four years.</span>\r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_157" align="aligncenter" width="676"]<img class="wp-image-157 size-large" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IMG_0431-1024x683.jpg" alt="img_0431" width="676" height="451" /> Farewell 2017. Picture Credits: Tasveer@IIITD[/caption]\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Even years down the line, when I will come back and walk the same pebbled tracks I will cherish and recollect all the precious moments savoured here.</span>\r\n\r\n<strong><em>Ayush Shah</em></strong>\r\n<strong><em>BTech Class of 2017</em></strong>', '13027@IIIT-D | Ayush Shah, Class of 2017', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '155-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-05-25 00:42:34', '2017-05-24 19:12:34', '', 155, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/155-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (159, 3, '2017-05-25 00:48:05', '2017-05-24 19:18:05', '<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">IIIT-Delhi</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> brings in so many memories and cherished experiences all at once in a flash. It is hard to write my heart out, but I will give a fair attempt. In a few words...</span>\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">“IIIT-D has nurtured us from a young sapling to a fruit bearing plant. The skills which laid latent within us, have been brought to the forefront which can be encashed and used for the welfare of others.”</span></em></p>\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">The journey began in the year 2013 when I first heard about the institute. It sounded cool since it did contain the name of my dream college. Belonging to Gurgaon and being labelled as an outside-Delhi student felt a bit harsh, and I wondered if I would get the few CS seats for which students across the country apply. I was lucky to be amongst the first ones to get an admission. </span>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">I remember the first day I visited the campus, it felt like a long walk from the Metro to the campus on a sunny day. The campus was a pleasant surprise, built beautifully in a lush green environment. I was impressed when I looked at the classrooms and the facilities. After interacting with a few seniors and getting to know about the academic culture, I knew this was the place for me!</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">On the first day (when the attendance is full) I was overwhelmed by the batch strength, a simple way out seemed to be to just sit in the first row and easily interact with the Professors. The lecturers were full of energy and I could easily connect with them and be inspired to learn. I attended every single class, and there was even a day when I was the only one out of 170 students to show up for a class. </span>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Apart from academics I volunteered for Esya, organised Procon Junior interacted with students, teachers and parents from across the country. Being in the sponsorship team for Odyssey, I even went to ask for funds. Every year I managed the Induction Session for the incoming batch, and I relived the ecstasy to be admitted into IIIT-D with every single one of them.</span>\n\n[caption id="attachment_156" align="aligncenter" width="676"]<img class="wp-image-156 size-large" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DSC_0382-1024x683.jpg" alt="dsc_0382" width="676" height="451" /> BTech 2013 batch Honors Students. Picture courtesy: Dr Dheeraj Sanghi[/caption]\n\n \n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">In the Summer of 2014, I volunteered to teach underprivileged students mathematics and science. It was a different world altogether, spending 4 hours every day in the slums of a village in Haryana (at times without electricity) teaching and interacting with them. They were so eager to learn, that I never felt a shred of uneasiness. On the last day when the kids organised a small farewell party, adding their savings along with a parting gift for me, I was overwhelmed with emotions. That was the grandest party I had ever been to.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">I became friends with my Professor, Dr.HB Acharya, who introduced me to the field of research in Networks and Security. I went to his office post my classes, read and discussed new concepts and Research problems. We often went to hang out and conducted intellectual discussions. After a lot of hard work, I was able to get a Core-A Publication in Network Protocols. </span>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Equipped with my skills, doing group projects and coursework I was able to crack an internship at the IBM Research Labs. At the same time I was selected into Precog (</span><a href="http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/blog/2017/05/24/the-precog-journey/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/blog/2017/05/24/the-precog-journey/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">). I was lucky enough to be associated with PK, he has been my guide and a mentor helping me become more efficient in life. </span>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">The 4 years of graduation enhanced my personality. Interacting with people having different perspectives and skill sets, increased my experience manifold. It was fun exploring Nepal, Goa and Solang. Each trip strengthened our bond and helped us to not only get to know each other but also find our own identity.\n</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Placement Season was a grilling experience. Facing rejections gracefully is one of the hardest quality to have. I used to come back to my hostel room and cry at times, however by the grace of God I got into IBM-IRL by the end of the first week. Being the batch topper, over the semesters finally paid off well.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">I loved to teach, and hence I taught Linear Algebra and Probability Statistics to my juniors. The respect and admiration I received for my work were inspiring. I was further motivated at every step to help more, as a result, I became quite popular.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">The best day at IIIT-D was my Farewell when I was awarded the title <strong><em>‘Million Dollar Smile’</em></strong>. Two of my best friends (Shivam and Virender) carried me on their shoulders to the stage and all the organisers gathered on the stage to present the title. That moment felt like a culmination of all the love, respect and honour gathered over the four years.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Even years down the line, when I will come back and walk the same pebbled tracks I will cherish and recollect all the precious moments savoured here.</span>\n\n<strong><em>Ayush Shah</em></strong>\n<strong><em>BTech Class of 2017</em></strong>', '13027@IIIT-D | Ayush Shah, Class of 2017', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '155-autosave-v1', '', '', '2017-05-25 00:48:05', '2017-05-24 19:18:05', '', 155, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/155-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (160, 3, '2017-05-25 00:48:19', '2017-05-24 19:18:19', '<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">IIIT-Delhi</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> brings in so many memories and cherished experiences all at once in a flash. It is hard to write my heart out, but I will give a fair attempt. In a few words...</span>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">“IIIT-D has nurtured us from a young sapling to a fruit bearing plant. The skills which laid latent within us, have been brought to the forefront which can be encashed and used for the welfare of others.”</span></em></p>\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">The journey began in the year 2013 when I first heard about the institute. It sounded cool since it did contain the name of my dream college. Belonging to Gurgaon and being labelled as an outside-Delhi student felt a bit harsh, and I wondered if I would get the few CS seats for which students across the country apply. I was lucky to be amongst the first ones to get an admission. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">I remember the first day I visited the campus, it felt like a long walk from the Metro to the campus on a sunny day. The campus was a pleasant surprise, built beautifully in a lush green environment. I was impressed when I looked at the classrooms and the facilities. After interacting with a few seniors and getting to know about the academic culture, I knew this was the place for me!</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">On the first day (when the attendance is full) I was overwhelmed by the batch strength, a simple way out seemed to be to just sit in the first row and easily interact with the Professors. The lecturers were full of energy and I could easily connect with them and be inspired to learn. I attended every single class, and there was even a day when I was the only one out of 170 students to show up for a class. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Apart from academics I volunteered for Esya, organised Procon Junior interacted with students, teachers and parents from across the country. Being in the sponsorship team for Odyssey, I even went to ask for funds. Every year I managed the Induction Session for the incoming batch, and I relived the ecstasy to be admitted into IIIT-D with every single one of them.</span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_156" align="aligncenter" width="676"]<img class="wp-image-156 size-large" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DSC_0382-1024x683.jpg" alt="dsc_0382" width="676" height="451" /> BTech 2013 batch Honors Students. Picture courtesy: Dr Dheeraj Sanghi[/caption]\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">In the Summer of 2014, I volunteered to teach underprivileged students mathematics and science. It was a different world altogether, spending 4 hours every day in the slums of a village in Haryana (at times without electricity) teaching and interacting with them. They were so eager to learn, that I never felt a shred of uneasiness. On the last day when the kids organised a small farewell party, adding their savings along with a parting gift for me, I was overwhelmed with emotions. That was the grandest party I had ever been to.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">I became friends with my Professor, Dr.HB Acharya, who introduced me to the field of research in Networks and Security. I went to his office post my classes, read and discussed new concepts and Research problems. We often went to hang out and conducted intellectual discussions. After a lot of hard work, I was able to get a Core-A Publication in Network Protocols. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Equipped with my skills, doing group projects and coursework I was able to crack an internship at the IBM Research Labs. At the same time I was selected into Precog (</span><a href="http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/blog/2017/05/24/the-precog-journey/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/blog/2017/05/24/the-precog-journey/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">). I was lucky enough to be associated with PK, he has been my guide and a mentor helping me become more efficient in life. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">The 4 years of graduation enhanced my personality. Interacting with people having different perspectives and skill sets, increased my experience manifold. It was fun exploring Nepal, Goa and Solang. Each trip strengthened our bond and helped us to not only get to know each other but also find our own identity.\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Placement Season was a grilling experience. Facing rejections gracefully is one of the hardest quality to have. I used to come back to my hostel room and cry at times, however by the grace of God I got into IBM-IRL by the end of the first week. Being the batch topper, over the semesters finally paid off well.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">I loved to teach, and hence I taught Linear Algebra and Probability Statistics to my juniors. The respect and admiration I received for my work were inspiring. I was further motivated at every step to help more, as a result, I became quite popular.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">The best day at IIIT-D was my Farewell when I was awarded the title <strong><em>‘Million Dollar Smile’</em></strong>. Two of my best friends (Shivam and Virender) carried me on their shoulders to the stage and all the organisers gathered on the stage to present the title. That moment felt like a culmination of all the love, respect and honour gathered over the four years.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Even years down the line, when I will come back and walk the same pebbled tracks I will cherish and recollect all the precious moments savoured here.</span>\r\n\r\n<strong><em>Ayush Shah</em></strong>\r\n<strong><em>BTech Class of 2017</em></strong>', '13027@IIIT-D | Ayush Shah, Class of 2017', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '155-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-05-25 00:48:19', '2017-05-24 19:18:19', '', 155, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/155-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (162, 1, '2017-06-05 17:05:52', '2017-06-05 11:35:52', '<span style="font-weight: 400;">I feel like it was only yesterday when I drove past the main gate with my parents for the first time to have a look at the campus before I apply here. I was astonished by the infrastructure of this place, but I never realised that after four years, when I leave this very place, it’ll be so difficult to accept it.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;"> IIITD is not just a college (or institute as we were corrected on the orientation day), it’s an experience, one that will build you as a human and then as an engineer. The best part that made me fall in love with this place were the people. The humbleness and love with which they welcome you to become a part of their family are beyond any words. I still remember the first day when I came across a senior, all nervous about how I am going to interact with them, should I call them by name or call them <em>“Didi”</em> or <em>“Bhaiya”</em>. Amidst all these thoughts, a friendly voice offered me her course book saying it might help me through the semester. From that moment, I realised how important it is for us, to understand how our seniors treated us and impart the same affection to our juniors. IIITD has taught me how to become a better version of myself, it has helped me understand what I’m good at and then helped me nurture that strength until I’m satisfied. For the first two years, I was in the 7-pointer lot of the batch, which is I guess the majority of the batch. During these two years, I also came across HSS courses, which made me realise how much I enjoy Humanities courses (made me rethink my stream choice in 11th)</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;"> IIITD has taught me how to become a better version of myself, it has helped me understand what I’m good at and then helped me nurture that strength until I’m satisfied. For the first two years, I was in the 7-pointer lot of the batch, which is I guess the majority of the batch. During these two years, I also came across HSS courses, which made me realise how much I enjoy Humanities courses (made me rethink my stream choice in 11</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">th</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">). The Institute asks us to complete 3 HSS courses by the end of graduation but I, on the other hand, have done 10, including two IS (Independent Studies) on <strong>Sanitation and Behavior Change Communication in India</strong>.</span>\r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_163" align="aligncenter" width="691"]<img class="wp-image-163 " src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/14212596_1312277035464273_2075923831935445669_n.jpg" alt="Foundation Day 2016, Dean''s List Awardees" width="691" height="519" /> Foundation Day 2016, Dean''s List Awardees along with Dr Dheeraj Sanghi and Dr Vikram Goyal[/caption]\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Now, understand I’m a confused person who is still realising her future options, and then I come across the amazing variety of courses, and I go crazy. I want to try HCI, and Security, Cryptography and Database and everything until I talk to my seniors (believe me, hang with your senior friends, they are the best guides). I’m given ideas about how courses progress, the load and if you’ll get through the course or not (Given the fact that you’re friends with those seniors, they know what you’re capable of). That is the point I realised my liking for designing and how much it speaks to me. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">For starters, I go for the <strong>HCI course (DHCS)</strong>, a <strong>Designing course in Video Editing (NLE)</strong>, a course on security, obviously an HSS course and my IS. Believe me, that semester I realised how much I could study and get positive results out of it. A 7-pointer pulled off a 9. I was seriously in shock but I realised that I didn’t expect anything less than that since I had put in so much effort. Cut to the end of 6</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">th</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> semester, where I again went with my choices and got a 9.4. Okay, that was the point I realised I guess efforts do give fruitful results. And the best point of my 4 years at IIITD came. The Foundation Day, when I was on Dean’s List for excellent academic performance (the only individual from the batch who was awarded an improvement award). Over the course of these four years, I’ve realised what I’m good at, and what lines I need to follow to achieve my passion. Only because of this institute and its professors, I came to know about <strong>CEED (Common Entrance Examination for Design)</strong>. I took the exam, and now after IIITD, I''d be joining IIT Delhi, to pursue Masters of Design. IIITD has helped me in ways I can’t explain, and changed my life only for the better, so thank you, thank you very much for making me realise what I want and need in life. Thank you :)</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;"> IIITD has helped me in ways I can’t explain and changed my life only for the better, so thank you, thank you very much for making me realize what I want and need in life. 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I was astonished by the infrastructure of this place, but I never realised that after four years, when I leave this very place, it’ll be so difficult to accept it.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;"> IIITD is not just a college (or institute as we were corrected on the orientation day), it’s an experience, one that will build you as a human and then as an engineer. The best part that made me fall in love with this place were the people. The humbleness and love with which they welcome you to become a part of their family are beyond any words. I still remember the first day when I came across a senior, all nervous about how I am going to interact with them, should I call them by name or call them “Didi” or “Bhaiya”. Amidst all these thoughts, a friendly voice offered me her course book saying it might help me through the semester. From that moment, I realised how important it is for us, to understand how our seniors treated us and impart the same affection to our juniors. IIITD has taught me how to become a better version of myself, it has helped me understand what I’m good at and then helped me nurture that strength until I’m satisfied. For the first two years, I was in the 7-pointer lot of the batch, which is I guess the majority of the batch. During these two years, I also came across HSS courses, which made me realise how much I enjoy Humanities courses (made me rethink my stream choice in 11</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;"> IIITD has taught me how to become a better version of myself, it has helped me understand what I’m good at and then helped me nurture that strength until I’m satisfied. For the first two years, I was in the 7-pointer lot of the batch, which is I guess the majority of the batch. During these two years, I also came across HSS courses, which made me realise how much I enjoy Humanities courses (made me rethink my stream choice in 11</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">th</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">). The Institute asks us to complete 3 HSS courses by the end of graduation but I, on the other hand, have done 10, including two IS (Independent Studies) on Sanitation and Behavior Change Communication in India.</span>\r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_163" align="aligncenter" width="691"]<img class="wp-image-163 " src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/14212596_1312277035464273_2075923831935445669_n.jpg" alt="Foundation Day 2016, Dean''s List Awardees" width="691" height="519" /> Foundation Day 2016, Dean''s List Awardees along with Dr Dheeraj Sanghi and Dr Vikram Goyal[/caption]\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Now, understand I’m a confused person who is still realising her future options, and then I come across the amazing variety of courses, and I go crazy. I want to try HCI, and Security, Cryptography and Database and everything until I talk to my seniors (believe me, hang with your senior friends, they are the best guides). I’m given ideas about how courses progress, the load and if you’ll get through the course or not (Given the fact that you’re friends with those seniors, they know what you’re capable of). That is the point I realised my liking for designing and how much it speaks to me. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">For starters, I go for the HCI course (DHCS), a Designing course in Video Editing (NLE), a course on security, obviously an HSS course and my IS. Believe me, that semester I realised how much I could study and get positive results out of it. A 7-pointer pulled off a 9. I was seriously in shock but I realised that I didn’t expect anything less than that since I had put in so much effort. Cut to the end of 6</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">th</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> semester, where I again went with my choices and got a 9.4. Okay, that was the point I realised I guess efforts do give fruitful results. And the best point of my 4 years at IIITD came. The Foundation Day, when I was on Dean’s List for excellent academic performance (the only individual from the batch who was awarded an improvement award). Over the course of these four years, I’ve realised what I’m good at, and what lines I need to follow to achieve my passion. Only because of this institute and its professors, I came to know about CEED (Common Entrance Examination for Design). I took the exam, and now after IIITD, I''d be joining IIT Delhi, to pursue Masters of Design. IIITD has helped me in ways I can’t explain, and changed my life only for the better, so thank you, thank you very much for making me realise what I want and need in life. Thank you :)</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;"> IIITD has helped me in ways I can’t explain and changed my life only for the better, so thank you, thank you very much for making me realize what I want and need in life. Thank you :)</span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAmya Rai\r\nClass of 2017', 'Thank You, IIITD! | Amya Rai, Class of 2017', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '162-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-06-05 17:03:40', '2017-06-05 11:33:40', '', 162, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/162-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (166, 3, '2017-06-05 17:05:15', '2017-06-05 11:35:15', '<span style="font-weight: 400;">I feel like it was only yesterday when I drove past the main gate with my parents for the first time to have a look at the campus before I apply here. I was astonished by the infrastructure of this place, but I never realised that after four years, when I leave this very place, it’ll be so difficult to accept it.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;"> IIITD is not just a college (or institute as we were corrected on the orientation day), it’s an experience, one that will build you as a human and then as an engineer. The best part that made me fall in love with this place were the people. The humbleness and love with which they welcome you to become a part of their family are beyond any words. I still remember the first day when I came across a senior, all nervous about how I am going to interact with them, should I call them by name or call them <em>“Didi”</em> or <em>“Bhaiya”</em>. Amidst all these thoughts, a friendly voice offered me her course book saying it might help me through the semester. From that moment, I realised how important it is for us, to understand how our seniors treated us and impart the same affection to our juniors. IIITD has taught me how to become a better version of myself, it has helped me understand what I’m good at and then helped me nurture that strength until I’m satisfied. For the first two years, I was in the 7-pointer lot of the batch, which is I guess the majority of the batch. During these two years, I also came across HSS courses, which made me realise how much I enjoy Humanities courses (made me rethink my stream choice in 11th)</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;"> IIITD has taught me how to become a better version of myself, it has helped me understand what I’m good at and then helped me nurture that strength until I’m satisfied. For the first two years, I was in the 7-pointer lot of the batch, which is I guess the majority of the batch. During these two years, I also came across HSS courses, which made me realise how much I enjoy Humanities courses (made me rethink my stream choice in 11</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">th</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">). The Institute asks us to complete 3 HSS courses by the end of graduation but I, on the other hand, have done 10, including two IS (Independent Studies) on <strong>Sanitation and Behavior Change Communication in India</strong>.</span>\r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_163" align="aligncenter" width="691"]<img class="wp-image-163 " src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/14212596_1312277035464273_2075923831935445669_n.jpg" alt="Foundation Day 2016, Dean''s List Awardees" width="691" height="519" /> Foundation Day 2016, Dean''s List Awardees along with Dr Dheeraj Sanghi and Dr Vikram Goyal[/caption]\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Now, understand I’m a confused person who is still realising her future options, and then I come across the amazing variety of courses, and I go crazy. I want to try HCI, and Security, Cryptography and Database and everything until I talk to my seniors (believe me, hang with your senior friends, they are the best guides). I’m given ideas about how courses progress, the load and if you’ll get through the course or not (Given the fact that you’re friends with those seniors, they know what you’re capable of). That is the point I realised my liking for designing and how much it speaks to me. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">For starters, I go for the <strong>HCI course (DHCS)</strong>, a <strong>Designing course in Video Editing (NLE)</strong>, a course on security, obviously an HSS course and my IS. Believe me, that semester I realised how much I could study and get positive results out of it. A 7-pointer pulled off a 9. I was seriously in shock but I realised that I didn’t expect anything less than that since I had put in so much effort. Cut to the end of 6</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">th</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> semester, where I again went with my choices and got a 9.4. Okay, that was the point I realised I guess efforts do give fruitful results. And the best point of my 4 years at IIITD came. The Foundation Day, when I was on Dean’s List for excellent academic performance (the only individual from the batch who was awarded an improvement award). Over the course of these four years, I’ve realised what I’m good at, and what lines I need to follow to achieve my passion. Only because of this institute and its professors, I came to know about <strong>CEED (Common Entrance Examination for Design)</strong>. I took the exam, and now after IIITD, I''d be joining IIT Delhi, to pursue Masters of Design. IIITD has helped me in ways I can’t explain, and changed my life only for the better, so thank you, thank you very much for making me realise what I want and need in life. Thank you :)</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;"> IIITD has helped me in ways I can’t explain and changed my life only for the better, so thank you, thank you very much for making me realize what I want and need in life. Thank you :)</span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAmya Rai\r\nClass of 2017', 'Thank You, IIITD! | Amya Rai, Class of 2017', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '162-autosave-v1', '', '', '2017-06-05 17:05:15', '2017-06-05 11:35:15', '', 162, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/162-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (167, 3, '2017-06-05 17:05:10', '2017-06-05 11:35:10', '<span style="font-weight: 400;">I feel like it was only yesterday when I drove past the main gate with my parents for the first time to have a look at the campus before I apply here. I was astonished by the infrastructure of this place, but I never realised that after four years, when I leave this very place, it’ll be so difficult to accept it.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;"> IIITD is not just a college (or institute as we were corrected on the orientation day), it’s an experience, one that will build you as a human and then as an engineer. The best part that made me fall in love with this place were the people. The humbleness and love with which they welcome you to become a part of their family are beyond any words. I still remember the first day when I came across a senior, all nervous about how I am going to interact with them, should I call them by name or call them <em>“Didi”</em> or <em>“Bhaiya”</em>. Amidst all these thoughts, a friendly voice offered me her course book saying it might help me through the semester. From that moment, I realised how important it is for us, to understand how our seniors treated us and impart the same affection to our juniors. IIITD has taught me how to become a better version of myself, it has helped me understand what I’m good at and then helped me nurture that strength until I’m satisfied. For the first two years, I was in the 7-pointer lot of the batch, which is I guess the majority of the batch. During these two years, I also came across HSS courses, which made me realise how much I enjoy Humanities courses (made me rethink my stream choice in 11th)</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;"> IIITD has taught me how to become a better version of myself, it has helped me understand what I’m good at and then helped me nurture that strength until I’m satisfied. For the first two years, I was in the 7-pointer lot of the batch, which is I guess the majority of the batch. During these two years, I also came across HSS courses, which made me realise how much I enjoy Humanities courses (made me rethink my stream choice in 11</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">th</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">). The Institute asks us to complete 3 HSS courses by the end of graduation but I, on the other hand, have done 10, including two IS (Independent Studies) on <strong>Sanitation and Behavior Change Communication in India</strong>.</span>\r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_163" align="aligncenter" width="691"]<img class="wp-image-163 " src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/14212596_1312277035464273_2075923831935445669_n.jpg" alt="Foundation Day 2016, Dean''s List Awardees" width="691" height="519" /> Foundation Day 2016, Dean''s List Awardees along with Dr Dheeraj Sanghi and Dr Vikram Goyal[/caption]\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Now, understand I’m a confused person who is still realising her future options, and then I come across the amazing variety of courses, and I go crazy. I want to try HCI, and Security, Cryptography and Database and everything until I talk to my seniors (believe me, hang with your senior friends, they are the best guides). I’m given ideas about how courses progress, the load and if you’ll get through the course or not (Given the fact that you’re friends with those seniors, they know what you’re capable of). That is the point I realised my liking for designing and how much it speaks to me. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">For starters, I go for the <strong>HCI course (DHCS)</strong>, a <strong>Designing course in Video Editing (NLE)</strong>, a course on security, obviously an HSS course and my IS. Believe me, that semester I realised how much I could study and get positive results out of it. A 7-pointer pulled off a 9. I was seriously in shock but I realised that I didn’t expect anything less than that since I had put in so much effort. Cut to the end of 6</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">th</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> semester, where I again went with my choices and got a 9.4. Okay, that was the point I realised I guess efforts do give fruitful results. And the best point of my 4 years at IIITD came. The Foundation Day, when I was on Dean’s List for excellent academic performance (the only individual from the batch who was awarded an improvement award). Over the course of these four years, I’ve realised what I’m good at, and what lines I need to follow to achieve my passion. Only because of this institute and its professors, I came to know about <strong>CEED (Common Entrance Examination for Design)</strong>. I took the exam, and now after IIITD, I''d be joining IIT Delhi, to pursue Masters of Design. IIITD has helped me in ways I can’t explain, and changed my life only for the better, so thank you, thank you very much for making me realise what I want and need in life. Thank you :)</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: 400;"> IIITD has helped me in ways I can’t explain and changed my life only for the better, so thank you, thank you very much for making me realize what I want and need in life. Thank you :)</span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAmya Rai\r\nClass of 2017', 'Thank You, IIITD! | Amya Rai, Class of 2017', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '162-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-06-05 17:05:10', '2017-06-05 11:35:10', '', 162, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/162-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (174, 3, '2017-06-18 12:13:48', '2017-06-18 06:43:48', '', '18193261_1626298560728784_3539458588932615686_o', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', '18193261_1626298560728784_3539458588932615686_o', '', '', '2017-06-18 12:13:48', '2017-06-18 06:43:48', '', 0, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/18193261_1626298560728784_3539458588932615686_o.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0), (175, 3, '2017-06-18 12:14:52', '2017-06-18 06:44:52', '', '17758357_10210682229003931_7916178439626485653_o', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', '17758357_10210682229003931_7916178439626485653_o', '', '', '2017-06-18 12:14:52', '2017-06-18 06:44:52', '', 0, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/17758357_10210682229003931_7916178439626485653_o.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0), (180, 6, '2017-06-18 13:12:10', '2017-06-18 07:42:10', '[caption id="attachment_181" align="alignright" width="200"]<img class="wp-image-181 size-medium" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/self-200x300.jpg" alt="self" width="200" height="300" /> Aditi Mithal, BTech Class of 2017[/caption]\r\n\r\nHustling through the narrow street which turned left from Govind Puri Metro station on the first day of college, to find a beautiful campus at the end of the road was pure joy. My undergraduate journey at IIIT Delhi has been wonderful, a little walk through my four years will sum up what makes IIITD an amazing “institute” and a lovely home.\r\n\r\nWhile adapting to the comfort of the bunk beds was surely tough during my early hostel days - it was also one of the coolest experiences. From tackling a loudspeaker in my neighbourhood, sweeping the flooded hostel room floor at 4 AM, and dumping the waste into the cupboard to make the room look cleaner; to finding the most amazing bunch of people in the hostel, having long conversations with my roomies and running across the corridor to play pranks on my friends (you know it :P) - it was all exhilarating. And, like everyone else I would also like to appreciate and brag about the no-curfew blessing, thanks to our director.\r\n\r\nApart from the fun, IIITD never stopped making me want to do better, and to do more. The institute offered a wide range of interesting courses to choose from. In first year, while others were struggling with Engineering Drawing, I felt lucky to be making hands-on projects in Introduction to Engineering Design. It was fun to register for new courses and create a timetable for myself. I liked working on the course projects, they were effective in learning, and the hard work required to find alternate solutions for a given problem took me to the top of the world. (Also, it helped me discover my love for Github and YouTube :P).\r\n\r\nAt IIIT Delhi, during the semester, deadlines are on everyone''s minds. It felt victorious to have made a submission at 00:03 on backpack (Just saying!). Now, it is upsetting to realise that my backpack account will always say - “Woohoo! you have no deadlines. Enjoy it while it lasts.”\r\n\r\nThe next thing that I found rewarding was the community service initiative by the institute. I taught elementary class students Maths, Science, English and Geography. I admired the initiative so much that I still often visit the school to teach them basic computer skills. And they love it! I even received a Google scholarship to continue this support and service towards the community! One more thing - I don''t know how it works everywhere else but at IIITD, generous feedback and suggestions are important and valued. This is one of the many things I admire about this place.\r\n\r\nIIIT Delhi has been very generous in terms of providing me with opportunities. The first one to be was the Innovation internship program hosted by the ECell or Entrepreneurship Cell of IIITD. It was a privilege to work with Professor Vinayak Naik on the MSleep project alongside Shuchita and Yash. It was my first internship, first project and the first product-pitch experience which boosted my confidence and helped me learn a lot of things.\r\n\r\nI also got the amazing opportunity to work with Professor Ponnurangam Kumaraguru during my third summer. I extended this work for memes and took it up as a BTP. Taking a BTP was a fruitful experience for me, I associate a lot of emotions with it - one of them being surprise. I am happy to have taken up projects with professors at Stanford University which helped me find my interest. After that, I was driven to work with ICORE on research projects related to healthcare analytics. My will to pursue Data Science, Statistics and healthcare got me through the tough admission process last year. Without the support of the amazing professors at IIITD, the seniors and my friends, it would have been difficult to get an admit to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).\r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_174" align="aligncenter" width="676"]<img class="wp-image-174 size-large" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/18193261_1626298560728784_3539458588932615686_o-1024x629.jpg" alt="18193261_1626298560728784_3539458588932615686_o" width="676" height="415" /> Precogs graduating this year with Dr PK[/caption]\r\n\r\nAlthough, there’s still a long way to go, I’m glad that IIITD was a part of it. I explored options other than research and became a teaching assistant, organised events like TEDx, mentored for the INOI Workshop, coordinated Foobar (the competitive programming club), became a member of the MadToes (IIITD’s dance society), and participated in various college activities. The institute has helped me create a journey that my younger self would be proud of.\r\n\r\nAt IIIT Delhi I found a second family, that helped me grow, made me laugh, understood my perspective and encouraged me to appreciate the journey which got me through these four years. I will miss this family - my friends, the faculty, the staff and the alumni who helped me learn and realise my potential.\r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_185" align="alignleft" width="300"]<img class="wp-image-185 size-medium" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/group-300x300.jpg" alt="group" width="300" height="300" /> Our trip to Goa[/caption]\r\n\r\nI have loved my college life because of the things I learned, the people I met, the memories we created and the miles we travelled together. I am grateful to everyone who has been a part of this journey and will continue to hone the qualities they’ve helped me imbibe. It is our director’s vision to create an environment where we nurture our interests and find a path which leads us to our goal. IIIT Delhi has been the place where my friends became family and small moments became vital memories. I have learned so much over the past four years and I know that I am going to miss all of it. From the orientation day to the last batch photo day, I witnessed a lot with this place and it''s now time to say goodbye. Goodbye, not to the people who got me through the highs and lows or the memories that I made with them, but to the struggle that gave me all that I have today.\r\n\r\nThank you for everything. :D\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWritten By\r\nAditi Mithal\r\nClass of 2017', 'See you again, IIITD (CP <3)', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'aditi-see-you-again', '', '', '2017-06-18 20:26:55', '2017-06-18 14:56:55', '', 0, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?p=180', 0, 'post', '', 0), (181, 6, '2017-06-18 13:08:53', '2017-06-18 07:38:53', '', 'self', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', 'self', '', '', '2017-06-18 13:08:53', '2017-06-18 07:38:53', '', 180, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/self.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0), (182, 6, '2017-06-18 13:12:10', '2017-06-18 07:42:10', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-181 alignright" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/self-200x300.jpg" alt="self" width="200" height="300" />\r\n\r\n<strong>CP <3</strong>\r\n\r\nHustling through the narrow street which turned left from Govind Puri Metro station on the first day of college, to find a beautiful campus at the end of the road was pure joy. My undergraduate journey at IIIT Delhi has been wonderful, a little walk through my four years will sum up what makes IIITD an amazing “institute” and a lovely home.\r\n\r\nWhile adapting to the comfort of the bunk beds was surely tough during my early hostel days - it was also one of the coolest experiences. From tackling a loudspeaker in my neighbourhood, sweeping the flooded hostel room floor at 4 AM, and dumping the waste into the cupboard to make the room look cleaner; to finding the most amazing bunch of people in the hostel, having long conversations with my roomies and running across the corridor to play pranks on my friends (you know it :P) - it was all exhilarating. And, like everyone else I would also like to appreciate and brag about the no-curfew blessing, thanks to our director.\r\n\r\nApart from the fun, IIITD never stopped making me want to do better, and to do more. The institute offered a wide range of interesting courses to choose from. In first year, while others were struggling with Engineering Drawing, I felt lucky to be making hands-on projects in Introduction to Engineering Design. It was fun to register for new courses and create a timetable for myself. I liked working on the course projects, they were effective in learning, and the hard work required to find alternate solutions for a given problem took me to the top of the world. (Also, it helped me discover my love for Github and YouTube :P).\r\n\r\nAt IIIT Delhi, during the semester, deadlines are on everyone''s minds. It felt victorious to have made a submission at 00:03 on backpack (Just saying!). Now, it is upsetting to realise that my backpack account will always say - “Woohoo! you have no deadlines. Enjoy it while it lasts.”\r\n\r\nThe next thing that I found rewarding was the community service initiative by the institute. I taught elementary class students Maths, Science, English and Geography. I admired the initiative so much that I still often visit the school to teach them basic computer skills. And they love it! I even received a Google scholarship to continue this support and service towards the community! One more thing - I don''t know how it works everywhere else but at IIITD, generous feedback and suggestions are important and valued. This is one of the many things I admire about this place.\r\n\r\nIIIT Delhi has been very generous in terms of providing me with opportunities. The first one to be was the Innovation internship program hosted by the ECell or Entrepreneurship Cell of IIITD. It was a privilege to work with Professor Vinayak Naik on the MSleep project alongside Shuchita and Yash. It was my first internship, first project and the first product-pitch experience which boosted my confidence and helped me learn a lot of things.\r\n\r\nI also got the amazing opportunity to work with Professor Ponnurangam Kumaraguru during my third summer. I extended this work for memes and took it up as a BTP. Taking a BTP was a fruitful experience for me, I associate a lot of emotions with it - one of them being surprise. I am happy to have taken up projects with professors at Stanford University which helped me find my interest. After that, I was driven to work with ICORE on research projects related to healthcare analytics. My will to pursue Data Science, Statistics and healthcare got me through the tough admission process last year. Without the support of the amazing professors at IIITD, the seniors and my friends, it would have been difficult to get an admit to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).\r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_174" align="aligncenter" width="676"]<img class="wp-image-174 size-large" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/18193261_1626298560728784_3539458588932615686_o-1024x629.jpg" alt="18193261_1626298560728784_3539458588932615686_o" width="676" height="415" /> Precogs graduating this year with Dr PK[/caption]\r\n\r\nAlthough, there’s still a long way to go, I’m glad that IIITD was a part of it. I explored options other than research and became a teaching assistant, organised events like TEDx, mentored for the INOI Workshop, coordinated Foobar (the competitive programming club), became a member of the MadToes (IIITD’s dance society), and participated in various college activities. The institute has helped me create a journey that my younger self would be proud of.\r\n\r\nAt IIIT Delhi I found a second family, that helped me grow, made me laugh, understood my perspective and encouraged me to appreciate the journey which got me through these four years. I will miss this family - my friends, the faculty, the staff and the alumni who helped me learn and realise my potential.\r\n\r\nI have loved my college life because of the things I learned, the people I met, the memories we created and the miles we travelled together. I am grateful to everyone who has been a part of this journey and will continue to hone the qualities they’ve helped me imbibe. It is our director’s vision to create an environment where we nurture our interests and find a path which leads us to our goal. IIIT Delhi has been the place where my friends became family and small moments became vital memories. I have learned so much over the past four years and I know that I am going to miss all of it. From the orientation day to the last batch photo day, I witnessed a lot with this place and it''s now time to say goodbye. Goodbye, not to the people who got me through the highs and lows or the memories that I made with them, but to the struggle that gave me all that I have today.\r\n\r\nThank you for everything. :D\r\n\r\nWritten By\r\nAditi Mithal\r\nClass of 2017', 'See you again, IIITD', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '180-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-06-18 13:12:10', '2017-06-18 07:42:10', '', 180, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/180-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (183, 6, '2017-06-18 13:23:43', '2017-06-18 07:53:43', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-181 alignright" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/self-200x300.jpg" alt="self" width="200" height="300" />\r\n\r\nHustling through the narrow street which turned left from Govind Puri Metro station on the first day of college, to find a beautiful campus at the end of the road was pure joy. My undergraduate journey at IIIT Delhi has been wonderful, a little walk through my four years will sum up what makes IIITD an amazing “institute” and a lovely home.\r\n\r\nWhile adapting to the comfort of the bunk beds was surely tough during my early hostel days - it was also one of the coolest experiences. From tackling a loudspeaker in my neighbourhood, sweeping the flooded hostel room floor at 4 AM, and dumping the waste into the cupboard to make the room look cleaner; to finding the most amazing bunch of people in the hostel, having long conversations with my roomies and running across the corridor to play pranks on my friends (you know it :P) - it was all exhilarating. And, like everyone else I would also like to appreciate and brag about the no-curfew blessing, thanks to our director.\r\n\r\nApart from the fun, IIITD never stopped making me want to do better, and to do more. The institute offered a wide range of interesting courses to choose from. In first year, while others were struggling with Engineering Drawing, I felt lucky to be making hands-on projects in Introduction to Engineering Design. It was fun to register for new courses and create a timetable for myself. I liked working on the course projects, they were effective in learning, and the hard work required to find alternate solutions for a given problem took me to the top of the world. (Also, it helped me discover my love for Github and YouTube :P).\r\n\r\nAt IIIT Delhi, during the semester, deadlines are on everyone''s minds. It felt victorious to have made a submission at 00:03 on backpack (Just saying!). Now, it is upsetting to realise that my backpack account will always say - “Woohoo! you have no deadlines. Enjoy it while it lasts.”\r\n\r\nThe next thing that I found rewarding was the community service initiative by the institute. I taught elementary class students Maths, Science, English and Geography. I admired the initiative so much that I still often visit the school to teach them basic computer skills. And they love it! I even received a Google scholarship to continue this support and service towards the community! One more thing - I don''t know how it works everywhere else but at IIITD, generous feedback and suggestions are important and valued. This is one of the many things I admire about this place.\r\n\r\nIIIT Delhi has been very generous in terms of providing me with opportunities. The first one to be was the Innovation internship program hosted by the ECell or Entrepreneurship Cell of IIITD. It was a privilege to work with Professor Vinayak Naik on the MSleep project alongside Shuchita and Yash. It was my first internship, first project and the first product-pitch experience which boosted my confidence and helped me learn a lot of things.\r\n\r\nI also got the amazing opportunity to work with Professor Ponnurangam Kumaraguru during my third summer. I extended this work for memes and took it up as a BTP. Taking a BTP was a fruitful experience for me, I associate a lot of emotions with it - one of them being surprise. I am happy to have taken up projects with professors at Stanford University which helped me find my interest. After that, I was driven to work with ICORE on research projects related to healthcare analytics. My will to pursue Data Science, Statistics and healthcare got me through the tough admission process last year. Without the support of the amazing professors at IIITD, the seniors and my friends, it would have been difficult to get an admit to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).\r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_174" align="aligncenter" width="676"]<img class="wp-image-174 size-large" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/18193261_1626298560728784_3539458588932615686_o-1024x629.jpg" alt="18193261_1626298560728784_3539458588932615686_o" width="676" height="415" /> Precogs graduating this year with Dr PK[/caption]\r\n\r\nAlthough, there’s still a long way to go, I’m glad that IIITD was a part of it. I explored options other than research and became a teaching assistant, organised events like TEDx, mentored for the INOI Workshop, coordinated Foobar (the competitive programming club), became a member of the MadToes (IIITD’s dance society), and participated in various college activities. The institute has helped me create a journey that my younger self would be proud of.\r\n\r\nAt IIIT Delhi I found a second family, that helped me grow, made me laugh, understood my perspective and encouraged me to appreciate the journey which got me through these four years. I will miss this family - my friends, the faculty, the staff and the alumni who helped me learn and realise my potential.\r\n\r\nI have loved my college life because of the things I learned, the people I met, the memories we created and the miles we travelled together. I am grateful to everyone who has been a part of this journey and will continue to hone the qualities they’ve helped me imbibe. It is our director’s vision to create an environment where we nurture our interests and find a path which leads us to our goal. IIIT Delhi has been the place where my friends became family and small moments became vital memories. I have learned so much over the past four years and I know that I am going to miss all of it. From the orientation day to the last batch photo day, I witnessed a lot with this place and it''s now time to say goodbye. Goodbye, not to the people who got me through the highs and lows or the memories that I made with them, but to the struggle that gave me all that I have today.\r\n\r\nThank you for everything. :D\r\n\r\nWritten By\r\nAditi Mithal\r\nClass of 2017', 'See you again, IIITD (CP <3)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '180-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-06-18 13:23:43', '2017-06-18 07:53:43', '', 180, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/180-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (184, 6, '2017-06-18 13:39:19', '2017-06-18 08:09:19', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-181 alignright" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/self-200x300.jpg" alt="self" width="200" height="300" />\n\nHustling through the narrow street which turned left from Govind Puri Metro station on the first day of college, to find a beautiful campus at the end of the road was pure joy. My undergraduate journey at IIIT Delhi has been wonderful, a little walk through my four years will sum up what makes IIITD an amazing “institute” and a lovely home.\n\nWhile adapting to the comfort of the bunk beds was surely tough during my early hostel days - it was also one of the coolest experiences. From tackling a loudspeaker in my neighbourhood, sweeping the flooded hostel room floor at 4 AM, and dumping the waste into the cupboard to make the room look cleaner; to finding the most amazing bunch of people in the hostel, having long conversations with my roomies and running across the corridor to play pranks on my friends (you know it :P) - it was all exhilarating. And, like everyone else I would also like to appreciate and brag about the no-curfew blessing, thanks to our director.\n\nApart from the fun, IIITD never stopped making me want to do better, and to do more. The institute offered a wide range of interesting courses to choose from. In first year, while others were struggling with Engineering Drawing, I felt lucky to be making hands-on projects in Introduction to Engineering Design. It was fun to register for new courses and create a timetable for myself. I liked working on the course projects, they were effective in learning, and the hard work required to find alternate solutions for a given problem took me to the top of the world. (Also, it helped me discover my love for Github and YouTube :P).\n\nAt IIIT Delhi, during the semester, deadlines are on everyone''s minds. It felt victorious to have made a submission at 00:03 on backpack (Just saying!). Now, it is upsetting to realise that my backpack account will always say - “Woohoo! you have no deadlines. Enjoy it while it lasts.”\n\nThe next thing that I found rewarding was the community service initiative by the institute. I taught elementary class students Maths, Science, English and Geography. I admired the initiative so much that I still often visit the school to teach them basic computer skills. And they love it! I even received a Google scholarship to continue this support and service towards the community! One more thing - I don''t know how it works everywhere else but at IIITD, generous feedback and suggestions are important and valued. This is one of the many things I admire about this place.\n\nIIIT Delhi has been very generous in terms of providing me with opportunities. The first one to be was the Innovation internship program hosted by the ECell or Entrepreneurship Cell of IIITD. It was a privilege to work with Professor Vinayak Naik on the MSleep project alongside Shuchita and Yash. It was my first internship, first project and the first product-pitch experience which boosted my confidence and helped me learn a lot of things.\n\nI also got the amazing opportunity to work with Professor Ponnurangam Kumaraguru during my third summer. I extended this work for memes and took it up as a BTP. Taking a BTP was a fruitful experience for me, I associate a lot of emotions with it - one of them being surprise. I am happy to have taken up projects with professors at Stanford University which helped me find my interest. After that, I was driven to work with ICORE on research projects related to healthcare analytics. My will to pursue Data Science, Statistics and healthcare got me through the tough admission process last year. Without the support of the amazing professors at IIITD, the seniors and my friends, it would have been difficult to get an admit to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).\n\n[caption id="attachment_174" align="aligncenter" width="676"]<img class="wp-image-174 size-large" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/18193261_1626298560728784_3539458588932615686_o-1024x629.jpg" alt="18193261_1626298560728784_3539458588932615686_o" width="676" height="415" /> Precogs graduating this year with Dr PK[/caption]\n\nAlthough, there’s still a long way to go, I’m glad that IIITD was a part of it. I explored options other than research and became a teaching assistant, organised events like TEDx, mentored for the INOI Workshop, coordinated Foobar (the competitive programming club), became a member of the MadToes (IIITD’s dance society), and participated in various college activities. The institute has helped me create a journey that my younger self would be proud of.\n\nAt IIIT Delhi I found a second family, that helped me grow, made me laugh, understood my perspective and encouraged me to appreciate the journey which got me through these four years. I will miss this family - my friends, the faculty, the staff and the alumni who helped me learn and realise my potential.\n\n[caption id="attachment_185" align="alignleft" width="300"]<img class="wp-image-185 size-medium" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/group-300x300.jpg" alt="group" width="300" height="300" /> Our trip to Goa[/caption]\n\nI have loved my college life because of the things I learned, the people I met, the memories we created and the miles we travelled together. I am grateful to everyone who has been a part of this journey and will continue to hone the qualities they’ve helped me imbibe. It is our director’s vision to create an environment where we nurture our interests and find a path which leads us to our goal. IIIT Delhi has been the place where my friends became family and small moments became vital memories. I have learned so much over the past four years and I know that I am going to miss all of it. From the orientation day to the last batch photo day, I witnessed a lot with this place and it''s now time to say goodbye. Goodbye, not to the people who got me through the highs and lows or the memories that I made with them, but to the struggle that gave me all that I have today.\n\nThank you for everything. :D\n\n \n\n \n\nWritten By\nAditi Mithal\nClass of 2017', 'See you again, IIITD (CP <3)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '180-autosave-v1', '', '', '2017-06-18 13:39:19', '2017-06-18 08:09:19', '', 180, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/180-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (185, 6, '2017-06-18 13:27:17', '2017-06-18 07:57:17', '', 'group', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', 'group', '', '', '2017-06-18 13:27:17', '2017-06-18 07:57:17', '', 180, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/group.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0), (186, 6, '2017-06-18 13:32:18', '2017-06-18 08:02:18', '', 'group-aditi', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', 'group-aditi', '', '', '2017-06-18 13:32:18', '2017-06-18 08:02:18', '', 180, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/group-aditi.xcf', 0, 'attachment', 'application/octet-stream', 0), (187, 6, '2017-06-18 13:34:23', '2017-06-18 08:04:23', '', 'group-aditi', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', 'group-aditi-2', '', '', '2017-06-18 13:34:23', '2017-06-18 08:04:23', '', 180, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/group-aditi.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0); INSERT INTO `wp_posts` (`ID`, `post_author`, `post_date`, `post_date_gmt`, `post_content`, `post_title`, `post_excerpt`, `post_status`, `comment_status`, `ping_status`, `post_password`, `post_name`, `to_ping`, `pinged`, `post_modified`, `post_modified_gmt`, `post_content_filtered`, `post_parent`, `guid`, `menu_order`, `post_type`, `post_mime_type`, `comment_count`) VALUES (188, 6, '2017-06-18 13:36:27', '2017-06-18 08:06:27', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-181 alignright" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/self-200x300.jpg" alt="self" width="200" height="300" />\r\n\r\nHustling through the narrow street which turned left from Govind Puri Metro station on the first day of college, to find a beautiful campus at the end of the road was pure joy. My undergraduate journey at IIIT Delhi has been wonderful, a little walk through my four years will sum up what makes IIITD an amazing “institute” and a lovely home.\r\n\r\nWhile adapting to the comfort of the bunk beds was surely tough during my early hostel days - it was also one of the coolest experiences. From tackling a loudspeaker in my neighbourhood, sweeping the flooded hostel room floor at 4 AM, and dumping the waste into the cupboard to make the room look cleaner; to finding the most amazing bunch of people in the hostel, having long conversations with my roomies and running across the corridor to play pranks on my friends (you know it :P) - it was all exhilarating. And, like everyone else I would also like to appreciate and brag about the no-curfew blessing, thanks to our director.\r\n\r\nApart from the fun, IIITD never stopped making me want to do better, and to do more. The institute offered a wide range of interesting courses to choose from. In first year, while others were struggling with Engineering Drawing, I felt lucky to be making hands-on projects in Introduction to Engineering Design. It was fun to register for new courses and create a timetable for myself. I liked working on the course projects, they were effective in learning, and the hard work required to find alternate solutions for a given problem took me to the top of the world. (Also, it helped me discover my love for Github and YouTube :P).\r\n\r\nAt IIIT Delhi, during the semester, deadlines are on everyone''s minds. It felt victorious to have made a submission at 00:03 on backpack (Just saying!). Now, it is upsetting to realise that my backpack account will always say - “Woohoo! you have no deadlines. Enjoy it while it lasts.”\r\n\r\nThe next thing that I found rewarding was the community service initiative by the institute. I taught elementary class students Maths, Science, English and Geography. I admired the initiative so much that I still often visit the school to teach them basic computer skills. And they love it! I even received a Google scholarship to continue this support and service towards the community! One more thing - I don''t know how it works everywhere else but at IIITD, generous feedback and suggestions are important and valued. This is one of the many things I admire about this place.\r\n\r\nIIIT Delhi has been very generous in terms of providing me with opportunities. The first one to be was the Innovation internship program hosted by the ECell or Entrepreneurship Cell of IIITD. It was a privilege to work with Professor Vinayak Naik on the MSleep project alongside Shuchita and Yash. It was my first internship, first project and the first product-pitch experience which boosted my confidence and helped me learn a lot of things.\r\n\r\nI also got the amazing opportunity to work with Professor Ponnurangam Kumaraguru during my third summer. I extended this work for memes and took it up as a BTP. Taking a BTP was a fruitful experience for me, I associate a lot of emotions with it - one of them being surprise. I am happy to have taken up projects with professors at Stanford University which helped me find my interest. After that, I was driven to work with ICORE on research projects related to healthcare analytics. My will to pursue Data Science, Statistics and healthcare got me through the tough admission process last year. Without the support of the amazing professors at IIITD, the seniors and my friends, it would have been difficult to get an admit to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).\r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_174" align="aligncenter" width="676"]<img class="wp-image-174 size-large" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/18193261_1626298560728784_3539458588932615686_o-1024x629.jpg" alt="18193261_1626298560728784_3539458588932615686_o" width="676" height="415" /> Precogs graduating this year with Dr PK[/caption]\r\n\r\nAlthough, there’s still a long way to go, I’m glad that IIITD was a part of it. I explored options other than research and became a teaching assistant, organised events like TEDx, mentored for the INOI Workshop, coordinated Foobar (the competitive programming club), became a member of the MadToes (IIITD’s dance society), and participated in various college activities. The institute has helped me create a journey that my younger self would be proud of.\r\n\r\nAt IIIT Delhi I found a second family, that helped me grow, made me laugh, understood my perspective and encouraged me to appreciate the journey which got me through these four years. I will miss this family - my friends, the faculty, the staff and the alumni who helped me learn and realise my potential.\r\n\r\n<img class="size-medium wp-image-185 alignleft" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/group-300x300.jpg" alt="group" width="300" height="300" />\r\n\r\nI have loved my college life because of the things I learned, the people I met, the memories we created and the miles we travelled together. I am grateful to everyone who has been a part of this journey and will continue to hone the qualities they’ve helped me imbibe. It is our director’s vision to create an environment where we nurture our interests and find a path which leads us to our goal. IIIT Delhi has been the place where my friends became family and small moments became vital memories. I have learned so much over the past four years and I know that I am going to miss all of it. From the orientation day to the last batch photo day, I witnessed a lot with this place and it''s now time to say goodbye. Goodbye, not to the people who got me through the highs and lows or the memories that I made with them, but to the struggle that gave me all that I have today.\r\n\r\nThank you for everything. :D\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWritten By\r\nAditi Mithal\r\nClass of 2017', 'See you again, IIITD (CP <3)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '180-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-06-18 13:36:27', '2017-06-18 08:06:27', '', 180, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/180-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (189, 6, '2017-06-18 13:40:03', '2017-06-18 08:10:03', '[caption id="attachment_181" align="alignright" width="200"]<img class="wp-image-181 size-medium" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/self-200x300.jpg" alt="self" width="200" height="300" /> Adit Mithal, BTech Class of 2017[/caption]\r\n\r\nHustling through the narrow street which turned left from Govind Puri Metro station on the first day of college, to find a beautiful campus at the end of the road was pure joy. My undergraduate journey at IIIT Delhi has been wonderful, a little walk through my four years will sum up what makes IIITD an amazing “institute” and a lovely home.\r\n\r\nWhile adapting to the comfort of the bunk beds was surely tough during my early hostel days - it was also one of the coolest experiences. From tackling a loudspeaker in my neighbourhood, sweeping the flooded hostel room floor at 4 AM, and dumping the waste into the cupboard to make the room look cleaner; to finding the most amazing bunch of people in the hostel, having long conversations with my roomies and running across the corridor to play pranks on my friends (you know it :P) - it was all exhilarating. And, like everyone else I would also like to appreciate and brag about the no-curfew blessing, thanks to our director.\r\n\r\nApart from the fun, IIITD never stopped making me want to do better, and to do more. The institute offered a wide range of interesting courses to choose from. In first year, while others were struggling with Engineering Drawing, I felt lucky to be making hands-on projects in Introduction to Engineering Design. It was fun to register for new courses and create a timetable for myself. I liked working on the course projects, they were effective in learning, and the hard work required to find alternate solutions for a given problem took me to the top of the world. (Also, it helped me discover my love for Github and YouTube :P).\r\n\r\nAt IIIT Delhi, during the semester, deadlines are on everyone''s minds. It felt victorious to have made a submission at 00:03 on backpack (Just saying!). Now, it is upsetting to realise that my backpack account will always say - “Woohoo! you have no deadlines. Enjoy it while it lasts.”\r\n\r\nThe next thing that I found rewarding was the community service initiative by the institute. I taught elementary class students Maths, Science, English and Geography. I admired the initiative so much that I still often visit the school to teach them basic computer skills. And they love it! I even received a Google scholarship to continue this support and service towards the community! One more thing - I don''t know how it works everywhere else but at IIITD, generous feedback and suggestions are important and valued. This is one of the many things I admire about this place.\r\n\r\nIIIT Delhi has been very generous in terms of providing me with opportunities. The first one to be was the Innovation internship program hosted by the ECell or Entrepreneurship Cell of IIITD. It was a privilege to work with Professor Vinayak Naik on the MSleep project alongside Shuchita and Yash. It was my first internship, first project and the first product-pitch experience which boosted my confidence and helped me learn a lot of things.\r\n\r\nI also got the amazing opportunity to work with Professor Ponnurangam Kumaraguru during my third summer. I extended this work for memes and took it up as a BTP. Taking a BTP was a fruitful experience for me, I associate a lot of emotions with it - one of them being surprise. I am happy to have taken up projects with professors at Stanford University which helped me find my interest. After that, I was driven to work with ICORE on research projects related to healthcare analytics. My will to pursue Data Science, Statistics and healthcare got me through the tough admission process last year. Without the support of the amazing professors at IIITD, the seniors and my friends, it would have been difficult to get an admit to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).\r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_174" align="aligncenter" width="676"]<img class="wp-image-174 size-large" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/18193261_1626298560728784_3539458588932615686_o-1024x629.jpg" alt="18193261_1626298560728784_3539458588932615686_o" width="676" height="415" /> Precogs graduating this year with Dr PK[/caption]\r\n\r\nAlthough, there’s still a long way to go, I’m glad that IIITD was a part of it. I explored options other than research and became a teaching assistant, organised events like TEDx, mentored for the INOI Workshop, coordinated Foobar (the competitive programming club), became a member of the MadToes (IIITD’s dance society), and participated in various college activities. The institute has helped me create a journey that my younger self would be proud of.\r\n\r\nAt IIIT Delhi I found a second family, that helped me grow, made me laugh, understood my perspective and encouraged me to appreciate the journey which got me through these four years. I will miss this family - my friends, the faculty, the staff and the alumni who helped me learn and realise my potential.\r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_185" align="alignleft" width="300"]<img class="wp-image-185 size-medium" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/group-300x300.jpg" alt="group" width="300" height="300" /> Our trip to Goa[/caption]\r\n\r\nI have loved my college life because of the things I learned, the people I met, the memories we created and the miles we travelled together. I am grateful to everyone who has been a part of this journey and will continue to hone the qualities they’ve helped me imbibe. It is our director’s vision to create an environment where we nurture our interests and find a path which leads us to our goal. IIIT Delhi has been the place where my friends became family and small moments became vital memories. I have learned so much over the past four years and I know that I am going to miss all of it. From the orientation day to the last batch photo day, I witnessed a lot with this place and it''s now time to say goodbye. Goodbye, not to the people who got me through the highs and lows or the memories that I made with them, but to the struggle that gave me all that I have today.\r\n\r\nThank you for everything. :D\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWritten By\r\nAditi Mithal\r\nClass of 2017', 'See you again, IIITD (CP <3)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '180-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-06-18 13:40:03', '2017-06-18 08:10:03', '', 180, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/180-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (190, 6, '2017-06-18 20:26:55', '2017-06-18 14:56:55', '[caption id="attachment_181" align="alignright" width="200"]<img class="wp-image-181 size-medium" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/self-200x300.jpg" alt="self" width="200" height="300" /> Aditi Mithal, BTech Class of 2017[/caption]\r\n\r\nHustling through the narrow street which turned left from Govind Puri Metro station on the first day of college, to find a beautiful campus at the end of the road was pure joy. My undergraduate journey at IIIT Delhi has been wonderful, a little walk through my four years will sum up what makes IIITD an amazing “institute” and a lovely home.\r\n\r\nWhile adapting to the comfort of the bunk beds was surely tough during my early hostel days - it was also one of the coolest experiences. From tackling a loudspeaker in my neighbourhood, sweeping the flooded hostel room floor at 4 AM, and dumping the waste into the cupboard to make the room look cleaner; to finding the most amazing bunch of people in the hostel, having long conversations with my roomies and running across the corridor to play pranks on my friends (you know it :P) - it was all exhilarating. And, like everyone else I would also like to appreciate and brag about the no-curfew blessing, thanks to our director.\r\n\r\nApart from the fun, IIITD never stopped making me want to do better, and to do more. The institute offered a wide range of interesting courses to choose from. In first year, while others were struggling with Engineering Drawing, I felt lucky to be making hands-on projects in Introduction to Engineering Design. It was fun to register for new courses and create a timetable for myself. I liked working on the course projects, they were effective in learning, and the hard work required to find alternate solutions for a given problem took me to the top of the world. (Also, it helped me discover my love for Github and YouTube :P).\r\n\r\nAt IIIT Delhi, during the semester, deadlines are on everyone''s minds. It felt victorious to have made a submission at 00:03 on backpack (Just saying!). Now, it is upsetting to realise that my backpack account will always say - “Woohoo! you have no deadlines. Enjoy it while it lasts.”\r\n\r\nThe next thing that I found rewarding was the community service initiative by the institute. I taught elementary class students Maths, Science, English and Geography. I admired the initiative so much that I still often visit the school to teach them basic computer skills. And they love it! I even received a Google scholarship to continue this support and service towards the community! One more thing - I don''t know how it works everywhere else but at IIITD, generous feedback and suggestions are important and valued. This is one of the many things I admire about this place.\r\n\r\nIIIT Delhi has been very generous in terms of providing me with opportunities. The first one to be was the Innovation internship program hosted by the ECell or Entrepreneurship Cell of IIITD. It was a privilege to work with Professor Vinayak Naik on the MSleep project alongside Shuchita and Yash. It was my first internship, first project and the first product-pitch experience which boosted my confidence and helped me learn a lot of things.\r\n\r\nI also got the amazing opportunity to work with Professor Ponnurangam Kumaraguru during my third summer. I extended this work for memes and took it up as a BTP. Taking a BTP was a fruitful experience for me, I associate a lot of emotions with it - one of them being surprise. I am happy to have taken up projects with professors at Stanford University which helped me find my interest. After that, I was driven to work with ICORE on research projects related to healthcare analytics. My will to pursue Data Science, Statistics and healthcare got me through the tough admission process last year. Without the support of the amazing professors at IIITD, the seniors and my friends, it would have been difficult to get an admit to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).\r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_174" align="aligncenter" width="676"]<img class="wp-image-174 size-large" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/18193261_1626298560728784_3539458588932615686_o-1024x629.jpg" alt="18193261_1626298560728784_3539458588932615686_o" width="676" height="415" /> Precogs graduating this year with Dr PK[/caption]\r\n\r\nAlthough, there’s still a long way to go, I’m glad that IIITD was a part of it. I explored options other than research and became a teaching assistant, organised events like TEDx, mentored for the INOI Workshop, coordinated Foobar (the competitive programming club), became a member of the MadToes (IIITD’s dance society), and participated in various college activities. The institute has helped me create a journey that my younger self would be proud of.\r\n\r\nAt IIIT Delhi I found a second family, that helped me grow, made me laugh, understood my perspective and encouraged me to appreciate the journey which got me through these four years. I will miss this family - my friends, the faculty, the staff and the alumni who helped me learn and realise my potential.\r\n\r\n[caption id="attachment_185" align="alignleft" width="300"]<img class="wp-image-185 size-medium" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/group-300x300.jpg" alt="group" width="300" height="300" /> Our trip to Goa[/caption]\r\n\r\nI have loved my college life because of the things I learned, the people I met, the memories we created and the miles we travelled together. I am grateful to everyone who has been a part of this journey and will continue to hone the qualities they’ve helped me imbibe. It is our director’s vision to create an environment where we nurture our interests and find a path which leads us to our goal. IIIT Delhi has been the place where my friends became family and small moments became vital memories. I have learned so much over the past four years and I know that I am going to miss all of it. From the orientation day to the last batch photo day, I witnessed a lot with this place and it''s now time to say goodbye. Goodbye, not to the people who got me through the highs and lows or the memories that I made with them, but to the struggle that gave me all that I have today.\r\n\r\nThank you for everything. :D\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nWritten By\r\nAditi Mithal\r\nClass of 2017', 'See you again, IIITD (CP <3)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '180-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-06-18 20:26:55', '2017-06-18 14:56:55', '', 180, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/180-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (205, 1, '2019-04-02 16:03:13', '2019-04-02 10:33:13', '<!-- wp:heading {"level":4} -->\n<h4>Her experience in her own words </h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<p>I came to know about Snap Research’s work while referring to the publications by some of the researchers there. While exploring the work done by them, I came to learn about the Snap Research Scholarship program. This was the 2nd iteration of the program, hence, there were no resources from past scholars that I could refer to. However, I had been engaged in research work at IIIT Delhi under the guidance of Dr. Tanmoy and also from collaborations with IBM IRL. The skills that I had acquired from the projects that I took up aligned a lot with the work that Snap engages in. Hence, I decided to frame my application on the basis of my past experience and how it would help me utilize the resources given by Snap Inc. I would certainly say that the application driven scope of the courses offered and the early exposure to research environment played a huge role. After a brief screening process, I was interviewed by two researchers at Snap. These interviews were very different from what I had experienced and heard of before. They focused on coding, analyzing how I reacted to new problems that I hadn’t tackled earlier as well as my past projects.</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p>Finally, when the result arrived, I really could not believe that I had been selected as one of the scholars. It felt surreal to be listed on the same page as people from some of the best universities of the world. The cherry on top of the cake was that I was also the only student selected from India! All in all, I am really thankful to IIIT Delhi for providing such a platform for me to develop myself, my advisor Dr. Tanmoy for constantly pushing me to better myself and my collaborators for being such a great support system. I am really excited about what working at Snap Inc. will be like, when I intern there!</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p>Further details about the program and the awardees can be found here - https://snapresearchfs.splashthat.com/</p>\n\n<!-- wp:heading {"level":6,"align":"right"} -->\n<h6 style="text-align:right"> <br> BRIHI JOSHI, Btech ECE, Class of 2020 </h6>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->', 'Brihi Joshi Received Snap Research Scholarship: another feather in her cap', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'snap-researchs-work', '', '', '2020-01-03 10:37:59', '2020-01-03 05:07:59', '', 0, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?p=205', 0, 'post', '', 0), (206, 1, '2019-04-02 16:03:14', '2019-04-02 10:33:14', 'I came to know about Snap Research’s work while referring to the publications by some of the researchers there. While exploring the work done by them, I came to learn about the Snap Research Scholarship program. This was the 2nd iteration of the program, hence, there were no resources from past scholars that I could refer to. However, I had been engaged in research work at IIIT Delhi under the guidance of Dr. Tanmoy and also from collaborations with IBM IRL. The skills that I had acquired from the projects that I took up aligned a lot with the work that Snap engages in. Hence, I decided to frame my application on the basis of my past experience and how it would help me utilize the resources given by Snap Inc. I would certainly say that the application driven scope of the courses offered and the early exposure to research environment played a huge role. After a brief screening process, I was interviewed by two researchers at Snap. These interviews were very different from what I had experienced and heard of before. They focused on coding, analyzing how I reacted to new problems that I hadn’t tackled earlier as well as my past projects.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nFinally, when the result arrived, I really could not believe that I had been selected as one of the scholars. It felt surreal to be listed on the same page as people from some of the best universities of the world. The cherry on top of the cake was that I was also the only student selected from India! All in all, I am really thankful to IIIT Delhi for providing such a platform for me to develop myself, my advisor Dr. Tanmoy for constantly pushing me to better myself and my collaborators for being such a great support system. I am really excited about what working at Snap Inc. will be like, when I intern there!\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nFurther details about the program and the awardees can be found here - https://snapresearchfs.splashthat.com/', 'Snap Research’s work', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '205-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-02 16:03:14', '2019-04-02 10:33:14', '', 205, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/205-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (212, 1, '2019-04-10 15:17:15', '2019-04-10 09:47:15', '<span style="font-weight: 400;">Recently, Parth Mittal, Utsav Rohilla, and Hanit Banga brought glory to IIIT Delhi by securing rank one in ACM ICPC Regionals, and thereafter, representing India in the World Finals. Harsh Manocha (Class of 2016) had envisioned a team from IIIT Delhi to achieve this goal by 2019 rightly so; the team members’ talent and dedication put them on the global charts.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">With little introduction needed, FooBar, IIIT Delhi''s Programming Club, has progressed exponentially since its conception in 2013. Maintaining its stature as one of the toughest clubs in IIIT to get into, the club began with the aim of promoting programming culture in the campus. It was unfurled on January 22, 2013 with an initial agenda involving weekly sessions and monthly competitions for the members of the club — something the club has stayed true to even today. The agenda also promised support for ACM ICPC, which has been an yearly phenomena for the club — evolving bright, inquisitive students into coding champions through focussed effort pooled in by all the members.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Pre FooBar, there was an active mailing list with Dr. Debajyoti Bera, Assistant Professor at IIIT Delhi, sending across problems for interested students to solve and discuss. The campus also had a special post in the Student Council called ‘Technical Secretary’, who would be responsible for organizing coding competitions. </span>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">“[As the Technical Secretary], I and my team realised the need of a structured, more vigorous coding culture in the institute. This is how Byld and FooBar were born. In fact they were two factions of the same people who wanted a stronger programming culture,” said Utkarsh Gupta (Class of 2015), who was one of the forerunners of the club. The club, he explained, was the brainchild of careful thought and early experimentation. Once the blueprint was ready, the club instantly garnered an approval from Dr. Pankaj Jalote, former Director of IIIT Delhi, and secured server space to host multiple softwares to check programming competitions and to maintain a backup of archived questions. The club’s first co-ordinators included Deepankar Aggarwal (Class of 2014), currently a software engineer at Facebook; Maneet Singh (Class of 2015), currently a Ph.D. student at Image Analysis and Biometrics (IAB) Lab; Amol Verma (Class of 2014); Sampoorna Biswas (Class of 2014), currently a software developer at Clir; Harsh Manocha (Class of 2016), currently a software engineer at Google; and Kshitiz Bakshi (Class of 2014), currently a computer scientist at Adobe.</span>\n\n<img class="aligncenter wp-image-219 size-full" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/foobarstory1.jpg" alt="" width="632" height="464" />\n\n<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-220" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/foobarstory2.jpg" alt="" width="638" height="519" />\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Stepping into competitive coding can be daunting task for a novice, so when the founders kick-started the club, their own academic and professional backgrounds in engineering and tech guided its structure. CodeClasses are focussed on strengthening both theoretical fundamentals and facilitate ease of translation to code. In order to provide a fully hands-on experience for, their pedagogy falls on a few fundamentals — being engaging, involving teamwork and of course, having lots of fun in the process. The club promotes multi-directional learning, where all members contribute to share their own strengths with everyone else, aiming to elevate others to the same level of comprehension as their own. The primary incentive is learning. This is perhaps one reason why, even though having a tight circle of only 39 current members, the club is one of the most active in the institute.</span>\n\n<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-221" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/foobarstory3.jpg" alt="" width="644" height="507" />\n\n<b>Why Coding Matters</b>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">FooBar’s Facebook page has over 2,500 likes, and each of its posts gather approximately 25-30 likes on an average. The social media presence of the club shows that it speaks to a particularly receptive audience; now more than ever, with the increase in the intake of B.Tech students from cross-disciplinary fields such as Computer Science and Design (CSD), Computer Science and Biosciences (CSB), and Computer Science and Social Sciences (CSSS). Today’s world values problem solving and managing stressful deadline-driven situations on both corporate and business fronts, lending students who excel at programming an edge in hiring processes. The expansion of the Mentorship Program at IIIT Delhi along with increased interaction and informal discussion has created a direct link between freshers and seniors. Freshers, now aware of the perils and promises of the tech scenario, are motivated to gain speed, discipline and teamwork — skills that are indispensable to lasting careers in tech.</span>\n\n<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-222" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/foobarstory4.jpg" alt="" width="638" height="350" />\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">The club coordinators have come up with various innovative solutions to keep the enthusiasm up. ProSort [69], Valentine''s Special, held on February 14, 2019, encouraged students to pair up and solve problems based on the idea of April Fool''s Contest on Codeforces. Replete with an ambience of heart-shaped balloons and a ‘weird’ problem set, this special ProSort was a unique experience for the participants. Valentine’s Special has in fact been a tradition that has been going on for the past couple of years and has attracted special attention among the programming community. The club also organizes ACM ICPC Mock Contests, CodeClasses on topics ranging from recursion to segment trees, Recruitment Contests, workshops and Summer Boot Camps. It also saw a successful INOI workshop this academic year. For a tight circle of just a handful of members, FooBar has spawned a massive outreach, evident from the usage of the portal for ADA labs to conducting ProSort Junior during Esya, which provides brownie points for high school students towards admission into IIIT Delhi. The club is presently being jointly administered by Siddharth Dhawan, Parth Mittal, Lavina Jain, Shashwat Chaudhary, Kushagra Arora, Raghav Sood, Prakhar Gupta and Tanmay Bansal.</span>\n\n<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-223" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/foobarstory5.jpg" alt="" width="643" height="504" />\n\n<b>Lessons Beyond Tech </b>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Lavina Jain (Class of 2020) is one of the few women FooBar admins and an ardent proponent of the coding culture that FooBar promotes. A former software intern at Google and a Google Code Jam to I/O winner, she spoke to the many young women trying to make it big in the competitive sphere, “We try our best to encourage girls from our institute to code, mostly from the first and second years because that is when they need to put in the most effort. 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The club, he explained, was the brainchild of careful thought and early experimentation. Once the blueprint was ready, the club instantly garnered an approval from Dr. Pankaj Jalote, former Director of IIIT Delhi, and secured server space to host multiple softwares to check programming competitions and to maintain a backup of archived questions. The club’s first co-ordinators included Deepankar Aggarwal (Class of 2014), currently a software engineer at Facebook; Maneet Singh (Class of 2015), currently a Ph.D. student at Image Analysis and Biometrics (IAB) Lab; Amol Verma (Class of 2014); Sampoorna Biswas (Class of 2014), currently a software developer at Clir; Harsh Manocha (Class of 2016), currently a software engineer at Google; and Kshitiz Bakshi (Class of 2014), currently a computer scientist at Adobe.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Stepping into competitive coding can be daunting task for a novice, so when the founders kick-started the club, their own academic and professional backgrounds in engineering and tech guided its structure. CodeClasses are focussed on strengthening both theoretical fundamentals and facilitate ease of translation to code. In order to provide a fully hands-on experience for, their pedagogy falls on a few fundamentals — being engaging, involving teamwork and of course, having lots of fun in the process. The club promotes multi-directional learning, where all members contribute to share their own strengths with everyone else, aiming to elevate others to the same level of comprehension as their own. The primary incentive is learning. This is perhaps one reason why, even though having a tight circle of only 39 current members, the club is one of the most active in the institute.</span>\n\n<b>Why Coding Matters</b>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">FooBar’s Facebook page has over 2,500 likes, and each of its posts gather approximately 25-30 likes on an average. 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Freshers, now aware of the perils and promises of the tech scenario, are motivated to gain speed, discipline and teamwork — skills that are indispensable to lasting careers in tech.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">The club coordinators have come up with various innovative solutions to keep the enthusiasm up. ProSort [69], Valentine''s Special, held on February 14, 2019, encouraged students to pair up and solve problems based on the idea of April Fool''s Contest on Codeforces. Replete with an ambience of heart-shaped balloons and a ‘weird’ problem set, this special ProSort was a unique experience for the participants. Valentine’s Special has in fact been a tradition that has been going on for the past couple of years and has attracted special attention among the programming community. The club also organizes ACM ICPC Mock Contests, CodeClasses on topics ranging from recursion to segment trees, Recruitment Contests, workshops and Summer Boot Camps. It also saw a successful INOI workshop this academic year. For a tight circle of just a handful of members, FooBar has spawned a massive outreach, evident from the usage of the portal for ADA labs to conducting ProSort Junior during Esya, which provides brownie points for high school students towards admission into IIIT Delhi. The club is presently being jointly administered by Siddharth Dhawan, Parth Mittal, Lavina Jain, Shashwat Chaudhary, Kushagra Arora, Raghav Sood, Prakhar Gupta and Tanmay Bansal.</span>\n\n<b>Lessons Beyond Tech </b>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Lavina Jain (Class of 2020) is one of the few women FooBar admins and an ardent proponent of the coding culture that FooBar promotes. 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The agenda also promised support for ACM ICPC, which has been an yearly phenomena for the club — evolving bright, inquisitive students into coding champions through focussed effort pooled in by all the members.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Pre FooBar, there was an active mailing list with Dr. Debajyoti Bera, Assistant Professor at IIIT Delhi, sending across problems for interested students to solve and discuss. The campus also had a special post in the Student Council called ‘Technical Secretary’, who would be responsible for organizing coding competitions. </span>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">“[As the Technical Secretary], I and my team realised the need of a structured, more vigorous coding culture in the institute. This is how Byld and FooBar were born. In fact they were two factions of the same people who wanted a stronger programming culture,” said Utkarsh Gupta (Class of 2015), who was one of the forerunners of the club. The club, he explained, was the brainchild of careful thought and early experimentation. Once the blueprint was ready, the club instantly garnered an approval from Dr. Pankaj Jalote, former Director of IIIT Delhi, and secured server space to host multiple softwares to check programming competitions and to maintain a backup of archived questions. 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In order to provide a fully hands-on experience for, their pedagogy falls on a few fundamentals — being engaging, involving teamwork and of course, having lots of fun in the process. The club promotes multi-directional learning, where all members contribute to share their own strengths with everyone else, aiming to elevate others to the same level of comprehension as their own. The primary incentive is learning. This is perhaps one reason why, even though having a tight circle of only 39 current members, the club is one of the most active in the institute.</span>\n\n<b>Why Coding Matters</b>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">FooBar’s Facebook page has over 2,500 likes, and each of its posts gather approximately 25-30 likes on an average. 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This collaboration stands to serve as a mutually beneficial relationship between India and Korea, by bridging the technology and manpower gap. As highlighted by Mr. Hyun Cho, “Mr. Rabindranath Tagore had recognized Korea as the torchbearer for all of Asia. We’re positive that this collaboration will be fruitful for both India and Korea.” The products on display in the ICT workshop allowed for a smooth exchange of ideas, identification of important and challenging applications and discovery of possible synergies to create a strong foundation for the collaboration.\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">The India-Korea ICT Workshop concluded on 13 August. The final day saw many Korean companies showcasing their products at IIIT-Delhi. The two day event encouraged various companies present to increase collaborative efforts to build a long standing relationship in terms of hardware and software development. 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The agenda also promised support for ACM ICPC, which has been an yearly phenomena for the club — evolving bright, inquisitive students into coding champions through focussed effort pooled in by all the members.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Pre FooBar, there was an active mailing list with Dr. Debajyoti Bera, Assistant Professor at IIIT Delhi, sending across problems for interested students to solve and discuss. The campus also had a special post in the Student Council called ‘Technical Secretary’, who would be responsible for organizing coding competitions. </span>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">“[As the Technical Secretary], I and my team realised the need of a structured, more vigorous coding culture in the institute. This is how Byld and FooBar were born. In fact they were two factions of the same people who wanted a stronger programming culture,” said Utkarsh Gupta (Class of 2015), who was one of the forerunners of the club. The club, he explained, was the brainchild of careful thought and early experimentation. Once the blueprint was ready, the club instantly garnered an approval from Dr. Pankaj Jalote, former Director of IIIT Delhi, and secured server space to host multiple softwares to check programming competitions and to maintain a backup of archived questions. The club’s first co-ordinators included Deepankar Aggarwal (Class of 2014), currently a software engineer at Facebook; Maneet Singh (Class of 2015), currently a Ph.D. student at Image Analysis and Biometrics (IAB) Lab; Amol Verma (Class of 2014); Sampoorna Biswas (Class of 2014), currently a software developer at Clir; Harsh Manocha (Class of 2016), currently a software engineer at Google; and Kshitiz Bakshi (Class of 2014), currently a computer scientist at Adobe.</span>\n\n<img class="aligncenter wp-image-219 size-full" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/foobarstory1.jpg" alt="" width="632" height="464" />\n\n<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-220" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/foobarstory2.jpg" alt="" width="638" height="519" />\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Stepping into competitive coding can be daunting task for a novice, so when the founders kick-started the club, their own academic and professional backgrounds in engineering and tech guided its structure. CodeClasses are focussed on strengthening both theoretical fundamentals and facilitate ease of translation to code. In order to provide a fully hands-on experience for, their pedagogy falls on a few fundamentals — being engaging, involving teamwork and of course, having lots of fun in the process. The club promotes multi-directional learning, where all members contribute to share their own strengths with everyone else, aiming to elevate others to the same level of comprehension as their own. The primary incentive is learning. This is perhaps one reason why, even though having a tight circle of only 39 current members, the club is one of the most active in the institute.</span>\n\n<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-221" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/foobarstory3.jpg" alt="" width="644" height="507" />\n\n<b>Why Coding Matters</b>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">FooBar’s Facebook page has over 2,500 likes, and each of its posts gather approximately 25-30 likes on an average. The social media presence of the club shows that it speaks to a particularly receptive audience; now more than ever, with the increase in the intake of B.Tech students from cross-disciplinary fields such as Computer Science and Design (CSD), Computer Science and Biosciences (CSB), and Computer Science and Social Sciences (CSSS). Today’s world values problem solving and managing stressful deadline-driven situations on both corporate and business fronts, lending students who excel at programming an edge in hiring processes. The expansion of the Mentorship Program at IIIT Delhi along with increased interaction and informal discussion has created a direct link between freshers and seniors. Freshers, now aware of the perils and promises of the tech scenario, are motivated to gain speed, discipline and teamwork — skills that are indispensable to lasting careers in tech.</span>\n\n<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-222" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/foobarstory4.jpg" alt="" width="638" height="350" />\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">The club coordinators have come up with various innovative solutions to keep the enthusiasm up. ProSort [69], Valentine''s Special, held on February 14, 2019, encouraged students to pair up and solve problems based on the idea of April Fool''s Contest on Codeforces. Replete with an ambience of heart-shaped balloons and a ‘weird’ problem set, this special ProSort was a unique experience for the participants. Valentine’s Special has in fact been a tradition that has been going on for the past couple of years and has attracted special attention among the programming community. The club also organizes ACM ICPC Mock Contests, CodeClasses on topics ranging from recursion to segment trees, Recruitment Contests, workshops and Summer Boot Camps. It also saw a successful INOI workshop this academic year. For a tight circle of just a handful of members, FooBar has spawned a massive outreach, evident from the usage of the portal for ADA labs to conducting ProSort Junior during Esya, which provides brownie points for high school students towards admission into IIIT Delhi. The club is presently being jointly administered by Siddharth Dhawan, Parth Mittal, Lavina Jain, Shashwat Chaudhary, Kushagra Arora, Raghav Sood, Prakhar Gupta and Tanmay Bansal.</span>\n\n<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-223" src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/foobarstory5.jpg" alt="" width="643" height="504" />\n\n<b>Lessons Beyond Tech </b>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Lavina Jain (Class of 2020) is one of the few women FooBar admins and an ardent proponent of the coding culture that FooBar promotes. A former software intern at Google and a Google Code Jam to I/O winner, she spoke to the many young women trying to make it big in the competitive sphere, “We try our best to encourage girls from our institute to code, mostly from the first and second years because that is when they need to put in the most effort. There are a lot of programs to promote girls in the field, and I think we have succeeded in making girls aware of such opportunities and helping them get the required skills and mentorship for the same. The number of IIIT Delhi girls succeeding in such programs has jumped significantly in the past 2-3 years. This time, 7 girls were among the winners of Google Code Jam to I/O, as compared to 3 in the year 2016.” With an assortment of students from both B.Tech and M.Tech programs, mostly from CSE, ECE and CSAM branches. FooBar runs across disciplines and programs to provide a multidimensional training experience for all.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">“We are hoping to create an inclusive community where people who love to code, and those would love to code, can share a healthy atmosphere of discussions, mentorship and encouragement,” says Shashwat Chaudhary (Class of 2019). The club enforces strong ethics in coding culture, provides a supportive environment and nurtures motivation in young minds. 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A recent\naddition is the Library Occupancy Software, available on the Library website of the Institute. A\nhighly ingenious concept and the first of its kind in any academic and research\ninstitute in India, it displays a live\nchart of how many students are sitting in each area of the library block, based\non the WiFi connectivity through the student mobile phone and latop. The users\ncan use the application to make an informed decision about whether they would\nfind a place in the Library. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>While an initial version of the software displayed data textually, the recent version has many new improvements. The web application shows occupancy information on the floor map of the entire Library building. Not only that, but it also categorises areas as green, yellow, or red zones, based on availability. Green zones indicate empty spaces, yellow for partially occupied and red to indicate that space is fully unavailable. This software was created in-house, as a collaborative project between a student, faculty, Librarian and IT division - Aditya Lakra (2013 batch alumnus), Rajendra Singh (Librarian), Danish Parvez (IT dept.), and Ankit Agarwal (Web Manager) under the guidance of Prof. Vinayak Naik (Associate Professor, CSE).</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":233} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/libraryoccupancydata-1024x640.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-233"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In the next version, the library plans to add a\ndatabase to the application so it can retrieve and analyse the statistics of\nfootfall in the library. This will help generate reports and observe patterns\nof how many students visit which area, and thus which area is the most\nproductive for students. It will definitely help in the strategic planning of\nthe Library and Information Center of the Institute.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A more observable change to the Library Block is 2<sup>nd</sup>\nand 3<sup>rd</sup> floor which has redesigned and different types of new\nlearning spaces crated to improve the users experience in the Library. These\nspace are Individual study carrels, quiet study, group study, casual study, and\nworkshop/training rooms. These rooms have been outfitted with new floor carpets\nand soft seating like bean bags, where students can study uninterrupted 24/7.\nThe rooms have bigger desks and automatic door closers, making them highly\nefficient and comfortable spaces. 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A recent\naddition is the Library Occupancy Software, available on the Library website of the Institute. A\nhighly ingenious concept and the first of its kind in any academic and research\ninstitute in India, it displays a live\nchart of how many students are sitting in each area of the library block, based\non the WiFi connectivity through the student mobile phone and latop. The users\ncan use the application to make an informed decision about whether they would\nfind a place in the Library. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>While an initial version of the software displayed data textually, the recent version has many new improvements. The web application shows occupancy information on the floor map of the entire Library building. Not only that, but it also categorises areas as green, yellow, or red zones, based on availability. Green zones indicate empty spaces, yellow for partially occupied and red to indicate that space is fully unavailable. This software was created in-house, as a collaborative project between a student, faculty, Librarian and IT division - Aditya Lakra (2013 batch alumnus), Rajendra Singh (Librarian), Danish Parvez (IT dept.), and Ankit Agarwal (IT dept.) under the guidance of Prof. Vinayak Naik (Associate Professor, CSE).</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":233} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/libraryoccupancydata-1024x640.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-233"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In the next version, the library plans to add a\ndatabase to the application so it can retrieve and analyse the statistics of\nfootfall in the library. This will help generate reports and observe patterns\nof how many students visit which area, and thus which area is the most\nproductive for students. It will definitely help in the strategic planning of\nthe Library and Information Center of the Institute.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A more observable change to the Library Block is 2<sup>nd</sup>\nand 3<sup>rd</sup> floor which has redesigned and different types of new\nlearning spaces crated to improve the users experience in the Library. These\nspace are Individual study carrels, quiet study, group study, casual study, and\nworkshop/training rooms. These rooms have been outfitted with new floor carpets\nand soft seating like bean bags, where students can study uninterrupted 24/7.\nThe rooms have bigger desks and automatic door closers, making them highly\nefficient and comfortable spaces. The Library always looks for the suggestions\nand inputs from the users to make it more useful and further improvement.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Live Occupancy Application: The New and Improved Library and Information Center', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '232-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-10 16:08:42', '2019-04-10 10:38:42', '', 232, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/232-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (236, 1, '2019-04-10 16:09:16', '2019-04-10 10:39:16', '<span style="font-weight: 400;">When I joined IIIT-Delhi in 2009, the institute was still in its infancy. In fact, there were only 60 students more senior than I was! Even at the counselling, there were clues that I was entering an institution that thought differently about education. Rather than encourage everybody to join, Dr. Jalote instead warned the incoming batch that "if you do not believe in hard work, this place is not for you”. Joining IIIT-Delhi turned out to be one of the best decisions I''ve ever made, and I am writing this to share with future IIITians why this is the case.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">\n</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">In true 2015 Buzzfeed listicle style, this post is about eight things I learnt during my time at IIIT-Delhi. Although I sometimes wish I''d known them at the beginning, I realise that part of the journey was figuring these out on my own!</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">\n</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">\n</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">1. Coming out of high school, I believed that even if I could achieve 95% of my goal with 75% of effort, I did a good job. In my first few semesters, I put just enough thought and work into courses and projects to get a decent grade. I was ridiculously wrong about this. There are no shortcuts. There are no easy paths. Giving 100% effort is the only way. The good thing, I realized, about putting complete effort is that even if you don''t succeed, there is nothing more you could have done - so at least you feel satisfied. I started putting in 100% effort and thought in my courses and more importantly projects in the second half of my BTech. As a result, I was able to work on impactful projects like an even recommender and personalization app called What''s Next Up and research projects which resulted in papers presented at international conferences and workshops</span><b>.</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">\n</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">2. It is very common to measure achievement from ones successes. Rejections and failures let me down a lot. One of my papers got rejected from conferences a few times. My partner and I failed to get funding for What''s Next Up. It was a slow process but the rejections made me realize that my aim should not be success all the time. I needed to give more importance to the learning part of these experiences. I learned to appreciate the learning involved in every experience. I owe this to IIIT-Delhi simply because I had so many opportunities to try new things - I failed at some while succeeded at others.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">\n</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">3. Another thing about opportunities is that it is important to explore them. I realized the importance of doing breadth first search rather than depth first search so I could explore more during this learning period. Coming out of school, I did not know what particular area of computer science interests me, what problems appeal to me. At such a stage, it is very important to explore more. The lesson here is that even if you think you have found a project or an area that you are sure appeals to you, do not stop expanding your breadth. This is the only time you will get to explore the breadth of the field. After graduation, at work or higher studies, one usually is busy exploring the depths of problems. In my four years at IIIT-Delhi, I explored topics as varied as privacy and security, application development, artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, randomized algorithms, machine learning, data mining, linear algebra and social science courses like ethics. And yet there was so much at IIIT-Delhi that I could not explore such as psychology, cryptography, bioinformatics and economics, not to mention all the extra-curricular activities!</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">\n</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">4. As one of my friend says "if you are going home after classes, you are missing out on a lot". I learnt the importance of learning outside of classes. The professors at IIIT always have their doors open. They welcome student collaborators. I loved the algorithms design course and while I was talking to my algorithms professor, he mentioned an opening in their group about a research project. That''s how I started my first research project outside of classes. There are a lot of projects that students are doing on their own. That''s how I started working on projects like What''s Next Up. There are PhD students who love to work with undergrad collaborators. That''s how I started working with a PhD on community detection and analysis on Twitter. Apart from this, there are a lot of student run clubs and groups about competitive programming, hacking and so on. One can also contribute to IIIT''s annual tech fest. I was fortunate enough to live in the hostel in my final semester and it was a tremendously rewarding experience!</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">\n</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">5. It is very important to realize the importance of communication. There are a ton of opportunities but they are not useful if you do not express your interest in them. There are a lot of professors and fellow students who are willing to collaborate with you but that''s not useful if you do not communicate with them. There are a lot of people who would be happy to help you when you are stuck but that''s not useful if you do not communicate. You may have some great ideas but if you do not communicate and discuss you will never know that another student was working on a similar idea and you could have worked together to get a better solution out. IIIT-Delhi offers courses in communication and organizational behavior to strengthen these aspects.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">\n</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">6. It is okay to not know what you want from life. Even in my last year, I was not sure if I wanted to pursue a PhD or masters in computer science. I knew I loved distributed systems but did not know what topic within distributed systems appeals to me. If you do not know, there is no harm in exploring. I talked to Dr. Jalote and Dr. Bedathur before starting my masters and the feedback I got made me feel good about not knowing what I want to do - "you are young so explore, it doesn''t matter if you are wrong”. Now that I talk to people who were sure about what they wanted from life, they tell me that they have realized that they don''t know either.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">\n</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">7. I have realized the importance of balance between the love for your work and the ability to pivot when needed. The two extremes are dangerous. I have experienced both extremes. I have refused to change my idea when stuck in project because of my affection for the work done so far and I have given up on ideas because of insignificant issues. I have realized that it is by experience alone that you learn when to keep working and when to look to pivot.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">\n</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">8. Surround yourself with people who not only have fun with you but motivate you when needed. This is very important. I found myself in tough situations a lot of time in the four years. It''s these situations that teach you a lot about your support system. As an example, I would have never applied for higher studies had my friends not motivated me.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">\n</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">\n</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">I owe these to IIIT-Delhi because of the general atmosphere here about “doing things yourself”. If you are passionate about computer science and want to spend four years in an atmosphere where you learn by doing things, IIIT-Delhi is the place for you.</span>\n\n \n\n<span style="font-weight: 400;">Mayank Pundir</span>', 'How IIITD Changed My Life', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '144-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-10 16:09:16', '2019-04-10 10:39:16', '', 144, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/144-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (237, 1, '2019-04-10 16:09:30', '2019-04-10 10:39:30', '<ul>\n <li style="text-align:left;"><strong>By Taneea S Agrawaal</strong></li>\n</ul>\n<span style="font-weight:400;">Ten years down the line, if somebody asks me, "What has been your best experience?" I''m positive I will reply with, <em>"My college time has been my most valuable experience."</em></span>\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<span style="font-weight:400;">It might not be surprising to you if I tell you that as a kid, all I wanted was to grow up. Living on my own, being responsible for myself and experiencing the freedom of </span><span style="line-height:1.7;">adulthood plagued my thoughts since pupilage. Needless to say, coming to college was my ticket to experiencing the world of grownups.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight:400;">And it was the first step. But not just to being old and mature. IIITD provided me with a plethora of values, experiences and skills that I know I will cherish for as long as I live. Continuing along the lines of me looking forward to the college experience, I was not a scared rat in a desert. Rather, I was the opposite.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight:400;">I remember the first time I visited the campus, it was not what I had expected. It was spotless, clinical almost, as I had termed it then. But the cleanliness got the hygiene checked off of my mother''s checklist, which contained several checkboxes but was broadly categorized under - Hygiene, Education, and Students.</span>\n\n<em><span style="font-weight:400;">One down, two more to go.</span></em>\n\n<span style="font-weight:400;">It didn''t take long for the other two to be ticked off.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight:400;">If you didn''t know already, the faculty at IIITD consists of highly qualified doctorates from esteemed universities, with extensive research and teaching experience. Meeting a couple of them on the day of the admission convinced my parents and me that I was going to be the next Einstein. The knowledge and methodology that the teaching staff seemed to possess was flabbergasting. In awe and with slight anxiety on my part, we moved on to the third and the final item - Students.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight:400;">The IIITD community (or the IIITD family, as we like to call ourselves) are an exciting bunch. The enthusiasm and dedication for our goal leave many speechless (left me speechless at the time), and our ability to add an element of fun to the most mundane things is unparalleled. As I came to know, the cultural aspect of the Institute was also on par with some of the most culturally developed colleges, with the efficient organization of cultural events and fests (both technical and artistic). All this was reflected prominently in the few student volunteers that I spoke to, on the same day as my admission. (Yes, we also help out on critical days!)</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight:400;">The checklist was complete. My parents went home happy, I was a little apprehensive but excited all the same.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight:400;">That was a year and a half ago. And not one day since then, has been the same.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight:400;">Some may argue that the deadlines and the strenuous workload are the constants in our life; the back-to-back lectures are exhausting, and that our feet are more acquainted with the floor tiles of the library than the concrete of the basketball court. But not entirely. There is always something new to learn with each assignment, something that pushes us to strive harder and reach our goal. Even with numerous deadlines, you can always hear the strumming of the guitar, coming from the music room, be it day or night, or students strolling leisurely alone or in a group, chatting and laughing throughout the campus.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight:400;">Having completed three (grueling, back-breaking but exhilarating) semesters, I can familiarize myself with different software in about two days (I should know, I''m familiar with about 7). Working closely with the faculty in pursuit of some research aspects, I can also say that coffee proves a much better friend than any other when you have to stay up all night reading. Oh! I also redesigned the institute''s IT Portal and am currently developing a website.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight:400;">At the same time, I can now head the literary society of my institute, be an active member of the editorial board, write for the college newsletter, and be an active part of an initiative that aims at teaching students from underprivileged backgrounds about fundamental problem solving and communication skills.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight:400;">And I''m still alive.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight:400;">My time at IIITD has taught me to participate and explore. To have a strong work ethic and to make an impact wherever I go. To pay attention to the little things. IIITD will teach you how to be a grown-up and how to act like one. But it will also teach you never to let go of the child in you.</span>\n\n<span style="font-weight:400;">Taneea S Agrawaal\n</span><span style="font-weight:400;">B.Tech 2014</span>', 'Growing Up', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '72-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-10 16:09:30', '2019-04-10 10:39:30', '', 72, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/72-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (238, 1, '2019-04-10 16:09:47', '2019-04-10 10:39:47', '<ul>\n <li><strong>By Yash Lamba</strong></li>\n</ul>\nI was 9 years old when I played a witch in a skit competition. I had bagged the role because of my shrilly, high pitched voice and a unique laugh that would have made any witch proud. The rehearsals went just fine, but during the final performance I tripped on a rug and fell on the stage. Hundreds of students broke into laughter. <!--more-->I was very embarrassed, but somehow I managed to get up and finish my part. For the next few months, I was sure that I would never perform again. However, today I see that fall as the defining moment that encouraged me to take up theater as a serious extracurricular activity.\n\nThere is a saying that the world is a huge stage and we all are performers. We don''t know the end, we simply work towards it. I feel that it is true. I spent 5 years learning computer science at IIIT-Delhi. For the first three years, like many of my batch mates I had ambitions of being a researcher or a developer at some tech giant. However, then something happened that, no matter how cliched it may sound, changed my entire life.\n\nIn their quest to create well-rounded individuals and not merely academically sound individuals, IIITD decided to organize a 3-month long theater workshop for the students. Despite having a pretty low turnout, 12 to be exact, the institute lent their support and encouragement to the interested students and went ahead with the workshop. The workshop was supposed to lead to IIITD''s first stage production, ''Life of Galileo’. Since, the number of participants were low, each individual stepped up to play multiple characters.\n\nThe workshop made me fall in love with acting all over again. The rehearsals were so much fun especially volunteering to step-in for female co-actors in their absence. The over the top sessions were a laugh-riot. Sometimes, we laughed at jokes and at other times we laughed at each other. Intertwined with all the fun, was so much of learning that I got a tremendous confidence boost. Consequently, the artistic part of me started thinking about pursuing acting as a career.\n\nThereafter, I did a diploma in acting from Barry John Acting Studio. This 4 month course made me realize that the only way a person can become a good actor is by practice. Practice is the key to become a better actor, just like it is the key to become better at everything we do. The 4 months allowed me to identify my strengths as an actor and surprisingly also as a director.\n\nDuring my school days, I had directed quite a few plays and skits, but never had I given a thought to film-making as a career. Now, I am giving it a serious consideration and would like to become an actor-director in the future. Since, completing the course I have been actively working on honing my skills and craft through practice. For me, it is the start of a long and hard journey. But as the saying goes no pain, no gain.\n\nI seriously feel that we get only one life and hence, we should live the way we want to live. Every individual must follow his dream. No matter how small or big, if you have a dream you must follow it. Some of you might think that these are just idealistic words and the repercussions of failing in the process outweigh the pros of succeeding. I would respond to this by saying that do not let that thought hinder you. Agreed, success and failure are not in our hands. But trying is. It is better to try and fail, than simply regret not trying.\n\nTo conclude I would like to share a suggestion that I was given when I began my journey. Never be afraid of failure, but make sure that you act smart and do a reality-check every now-and-then while in pursuit of your goal. If you have been walking in the dark for long and don''t see light at the end of the tunnel, then remember to correct your course. Nevertheless, do not let the fear of failure stop you. 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I am 38 so, 19 years after my schooling, I have been to all across the world IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, McMaster then again went back for the postdoc. So Delhi... Mumbai... Bangalore... so, as I said I am from everywhere.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>What got you into Electricals and Communication Engineering?</strong><br>Well, can I say My JEE rank! That was the only thing. I was from a small town and had very little idea about what to do what not to do. I liked Mathematics, so electrical engineering seems the right choice, I applied and got through, and here I am today.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Do you enjoy doing what you do, or you would like to do something else if you get a chance?</strong><br>I would switch to Biology or civil engineering if given an opportunity. The civil is what I am focusing my current research on right now. Biology is a field is that I really like now. When I was a student, we didn’t have teachers who would tell us what biology really is, sadly, but soon after knowing the field a little more, I am really inclined towards it.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>What is your favorite aspect of ECE?</strong><br>Mathematics, it’s not very difficult, I can handle it yet it explains a lot of things.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>How does it feel to be a faculty, do you always wanted to be into academia or it just happened?</strong><br>Yes, I had some idea that I like teaching. I loved the interactions a teacher get to have with the people... with the students... and it is incredible. The independence and the environment we get is really nice, and where else you get to interact with such a young bunch of kids with fresh ideas.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Any pros and cons of being a professor.</strong><br>More pros than cons. I think the independence what we get is unmatched… I can decide on what I want to work, I can choose when I want to come to the office, and that is the biggest drawback as well because it means you are always in the office and there is no time. Weekends are also working because there is a problem in your mind that keeps popping up. But I will again say that the pros are much much more than the snags.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>How is it been a faculty at IIIT-Delhi? Do you think the environment is very different from IITs or McMasters?</strong><br>I think IIIT-Delhi has been very nice. So again I think the strength of the system is the weakness of the system. The strength of IIIT-Delhi is the openness of the structure, students are encouraged to ask questions. We get a lot of feedback from students in many ways. Sometimes that also becomes the issue of too much of openness. If we compare us to IITs, I think our biggest strength is that we have a whole bunch of young faculties here. We are much more pragmatic than our professors were, they were idealistic. The people who have old school thought may not enjoy that much of openness. But it is good. I really enjoy this atmosphere.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>You have been here for 5 years, so what changes and development have noticed in these years? </strong><br>The infrastructures, of course, the number of students and the streams we have now. So I can see that there are exciting fields of study. There is CSAM which I always aspired to teach. The spectrum of teaching and learning, the research, and faculty coming from different places is the most significant and a very welcome change. We are more than an IT college now.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>How education and engineering have changed for good or for worse since you were a student?</strong><br>It has changed for good, mainly because we are much more applied now. It is much more focused on solving problems. Today’s students are much more hands on then we were, and that change also has some adverse effects. The love for understanding and learning a subject has been replaced by doing something, building something quickly. The focus today is not on the long-term knowledge of the subject. A lot of open sources has come, and the internet has changed things.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>What has been your most cherished memory in IIIT-Delhi? </strong><br>A lot of memories, I think the interaction with the master''s students, discussing ideas and scribbling ideas on the board. Communication with the colleagues here, I made some great friends.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>If you were not into academics what would you have chosen</strong><br>Hopefully in a startup or doing my own start-up.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Any ongoing research work you can introduce us to?</strong><br>I have three streams of work that I am working on currently. First one is on the transportation agenda where we are trying to clear the roads with fewer vehicles, so that is another research and implementation problem we are working on. Second is on applying machine learning on biology, the other is the field of artificial intelligence on source separation. The idea is that if there are many speakers in the room and you want to listen to one person but everyone is shouting at the same time so how can you separate that person’s voice form the rest of the voices. Another feature is that that suppose you are speaking in Tamil or whatever language and I don’t understand that, so we are trying to generate something called speak synthesis where you speak in Tamil and I will hear in Hindi in your voice with your emotions. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>The advice you want to give to the students? </strong><br>Don’t take grades so seriously, enjoy your time, be in present don’t be so practical at such a young age</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Tell us a bit about your family </strong><br> I have a very regular family, parents, a brother, wife, and a daughter. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Do you think your daughter will also join engineering or technology field, or will you encourage her to do so?</strong><br>Unlikely! I can already see that she would like to be something of the designer or an artist, something in a creative field.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>What is your favorite cuisine? </strong><br>My favorite Cuisine is Thai, and lately, I have developed an interest in Udiya cuisine<br> </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>What are your favorite holiday destinations? </strong><br>I don’t go on holiday. I go for a track to the Himalayas for a week to two weeks where I go alone, that is like my recreation trip. The other one is ones every six months me my wife and my daughter go for a road trip. The trip is not about the destination it is more about enjoying the journey and road with my family we just go for a road trip. We have been to Rajasthan, Orissa, Uttarakhand, Himachal, MP, and Maharashtra.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>So you have been in Delhi for quite some time now any favorite places in the city? </strong><br>Restaurants, I love Delhi for its places, the history, and monuments.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Do you play any sport? </strong><br>I play basketball regularly and I play tennis.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Any hobbies? </strong><br>Rock climbing and Delhi has a lot of good nearby places for mountaineering, and there is Aravalli, fantastic rocks, all level and the season of rock climbing is from October until March which I enjoy every year.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Any quote you remember in your low times? </strong><br>It is a very personal quote “its ok you will die anyway”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Favorite book and author</strong><br>I do not have a favorite author because I am not a voracious reader for sure, I read maybe one book a month not more than that; currently, I am reading THE GENE by Siddhartha Mukherjee. And I am totally floored by it. It is a book on the history of biology. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Anything you want to do besides your profession?</strong><br>I wish I talk to students more, I think I am spending a good time doing research with the students, and I want to spend time with students other than that as well about issues not related to studies. Very fewer people get this opportunity of having 1000 young folks with fresh thoughts, and I don’t want to lose this opportunity.<br>I would love to plan a mountaineering trip with the students. 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But now as I have spent more time outside of my native place I think I am from everywhere I have lived. I am 37 so the next 18 years after my schooling, I have been to all across the world IIT-Delhi, IIT Bombay, McMaster then again went back for postdoc. So Delhi Mumbai Bangalore So I don’t know where I am from now.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>What got you into Electricals and Communication Engineering?</strong><br>Well, can I say My JEE rank! That was the only thing; well I was from a very small town I had very little idea about things what to do what not to do. I liked Maths so electrical engineering seems the right choice, I applied and got through, and here I am today.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Do you enjoy doing what you do or you would like to do something else if you get a chance</strong><br>I would switch to Biology or civil engineering. The civil is what I am focusing my current research on right now. Biology is a field is that I really like now, that time we didn’t have teachers who would tell us what biology really is, sadly, but now after knowing the field a little more I am really inclied towards it.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>What is your favorite aspect of ECE</strong><br>Maths, it’s not very difficult I can handle it yet it explains a lot of things.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>How does it feel to be a faculty, do you always wanted to be into academia or it just happened</strong><br>I had some idea that I like teaching. I had some idea that I liked academics and teaching because the interaction you have with the people with the students is incredible. The independence and the environment we get is really nice, and where other you get to interact with such young buch of kids with fresh ideas.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Any pros and cons of being a professor</strong><br>More pros than cons. I think the independence what we get is unmatched… I can decide on what I want to work, I can decide when I want to come to the office and that is the biggest drawback as well because it means you are always in the office and there is no time. Weekends are also working because there is a problem in your mind that keeps popping up. But I will again say that the pros are much much more than the snags</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>How is it been being a faculty at IIIT-Delhi? Do you think the environment is very different from IITs or McMasters?</strong><br>I think IIIT-Delhi has been very nice. So again I think the strength of the system is the weakness of the system. So the strength is the openness of the structure, students are encouraged to ask questions. We get a lot of feedback from students in many ways. So sometimes that also becomes the issue of too much of openness. So if we compare us to IITs, I think our biggest strength is that we have a whole bunch of young faculties here. We are much more pragmatic than our professors were, they were idealistic. The people who have old school thought may not enjoy that much of openness. But it is good I really enjoy this atmosphere.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>You have been here for 4 years so what changes and development have noticed in these years? </strong><br>The infrastructures, of course, the number of students and the streams we have now. So I can see that there are very interesting fields of study. There is CSAM which I always aspired to teach. The spectrum of teaching and learning, the research, and faculty coming from different places is the biggest change and a very welcome change. We are more than an IT college now.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>How education and engineering have changed for good or for bad since you were a student?</strong><br>It has changed for good, mainly because we are much more applied now. It is much more focused on solving problems. Today’s students are much more hands on then we were and that change also has some negative effect that loves for understanding and learning a subject has been replaced by doing something, building something quickly. The focus today is not on a long-term understanding of the subject. A lot of open sources has come and the internet has changed things.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>What has been your most cherished memory in IIIT-Delhi? </strong><br>A lot of memories, I think the interaction with the master''s students, discussing ideas and scribbling ideas on the board. Interaction with the colleagues here, I made some great friends.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>If you were not into academics what would you have chosen</strong><br>Hopefully in a startup or doing my own start-up.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Any ongoing research work you can introduce us to?</strong><br>I have three streams of work that I am working on currently. One is on applying machine learning on biology, the other is the field of artificial intelligence on source separation. The idea is that if there are many speakers in the room and you want to listen to one person but everyone is shouting at the same time so how can you separate that person’s voice form the rest of the voices. Another feature is that that suppose you are speaking in Tamil or whatever language and I don’t understand that, so we are trying to generate something called speak synthesis where you speak in Tamil and I will hear in Hindi in your voice with your emotions. 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I can already see that she would like to be something of the designer or an artist, something in a creative field.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>What is your favorite cuisine? </strong><br>My favorite Cuisine is thy, and lately, I have developed an interest in Udiya cuisine</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>What are your favorite holiday destinations? </strong><br>I don’t holiday I go for a track to the Himalayas for a week to two weeks where I go alone, that is like my recreation trip. The other one is ones in every six months me my wife and my daughter go for a road trip. There is no place we just go for a road trip. We have been to Rajasthan, Orissa, Uttarakhand, Himachal, MP, and Maharashtra.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>So you have been in Delhi for quite some time now any favorite places in the city? </strong><br>Restaurants, I love Delhi for its places, the history, and monuments.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Do you play any sport? </strong><br>I play basketball regularly and I play tennis.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Any hobbies? </strong><br>Rock climbing and Delhi has a lot of good nearby places for mountaineering and there is Aravalli, fantastic rocks, all level and this is the season or rock climbing from October until March.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Any quote you remember in your low times? </strong><br>It is a very personal quote “its ok you will die anyway”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Favorite book and author</strong><br>I do not have a favorite author because I am not a voracious reader for sure, I read maybe one book a month not more than that, currently, I am reading THE GENE by Siddhartha Mukherjee. 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It would be a great trip I am sure.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Academician by profession, Traveler at heart', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '239-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-10 16:21:56', '2019-04-10 10:51:56', '', 239, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/239-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (242, 1, '2019-04-10 16:26:03', '2019-04-10 10:56:03', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The IIIT-Delhi Library and Information Centre\nhas seen many new changes in recent months and continues to thrive. A recent\naddition is the Library Occupancy Software, available on the Library website of the Institute. A\nhighly ingenious concept and the first of its kind in any academic and research\ninstitute in India, it displays a live\nchart of how many students are sitting in each area of the library block, based\non the WiFi connectivity through the student mobile phone and latop. The users\ncan use the application to make an informed decision about whether they would\nfind a place in the Library. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>While an initial version of the software displayed data textually, the recent version has many new improvements. The web application shows occupancy information on the floor map of the entire Library building. Not only that, but it also categorises areas as green, yellow, or red zones, based on availability. Green zones indicate empty spaces, yellow for partially occupied and red to indicate that space is fully unavailable. This software was created in-house, as a collaborative project between a student, faculty, Librarian and IT division - Aditya Lakra (2013 batch alumnus), Rajendra Singh (Librarian), Danish Parvez (IT dept.), and Ankit Agarwal (IT dept.) under the guidance of Prof. Vinayak Naik (Associate Professor, CSE).</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":233} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/libraryoccupancydata-1024x640.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-233"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In the next version, the library plans to add a\ndatabase to the application so it can retrieve and analyse the statistics of\nfootfall in the library. This will help generate reports and observe patterns\nof how many students visit which area, and thus which area is the most\nproductive for students. It will definitely help in the strategic planning of\nthe Library and Information Center of the Institute.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A more observable change to the Library Block is 2<sup>nd</sup>\nand 3<sup>rd</sup> floor which has redesigned and different types of new\nlearning spaces crated to improve the users experience in the Library. These\nspace are Individual study carrels, quiet study, group study, casual study, and\nworkshop/training rooms. These rooms have been outfitted with new floor carpets\nand soft seating like bean bags, where students can study uninterrupted 24/7.\nThe rooms have bigger desks and automatic door closers, making them highly\nefficient and comfortable spaces. The Library always looks for the suggestions\nand inputs from the users to make it more useful and further improvement.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Live Occupancy Application: The New and Improved Library and Information Center', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '232-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-10 16:26:03', '2019-04-10 10:56:03', '', 232, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/232-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (243, 1, '2019-04-10 16:52:26', '2019-04-10 11:22:26', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Let us start with a bit about you first like where you are originally from?</strong><br>I am basically from Raipur Chhattisgarh my schooling has been in Chhattisgarh. But now as I have spent more time outside of my native place I think I am from everywhere I have lived. I am 37 so the next 18 years after my schooling, I have been to all across the world IIT-Delhi, IIT Bombay, McMaster then again went back for postdoc. 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I think the independence what we get is unmatched… I can decide on what I want to work, I can choose when I want to come to the office, and that is the biggest drawback as well because it means you are always in the office and there is no time. Weekends are also working because there is a problem in your mind that keeps popping up. But I will again say that the pros are much much more than the snags.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>How is it been a faculty at IIIT-Delhi? Do you think the environment is very different from IITs or McMasters?</strong><br>I think IIIT-Delhi has been very nice. So again I think the strength of the system is the weakness of the system. The strength of IIIT-Delhi is the openness of the structure, students are encouraged to ask questions. We get a lot of feedback from students in many ways. Sometimes that also becomes the issue of too much of openness. If we compare us to IITs, I think our biggest strength is that we have a whole bunch of young faculties here. We are much more pragmatic than our professors were, they were idealistic. The people who have old school thought may not enjoy that much of openness. But it is good. I really enjoy this atmosphere.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>You have been here for 5 years, so what changes and development have noticed in these years? </strong><br>The infrastructures, of course, the number of students and the streams we have now. So I can see that there are exciting fields of study. There is CSAM which I always aspired to teach. The spectrum of teaching and learning, the research, and faculty coming from different places is the most significant and a very welcome change. We are more than an IT college now.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>How education and engineering have changed for good or for worse since you were a student?</strong><br>It has changed for good, mainly because we are much more applied now. It is much more focused on solving problems. Today’s students are much more hands on then we were, and that change also has some adverse effects. The love for understanding and learning a subject has been replaced by doing something, building something quickly. The focus today is not on the long-term knowledge of the subject. A lot of open sources has come, and the internet has changed things.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>What has been your most cherished memory in IIIT-Delhi? </strong><br>A lot of memories, I think the interaction with the master''s students, discussing ideas and scribbling ideas on the board. Communication with the colleagues here, I made some great friends.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>If you were not into academics what would you have chosen</strong><br>Hopefully in a startup or doing my own start-up.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Any ongoing research work you can introduce us to?</strong><br>I have three streams of work that I am working on currently. First one is on the transportation agenda where we are trying to clear the roads with fewer vehicles, so that is another research and implementation problem we are working on. Second is on applying machine learning on biology, the other is the field of artificial intelligence on source separation. The idea is that if there are many speakers in the room and you want to listen to one person but everyone is shouting at the same time so how can you separate that person’s voice form the rest of the voices. Another feature is that that suppose you are speaking in Tamil or whatever language and I don’t understand that, so we are trying to generate something called speak synthesis where you speak in Tamil and I will hear in Hindi in your voice with your emotions. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>The advice you want to give to the students? </strong><br>Don’t take grades so seriously, enjoy your time, be in present don’t be so practical at such a young age</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Tell us a bit about your family </strong><br> I have a very regular family, parents, a brother, wife, and a daughter. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Do you think your daughter will also join engineering or technology field, or will you encourage her to do so?</strong><br>Unlikely! I can already see that she would like to be something of the designer or an artist, something in a creative field.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>What is your favorite cuisine? </strong><br>My favorite Cuisine is Thai, and lately, I have developed an interest in Udiya cuisine<br> </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>What are your favorite holiday destinations? </strong><br>I don’t go on holiday. I go for a track to the Himalayas for a week to two weeks where I go alone, that is like my recreation trip. The other one is ones every six months me my wife and my daughter go for a road trip. The trip is not about the destination it is more about enjoying the journey and road with my family we just go for a road trip. We have been to Rajasthan, Orissa, Uttarakhand, Himachal, MP, and Maharashtra.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>So you have been in Delhi for quite some time now any favorite places in the city? </strong><br>Restaurants, I love Delhi for its places, the history, and monuments.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Do you play any sport? </strong><br>I play basketball regularly and I play tennis.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Any hobbies? </strong><br>Rock climbing and Delhi has a lot of good nearby places for mountaineering, and there is Aravalli, fantastic rocks, all level and the season of rock climbing is from October until March which I enjoy every year.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Any quote you remember in your low times? </strong><br>It is a very personal quote “its ok you will die anyway”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Favorite book and author</strong><br>I do not have a favorite author because I am not a voracious reader for sure, I read maybe one book a month not more than that; currently, I am reading THE GENE by Siddhartha Mukherjee. And I am totally floored by it. It is a book on the history of biology. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Anything you want to do besides your profession?</strong><br>I wish I talk to students more, I think I am spending a good time doing research with the students, and I want to spend time with students other than that as well about issues not related to studies. Very fewer people get this opportunity of having 1000 young folks with fresh thoughts, and I don’t want to lose this opportunity.<br>I would love to plan a mountaineering trip with the students. It would be a great trip I am sure.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Academician by profession, Traveler at heart - Dr. Pravesh Biyani', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '239-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-04-23 13:03:57', '2019-04-23 07:33:57', '', 239, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/239-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0); INSERT INTO `wp_posts` (`ID`, `post_author`, `post_date`, `post_date_gmt`, `post_content`, `post_title`, `post_excerpt`, `post_status`, `comment_status`, `ping_status`, `post_password`, `post_name`, `to_ping`, `pinged`, `post_modified`, `post_modified_gmt`, `post_content_filtered`, `post_parent`, `guid`, `menu_order`, `post_type`, `post_mime_type`, `comment_count`) VALUES (258, 1, '2019-05-21 17:18:30', '2019-05-21 11:48:30', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi has clearly made a name for itself within the education community. Since its inception in 2008, the institute has achieved numerous milestones, with students making the institute proud in higher studies, research and placements. In all this academic success, the extra curriculars often go unnoticed. However, students of IIIT- Delhi are extremely well rounded, and work hard to build a wholesome, fulfilling life, with a perfect balance of work and play. <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Some of our students have worked hard and performed exceedingly well at sports, having won national level accolades. Let us hear from them<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong><em>Aneesha Lakra(Batch of 2022)- Speed Skating</em></strong><br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I started speed skating when I was eight years old but was focussed on it only for about a year. My coach, who had been going for World Championships at that time had recently learnt a few moves of another form of skating - Slalom skating; a form that had yet to be introduced in India. One evening during our practice, he called me inside the rink and asked me to try on his skates and taught me a few steps. Soon we started watching videos on Youtube and learning new moves. I helped him as he coached a few other students, just to popularise the sport. After learning most of the low-grade steps we contacted the Roller Sports Federation, asking them to introduce Slalom in the federation nationals. We showcased demos for the federation authorities and even for fellow skaters during nationals in Chandigarh. Not a long time later, Slalom was introduced as a sport in the federation nationals. <br> It has been a pleasure watching a sport so close to my heart grow to such heights. Even though I have been a gold medalist in Speed Skating and it was the very first sport I followed, Slalom holds a special place in my heart.<br>There is no feeling greater than the pride felt in representing my country in the sport I love. Back in 2014, I participated in the Asian Games, and I hope to do it again in the World Championship this year in Barcelona. <br>Before coming to IIIT-Delhi, I had lost all hope of continuing skating. With all the workload of college, I couldn''t have possibly imagined competing again. However, since I had a relatively free winter last semester, I went and spoke to Ravi sir regarding my nationals, and he had been nothing but supportive. In my short period at IIIT- Delhi, I have come to realize that the college is in fact very supportive of the students'' co-curricular activities, and wants nothing but the best for the students in every aspect of life.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong><em>Shaan Chopra(Batch of 2019)- Basketball and Discus Throw</em></strong><br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I have participated at the national level in both basketball and discus throw nationals. During my college years, I participated in discus throw junior nationals (girls under-20 category) in Coimbatore in 2016. This was post the 73rd Delhi State Athletics Championships wherein I won the gold medal in the under-20 girls category. Earlier that year, I also stood 2nd at the 2nd Delhi State Athletics Meet in discus throw. I train for discus throw at Thyagraj stadium with my coach, Mr. Santok Singh Rai, since my school days. While it often becomes difficult to balance training with college, I still make the effort be regular. <br><br>Besides at state (including YMCA games) and national level events, I have represented IIIT-Delhi in numerous sports fests such as Spardha (IIT-BHU), Sangram (IIT-Roorkee), Udghosh (IIT-Kanpur), Sportech (IIT-Delhi), Bharat Ram sports tournament (LSR), Aahvaan (DTU), and Triquetra (IIITD-NSIT-DTU). I have won a total of 15 medals (14 gold + 1 silver) in discus throw alone in my 4 years at the institute.<br><br> At IIIT-Delhi, I got an opportunity to participate in multiple sporting events which I could not have possibly done otherwise. The institute supported my ventures from the very beginning and I was encouraged to participate in as many events as I wanted. They even bore the finance of events to which the college wasn''t sending a "contingent" but I had participated in and won at. A couple of professors were extremely accommodating and allowed me to take re-quizzes and labs when I missed them while attending these events. They regularly lauded my achievements which in turn motivated me further. IIIT-Delhi gave me the motivation and support needed to take my achievements in sports a step forward and I''m extremely grateful for that. <br> </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong><em>Gunkirat Kaur(Batch of 2019)- Table Tennis</em></strong><br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I started playing table tennis when I was in class 5. I used to play for a couple of hours everyday of the week.I started playing in Moradabad, which is a small city in Uttar Pradesh. There were no girls in my age group, and so I qualified for the state level quite easily.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> I first played state level in 6th grade. After practicing hard for two years I was UP state rank. This was the first time I went for National and represented UP state. In my first nationals, I did not qualify for the quarters. My family then shifted to Ambala and there I represented Haryana at the national level in my 10th grade, and this time I reached quarterfinals.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I have tried to pursue sports actively even in college and while it becomes extremely difficult at times to manage that with the academic stress of college, I feel I have been lucky enough to find the perfect balance.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong><em>Syesha Girdher(Batch of 2019)-</em></strong><br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>My introduction to sports was quite by accident. As a young girl of 5th standard, I had a lot of free time on my hands and my mother was quite insistent on me playing a sport. I started playing table tennis and had 3-hour long sessions, 6 days a week. I started by playing at the district level, followed by state, and then national. In my 8th standard, I lost in the quarterfinals of the north zone nationals. In 2008, I ranked 58 in the national ranking for women. Due to certain family restrictions, I couldn’t play in any zone outside Delhi, however, my entire journey in sports was extremely enriching and taught me a lot.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I have had the pleasure to represent the institute in various inter-college fests such as those at IIT BHU, Triquetra, IIM Indore, where I have won the gold medal multiple times. I have also won silver medals in various fests at IIT Delhi, IIT Roorkee, and IIT Kanpur. <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'National Level Sports Achievements', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'national-level-sports-achievements', '', '', '2020-01-03 10:37:44', '2020-01-03 05:07:44', '', 0, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?p=258', 0, 'post', '', 0), (259, 1, '2019-05-21 17:18:23', '2019-05-21 11:48:23', '', 'image (12)', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', 'image-12', '', '', '2019-05-21 17:18:23', '2019-05-21 11:48:23', '', 258, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/image-12.png', 0, 'attachment', 'image/png', 0), (260, 1, '2019-05-21 17:18:30', '2019-05-21 11:48:30', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi has clearly made a name for itself within the education community. Since its inception in 2008, the institute has achieved numerous milestones, with students making the institute proud in higher studies, research and placements. In all this academic success, the extra curriculars often go unnoticed. However, students of IIIT- Delhi are extremely well rounded, and work hard to build a wholesome, fulfilling life, with a perfect balance of work and play. <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Some of our students have worked hard and performed exceedingly well at sports, having won national level accolades. Let us hear from them<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong><em>Aneesha Lakra(Batch of 2022)- Speed Skating</em></strong><br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I started speed skating when I was eight years old but was focussed on it only for about a year. My coach, who had been going for World Championships at that time had recently learnt a few moves of another form of skating - Slalom skating; a form that had yet to be introduced in India. One evening during our practice, he called me inside the rink and asked me to try on his skates and taught me a few steps. Soon we started watching videos on Youtube and learning new moves. I helped him as he coached a few other students, just to popularise the sport. After learning most of the low-grade steps we contacted the Roller Sports Federation, asking them to introduce Slalom in the federation nationals. We showcased demos for the federation authorities and even for fellow skaters during nationals in Chandigarh. Not a long time later, Slalom was introduced as a sport in the federation nationals. <br> It has been a pleasure watching a sport so close to my heart grow to such heights. Even though I have been a gold medalist in Speed Skating and it was the very first sport I followed, Slalom holds a special place in my heart.<br>There is no feeling greater than the pride felt in representing my country in the sport I love. Back in 2014, I participated in the Asian Games, and I hope to do it again in the World Championship this year in Barcelona. <br>Before coming to IIIT-Delhi, I had lost all hope of continuing skating. With all the workload of college, I couldn''t have possibly imagined competing again. However, since I had a relatively free winter last semester, I went and spoke to Ravi sir regarding my nationals, and he had been nothing but supportive. In my short period at IIIT- Delhi, I have come to realize that the college is in fact very supportive of the students'' co-curricular activities, and wants nothing but the best for the students in every aspect of life.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong><em>Shaan Chopra(Batch of 2019)- Basketball and Discus Throw</em></strong><br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I have participated at the national level in both basketball and discus throw nationals. During my college years, I participated in discus throw junior nationals (girls under-20 category) in Coimbatore in 2016. This was post the 73rd Delhi State Athletics Championships wherein I won the gold medal in the under-20 girls category. Earlier that year, I also stood 2nd at the 2nd Delhi State Athletics Meet in discus throw. I train for discus throw at Thyagraj stadium with my coach, Mr. Santok Singh Rai, since my school days. While it often becomes difficult to balance training with college, I still make the effort be regular. <br><br>Besides at state (including YMCA games) and national level events, I have represented IIIT-Delhi in numerous sports fests such as Spardha (IIT-BHU), Sangram (IIT-Roorkee), Udghosh (IIT-Kanpur), Sportech (IIT-Delhi), Bharat Ram sports tournament (LSR), Aahvaan (DTU), and Triquetra (IIITD-NSIT-DTU). I have won a total of 15 medals (14 gold + 1 silver) in discus throw alone in my 4 years at the institute.<br><br> At IIIT-Delhi, I got an opportunity to participate in multiple sporting events which I could not have possibly done otherwise. The institute supported my ventures from the very beginning and I was encouraged to participate in as many events as I wanted. They even bore the finance of events to which the college wasn''t sending a "contingent" but I had participated in and won at. A couple of professors were extremely accommodating and allowed me to take re-quizzes and labs when I missed them while attending these events. They regularly lauded my achievements which in turn motivated me further. IIIT-Delhi gave me the motivation and support needed to take my achievements in sports a step forward and I''m extremely grateful for that. <br> </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong><em>Gunkirat Kaur(Batch of 2019)- Table Tennis</em></strong><br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I started playing table tennis when I was in class 5. I used to play for a couple of hours everyday of the week.I started playing in Moradabad, which is a small city in Uttar Pradesh. There were no girls in my age group, and so I qualified for the state level quite easily.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> I first played state level in 6th grade. After practicing hard for two years I was UP state rank. This was the first time I went for National and represented UP state. In my first nationals, I did not qualify for the quarters. My family then shifted to Ambala and there I represented Haryana at the national level in my 10th grade, and this time I reached quarterfinals.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I have tried to pursue sports actively even in college and while it becomes extremely difficult at times to manage that with the academic stress of college, I feel I have been lucky enough to find the perfect balance.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong><em>Syesha Girdher(Batch of 2019)-</em></strong><br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>My introduction to sports was quite by accident. As a young girl of 5th standard, I had a lot of free time on my hands and my mother was quite insistent on me playing a sport. I started playing table tennis and had 3-hour long sessions, 6 days a week. I started by playing at the district level, followed by state, and then national. In my 8th standard, I lost in the quarterfinals of the north zone nationals. In 2008, I ranked 58 in the national ranking for women. Due to certain family restrictions, I couldn’t play in any zone outside Delhi, however, my entire journey in sports was extremely enriching and taught me a lot.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I have had the pleasure to represent the institute in various inter-college fests such as those at IIT BHU, Triquetra, IIM Indore, where I have won the gold medal multiple times. I have also won silver medals in various fests at IIT Delhi, IIT Roorkee, and IIT Kanpur. <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'National Level Sports Achievements', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '258-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-05-21 17:18:30', '2019-05-21 11:48:30', '', 258, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/258-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (262, 1, '2019-06-21 11:59:45', '2019-06-21 06:29:45', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The IIIT-Delhi Library and Information Centre\nhas seen many new changes in recent months and continues to thrive. A recent\naddition is the Library Occupancy Software, available on the Library website of the Institute. A\nhighly ingenious concept and the first of its kind in any academic and research\ninstitute in India, it displays a live\nchart of how many students are sitting in each area of the library block, based\non the WiFi connectivity through the student mobile phone and latop. The users\ncan use the application to make an informed decision about whether they would\nfind a place in the Library. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>While an initial version of the software displayed data textually, the recent version has many new improvements. The web application shows occupancy information on the floor map of the entire Library building. Not only that, but it also categorises areas as green, yellow, or red zones, based on availability. Green zones indicate empty spaces, yellow for partially occupied and red to indicate that space is fully unavailable. This software was created in-house, as a collaborative project between a student, faculty, Librarian and IT division - Aditya Lakra (2013 batch alumnus), Rajendra Singh (Librarian), Danish Parvez (IT dept.), and Ankit Agarwal (Web Manager) under the guidance of Prof. Vinayak Naik (Associate Professor, CSE).</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":233} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/libraryoccupancydata-1024x640.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-233"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In the next version, the library plans to add a\ndatabase to the application so it can retrieve and analyse the statistics of\nfootfall in the library. This will help generate reports and observe patterns\nof how many students visit which area, and thus which area is the most\nproductive for students. It will definitely help in the strategic planning of\nthe Library and Information Center of the Institute.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A more observable change to the Library Block is 2<sup>nd</sup>\nand 3<sup>rd</sup> floor which has redesigned and different types of new\nlearning spaces crated to improve the users experience in the Library. These\nspace are Individual study carrels, quiet study, group study, casual study, and\nworkshop/training rooms. These rooms have been outfitted with new floor carpets\nand soft seating like bean bags, where students can study uninterrupted 24/7.\nThe rooms have bigger desks and automatic door closers, making them highly\nefficient and comfortable spaces. 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The AUVSI SUAS Competition is designed to foster interest in Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), stimulate interest in UAS technologies and careers, and to engage students in a challenging UAS mission. The competition requires students to design, integrate, report on, and demonstrate a UAS capable of autonomous flight and navigation, remote sensing via onboard payload sensors, and execution of a specific set of tasks. The competition has been held annually since 2002. It has been sponsored by companies like Google, Mathworks, and Boeing. The competition is held at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station (NAS) Webster Field in St. Mary’s County, Maryland. This is the site of the UAS Test & Evaluation Directorate. The competition focuses on Unmanned Aerial Systems(UAS) performing an autonomous mission</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The team started in 2015 under a research project with an aim to build an intelligent UAV platform with capabilities such as autonomous flying, navigation, and landing, as well as capabilities to perform complex tasks such as automatic airdrop, detecting and localizing targets of interest, reaching a specified position or target, etc. UAVs with these capabilities can serve a plethora of applications. We have participated in this competition for the last 4 years.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Other than this competition, we work on many ongoing research projects related to UAVs and their application.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>The Competition Rush</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The competition has 3 major graded components: a technical journal paper that describes the systems engineering approach, Flight Readiness Review (FRR) where teams decide their readiness and testings, and a mission demonstration in the Naval Air Base where the team is evaluated on their performance. The mission includes reaching waypoints, avoiding obstacles, dropping a bottle and locating and detecting objects and all done by an aerial vehicle <strong>autonomously</strong>.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We flew on number 8 on day 1 of the competition.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We took 28 minutes to complete the whole mission and covered around 15km distance in total at a speed of 13 m/s. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We successfully avoided all the obstacles and captured all the waypoint with an accuracy of 99.5 %. Our air delivery was highly accurate with the bottle falling at a distance of only 9 inches from the center when the maximum allowed distance was 75 ft but since our delivery payload burst out after reaching the ground we got no points here.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We were able to detect 3 out of 5 objects lying randomly on the field however due to some technical problem, we could successfully submit only one of them.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>At the end of our flight, all the judges praised the team’s professionalism and teamwork. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Our drone -</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We used a hexacopter, capable of lifting up to 11 kgs keeping in mind the mission requirements of flying around 30 mins. We used 22.2V 38000mah batteries to power our drone that can give up to 40 minutes flight.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>2019 is the fourth year of participation for the team in this competition. Last year our team secured an overall rank 33 in the competition. This year we were able to improve our results and secured 5th rank in onsite mission and 6th rank overall, beating universities like Harvard, Cornell for the very first time.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Our performance amongst Indian teams:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>From India, following team applied this year,</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>DTU</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>SRM</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>VIT</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Nirma University</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>NMIMS</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Fr. 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A total of 75 teams participated in the competition. 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The Competitions </strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Student Unmanned Aerial Systems (AUVSI SUAS) is an annual competition organized by the AUVSI Seafarer Chapter. The AUVSI SUAS Competition is designed to foster interest in Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), stimulate interest in UAS technologies and careers, and to engage students in a challenging UAS mission. The competition requires students to design, integrate, report on, and demonstrate a UAS capable of autonomous flight and navigation, remote sensing via onboard payload sensors, and execution of a specific set of tasks. The competition has been held annually since 2002. It has been sponsored by companies like Google, Mathworks, and Boeing. The competition is held at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station (NAS) Webster Field in St. Mary’s County, Maryland. This is the site of the UAS Test & Evaluation Directorate. The competition focuses on Unmanned Aerial Systems(UAS) performing an autonomous mission</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The team started in 2015 under a research project with an aim to build an intelligent UAV platform with capabilities such as autonomous flying, navigation, and landing, as well as capabilities to perform complex tasks such as automatic airdrop, detecting and localizing targets of interest, reaching a specified position or target, etc. UAVs with these capabilities can serve a plethora of applications. We have participated in this competition for the last 4 years.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Other than this competition, we work on many ongoing research projects related to UAVs and their application.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>The Competition Rush</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The competition has 3 major graded components: a technical journal paper that describes the systems engineering approach, Flight Readiness Review (FRR) where teams decide their readiness and testings, and a mission demonstration in the Naval Air Base where the team is evaluated on their performance. The mission includes reaching waypoints, avoiding obstacles, dropping a bottle and locating and detecting objects and all done by an aerial vehicle <strong>autonomously</strong>.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We flew on number 8 on day 1 of the competition.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We took 28 minutes to complete the whole mission and covered around 15km distance in total at a speed of 13 m/s. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We successfully avoided all the obstacles and captured all the waypoint with an accuracy of 99.5 %. Our air delivery was highly accurate with the bottle falling at a distance of only 9 inches from the center when the maximum allowed distance was 75 ft but since our delivery payload burst out after reaching the ground we got no points here.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We were able to detect 3 out of 5 objects lying randomly on the field however due to some technical problem, we could successfully submit only one of them.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>At the end of our flight, all the judges praised the team’s professionalism and teamwork. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Our drone -</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We used a hexacopter, capable of lifting up to 11 kgs keeping in mind the mission requirements of flying around 30 mins. We used 22.2V 38000mah batteries to power our drone that can give up to 40 minutes flight.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>2019 is the fourth year of participation for the team in this competition. Last year our team secured an overall rank 33 in the competition. This year we were able to improve our results and secured 5th rank in onsite mission and 6th rank overall, beating universities like Harvard, Cornell for the very first time.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Our performance amongst Indian teams:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>From India, following team applied this year,</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>DTU</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>SRM</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>VIT</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Nirma University</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>NMIMS</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues College of Engineering<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We were the best among all the Indian teams that participated this year.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>BITS Pilani, IIT Bombay also participated until last year but they didn''t participate this year.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":270} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/UAV19-e1562663690136-1024x768.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-270"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Preparations</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The team remained highly motivated keeping the team spirit intact throughout the year and rigorous hard work to improve last year’s mistakes to achieve a perfect mission.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Preparations included frequent team meetings and planning. We used to work on weekends during the semester and our complete summer break before the competition. During the entire month of May 19’, we used to start from the morning at 9 and would do our testing up to 7 in the evening and sometimes even more. On the days The team wasn''t able to meet, team calls were arranged on hangouts which lasted a couple of hours. We also maintained logs and checklists of work. The preparation included unit testing of all the elements and mock full tests so that we can get an idea that it can work well in the mission demonstration. 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A total of 75 teams participated in the competition. 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to say about their experience</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>About The Competitions </strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Student Unmanned Aerial Systems (AUVSI SUAS) is an annual competition organized by the AUVSI Seafarer Chapter. The AUVSI SUAS Competition is designed to foster interest in Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), stimulate interest in UAS technologies and careers, and to engage students in a challenging UAS mission. The competition requires students to design, integrate, report on, and demonstrate a UAS capable of autonomous flight and navigation, remote sensing via onboard payload sensors, and execution of a specific set of tasks. The competition has been held annually since 2002. It has been sponsored by companies like Google, Mathworks, and Boeing. The competition is held at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station (NAS) Webster Field in St. Mary’s County, Maryland. This is the site of the UAS Test & Evaluation Directorate. The competition focuses on Unmanned Aerial Systems(UAS) performing an autonomous mission</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The team started in 2015 under a research project with an aim to build an intelligent UAV platform with capabilities such as autonomous flying, navigation, and landing, as well as capabilities to perform complex tasks such as automatic airdrop, detecting and localizing targets of interest, reaching a specified position or target, etc. UAVs with these capabilities can serve a plethora of applications. We have participated in this competition for the last 4 years.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Other than this competition, we work on many ongoing research projects related to UAVs and their application.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>The Competition Rush</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The competition has 3 major graded components: a technical journal paper that describes the systems engineering approach, Flight Readiness Review (FRR) where teams decide their readiness and testings, and a mission demonstration in the Naval Air Base where the team is evaluated on their performance. The mission includes reaching waypoints, avoiding obstacles, dropping a bottle and locating and detecting objects and all done by an aerial vehicle <strong>autonomously</strong>.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We flew on number 8 on day 1 of the competition.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We took 28 minutes to complete the whole mission and covered around 15km distance in total at a speed of 13 m/s. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We successfully avoided all the obstacles and captured all the waypoint with an accuracy of 99.5 %. Our air delivery was highly accurate with the bottle falling at a distance of only 9 inches from the center when the maximum allowed distance was 75 ft but since our delivery payload burst out after reaching the ground we got no points here.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We were able to detect 3 out of 5 objects lying randomly on the field however due to some technical problem, we could successfully submit only one of them.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>At the end of our flight, all the judges praised the team’s professionalism and teamwork. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Our drone -</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We used a hexacopter, capable of lifting up to 11 kgs keeping in mind the mission requirements of flying around 30 mins. We used 22.2V 38000mah batteries to power our drone that can give up to 40 minutes flight.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>2019 is the fourth year of participation for the team in this competition. Last year our team secured an overall rank 33 in the competition. This year we were able to improve our results and secured 5th rank in onsite mission and 6th rank overall, beating universities like Harvard, Cornell for the very first time.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Our performance amongst Indian teams:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>From India, following team applied this year,</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>DTU</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>SRM</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>VIT</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Nirma University</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>NMIMS</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues College of Engineering<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We were the best among all the Indian teams that participated this year.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>BITS Pilani, IIT Bombay also participated until last year but they didn''t participate this year.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":270} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/UAV19-e1562663690136-1024x768.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-270"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Preparations</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The team remained highly motivated keeping the team spirit intact throughout the year and rigorous hard work to improve last year’s mistakes to achieve a perfect mission.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Preparations included frequent team meetings and planning. We used to work on weekends during the semester and our complete summer break before the competition. During the entire month of May 19’, we used to start from the morning at 9 and would do our testing up to 7 in the evening and sometimes even more. On the days The team wasn''t able to meet, team calls were arranged on hangouts which lasted a couple of hours. We also maintained logs and checklists of work. The preparation included unit testing of all the elements and mock full tests so that we can get an idea that it can work well in the mission demonstration. 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A total of 75 teams participated in the competition. 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to say about their experience</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>About The Competitions </strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Student Unmanned Aerial Systems (AUVSI SUAS) is an annual competition organized by the AUVSI Seafarer Chapter. The AUVSI SUAS Competition is designed to foster interest in Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), stimulate interest in UAS technologies and careers, and to engage students in a challenging UAS mission. The competition requires students to design, integrate, report on, and demonstrate a UAS capable of autonomous flight and navigation, remote sensing via onboard payload sensors, and execution of a specific set of tasks. The competition has been held annually since 2002. It has been sponsored by companies like Google, Mathworks, and Boeing. The competition is held at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station (NAS) Webster Field in St. Mary’s County, Maryland. This is the site of the UAS Test & Evaluation Directorate. The competition focuses on Unmanned Aerial Systems(UAS) performing an autonomous mission</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The team started in 2015 under a research project with an aim to build an intelligent UAV platform with capabilities such as autonomous flying, navigation, and landing, as well as capabilities to perform complex tasks such as automatic airdrop, detecting and localizing targets of interest, reaching a specified position or target, etc. UAVs with these capabilities can serve a plethora of applications. We have participated in this competition for the last 4 years.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Other than this competition, we work on many ongoing research projects related to UAVs and their application.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>The Competition Rush</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The competition has 3 major graded components: a technical journal paper that describes the systems engineering approach, Flight Readiness Review (FRR) where teams decide their readiness and testings, and a mission demonstration in the Naval Air Base where the team is evaluated on their performance. The mission includes reaching waypoints, avoiding obstacles, dropping a bottle and locating and detecting objects and all done by an aerial vehicle <strong>autonomously</strong>.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We flew on number 8 on day 1 of the competition.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We took 28 minutes to complete the whole mission and covered around 15km distance in total at a speed of 13 m/s. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We successfully avoided all the obstacles and captured all the waypoint with an accuracy of 99.5 %. Our air delivery was highly accurate with the bottle falling at a distance of only 9 inches from the center when the maximum allowed distance was 75 ft but since our delivery payload burst out after reaching the ground we got no points here.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We were able to detect 3 out of 5 objects lying randomly on the field however due to some technical problem, we could successfully submit only one of them.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>At the end of our flight, all the judges praised the team’s professionalism and teamwork. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Our drone -</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We used a hexacopter, capable of lifting up to 11 kgs keeping in mind the mission requirements of flying around 30 mins. We used 22.2V 38000mah batteries to power our drone that can give up to 40 minutes flight.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>2019 is the fourth year of participation for the team in this competition. Last year our team secured an overall rank 33 in the competition. This year we were able to improve our results and secured 5th rank in onsite mission and 6th rank overall, beating universities like Harvard, Cornell for the very first time.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Our performance amongst Indian teams:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>From India, following team applied this year,</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>DTU</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>SRM</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>VIT</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Nirma University</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>NMIMS</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues College of Engineering<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We were the best among all the Indian teams that participated this year.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>BITS Pilani, IIT Bombay also participated until last year but they didn''t participate this year.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":270} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/UAV19-e1562663690136-1024x768.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-270"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Preparations</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The team remained highly motivated keeping the team spirit intact throughout the year and rigorous hard work to improve last year’s mistakes to achieve a perfect mission.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Preparations included frequent team meetings and planning. We used to work on weekends during the semester and our complete summer break before the competition. During the entire month of May 19’, we used to start from the morning at 9 and would do our testing up to 7 in the evening and sometimes even more. On the days The team wasn''t able to meet, team calls were arranged on hangouts which lasted a couple of hours. We also maintained logs and checklists of work. The preparation included unit testing of all the elements and mock full tests so that we can get an idea that it can work well in the mission demonstration. 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The AUVSI SUAS Competition is designed to foster interest in Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), stimulate interest in UAS technologies and careers, and to engage students in a challenging UAS mission. The competition requires students to design, integrate, report on, and demonstrate a UAS capable of autonomous flight and navigation, remote sensing via onboard payload sensors, and execution of a specific set of tasks. The competition has been held annually since 2002. It has been sponsored by companies like Google, Mathworks, and Boeing. The competition is held at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station (NAS) Webster Field in St. Mary’s County, Maryland. This is the site of the UAS Test & Evaluation Directorate. The competition focuses on Unmanned Aerial Systems(UAS) performing an autonomous mission</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The team started in 2015 under a research project with an aim to build an intelligent UAV platform with capabilities such as autonomous flying, navigation, and landing, as well as capabilities to perform complex tasks such as automatic airdrop, detecting and localizing targets of interest, reaching a specified position or target, etc. UAVs with these capabilities can serve a plethora of applications. We have participated in this competition for the last 4 years.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Other than this competition, we work on many ongoing research projects related to UAVs and their application.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>The Competition Rush</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The competition has 3 major graded components: a technical journal paper that describes the systems engineering approach, Flight Readiness Review (FRR) where teams decide their readiness and testings, and a mission demonstration in the Naval Air Base where the team is evaluated on their performance. The mission includes reaching waypoints, avoiding obstacles, dropping a bottle and locating and detecting objects and all done by an aerial vehicle <strong>autonomously</strong>.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We flew on number 8 on day 1 of the competition.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We took 28 minutes to complete the whole mission and covered around 15km distance in total at a speed of 13 m/s. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We successfully avoided all the obstacles and captured all the waypoint with an accuracy of 99.5 %. Our air delivery was highly accurate with the bottle falling at a distance of only 9 inches from the center when the maximum allowed distance was 75 ft but since our delivery payload burst out after reaching the ground we got no points here.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We were able to detect 3 out of 5 objects lying randomly on the field however due to some technical problem, we could successfully submit only one of them.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>At the end of our flight, all the judges praised the team’s professionalism and teamwork. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Our drone -</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We used a hexacopter, capable of lifting up to 11 kgs keeping in mind the mission requirements of flying around 30 mins. We used 22.2V 38000mah batteries to power our drone that can give up to 40 minutes flight.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>2019 is the fourth year of participation for the team in this competition. Last year our team secured an overall rank 33 in the competition. This year we were able to improve our results and secured 5th rank in onsite mission and 6th rank overall, beating universities like Harvard, Cornell for the very first time.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Our performance amongst Indian teams:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>From India, following team applied this year,</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>DTU</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>SRM</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>VIT</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Nirma University</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>NMIMS</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Fr. 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During the entire month of May 19’, we used to start from the morning at 9 and would do our testing up to 7 in the evening and sometimes even more. On the days The team wasn''t able to meet, team calls were arranged on hangouts which lasted a couple of hours. We also maintained logs and checklists of work. The preparation included unit testing of all the elements and mock full tests so that we can get an idea that it can work well in the mission demonstration. 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This was an exceptionally joyful moment for us, as our work was presented and appreciated Internationally.<br> This whole experience taught us a lot about the game development and design field and sharpened our skills and knowledge. In addition to this, not to mention, the International exposure of working in a different country and managing ourselves with day to day activities and experiencing the whole new culture was an entirely different exposure.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":279} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/1-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-279"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Apart from work, we had a lot of fun during our stay in South Korea. 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The Korean team highly appreciated our ideas and designs. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> At the Internship, we learned how to make a professional game by preparing a game design document and working on the game and further launch it in the market. After working at the Internship, we understood how much planning goes into making a good game. Instead of randomly working on a project, we need to plan every minor detail before starting.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> The team, we were involved with, were highly experienced and motivated which boosted our confidences and made us work energetically and enthusiastically. <br> We participated in a ‘Game-Jam Competition’ at Sangmyung University and competed with other Korean teams. The judges and Korean students highly appreciated our game, and we were given a special warm regards and greetings for participation and showing our skills for the same. This was an exceptionally joyful moment for us, as our work was presented and appreciated Internationally.<br> This whole experience taught us a lot about the game development and design field and sharpened our skills and knowledge. In addition to this, not to mention, the International exposure of working in a different country and managing ourselves with day to day activities and experiencing the whole new culture was an entirely different exposure.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":279} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/1-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-279"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Apart from work, we had a lot of fun during our stay in South Korea. 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A recent\naddition is the Library Occupancy Software, available on the Library website of the Institute. A\nhighly ingenious concept and the first of its kind in any academic and research\ninstitute in India, it displays a live\nchart of how many students are sitting in each area of the library block, based\non the WiFi connectivity through the student mobile phone and latop. The users\ncan use the application to make an informed decision about whether they would\nfind a place in the Library. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>While an initial version of the software displayed data textually, the recent version has many new improvements. The web application shows occupancy information on the floor map of the entire Library building. Not only that, but it also categorises areas as green, yellow, or red zones, based on availability. Green zones indicate empty spaces, yellow for partially occupied and red to indicate that space is fully unavailable. This software was created in-house, as a collaborative project between a student, faculty, Librarian and IT division - Aditya Lakra (2013 batch alumnus), Rajendra Singh (Librarian), Danish Parvez (IT dept.), and Ankit Agarwal (Web Manager) under the guidance of Prof. Vinayak Naik (Associate Professor, CSE).</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":233} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/libraryoccupancydata-1024x640.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-233"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In the next version, the library plans to add a\ndatabase to the application so it can retrieve and analyse the statistics of\nfootfall in the library. This will help generate reports and observe patterns\nof how many students visit which area, and thus which area is the most\nproductive for students. It will definitely help in the strategic planning of\nthe Library and Information Center of the Institute.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A more observable change to the Library Block is 2<sup>nd</sup>\nand 3<sup>rd</sup> floor which has redesigned and different types of new\nlearning spaces crated to improve the users experience in the Library. These\nspace are Individual study carrels, quiet study, group study, casual study, and\nworkshop/training rooms. These rooms have been outfitted with new floor carpets\nand soft seating like bean bags, where students can study uninterrupted 24/7.\nThe rooms have bigger desks and automatic door closers, making them highly\nefficient and comfortable spaces. The Library always looks for the suggestions\nand inputs from the users to make it more useful and further improvement.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Live Occupancy Application: The New and Improved Library and Information Center', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '232-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-08-20 12:40:32', '2019-08-20 07:10:32', '', 232, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/232-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (284, 1, '2019-08-20 12:56:31', '2019-08-20 07:26:31', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This summer, our two final year students ASEEM SAINI and DEVESH YADAV went for the Game Development Internship at Sangmyung University, Seoul Campus. 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Most of our problems seem to become easy while discussing and researching together as a part of a well-functioning team. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The International Game Development internship held with the collaboration of TCS-Centre for Design and New Media at IIIT-Delhi and Sanmyung University, South Korea, helped us boost our confidence and skills. It focused on the development of a game with the International team comprising of Korean students. The courses we studied in IIIT-Delhi for Game development was enlightening, and we developed a lot of skills through it. All of the knowledge that we gathered in our college helped us throughout our Internship and made our progress really well. 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This was an exceptionally joyful moment for us, as our work was presented and appreciated Internationally.<br> This whole experience taught us a lot about the game development and design field and sharpened our skills and knowledge. In addition to this, not to mention, the International exposure of working in a different country and managing ourselves with day to day activities and experiencing the whole new culture was an entirely different exposure.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":279} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/1-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-279"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Apart from work, we had a lot of fun during our stay in South Korea. 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In particular, due to the large bandwidth available at the mm-wave spectrum, 5G target broadband data-rates of 1 Gbps seem feasible. However, transmissions at such high frequencies suffer from detrimental propagation losses and sensitivity to blockages. As an example, whenever the mm-wave transmission is obstructed by an object like a vehicle, human, or buildings, the mobile user can experience service outage (equivalent to losing all network bars in the mobile phone). These issues pose significant engineering and network-design challenges, and open questions such as: how to provide indoor coverage using mm-wave access-points (or small cells)? How to extend the outdoor coverage of such mm-wave access points? Can the mm-wave access points operate reliably without using the existing 4G LTE architecture?</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The wireless communications research group in IIIT Delhi is investigating these challenges. 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In particular, the researchers have developed protocols for mm-wave augmented positioning using relays for disaster-relief scenarios [1], service-aware mm-wave provisioning schemes for cellular users [2], and coverage enhancement for indoor mm-wave systems [3]. Their results provide several key system-design insights for the network operators aiming to deploy 5G mm-wave systems.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Currently, they are developing intelligent algorithms to facilitate multi-connectivity, agile band-switching, and robust blockage-aware protocols to improve the reliability of mm-wave cellular and ad-hoc networks.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br>The papers (accepted recently this year are):</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>[1] G. Ghatak, A. De Domenico and M. 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Ghatak, Coverage Enhancement in Indoor Millimeter WaveSystems Under Random Human Blockages, in IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems 2019 (Accepted) </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '285-revision-v1', '', '', '2019-10-21 14:35:10', '2019-10-21 09:05:10', '', 285, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/285-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (289, 1, '2019-10-21 14:35:47', '2019-10-21 09:05:47', '<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":-1} -->\n<p style="font-size:-1px"> The fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks will be able to sustain a diverse variety of applications, ranging from high-speed broadband services (e.g., virtual and augmented reality) to ultra-reliable low-latency services (e.g., disaster search and rescue networks), to massive internet of things (IoT) services. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In this regard, millimeter-wave (mm-wave) communications (using above 6GHz transmit frequencies) is envisaged to be an integral part of the 5G ecosystem. 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A<br> team of three students from Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, B.Tech. , the batch of 2023, have provided a solution that not only saves resources, but also saves time and a couple of bucks by telling the exact location of the leak.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> Delhi’s population, as of 2012, has crossed 1.9 million. The availability of water has increased manifold. According to Delhi Budget, 2018, about 40 percent of the water supplied by Delhi Corporation goes waste due to pipe leakages. About 1300 million litres out of 4000 million litres of water goes unused. Some pipes in Delhi are as old<br> as 50-60 years, which means a compromise on their structural integrity.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> As of now, there is no such efficient pipe leak detection system being employed in<br> India. Workers have to manually go underground and search for pipe leaks, which is inefficient and requires lots of manhours, considering the fact that the network of pipes laid out underground is too wide and complex.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":293} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/1-1024x576.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-293"/><figcaption>Final Prototype</figcaption></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The students have provided a logistical solution to pinpoint where and when a pipeline leak occurs in our city''s pipeline system. Their solution employs use of low potential signals throughout the length of the pipe using Aluminium foils. Breaking of pipe results in disrupting the flow of the signal, as the Aluminium foil will also break due to the high pressure of the water coming out, and as a result of this, the location of the leak is shown at the user end. So, this method is Simple, yet EFFECTIVE.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Detection of signals is done with the help of a microcontroller. The system uses Arduino for prototyping. It uses two electrodes per pipe for the detection of leaks/cracks. The voltage used for generating signals is 0V, i.e. grounding. This ensures that even if the foils short-circuit, no sparking occurs.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":294,"align":"center"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-294"/><figcaption> From Left: Tanuj Rana, Parth Vyas, Ayush Madhan Sohini <br></figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This project is not just limited to water pipes. Underground sewage pipes can also employ this solution to detect leaks. A report from CGWB said, "The leakage from sewer lines/soak pits (latrine) or leakage from DJB water supply pipelines or both may be locally recharging the groundwater in the area, causing its level to rise and thereby affecting the basements." 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A leak/crack in a system this wide and complex would mean hours of tiring search and wastage of resources. A<br> team of three students from Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, B.Tech. , the batch of 2023, have provided a solution that not only saves resources, but also saves time and a couple of bucks by telling the exact location of the leak.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> Delhi’s population, as of 2012, has crossed 1.9 million. The availability of water has increased manifold. According to Delhi Budget, 2018, about 40 percent of the water supplied by Delhi Corporation goes waste due to pipe leakages. About 1300 million litres out of 4000 million litres of water goes unused. Some pipes in Delhi are as old<br> as 50-60 years, which means a compromise on their structural integrity.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> As of now, there is no such efficient pipe leak detection system being employed in<br> India. Workers have to manually go underground and search for pipe leaks, which is inefficient and requires lots of manhours, considering the fact that the network of pipes laid out underground is too wide and complex.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":293} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/1-1024x576.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-293"/><figcaption>Final Prototype</figcaption></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The students have provided a logistical solution to pinpoint where and when a pipeline leak occurs in our city''s pipeline system. Their solution employs use of low potential signals throughout the length of the pipe using Aluminium foils. Breaking of pipe results in disrupting the flow of the signal, as the Aluminium foil will also break due to the high pressure of the water coming out, and as a result of this, the location of the leak is shown at the user end. So, this method is Simple, yet EFFECTIVE.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Detection of signals is done with the help of a microcontroller. The system uses Arduino for prototyping. It uses two electrodes per pipe for the detection of leaks/cracks. The voltage used for generating signals is 0V, i.e. grounding. This ensures that even if the foils short-circuit, no sparking occurs.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":294,"align":"center"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-294"/><figcaption> From Left: Tanuj Rana, Parth Vyas, Ayush Madhan Sohini <br></figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This project is not just limited to water pipes. Underground sewage pipes can also employ this solution to detect leaks. A report from CGWB said, "The leakage from sewer lines/soak pits (latrine) or leakage from DJB water supply pipelines or both may be locally recharging the groundwater in the area, causing its level to rise and thereby affecting the basements." This project prevents dispose to go in and contaminate the groundwater present there.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Students provide a solution to identify underground pipe leaks', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '292-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-01-03 10:34:32', '2020-01-03 05:04:32', '', 292, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/292-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (297, 1, '2020-02-13 11:45:31', '2020-02-13 06:15:31', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>At IIIT\nDelhi, we believe in giving our students opportunities beyond the regular\nclassroom teachings through various Btech and Mtech programs including some\nvery fascinating programs like Computer Science and Design, Computer Science\nand Artificial Intelligence etc. You can view the list of all programs <a href="https://iiitd.ac.in/academics/btech">here</a>. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We offer an array of courses for the students to choose from. A great amount of time and effort is put in designing each and every course at our institute in a manner which not only makes our students academically strong, but also helps them to think out of the box to bring out the researcher in them. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>To keep up with the latest\ntrends in the world of technology we have introduced some very interesting\ncourses in the curriculum like:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li><em>Designing Human-Centered\nSystems</em> course which is an introduction to\ndesigning, prototyping, and evaluating user interfaces. It focuses on how to\ndesign human-centered systems that people find useful and usable and is\ninspired by the course that Prof. Jason Hong teaches at CMU, Designing\nHuman-Centered Systems. </li><li><em>Artificial Intelligence</em>, a\nname that has become an integral part of technology in our daily lives. With\nincrease in usage, there is a significant requirement of researchers who can\nunderstand AI and build AI technologies. Through this course we introduce the students to\nvarious search techniques, knowledge representation, reasoning, and learning\nand enable them to utilize AI for application in real world.</li><li><em>Advanced Internet of Things</em> course delves deeper into some of the\ntechnologies pertinent to IoT and students will be exposed to some of the\nlatest research findings in IoT.</li><li><em>Game Development and Design</em> is a hands-on project-based course which\nintroduces students to the fundamentals of game development & design using\nthe Unreal 4 game engine. Topics include level design, lighting, materials,\nparticle effects, game AI, game logic, user input mappings, audio, physics and\nmotion. Students will learn to implement custom game logic using the Blueprints\nVisual Scripting system. </li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Apart from these, we have many other courses that you can view <a href="https://iiitd.ac.in/academics/courses/institute">here</a>. As a part of their course curriculum, students have to submit projects based on the course they choose. Here are few impressive projects by our students:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>AI solution for real-time monitoring and cleaning of interior space</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Course: Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Instructor: Dr. Grace\nEden (Assistant Professor, HCD)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Students: Aman Rehman,\nKyzyl Monteiro & Vishal Singh Sengar</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Our students from\nCSD department worked on an AI solution <strong>SaphAI\n</strong>that aims at shifting from a complete routine based cleaning system to a\nroutine-cum-demand based cleaning system. This is done using Artificial\nIntelligence for monitoring the campus space for litter detection, weather\nanalysis and analyzing staff schedules. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>By analyzing\na combination of these factors the system recommends rooms and areas for\ncleaning on priority and urgency levels. Consequently, they attempt to improve\nthe efficiency and effectiveness of cleaning services and the experience for\nall stakeholders: the In-charge, cleaning staff members and the students. Three\ninterfaces were built, one each for all the stakeholders. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A new device\nfor cleaning staff members was prototyped which listed all the rooms and areas\nassigned to clean. Each item in the list shows the reason for the request.\nCleaning staff members could also provide feedback for requests. This was made\nto separate personal and professional commitments since current mechanism uses\nstaff''s phone for both purposes.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A mobile app\nfor students was designed which enabled students to schedule room services as\nand when required. They could schedule services instantly or for a later time.\nIt also enabled students to list the reason for request so that appropriate\nequipment could be arranged. Appropriate feedback for each service was also\ntaken.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>An interface\nfor the In-charge was made which listed all the data required by them. This\nincluded monitoring of the entire campus, list of requests, staff schedules,\nautomatic task assignment, etc. All the recommendations came with reasons. Improvement\nin the system comes from the response on the In-charge by accepting and/or\nrejecting recommendations made by the system. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":304} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/1-768x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-304"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The students tested their solutions with all the stakeholders and design was made to cater all of them. An end inclusion was a door hanger. This idea was inspired by the ''Slippery floor'' board that is placed by the cleaning staff. This was added to be a subtle reminder to students to try and keep the rooms clean and respect the cleaning staff''s work more. However, this hasn’t been tested yet.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>HungerDeal: Development of Mobile Application for the Comparison of Food Delivery Applications</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Course: Design of Interactive Systems</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Instructor: Rajiv Ratn Shah (Assistant Professor (CSE, HCD))</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Students: Gaurav Gautam, Jatin Singhal,\nKanupriya Singh and Shruti Dabas</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> The team worked on developing a system that enables easy and efficient comparison of prices for the selected dish over multiple food delivery applications. The need of such an app raised from the fact that the competition amongst food delivery apps is increasing with so many options to choose from. As a result of this, the service provided by these applications differs on a lot of parameters like cost, delivery time and restaurant available. Due to the difference in delivery charges, service charges, and packaging charges, the final price of products differs a lot, thus making it increasingly difficult for users to get the best price. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The aim of this study\nis to provide an app-based solution that\ncompares the services of the same dish ordered from various food delivery\napplications and guides the user to order from the application that maximizes\nhis savings and provides him/ her with the best services. User studies,\ncontextual inquiries, and evaluation are carried out at every step of the\ndesign and development process to ensure that the product has human-centered\ndesign at its core.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Further, the objective of\nthe application is to yield accurate prices so as to provide the user with a\ncherishing experience as the difference in prices is rather small, so giving an\napproximate range would make the result of the comparison redundant. Thus at\nthe backend, Selenium web scraper is used to obtain real-time data i.e. food\nprices and delivery times for a particular dish selected in their application\n“HungerDeal”. Once the user clicks on the compare option, the Selenium scraper\nruns a data scraping script at the backend on the web portals of various food\ndelivery applications like Swiggy, Zomato and UberEats, after which it provides\nthe delivery time and total price of the food item. To further improve upon the\nspeed, the system saves the results of the user’s previous compares in its\ndatabase. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:cover {"url":"https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/HungerDeal.mp4","id":298,"backgroundType":"video"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-cover has-background-dim"><video class="wp-block-cover__video-background" autoplay muted loop src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/HungerDeal.mp4"></video></div>\n<!-- /wp:cover -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The design process for the application starts with the creation of low fidelity prototypes to get a basic essence of the layout for the application and get user feedback at initial stages. Paper prototypes are reiterated by incorporating user feedback. This process is repeated multiple times and digital high fidelity prototypes are created at a later stage which is then made into a functional prototype using Android Studio. The application underwent a series of the participant and expert-based evaluations which revealed that it reduces the time and effort the user has to put in to find food at the cheapest price.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Gaming Console for the Blind- A look into haptic HCI for gaming</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Course: Design of Interactive Systems</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Instructor: Rajiv Ratn Shah (Assistant Professor (CSE, HCD))</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Students: Angel Walia, Mayank Jain, Prakhar\nGoel and Varnika Kairon</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In modern society, there are various\nmodes and techniques for entertaining people through games using technologies\nsuch as gaming consoles, massive multiplayer online games, mobile application\ngames, etc. However, a key component of all these games is their ability to\nprovide life-like visuals using excellent graphics quality. Now such an\nessential component of games proves to be useless when we delve into developing\ngames for visually-impaired people. As such, there are only a few limited types\nof games available to them, most of which are non-tech based games. Our\nstudents wanted to explore the various ways in which visually impaired people\ncan play games, more specifically give input and receive output other than just\naudio. They took to using haptics as a medium and implemented a gaming console\nprimarily based on haptic feedback along with audio feedback.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The aim is to give visually impaired player\na gaming experience which is more than just audio, as all current games targeted\ntowards the visually impaired only use audio as the major output medium. The\nentire setup includes two components. 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We have used an Arduino Mega microcontroller\nthat runs the game and is responsible for the communication via the haptic grid\nand the LED grid.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":299,"align":"wide"} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image alignwide"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/blind-project-consol.png" alt="" class="wp-image-299"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>The\nAndroid App </strong>is mainly responsible for the audio\ncommunication. It enables the communication between player and system using simple\nleft or right swipes. It is also an essential component for the game to start,\nas well as responsible for the onboarding instruction. 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A\ngreat amount of time and effort is put in designing each and every course at\nour institute in a manner which not only makes our students academically\nstrong, but also helps them to think out of the box to bring out the researcher\nin them. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>To keep up with the latest\ntrends in the world of technology we have introduced some very interesting\ncourses in the curriculum like:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li><em>Designing Human-Centered\nSystems</em> course which is an introduction to\ndesigning, prototyping, and evaluating user interfaces. It focuses on how to\ndesign human-centered systems that people find useful and usable and is\ninspired by the course that Prof. Jason Hong teaches at CMU, Designing\nHuman-Centered Systems. </li><li><em>Artificial Intelligence</em>, a\nname that has become an integral part of technology in our daily lives. With\nincrease in usage, there is a significant requirement of researchers who can\nunderstand AI and build AI technologies. Through this course we introduce the students to\nvarious search techniques, knowledge representation, reasoning, and learning\nand enable them to utilize AI for application in real world.</li><li><em>Advanced Internet of Things</em> course delves deeper into some of the\ntechnologies pertinent to IoT and students will be exposed to some of the\nlatest research findings in IoT.</li><li><em>Game Development and Design</em> is a hands-on project-based course which\nintroduces students to the fundamentals of game development & design using\nthe Unreal 4 game engine. Topics include level design, lighting, materials,\nparticle effects, game AI, game logic, user input mappings, audio, physics and\nmotion. Students will learn to implement custom game logic using the Blueprints\nVisual Scripting system. </li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Apart from these, we have many other courses that you can view <a href="https://iiitd.ac.in/academics/courses/institute">here</a>. As a part of their course curriculum, students have to submit projects based on the course they choose. Here are few impressive projects by our students:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>AI solution for real-time monitoring and cleaning of interior space</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Course: Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Instructor: Dr. Grace\nEden (Assistant Professor, HCD)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Students: Aman Rehman,\nKyzyl Monteiro & Vishal Singh Sengar</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Our students from\nCSD department worked on an AI solution <strong>SaphAI\n</strong>that aims at shifting from a complete routine based cleaning system to a\nroutine-cum-demand based cleaning system. This is done using Artificial\nIntelligence for monitoring the campus space for litter detection, weather\nanalysis and analyzing staff schedules. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>By analyzing\na combination of these factors the system recommends rooms and areas for\ncleaning on priority and urgency levels. Consequently, they attempt to improve\nthe efficiency and effectiveness of cleaning services and the experience for\nall stakeholders: the In-charge, cleaning staff members and the students. Three\ninterfaces were built, one each for all the stakeholders. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A new device\nfor cleaning staff members was prototyped which listed all the rooms and areas\nassigned to clean. Each item in the list shows the reason for the request.\nCleaning staff members could also provide feedback for requests. This was made\nto separate personal and professional commitments since current mechanism uses\nstaff''s phone for both purposes.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A mobile app\nfor students was designed which enabled students to schedule room services as\nand when required. They could schedule services instantly or for a later time.\nIt also enabled students to list the reason for request so that appropriate\nequipment could be arranged. Appropriate feedback for each service was also\ntaken.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>An interface\nfor the In-charge was made which listed all the data required by them. This\nincluded monitoring of the entire campus, list of requests, staff schedules,\nautomatic task assignment, etc. All the recommendations came with reasons. Improvement\nin the system comes from the response on the In-charge by accepting and/or\nrejecting recommendations made by the system. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The students tested their solutions with all the stakeholders and design was made to cater all of them. An end inclusion was a door hanger. This idea was inspired by the ''Slippery floor'' board that is placed by the cleaning staff. This was added to be a subtle reminder to students to try and keep the rooms clean and respect the cleaning staff''s work more. However, this hasn’t been tested yet.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":300} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/10-1024x659.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-300"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li><strong>HungerDeal: Development of Mobile Application for the\nComparison of Food Delivery Applications</strong><strong></strong></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Course: Design of Interactive Systems</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Instructor: Rajiv Ratn Shah (Assistant Professor (CSE, HCD))</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Students: Gaurav Gautam, Jatin Singhal,\nKanupriya Singh and Shruti Dabas</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br> The team worked on developing a system that enables easy and efficient comparison of prices for the selected dish over multiple food delivery applications. The need of such an app raised from the fact that the competition amongst food delivery apps is increasing with so many options to choose from. As a result of this, the service provided by these applications differs on a lot of parameters like cost, delivery time and restaurant available. Due to the difference in delivery charges, service charges, and packaging charges, the final price of products differs a lot, thus making it increasingly difficult for users to get the best price. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The aim of this study\nis to provide an app-based solution that\ncompares the services of the same dish ordered from various food delivery\napplications and guides the user to order from the application that maximizes\nhis savings and provides him/ her with the best services. User studies,\ncontextual inquiries, and evaluation are carried out at every step of the\ndesign and development process to ensure that the product has human-centered\ndesign at its core.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Further, the objective of\nthe application is to yield accurate prices so as to provide the user with a\ncherishing experience as the difference in prices is rather small, so giving an\napproximate range would make the result of the comparison redundant. Thus at\nthe backend, Selenium web scraper is used to obtain real-time data i.e. food\nprices and delivery times for a particular dish selected in their application\n“HungerDeal”. Once the user clicks on the compare option, the Selenium scraper\nruns a data scraping script at the backend on the web portals of various food\ndelivery applications like Swiggy, Zomato and UberEats, after which it provides\nthe delivery time and total price of the food item. To further improve upon the\nspeed, the system saves the results of the user’s previous compares in its\ndatabase. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The design process for the application starts with the creation of low fidelity prototypes to get a basic essence of the layout for the application and get user feedback at initial stages. Paper prototypes are reiterated by incorporating user feedback. This process is repeated multiple times and digital high fidelity prototypes are created at a later stage which is then made into a functional prototype using Android Studio. The application underwent a series of the participant and expert-based evaluations which revealed that it reduces the time and effort the user has to put in to find food at the cheapest price.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:cover {"url":"https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/HungerDeal.mp4","id":298,"backgroundType":"video"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-cover has-background-dim"><video class="wp-block-cover__video-background" autoplay muted loop src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/HungerDeal.mp4"></video></div>\n<!-- /wp:cover -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li><strong>Gaming\nConsole for the Blind- A look into haptic HCI for gaming</strong></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Course: Design of Interactive Systems</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Instructor: Rajiv Ratn Shah (Assistant Professor (CSE, HCD))</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Students: Angel Walia, Mayank Jain, Prakhar\nGoel and Varnika Kairon</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In modern society, there are various\nmodes and techniques for entertaining people through games using technologies\nsuch as gaming consoles, massive multiplayer online games, mobile application\ngames, etc. However, a key component of all these games is their ability to\nprovide life-like visuals using excellent graphics quality. Now such an\nessential component of games proves to be useless when we delve into developing\ngames for visually-impaired people. As such, there are only a few limited types\nof games available to them, most of which are non-tech based games. Our\nstudents wanted to explore the various ways in which visually impaired people\ncan play games, more specifically give input and receive output other than just\naudio. They took to using haptics as a medium and implemented a gaming console\nprimarily based on haptic feedback along with audio feedback.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The aim is to give visually impaired player\na gaming experience which is more than just audio, as all current games targeted\ntowards the visually impaired only use audio as the major output medium. The\nentire setup includes two components. (a) The Tactile Box or the Console itself\nand (b) The Android App</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>The\nTactile Box </strong>is responsible for processing the game\nthat is currently being played as well as the communication from the system to\nthe user during the play period. It is also the component where if needed other\npeople can witness the action that is taking place on small LED-Matrix that\nsimulates the game environment.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The main communication between the\nsystem and the player, however, is achieved through a</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>7*4 (i.e. 7 rows and 4 columns) matrix\nmade using Vibration Motors where each grid point is meant to simulate a pixel\nof the game that is being played. We have used an Arduino Mega microcontroller\nthat runs the game and is responsible for the communication via the haptic grid\nand the LED grid.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>The\nAndroid App </strong>is mainly responsible for the audio\ncommunication. It enables the communication between player and system using simple\nleft or right swipes. It is also an essential component for the game to start,\nas well as responsible for the onboarding instruction. The students used\nMit-AppInventor2 to develop the application and used the Text-To-Speech functionality\nfor the onboarding process as well as reading the final score to the player. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The communication between the 2\ncomponents is achieved using a simple HC-05 Bluetooth.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":299,"align":"wide"} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image alignwide"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/blind-project-consol.png" alt="" class="wp-image-299"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br>\nIn a very short span of time, IIIT Delhi\nhas created a name for itself in India and abroad for being a center of quality\neducation and research in IT and interdisciplinary areas and has established a\nstrong research culture, focused research groups, and innovative education\nprograms. These few of the many wonderful\nprojects by our students are an epitome of how IIIT Delhi has become one of the most promising young institutions for\neducation and research in India.<strong></strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Stay tuned for more such work by our\nstudents! </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Thinking Out of the Box! 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A\ngreat amount of time and effort is put in designing each and every course at\nour institute in a manner which not only makes our students academically\nstrong, but also helps them to think out of the box to bring out the researcher\nin them. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>To keep up with the latest\ntrends in the world of technology we have introduced some very interesting\ncourses in the curriculum like:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li><em>Designing Human-Centered\nSystems</em> course which is an introduction to\ndesigning, prototyping, and evaluating user interfaces. It focuses on how to\ndesign human-centered systems that people find useful and usable and is\ninspired by the course that Prof. Jason Hong teaches at CMU, Designing\nHuman-Centered Systems. </li><li><em>Artificial Intelligence</em>, a\nname that has become an integral part of technology in our daily lives. With\nincrease in usage, there is a significant requirement of researchers who can\nunderstand AI and build AI technologies. Through this course we introduce the students to\nvarious search techniques, knowledge representation, reasoning, and learning\nand enable them to utilize AI for application in real world.</li><li><em>Advanced Internet of Things</em> course delves deeper into some of the\ntechnologies pertinent to IoT and students will be exposed to some of the\nlatest research findings in IoT.</li><li><em>Game Development and Design</em> is a hands-on project-based course which\nintroduces students to the fundamentals of game development & design using\nthe Unreal 4 game engine. Topics include level design, lighting, materials,\nparticle effects, game AI, game logic, user input mappings, audio, physics and\nmotion. Students will learn to implement custom game logic using the Blueprints\nVisual Scripting system. </li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Apart from these, we have many other courses that you can view <a href="https://iiitd.ac.in/academics/courses/institute">here</a>. As a part of their course curriculum, students have to submit projects based on the course they choose. Here are few impressive projects by our students:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>AI solution for real-time monitoring and cleaning of interior space</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Course: Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Instructor: Dr. Grace\nEden (Assistant Professor, HCD)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Students: Aman Rehman,\nKyzyl Monteiro & Vishal Singh Sengar</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Our students from\nCSD department worked on an AI solution <strong>SaphAI\n</strong>that aims at shifting from a complete routine based cleaning system to a\nroutine-cum-demand based cleaning system. This is done using Artificial\nIntelligence for monitoring the campus space for litter detection, weather\nanalysis and analyzing staff schedules. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>By analyzing\na combination of these factors the system recommends rooms and areas for\ncleaning on priority and urgency levels. Consequently, they attempt to improve\nthe efficiency and effectiveness of cleaning services and the experience for\nall stakeholders: the In-charge, cleaning staff members and the students. Three\ninterfaces were built, one each for all the stakeholders. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A new device\nfor cleaning staff members was prototyped which listed all the rooms and areas\nassigned to clean. Each item in the list shows the reason for the request.\nCleaning staff members could also provide feedback for requests. This was made\nto separate personal and professional commitments since current mechanism uses\nstaff''s phone for both purposes.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A mobile app\nfor students was designed which enabled students to schedule room services as\nand when required. They could schedule services instantly or for a later time.\nIt also enabled students to list the reason for request so that appropriate\nequipment could be arranged. Appropriate feedback for each service was also\ntaken.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>An interface\nfor the In-charge was made which listed all the data required by them. This\nincluded monitoring of the entire campus, list of requests, staff schedules,\nautomatic task assignment, etc. All the recommendations came with reasons. Improvement\nin the system comes from the response on the In-charge by accepting and/or\nrejecting recommendations made by the system. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":300} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/10-1024x659.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-300"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The students tested their solutions with all the stakeholders and design was made to cater all of them. An end inclusion was a door hanger. This idea was inspired by the ''Slippery floor'' board that is placed by the cleaning staff. This was added to be a subtle reminder to students to try and keep the rooms clean and respect the cleaning staff''s work more. However, this hasn’t been tested yet.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li><strong>HungerDeal: Development of Mobile Application for the\nComparison of Food Delivery Applications</strong><strong></strong></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Course: Design of Interactive Systems</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Instructor: Rajiv Ratn Shah (Assistant Professor (CSE, HCD))</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Students: Gaurav Gautam, Jatin Singhal,\nKanupriya Singh and Shruti Dabas</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br> The team worked on developing a system that enables easy and efficient comparison of prices for the selected dish over multiple food delivery applications. The need of such an app raised from the fact that the competition amongst food delivery apps is increasing with so many options to choose from. As a result of this, the service provided by these applications differs on a lot of parameters like cost, delivery time and restaurant available. Due to the difference in delivery charges, service charges, and packaging charges, the final price of products differs a lot, thus making it increasingly difficult for users to get the best price. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The aim of this study\nis to provide an app-based solution that\ncompares the services of the same dish ordered from various food delivery\napplications and guides the user to order from the application that maximizes\nhis savings and provides him/ her with the best services. User studies,\ncontextual inquiries, and evaluation are carried out at every step of the\ndesign and development process to ensure that the product has human-centered\ndesign at its core.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Further, the objective of\nthe application is to yield accurate prices so as to provide the user with a\ncherishing experience as the difference in prices is rather small, so giving an\napproximate range would make the result of the comparison redundant. Thus at\nthe backend, Selenium web scraper is used to obtain real-time data i.e. food\nprices and delivery times for a particular dish selected in their application\n“HungerDeal”. Once the user clicks on the compare option, the Selenium scraper\nruns a data scraping script at the backend on the web portals of various food\ndelivery applications like Swiggy, Zomato and UberEats, after which it provides\nthe delivery time and total price of the food item. To further improve upon the\nspeed, the system saves the results of the user’s previous compares in its\ndatabase. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:cover {"url":"https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/HungerDeal.mp4","id":298,"backgroundType":"video"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-cover has-background-dim"><video class="wp-block-cover__video-background" autoplay muted loop src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/HungerDeal.mp4"></video></div>\n<!-- /wp:cover -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The design process for the application starts with the creation of low fidelity prototypes to get a basic essence of the layout for the application and get user feedback at initial stages. Paper prototypes are reiterated by incorporating user feedback. This process is repeated multiple times and digital high fidelity prototypes are created at a later stage which is then made into a functional prototype using Android Studio. The application underwent a series of the participant and expert-based evaluations which revealed that it reduces the time and effort the user has to put in to find food at the cheapest price.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li><strong>Gaming\nConsole for the Blind- A look into haptic HCI for gaming</strong></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Course: Design of Interactive Systems</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Instructor: Rajiv Ratn Shah (Assistant Professor (CSE, HCD))</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Students: Angel Walia, Mayank Jain, Prakhar\nGoel and Varnika Kairon</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In modern society, there are various\nmodes and techniques for entertaining people through games using technologies\nsuch as gaming consoles, massive multiplayer online games, mobile application\ngames, etc. However, a key component of all these games is their ability to\nprovide life-like visuals using excellent graphics quality. Now such an\nessential component of games proves to be useless when we delve into developing\ngames for visually-impaired people. As such, there are only a few limited types\nof games available to them, most of which are non-tech based games. Our\nstudents wanted to explore the various ways in which visually impaired people\ncan play games, more specifically give input and receive output other than just\naudio. They took to using haptics as a medium and implemented a gaming console\nprimarily based on haptic feedback along with audio feedback.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The aim is to give visually impaired player\na gaming experience which is more than just audio, as all current games targeted\ntowards the visually impaired only use audio as the major output medium. The\nentire setup includes two components. (a) The Tactile Box or the Console itself\nand (b) The Android App</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>The\nTactile Box </strong>is responsible for processing the game\nthat is currently being played as well as the communication from the system to\nthe user during the play period. It is also the component where if needed other\npeople can witness the action that is taking place on small LED-Matrix that\nsimulates the game environment.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The main communication between the\nsystem and the player, however, is achieved through a</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>7*4 (i.e. 7 rows and 4 columns) matrix\nmade using Vibration Motors where each grid point is meant to simulate a pixel\nof the game that is being played. We have used an Arduino Mega microcontroller\nthat runs the game and is responsible for the communication via the haptic grid\nand the LED grid.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":299,"align":"wide"} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image alignwide"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/blind-project-consol.png" alt="" class="wp-image-299"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>The\nAndroid App </strong>is mainly responsible for the audio\ncommunication. It enables the communication between player and system using simple\nleft or right swipes. It is also an essential component for the game to start,\nas well as responsible for the onboarding instruction. The students used\nMit-AppInventor2 to develop the application and used the Text-To-Speech functionality\nfor the onboarding process as well as reading the final score to the player. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The communication between the 2\ncomponents is achieved using a simple HC-05 Bluetooth.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br>\nIn a very short span of time, IIIT Delhi\nhas created a name for itself in India and abroad for being a center of quality\neducation and research in IT and interdisciplinary areas and has established a\nstrong research culture, focused research groups, and innovative education\nprograms. These few of the many wonderful\nprojects by our students are an epitome of how IIIT Delhi has become one of the most promising young institutions for\neducation and research in India.<strong></strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Stay tuned for more such work by our\nstudents! </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Thinking Out of the Box! 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A\ngreat amount of time and effort is put in designing each and every course at\nour institute in a manner which not only makes our students academically\nstrong, but also helps them to think out of the box to bring out the researcher\nin them. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>To keep up with the latest\ntrends in the world of technology we have introduced some very interesting\ncourses in the curriculum like:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li><em>Designing Human-Centered\nSystems</em> course which is an introduction to\ndesigning, prototyping, and evaluating user interfaces. It focuses on how to\ndesign human-centered systems that people find useful and usable and is\ninspired by the course that Prof. Jason Hong teaches at CMU, Designing\nHuman-Centered Systems. </li><li><em>Artificial Intelligence</em>, a\nname that has become an integral part of technology in our daily lives. With\nincrease in usage, there is a significant requirement of researchers who can\nunderstand AI and build AI technologies. Through this course we introduce the students to\nvarious search techniques, knowledge representation, reasoning, and learning\nand enable them to utilize AI for application in real world.</li><li><em>Advanced Internet of Things</em> course delves deeper into some of the\ntechnologies pertinent to IoT and students will be exposed to some of the\nlatest research findings in IoT.</li><li><em>Game Development and Design</em> is a hands-on project-based course which\nintroduces students to the fundamentals of game development & design using\nthe Unreal 4 game engine. Topics include level design, lighting, materials,\nparticle effects, game AI, game logic, user input mappings, audio, physics and\nmotion. Students will learn to implement custom game logic using the Blueprints\nVisual Scripting system. </li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Apart from these, we have many other courses that you can view <a href="https://iiitd.ac.in/academics/courses/institute">here</a>. As a part of their course curriculum, students have to submit projects based on the course they choose. Here are few impressive projects by our students:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li><strong>AI solution for real-time monitoring and cleaning of interior space</strong></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Course: Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Instructor: Dr. Grace\nEden (Assistant Professor, HCD)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Students: Aman Rehman,\nKyzyl Monteiro & Vishal Singh Sengar</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Our students from\nCSD department worked on an AI solution <strong>SaphAI\n</strong>that aims at shifting from a complete routine based cleaning system to a\nroutine-cum-demand based cleaning system. This is done using Artificial\nIntelligence for monitoring the campus space for litter detection, weather\nanalysis and analyzing staff schedules. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>By analyzing\na combination of these factors the system recommends rooms and areas for\ncleaning on priority and urgency levels. Consequently, they attempt to improve\nthe efficiency and effectiveness of cleaning services and the experience for\nall stakeholders: the In-charge, cleaning staff members and the students. Three\ninterfaces were built, one each for all the stakeholders. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A new device\nfor cleaning staff members was prototyped which listed all the rooms and areas\nassigned to clean. Each item in the list shows the reason for the request.\nCleaning staff members could also provide feedback for requests. This was made\nto separate personal and professional commitments since current mechanism uses\nstaff''s phone for both purposes.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A mobile app\nfor students was designed which enabled students to schedule room services as\nand when required. They could schedule services instantly or for a later time.\nIt also enabled students to list the reason for request so that appropriate\nequipment could be arranged. Appropriate feedback for each service was also\ntaken.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>An interface\nfor the In-charge was made which listed all the data required by them. This\nincluded monitoring of the entire campus, list of requests, staff schedules,\nautomatic task assignment, etc. All the recommendations came with reasons. Improvement\nin the system comes from the response on the In-charge by accepting and/or\nrejecting recommendations made by the system. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":300} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/10-1024x659.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-300"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The students tested their solutions with all the stakeholders and design was made to cater all of them. An end inclusion was a door hanger. This idea was inspired by the ''Slippery floor'' board that is placed by the cleaning staff. This was added to be a subtle reminder to students to try and keep the rooms clean and respect the cleaning staff''s work more. However, this hasn’t been tested yet.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li><strong>HungerDeal: Development of Mobile Application for the\nComparison of Food Delivery Applications</strong><strong></strong></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Course: Design of Interactive Systems</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Instructor: Rajiv Ratn Shah (Assistant Professor (CSE, HCD))</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Students: Gaurav Gautam, Jatin Singhal,\nKanupriya Singh and Shruti Dabas</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br> The team worked on developing a system that enables easy and efficient comparison of prices for the selected dish over multiple food delivery applications. The need of such an app raised from the fact that the competition amongst food delivery apps is increasing with so many options to choose from. As a result of this, the service provided by these applications differs on a lot of parameters like cost, delivery time and restaurant available. Due to the difference in delivery charges, service charges, and packaging charges, the final price of products differs a lot, thus making it increasingly difficult for users to get the best price. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The aim of this study\nis to provide an app-based solution that\ncompares the services of the same dish ordered from various food delivery\napplications and guides the user to order from the application that maximizes\nhis savings and provides him/ her with the best services. User studies,\ncontextual inquiries, and evaluation are carried out at every step of the\ndesign and development process to ensure that the product has human-centered\ndesign at its core.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Further, the objective of\nthe application is to yield accurate prices so as to provide the user with a\ncherishing experience as the difference in prices is rather small, so giving an\napproximate range would make the result of the comparison redundant. Thus at\nthe backend, Selenium web scraper is used to obtain real-time data i.e. food\nprices and delivery times for a particular dish selected in their application\n“HungerDeal”. Once the user clicks on the compare option, the Selenium scraper\nruns a data scraping script at the backend on the web portals of various food\ndelivery applications like Swiggy, Zomato and UberEats, after which it provides\nthe delivery time and total price of the food item. To further improve upon the\nspeed, the system saves the results of the user’s previous compares in its\ndatabase. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:cover {"url":"https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/HungerDeal.mp4","id":298,"backgroundType":"video"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-cover has-background-dim"><video class="wp-block-cover__video-background" autoplay muted loop src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/HungerDeal.mp4"></video></div>\n<!-- /wp:cover -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The design process for the application starts with the creation of low fidelity prototypes to get a basic essence of the layout for the application and get user feedback at initial stages. Paper prototypes are reiterated by incorporating user feedback. This process is repeated multiple times and digital high fidelity prototypes are created at a later stage which is then made into a functional prototype using Android Studio. The application underwent a series of the participant and expert-based evaluations which revealed that it reduces the time and effort the user has to put in to find food at the cheapest price.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li><strong>Gaming\nConsole for the Blind- A look into haptic HCI for gaming</strong></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Course: Design of Interactive Systems</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Instructor: Rajiv Ratn Shah (Assistant Professor (CSE, HCD))</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Students: Angel Walia, Mayank Jain, Prakhar\nGoel and Varnika Kairon</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In modern society, there are various\nmodes and techniques for entertaining people through games using technologies\nsuch as gaming consoles, massive multiplayer online games, mobile application\ngames, etc. However, a key component of all these games is their ability to\nprovide life-like visuals using excellent graphics quality. Now such an\nessential component of games proves to be useless when we delve into developing\ngames for visually-impaired people. As such, there are only a few limited types\nof games available to them, most of which are non-tech based games. Our\nstudents wanted to explore the various ways in which visually impaired people\ncan play games, more specifically give input and receive output other than just\naudio. They took to using haptics as a medium and implemented a gaming console\nprimarily based on haptic feedback along with audio feedback.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The aim is to give visually impaired player\na gaming experience which is more than just audio, as all current games targeted\ntowards the visually impaired only use audio as the major output medium. The\nentire setup includes two components. (a) The Tactile Box or the Console itself\nand (b) The Android App</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>The\nTactile Box </strong>is responsible for processing the game\nthat is currently being played as well as the communication from the system to\nthe user during the play period. It is also the component where if needed other\npeople can witness the action that is taking place on small LED-Matrix that\nsimulates the game environment.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The main communication between the\nsystem and the player, however, is achieved through a</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>7*4 (i.e. 7 rows and 4 columns) matrix\nmade using Vibration Motors where each grid point is meant to simulate a pixel\nof the game that is being played. We have used an Arduino Mega microcontroller\nthat runs the game and is responsible for the communication via the haptic grid\nand the LED grid.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":299,"align":"wide"} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image alignwide"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/blind-project-consol.png" alt="" class="wp-image-299"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>The\nAndroid App </strong>is mainly responsible for the audio\ncommunication. It enables the communication between player and system using simple\nleft or right swipes. It is also an essential component for the game to start,\nas well as responsible for the onboarding instruction. The students used\nMit-AppInventor2 to develop the application and used the Text-To-Speech functionality\nfor the onboarding process as well as reading the final score to the player. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The communication between the 2\ncomponents is achieved using a simple HC-05 Bluetooth.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br>\nIn a very short span of time, IIIT Delhi\nhas created a name for itself in India and abroad for being a center of quality\neducation and research in IT and interdisciplinary areas and has established a\nstrong research culture, focused research groups, and innovative education\nprograms. These few of the many wonderful\nprojects by our students are an epitome of how IIIT Delhi has become one of the most promising young institutions for\neducation and research in India.<strong></strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Stay tuned for more such work by our\nstudents! </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Thinking Out of the Box! 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A\ngreat amount of time and effort is put in designing each and every course at\nour institute in a manner which not only makes our students academically\nstrong, but also helps them to think out of the box to bring out the researcher\nin them. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>To keep up with the latest\ntrends in the world of technology we have introduced some very interesting\ncourses in the curriculum like:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li><em>Designing Human-Centered\nSystems</em> course which is an introduction to\ndesigning, prototyping, and evaluating user interfaces. It focuses on how to\ndesign human-centered systems that people find useful and usable and is\ninspired by the course that Prof. Jason Hong teaches at CMU, Designing\nHuman-Centered Systems. </li><li><em>Artificial Intelligence</em>, a\nname that has become an integral part of technology in our daily lives. With\nincrease in usage, there is a significant requirement of researchers who can\nunderstand AI and build AI technologies. Through this course we introduce the students to\nvarious search techniques, knowledge representation, reasoning, and learning\nand enable them to utilize AI for application in real world.</li><li><em>Advanced Internet of Things</em> course delves deeper into some of the\ntechnologies pertinent to IoT and students will be exposed to some of the\nlatest research findings in IoT.</li><li><em>Game Development and Design</em> is a hands-on project-based course which\nintroduces students to the fundamentals of game development & design using\nthe Unreal 4 game engine. Topics include level design, lighting, materials,\nparticle effects, game AI, game logic, user input mappings, audio, physics and\nmotion. Students will learn to implement custom game logic using the Blueprints\nVisual Scripting system. </li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Apart from these, we have many other courses that you can view <a href="https://iiitd.ac.in/academics/courses/institute">here</a>. As a part of their course curriculum, students have to submit projects based on the course they choose. Here are few impressive projects by our students:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li><strong>AI solution for real-time monitoring and cleaning of interior space</strong></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Course: Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Instructor: Dr. Grace\nEden (Assistant Professor, HCD)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Students: Aman Rehman,\nKyzyl Monteiro & Vishal Singh Sengar</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Our students from\nCSD department worked on an AI solution <strong>SaphAI\n</strong>that aims at shifting from a complete routine based cleaning system to a\nroutine-cum-demand based cleaning system. This is done using Artificial\nIntelligence for monitoring the campus space for litter detection, weather\nanalysis and analyzing staff schedules. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>By analyzing\na combination of these factors the system recommends rooms and areas for\ncleaning on priority and urgency levels. Consequently, they attempt to improve\nthe efficiency and effectiveness of cleaning services and the experience for\nall stakeholders: the In-charge, cleaning staff members and the students. Three\ninterfaces were built, one each for all the stakeholders. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A new device\nfor cleaning staff members was prototyped which listed all the rooms and areas\nassigned to clean. Each item in the list shows the reason for the request.\nCleaning staff members could also provide feedback for requests. This was made\nto separate personal and professional commitments since current mechanism uses\nstaff''s phone for both purposes.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A mobile app\nfor students was designed which enabled students to schedule room services as\nand when required. They could schedule services instantly or for a later time.\nIt also enabled students to list the reason for request so that appropriate\nequipment could be arranged. Appropriate feedback for each service was also\ntaken.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>An interface\nfor the In-charge was made which listed all the data required by them. This\nincluded monitoring of the entire campus, list of requests, staff schedules,\nautomatic task assignment, etc. All the recommendations came with reasons. Improvement\nin the system comes from the response on the In-charge by accepting and/or\nrejecting recommendations made by the system. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":304} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/1-768x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-304"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The students tested their solutions with all the stakeholders and design was made to cater all of them. An end inclusion was a door hanger. This idea was inspired by the ''Slippery floor'' board that is placed by the cleaning staff. This was added to be a subtle reminder to students to try and keep the rooms clean and respect the cleaning staff''s work more. However, this hasn’t been tested yet.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li><strong>HungerDeal: Development of Mobile Application for the\nComparison of Food Delivery Applications</strong><strong></strong></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Course: Design of Interactive Systems</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Instructor: Rajiv Ratn Shah (Assistant Professor (CSE, HCD))</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Students: Gaurav Gautam, Jatin Singhal,\nKanupriya Singh and Shruti Dabas</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br> The team worked on developing a system that enables easy and efficient comparison of prices for the selected dish over multiple food delivery applications. The need of such an app raised from the fact that the competition amongst food delivery apps is increasing with so many options to choose from. As a result of this, the service provided by these applications differs on a lot of parameters like cost, delivery time and restaurant available. Due to the difference in delivery charges, service charges, and packaging charges, the final price of products differs a lot, thus making it increasingly difficult for users to get the best price. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The aim of this study\nis to provide an app-based solution that\ncompares the services of the same dish ordered from various food delivery\napplications and guides the user to order from the application that maximizes\nhis savings and provides him/ her with the best services. User studies,\ncontextual inquiries, and evaluation are carried out at every step of the\ndesign and development process to ensure that the product has human-centered\ndesign at its core.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Further, the objective of\nthe application is to yield accurate prices so as to provide the user with a\ncherishing experience as the difference in prices is rather small, so giving an\napproximate range would make the result of the comparison redundant. Thus at\nthe backend, Selenium web scraper is used to obtain real-time data i.e. food\nprices and delivery times for a particular dish selected in their application\n“HungerDeal”. Once the user clicks on the compare option, the Selenium scraper\nruns a data scraping script at the backend on the web portals of various food\ndelivery applications like Swiggy, Zomato and UberEats, after which it provides\nthe delivery time and total price of the food item. To further improve upon the\nspeed, the system saves the results of the user’s previous compares in its\ndatabase. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:cover {"url":"https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/HungerDeal.mp4","id":298,"backgroundType":"video"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-cover has-background-dim"><video class="wp-block-cover__video-background" autoplay muted loop src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/HungerDeal.mp4"></video></div>\n<!-- /wp:cover -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The design process for the application starts with the creation of low fidelity prototypes to get a basic essence of the layout for the application and get user feedback at initial stages. Paper prototypes are reiterated by incorporating user feedback. This process is repeated multiple times and digital high fidelity prototypes are created at a later stage which is then made into a functional prototype using Android Studio. The application underwent a series of the participant and expert-based evaluations which revealed that it reduces the time and effort the user has to put in to find food at the cheapest price.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li><strong>Gaming\nConsole for the Blind- A look into haptic HCI for gaming</strong></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Course: Design of Interactive Systems</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Instructor: Rajiv Ratn Shah (Assistant Professor (CSE, HCD))</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Students: Angel Walia, Mayank Jain, Prakhar\nGoel and Varnika Kairon</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In modern society, there are various\nmodes and techniques for entertaining people through games using technologies\nsuch as gaming consoles, massive multiplayer online games, mobile application\ngames, etc. However, a key component of all these games is their ability to\nprovide life-like visuals using excellent graphics quality. Now such an\nessential component of games proves to be useless when we delve into developing\ngames for visually-impaired people. As such, there are only a few limited types\nof games available to them, most of which are non-tech based games. Our\nstudents wanted to explore the various ways in which visually impaired people\ncan play games, more specifically give input and receive output other than just\naudio. They took to using haptics as a medium and implemented a gaming console\nprimarily based on haptic feedback along with audio feedback.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The aim is to give visually impaired player\na gaming experience which is more than just audio, as all current games targeted\ntowards the visually impaired only use audio as the major output medium. The\nentire setup includes two components. (a) The Tactile Box or the Console itself\nand (b) The Android App</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>The\nTactile Box </strong>is responsible for processing the game\nthat is currently being played as well as the communication from the system to\nthe user during the play period. It is also the component where if needed other\npeople can witness the action that is taking place on small LED-Matrix that\nsimulates the game environment.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The main communication between the\nsystem and the player, however, is achieved through a</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>7*4 (i.e. 7 rows and 4 columns) matrix\nmade using Vibration Motors where each grid point is meant to simulate a pixel\nof the game that is being played. We have used an Arduino Mega microcontroller\nthat runs the game and is responsible for the communication via the haptic grid\nand the LED grid.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":299,"align":"wide"} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image alignwide"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/blind-project-consol.png" alt="" class="wp-image-299"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>The\nAndroid App </strong>is mainly responsible for the audio\ncommunication. It enables the communication between player and system using simple\nleft or right swipes. It is also an essential component for the game to start,\nas well as responsible for the onboarding instruction. The students used\nMit-AppInventor2 to develop the application and used the Text-To-Speech functionality\nfor the onboarding process as well as reading the final score to the player. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The communication between the 2\ncomponents is achieved using a simple HC-05 Bluetooth.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br>\nIn a very short span of time, IIIT Delhi\nhas created a name for itself in India and abroad for being a center of quality\neducation and research in IT and interdisciplinary areas and has established a\nstrong research culture, focused research groups, and innovative education\nprograms. These few of the many wonderful\nprojects by our students are an epitome of how IIIT Delhi has become one of the most promising young institutions for\neducation and research in India.<strong></strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Stay tuned for more such work by our\nstudents! </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Thinking Out of the Box! Course Projects by IIIT Delhi Students', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '297-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-02-13 11:51:37', '2020-02-13 06:21:37', '', 297, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/297-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0); INSERT INTO `wp_posts` (`ID`, `post_author`, `post_date`, `post_date_gmt`, `post_content`, `post_title`, `post_excerpt`, `post_status`, `comment_status`, `ping_status`, `post_password`, `post_name`, `to_ping`, `pinged`, `post_modified`, `post_modified_gmt`, `post_content_filtered`, `post_parent`, `guid`, `menu_order`, `post_type`, `post_mime_type`, `comment_count`) VALUES (306, 1, '2020-02-13 11:55:44', '2020-02-13 06:25:44', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>At IIIT\nDelhi, we believe in giving our students opportunities beyond the regular\nclassroom teachings through various Btech and Mtech programs including some\nvery fascinating programs like Computer Science and Design, Computer Science\nand Artificial Intelligence etc. You can view the list of all programs <a href="https://iiitd.ac.in/academics/btech">here</a>. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We offer an array of courses for the students to choose from. A great amount of time and effort is put in designing each and every course at our institute in a manner which not only makes our students academically strong, but also helps them to think out of the box to bring out the researcher in them. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>To keep up with the latest\ntrends in the world of technology we have introduced some very interesting\ncourses in the curriculum like:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li><em>Designing Human-Centered\nSystems</em> course which is an introduction to\ndesigning, prototyping, and evaluating user interfaces. It focuses on how to\ndesign human-centered systems that people find useful and usable and is\ninspired by the course that Prof. Jason Hong teaches at CMU, Designing\nHuman-Centered Systems. </li><li><em>Artificial Intelligence</em>, a\nname that has become an integral part of technology in our daily lives. With\nincrease in usage, there is a significant requirement of researchers who can\nunderstand AI and build AI technologies. Through this course we introduce the students to\nvarious search techniques, knowledge representation, reasoning, and learning\nand enable them to utilize AI for application in real world.</li><li><em>Advanced Internet of Things</em> course delves deeper into some of the\ntechnologies pertinent to IoT and students will be exposed to some of the\nlatest research findings in IoT.</li><li><em>Game Development and Design</em> is a hands-on project-based course which\nintroduces students to the fundamentals of game development & design using\nthe Unreal 4 game engine. Topics include level design, lighting, materials,\nparticle effects, game AI, game logic, user input mappings, audio, physics and\nmotion. Students will learn to implement custom game logic using the Blueprints\nVisual Scripting system. </li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Apart from these, we have many other courses that you can view <a href="https://iiitd.ac.in/academics/courses/institute">here</a>. As a part of their course curriculum, students have to submit projects based on the course they choose. Here are few impressive projects by our students:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li><strong>AI solution for real-time monitoring and cleaning of interior space</strong></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Course: Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Instructor: Dr. Grace\nEden (Assistant Professor, HCD)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Students: Aman Rehman,\nKyzyl Monteiro & Vishal Singh Sengar</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Our students from\nCSD department worked on an AI solution <strong>SaphAI\n</strong>that aims at shifting from a complete routine based cleaning system to a\nroutine-cum-demand based cleaning system. This is done using Artificial\nIntelligence for monitoring the campus space for litter detection, weather\nanalysis and analyzing staff schedules. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>By analyzing\na combination of these factors the system recommends rooms and areas for\ncleaning on priority and urgency levels. Consequently, they attempt to improve\nthe efficiency and effectiveness of cleaning services and the experience for\nall stakeholders: the In-charge, cleaning staff members and the students. Three\ninterfaces were built, one each for all the stakeholders. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A new device\nfor cleaning staff members was prototyped which listed all the rooms and areas\nassigned to clean. Each item in the list shows the reason for the request.\nCleaning staff members could also provide feedback for requests. This was made\nto separate personal and professional commitments since current mechanism uses\nstaff''s phone for both purposes.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A mobile app\nfor students was designed which enabled students to schedule room services as\nand when required. They could schedule services instantly or for a later time.\nIt also enabled students to list the reason for request so that appropriate\nequipment could be arranged. Appropriate feedback for each service was also\ntaken.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>An interface\nfor the In-charge was made which listed all the data required by them. This\nincluded monitoring of the entire campus, list of requests, staff schedules,\nautomatic task assignment, etc. All the recommendations came with reasons. Improvement\nin the system comes from the response on the In-charge by accepting and/or\nrejecting recommendations made by the system. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":304} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/1-768x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-304"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The students tested their solutions with all the stakeholders and design was made to cater all of them. An end inclusion was a door hanger. This idea was inspired by the ''Slippery floor'' board that is placed by the cleaning staff. This was added to be a subtle reminder to students to try and keep the rooms clean and respect the cleaning staff''s work more. However, this hasn’t been tested yet.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li><strong>HungerDeal: Development of Mobile Application for the\nComparison of Food Delivery Applications</strong><strong></strong></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Course: Design of Interactive Systems</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Instructor: Rajiv Ratn Shah (Assistant Professor (CSE, HCD))</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Students: Gaurav Gautam, Jatin Singhal,\nKanupriya Singh and Shruti Dabas</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br> The team worked on developing a system that enables easy and efficient comparison of prices for the selected dish over multiple food delivery applications. The need of such an app raised from the fact that the competition amongst food delivery apps is increasing with so many options to choose from. As a result of this, the service provided by these applications differs on a lot of parameters like cost, delivery time and restaurant available. Due to the difference in delivery charges, service charges, and packaging charges, the final price of products differs a lot, thus making it increasingly difficult for users to get the best price. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The aim of this study\nis to provide an app-based solution that\ncompares the services of the same dish ordered from various food delivery\napplications and guides the user to order from the application that maximizes\nhis savings and provides him/ her with the best services. User studies,\ncontextual inquiries, and evaluation are carried out at every step of the\ndesign and development process to ensure that the product has human-centered\ndesign at its core.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Further, the objective of\nthe application is to yield accurate prices so as to provide the user with a\ncherishing experience as the difference in prices is rather small, so giving an\napproximate range would make the result of the comparison redundant. Thus at\nthe backend, Selenium web scraper is used to obtain real-time data i.e. food\nprices and delivery times for a particular dish selected in their application\n“HungerDeal”. Once the user clicks on the compare option, the Selenium scraper\nruns a data scraping script at the backend on the web portals of various food\ndelivery applications like Swiggy, Zomato and UberEats, after which it provides\nthe delivery time and total price of the food item. To further improve upon the\nspeed, the system saves the results of the user’s previous compares in its\ndatabase. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:cover {"url":"https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/HungerDeal.mp4","id":298,"backgroundType":"video"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-cover has-background-dim"><video class="wp-block-cover__video-background" autoplay muted loop src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/HungerDeal.mp4"></video></div>\n<!-- /wp:cover -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The design process for the application starts with the creation of low fidelity prototypes to get a basic essence of the layout for the application and get user feedback at initial stages. Paper prototypes are reiterated by incorporating user feedback. This process is repeated multiple times and digital high fidelity prototypes are created at a later stage which is then made into a functional prototype using Android Studio. The application underwent a series of the participant and expert-based evaluations which revealed that it reduces the time and effort the user has to put in to find food at the cheapest price.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li><strong>Gaming\nConsole for the Blind- A look into haptic HCI for gaming</strong></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Course: Design of Interactive Systems</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Instructor: Rajiv Ratn Shah (Assistant Professor (CSE, HCD))</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Students: Angel Walia, Mayank Jain, Prakhar\nGoel and Varnika Kairon</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In modern society, there are various\nmodes and techniques for entertaining people through games using technologies\nsuch as gaming consoles, massive multiplayer online games, mobile application\ngames, etc. However, a key component of all these games is their ability to\nprovide life-like visuals using excellent graphics quality. Now such an\nessential component of games proves to be useless when we delve into developing\ngames for visually-impaired people. As such, there are only a few limited types\nof games available to them, most of which are non-tech based games. Our\nstudents wanted to explore the various ways in which visually impaired people\ncan play games, more specifically give input and receive output other than just\naudio. They took to using haptics as a medium and implemented a gaming console\nprimarily based on haptic feedback along with audio feedback.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The aim is to give visually impaired player\na gaming experience which is more than just audio, as all current games targeted\ntowards the visually impaired only use audio as the major output medium. The\nentire setup includes two components. (a) The Tactile Box or the Console itself\nand (b) The Android App</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>The\nTactile Box </strong>is responsible for processing the game\nthat is currently being played as well as the communication from the system to\nthe user during the play period. It is also the component where if needed other\npeople can witness the action that is taking place on small LED-Matrix that\nsimulates the game environment.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The main communication between the\nsystem and the player, however, is achieved through a</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>7*4 (i.e. 7 rows and 4 columns) matrix\nmade using Vibration Motors where each grid point is meant to simulate a pixel\nof the game that is being played. We have used an Arduino Mega microcontroller\nthat runs the game and is responsible for the communication via the haptic grid\nand the LED grid.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":299,"align":"wide"} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image alignwide"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/blind-project-consol.png" alt="" class="wp-image-299"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>The\nAndroid App </strong>is mainly responsible for the audio\ncommunication. It enables the communication between player and system using simple\nleft or right swipes. It is also an essential component for the game to start,\nas well as responsible for the onboarding instruction. The students used\nMit-AppInventor2 to develop the application and used the Text-To-Speech functionality\nfor the onboarding process as well as reading the final score to the player. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The communication between the 2\ncomponents is achieved using a simple HC-05 Bluetooth.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br>\nIn a very short span of time, IIIT Delhi\nhas created a name for itself in India and abroad for being a center of quality\neducation and research in IT and interdisciplinary areas and has established a\nstrong research culture, focused research groups, and innovative education\nprograms. These few of the many wonderful\nprojects by our students are an epitome of how IIIT Delhi has become one of the most promising young institutions for\neducation and research in India.<strong></strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Stay tuned for more such work by our\nstudents! </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Thinking Out of the Box! 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A great amount of time and effort is put in designing each and every course at our institute in a manner which not only makes our students academically strong, but also helps them to think out of the box to bring out the researcher in them. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>To keep up with the latest\ntrends in the world of technology we have introduced some very interesting\ncourses in the curriculum like:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li><em>Designing Human-Centered\nSystems</em> course which is an introduction to\ndesigning, prototyping, and evaluating user interfaces. It focuses on how to\ndesign human-centered systems that people find useful and usable and is\ninspired by the course that Prof. Jason Hong teaches at CMU, Designing\nHuman-Centered Systems. </li><li><em>Artificial Intelligence</em>, a\nname that has become an integral part of technology in our daily lives. With\nincrease in usage, there is a significant requirement of researchers who can\nunderstand AI and build AI technologies. Through this course we introduce the students to\nvarious search techniques, knowledge representation, reasoning, and learning\nand enable them to utilize AI for application in real world.</li><li><em>Advanced Internet of Things</em> course delves deeper into some of the\ntechnologies pertinent to IoT and students will be exposed to some of the\nlatest research findings in IoT.</li><li><em>Game Development and Design</em> is a hands-on project-based course which\nintroduces students to the fundamentals of game development & design using\nthe Unreal 4 game engine. Topics include level design, lighting, materials,\nparticle effects, game AI, game logic, user input mappings, audio, physics and\nmotion. Students will learn to implement custom game logic using the Blueprints\nVisual Scripting system. </li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Apart from these, we have many other courses that you can view <a href="https://iiitd.ac.in/academics/courses/institute">here</a>. As a part of their course curriculum, students have to submit projects based on the course they choose. Here are few impressive projects by our students:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>AI solution for real-time monitoring and cleaning of interior space</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Course: Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Instructor: Dr. Grace\nEden (Assistant Professor, HCD)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Students: Aman Rehman,\nKyzyl Monteiro & Vishal Singh Sengar</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Our students from\nCSD department worked on an AI solution <strong>SaphAI\n</strong>that aims at shifting from a complete routine based cleaning system to a\nroutine-cum-demand based cleaning system. This is done using Artificial\nIntelligence for monitoring the campus space for litter detection, weather\nanalysis and analyzing staff schedules. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>By analyzing\na combination of these factors the system recommends rooms and areas for\ncleaning on priority and urgency levels. Consequently, they attempt to improve\nthe efficiency and effectiveness of cleaning services and the experience for\nall stakeholders: the In-charge, cleaning staff members and the students. Three\ninterfaces were built, one each for all the stakeholders. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A new device\nfor cleaning staff members was prototyped which listed all the rooms and areas\nassigned to clean. Each item in the list shows the reason for the request.\nCleaning staff members could also provide feedback for requests. This was made\nto separate personal and professional commitments since current mechanism uses\nstaff''s phone for both purposes.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A mobile app\nfor students was designed which enabled students to schedule room services as\nand when required. They could schedule services instantly or for a later time.\nIt also enabled students to list the reason for request so that appropriate\nequipment could be arranged. Appropriate feedback for each service was also\ntaken.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>An interface\nfor the In-charge was made which listed all the data required by them. This\nincluded monitoring of the entire campus, list of requests, staff schedules,\nautomatic task assignment, etc. All the recommendations came with reasons. Improvement\nin the system comes from the response on the In-charge by accepting and/or\nrejecting recommendations made by the system. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":304} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/1-768x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-304"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The students tested their solutions with all the stakeholders and design was made to cater all of them. An end inclusion was a door hanger. This idea was inspired by the ''Slippery floor'' board that is placed by the cleaning staff. This was added to be a subtle reminder to students to try and keep the rooms clean and respect the cleaning staff''s work more. However, this hasn’t been tested yet.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>HungerDeal: Development of Mobile Application for the Comparison of Food Delivery Applications</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Course: Design of Interactive Systems</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Instructor: Rajiv Ratn Shah (Assistant Professor (CSE, HCD))</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Students: Gaurav Gautam, Jatin Singhal,\nKanupriya Singh and Shruti Dabas</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> The team worked on developing a system that enables easy and efficient comparison of prices for the selected dish over multiple food delivery applications. The need of such an app raised from the fact that the competition amongst food delivery apps is increasing with so many options to choose from. As a result of this, the service provided by these applications differs on a lot of parameters like cost, delivery time and restaurant available. Due to the difference in delivery charges, service charges, and packaging charges, the final price of products differs a lot, thus making it increasingly difficult for users to get the best price. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The aim of this study\nis to provide an app-based solution that\ncompares the services of the same dish ordered from various food delivery\napplications and guides the user to order from the application that maximizes\nhis savings and provides him/ her with the best services. User studies,\ncontextual inquiries, and evaluation are carried out at every step of the\ndesign and development process to ensure that the product has human-centered\ndesign at its core.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Further, the objective of\nthe application is to yield accurate prices so as to provide the user with a\ncherishing experience as the difference in prices is rather small, so giving an\napproximate range would make the result of the comparison redundant. Thus at\nthe backend, Selenium web scraper is used to obtain real-time data i.e. food\nprices and delivery times for a particular dish selected in their application\n“HungerDeal”. Once the user clicks on the compare option, the Selenium scraper\nruns a data scraping script at the backend on the web portals of various food\ndelivery applications like Swiggy, Zomato and UberEats, after which it provides\nthe delivery time and total price of the food item. To further improve upon the\nspeed, the system saves the results of the user’s previous compares in its\ndatabase. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:cover {"url":"https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/HungerDeal.mp4","id":298,"backgroundType":"video"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-cover has-background-dim"><video class="wp-block-cover__video-background" autoplay muted loop src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/HungerDeal.mp4"></video></div>\n<!-- /wp:cover -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The design process for the application starts with the creation of low fidelity prototypes to get a basic essence of the layout for the application and get user feedback at initial stages. Paper prototypes are reiterated by incorporating user feedback. This process is repeated multiple times and digital high fidelity prototypes are created at a later stage which is then made into a functional prototype using Android Studio. The application underwent a series of the participant and expert-based evaluations which revealed that it reduces the time and effort the user has to put in to find food at the cheapest price.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Gaming Console for the Blind- A look into haptic HCI for gaming</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Course: Design of Interactive Systems</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Instructor: Rajiv Ratn Shah (Assistant Professor (CSE, HCD))</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Students: Angel Walia, Mayank Jain, Prakhar\nGoel and Varnika Kairon</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In modern society, there are various\nmodes and techniques for entertaining people through games using technologies\nsuch as gaming consoles, massive multiplayer online games, mobile application\ngames, etc. However, a key component of all these games is their ability to\nprovide life-like visuals using excellent graphics quality. Now such an\nessential component of games proves to be useless when we delve into developing\ngames for visually-impaired people. As such, there are only a few limited types\nof games available to them, most of which are non-tech based games. Our\nstudents wanted to explore the various ways in which visually impaired people\ncan play games, more specifically give input and receive output other than just\naudio. They took to using haptics as a medium and implemented a gaming console\nprimarily based on haptic feedback along with audio feedback.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The aim is to give visually impaired player\na gaming experience which is more than just audio, as all current games targeted\ntowards the visually impaired only use audio as the major output medium. The\nentire setup includes two components. (a) The Tactile Box or the Console itself\nand (b) The Android App</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>The\nTactile Box </strong>is responsible for processing the game\nthat is currently being played as well as the communication from the system to\nthe user during the play period. It is also the component where if needed other\npeople can witness the action that is taking place on small LED-Matrix that\nsimulates the game environment.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The main communication between the\nsystem and the player, however, is achieved through a</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>7*4 (i.e. 7 rows and 4 columns) matrix\nmade using Vibration Motors where each grid point is meant to simulate a pixel\nof the game that is being played. We have used an Arduino Mega microcontroller\nthat runs the game and is responsible for the communication via the haptic grid\nand the LED grid.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":299,"align":"wide"} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image alignwide"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/blind-project-consol.png" alt="" class="wp-image-299"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>The\nAndroid App </strong>is mainly responsible for the audio\ncommunication. It enables the communication between player and system using simple\nleft or right swipes. It is also an essential component for the game to start,\nas well as responsible for the onboarding instruction. The students used\nMit-AppInventor2 to develop the application and used the Text-To-Speech functionality\nfor the onboarding process as well as reading the final score to the player. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The communication between the 2\ncomponents is achieved using a simple HC-05 Bluetooth.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br>\nIn a very short span of time, IIIT Delhi\nhas created a name for itself in India and abroad for being a center of quality\neducation and research in IT and interdisciplinary areas and has established a\nstrong research culture, focused research groups, and innovative education\nprograms. These few of the many wonderful\nprojects by our students are an epitome of how IIIT Delhi has become one of the most promising young institutions for\neducation and research in India.<strong></strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Stay tuned for more such work by our\nstudents! </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Thinking Out of the Box! Course Projects by IIIT Delhi Students', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '297-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-02-13 11:59:12', '2020-02-13 06:29:12', '', 297, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/297-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (308, 1, '2020-02-14 14:10:55', '2020-02-14 08:40:55', '<!-- wp:image -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/IEEE_JSTSP-600x364.gif" alt=""/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>\n\nResearchers at IIITD are working at the intersection of compression and hardware acceleration of Deep Learning models. The goal is to develop AI/ML solutions that can perform equally well on the edge, where the availability of resources like power, computation and memory is substantially limited. This research introduces a novel Symmetric k-means based compression algorithm that is specifically designed to support a new FPGA-based hardware acceleration scheme by reducing the number of inference-time multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations by up to 98%. As opposed to popular quantization based model compression schemes that are typically evaluated on classification tasks, this approach works well for regression tasks as well. The approach is evaluated for different computer vision tasks like image classification, object detection and depth estimation over different Convolutional Neural Network architectures.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This work has recently been accepted as a Special Issue paper in the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (IF=6.688) with the title "Symmetric k-means for Deep Neural Network Compression and Hardware Acceleration on FPGAs". The team responsible for this accomplishment comprises of Akshay Jain (PhD scholar, IIITD), Pulkit Goel (B.Tech. ECE graduate, IIITD), Shivam Aggarwal (B.Tech. ECE 4th year, IIITD), Dr. Alexander Fell (Adjunct Faculty, IIITD) and Dr. Saket Anand (Faculty, IIITD). 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The goal is to develop AI/ML solutions that can perform equally well on the edge, where the availability of resources like power, computation and memory is substantially limited. This research introduces a novel Symmetric k-means based compression algorithm that is specifically designed to support a new FPGA-based hardware acceleration scheme by reducing the number of inference-time multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations by up to 98%. As opposed to popular quantization based model compression schemes that are typically evaluated on classification tasks, this approach works well for regression tasks as well. The approach is evaluated for different computer vision tasks like image classification, object detection and depth estimation over different Convolutional Neural Network architectures.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This work has recently been accepted as a Special Issue paper in the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (IF=6.688) with the title "Symmetric k-means for Deep Neural Network Compression and Hardware Acceleration on FPGAs". The team responsible for this accomplishment comprises of Akshay Jain (PhD scholar, IIITD), Pulkit Goel (B.Tech. ECE graduate, IIITD), Shivam Aggarwal (B.Tech. ECE 4th year, IIITD), Dr. Alexander Fell (Adjunct Faculty, IIITD) and Dr. Saket Anand (Faculty, IIITD). This work was partially supported by Infosys Center for Artificial Intelligence at IIIT-Delhi and Microsoft Research, India.\n\n</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Symmetric k-means for Deep Neural Network Compression and Hardware Acceleration on FPGAs', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '308-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-02-14 14:10:55', '2020-02-14 08:40:55', '', 308, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/308-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (311, 1, '2020-02-27 11:37:33', '2020-02-27 06:07:33', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>While PhD, the highest educational qualification, gives you all the right to call yourself a “doctor”, it also involves experiencing a journey that is not a cakewalk. Experiencing a doctoral journey is the most important phase in an individual’s life that helps in character as well as career building. It surely is a difficult journey but a journey worth all the hard work.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Unfortunately, in many cases, things don’t go smooth with a PhD student. Many PhDs experience doubts, setbacks, some even fail to the extent that they refrain from it. Previous studies on the experience of a doctoral candidate have suggested that the students face many difficulties during their studies which are sufficient to dishevel their doctoral research.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But what are those struggles or challenges that the PhD students face? A thorough research online leads us to summarize a few common struggles that every PhD student faces. Let us have a look at those challenges below and how IIIT Delhi as a university supports its PhD students to make their doctoral journey a pleasant one:-</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list {"ordered":true} -->\n<ol><li><strong>Time Management</strong>- Appropriate time management is one of the factors that play an important role in making a PhD student’s experience better. Many students feel that PhD is taking their entire time and disrupting their social life. But what the students need to do is prioritize the tasks and then focus on completing those tasks. This will help them to allot quality time to their research and thesis while maintaining a good work-life balance. At IIIT Delhi we ensure that our students are able to manage their time efficiently. Thus, preference is given to the PhD students for allocation of the hostels. IIIT-Delhi Also, our labs are open 24*7 making it convenient for the PhD students to work at any hour of the day.</li><li> <strong>Stress/Feeling of Isolation</strong>- Getting a doctorate degree is a tedious task that can make you feel disconnected from your family and friends. Isolation is one of the most common problems faced by PhD students. PhD candidates work alone most of the time, while they see their friends working in teams at their offices, and having a better social life than them. This can make the PhD students feel lonelier. They start losing their motivation and ultimately become stressed or depressed. We, at IIIT Delhi, understand the dilemma that PhD students face. We have a Well- Being Cell on our campus that offers free and confidential psychological support to all the students and staff members of the university. The cell has a full-time counsellor and a visiting faculty. The students can consult anytime they feel stressed. </li><li> <strong>Thesis Writing</strong>- Starting with thesis writing is extremely challenging for many PhD students. There are times when students are unclear on where to start or they get stuck in the middle. At IIIT Delhi, we don’t let this discourage our PhD students. We provide a ‘Research Methodology’ course once in an academic year as a part of a PhD student’s curriculum. The course covers various topics including how to present the research work </li><li> <strong>Travel Grants/Funding</strong>- Many PhD students rely on external funding to support themselves while studying. This leaves a student in ambiguity making them extremely stressful. We, at IIIT- Delhi, offer our own fellowship to PhD students ranging from INR 31,000/- to INR 35,000/- per month along with an annual contingency amount of INR 10,000/-. For attending international conferences, we offer our PhD students travel support up to INR 2 Lakh. In addition to this, we also provide support of INR 50,000/- to our PhD students towards the purchase of laptop/ desktop </li><li> <strong>Work-Life Balance</strong>- It is a very common notion that a PhD student is expected to study all the time. However, there are times when PhD students are not able to maintain a balance between their personal and work life. Here, at IIIT-Delhi, we make sure that our PhD students lead a healthy social life. Our well-being cell conducts sessions, specially curated for PhD students to help them in achieving a better work-life balance. Apart from this, we provide a separate accommodation facility to married PhDs to live with their family. </li><li> <strong>Issues with Supervisor</strong>- A healthy relationship between a PhD student and his/her advisor is another eminent factor that contributes to a PhD student’s success. Many PhD candidates are perplexed if they feel that their advisor is either giving them bad advice, is unavailable most of the times or they are assigned more than one advisor who gives them contrary advice. At IIIT- Delhi, we have made proper guidelines to facilitate such issues. </li></ol>\n<!-- /wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Earning a doctoral degree requires hard work, vision and commitment. With the right resources, support and guidance IIIT-Delhi strives to make your experience better throughout the journey and help you thrive in your career. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> <a href="https://iiitd.ac.in/admission/phd/apr2020">Apply</a> for PhD Programs at IIIT-Delhi.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Experience a pleasant PhD journey with IIIT-Delhi!', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'experience-a-pleasant-phd-journey-with-iiit-delhi', '', '', '2020-02-27 11:44:52', '2020-02-27 06:14:52', '', 0, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?p=311', 0, 'post', '', 0), (312, 1, '2020-02-27 11:37:15', '2020-02-27 06:07:15', '', 'image (12)', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', 'image-12-2', '', '', '2020-02-27 11:37:15', '2020-02-27 06:07:15', '', 311, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/image-12.png', 0, 'attachment', 'image/png', 0), (313, 1, '2020-02-27 11:37:33', '2020-02-27 06:07:33', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>While PhD, the highest educational qualification, gives you all the right to call yourself a “doctor”, it also involves experiencing a journey that is not a cakewalk. Experiencing a doctoral journey is the most important phase in an individual’s life that helps in character as well as career building. It surely is a difficult journey but a journey worth all the hard work.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Unfortunately, in many cases, things don’t go smooth with a PhD student. Many PhDs experience doubts, setbacks, some even fail to the extent that they refrain from it. Previous studies on the experience of a doctoral candidate have suggested that the students face many difficulties during their studies which are sufficient to dishevel their doctoral research.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But what are those struggles or challenges that the PhD students face? A thorough research online leads us to summarize a few common struggles that every PhD student faces. Let us have a look at those challenges below and how IIIT Delhi as a university supports its PhD students to make their doctoral journey a pleasant one:-</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list {"ordered":true} -->\n<ol><li>Time Management- Appropriate time management is one of the factors that play an important role in making a PhD student’s experience better. Many students feel that PhD is taking their entire time and disrupting their social life. But what the students need to do is prioritize the tasks and then focus on completing those tasks. This will help them to allot quality time to their research and thesis while maintaining a good work-life balance. At IIIT Delhi we ensure that our students are able to manage their time efficiently. Thus, preference is given to the PhD students for allocation of the hostels. IIIT-Delhi Also, our labs are open 24*7 making it convenient for the PhD students to work at any hour of the day.</li><li> Stress/Feeling of Isolation- Getting a doctorate degree is a tedious task that can make you feel disconnected from your family and friends. Isolation is one of the most common problems faced by PhD students. PhD candidates work alone most of the time, while they see their friends working in teams at their offices, and having a better social life than them. This can make the PhD students feel lonelier. They start losing their motivation and ultimately become stressed or depressed. We, at IIIT Delhi, understand the dilemma that PhD students face. We have a Well- Being Cell on our campus that offers free and confidential psychological support to all the students and staff members of the university. The cell has a full-time counsellor and a visiting faculty. The students can consult anytime they feel stressed. </li><li> Thesis Writing- Starting with thesis writing is extremely challenging for many PhD students. There are times when students are unclear on where to start or they get stuck in the middle. At IIIT Delhi, we don’t let this discourage our PhD students. We provide a ‘Research Methodology’ course once in an academic year as a part of a PhD student’s curriculum. The course covers various topics including how to present the research work </li><li> Travel Grants/Funding- Many PhD students rely on external funding to support themselves while studying. This leaves a student in ambiguity making them extremely stressful. We, at IIIT- Delhi, offer our own fellowship to PhD students ranging from INR 31,000/- to INR 35,000/- per month along with an annual contingency amount of INR 10,000/-. For attending international conferences, we offer our PhD students travel support up to INR 2 Lakh. In addition to this, we also provide support of INR 50,000/- to our PhD students towards the purchase of laptop/ desktop </li><li> Work-Life Balance- It is a very common notion that a PhD student is expected to study all the time. However, there are times when PhD students are not able to maintain a balance between their personal and work life. Here, at IIIT-Delhi, we make sure that our PhD students lead a healthy social life. Our well-being cell conducts sessions, specially curated for PhD students to help them in achieving a better work-life balance. Apart from this, we provide a separate accommodation facility to married PhDs to live with their family. </li><li> Issues with Supervisor- A healthy relationship between a PhD student and his/her advisor is another eminent factor that contributes to a PhD student’s success. Many PhD candidates are perplexed if they feel that their advisor is either giving them bad advice, is unavailable most of the times or they are assigned more than one advisor who gives them contrary advice. At IIIT- Delhi, we have made proper guidelines to facilitate such issues. </li></ol>\n<!-- /wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Earning a doctoral degree requires hard work, vision and commitment. With the right resources, support and guidance IIIT-Delhi strives to make your experience better throughout the journey and help you thrive in your career. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> <a href="https://iiitd.ac.in/admission/phd/apr2020">Apply</a> for PhD Programs at IIIT-Delhi.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Experience a pleasant PhD journey with IIIT-Delhi!', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '311-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-02-27 11:37:33', '2020-02-27 06:07:33', '', 311, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/311-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0); INSERT INTO `wp_posts` (`ID`, `post_author`, `post_date`, `post_date_gmt`, `post_content`, `post_title`, `post_excerpt`, `post_status`, `comment_status`, `ping_status`, `post_password`, `post_name`, `to_ping`, `pinged`, `post_modified`, `post_modified_gmt`, `post_content_filtered`, `post_parent`, `guid`, `menu_order`, `post_type`, `post_mime_type`, `comment_count`) VALUES (314, 1, '2020-02-27 11:44:52', '2020-02-27 06:14:52', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>While PhD, the highest educational qualification, gives you all the right to call yourself a “doctor”, it also involves experiencing a journey that is not a cakewalk. Experiencing a doctoral journey is the most important phase in an individual’s life that helps in character as well as career building. It surely is a difficult journey but a journey worth all the hard work.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Unfortunately, in many cases, things don’t go smooth with a PhD student. Many PhDs experience doubts, setbacks, some even fail to the extent that they refrain from it. Previous studies on the experience of a doctoral candidate have suggested that the students face many difficulties during their studies which are sufficient to dishevel their doctoral research.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But what are those struggles or challenges that the PhD students face? A thorough research online leads us to summarize a few common struggles that every PhD student faces. Let us have a look at those challenges below and how IIIT Delhi as a university supports its PhD students to make their doctoral journey a pleasant one:-</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list {"ordered":true} -->\n<ol><li><strong>Time Management</strong>- Appropriate time management is one of the factors that play an important role in making a PhD student’s experience better. Many students feel that PhD is taking their entire time and disrupting their social life. But what the students need to do is prioritize the tasks and then focus on completing those tasks. This will help them to allot quality time to their research and thesis while maintaining a good work-life balance. At IIIT Delhi we ensure that our students are able to manage their time efficiently. Thus, preference is given to the PhD students for allocation of the hostels. IIIT-Delhi Also, our labs are open 24*7 making it convenient for the PhD students to work at any hour of the day.</li><li> <strong>Stress/Feeling of Isolation</strong>- Getting a doctorate degree is a tedious task that can make you feel disconnected from your family and friends. Isolation is one of the most common problems faced by PhD students. PhD candidates work alone most of the time, while they see their friends working in teams at their offices, and having a better social life than them. This can make the PhD students feel lonelier. They start losing their motivation and ultimately become stressed or depressed. We, at IIIT Delhi, understand the dilemma that PhD students face. We have a Well- Being Cell on our campus that offers free and confidential psychological support to all the students and staff members of the university. The cell has a full-time counsellor and a visiting faculty. The students can consult anytime they feel stressed. </li><li> <strong>Thesis Writing</strong>- Starting with thesis writing is extremely challenging for many PhD students. There are times when students are unclear on where to start or they get stuck in the middle. At IIIT Delhi, we don’t let this discourage our PhD students. We provide a ‘Research Methodology’ course once in an academic year as a part of a PhD student’s curriculum. The course covers various topics including how to present the research work </li><li> <strong>Travel Grants/Funding</strong>- Many PhD students rely on external funding to support themselves while studying. This leaves a student in ambiguity making them extremely stressful. We, at IIIT- Delhi, offer our own fellowship to PhD students ranging from INR 31,000/- to INR 35,000/- per month along with an annual contingency amount of INR 10,000/-. For attending international conferences, we offer our PhD students travel support up to INR 2 Lakh. In addition to this, we also provide support of INR 50,000/- to our PhD students towards the purchase of laptop/ desktop </li><li> <strong>Work-Life Balance</strong>- It is a very common notion that a PhD student is expected to study all the time. However, there are times when PhD students are not able to maintain a balance between their personal and work life. Here, at IIIT-Delhi, we make sure that our PhD students lead a healthy social life. Our well-being cell conducts sessions, specially curated for PhD students to help them in achieving a better work-life balance. Apart from this, we provide a separate accommodation facility to married PhDs to live with their family. </li><li> <strong>Issues with Supervisor</strong>- A healthy relationship between a PhD student and his/her advisor is another eminent factor that contributes to a PhD student’s success. 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In the midst of all this chaos, IIIT-Delhi is making numerous efforts to ensure the safety of its students, faculty and staff and is constantly trying to come up with solutions in compliance with the government’s orders.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Since the last couple of months, cleanliness and hygiene of the campus has been one of the top priorities. The daily periodic cleaning and sanitation of hostel utilities and common areas are maintained by a team of dedicated staff housed in the campus with requisites such as face masks, gloves, frequent hand wash, and providing sanitizers while adhering to social distancing norms. Antimicrobial Sanitization drives are frequently undertaken for common areas and public use hardware areas to ensure disinfection .The team of Operations and Student Affairs comprising of Mr. Anurag , Mr. Umesh, headed by Mr. Sanjay Roy and Dr. Ravi Bhasin monitored all the activities on site overseen by a Facilitation Guidance Committee. All current hostelers are provided single room accommodation so that social distancing norms and cleanliness & hygiene standards can be maintained. A weekly meeting with the current hostellers is also being done along with the chief warden, girls hostel warden and Office of Student Affairs to evaluate any issues or requirements needed. Further, all suggestions are immediately taken care of with the support of the FMS office. Apart from cleanliness & hygiene, Institute counsellors are available 24*7 to assist any requirements related to mental stress or any other issues for the current hostelers.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>At present 39 students are residing in the hostel since the lockdown. All required facilities are provided to the students within the campus itself. Institute also recruited residential full time Doctor and Nurse for residents. Another visiting doctor is also available for residents within the campus. They are provided with food by the cafe /mess outlets. Due care was taken for adequate availability of raw materials that were stocked up well in advance to meet any shortages and ensure clean hygienic and freshly cooked food for them by cooks housed within campus to prevent any spread of the virus.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Entry to outsiders/delivery boys/ visitors is restricted. 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While the assignments and presentations were completed as planned, the end semester examinations were converted to take home examinations in the form of complex assignments. In the interest of all students to reduce uncertainty and anxiety of final year and pre-final year students, it was decided to finish the courses by 30th May 2020 and the grading by 7th June 2020. Looking at the prevailing conditions at the students’ end, we also decided that all the students other than the graduating batches, will be given a chance to improve their performance by re-appearing (if desired by the student) in the makeup end semester examination (optional) when the campus reopens.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>At IIIT-Delhi, the use of technology in education delivery was already well-integrated in our education system and almost the entire academic management is online. 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A lot of participants got swept up in nostalgia and used it as an\nopportunity to just roam around the campus and have fun with their friends,\nforgetting all about the hunt.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[322,323,324,325,326,327,328]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="322" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=322" class="wp-image-322"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-2-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="323" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=323" class="wp-image-323"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-3-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="324" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=324" class="wp-image-324"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-4-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="325" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=325" class="wp-image-325"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-5-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="326" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=326" class="wp-image-326"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-6-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="327" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=327" class="wp-image-327"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-7-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="328" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=328" class="wp-image-328"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":330} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-Result-1024x1024.png" alt="" class="wp-image-330"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We congratulate the winners of this event! 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The event keeps our campus bustling with technology\naficionados from all over Delhi, be it college or school students. The fest has\na little bit of something for everyone; from Robot wars to comedy night, the\nfest covers it all. Last year, we even had the honour of hosting the renowned\ncomedian Rahul Subramanian at our college stage.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Unfortunately, due to the pandemic situation this year, we weren’t able to continue with hosting a college-wide fest. However, that didn’t assuage the spirit and the creative minds of our students. In order to keep the festive spirit alive and to carry forward the legacy of Esya the Cultural Council of IIIT-Delhi planned a HuntIt competition for all the members of the IIIT-Delhi community - past and present alike. HuntIt is the flagship event of Esya which sees competitors hobbling around the campus and sometimes even through the city solving clues in a race against time. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This year, the Cultural Council introduced the HuntIt\ncompetition in a virtual medium. Participants were given 3 hours to finish 7\nclues to win some really amazing prices. For the first 4 rounds, each question\nhad 4 different sets just so that the participants could be sent off on\ndifferent trails. The really committed members of the council thus created\nvarious possible trails that could be followed.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":332,"align":"center","width":547,"height":341} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-1-1024x640.png" alt="" class="wp-image-332" width="547" height="341"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The event saw an overwhelming response with a participation of\nmore than 370 students. The students were not limited to just the B.Tech.\nstudents but also included M.Tech. students, PhDs and the alumni of our\ncollege. The participants were provided with a leaderboard with live updates to\nkeep the competitive oil burning. As and when more teams advanced to the next\nround, the leaderboard was updated.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":329,"align":"center","width":516,"height":516} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-Leaderboard-1024x1024.png" alt="" class="wp-image-329" width="516" height="516"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The event also introduced in its first round - Roblox. Roblox\nis a virtual reality platform which the council used to host a virtual\nenvironment of the college that could help participants experience the college\nnostalgia virtually, if not physically. There were clue codes hidden all over\nthe virtual representation of the Student Centre as well as the Sports Block of\nthe campus. A lot of participants got swept up in nostalgia and used it as an\nopportunity to just roam around the campus and have fun with their friends,\nforgetting all about the hunt.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[323,324,325,326,327,328]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-2-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="323" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=323" class="wp-image-323"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-3-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="324" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=324" class="wp-image-324"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-4-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="325" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=325" class="wp-image-325"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-5-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="326" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=326" class="wp-image-326"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-6-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="327" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=327" class="wp-image-327"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-7-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="328" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=328" class="wp-image-328"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":330,"align":"center","width":516,"height":516} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-Result-1024x1024.png" alt="" class="wp-image-330" width="516" height="516"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We congratulate the winners of this event! It is only fair to\nsay that the event was a big success and we can only hope to see many more\ncreative initiatives from our student body who never fail to surprise us.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'HuntIt - by the Cultural Council of IIIT Delhi', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '321-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-09-18 09:36:12', '2020-09-18 04:06:12', '', 321, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/321-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0); INSERT INTO `wp_posts` (`ID`, `post_author`, `post_date`, `post_date_gmt`, `post_content`, `post_title`, `post_excerpt`, `post_status`, `comment_status`, `ping_status`, `post_password`, `post_name`, `to_ping`, `pinged`, `post_modified`, `post_modified_gmt`, `post_content_filtered`, `post_parent`, `guid`, `menu_order`, `post_type`, `post_mime_type`, `comment_count`) VALUES (334, 1, '2020-09-18 09:38:22', '2020-09-18 04:08:22', '<!-- wp:image {"id":332,"align":"center","width":547,"height":341} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-1-1024x640.png" alt="" class="wp-image-332" width="547" height="341"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Last Friday, 11th September, marked the anniversary of our\nannual tech-fest - Esya. Esya is a wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary event\nspanning over two days. The event keeps our campus bustling with technology\naficionados from all over Delhi, be it college or school students. The fest has\na little bit of something for everyone; from Robot wars to comedy night, the\nfest covers it all. Last year, we even had the honour of hosting the renowned\ncomedian Rahul Subramanian at our college stage.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Unfortunately, due to the pandemic situation this year, we weren’t able to continue with hosting a college-wide fest. However, that didn’t assuage the spirit and the creative minds of our students. In order to keep the festive spirit alive and to carry forward the legacy of Esya the Cultural Council of IIIT-Delhi planned a HuntIt competition for all the members of the IIIT-Delhi community - past and present alike. HuntIt is the flagship event of Esya which sees competitors hobbling around the campus and sometimes even through the city solving clues in a race against time. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This year, the Cultural Council introduced the HuntIt\ncompetition in a virtual medium. Participants were given 3 hours to finish 7\nclues to win some really amazing prices. For the first 4 rounds, each question\nhad 4 different sets just so that the participants could be sent off on\ndifferent trails. The really committed members of the council thus created\nvarious possible trails that could be followed.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The event saw an overwhelming response with a participation of\nmore than 370 students. The students were not limited to just the B.Tech.\nstudents but also included M.Tech. students, PhDs and the alumni of our\ncollege. The participants were provided with a leaderboard with live updates to\nkeep the competitive oil burning. As and when more teams advanced to the next\nround, the leaderboard was updated.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":329,"align":"center","width":516,"height":516} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-Leaderboard-1024x1024.png" alt="" class="wp-image-329" width="516" height="516"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The event also introduced in its first round - Roblox. Roblox\nis a virtual reality platform which the council used to host a virtual\nenvironment of the college that could help participants experience the college\nnostalgia virtually, if not physically. There were clue codes hidden all over\nthe virtual representation of the Student Centre as well as the Sports Block of\nthe campus. 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It is only fair to\nsay that the event was a big success and we can only hope to see many more\ncreative initiatives from our student body who never fail to surprise us.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'HuntIt - by the Cultural Council of IIIT Delhi', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '321-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-09-18 09:38:22', '2020-09-18 04:08:22', '', 321, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/321-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (335, 1, '2020-09-18 09:38:46', '2020-09-18 04:08:46', '<!-- wp:cover {"url":"https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-1-1024x640.png","align":"center","id":332} -->\n<div class="wp-block-cover has-background-dim aligncenter" style="background-image:url(https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-1-1024x640.png)"></div>\n<!-- /wp:cover -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Last Friday, 11th September, marked the anniversary of our\nannual tech-fest - Esya. Esya is a wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary event\nspanning over two days. The event keeps our campus bustling with technology\naficionados from all over Delhi, be it college or school students. The fest has\na little bit of something for everyone; from Robot wars to comedy night, the\nfest covers it all. Last year, we even had the honour of hosting the renowned\ncomedian Rahul Subramanian at our college stage.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Unfortunately, due to the pandemic situation this year, we weren’t able to continue with hosting a college-wide fest. However, that didn’t assuage the spirit and the creative minds of our students. In order to keep the festive spirit alive and to carry forward the legacy of Esya the Cultural Council of IIIT-Delhi planned a HuntIt competition for all the members of the IIIT-Delhi community - past and present alike. 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The participants were provided with a leaderboard with live updates to\nkeep the competitive oil burning. As and when more teams advanced to the next\nround, the leaderboard was updated.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":329,"align":"center","width":516,"height":516} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-Leaderboard-1024x1024.png" alt="" class="wp-image-329" width="516" height="516"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The event also introduced in its first round - Roblox. Roblox\nis a virtual reality platform which the council used to host a virtual\nenvironment of the college that could help participants experience the college\nnostalgia virtually, if not physically. There were clue codes hidden all over\nthe virtual representation of the Student Centre as well as the Sports Block of\nthe campus. 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The event keeps our campus bustling with technology\naficionados from all over Delhi, be it college or school students. The fest has\na little bit of something for everyone; from Robot wars to comedy night, the\nfest covers it all. Last year, we even had the honour of hosting the renowned\ncomedian Rahul Subramanian at our college stage.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Unfortunately, due to the pandemic situation this year, we weren’t able to continue with hosting a college-wide fest. However, that didn’t assuage the spirit and the creative minds of our students. In order to keep the festive spirit alive and to carry forward the legacy of Esya the Cultural Council of IIIT-Delhi planned a HuntIt competition for all the members of the IIIT-Delhi community - past and present alike. HuntIt is the flagship event of Esya which sees competitors hobbling around the campus and sometimes even through the city solving clues in a race against time. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This year, the Cultural Council introduced the HuntIt\ncompetition in a virtual medium. Participants were given 3 hours to finish 7\nclues to win some really amazing prices. For the first 4 rounds, each question\nhad 4 different sets just so that the participants could be sent off on\ndifferent trails. The really committed members of the council thus created\nvarious possible trails that could be followed.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The event saw an overwhelming response with a participation of\nmore than 370 students. The students were not limited to just the B.Tech.\nstudents but also included M.Tech. students, PhDs and the alumni of our\ncollege. The participants were provided with a leaderboard with live updates to\nkeep the competitive oil burning. As and when more teams advanced to the next\nround, the leaderboard was updated.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":329,"align":"center","width":516,"height":516} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-Leaderboard-1024x1024.png" alt="" class="wp-image-329" width="516" height="516"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The event also introduced in its first round - Roblox. Roblox\nis a virtual reality platform which the council used to host a virtual\nenvironment of the college that could help participants experience the college\nnostalgia virtually, if not physically. There were clue codes hidden all over\nthe virtual representation of the Student Centre as well as the Sports Block of\nthe campus. A lot of participants got swept up in nostalgia and used it as an\nopportunity to just roam around the campus and have fun with their friends,\nforgetting all about the hunt.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[323,324,325,326,327,328]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-2-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="323" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=323" class="wp-image-323"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-3-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="324" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=324" class="wp-image-324"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-4-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="325" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=325" class="wp-image-325"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-5-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="326" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=326" class="wp-image-326"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-6-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="327" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=327" class="wp-image-327"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-7-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="328" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=328" class="wp-image-328"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":330,"align":"center","width":516,"height":516} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-Result-1024x1024.png" alt="" class="wp-image-330" width="516" height="516"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We congratulate the winners of this event! It is only fair to\nsay that the event was a big success and we can only hope to see many more\ncreative initiatives from our student body who never fail to surprise us.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'HuntIt - by the Cultural Council of IIIT Delhi', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '321-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-09-18 09:40:26', '2020-09-18 04:10:26', '', 321, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/321-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (337, 1, '2020-09-18 09:58:15', '2020-09-18 04:28:15', '<!-- wp:image {"id":332,"align":"full"} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image alignfull"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-1-1024x640.png" alt="" class="wp-image-332"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>11th September, marked the anniversary of our annual tech-fest - Esya. Esya is a wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary event spanning over two days. The event keeps our campus bustling with technology aficionados from all over Delhi, be it college or school students. The fest has a little bit of something for everyone; from Robot wars to comedy night, the fest covers it all. Last year, we even had the honour of hosting the renowned comedian Rahul Subramanian at our college stage.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Unfortunately, due to the pandemic situation this year, we weren’t able to continue with hosting a college-wide fest. However, that didn’t assuage the spirit and the creative minds of our students. In order to keep the festive spirit alive and to carry forward the legacy of Esya the Cultural Council of IIIT-Delhi planned a HuntIt competition for all the members of the IIIT-Delhi community - past and present alike. HuntIt is the flagship event of Esya which sees competitors hobbling around the campus and sometimes even through the city solving clues in a race against time. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This year, the Cultural Council introduced the HuntIt\ncompetition in a virtual medium. Participants were given 3 hours to finish 7\nclues to win some really amazing prices. For the first 4 rounds, each question\nhad 4 different sets just so that the participants could be sent off on\ndifferent trails. The really committed members of the council thus created\nvarious possible trails that could be followed.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The event saw an overwhelming response with a participation of\nmore than 370 students. The students were not limited to just the B.Tech.\nstudents but also included M.Tech. students, PhDs and the alumni of our\ncollege. The participants were provided with a leaderboard with live updates to\nkeep the competitive oil burning. As and when more teams advanced to the next\nround, the leaderboard was updated.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":329,"align":"center","width":516,"height":516} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-Leaderboard-1024x1024.png" alt="" class="wp-image-329" width="516" height="516"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The event also introduced in its first round - Roblox. Roblox\nis a virtual reality platform which the council used to host a virtual\nenvironment of the college that could help participants experience the college\nnostalgia virtually, if not physically. There were clue codes hidden all over\nthe virtual representation of the Student Centre as well as the Sports Block of\nthe campus. A lot of participants got swept up in nostalgia and used it as an\nopportunity to just roam around the campus and have fun with their friends,\nforgetting all about the hunt.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[323,324,325,326,327,328]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-2-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="323" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=323" class="wp-image-323"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-3-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="324" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=324" class="wp-image-324"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-4-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="325" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=325" class="wp-image-325"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-5-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="326" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=326" class="wp-image-326"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-6-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="327" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=327" class="wp-image-327"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-7-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="328" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=328" class="wp-image-328"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":330,"align":"center","width":516,"height":516} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-Result-1024x1024.png" alt="" class="wp-image-330" width="516" height="516"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We congratulate the winners of this event! It is only fair to\nsay that the event was a big success and we can only hope to see many more\ncreative initiatives from our student body who never fail to surprise us.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'HuntIt - by the Cultural Council of IIIT Delhi', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '321-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-09-18 09:58:15', '2020-09-18 04:28:15', '', 321, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/321-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (338, 1, '2020-09-18 10:03:03', '2020-09-18 04:33:03', '<!-- wp:image {"id":332,"align":"full"} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image alignfull"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-1-1024x640.png" alt="" class="wp-image-332"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>11th September marked the anniversary of our annual tech-fest - Esya. Esya is a wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary event spanning over two days. The event keeps our campus bustling with technology aficionados from all over Delhi, be it college or school students. The fest has a little bit of something for everyone; from Robot wars to comedy night, the fest covers it all. Last year, we even had the honour of hosting the renowned comedian Rahul Subramanian at our college stage.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Unfortunately, due to the pandemic situation this year, we weren’t able to continue with hosting a college-wide fest. However, that didn’t assuage the spirit and the creative minds of our students. In order to keep the festive spirit alive and to carry forward the legacy of Esya the Cultural Council of IIIT-Delhi planned a HuntIt competition for all the members of the IIIT-Delhi community - past and present alike. HuntIt is the flagship event of Esya which sees competitors hobbling around the campus and sometimes even through the city solving clues in a race against time. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This year, the Cultural Council introduced the HuntIt\ncompetition in a virtual medium. Participants were given 3 hours to finish 7\nclues to win some really amazing prices. For the first 4 rounds, each question\nhad 4 different sets just so that the participants could be sent off on\ndifferent trails. The really committed members of the council thus created\nvarious possible trails that could be followed.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The event saw an overwhelming response with a participation of\nmore than 370 students. The students were not limited to just the B.Tech.\nstudents but also included M.Tech. students, PhDs and the alumni of our\ncollege. The participants were provided with a leaderboard with live updates to\nkeep the competitive oil burning. As and when more teams advanced to the next\nround, the leaderboard was updated.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":329,"align":"center","width":516,"height":516} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-Leaderboard-1024x1024.png" alt="" class="wp-image-329" width="516" height="516"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The event also introduced in its first round - Roblox. Roblox\nis a virtual reality platform which the council used to host a virtual\nenvironment of the college that could help participants experience the college\nnostalgia virtually, if not physically. There were clue codes hidden all over\nthe virtual representation of the Student Centre as well as the Sports Block of\nthe campus. A lot of participants got swept up in nostalgia and used it as an\nopportunity to just roam around the campus and have fun with their friends,\nforgetting all about the hunt.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[323,324,325,326,327,328]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-2-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="323" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=323" class="wp-image-323"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-3-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="324" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=324" class="wp-image-324"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-4-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="325" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=325" class="wp-image-325"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-5-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="326" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=326" class="wp-image-326"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-6-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="327" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=327" class="wp-image-327"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-7-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="328" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=328" class="wp-image-328"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":330,"align":"center","width":516,"height":516} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-Result-1024x1024.png" alt="" class="wp-image-330" width="516" height="516"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We congratulate the winners of this event! It is only fair to\nsay that the event was a big success and we can only hope to see many more\ncreative initiatives from our student body who never fail to surprise us.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'HuntIt - by the Cultural Council of IIIT Delhi', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '321-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-09-18 10:03:03', '2020-09-18 04:33:03', '', 321, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/321-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (339, 1, '2020-09-18 10:09:58', '2020-09-18 04:39:58', '<!-- wp:image {"id":332,"align":"full"} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image alignfull"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-1-1024x640.png" alt="" class="wp-image-332"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>11th September marked the anniversary of our annual tech-fest - Esya. Esya is a wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary event spanning over two days. The event keeps our campus bustling with technology aficionados from all over Delhi, be it college or school students. The fest has a little bit of something for everyone; from Robot wars to comedy night, the fest covers it all. Last year, we even had the honour of hosting the renowned comedian Rahul Subramanian at our college stage.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Unfortunately, due to the pandemic situation this year, we weren’t able to continue with hosting a college-wide fest. However, that didn’t assuage the spirit and the creative minds of our students. In order to keep the festive spirit alive and to carry forward the legacy of Esya the Cultural Council of IIIT-Delhi planned a HuntIt competition for all the members of the IIIT-Delhi community - past and present alike. HuntIt is the flagship event of Esya which sees competitors hobbling around the campus and sometimes even through the city solving clues in a race against time. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This year, the Cultural Council introduced the HuntIt\ncompetition in a virtual medium. Participants were given 3 hours to finish 7\nclues to win some really amazing prices. For the first 4 rounds, each question\nhad 4 different sets just so that the participants could be sent off on\ndifferent trails. The really committed members of the council thus created\nvarious possible trails that could be followed.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The event saw an overwhelming response with a participation of\nmore than 370 students. The students were not limited to just the B.Tech.\nstudents but also included M.Tech. students, PhDs and the alumni of our\ncollege. The participants were provided with a leaderboard with live updates to\nkeep the competitive oil burning. As and when more teams advanced to the next\nround, the leaderboard was updated.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":329,"align":"center","width":516,"height":516} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-Leaderboard-1024x1024.png" alt="" class="wp-image-329" width="516" height="516"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The event also introduced in its first round - Roblox. Roblox\nis a virtual reality platform which the council used to host a virtual\nenvironment of the college that could help participants experience the college\nnostalgia virtually, if not physically. There were clue codes hidden all over\nthe virtual representation of the Student Centre as well as the Sports Block of\nthe campus. A lot of participants got swept up in nostalgia and used it as an\nopportunity to just roam around the campus and have fun with their friends,\nforgetting all about the hunt.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[323,324,325,326,327,328]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-2-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="323" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=323" class="wp-image-323"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-3-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="324" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=324" class="wp-image-324"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-4-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="325" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=325" class="wp-image-325"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-5-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="326" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=326" class="wp-image-326"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-6-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="327" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=327" class="wp-image-327"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-7-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="328" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=328" class="wp-image-328"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":330,"align":"center","width":516,"height":516} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-Result-1024x1024.png" alt="" class="wp-image-330" width="516" height="516"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We congratulate the winners of this event! It is only fair to\nsay that the event was a big success and we can only hope to see many more\ncreative initiatives from our student body who never fail to surprise us.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'HuntIt - by the Cultural Council of IIIT Delhi', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '321-autosave-v1', '', '', '2020-09-18 10:09:58', '2020-09-18 04:39:58', '', 321, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/321-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (340, 1, '2020-09-18 10:12:14', '2020-09-18 04:42:14', '<!-- wp:image {"id":332,"align":"full"} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image alignfull"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-1-1024x640.png" alt="" class="wp-image-332"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>11th September marked the anniversary of our annual tech-fest - Esya. Esya is a wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary event spanning over two days. The event keeps our campus bustling with technology aficionados from all over Delhi, be it college or school students. The fest has a little bit of something for everyone; from Robot wars to comedy night, the fest covers it all. Last year, we even had the honour of hosting the renowned comedian Rahul Subramanian at our college stage.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Unfortunately, due to the pandemic situation this year, we weren’t able to continue with hosting a college-wide fest. However, that didn’t assuage the spirit and the creative minds of our students. In order to keep the festive spirit alive and to carry forward the legacy of Esya the Cultural Council of IIIT-Delhi planned a HuntIt competition for all the members of the IIIT-Delhi community - past and present alike. HuntIt is the flagship event of Esya which sees competitors hobbling around the campus and sometimes even through the city solving clues in a race against time. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This year, the Cultural Council introduced the HuntIt\ncompetition in a virtual medium. Participants were given 3 hours to finish 7\nclues to win some really amazing prices. For the first 4 rounds, each question\nhad 4 different sets just so that the participants could be sent off on\ndifferent trails. The really committed members of the council thus created\nvarious possible trails that could be followed.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The event saw an overwhelming response with a participation of\nmore than 370 students. The students were not limited to just the B.Tech.\nstudents but also included M.Tech. students, PhDs and the alumni of our\ncollege. The participants were provided with a leaderboard with live updates to\nkeep the competitive oil burning. As and when more teams advanced to the next\nround, the leaderboard was updated.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":329,"align":"center","width":516,"height":516} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-Leaderboard-1024x1024.png" alt="" class="wp-image-329" width="516" height="516"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The event also introduced in its first round - Roblox. Roblox\nis a virtual reality platform which the council used to host a virtual\nenvironment of the college that could help participants experience the college\nnostalgia virtually, if not physically. There were clue codes hidden all over\nthe virtual representation of the Student Centre as well as the Sports Block of\nthe campus. A lot of participants got swept up in nostalgia and used it as an\nopportunity to just roam around the campus and have fun with their friends,\nforgetting all about the hunt.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[323,324,325,326,327,328]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-2-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="323" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=323" class="wp-image-323"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-3-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="324" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=324" class="wp-image-324"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-4-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="325" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=325" class="wp-image-325"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-5-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="326" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=326" class="wp-image-326"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-6-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="327" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=327" class="wp-image-327"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-7-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="328" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=328" class="wp-image-328"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":330,"align":"center","width":516,"height":516} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-Result-1024x1024.png" alt="" class="wp-image-330" width="516" height="516"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We congratulate the winners of this event! It is only fair to\nsay that the event was a big success and we can only hope to see many more\ncreative initiatives from our student body who never fail to surprise us.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Blog By: <br>Riya Singh, B.Tech. CSD </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'HuntIt - by the Cultural Council of IIIT Delhi', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '321-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-09-18 10:12:14', '2020-09-18 04:42:14', '', 321, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/321-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (341, 1, '2020-09-18 10:12:44', '2020-09-18 04:42:44', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>11th September marked the anniversary of our annual tech-fest - Esya. Esya is a wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary event spanning over two days. The event keeps our campus bustling with technology aficionados from all over Delhi, be it college or school students. The fest has a little bit of something for everyone; from Robot wars to comedy night, the fest covers it all. Last year, we even had the honour of hosting the renowned comedian Rahul Subramanian at our college stage.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Unfortunately, due to the pandemic situation this year, we weren’t able to continue with hosting a college-wide fest. However, that didn’t assuage the spirit and the creative minds of our students. In order to keep the festive spirit alive and to carry forward the legacy of Esya the Cultural Council of IIIT-Delhi planned a HuntIt competition for all the members of the IIIT-Delhi community - past and present alike. HuntIt is the flagship event of Esya which sees competitors hobbling around the campus and sometimes even through the city solving clues in a race against time. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This year, the Cultural Council introduced the HuntIt\ncompetition in a virtual medium. Participants were given 3 hours to finish 7\nclues to win some really amazing prices. For the first 4 rounds, each question\nhad 4 different sets just so that the participants could be sent off on\ndifferent trails. The really committed members of the council thus created\nvarious possible trails that could be followed.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The event saw an overwhelming response with a participation of\nmore than 370 students. The students were not limited to just the B.Tech.\nstudents but also included M.Tech. students, PhDs and the alumni of our\ncollege. The participants were provided with a leaderboard with live updates to\nkeep the competitive oil burning. As and when more teams advanced to the next\nround, the leaderboard was updated.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":329,"align":"center","width":516,"height":516} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-Leaderboard-1024x1024.png" alt="" class="wp-image-329" width="516" height="516"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The event also introduced in its first round - Roblox. Roblox\nis a virtual reality platform which the council used to host a virtual\nenvironment of the college that could help participants experience the college\nnostalgia virtually, if not physically. There were clue codes hidden all over\nthe virtual representation of the Student Centre as well as the Sports Block of\nthe campus. A lot of participants got swept up in nostalgia and used it as an\nopportunity to just roam around the campus and have fun with their friends,\nforgetting all about the hunt.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[323,324,325,326,327,328]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-2-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="323" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=323" class="wp-image-323"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-3-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="324" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=324" class="wp-image-324"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-4-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="325" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=325" class="wp-image-325"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-5-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="326" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=326" class="wp-image-326"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-6-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="327" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=327" class="wp-image-327"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-7-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="328" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=328" class="wp-image-328"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":330,"align":"center","width":516,"height":516} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-Result-1024x1024.png" alt="" class="wp-image-330" width="516" height="516"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We congratulate the winners of this event! It is only fair to\nsay that the event was a big success and we can only hope to see many more\ncreative initiatives from our student body who never fail to surprise us.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Blog By: <br>Riya Singh, B.Tech. 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The fest has a little bit of something for everyone; from Robot wars to comedy night, the fest covers it all. Last year, we even had the honour of hosting the renowned comedian Rahul Subramanian at our college stage.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Unfortunately, due to the pandemic situation this year, we weren’t able to continue with hosting a college-wide fest. However, that didn’t assuage the spirit and the creative minds of our students. In order to keep the festive spirit alive and to carry forward the legacy of Esya the Cultural Council of IIIT-Delhi planned a HuntIt competition for all the members of the IIIT-Delhi community - past and present alike. HuntIt is the flagship event of Esya which sees competitors hobbling around the campus and sometimes even through the city solving clues in a race against time. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This year, the Cultural Council introduced the HuntIt\ncompetition in a virtual medium. Participants were given 3 hours to finish 7\nclues to win some really amazing prices. For the first 4 rounds, each question\nhad 4 different sets just so that the participants could be sent off on\ndifferent trails. The really committed members of the council thus created\nvarious possible trails that could be followed.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The event saw an overwhelming response with a participation of\nmore than 370 students. The students were not limited to just the B.Tech.\nstudents but also included M.Tech. students, PhDs and the alumni of our\ncollege. The participants were provided with a leaderboard with live updates to\nkeep the competitive oil burning. As and when more teams advanced to the next\nround, the leaderboard was updated.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":329,"align":"center","width":516,"height":516} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-Leaderboard-1024x1024.png" alt="" class="wp-image-329" width="516" height="516"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The event also introduced in its first round - Roblox. Roblox\nis a virtual reality platform which the council used to host a virtual\nenvironment of the college that could help participants experience the college\nnostalgia virtually, if not physically. There were clue codes hidden all over\nthe virtual representation of the Student Centre as well as the Sports Block of\nthe campus. A lot of participants got swept up in nostalgia and used it as an\nopportunity to just roam around the campus and have fun with their friends,\nforgetting all about the hunt.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[323,324,325,326,327,328]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-2-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="323" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=323" class="wp-image-323"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-3-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="324" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=324" class="wp-image-324"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-4-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="325" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=325" class="wp-image-325"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-5-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="326" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=326" class="wp-image-326"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-6-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="327" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=327" class="wp-image-327"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-7-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="328" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=328" class="wp-image-328"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":330,"align":"center","width":516,"height":516} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-Result-1024x1024.png" alt="" class="wp-image-330" width="516" height="516"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We congratulate the winners of this event! It is only fair to\nsay that the event was a big success and we can only hope to see many more\ncreative initiatives from our student body who never fail to surprise us.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px;text-align:right">Blog By: Riya Singh, B.Tech. CSD </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'HuntIt - by the Cultural Council of IIIT Delhi', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '321-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-09-18 10:13:43', '2020-09-18 04:43:43', '', 321, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/321-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (343, 1, '2020-09-18 10:14:21', '2020-09-18 04:44:21', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>11th September marked the anniversary of our annual tech-fest - Esya. Esya is a wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary event spanning over two days. The event keeps our campus bustling with technology aficionados from all over Delhi, be it college or school students. The fest has a little bit of something for everyone; from Robot wars to comedy night, the fest covers it all. Last year, we even had the honour of hosting the renowned comedian Rahul Subramanian at our college stage.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Unfortunately, due to the pandemic situation this year, we weren’t able to continue with hosting a college-wide fest. However, that didn’t assuage the spirit and the creative minds of our students. In order to keep the festive spirit alive and to carry forward the legacy of Esya the Cultural Council of IIIT-Delhi planned a HuntIt competition for all the members of the IIIT-Delhi community - past and present alike. HuntIt is the flagship event of Esya which sees competitors hobbling around the campus and sometimes even through the city solving clues in a race against time. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This year, the Cultural Council introduced the HuntIt\ncompetition in a virtual medium. Participants were given 3 hours to finish 7\nclues to win some really amazing prices. For the first 4 rounds, each question\nhad 4 different sets just so that the participants could be sent off on\ndifferent trails. The really committed members of the council thus created\nvarious possible trails that could be followed.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The event saw an overwhelming response with a participation of\nmore than 370 students. The students were not limited to just the B.Tech.\nstudents but also included M.Tech. students, PhDs and the alumni of our\ncollege. The participants were provided with a leaderboard with live updates to\nkeep the competitive oil burning. As and when more teams advanced to the next\nround, the leaderboard was updated.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":329,"align":"center","width":377,"height":377} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-Leaderboard-1024x1024.png" alt="" class="wp-image-329" width="377" height="377"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The event also introduced in its first round - Roblox. Roblox\nis a virtual reality platform which the council used to host a virtual\nenvironment of the college that could help participants experience the college\nnostalgia virtually, if not physically. There were clue codes hidden all over\nthe virtual representation of the Student Centre as well as the Sports Block of\nthe campus. A lot of participants got swept up in nostalgia and used it as an\nopportunity to just roam around the campus and have fun with their friends,\nforgetting all about the hunt.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[323,324,325,326,327,328]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-2-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="323" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=323" class="wp-image-323"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-3-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="324" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=324" class="wp-image-324"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-4-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="325" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=325" class="wp-image-325"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-5-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="326" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=326" class="wp-image-326"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-6-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="327" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=327" class="wp-image-327"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-7-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="328" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=328" class="wp-image-328"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":330,"align":"center","width":395,"height":395} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/HuntIt-Result-1024x1024.png" alt="" class="wp-image-330" width="395" height="395"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We congratulate the winners of this event! It is only fair to\nsay that the event was a big success and we can only hope to see many more\ncreative initiatives from our student body who never fail to surprise us.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px;text-align:right">Blog By: Riya Singh, B.Tech. CSD </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'HuntIt - by the Cultural Council of IIIT Delhi', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '321-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-09-18 10:14:21', '2020-09-18 04:44:21', '', 321, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/321-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (345, 1, '2020-12-02 11:24:27', '2020-12-02 05:54:27', '<!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"left"} -->\n<p style="text-align:left">COVID-19 brought around a wave of changes in all our lives and forced us to rethink our lifestyles. With the rather sudden announcement of the lockdown in March, educational institutes were forced to transition to the online mode and this drastic change proved to be challenging not only for the authorities but also for the students.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We, as students, faced several challenges in adjusting to the online mode of education. The rapidly increasing screen time resulted in spending nearly 8-12 hours a day on the laptop, attending lectures, doing assignments, and studying online. Some of us also faced internet issues, personal issues such as lack of a suitable work environment, and resources which made it hard for us to stay motivated while attending lectures online. The online mode of teaching has been challenging for the faculty too as, without the standard whiteboard technique, it was difficult for them initially to get the concept across in a detailed way. The collaborative environment of studying with peers in hostels and libraries which is an essential aspect of learning at IIITD was also missing. <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Apart from these, Mental health has also been one major challenge for all of us since a lot of students coped with stress about attending lectures, completing deadlines, and uncertainty about grading. Spending practically the whole day in front of a screen not only impacted our attention span but also hampered our ability to learn, leading to lower attendance and lack of class participation. The bandwidth issues also discouraged us from asking questions in live lectures since it makes communication inconvenient. <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>However, these challenges could not dampen the spirit of the IIITD Community. The institute administration and faculty members took notes of the issues that we were facing and overtime put in a lot of effort to conduct the online semester as smoothly as possible. The senate has actively been communicating with us on a regular basis to ensure that all concerns are timely taken into consideration. A lot of efforts have been put into action since the beginning of the virtual model of teaching. Most courses adopted long assignments and deadlines in place of time-bound exams and quizzes to minimize stress due to connectivity issues. In case of certain exceptions, oral exams were conducted for those of us who were facing extreme connectivity issues. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Recently, the institute also started an initiative to reimburse funds for internet charges to students. Faculty and TAs were encouraged to be more considerate of our concerns and make changes in the teaching and evaluation process whenever required. For some of us facing severe issues, the institute lent out laptops too and also allowed for the extension of the semester fees deadline.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>To improve the virtual learning environment, some faculty members have been recording live lectures and sharing them with us to view as and when convenient. Teaching is being done on whiteboards to replicate the whiteboard model as closely as possible. 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The institute administration and faculty members took notes of the issues that we were facing and overtime put in a lot of effort to conduct the online semester as smoothly as possible. The senate has actively been communicating with us on a regular basis to ensure that all concerns are timely taken into consideration. A lot of efforts have been put into action since the beginning of the virtual model of teaching. Most courses adopted long assignments and deadlines in place of time-bound exams and quizzes to minimize stress due to connectivity issues. In case of certain exceptions, oral exams were conducted for those of us who were facing extreme connectivity issues. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Recently, the institute also started an initiative to reimburse funds for internet charges to students. Faculty and TAs were encouraged to be more considerate of our concerns and make changes in the teaching and evaluation process whenever required. For some of us facing severe issues, the institute lent out laptops too and also allowed for the extension of the semester fees deadline.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>To improve the virtual learning environment, some faculty members have been recording live lectures and sharing them with us to view as and when convenient. Teaching is being done on whiteboards to replicate the whiteboard model as closely as possible. The lectures are being conducted at a slower pace and extra tutorial sessions and office hours are held to help us get more clarity and clarify their doubts regularly. <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[350,351]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Online-teaching-Image-2_IIITD-Blog-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="350" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/journey-of-transition-to-online-teaching-through-the-eyes-of-iiitd-students/online-teaching-image-2_iiitd-blog/" class="wp-image-350"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Online-teaching-Image-1_IIITD-Blog-1024x640.png" alt="" data-id="351" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/journey-of-transition-to-online-teaching-through-the-eyes-of-iiitd-students/online-teaching-image-1_iiitd-blog/" class="wp-image-351"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>While the online mode certainly comes with a huge set of challenges for us as well as the faculty, everyone involved has been actively working towards making the situation better and easier to adjust to. We, the students of IIITD commend the administration for making constant efforts and addressing our issues in the most effective way possible. Not just us, but also the faculty and the institute have been incredibly open to changes and have tried their best to adjust and adapt to this mode of teaching. We all hope to be back on campus again soon and restore the hustle and bustle of the IIITD campus.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","customFontSize":13} -->\n<p style="font-size:13px;text-align:right"> Blog By: Chhavi Keswani, CSAM Undergraduate | Batch of 2021 </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Journey of Transition to Online Learning Through The Eyes of IIITD Students', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '345-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-12-02 11:33:50', '2020-12-02 06:03:50', '', 345, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/345-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (357, 1, '2020-12-10 10:56:39', '2020-12-10 05:26:39', '<!-- wp:paragraph {"textColor":"accent","customFontSize":12} -->\n<p style="font-size:12px" class="has-text-color has-accent-color">Originally Published in <a href="https://signalprocessingsociety.org/newsletter/2020/12/series-highlight-women-signal-processing-dr-anubha-gupta">IEEE Signal Processing Society''s December 2020 Newsletter</a>. <br><strong>By</strong>: Dr. Behnaz Ghoraani</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":358,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":25} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide" style="grid-template-columns:25% auto"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/unnamed-4.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-358"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"left","placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":13} -->\n<p style="font-size:13px;text-align:left">In this issue, we interviewed <strong>Dr. Anubha Gupta.</strong> Dr. Anubha received her PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, India in 2006 in Electrical Engineering. She did her second Master''s as a full-time student from the University of Maryland, College Park, the USA from 2008-2010 in Education with a concentration: Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies. She worked as Assistant Director with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India (through Indian Engineering Services) from 1993 to 1999 and as faculty for about 10 years before joining IIIT-Delhi in Dec. 2013, where she is currently working as a Professor. She also worked as the Director of Assessment in the office of the Provost at Bowie State University, Maryland, the USA from October 2010 to April 2011. She has authored/co-authored over 100 technical papers in refereed journals and conferences and has published research papers in both engineering and education. Dr. Anubha is a senior member of IEEE Signal Processing Society, a member of IEEE Women in Engineering Society, Chair of IEEE SPS Delhi Chapter, and is currently serving as an Associate Editor of IEEE Access journal. Her research interests include solving real-life problems using AI, particularly, in biomedical areas of cancer imaging, cancer genomics, fMRI, MRI, EEG, and ECG signal processing. More details about her research work are available on her lab page (<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://sbilab.iiitd.edu.in/index.html" target="_blank">http://sbilab.iiitd.edu.in/index.html</a>). </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {"level":3} -->\n<h3>We approached her with a few questions:</h3>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Q. Why did you become a Professor at IIIT-Delhi?</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">I was born into a family with meager resources. Both my parents are high school graduates. My mother has impacted me most in my life. Although she is a homemaker, she always wanted her daughters to be working professionally and be financially independent. I always liked mathematics and physics because they did not require memorization, unlike biology. While my younger sister chose the medical stream, I moved to engineering. I started my career with the Indian (Engineering) services in 1993 as Assistant Director in All India Radio, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India. In those days, this was considered one of the most prestigious jobs. I worked there for more than five years, completed my master’s from Delhi University while in a full-time job, but eventually developed the desire to do a Ph.D. I did my Ph.D. at the EE department of IIT Delhi from 1999 to 2006. From 2000 to 2008, I also worked as a faculty at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT, now NSUT), Delhi University. Post Ph.D., I again longed for more learning. This time, I wanted to know the issues in higher education such as access, retention, financing, autonomy, accountability, and so on. I did my second master''s as a full-time student from 2008-2010 from the College of Education, University of Maryland, College Park. Post this, I also worked from Oct. 2010 to April 2011 as the director of assessment in the office of the Provost at Bowie State University at Maryland. However, I realized that I am too passionate about the engineering field and perhaps cannot think of dropping out from there. 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In addition, we are also analyzing EEG data, ECG data, and cancer survival data for different medical disorders/diseases. One of the important contributions from my lab is in the area of estimating wavelets from given signals- compactly supported wavelets, with integer down sampling or rationally decimated filter banks. In the near future, I would like to see their application in biomedical areas. Recently, one of my Ph.D. students worked on energy harvesting ADCs with some of the best academic partners and colleagues. The core idea is simple. When we sample a signal to convert from continuous-time to discrete-time, why not harvest energy from the signal waveform that is otherwise wasted. This work will also prove important in the near future in designing self-powered devices.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Q. What challenges did you face to get to where you are today?</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">I would say that I am too fortunate that my parents and my siblings always supported me. In my opinion, as we go in our lives, we face challenges, some people experience more and some less. But in the end, whether we succeed or lose depends on the skill set that we have at that time to thwart those challenges. Whenever I failed, I introspected within me as to what skills I lacked or how I can utilize best the experience of failure and my changed environment and/or circumstances to my advantage in the times to come. I strongly believe that “every failure is a stepping stone to success.” But, to my understanding, we need to make efforts to translate this failure to success. I experienced many stumbling blocks and failures, but I am moving ahead with more learning. Today, I am satisfied with where I am, although I still have a desire to do a lot more than what I am currently doing.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Q. What advice would you give to scientists/engineers in signal processing?</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">My first advice is to “understand your signals”. To me, this is really important. There are a lot of tools and methods in signal processing. We should not apply any method or tool as a black box or because others are using it. Instead, we should have a good understanding of our data, particularly, from the point of view of the application we are working in. I feel that “data speak” and we need to have ears for that. In other words, once we understand the data and are able to listen as well as see through it, we will know which tool will work best or whether we need to innovate a new method that will help us achieve our target. Many times, I see that students do not even visualize the data. This is not helpful at all. Whether it is time-frequency analysis, CNN architecture, or any other signal analysis, visualizing or playing data at different stages of the method tells us a lot about what is happening and what we want to achieve. My second advice is to understand the methods with their pros and cons. Use a method that is appropriate and not that is fancy to hear.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Q. 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She did her second Master''s as a full-time student from the University of Maryland, College Park, the USA from 2008-2010 in Education with a concentration: Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies. She worked as Assistant Director with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India (through Indian Engineering Services) from 1993 to 1999 and as faculty for about 10 years before joining IIIT-Delhi in Dec. 2013, where she is currently working as a Professor. She also worked as the Director of Assessment in the office of the Provost at Bowie State University, Maryland, the USA from October 2010 to April 2011. She has authored/co-authored over 100 technical papers in refereed journals and conferences and has published research papers in both engineering and education. Prof. Anubha is a senior member of IEEE Signal Processing Society, a member of IEEE Women in Engineering Society, Chair of IEEE SPS Delhi Chapter, and is currently serving as an Associate Editor of IEEE Access journal. Her research interests include solving real-life problems using AI, particularly, in biomedical areas of cancer imaging, cancer genomics, fMRI, MRI, EEG, and ECG signal processing. More details about her research work are available on her lab page (<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://sbilab.iiitd.edu.in/index.html" target="_blank">http://sbilab.iiitd.edu.in/index.html</a>). \n\n</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {"level":3} -->\n<h3>We approached her with a few questions:</h3>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Q. Why did you become a Professor at IIIT-Delhi?</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">I was born into a family with meager resources. Both my parents are high school graduates. My mother has impacted me most in my life. Although she is a homemaker, she always wanted her daughters to be working professionally and be financially independent. I always liked mathematics and physics because they did not require memorization, unlike biology. While my younger sister chose the medical stream, I moved to engineering. I started my career with the Indian (Engineering) services in 1993 as Assistant Director in All India Radio, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India. In those days, this was considered one of the most prestigious jobs. I worked there for more than five years, completed my master’s from Delhi University while in a full-time job, but eventually developed the desire to do a Ph.D. I did my Ph.D. at the EE department of IIT Delhi from 1999 to 2006. From 2000 to 2008, I also worked as a faculty at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT, now NSUT), Delhi University. Post Ph.D., I again longed for more learning. This time, I wanted to know the issues in higher education such as access, retention, financing, autonomy, accountability, and so on. I did my second master''s as a full-time student from 2008-2010 from the College of Education, University of Maryland, College Park. Post this, I also worked from Oct. 2010 to April 2011 as the director of assessment in the office of the Provost at Bowie State University at Maryland. However, I realized that I am too passionate about the engineering field and perhaps cannot think of dropping out from there. I moved back to India in 2011 and joined academia as faculty. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Currently, I am working as a full professor at IIIT-Delhi, India. Interestingly, I liked all the jobs I did. I felt truly inspired in the first job at ALL India Radio, felt exhilarated teaching engineering students in my second job, felt equally satisfied in my role as the director of assessment helping the university with its assessment processes. But my longing for learning kept pushing me to pursue knowledge in different but related aspects. In the end, I would say, I feel extremely satisfied as a teacher and researcher, helping shape the next generation of engineers as well as contribute to society by doing meaningful research.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Q. How does your work affect society?</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">My Ph.D. work was related to estimating wavelets from a given signal itself. However, I faced a few challenges because the reviewers always wanted to see the application. I felt inspired to choose the biomedical area because the research can find utility in real life in curing patients. Because I started late in my academic job and then too made a few transitions, say, to master’s in education post-PhD, I landed in a stable research position only after 2011. For the past 6 years, I am working with the cancer department of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. We are working in blood cancers analyzing microscopic images and genomics data. I hope that in the near future, our joint efforts may lead to some low-cost AI-enabled tools for cancer detection that can be easily deployed in urban as well as rural areas. In addition, we are also analyzing EEG data, ECG data, and cancer survival data for different medical disorders/diseases. One of the important contributions from my lab is in the area of estimating wavelets from given signals- compactly supported wavelets, with integer down sampling or rationally decimated filter banks. In the near future, I would like to see their application in biomedical areas. Recently, one of my Ph.D. students worked on energy harvesting ADCs with some of the best academic partners and colleagues. The core idea is simple. When we sample a signal to convert from continuous-time to discrete-time, why not harvest energy from the signal waveform that is otherwise wasted. This work will also prove important in the near future in designing self-powered devices.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Q. What challenges did you face to get to where you are today?</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">I would say that I am too fortunate that my parents and my siblings always supported me. In my opinion, as we go in our lives, we face challenges, some people experience more and some less. But in the end, whether we succeed or lose depends on the skill set that we have at that time to thwart those challenges. Whenever I failed, I introspected within me as to what skills I lacked or how I can utilize best the experience of failure and my changed environment and/or circumstances to my advantage in the times to come. I strongly believe that “every failure is a stepping stone to success.” But, to my understanding, we need to make efforts to translate this failure to success. I experienced many stumbling blocks and failures, but I am moving ahead with more learning. Today, I am satisfied with where I am, although I still have a desire to do a lot more than what I am currently doing.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Q. What advice would you give to scientists/engineers in signal processing?</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">My first advice is to “understand your signals”. To me, this is really important. There are a lot of tools and methods in signal processing. We should not apply any method or tool as a black box or because others are using it. Instead, we should have a good understanding of our data, particularly, from the point of view of the application we are working in. I feel that “data speak” and we need to have ears for that. In other words, once we understand the data and are able to listen as well as see through it, we will know which tool will work best or whether we need to innovate a new method that will help us achieve our target. Many times, I see that students do not even visualize the data. This is not helpful at all. Whether it is time-frequency analysis, CNN architecture, or any other signal analysis, visualizing or playing data at different stages of the method tells us a lot about what is happening and what we want to achieve. My second advice is to understand the methods with their pros and cons. Use a method that is appropriate and not that is fancy to hear.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Q. 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She did her second Master''s as a full-time student from the University of Maryland, College Park, the USA from 2008-2010 in Education with a concentration: Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies. She worked as Assistant Director with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India (through Indian Engineering Services) from 1993 to 1999 and as faculty for about 10 years before joining IIIT-Delhi in Dec. 2013, where she is currently working as a Professor. She also worked as the Director of Assessment in the office of the Provost at Bowie State University, Maryland, the USA from October 2010 to April 2011. She has authored/co-authored over 100 technical papers in refereed journals and conferences and has published research papers in both engineering and education. Prof. Anubha is a senior member of IEEE Signal Processing Society, a member of IEEE Women in Engineering Society, Chair of IEEE SPS Delhi Chapter, and is currently serving as an Associate Editor of IEEE Access journal. Her research interests include solving real-life problems using AI, particularly, in biomedical areas of cancer imaging, cancer genomics, fMRI, MRI, EEG, and ECG signal processing. More details about her research work are available on her lab page (<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://sbilab.iiitd.edu.in/index.html" target="_blank">http://sbilab.iiitd.edu.in/index.html</a>). \n\n</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {"level":3} -->\n<h3>We approached her with a few questions:</h3>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Q. 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I worked there for more than five years, completed my master’s from Delhi University while in a full-time job, but eventually developed the desire to do a Ph.D. I did my Ph.D. at the EE department of IIT Delhi from 1999 to 2006. From 2000 to 2008, I also worked as a faculty at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT, now NSUT), Delhi University. Post Ph.D., I again longed for more learning. This time, I wanted to know the issues in higher education such as access, retention, financing, autonomy, accountability, and so on. I did my second master''s as a full-time student from 2008-2010 from the College of Education, University of Maryland, College Park. Post this, I also worked from Oct. 2010 to April 2011 as the director of assessment in the office of the Provost at Bowie State University at Maryland. However, I realized that I am too passionate about the engineering field and perhaps cannot think of dropping out from there. 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How does your work affect society?</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">My Ph.D. work was related to estimating wavelets from a given signal itself. However, I faced a few challenges because the reviewers always wanted to see the application. I felt inspired to choose the biomedical area because the research can find utility in real life in curing patients. Because I started late in my academic job and then too made a few transitions, say, to master’s in education post-PhD, I landed in a stable research position only after 2011. For the past 6 years, I am working with the cancer department of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. We are working in blood cancers analyzing microscopic images and genomics data. I hope that in the near future, our joint efforts may lead to some low-cost AI-enabled tools for cancer detection that can be easily deployed in urban as well as rural areas. In addition, we are also analyzing EEG data, ECG data, and cancer survival data for different medical disorders/diseases. One of the important contributions from my lab is in the area of estimating wavelets from given signals- compactly supported wavelets, with integer down sampling or rationally decimated filter banks. In the near future, I would like to see their application in biomedical areas. Recently, one of my Ph.D. students worked on energy harvesting ADCs with some of the best academic partners and colleagues. The core idea is simple. When we sample a signal to convert from continuous-time to discrete-time, why not harvest energy from the signal waveform that is otherwise wasted. This work will also prove important in the near future in designing self-powered devices.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Q. 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She did her second Master''s as a full-time student from the University of Maryland, College Park, the USA from 2008-2010 in Education with a concentration: Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies. She worked as Assistant Director with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India (through Indian Engineering Services) from 1993 to 1999 and as faculty for about 10 years before joining IIIT-Delhi in Dec. 2013, where she is currently working as a Professor. She also worked as the Director of Assessment in the office of the Provost at Bowie State University, Maryland, the USA from October 2010 to April 2011. She has authored/co-authored over 100 technical papers in refereed journals and conferences and has published research papers in both engineering and education. Prof. Anubha is a senior member of IEEE Signal Processing Society, a member of IEEE Women in Engineering Society, Chair of IEEE SPS Delhi Chapter, and is currently serving as an Associate Editor of IEEE Access journal. Her research interests include solving real-life problems using AI, particularly, in biomedical areas of cancer imaging, cancer genomics, fMRI, MRI, EEG, and ECG signal processing. More details about her research work are available on her lab page (<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://sbilab.iiitd.edu.in/index.html" target="_blank">http://sbilab.iiitd.edu.in/index.html</a>). \n\n</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {"level":3} -->\n<h3>We approached her with a few questions:</h3>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Q. 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In addition, we are also analyzing EEG data, ECG data, and cancer survival data for different medical disorders/diseases. One of the important contributions from my lab is in the area of estimating wavelets from given signals- compactly supported wavelets, with integer down sampling or rationally decimated filter banks. In the near future, I would like to see their application in biomedical areas. Recently, one of my Ph.D. students worked on energy harvesting ADCs with some of the best academic partners and colleagues. The core idea is simple. When we sample a signal to convert from continuous-time to discrete-time, why not harvest energy from the signal waveform that is otherwise wasted. This work will also prove important in the near future in designing self-powered devices.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Q. What challenges did you face to get to where you are today?</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">I would say that I am too fortunate that my parents and my siblings always supported me. In my opinion, as we go in our lives, we face challenges, some people experience more and some less. But in the end, whether we succeed or lose depends on the skill set that we have at that time to thwart those challenges. Whenever I failed, I introspected within me as to what skills I lacked or how I can utilize best the experience of failure and my changed environment and/or circumstances to my advantage in the times to come. I strongly believe that “every failure is a stepping stone to success.” But, to my understanding, we need to make efforts to translate this failure to success. I experienced many stumbling blocks and failures, but I am moving ahead with more learning. Today, I am satisfied with where I am, although I still have a desire to do a lot more than what I am currently doing.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Q. What advice would you give to scientists/engineers in signal processing?</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">My first advice is to “understand your signals”. To me, this is really important. There are a lot of tools and methods in signal processing. We should not apply any method or tool as a black box or because others are using it. Instead, we should have a good understanding of our data, particularly, from the point of view of the application we are working in. I feel that “data speak” and we need to have ears for that. 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Prof. Anubha is a senior member of IEEE Signal Processing Society, a member of IEEE Women in Engineering Society, Chair of IEEE SPS Delhi Chapter, and is currently serving as an Associate Editor of IEEE Access journal. Her research interests include solving real-life problems using AI, particularly, in biomedical areas of cancer imaging, cancer genomics, fMRI, MRI, EEG, and ECG signal processing. More details about her research work are available on her lab page (<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://sbilab.iiitd.edu.in/index.html" target="_blank">http://sbilab.iiitd.edu.in/index.html</a>). </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {"level":3} -->\n<h3>We approached her with a few questions:</h3>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Q. 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How does your work affect society?</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">My Ph.D. work was related to estimating wavelets from a given signal itself. However, I faced a few challenges because the reviewers always wanted to see the application. I felt inspired to choose the biomedical area because the research can find utility in real life in curing patients. Because I started late in my academic job and then too made a few transitions, say, to master’s in education post-PhD, I landed in a stable research position only after 2011. For the past 6 years, I am working with the cancer department of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. We are working in blood cancers analyzing microscopic images and genomics data. I hope that in the near future, our joint efforts may lead to some low-cost AI-enabled tools for cancer detection that can be easily deployed in urban as well as rural areas. In addition, we are also analyzing EEG data, ECG data, and cancer survival data for different medical disorders/diseases. One of the important contributions from my lab is in the area of estimating wavelets from given signals- compactly supported wavelets, with integer down sampling or rationally decimated filter banks. In the near future, I would like to see their application in biomedical areas. Recently, one of my Ph.D. students worked on energy harvesting ADCs with some of the best academic partners and colleagues. The core idea is simple. When we sample a signal to convert from continuous-time to discrete-time, why not harvest energy from the signal waveform that is otherwise wasted. This work will also prove important in the near future in designing self-powered devices.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Q. What challenges did you face to get to where you are today?</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">I would say that I am too fortunate that my parents and my siblings always supported me. In my opinion, as we go in our lives, we face challenges, some people experience more and some less. But in the end, whether we succeed or lose depends on the skill set that we have at that time to thwart those challenges. Whenever I failed, I introspected within me as to what skills I lacked or how I can utilize best the experience of failure and my changed environment and/or circumstances to my advantage in the times to come. I strongly believe that “every failure is a stepping stone to success.” But, to my understanding, we need to make efforts to translate this failure to success. I experienced many stumbling blocks and failures, but I am moving ahead with more learning. Today, I am satisfied with where I am, although I still have a desire to do a lot more than what I am currently doing.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Q. What advice would you give to scientists/engineers in signal processing?</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">My first advice is to “understand your signals”. To me, this is really important. There are a lot of tools and methods in signal processing. We should not apply any method or tool as a black box or because others are using it. Instead, we should have a good understanding of our data, particularly, from the point of view of the application we are working in. I feel that “data speak” and we need to have ears for that. 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Dr. Anubha is a senior member of IEEE Signal Processing Society, a member of IEEE Women in Engineering Society, Chair of IEEE SPS Delhi Chapter, and is currently serving as an Associate Editor of IEEE Access journal. Her research interests include solving real-life problems using AI, particularly, in biomedical areas of cancer imaging, cancer genomics, fMRI, MRI, EEG, and ECG signal processing. More details about her research work are available on her lab page (<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://sbilab.iiitd.edu.in/index.html" target="_blank">http://sbilab.iiitd.edu.in/index.html</a>). </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {"level":3} -->\n<h3>We approached her with a few questions:</h3>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Q. Why did you become a Professor at IIIT-Delhi?</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">I was born into a family with meager resources. Both my parents are high school graduates. My mother has impacted me most in my life. Although she is a homemaker, she always wanted her daughters to be working professionally and be financially independent. I always liked mathematics and physics because they did not require memorization, unlike biology. While my younger sister chose the medical stream, I moved to engineering. I started my career with the Indian (Engineering) services in 1993 as Assistant Director in All India Radio, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India. In those days, this was considered one of the most prestigious jobs. I worked there for more than five years, completed my master’s from Delhi University while in a full-time job, but eventually developed the desire to do a Ph.D. I did my Ph.D. at the EE department of IIT Delhi from 1999 to 2006. From 2000 to 2008, I also worked as a faculty at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT, now NSUT), Delhi University. Post Ph.D., I again longed for more learning. This time, I wanted to know the issues in higher education such as access, retention, financing, autonomy, accountability, and so on. I did my second master''s as a full-time student from 2008-2010 from the College of Education, University of Maryland, College Park. Post this, I also worked from Oct. 2010 to April 2011 as the director of assessment in the office of the Provost at Bowie State University at Maryland. However, I realized that I am too passionate about the engineering field and perhaps cannot think of dropping out from there. I moved back to India in 2011 and joined academia as faculty. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Currently, I am working as a full professor at IIIT-Delhi, India. Interestingly, I liked all the jobs I did. I felt truly inspired in the first job at ALL India Radio, felt exhilarated teaching engineering students in my second job, felt equally satisfied in my role as the director of assessment helping the university with its assessment processes. But my longing for learning kept pushing me to pursue knowledge in different but related aspects. In the end, I would say, I feel extremely satisfied as a teacher and researcher, helping shape the next generation of engineers as well as contribute to society by doing meaningful research.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Q. How does your work affect society?</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">My Ph.D. work was related to estimating wavelets from a given signal itself. However, I faced a few challenges because the reviewers always wanted to see the application. I felt inspired to choose the biomedical area because the research can find utility in real life in curing patients. Because I started late in my academic job and then too made a few transitions, say, to master’s in education post-PhD, I landed in a stable research position only after 2011. For the past 6 years, I am working with the cancer department of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. We are working in blood cancers analyzing microscopic images and genomics data. I hope that in the near future, our joint efforts may lead to some low-cost AI-enabled tools for cancer detection that can be easily deployed in urban as well as rural areas. In addition, we are also analyzing EEG data, ECG data, and cancer survival data for different medical disorders/diseases. One of the important contributions from my lab is in the area of estimating wavelets from given signals- compactly supported wavelets, with integer down sampling or rationally decimated filter banks. In the near future, I would like to see their application in biomedical areas. Recently, one of my Ph.D. students worked on energy harvesting ADCs with some of the best academic partners and colleagues. The core idea is simple. When we sample a signal to convert from continuous-time to discrete-time, why not harvest energy from the signal waveform that is otherwise wasted. This work will also prove important in the near future in designing self-powered devices.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Q. What challenges did you face to get to where you are today?</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">I would say that I am too fortunate that my parents and my siblings always supported me. In my opinion, as we go in our lives, we face challenges, some people experience more and some less. But in the end, whether we succeed or lose depends on the skill set that we have at that time to thwart those challenges. Whenever I failed, I introspected within me as to what skills I lacked or how I can utilize best the experience of failure and my changed environment and/or circumstances to my advantage in the times to come. I strongly believe that “every failure is a stepping stone to success.” But, to my understanding, we need to make efforts to translate this failure to success. I experienced many stumbling blocks and failures, but I am moving ahead with more learning. Today, I am satisfied with where I am, although I still have a desire to do a lot more than what I am currently doing.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Q. What advice would you give to scientists/engineers in signal processing?</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">My first advice is to “understand your signals”. To me, this is really important. There are a lot of tools and methods in signal processing. We should not apply any method or tool as a black box or because others are using it. Instead, we should have a good understanding of our data, particularly, from the point of view of the application we are working in. I feel that “data speak” and we need to have ears for that. In other words, once we understand the data and are able to listen as well as see through it, we will know which tool will work best or whether we need to innovate a new method that will help us achieve our target. Many times, I see that students do not even visualize the data. This is not helpful at all. Whether it is time-frequency analysis, CNN architecture, or any other signal analysis, visualizing or playing data at different stages of the method tells us a lot about what is happening and what we want to achieve. My second advice is to understand the methods with their pros and cons. Use a method that is appropriate and not that is fancy to hear.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Q. Anything else that you would like to add?</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">I believe there is one life and one should possibly do whatever experiments one wants to do, of course, in creative ways. I have hopped from administrative jobs to teaching & research twice. I felt happy all the time and did whatever I wanted to do. We all can contribute in positive ways to society with whatever jobs we do. If we are happy and inspired, we can contribute in a lot many more ways other than being stuck up in jobs that we may not like.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Series to Highlight Women in Signal Processing: Dr. Anubha Gupta', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '357-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-12-10 11:03:02', '2020-12-10 05:33:02', '', 357, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/357-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (365, 1, '2020-12-11 08:51:29', '2020-12-11 03:21:29', '<!-- wp:paragraph {"textColor":"accent","customFontSize":12} -->\n<p style="font-size:12px" class="has-text-color has-accent-color">Originally Published in <a href="https://signalprocessingsociety.org/newsletter/2020/12/series-highlight-women-signal-processing-dr-anubha-gupta">IEEE Signal Processing Society''s December 2020 Newsletter</a>. <br><strong>By</strong>: Dr. Behnaz Ghoraani</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":358,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":25} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide" style="grid-template-columns:25% auto"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/unnamed-4.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-358"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"left","placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":13} -->\n<p style="font-size:13px;text-align:left">In this issue, we interviewed <strong>Dr. Anubha Gupta.</strong> Dr. Anubha received her PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, India in 2006 in Electrical Engineering. She did her second Master''s as a full-time student from the University of Maryland, College Park, the USA from 2008-2010 in Education with a concentration: Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies. She worked as Assistant Director with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India (through Indian Engineering Services) from 1993 to 1999 and as faculty for about 10 years before joining IIIT-Delhi in Dec. 2013, where she is currently working as a Professor. She also worked as the Director of Assessment in the office of the Provost at Bowie State University, Maryland, the USA from October 2010 to April 2011. She has authored/co-authored over 100 technical papers in refereed journals and conferences and has published research papers in both engineering and education. Dr. Anubha is a senior member of IEEE Signal Processing Society, a member of IEEE Women in Engineering Society, Chair of IEEE SPS Delhi Chapter, and is currently serving as an Associate Editor of IEEE Access journal. Her research interests include solving real-life problems using AI, particularly, in biomedical areas of cancer imaging, cancer genomics, fMRI, MRI, EEG, and ECG signal processing. More details about her research work are available on her lab page (<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://sbilab.iiitd.edu.in/index.html" target="_blank">http://sbilab.iiitd.edu.in/index.html</a>). </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {"level":3} -->\n<h3>We approached her with a few questions:</h3>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Q. Why did you become a Professor at IIIT-Delhi?</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">I was born into a family with meager resources. Both my parents are high school graduates. My mother has impacted me most in my life. Although she is a homemaker, she always wanted her daughters to be working professionally and be financially independent. I always liked mathematics and physics because they did not require memorization, unlike biology. While my younger sister chose the medical stream, I moved to engineering. I started my career with the Indian (Engineering) services in 1993 as Assistant Director in All India Radio, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India. In those days, this was considered one of the most prestigious jobs. I worked there for more than five years, completed my master’s from Delhi University while in a full-time job, but eventually developed the desire to do a Ph.D. I did my Ph.D. at the EE department of IIT Delhi from 1999 to 2006. From 2000 to 2008, I also worked as a faculty at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT, now NSUT), Delhi University. Post Ph.D., I again longed for more learning. This time, I wanted to know the issues in higher education such as access, retention, financing, autonomy, accountability, and so on. I did my second master''s as a full-time student from 2008-2010 from the College of Education, University of Maryland, College Park. Post this, I also worked from Oct. 2010 to April 2011 as the director of assessment in the office of the Provost at Bowie State University at Maryland. However, I realized that I am too passionate about the engineering field and perhaps cannot think of dropping out from there. I moved back to India in 2011 and joined academia as faculty. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Currently, I am working as a full professor at IIIT-Delhi, India. Interestingly, I liked all the jobs I did. I felt truly inspired in the first job at ALL India Radio, felt exhilarated teaching engineering students in my second job, felt equally satisfied in my role as the director of assessment helping the university with its assessment processes. But my longing for learning kept pushing me to pursue knowledge in different but related aspects. In the end, I would say, I feel extremely satisfied as a teacher and researcher, helping shape the next generation of engineers as well as contribute to society by doing meaningful research.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Q. How does your work affect society?</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">My Ph.D. work was related to estimating wavelets from a given signal itself. However, I faced a few challenges because the reviewers always wanted to see the application. I felt inspired to choose the biomedical area because the research can find utility in real life in curing patients. Because I started late in my academic job and then too made a few transitions, say, to master’s in education post-PhD, I landed in a stable research position only after 2011. For the past 6 years, I am working with the cancer department of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. We are working in blood cancers analyzing microscopic images and genomics data. I hope that in the near future, our joint efforts may lead to some low-cost AI-enabled tools for cancer detection that can be easily deployed in urban as well as rural areas. In addition, we are also analyzing EEG data, ECG data, and cancer survival data for different medical disorders/diseases. One of the important contributions from my lab is in the area of estimating wavelets from given signals- compactly supported wavelets, with integer down sampling or rationally decimated filter banks. In the near future, I would like to see their application in biomedical areas. Recently, one of my Ph.D. students worked on energy harvesting ADCs with some of the best academic partners and colleagues. The core idea is simple. When we sample a signal to convert from continuous-time to discrete-time, why not harvest energy from the signal waveform that is otherwise wasted. This work will also prove important in the near future in designing self-powered devices.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Q. What challenges did you face to get to where you are today?</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">I would say that I am too fortunate that my parents and my siblings always supported me. In my opinion, as we go in our lives, we face challenges, some people experience more and some less. But in the end, whether we succeed or lose depends on the skill set that we have at that time to thwart those challenges. Whenever I failed, I introspected within me as to what skills I lacked or how I can utilize best the experience of failure and my changed environment and/or circumstances to my advantage in the times to come. I strongly believe that “every failure is a stepping stone to success.” But, to my understanding, we need to make efforts to translate this failure to success. I experienced many stumbling blocks and failures, but I am moving ahead with more learning. Today, I am satisfied with where I am, although I still have a desire to do a lot more than what I am currently doing.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Q. What advice would you give to scientists/engineers in signal processing?</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">My first advice is to “understand your signals”. To me, this is really important. There are a lot of tools and methods in signal processing. We should not apply any method or tool as a black box or because others are using it. Instead, we should have a good understanding of our data, particularly, from the point of view of the application we are working in. I feel that “data speak” and we need to have ears for that. In other words, once we understand the data and are able to listen as well as see through it, we will know which tool will work best or whether we need to innovate a new method that will help us achieve our target. Many times, I see that students do not even visualize the data. This is not helpful at all. Whether it is time-frequency analysis, CNN architecture, or any other signal analysis, visualizing or playing data at different stages of the method tells us a lot about what is happening and what we want to achieve. My second advice is to understand the methods with their pros and cons. Use a method that is appropriate and not that is fancy to hear.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Q. Anything else that you would like to add?</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">I believe there is one life and one should possibly do whatever experiments one wants to do, of course, in creative ways. I have hopped from administrative jobs to teaching & research twice. I felt happy all the time and did whatever I wanted to do. We all can contribute in positive ways to society with whatever jobs we do. If we are happy and inspired, we can contribute in a lot many more ways other than being stuck up in jobs that we may not like.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Series to Highlight Women in Signal Processing: Dr. Anubha Gupta', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '357-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-12-11 08:51:29', '2020-12-11 03:21:29', '', 357, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/357-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (367, 1, '2020-12-29 14:46:56', '2020-12-29 09:16:56', '<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":12} -->\n<p style="font-size:12px">Image Source:<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/comments/i9pwgs/gives_me_a_headache_just_thinking_about_it/">https://www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/comments/i9pwgs/gives_me_a_headache_just_thinking_about_it/</a> </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Most of the universities\naround the world quickly moved to online teaching after the lockdown due to\ncovid-19 pandemic. At IIIT-Delhi, the switch was not difficult since most of\nthe courses involved software-based projects and assignments. However, IIIT-Delhi\nalso offers hardware courses where students build complex embedded systems\nduring weekly labs and facilitating the same in online mode was the challenging\ntask. Over the years, students find\nhardware courses a bit difficult and time consuming which means we must make\nsure that students do not succumb to the excessive workload during these\ndifficult times. Our team at Algorithms to Architectures Lab worked throughout\nthe summer to identify various solutions for remote hardware labs and\nimplemented the same during the Monsoon 2020 semester. Here we present some of\nour experiences, challenges and suggestions based on ECE270: Embedded Logic\nDesign (ELD) Course with 92 students. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The ELD course has three\nlectures and 2.5 hour lab per week and we try our best to keep the lecture and\nlab contents in sync with each other. For lectures, video recordings were\nshared before each session and students found that the overall ELD course was\nvery well organised in its theoretical aspects. In the beginning, course\ninstructor, Dr Sumit J Darak, informed that all the labs will be conducted\nremotely and there will not be any compromise on the learning outcome. To\nenable the same, IIITD ECE Lab took the responsibility of providing a 24/7\nremote access to FPGA and SoC boards. For students with low-end laptops,\ndedicated desktops were also provided throughout the semester. The hardware\nservers were set up so that students can program the board remotely and verify\nthe functionality on their laptop via logic analyzers. To help the learning,\nthe classes and the labs both were kept in sync with each other from the\nbeginning of the course. The teaching fellows (TFs) and teaching assistants (TAs)\nalso worked exceptionally hard and pushed themselves to clarify our doubts. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">IIIT-Delhi’s academic section also realized the workload at the instructor-end and helped us significantly by allocating additional TAs to support remote labs. The instructor, TAs, and TFs held regular office hours (there was at least one office hour per day) and often provided the necessary debugging help outside their office hours whenever needed. The lab handouts provided to students were too detailed and were more than enough to understand the concepts and complete the lab. For better understanding, we could always watch the labs'' pre-recorded videos (around 60 mins per week), which were also very detailed. To reduce the workload, lab homework was removed and students were asked to complete the lab and appear for Viva every week (around 92 vivas were conducted in each week). Most of the students appreciated the idea of taking vivas as it ensured that the students take the labs seriously and only the honest and hard-working student gets the marks. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">However, we all know with everything right; there are always limitations and a room for improvement. To understand student’s experiences and feedback, we, the student volunteers (details shared below) gathered suggestions from the rest of the ELD students. Most of the students agree with the fact that more number of boards could have been made available. For the students who use MacOS, the VIVADO software was not supported on their laptops, thus, pulling them back a little in the learning aspect. As there were a limited number of boards available for the students to work on, multiple students operated on the same board simultaneously, leading to incorrect results and creating a state of confusion. There could have been better communication among the students itself to avoid usage of the same board by multiple users at the same time to prevent chaos and confusion. As the complexity of the lab increased during the last few weeks, students got frustrated due to unavoidable glitches in remote access, other deadlines and increased workload. Thus, existing solutions for remote hardware access needs to be improved further. More importantly, students missed the opportunity to work on the hardware physically and explore integration of various sensors and displays. One interesting suggestion was to create live video demonstrations from ECE labs but this was not possible since TAs/TFs were working from home. Another suggestion is to plan additional lab sessions as and when campus opens. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":368,"align":"wide"} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image alignwide"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/b.png" alt="" class="wp-image-368"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Indeed the ELD labs had\ntheir ups and downs, but we appreciate that the ECE department did not choose\nthe easy path of dropping the hardware labs because the labs were vital and\nintegral to a student''s learning experience.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","customFontSize":12} -->\n<p style="font-size:12px;text-align:right">Written by IIITD ECE 2nd year students:<br>Madhur Kumar, Samyak Gupta, Prashant Singh, Samaksh Gupta, <br>Saksham Gupta, Tushar Agarwal, Divin Dominic, Mohd. 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At IIIT-Delhi, the switch was not difficult since most of\nthe courses involved software-based projects and assignments. However, IIIT-Delhi\nalso offers hardware courses where students build complex embedded systems\nduring weekly labs and facilitating the same in online mode was the challenging\ntask. Over the years, students find\nhardware courses a bit difficult and time consuming which means we must make\nsure that students do not succumb to the excessive workload during these\ndifficult times. Our team at Algorithms to Architectures Lab worked throughout\nthe summer to identify various solutions for remote hardware labs and\nimplemented the same during the Monsoon 2020 semester. Here we present some of\nour experiences, challenges and suggestions based on ECE270: Embedded Logic\nDesign (ELD) Course with 92 students. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The ELD course has three\nlectures and 2.5 hour lab per week and we try our best to keep the lecture and\nlab contents in sync with each other. For lectures, video recordings were\nshared before each session and students found that the overall ELD course was\nvery well organised in its theoretical aspects. In the beginning, course\ninstructor, Dr Sumit J Darak, informed that all the labs will be conducted\nremotely and there will not be any compromise on the learning outcome. To\nenable the same, IIITD ECE Lab took the responsibility of providing a 24/7\nremote access to FPGA and SoC boards. For students with low-end laptops,\ndedicated desktops were also provided throughout the semester. The hardware\nservers were set up so that students can program the board remotely and verify\nthe functionality on their laptop via logic analyzers. To help the learning,\nthe classes and the labs both were kept in sync with each other from the\nbeginning of the course. The teaching fellows (TFs) and teaching assistants (TAs)\nalso worked exceptionally hard and pushed themselves to clarify our doubts. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">IIIT-Delhi’s academic section also realized the workload at the instructor-end and helped us significantly by allocating additional TAs to support remote labs. The instructor, TAs, and TFs held regular office hours (there was at least one office hour per day) and often provided the necessary debugging help outside their office hours whenever needed. The lab handouts provided to students were too detailed and were more than enough to understand the concepts and complete the lab. For better understanding, we could always watch the labs'' pre-recorded videos (around 60 mins per week), which were also very detailed. To reduce the workload, lab homework was removed and students were asked to complete the lab and appear for Viva every week (around 92 vivas were conducted in each week). Most of the students appreciated the idea of taking vivas as it ensured that the students take the labs seriously and only the honest and hard-working student gets the marks. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">However, we all know with everything right; there are always limitations and a room for improvement. To understand student’s experiences and feedback, we, the student volunteers (details shared below) gathered suggestions from the rest of the ELD students. Most of the students agree with the fact that more number of boards could have been made available. For the students who use MacOS, the VIVADO software was not supported on their laptops, thus, pulling them back a little in the learning aspect. As there were a limited number of boards available for the students to work on, multiple students operated on the same board simultaneously, leading to incorrect results and creating a state of confusion. There could have been better communication among the students itself to avoid usage of the same board by multiple users at the same time to prevent chaos and confusion. As the complexity of the lab increased during the last few weeks, students got frustrated due to unavoidable glitches in remote access, other deadlines and increased workload. Thus, existing solutions for remote hardware access needs to be improved further. More importantly, students missed the opportunity to work on the hardware physically and explore integration of various sensors and displays. One interesting suggestion was to create live video demonstrations from ECE labs but this was not possible since TAs/TFs were working from home. 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At IIIT-Delhi, the switch was not difficult since most of\nthe courses involved software-based projects and assignments. However, IIIT-Delhi\nalso offers hardware courses where students build complex embedded systems\nduring weekly labs and facilitating the same in online mode was the challenging\ntask. Over the years, students find\nhardware courses a bit difficult and time consuming which means we must make\nsure that students do not succumb to the excessive workload during these\ndifficult times. Our team at Algorithms to Architectures Lab worked throughout\nthe summer to identify various solutions for remote hardware labs and\nimplemented the same during the Monsoon 2020 semester. Here we present some of\nour experiences, challenges and suggestions based on ECE270: Embedded Logic\nDesign (ELD) Course with 92 students. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The ELD course has three\nlectures and 2.5 hour lab per week and we try our best to keep the lecture and\nlab contents in sync with each other. For lectures, video recordings were\nshared before each session and students found that the overall ELD course was\nvery well organised in its theoretical aspects. In the beginning, course\ninstructor, Dr Sumit J Darak, informed that all the labs will be conducted\nremotely and there will not be any compromise on the learning outcome. To\nenable the same, IIITD ECE Lab took the responsibility of providing a 24/7\nremote access to FPGA and SoC boards. For students with low-end laptops,\ndedicated desktops were also provided throughout the semester. The hardware\nservers were set up so that students can program the board remotely and verify\nthe functionality on their laptop via logic analyzers. To help the learning,\nthe classes and the labs both were kept in sync with each other from the\nbeginning of the course. The teaching fellows (TFs) and teaching assistants (TAs)\nalso worked exceptionally hard and pushed themselves to clarify our doubts. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">IIIT-Delhi’s academic section also realized the workload at the instructor-end and helped us significantly by allocating additional TAs to support remote labs. The instructor, TAs, and TFs held regular office hours (there was at least one office hour per day) and often provided the necessary debugging help outside their office hours whenever needed. The lab handouts provided to students were too detailed and were more than enough to understand the concepts and complete the lab. For better understanding, we could always watch the labs'' pre-recorded videos (around 60 mins per week), which were also very detailed. To reduce the workload, lab homework was removed and students were asked to complete the lab and appear for Viva every week (around 92 vivas were conducted in each week). Most of the students appreciated the idea of taking vivas as it ensured that the students take the labs seriously and only the honest and hard-working student gets the marks. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">However, we all know with everything right; there are always limitations and a room for improvement. To understand student’s experiences and feedback, we, the student volunteers (details shared below) gathered suggestions from the rest of the ELD students. Most of the students agree with the fact that more number of boards could have been made available. For the students who use MacOS, the VIVADO software was not supported on their laptops, thus, pulling them back a little in the learning aspect. As there were a limited number of boards available for the students to work on, multiple students operated on the same board simultaneously, leading to incorrect results and creating a state of confusion. There could have been better communication among the students itself to avoid usage of the same board by multiple users at the same time to prevent chaos and confusion. As the complexity of the lab increased during the last few weeks, students got frustrated due to unavoidable glitches in remote access, other deadlines and increased workload. Thus, existing solutions for remote hardware access needs to be improved further. More importantly, students missed the opportunity to work on the hardware physically and explore integration of various sensors and displays. 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To reduce the workload, lab homework was removed and students were asked to complete the lab and appear for Viva every week (around 92 vivas were conducted in each week). Most of the students appreciated the idea of taking vivas as it ensured that the students take the labs seriously and only the honest and hard-working student gets the marks. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">However, we all know with everything right; there are always limitations and a room for improvement. To understand student’s experiences and feedback, we, the student volunteers (details shared below) gathered suggestions from the rest of the ELD students. Most of the students agree with the fact that more number of boards could have been made available. For the students who use MacOS, the VIVADO software was not supported on their laptops, thus, pulling them back a little in the learning aspect. As there were a limited number of boards available for the students to work on, multiple students operated on the same board simultaneously, leading to incorrect results and creating a state of confusion. There could have been better communication among the students itself to avoid usage of the same board by multiple users at the same time to prevent chaos and confusion. As the complexity of the lab increased during the last few weeks, students got frustrated due to unavoidable glitches in remote access, other deadlines and increased workload. Thus, existing solutions for remote hardware access needs to be improved further. More importantly, students missed the opportunity to work on the hardware physically and explore integration of various sensors and displays. One interesting suggestion was to create live video demonstrations from ECE labs but this was not possible since TAs/TFs were working from home. 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Here we present some of\nour experiences, challenges and suggestions based on ECE270: Embedded Logic\nDesign (ELD) Course with 92 students. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The ELD course has three\nlectures and 2.5 hour lab per week and we try our best to keep the lecture and\nlab contents in sync with each other. For lectures, video recordings were\nshared before each session and students found that the overall ELD course was\nvery well organised in its theoretical aspects. In the beginning, course\ninstructor, Dr Sumit J Darak, informed that all the labs will be conducted\nremotely and there will not be any compromise on the learning outcome. To\nenable the same, IIITD ECE Lab took the responsibility of providing a 24/7\nremote access to FPGA and SoC boards. For students with low-end laptops,\ndedicated desktops were also provided throughout the semester. The hardware\nservers were set up so that students can program the board remotely and verify\nthe functionality on their laptop via logic analyzers. To help the learning,\nthe classes and the labs both were kept in sync with each other from the\nbeginning of the course. The teaching fellows (TFs) and teaching assistants (TAs)\nalso worked exceptionally hard and pushed themselves to clarify our doubts. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">IIIT-Delhi’s academic section also realized the workload at the instructor-end and helped us significantly by allocating additional TAs to support remote labs. The instructor, TAs, and TFs held regular office hours (there was at least one office hour per day) and often provided the necessary debugging help outside their office hours whenever needed. The lab handouts provided to students were too detailed and were more than enough to understand the concepts and complete the lab. For better understanding, we could always watch the labs'' pre-recorded videos (around 60 mins per week), which were also very detailed. To reduce the workload, lab homework was removed and students were asked to complete the lab and appear for Viva every week (around 92 vivas were conducted in each week). Most of the students appreciated the idea of taking vivas as it ensured that the students take the labs seriously and only the honest and hard-working student gets the marks. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">However, we all know with everything right; there are always limitations and a room for improvement. To understand student’s experiences and feedback, we, the student volunteers (details shared below) gathered suggestions from the rest of the ELD students. Most of the students agree with the fact that more number of boards could have been made available. For the students who use MacOS, the VIVADO software was not supported on their laptops, thus, pulling them back a little in the learning aspect. As there were a limited number of boards available for the students to work on, multiple students operated on the same board simultaneously, leading to incorrect results and creating a state of confusion. There could have been better communication among the students itself to avoid usage of the same board by multiple users at the same time to prevent chaos and confusion. As the complexity of the lab increased during the last few weeks, students got frustrated due to unavoidable glitches in remote access, other deadlines and increased workload. Thus, existing solutions for remote hardware access needs to be improved further. More importantly, students missed the opportunity to work on the hardware physically and explore integration of various sensors and displays. 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Here we present some of\nour experiences, challenges and suggestions based on ECE270: Embedded Logic\nDesign (ELD) Course with 92 students. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The ELD course has three\nlectures and 2.5 hour lab per week and we try our best to keep the lecture and\nlab contents in sync with each other. For lectures, video recordings were\nshared before each session and students found that the overall ELD course was\nvery well organised in its theoretical aspects. In the beginning, course\ninstructor, Dr Sumit J Darak, informed that all the labs will be conducted\nremotely and there will not be any compromise on the learning outcome. To\nenable the same, IIITD ECE Lab took the responsibility of providing a 24/7\nremote access to FPGA and SoC boards. For students with low-end laptops,\ndedicated desktops were also provided throughout the semester. The hardware\nservers were set up so that students can program the board remotely and verify\nthe functionality on their laptop via logic analyzers. To help the learning,\nthe classes and the labs both were kept in sync with each other from the\nbeginning of the course. The teaching fellows (TFs) and teaching assistants (TAs)\nalso worked exceptionally hard and pushed themselves to clarify our doubts. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">IIIT-Delhi’s academic section also realized the workload at the instructor-end and helped us significantly by allocating additional TAs to support remote labs. The instructor, TAs, and TFs held regular office hours (there was at least one office hour per day) and often provided the necessary debugging help outside their office hours whenever needed. The lab handouts provided to students were too detailed and were more than enough to understand the concepts and complete the lab. For better understanding, we could always watch the labs'' pre-recorded videos (around 60 mins per week), which were also very detailed. To reduce the workload, lab homework was removed and students were asked to complete the lab and appear for Viva every week (around 92 vivas were conducted in each week). Most of the students appreciated the idea of taking vivas as it ensured that the students take the labs seriously and only the honest and hard-working student gets the marks. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">However, we all know with everything right; there are always limitations and a room for improvement. To understand student’s experiences and feedback, we, the student volunteers (details shared below) gathered suggestions from the rest of the ELD students. Most of the students agree with the fact that more number of boards could have been made available. For the students who use MacOS, the VIVADO software was not supported on their laptops, thus, pulling them back a little in the learning aspect. As there were a limited number of boards available for the students to work on, multiple students operated on the same board simultaneously, leading to incorrect results and creating a state of confusion. There could have been better communication among the students itself to avoid usage of the same board by multiple users at the same time to prevent chaos and confusion. As the complexity of the lab increased during the last few weeks, students got frustrated due to unavoidable glitches in remote access, other deadlines and increased workload. Thus, existing solutions for remote hardware access needs to be improved further. More importantly, students missed the opportunity to work on the hardware physically and explore integration of various sensors and displays. One interesting suggestion was to create live video demonstrations from ECE labs but this was not possible since TAs/TFs were working from home. 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Here we present some of\nour experiences, challenges and suggestions based on ECE270: Embedded Logic\nDesign (ELD) Course with 92 students. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The ELD course has three\nlectures and 2.5 hour lab per week and we try our best to keep the lecture and\nlab contents in sync with each other. For lectures, video recordings were\nshared before each session and students found that the overall ELD course was\nvery well organised in its theoretical aspects. In the beginning, course\ninstructor, Dr Sumit J Darak, informed that all the labs will be conducted\nremotely and there will not be any compromise on the learning outcome. To\nenable the same, IIITD ECE Lab took the responsibility of providing a 24/7\nremote access to FPGA and SoC boards. For students with low-end laptops,\ndedicated desktops were also provided throughout the semester. The hardware\nservers were set up so that students can program the board remotely and verify\nthe functionality on their laptop via logic analyzers. To help the learning,\nthe classes and the labs both were kept in sync with each other from the\nbeginning of the course. The teaching fellows (TFs) and teaching assistants (TAs)\nalso worked exceptionally hard and pushed themselves to clarify our doubts. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">IIIT-Delhi’s academic section also realized the workload at the instructor-end and helped us significantly by allocating additional TAs to support remote labs. The instructor, TAs, and TFs held regular office hours (there was at least one office hour per day) and often provided the necessary debugging help outside their office hours whenever needed. The lab handouts provided to students were too detailed and were more than enough to understand the concepts and complete the lab. For better understanding, we could always watch the labs'' pre-recorded videos (around 60 mins per week), which were also very detailed. To reduce the workload, lab homework was removed and students were asked to complete the lab and appear for Viva every week (around 92 vivas were conducted in each week). Most of the students appreciated the idea of taking vivas as it ensured that the students take the labs seriously and only the honest and hard-working student gets the marks. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">However, we all know with everything right; there are always limitations and a room for improvement. To understand student’s experiences and feedback, we, the student volunteers (details shared below) gathered suggestions from the rest of the ELD students. Most of the students agree with the fact that more number of boards could have been made available. For the students who use MacOS, the VIVADO software was not supported on their laptops, thus, pulling them back a little in the learning aspect. As there were a limited number of boards available for the students to work on, multiple students operated on the same board simultaneously, leading to incorrect results and creating a state of confusion. There could have been better communication among the students itself to avoid usage of the same board by multiple users at the same time to prevent chaos and confusion. As the complexity of the lab increased during the last few weeks, students got frustrated due to unavoidable glitches in remote access, other deadlines and increased workload. Thus, existing solutions for remote hardware access needs to be improved further. More importantly, students missed the opportunity to work on the hardware physically and explore integration of various sensors and displays. One interesting suggestion was to create live video demonstrations from ECE labs but this was not possible since TAs/TFs were working from home. Another suggestion is to plan additional lab sessions as and when campus opens. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":368,"align":"wide"} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image alignwide"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/b.png" alt="" class="wp-image-368"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Indeed the ELD labs had\ntheir ups and downs, but we appreciate that the ECE department did not choose\nthe easy path of dropping the hardware labs because the labs were vital and\nintegral to a student''s learning experience.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","customFontSize":12} -->\n<p style="font-size:12px;text-align:right">Written by IIITD ECE 2nd year students:<br>Madhur Kumar, Samyak Gupta, Prashant Singh, Samaksh Gupta, <br>Saksham Gupta, Tushar Agarwal, Divin Dominic, Mohd. Siraj Ansari, Rishi Singhal<br><br>Supervised By: <br>Dr. Sumit J Darak (Associate Professor and Chair: UG Affairs, ECE, IIIT Delhi) <br><br><br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Remote Hardware Labs in Covid Era: An Experiment at IIIT-Delhi', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '367-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-12-30 08:59:23', '2020-12-30 03:29:23', '', 367, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/367-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (379, 1, '2020-12-30 08:59:27', '2020-12-30 03:29:27', '<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":12} -->\n<p style="font-size:12px">Image Source:<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/comments/i9pwgs/gives_me_a_headache_just_thinking_about_it/">https://www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/comments/i9pwgs/gives_me_a_headache_just_thinking_about_it/</a> </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Most of the universities\naround the world quickly moved to online teaching after the lockdown due to\ncovid-19 pandemic. At IIIT-Delhi, the switch was not difficult since most of\nthe courses involved software-based projects and assignments. However, IIIT-Delhi\nalso offers hardware courses where students build complex embedded systems\nduring weekly labs and facilitating the same in online mode was the challenging\ntask. Over the years, students find\nhardware courses a bit difficult and time consuming which means we must make\nsure that students do not succumb to the excessive workload during these\ndifficult times. Our team at Algorithms to Architectures Lab worked throughout\nthe summer to identify various solutions for remote hardware labs and\nimplemented the same during the Monsoon 2020 semester. Here we present some of\nour experiences, challenges and suggestions based on ECE270: Embedded Logic\nDesign (ELD) Course with 92 students. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The ELD course has three\nlectures and 2.5 hour lab per week and we try our best to keep the lecture and\nlab contents in sync with each other. For lectures, video recordings were\nshared before each session and students found that the overall ELD course was\nvery well organised in its theoretical aspects. In the beginning, course\ninstructor, Dr Sumit J Darak, informed that all the labs will be conducted\nremotely and there will not be any compromise on the learning outcome. To\nenable the same, IIITD ECE Lab took the responsibility of providing a 24/7\nremote access to FPGA and SoC boards. For students with low-end laptops,\ndedicated desktops were also provided throughout the semester. The hardware\nservers were set up so that students can program the board remotely and verify\nthe functionality on their laptop via logic analyzers. To help the learning,\nthe classes and the labs both were kept in sync with each other from the\nbeginning of the course. The teaching fellows (TFs) and teaching assistants (TAs)\nalso worked exceptionally hard and pushed themselves to clarify our doubts. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">IIIT-Delhi’s academic section also realized the workload at the instructor-end and helped us significantly by allocating additional TAs to support remote labs. The instructor, TAs, and TFs held regular office hours (there was at least one office hour per day) and often provided the necessary debugging help outside their office hours whenever needed. The lab handouts provided to students were too detailed and were more than enough to understand the concepts and complete the lab. For better understanding, we could always watch the labs'' pre-recorded videos (around 60 mins per week), which were also very detailed. To reduce the workload, lab homework was removed and students were asked to complete the lab and appear for Viva every week (around 92 vivas were conducted in each week). Most of the students appreciated the idea of taking vivas as it ensured that the students take the labs seriously and only the honest and hard-working student gets the marks. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">However, we all know with everything right; there are always limitations and a room for improvement. To understand student’s experiences and feedback, we, the student volunteers (details shared below) gathered suggestions from the rest of the ELD students. Most of the students agree with the fact that more number of boards could have been made available. For the students who use MacOS, the VIVADO software was not supported on their laptops, thus, pulling them back a little in the learning aspect. As there were a limited number of boards available for the students to work on, multiple students operated on the same board simultaneously, leading to incorrect results and creating a state of confusion. There could have been better communication among the students itself to avoid usage of the same board by multiple users at the same time to prevent chaos and confusion. As the complexity of the lab increased during the last few weeks, students got frustrated due to unavoidable glitches in remote access, other deadlines and increased workload. Thus, existing solutions for remote hardware access needs to be improved further. More importantly, students missed the opportunity to work on the hardware physically and explore integration of various sensors and displays. One interesting suggestion was to create live video demonstrations from ECE labs but this was not possible since TAs/TFs were working from home. Another suggestion is to plan additional lab sessions as and when campus opens. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":368,"align":"wide"} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image alignwide"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/b.png" alt="" class="wp-image-368"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Indeed the ELD labs had\ntheir ups and downs, but we appreciate that the ECE department did not choose\nthe easy path of dropping the hardware labs because the labs were vital and\nintegral to a student''s learning experience.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","customFontSize":12} -->\n<p style="font-size:12px;text-align:right">Written by IIITD ECE 2nd year students:<br>Madhur Kumar, Samyak Gupta, Prashant Singh, Samaksh Gupta, <br>Saksham Gupta, Tushar Agarwal, Divin Dominic, Mohd. Siraj Ansari, Rishi Singhal<br><br>Supervised By: <br>Dr. Sumit J Darak (Associate Professor and Chair: UG Affairs, ECE, IIIT Delhi) <br><br><br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Remote Hardware Labs in Covid Era: An Experiment at IIIT-Delhi', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '367-autosave-v1', '', '', '2020-12-30 08:59:27', '2020-12-30 03:29:27', '', 367, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/367-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0); INSERT INTO `wp_posts` (`ID`, `post_author`, `post_date`, `post_date_gmt`, `post_content`, `post_title`, `post_excerpt`, `post_status`, `comment_status`, `ping_status`, `post_password`, `post_name`, `to_ping`, `pinged`, `post_modified`, `post_modified_gmt`, `post_content_filtered`, `post_parent`, `guid`, `menu_order`, `post_type`, `post_mime_type`, `comment_count`) VALUES (380, 1, '2021-01-05 11:34:40', '2021-01-05 06:04:40', '<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The year is\n2020 and the date is 16<sup>th</sup> December, as Covid-19 still reigns terror\nover people all around the world, a selected set of about 600 students wake up\nall excited for it is the first day of their Induction program and the sweet\nbeginning of their college life at IIITD. I still remember the wide grin on my\nface as I donned the very special t-shirt provided to us for the event.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[421,422],"imageCrop":false,"align":"center"} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-2"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b1-2.jpg" alt="" data-id="421" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/b-tech-induction-2020-a-blog-by-classof2024/b1-3/" class="wp-image-421"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b2-2.png" alt="" data-id="422" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/b-tech-induction-2020-a-blog-by-classof2024/b2-3/" class="wp-image-422"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"> The program kicked off with a mention of the social media presence of the college and we were encouraged to actively take part in all the events and tag the official handles in all the Induction related posts. This was followed with an event fondly mentioned ‘Creating Memories’ and this is where we were introduced to the ever-awesome Dean of Student Affairs, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru Sir or as we call him PK Sir, and then and there I knew exactly the kind of fun energy we should expect from the Induction. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":383,"mediaType":"image"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b3-1024x643.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-383"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">We were presented with a virtual tour of the college followed by a discussion session with sir. The event concluded with the well-renowned selfie by PK sir and it was by this point I realised I was not shivering with cold anymore but now it was because of all the excitement I couldn''t contain. "Welcome to IIITD'''' was the next part and included an address by the Director of IIITD Prof. Ranjan Bose and a very good Q&A session. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The next part was the invited talk session delivered by the co-founder of Infosys Mr. Kris Gopalakrisnan who enlightened us about our role in the 4th Industrial Technology Revolution. We had afterwards a brief introduction to the Research Culture in IIITD which was then followed by an awesome Ice breaking session where we got to interact with our seniors and performed a fun activity where we were divided into small groups and each of us shared our Bucket lists which we intended to fulfill in our college years. After a great session of bonding and making friends I went to sleep thinking this day was definitely going to be the best one throughout the event but then came Day 2.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[386,387],"align":"center","className":"aligncenter"} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b4.png" alt="" data-id="386" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=386" class="wp-image-386"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b5-1.png" alt="" data-id="387" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=387" class="wp-image-387"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe started the day\nwith a Yoga session which was actually conducted on all the subsequent days,\nand we then followed through to an informative talk about the Office of Student\nAffairs and all the different Student councils operating in the college. The\ninvited talk of the day was delivered by Professor Pankaj Jalote who encouraged\nus to enjoy our first two years and explore as much as possible. He very\nsmartly summarized his point of view with a T-model of learning which basically\nmeans learning only our subjects of intrigue in depth. We then had a few\nfactual sessions and afterwards we had an introduction to many of the clubs\nactive in the college. \n\n\n\n</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaPosition":"right","mediaId":390,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":43} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right" style="grid-template-columns:auto 43%"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b6.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-390"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">This was also the day when we noticed the daily changing hoodies and caps of different Universities worn by PK sir which quickly became a fun quiz activity for all of us. The day concluded with an Open Mic Session conducted by LitSoc, the literature club, and as a lover of poetry myself I thoroughly enjoyed the performances by various batch mates and even recited a poem myself. This time when I went to sleep I thought okay maybe this day was the best, no way can it be topped now but boy was I proven wrong each and every day. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":393,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":45} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide" style="grid-template-columns:45% auto"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b7.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-393"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 3 found us learning even more about how fantastic of a college IIITD is and what all state of the art facilities we have at our disposal via sessions by the ENT and the Facility Management Service. Let me ask you if you have ever heard of a Dean going on an impromptu tour of the college just because students wanted to see the campus, because that actually happened as we all saw PK sir giving us a tour of the college. Acharya Prashant was the invited speaker of the day and he beautifully explained the importance of the Upanishads and inspired us to make spirituality a part of our lives. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The alumni meet session afterwards was very helpful and insightful as we got to know about how the college played an integral part in their respective journeys and got first-hand experience of life after graduating from IIITD. After the particularly engaging alumni meet, we finally got introduced to Competitive Coding in a session conducted by the Foobar club. The event was very inclusive and made sure to divide us depending on our coding experience and gave the problems accordingly. Many students went crazy solving the problems and even woke up the whole night pondering over the solutions. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[394,395]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b8.png" alt="" data-id="394" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=394" class="wp-image-394"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b9.png" alt="" data-id="395" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=395" class="wp-image-395"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 4 and the\nenthusiasm was soaring to new heights with students even more excited than the\nfirst day, eager to enjoy all the activities planned for the day. We received a\nbrief intro about the Student Mentorship Program after which we had the invited\ntalk of the day by Ms. Ira Singhal. We all felt motivated and inspired as we\nlearned of her journey and the importance of perseverance in whatever we want\nto achieve in our lives. After that, we had a presentation about all the facilities\nprovided by the Library, and honestly, kindles for borrowing was not something\nI expected at all. The parent interaction afterwards was a much-needed session\nas many parents got their doubts cleared and were able to make sure that their\nchildren are now in good hands. Various fun activities were planned for the day\nby many different clubs such as Machaan, Audiobytes, Finnexia, Electroholics\nand Cyborg. We could only attend one activity at a time but from what I have\ngathered from my friends, all the activities were full of enjoyment and\nknowledge. The perfect day was brought to the perfect end with a surprise live\nperformance by Shubham J, who with his melodious tracks carried us through the\njourney we would go through in the upcoming 4 years.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":396,"align":"center","width":479,"height":299} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b10.png" alt="" class="wp-image-396" width="479" height="299"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The next day,\na Sunday was a break from the event for all the students and we still were busy\ninteracting on the Discord server made for us, as we played different games\ntogether, or simply just listened to music together. Bonding with people in an\nonline format is not easy but with the efforts of IIITD and all the seniors, I\nwould say I am sure to have already made some life-long friends.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":399,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":45} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide" style="grid-template-columns:45% auto"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b11.png" alt="" class="wp-image-399"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 5 and we were back on the Zoom call ready for the day. An early morning interaction with the alumni followed by a discussion on the mental well-being of students was very helpful. The invited talk afterwards was enriching and enlightening and was delivered by Professor Dheeraj Sanghi. A live demonstration of self-defense classes was also conducted along with an introduction to the sports culture in IIITD. We also glimpsed all the engaging and amusing events conducted in the college throughout the year by the Cultural Council, such as Odyssey, TedX and Esya. Club activities for the day were conducted by Muse, Evariste, The 65th Square, GirlUp Udaan, ACM, Women in Tech, Madtoes and Trivialis. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Each activity was filled with so much passion and enjoyment, I really felt like joining all the clubs then and there. The most fun part of the day however was the e-Sports Tournament as it saw different students teaming up together to be the winner. I sadly lost the tournament but once again ended up making more friends. In fact, I didn’t even win a single activity throughout the Induction but I still feel like I won, with all the new friends and bonds I have made.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 6 saw us learning even more about the college rules and structure as we attended meetings about the IT infrastructure/policies, Academics@IIITD and also a session by the amazing Student Council. It was then time for the jewel of the crown, the TALENT NIGHT. From the first performance till the very last one, everyone couldn’t help but cheer with utmost exuberance as the enthusiasm ran high throughout the event and as for me I was just left in awe of my fellow batch mates. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[406,407,408]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b12.png" alt="" data-id="406" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=406" class="wp-image-406"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b13.png" alt="" data-id="407" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=407" class="wp-image-407"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b14.jpg" alt="" data-id="408" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=408" class="wp-image-408"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The last day of the Induction saw us interacting with our respective departments and meeting the ever amazing faculty. An important session about Anti-ragging was also conducted followed by an introduction to the Mess and food available in the college. We wrapped up the event with another quick selfie showcasing our t-shirts and a smile on every face. The Induction concluded with the long-awaited performances by Kuhu Gracia and Rahul Dua. We all hummed along with the euphonious voice of Kuhu Gracia. The zoom call was then lit up with laughter as the final performance was by the ever funny Rahul Dua. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[413,414]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b15-1.jpg" alt="" data-id="413" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=413" class="wp-image-413"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b16-1.jpg" alt="" data-id="414" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=414" class="wp-image-414"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The zoom meeting was then terminated and\nit finally dawned upon me, the Induction was over. I started feeling a bit\nnostalgic and I know\nit''s weird to be missing something that started just a week ago, but I felt as\nif it had been going on forever, as if I had always been a part of IIITD. I\ncan’t even begin to express my gratitude to all the awesome faculty members of\nIIITD and the seniors who specially took out time for us in the midst of their\nend-semester exams. The whole event I believe will be forever etched in my\nmemory and it’s safe to say that I can always easily summarize the whole event\nin just three words - IIITD INDUCTION OP (overpowered)!!</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","customFontSize":11} -->\n<p style="font-size:11px;text-align:right">Blog by: Akshat Saini (B.Tech, Class of 2024)<br>Pictures by: Vishnu Shon, Vishesh Jain & Prof. PK </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'B.Tech. 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This was followed with an event fondly mentioned ‘Creating Memories’ and this is where we were introduced to the ever-awesome Dean of Student Affairs, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru Sir or as we call him PK Sir, and then and there I knew exactly the kind of fun energy we should expect from the Induction. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":383,"mediaType":"image"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b3-1024x643.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-383"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">We were presented with a virtual tour of the college followed by a discussion session with sir. 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The event was very inclusive and made sure to divide us depending on our coding experience and gave the problems accordingly. 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The day concluded with an Open Mic Session conducted by LitSoc, the literature club, and as a lover of poetry myself I thoroughly enjoyed the performances by various batch mates and even recited a poem myself. 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The event was very inclusive and made sure to divide us depending on our coding experience and gave the problems accordingly. 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I still remember the wide grin on my\nface as I donned the very special t-shirt provided to us for the event.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[381,382],"columns":2,"imageCrop":false,"align":"wide"} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery alignwide columns-2"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b1.jpg" alt="" data-id="381" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=381" class="wp-image-381"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b2.png" alt="" data-id="382" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=382" class="wp-image-382"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"> The program kicked off with a mention of the social media presence of the college and we were encouraged to actively take part in all the events and tag the official handles in all the Induction related posts. This was followed with an event fondly mentioned ‘Creating Memories’ and this is where we were introduced to the ever-awesome Dean of Student Affairs, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru Sir or as we call him PK Sir, and then and there I knew exactly the kind of fun energy we should expect from the Induction. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":383,"mediaType":"image"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b3-1024x643.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-383"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">We were presented with a virtual tour of the college followed by a discussion session with sir. The event concluded with the well-renowned selfie by PK sir and it was by this point I realised I was not shivering with cold anymore but now it was because of all the excitement I couldn''t contain. "Welcome to IIITD'''' was the next part and included an address by the Director of IIITD Prof. Ranjan Bose and a very good Q&A session. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The next part was the invited talk session delivered by the co-founder of Infosys Mr. Kris Gopalakrisnan who enlightened us about our role in the 4th Industrial Technology Revolution. We had afterwards a brief introduction to the Research Culture in IIITD which was then followed by an awesome Ice breaking session where we got to interact with our seniors and performed a fun activity where we were divided into small groups and each of us shared our Bucket lists which we intended to fulfill in our college years. After a great session of bonding and making friends I went to sleep thinking this day was definitely going to be the best one throughout the event but then came Day 2.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[386,387],"align":"center"} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b4.png" alt="" data-id="386" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=386" class="wp-image-386"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b5-1.png" alt="" data-id="387" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=387" class="wp-image-387"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe started the day\nwith a Yoga session which was actually conducted on all the subsequent days,\nand we then followed through to an informative talk about the Office of Student\nAffairs and all the different Student councils operating in the college. The\ninvited talk of the day was delivered by Professor Pankaj Jalote who encouraged\nus to enjoy our first two years and explore as much as possible. He very\nsmartly summarized his point of view with a T-model of learning which basically\nmeans learning only our subjects of intrigue in depth. We then had a few\nfactual sessions and afterwards we had an introduction to many of the clubs\nactive in the college. \n\n\n\n</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaPosition":"right","mediaId":390,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":43} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right" style="grid-template-columns:auto 43%"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b6.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-390"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">This was also the day when we noticed the daily changing hoodies and caps of different Universities worn by PK sir which quickly became a fun quiz activity for all of us. The day concluded with an Open Mic Session conducted by LitSoc, the literature club, and as a lover of poetry myself I thoroughly enjoyed the performances by various batch mates and even recited a poem myself. This time when I went to sleep I thought okay maybe this day was the best, no way can it be topped now but boy was I proven wrong each and every day. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":393,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":45} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide" style="grid-template-columns:45% auto"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b7.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-393"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 3 found us learning even more about how fantastic of a college IIITD is and what all state of the art facilities we have at our disposal via sessions by the ENT and the Facility Management Service. Let me ask you if you have ever heard of a Dean going on an impromptu tour of the college just because students wanted to see the campus, because that actually happened as we all saw PK sir giving us a tour of the college. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"><br>Acharya Prashant was the invited speaker of the day and he beautifully explained the importance of the Upanishads and inspired us to make spirituality a part of our lives. The alumni meet session afterwards was very helpful and insightful as we got to know about how the college played an integral part in their respective journeys and got first-hand experience of life after graduating from IIITD. After the particularly engaging alumni meet, we finally got introduced to Competitive Coding in a session conducted by the Foobar club. The event was very inclusive and made sure to divide us depending on our coding experience and gave the problems accordingly. Many students went crazy solving the problems and even woke up the whole night pondering over the solutions. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[394,395]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b8.png" alt="" data-id="394" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=394" class="wp-image-394"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b9.png" alt="" data-id="395" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=395" class="wp-image-395"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 4 and the\nenthusiasm was soaring to new heights with students even more excited than the\nfirst day, eager to enjoy all the activities planned for the day. We received a\nbrief intro about the Student Mentorship Program after which we had the invited\ntalk of the day by Ms. Ira Singhal. We all felt motivated and inspired as we\nlearned of her journey and the importance of perseverance in whatever we want\nto achieve in our lives. After that, we had a presentation about all the facilities\nprovided by the Library, and honestly, kindles for borrowing was not something\nI expected at all. The parent interaction afterwards was a much-needed session\nas many parents got their doubts cleared and were able to make sure that their\nchildren are now in good hands. Various fun activities were planned for the day\nby many different clubs such as Machaan, Audiobytes, Finnexia, Electroholics\nand Cyborg. We could only attend one activity at a time but from what I have\ngathered from my friends, all the activities were full of enjoyment and\nknowledge. The perfect day was brought to the perfect end with a surprise live\nperformance by Shubham J, who with his melodious tracks carried us through the\njourney we would go through in the upcoming 4 years.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":396,"align":"center","width":479,"height":299} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b10.png" alt="" class="wp-image-396" width="479" height="299"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The next day,\na Sunday was a break from the event for all the students and we still were busy\ninteracting on the Discord server made for us, as we played different games\ntogether, or simply just listened to music together. Bonding with people in an\nonline format is not easy but with the efforts of IIITD and all the seniors, I\nwould say I am sure to have already made some life-long friends.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":399,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":45} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide" style="grid-template-columns:45% auto"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b11.png" alt="" class="wp-image-399"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 5 and we were back on the Zoom call ready for the day. An early morning interaction with the alumni followed by a discussion on the mental well-being of students was very helpful. The invited talk afterwards was enriching and enlightening and was delivered by Professor Dheeraj Sanghi. A live demonstration of self-defense classes was also conducted along with an introduction to the sports culture in IIITD. We also glimpsed all the engaging and amusing events conducted in the college throughout the year by the Cultural Council, such as Odyssey, TedX and Esya. Club activities for the day were conducted by Muse, Evariste, The 65th Square, GirlUp Udaan, ACM, Women in Tech, Madtoes and Trivialis. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->', 'B.Tech. Induction 2020- A Blog by #Classof2024', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '380-revision-v1', '', '', '2021-01-05 11:25:26', '2021-01-05 05:55:26', '', 380, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/380-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (403, 1, '2021-01-05 11:25:56', '2021-01-05 05:55:56', '<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The year is\n2020 and the date is 16<sup>th</sup> December, as Covid-19 still reigns terror\nover people all around the world, a selected set of about 600 students wake up\nall excited for it is the first day of their Induction program and the sweet\nbeginning of their college life at IIITD. I still remember the wide grin on my\nface as I donned the very special t-shirt provided to us for the event.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[381,382],"columns":2,"imageCrop":false,"align":"wide"} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery alignwide columns-2"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b1.jpg" alt="" data-id="381" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=381" class="wp-image-381"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b2.png" alt="" data-id="382" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=382" class="wp-image-382"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"> The program kicked off with a mention of the social media presence of the college and we were encouraged to actively take part in all the events and tag the official handles in all the Induction related posts. This was followed with an event fondly mentioned ‘Creating Memories’ and this is where we were introduced to the ever-awesome Dean of Student Affairs, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru Sir or as we call him PK Sir, and then and there I knew exactly the kind of fun energy we should expect from the Induction. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":383,"mediaType":"image"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b3-1024x643.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-383"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">We were presented with a virtual tour of the college followed by a discussion session with sir. The event concluded with the well-renowned selfie by PK sir and it was by this point I realised I was not shivering with cold anymore but now it was because of all the excitement I couldn''t contain. "Welcome to IIITD'''' was the next part and included an address by the Director of IIITD Prof. Ranjan Bose and a very good Q&A session. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The next part was the invited talk session delivered by the co-founder of Infosys Mr. Kris Gopalakrisnan who enlightened us about our role in the 4th Industrial Technology Revolution. We had afterwards a brief introduction to the Research Culture in IIITD which was then followed by an awesome Ice breaking session where we got to interact with our seniors and performed a fun activity where we were divided into small groups and each of us shared our Bucket lists which we intended to fulfill in our college years. After a great session of bonding and making friends I went to sleep thinking this day was definitely going to be the best one throughout the event but then came Day 2.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[386,387],"align":"center"} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b4.png" alt="" data-id="386" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=386" class="wp-image-386"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b5-1.png" alt="" data-id="387" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=387" class="wp-image-387"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe started the day\nwith a Yoga session which was actually conducted on all the subsequent days,\nand we then followed through to an informative talk about the Office of Student\nAffairs and all the different Student councils operating in the college. The\ninvited talk of the day was delivered by Professor Pankaj Jalote who encouraged\nus to enjoy our first two years and explore as much as possible. He very\nsmartly summarized his point of view with a T-model of learning which basically\nmeans learning only our subjects of intrigue in depth. We then had a few\nfactual sessions and afterwards we had an introduction to many of the clubs\nactive in the college. \n\n\n\n</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaPosition":"right","mediaId":390,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":43} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right" style="grid-template-columns:auto 43%"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b6.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-390"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">This was also the day when we noticed the daily changing hoodies and caps of different Universities worn by PK sir which quickly became a fun quiz activity for all of us. The day concluded with an Open Mic Session conducted by LitSoc, the literature club, and as a lover of poetry myself I thoroughly enjoyed the performances by various batch mates and even recited a poem myself. This time when I went to sleep I thought okay maybe this day was the best, no way can it be topped now but boy was I proven wrong each and every day. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":393,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":45} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide" style="grid-template-columns:45% auto"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b7.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-393"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 3 found us learning even more about how fantastic of a college IIITD is and what all state of the art facilities we have at our disposal via sessions by the ENT and the Facility Management Service. Let me ask you if you have ever heard of a Dean going on an impromptu tour of the college just because students wanted to see the campus, because that actually happened as we all saw PK sir giving us a tour of the college. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"><br>Acharya Prashant was the invited speaker of the day and he beautifully explained the importance of the Upanishads and inspired us to make spirituality a part of our lives. The alumni meet session afterwards was very helpful and insightful as we got to know about how the college played an integral part in their respective journeys and got first-hand experience of life after graduating from IIITD. After the particularly engaging alumni meet, we finally got introduced to Competitive Coding in a session conducted by the Foobar club. The event was very inclusive and made sure to divide us depending on our coding experience and gave the problems accordingly. Many students went crazy solving the problems and even woke up the whole night pondering over the solutions. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[394,395]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b8.png" alt="" data-id="394" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=394" class="wp-image-394"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b9.png" alt="" data-id="395" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=395" class="wp-image-395"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 4 and the\nenthusiasm was soaring to new heights with students even more excited than the\nfirst day, eager to enjoy all the activities planned for the day. We received a\nbrief intro about the Student Mentorship Program after which we had the invited\ntalk of the day by Ms. Ira Singhal. We all felt motivated and inspired as we\nlearned of her journey and the importance of perseverance in whatever we want\nto achieve in our lives. After that, we had a presentation about all the facilities\nprovided by the Library, and honestly, kindles for borrowing was not something\nI expected at all. The parent interaction afterwards was a much-needed session\nas many parents got their doubts cleared and were able to make sure that their\nchildren are now in good hands. Various fun activities were planned for the day\nby many different clubs such as Machaan, Audiobytes, Finnexia, Electroholics\nand Cyborg. We could only attend one activity at a time but from what I have\ngathered from my friends, all the activities were full of enjoyment and\nknowledge. The perfect day was brought to the perfect end with a surprise live\nperformance by Shubham J, who with his melodious tracks carried us through the\njourney we would go through in the upcoming 4 years.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":396,"align":"center","width":479,"height":299} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b10.png" alt="" class="wp-image-396" width="479" height="299"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The next day,\na Sunday was a break from the event for all the students and we still were busy\ninteracting on the Discord server made for us, as we played different games\ntogether, or simply just listened to music together. Bonding with people in an\nonline format is not easy but with the efforts of IIITD and all the seniors, I\nwould say I am sure to have already made some life-long friends.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":399,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":45} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide" style="grid-template-columns:45% auto"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b11.png" alt="" class="wp-image-399"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 5 and we were back on the Zoom call ready for the day. An early morning interaction with the alumni followed by a discussion on the mental well-being of students was very helpful. The invited talk afterwards was enriching and enlightening and was delivered by Professor Dheeraj Sanghi. A live demonstration of self-defense classes was also conducted along with an introduction to the sports culture in IIITD. We also glimpsed all the engaging and amusing events conducted in the college throughout the year by the Cultural Council, such as Odyssey, TedX and Esya. Club activities for the day were conducted by Muse, Evariste, The 65th Square, GirlUp Udaan, ACM, Women in Tech, Madtoes and Trivialis. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"><br>Each activity was filled with so much passion and enjoyment, I really felt like joining all the clubs then and there. The most fun part of the day however was the e-Sports Tournament as it saw different students teaming up together to be the winner. I sadly lost the tournament but once again ended up making more friends. In fact, I didn’t even win a single activity throughout the Induction but I still feel like I won, with all the new friends and bonds I have made.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'B.Tech. Induction 2020- A Blog by #Classof2024', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '380-revision-v1', '', '', '2021-01-05 11:25:56', '2021-01-05 05:55:56', '', 380, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/380-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (404, 1, '2021-01-05 11:26:10', '2021-01-05 05:56:10', '<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The year is\n2020 and the date is 16<sup>th</sup> December, as Covid-19 still reigns terror\nover people all around the world, a selected set of about 600 students wake up\nall excited for it is the first day of their Induction program and the sweet\nbeginning of their college life at IIITD. I still remember the wide grin on my\nface as I donned the very special t-shirt provided to us for the event.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[381,382],"columns":2,"imageCrop":false,"align":"wide"} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery alignwide columns-2"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b1.jpg" alt="" data-id="381" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=381" class="wp-image-381"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b2.png" alt="" data-id="382" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=382" class="wp-image-382"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"> The program kicked off with a mention of the social media presence of the college and we were encouraged to actively take part in all the events and tag the official handles in all the Induction related posts. This was followed with an event fondly mentioned ‘Creating Memories’ and this is where we were introduced to the ever-awesome Dean of Student Affairs, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru Sir or as we call him PK Sir, and then and there I knew exactly the kind of fun energy we should expect from the Induction. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":383,"mediaType":"image"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b3-1024x643.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-383"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">We were presented with a virtual tour of the college followed by a discussion session with sir. The event concluded with the well-renowned selfie by PK sir and it was by this point I realised I was not shivering with cold anymore but now it was because of all the excitement I couldn''t contain. "Welcome to IIITD'''' was the next part and included an address by the Director of IIITD Prof. Ranjan Bose and a very good Q&A session. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The next part was the invited talk session delivered by the co-founder of Infosys Mr. Kris Gopalakrisnan who enlightened us about our role in the 4th Industrial Technology Revolution. We had afterwards a brief introduction to the Research Culture in IIITD which was then followed by an awesome Ice breaking session where we got to interact with our seniors and performed a fun activity where we were divided into small groups and each of us shared our Bucket lists which we intended to fulfill in our college years. 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The event concluded with the well-renowned selfie by PK sir and it was by this point I realised I was not shivering with cold anymore but now it was because of all the excitement I couldn''t contain. "Welcome to IIITD'''' was the next part and included an address by the Director of IIITD Prof. Ranjan Bose and a very good Q&A session. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The next part was the invited talk session delivered by the co-founder of Infosys Mr. Kris Gopalakrisnan who enlightened us about our role in the 4th Industrial Technology Revolution. 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After a great session of bonding and making friends I went to sleep thinking this day was definitely going to be the best one throughout the event but then came Day 2.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[386,387],"align":"center"} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b4.png" alt="" data-id="386" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=386" class="wp-image-386"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b5-1.png" alt="" data-id="387" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=387" class="wp-image-387"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe started the day\nwith a Yoga session which was actually conducted on all the subsequent days,\nand we then followed through to an informative talk about the Office of Student\nAffairs and all the different Student councils operating in the college. The\ninvited talk of the day was delivered by Professor Pankaj Jalote who encouraged\nus to enjoy our first two years and explore as much as possible. He very\nsmartly summarized his point of view with a T-model of learning which basically\nmeans learning only our subjects of intrigue in depth. We then had a few\nfactual sessions and afterwards we had an introduction to many of the clubs\nactive in the college. \n\n\n\n</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaPosition":"right","mediaId":390,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":43} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right" style="grid-template-columns:auto 43%"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b6.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-390"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">This was also the day when we noticed the daily changing hoodies and caps of different Universities worn by PK sir which quickly became a fun quiz activity for all of us. The day concluded with an Open Mic Session conducted by LitSoc, the literature club, and as a lover of poetry myself I thoroughly enjoyed the performances by various batch mates and even recited a poem myself. This time when I went to sleep I thought okay maybe this day was the best, no way can it be topped now but boy was I proven wrong each and every day. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":393,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":45} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide" style="grid-template-columns:45% auto"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b7.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-393"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 3 found us learning even more about how fantastic of a college IIITD is and what all state of the art facilities we have at our disposal via sessions by the ENT and the Facility Management Service. Let me ask you if you have ever heard of a Dean going on an impromptu tour of the college just because students wanted to see the campus, because that actually happened as we all saw PK sir giving us a tour of the college. Acharya Prashant was the invited speaker of the day and he beautifully explained the importance of the Upanishads and inspired us to make spirituality a part of our lives. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The alumni meet session afterwards was very helpful and insightful as we got to know about how the college played an integral part in their respective journeys and got first-hand experience of life after graduating from IIITD. After the particularly engaging alumni meet, we finally got introduced to Competitive Coding in a session conducted by the Foobar club. The event was very inclusive and made sure to divide us depending on our coding experience and gave the problems accordingly. Many students went crazy solving the problems and even woke up the whole night pondering over the solutions. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[394,395]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b8.png" alt="" data-id="394" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=394" class="wp-image-394"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b9.png" alt="" data-id="395" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=395" class="wp-image-395"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 4 and the\nenthusiasm was soaring to new heights with students even more excited than the\nfirst day, eager to enjoy all the activities planned for the day. We received a\nbrief intro about the Student Mentorship Program after which we had the invited\ntalk of the day by Ms. Ira Singhal. We all felt motivated and inspired as we\nlearned of her journey and the importance of perseverance in whatever we want\nto achieve in our lives. After that, we had a presentation about all the facilities\nprovided by the Library, and honestly, kindles for borrowing was not something\nI expected at all. The parent interaction afterwards was a much-needed session\nas many parents got their doubts cleared and were able to make sure that their\nchildren are now in good hands. Various fun activities were planned for the day\nby many different clubs such as Machaan, Audiobytes, Finnexia, Electroholics\nand Cyborg. We could only attend one activity at a time but from what I have\ngathered from my friends, all the activities were full of enjoyment and\nknowledge. The perfect day was brought to the perfect end with a surprise live\nperformance by Shubham J, who with his melodious tracks carried us through the\njourney we would go through in the upcoming 4 years.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":396,"align":"center","width":479,"height":299} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b10.png" alt="" class="wp-image-396" width="479" height="299"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The next day,\na Sunday was a break from the event for all the students and we still were busy\ninteracting on the Discord server made for us, as we played different games\ntogether, or simply just listened to music together. Bonding with people in an\nonline format is not easy but with the efforts of IIITD and all the seniors, I\nwould say I am sure to have already made some life-long friends.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":399,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":45} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide" style="grid-template-columns:45% auto"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b11.png" alt="" class="wp-image-399"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 5 and we were back on the Zoom call ready for the day. An early morning interaction with the alumni followed by a discussion on the mental well-being of students was very helpful. The invited talk afterwards was enriching and enlightening and was delivered by Professor Dheeraj Sanghi. A live demonstration of self-defense classes was also conducted along with an introduction to the sports culture in IIITD. We also glimpsed all the engaging and amusing events conducted in the college throughout the year by the Cultural Council, such as Odyssey, TedX and Esya. Club activities for the day were conducted by Muse, Evariste, The 65th Square, GirlUp Udaan, ACM, Women in Tech, Madtoes and Trivialis. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Each activity was filled with so much passion and enjoyment, I really felt like joining all the clubs then and there. The most fun part of the day however was the e-Sports Tournament as it saw different students teaming up together to be the winner. I sadly lost the tournament but once again ended up making more friends. In fact, I didn’t even win a single activity throughout the Induction but I still feel like I won, with all the new friends and bonds I have made.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 6 saw us learning even more about the college rules and structure as we attended meetings about the IT infrastructure/policies, Academics@IIITD and also a session by the amazing Student Council. It was then time for the jewel of the crown, the TALENT NIGHT. From the first performance till the very last one, everyone couldn’t help but cheer with utmost exuberance as the enthusiasm ran high throughout the event and as for me I was just left in awe of my fellow batch mates. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[406,407,408]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b12.png" alt="" data-id="406" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=406" class="wp-image-406"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b13.png" alt="" data-id="407" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=407" class="wp-image-407"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b14.jpg" alt="" data-id="408" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=408" class="wp-image-408"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaPosition":"right","mediaId":409,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":41} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right" style="grid-template-columns:auto 41%"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b15.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-409"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The last day of the Induction saw us interacting with our respective departments and meeting the ever amazing faculty. An important session about Anti-ragging was also conducted followed by an introduction to the Mess and food available in the college. We wrapped up the event with another quick selfie showcasing our t-shirts and a smile on every face. The Induction concluded with the long-awaited performances by Kuhu Gracia and Rahul Dua. We all hummed along with the euphonious voice of Kuhu Gracia. The zoom call was then lit up with laughter as the final performance was by the ever funny Rahul Dua. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->', 'B.Tech. 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I still remember the wide grin on my\nface as I donned the very special t-shirt provided to us for the event.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[381,382],"columns":2,"imageCrop":false,"align":"wide"} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery alignwide columns-2"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b1.jpg" alt="" data-id="381" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=381" class="wp-image-381"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b2.png" alt="" data-id="382" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=382" class="wp-image-382"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"> The program kicked off with a mention of the social media presence of the college and we were encouraged to actively take part in all the events and tag the official handles in all the Induction related posts. This was followed with an event fondly mentioned ‘Creating Memories’ and this is where we were introduced to the ever-awesome Dean of Student Affairs, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru Sir or as we call him PK Sir, and then and there I knew exactly the kind of fun energy we should expect from the Induction. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":383,"mediaType":"image"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b3-1024x643.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-383"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">We were presented with a virtual tour of the college followed by a discussion session with sir. The event concluded with the well-renowned selfie by PK sir and it was by this point I realised I was not shivering with cold anymore but now it was because of all the excitement I couldn''t contain. "Welcome to IIITD'''' was the next part and included an address by the Director of IIITD Prof. Ranjan Bose and a very good Q&A session. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The next part was the invited talk session delivered by the co-founder of Infosys Mr. Kris Gopalakrisnan who enlightened us about our role in the 4th Industrial Technology Revolution. We had afterwards a brief introduction to the Research Culture in IIITD which was then followed by an awesome Ice breaking session where we got to interact with our seniors and performed a fun activity where we were divided into small groups and each of us shared our Bucket lists which we intended to fulfill in our college years. After a great session of bonding and making friends I went to sleep thinking this day was definitely going to be the best one throughout the event but then came Day 2.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[386,387],"align":"center"} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b4.png" alt="" data-id="386" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=386" class="wp-image-386"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b5-1.png" alt="" data-id="387" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=387" class="wp-image-387"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe started the day\nwith a Yoga session which was actually conducted on all the subsequent days,\nand we then followed through to an informative talk about the Office of Student\nAffairs and all the different Student councils operating in the college. The\ninvited talk of the day was delivered by Professor Pankaj Jalote who encouraged\nus to enjoy our first two years and explore as much as possible. He very\nsmartly summarized his point of view with a T-model of learning which basically\nmeans learning only our subjects of intrigue in depth. We then had a few\nfactual sessions and afterwards we had an introduction to many of the clubs\nactive in the college. \n\n\n\n</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaPosition":"right","mediaId":390,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":43} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right" style="grid-template-columns:auto 43%"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b6.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-390"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">This was also the day when we noticed the daily changing hoodies and caps of different Universities worn by PK sir which quickly became a fun quiz activity for all of us. The day concluded with an Open Mic Session conducted by LitSoc, the literature club, and as a lover of poetry myself I thoroughly enjoyed the performances by various batch mates and even recited a poem myself. This time when I went to sleep I thought okay maybe this day was the best, no way can it be topped now but boy was I proven wrong each and every day. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":393,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":45} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide" style="grid-template-columns:45% auto"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b7.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-393"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 3 found us learning even more about how fantastic of a college IIITD is and what all state of the art facilities we have at our disposal via sessions by the ENT and the Facility Management Service. Let me ask you if you have ever heard of a Dean going on an impromptu tour of the college just because students wanted to see the campus, because that actually happened as we all saw PK sir giving us a tour of the college. Acharya Prashant was the invited speaker of the day and he beautifully explained the importance of the Upanishads and inspired us to make spirituality a part of our lives. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The alumni meet session afterwards was very helpful and insightful as we got to know about how the college played an integral part in their respective journeys and got first-hand experience of life after graduating from IIITD. After the particularly engaging alumni meet, we finally got introduced to Competitive Coding in a session conducted by the Foobar club. The event was very inclusive and made sure to divide us depending on our coding experience and gave the problems accordingly. Many students went crazy solving the problems and even woke up the whole night pondering over the solutions. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[394,395]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b8.png" alt="" data-id="394" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=394" class="wp-image-394"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b9.png" alt="" data-id="395" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=395" class="wp-image-395"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 4 and the\nenthusiasm was soaring to new heights with students even more excited than the\nfirst day, eager to enjoy all the activities planned for the day. We received a\nbrief intro about the Student Mentorship Program after which we had the invited\ntalk of the day by Ms. Ira Singhal. We all felt motivated and inspired as we\nlearned of her journey and the importance of perseverance in whatever we want\nto achieve in our lives. After that, we had a presentation about all the facilities\nprovided by the Library, and honestly, kindles for borrowing was not something\nI expected at all. The parent interaction afterwards was a much-needed session\nas many parents got their doubts cleared and were able to make sure that their\nchildren are now in good hands. Various fun activities were planned for the day\nby many different clubs such as Machaan, Audiobytes, Finnexia, Electroholics\nand Cyborg. We could only attend one activity at a time but from what I have\ngathered from my friends, all the activities were full of enjoyment and\nknowledge. The perfect day was brought to the perfect end with a surprise live\nperformance by Shubham J, who with his melodious tracks carried us through the\njourney we would go through in the upcoming 4 years.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":396,"align":"center","width":479,"height":299} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b10.png" alt="" class="wp-image-396" width="479" height="299"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The next day,\na Sunday was a break from the event for all the students and we still were busy\ninteracting on the Discord server made for us, as we played different games\ntogether, or simply just listened to music together. Bonding with people in an\nonline format is not easy but with the efforts of IIITD and all the seniors, I\nwould say I am sure to have already made some life-long friends.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":399,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":45} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide" style="grid-template-columns:45% auto"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b11.png" alt="" class="wp-image-399"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 5 and we were back on the Zoom call ready for the day. An early morning interaction with the alumni followed by a discussion on the mental well-being of students was very helpful. The invited talk afterwards was enriching and enlightening and was delivered by Professor Dheeraj Sanghi. A live demonstration of self-defense classes was also conducted along with an introduction to the sports culture in IIITD. We also glimpsed all the engaging and amusing events conducted in the college throughout the year by the Cultural Council, such as Odyssey, TedX and Esya. Club activities for the day were conducted by Muse, Evariste, The 65th Square, GirlUp Udaan, ACM, Women in Tech, Madtoes and Trivialis. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Each activity was filled with so much passion and enjoyment, I really felt like joining all the clubs then and there. The most fun part of the day however was the e-Sports Tournament as it saw different students teaming up together to be the winner. I sadly lost the tournament but once again ended up making more friends. In fact, I didn’t even win a single activity throughout the Induction but I still feel like I won, with all the new friends and bonds I have made.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 6 saw us learning even more about the college rules and structure as we attended meetings about the IT infrastructure/policies, Academics@IIITD and also a session by the amazing Student Council. It was then time for the jewel of the crown, the TALENT NIGHT. From the first performance till the very last one, everyone couldn’t help but cheer with utmost exuberance as the enthusiasm ran high throughout the event and as for me I was just left in awe of my fellow batch mates. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[406,407,408]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b12.png" alt="" data-id="406" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=406" class="wp-image-406"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b13.png" alt="" data-id="407" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=407" class="wp-image-407"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b14.jpg" alt="" data-id="408" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=408" class="wp-image-408"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaPosition":"right","mediaId":409,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":43} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right" style="grid-template-columns:auto 43%"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b15.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-409"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The last day of the Induction saw us interacting with our respective departments and meeting the ever amazing faculty. An important session about Anti-ragging was also conducted followed by an introduction to the Mess and food available in the college. We wrapped up the event with another quick selfie showcasing our t-shirts and a smile on every face. The Induction concluded with the long-awaited performances by Kuhu Gracia and Rahul Dua. We all hummed along with the euphonious voice of Kuhu Gracia. 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I still remember the wide grin on my\nface as I donned the very special t-shirt provided to us for the event.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[381,382],"columns":2,"imageCrop":false,"align":"wide"} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery alignwide columns-2"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b1.jpg" alt="" data-id="381" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=381" class="wp-image-381"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b2.png" alt="" data-id="382" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=382" class="wp-image-382"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"> The program kicked off with a mention of the social media presence of the college and we were encouraged to actively take part in all the events and tag the official handles in all the Induction related posts. This was followed with an event fondly mentioned ‘Creating Memories’ and this is where we were introduced to the ever-awesome Dean of Student Affairs, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru Sir or as we call him PK Sir, and then and there I knew exactly the kind of fun energy we should expect from the Induction. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":383,"mediaType":"image"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b3-1024x643.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-383"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">We were presented with a virtual tour of the college followed by a discussion session with sir. The event concluded with the well-renowned selfie by PK sir and it was by this point I realised I was not shivering with cold anymore but now it was because of all the excitement I couldn''t contain. "Welcome to IIITD'''' was the next part and included an address by the Director of IIITD Prof. Ranjan Bose and a very good Q&A session. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The next part was the invited talk session delivered by the co-founder of Infosys Mr. Kris Gopalakrisnan who enlightened us about our role in the 4th Industrial Technology Revolution. 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The\ninvited talk of the day was delivered by Professor Pankaj Jalote who encouraged\nus to enjoy our first two years and explore as much as possible. He very\nsmartly summarized his point of view with a T-model of learning which basically\nmeans learning only our subjects of intrigue in depth. We then had a few\nfactual sessions and afterwards we had an introduction to many of the clubs\nactive in the college. \n\n\n\n</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaPosition":"right","mediaId":390,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":43} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right" style="grid-template-columns:auto 43%"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b6.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-390"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">This was also the day when we noticed the daily changing hoodies and caps of different Universities worn by PK sir which quickly became a fun quiz activity for all of us. The day concluded with an Open Mic Session conducted by LitSoc, the literature club, and as a lover of poetry myself I thoroughly enjoyed the performances by various batch mates and even recited a poem myself. 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Let me ask you if you have ever heard of a Dean going on an impromptu tour of the college just because students wanted to see the campus, because that actually happened as we all saw PK sir giving us a tour of the college. Acharya Prashant was the invited speaker of the day and he beautifully explained the importance of the Upanishads and inspired us to make spirituality a part of our lives. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The alumni meet session afterwards was very helpful and insightful as we got to know about how the college played an integral part in their respective journeys and got first-hand experience of life after graduating from IIITD. After the particularly engaging alumni meet, we finally got introduced to Competitive Coding in a session conducted by the Foobar club. The event was very inclusive and made sure to divide us depending on our coding experience and gave the problems accordingly. Many students went crazy solving the problems and even woke up the whole night pondering over the solutions. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[394,395]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b8.png" alt="" data-id="394" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=394" class="wp-image-394"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b9.png" alt="" data-id="395" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=395" class="wp-image-395"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 4 and the\nenthusiasm was soaring to new heights with students even more excited than the\nfirst day, eager to enjoy all the activities planned for the day. We received a\nbrief intro about the Student Mentorship Program after which we had the invited\ntalk of the day by Ms. Ira Singhal. We all felt motivated and inspired as we\nlearned of her journey and the importance of perseverance in whatever we want\nto achieve in our lives. After that, we had a presentation about all the facilities\nprovided by the Library, and honestly, kindles for borrowing was not something\nI expected at all. The parent interaction afterwards was a much-needed session\nas many parents got their doubts cleared and were able to make sure that their\nchildren are now in good hands. Various fun activities were planned for the day\nby many different clubs such as Machaan, Audiobytes, Finnexia, Electroholics\nand Cyborg. We could only attend one activity at a time but from what I have\ngathered from my friends, all the activities were full of enjoyment and\nknowledge. The perfect day was brought to the perfect end with a surprise live\nperformance by Shubham J, who with his melodious tracks carried us through the\njourney we would go through in the upcoming 4 years.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":396,"align":"center","width":479,"height":299} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b10.png" alt="" class="wp-image-396" width="479" height="299"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The next day,\na Sunday was a break from the event for all the students and we still were busy\ninteracting on the Discord server made for us, as we played different games\ntogether, or simply just listened to music together. Bonding with people in an\nonline format is not easy but with the efforts of IIITD and all the seniors, I\nwould say I am sure to have already made some life-long friends.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":399,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":45} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide" style="grid-template-columns:45% auto"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b11.png" alt="" class="wp-image-399"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 5 and we were back on the Zoom call ready for the day. An early morning interaction with the alumni followed by a discussion on the mental well-being of students was very helpful. The invited talk afterwards was enriching and enlightening and was delivered by Professor Dheeraj Sanghi. A live demonstration of self-defense classes was also conducted along with an introduction to the sports culture in IIITD. We also glimpsed all the engaging and amusing events conducted in the college throughout the year by the Cultural Council, such as Odyssey, TedX and Esya. Club activities for the day were conducted by Muse, Evariste, The 65th Square, GirlUp Udaan, ACM, Women in Tech, Madtoes and Trivialis. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Each activity was filled with so much passion and enjoyment, I really felt like joining all the clubs then and there. The most fun part of the day however was the e-Sports Tournament as it saw different students teaming up together to be the winner. I sadly lost the tournament but once again ended up making more friends. 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We then had a few\nfactual sessions and afterwards we had an introduction to many of the clubs\nactive in the college. \n\n\n\n</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaPosition":"right","mediaId":390,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":43} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right" style="grid-template-columns:auto 43%"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b6.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-390"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">This was also the day when we noticed the daily changing hoodies and caps of different Universities worn by PK sir which quickly became a fun quiz activity for all of us. The day concluded with an Open Mic Session conducted by LitSoc, the literature club, and as a lover of poetry myself I thoroughly enjoyed the performances by various batch mates and even recited a poem myself. This time when I went to sleep I thought okay maybe this day was the best, no way can it be topped now but boy was I proven wrong each and every day. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":393,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":45} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide" style="grid-template-columns:45% auto"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b7.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-393"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 3 found us learning even more about how fantastic of a college IIITD is and what all state of the art facilities we have at our disposal via sessions by the ENT and the Facility Management Service. Let me ask you if you have ever heard of a Dean going on an impromptu tour of the college just because students wanted to see the campus, because that actually happened as we all saw PK sir giving us a tour of the college. Acharya Prashant was the invited speaker of the day and he beautifully explained the importance of the Upanishads and inspired us to make spirituality a part of our lives. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The alumni meet session afterwards was very helpful and insightful as we got to know about how the college played an integral part in their respective journeys and got first-hand experience of life after graduating from IIITD. After the particularly engaging alumni meet, we finally got introduced to Competitive Coding in a session conducted by the Foobar club. The event was very inclusive and made sure to divide us depending on our coding experience and gave the problems accordingly. Many students went crazy solving the problems and even woke up the whole night pondering over the solutions. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[394,395]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b8.png" alt="" data-id="394" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=394" class="wp-image-394"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b9.png" alt="" data-id="395" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=395" class="wp-image-395"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 4 and the\nenthusiasm was soaring to new heights with students even more excited than the\nfirst day, eager to enjoy all the activities planned for the day. We received a\nbrief intro about the Student Mentorship Program after which we had the invited\ntalk of the day by Ms. Ira Singhal. We all felt motivated and inspired as we\nlearned of her journey and the importance of perseverance in whatever we want\nto achieve in our lives. After that, we had a presentation about all the facilities\nprovided by the Library, and honestly, kindles for borrowing was not something\nI expected at all. The parent interaction afterwards was a much-needed session\nas many parents got their doubts cleared and were able to make sure that their\nchildren are now in good hands. Various fun activities were planned for the day\nby many different clubs such as Machaan, Audiobytes, Finnexia, Electroholics\nand Cyborg. We could only attend one activity at a time but from what I have\ngathered from my friends, all the activities were full of enjoyment and\nknowledge. The perfect day was brought to the perfect end with a surprise live\nperformance by Shubham J, who with his melodious tracks carried us through the\njourney we would go through in the upcoming 4 years.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":396,"align":"center","width":479,"height":299} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b10.png" alt="" class="wp-image-396" width="479" height="299"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The next day,\na Sunday was a break from the event for all the students and we still were busy\ninteracting on the Discord server made for us, as we played different games\ntogether, or simply just listened to music together. Bonding with people in an\nonline format is not easy but with the efforts of IIITD and all the seniors, I\nwould say I am sure to have already made some life-long friends.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":399,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":45} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide" style="grid-template-columns:45% auto"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b11.png" alt="" class="wp-image-399"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 5 and we were back on the Zoom call ready for the day. An early morning interaction with the alumni followed by a discussion on the mental well-being of students was very helpful. The invited talk afterwards was enriching and enlightening and was delivered by Professor Dheeraj Sanghi. A live demonstration of self-defense classes was also conducted along with an introduction to the sports culture in IIITD. We also glimpsed all the engaging and amusing events conducted in the college throughout the year by the Cultural Council, such as Odyssey, TedX and Esya. Club activities for the day were conducted by Muse, Evariste, The 65th Square, GirlUp Udaan, ACM, Women in Tech, Madtoes and Trivialis. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Each activity was filled with so much passion and enjoyment, I really felt like joining all the clubs then and there. The most fun part of the day however was the e-Sports Tournament as it saw different students teaming up together to be the winner. I sadly lost the tournament but once again ended up making more friends. In fact, I didn’t even win a single activity throughout the Induction but I still feel like I won, with all the new friends and bonds I have made.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 6 saw us learning even more about the college rules and structure as we attended meetings about the IT infrastructure/policies, Academics@IIITD and also a session by the amazing Student Council. It was then time for the jewel of the crown, the TALENT NIGHT. From the first performance till the very last one, everyone couldn’t help but cheer with utmost exuberance as the enthusiasm ran high throughout the event and as for me I was just left in awe of my fellow batch mates. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[406,407,408]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b12.png" alt="" data-id="406" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=406" class="wp-image-406"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b13.png" alt="" data-id="407" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=407" class="wp-image-407"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b14.jpg" alt="" data-id="408" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=408" class="wp-image-408"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The last day of the Induction saw us interacting with our respective departments and meeting the ever amazing faculty. An important session about Anti-ragging was also conducted followed by an introduction to the Mess and food available in the college. We wrapped up the event with another quick selfie showcasing our t-shirts and a smile on every face. The Induction concluded with the long-awaited performances by Kuhu Gracia and Rahul Dua. We all hummed along with the euphonious voice of Kuhu Gracia. The zoom call was then lit up with laughter as the final performance was by the ever funny Rahul Dua. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[413,414]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b15-1.jpg" alt="" data-id="413" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=413" class="wp-image-413"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b16-1.jpg" alt="" data-id="414" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=414" class="wp-image-414"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The zoom meeting was then terminated and\nit finally dawned upon me, the Induction was over. I started feeling a bit\nnostalgic and I know\nit''s weird to be missing something that started just a week ago, but I felt as\nif it had been going on forever, as if I had always been a part of IIITD. I\ncan’t even begin to express my gratitude to all the awesome faculty members of\nIIITD and the seniors who specially took out time for us in the midst of their\nend-semester exams. The whole event I believe will be forever etched in my\nmemory and it’s safe to say that I can always easily summarize the whole event\nin just three words - IIITD INDUCTION OP (overpowered)!!</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","customFontSize":11} -->\n<p style="font-size:11px;text-align:right">Blog by: Akshat Saini (B.Tech, Class of 2024)<br>Pictures by: Vishnu Shon, Vishesh Jain & Prof. PK </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'B.Tech. 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I still remember the wide grin on my\nface as I donned the very special t-shirt provided to us for the event.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":418,"align":"center","width":304,"height":321} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b1-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-418" width="304" height="321"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":419,"align":"center","width":350,"height":197} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b2-1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-419" width="350" height="197"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"> The program kicked off with a mention of the social media presence of the college and we were encouraged to actively take part in all the events and tag the official handles in all the Induction related posts. This was followed with an event fondly mentioned ‘Creating Memories’ and this is where we were introduced to the ever-awesome Dean of Student Affairs, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru Sir or as we call him PK Sir, and then and there I knew exactly the kind of fun energy we should expect from the Induction. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":383,"mediaType":"image"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b3-1024x643.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-383"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">We were presented with a virtual tour of the college followed by a discussion session with sir. The event concluded with the well-renowned selfie by PK sir and it was by this point I realised I was not shivering with cold anymore but now it was because of all the excitement I couldn''t contain. "Welcome to IIITD'''' was the next part and included an address by the Director of IIITD Prof. Ranjan Bose and a very good Q&A session. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The next part was the invited talk session delivered by the co-founder of Infosys Mr. Kris Gopalakrisnan who enlightened us about our role in the 4th Industrial Technology Revolution. We had afterwards a brief introduction to the Research Culture in IIITD which was then followed by an awesome Ice breaking session where we got to interact with our seniors and performed a fun activity where we were divided into small groups and each of us shared our Bucket lists which we intended to fulfill in our college years. After a great session of bonding and making friends I went to sleep thinking this day was definitely going to be the best one throughout the event but then came Day 2.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[386,387],"align":"center","className":"aligncenter"} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b4.png" alt="" data-id="386" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=386" class="wp-image-386"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b5-1.png" alt="" data-id="387" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=387" class="wp-image-387"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe started the day\nwith a Yoga session which was actually conducted on all the subsequent days,\nand we then followed through to an informative talk about the Office of Student\nAffairs and all the different Student councils operating in the college. The\ninvited talk of the day was delivered by Professor Pankaj Jalote who encouraged\nus to enjoy our first two years and explore as much as possible. He very\nsmartly summarized his point of view with a T-model of learning which basically\nmeans learning only our subjects of intrigue in depth. We then had a few\nfactual sessions and afterwards we had an introduction to many of the clubs\nactive in the college. \n\n\n\n</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaPosition":"right","mediaId":390,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":43} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right" style="grid-template-columns:auto 43%"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b6.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-390"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">This was also the day when we noticed the daily changing hoodies and caps of different Universities worn by PK sir which quickly became a fun quiz activity for all of us. The day concluded with an Open Mic Session conducted by LitSoc, the literature club, and as a lover of poetry myself I thoroughly enjoyed the performances by various batch mates and even recited a poem myself. This time when I went to sleep I thought okay maybe this day was the best, no way can it be topped now but boy was I proven wrong each and every day. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":393,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":45} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide" style="grid-template-columns:45% auto"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b7.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-393"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 3 found us learning even more about how fantastic of a college IIITD is and what all state of the art facilities we have at our disposal via sessions by the ENT and the Facility Management Service. Let me ask you if you have ever heard of a Dean going on an impromptu tour of the college just because students wanted to see the campus, because that actually happened as we all saw PK sir giving us a tour of the college. Acharya Prashant was the invited speaker of the day and he beautifully explained the importance of the Upanishads and inspired us to make spirituality a part of our lives. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The alumni meet session afterwards was very helpful and insightful as we got to know about how the college played an integral part in their respective journeys and got first-hand experience of life after graduating from IIITD. After the particularly engaging alumni meet, we finally got introduced to Competitive Coding in a session conducted by the Foobar club. The event was very inclusive and made sure to divide us depending on our coding experience and gave the problems accordingly. Many students went crazy solving the problems and even woke up the whole night pondering over the solutions. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[394,395]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b8.png" alt="" data-id="394" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=394" class="wp-image-394"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b9.png" alt="" data-id="395" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=395" class="wp-image-395"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 4 and the\nenthusiasm was soaring to new heights with students even more excited than the\nfirst day, eager to enjoy all the activities planned for the day. We received a\nbrief intro about the Student Mentorship Program after which we had the invited\ntalk of the day by Ms. Ira Singhal. We all felt motivated and inspired as we\nlearned of her journey and the importance of perseverance in whatever we want\nto achieve in our lives. After that, we had a presentation about all the facilities\nprovided by the Library, and honestly, kindles for borrowing was not something\nI expected at all. The parent interaction afterwards was a much-needed session\nas many parents got their doubts cleared and were able to make sure that their\nchildren are now in good hands. Various fun activities were planned for the day\nby many different clubs such as Machaan, Audiobytes, Finnexia, Electroholics\nand Cyborg. We could only attend one activity at a time but from what I have\ngathered from my friends, all the activities were full of enjoyment and\nknowledge. The perfect day was brought to the perfect end with a surprise live\nperformance by Shubham J, who with his melodious tracks carried us through the\njourney we would go through in the upcoming 4 years.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":396,"align":"center","width":479,"height":299} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b10.png" alt="" class="wp-image-396" width="479" height="299"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The next day,\na Sunday was a break from the event for all the students and we still were busy\ninteracting on the Discord server made for us, as we played different games\ntogether, or simply just listened to music together. Bonding with people in an\nonline format is not easy but with the efforts of IIITD and all the seniors, I\nwould say I am sure to have already made some life-long friends.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":399,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":45} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide" style="grid-template-columns:45% auto"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b11.png" alt="" class="wp-image-399"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 5 and we were back on the Zoom call ready for the day. An early morning interaction with the alumni followed by a discussion on the mental well-being of students was very helpful. The invited talk afterwards was enriching and enlightening and was delivered by Professor Dheeraj Sanghi. A live demonstration of self-defense classes was also conducted along with an introduction to the sports culture in IIITD. We also glimpsed all the engaging and amusing events conducted in the college throughout the year by the Cultural Council, such as Odyssey, TedX and Esya. Club activities for the day were conducted by Muse, Evariste, The 65th Square, GirlUp Udaan, ACM, Women in Tech, Madtoes and Trivialis. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Each activity was filled with so much passion and enjoyment, I really felt like joining all the clubs then and there. The most fun part of the day however was the e-Sports Tournament as it saw different students teaming up together to be the winner. I sadly lost the tournament but once again ended up making more friends. In fact, I didn’t even win a single activity throughout the Induction but I still feel like I won, with all the new friends and bonds I have made.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 6 saw us learning even more about the college rules and structure as we attended meetings about the IT infrastructure/policies, Academics@IIITD and also a session by the amazing Student Council. It was then time for the jewel of the crown, the TALENT NIGHT. From the first performance till the very last one, everyone couldn’t help but cheer with utmost exuberance as the enthusiasm ran high throughout the event and as for me I was just left in awe of my fellow batch mates. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[406,407,408]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b12.png" alt="" data-id="406" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=406" class="wp-image-406"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b13.png" alt="" data-id="407" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=407" class="wp-image-407"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b14.jpg" alt="" data-id="408" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=408" class="wp-image-408"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The last day of the Induction saw us interacting with our respective departments and meeting the ever amazing faculty. An important session about Anti-ragging was also conducted followed by an introduction to the Mess and food available in the college. We wrapped up the event with another quick selfie showcasing our t-shirts and a smile on every face. The Induction concluded with the long-awaited performances by Kuhu Gracia and Rahul Dua. We all hummed along with the euphonious voice of Kuhu Gracia. The zoom call was then lit up with laughter as the final performance was by the ever funny Rahul Dua. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[413,414]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b15-1.jpg" alt="" data-id="413" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=413" class="wp-image-413"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b16-1.jpg" alt="" data-id="414" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=414" class="wp-image-414"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The zoom meeting was then terminated and\nit finally dawned upon me, the Induction was over. 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I still remember the wide grin on my\nface as I donned the very special t-shirt provided to us for the event.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[421,422],"imageCrop":false,"align":"wide"} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery alignwide columns-2"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b1-2.jpg" alt="" data-id="421" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/b-tech-induction-2020-a-blog-by-classof2024/b1-3/" class="wp-image-421"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b2-2.png" alt="" data-id="422" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/b-tech-induction-2020-a-blog-by-classof2024/b2-3/" class="wp-image-422"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"> The program kicked off with a mention of the social media presence of the college and we were encouraged to actively take part in all the events and tag the official handles in all the Induction related posts. This was followed with an event fondly mentioned ‘Creating Memories’ and this is where we were introduced to the ever-awesome Dean of Student Affairs, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru Sir or as we call him PK Sir, and then and there I knew exactly the kind of fun energy we should expect from the Induction. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":383,"mediaType":"image"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b3-1024x643.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-383"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">We were presented with a virtual tour of the college followed by a discussion session with sir. The event concluded with the well-renowned selfie by PK sir and it was by this point I realised I was not shivering with cold anymore but now it was because of all the excitement I couldn''t contain. "Welcome to IIITD'''' was the next part and included an address by the Director of IIITD Prof. Ranjan Bose and a very good Q&A session. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The next part was the invited talk session delivered by the co-founder of Infosys Mr. Kris Gopalakrisnan who enlightened us about our role in the 4th Industrial Technology Revolution. 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The\ninvited talk of the day was delivered by Professor Pankaj Jalote who encouraged\nus to enjoy our first two years and explore as much as possible. He very\nsmartly summarized his point of view with a T-model of learning which basically\nmeans learning only our subjects of intrigue in depth. We then had a few\nfactual sessions and afterwards we had an introduction to many of the clubs\nactive in the college. \n\n\n\n</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaPosition":"right","mediaId":390,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":43} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right" style="grid-template-columns:auto 43%"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b6.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-390"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">This was also the day when we noticed the daily changing hoodies and caps of different Universities worn by PK sir which quickly became a fun quiz activity for all of us. 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Let me ask you if you have ever heard of a Dean going on an impromptu tour of the college just because students wanted to see the campus, because that actually happened as we all saw PK sir giving us a tour of the college. Acharya Prashant was the invited speaker of the day and he beautifully explained the importance of the Upanishads and inspired us to make spirituality a part of our lives. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The alumni meet session afterwards was very helpful and insightful as we got to know about how the college played an integral part in their respective journeys and got first-hand experience of life after graduating from IIITD. After the particularly engaging alumni meet, we finally got introduced to Competitive Coding in a session conducted by the Foobar club. The event was very inclusive and made sure to divide us depending on our coding experience and gave the problems accordingly. 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We received a\nbrief intro about the Student Mentorship Program after which we had the invited\ntalk of the day by Ms. Ira Singhal. We all felt motivated and inspired as we\nlearned of her journey and the importance of perseverance in whatever we want\nto achieve in our lives. After that, we had a presentation about all the facilities\nprovided by the Library, and honestly, kindles for borrowing was not something\nI expected at all. The parent interaction afterwards was a much-needed session\nas many parents got their doubts cleared and were able to make sure that their\nchildren are now in good hands. Various fun activities were planned for the day\nby many different clubs such as Machaan, Audiobytes, Finnexia, Electroholics\nand Cyborg. We could only attend one activity at a time but from what I have\ngathered from my friends, all the activities were full of enjoyment and\nknowledge. The perfect day was brought to the perfect end with a surprise live\nperformance by Shubham J, who with his melodious tracks carried us through the\njourney we would go through in the upcoming 4 years.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":396,"align":"center","width":479,"height":299} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b10.png" alt="" class="wp-image-396" width="479" height="299"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The next day,\na Sunday was a break from the event for all the students and we still were busy\ninteracting on the Discord server made for us, as we played different games\ntogether, or simply just listened to music together. Bonding with people in an\nonline format is not easy but with the efforts of IIITD and all the seniors, I\nwould say I am sure to have already made some life-long friends.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":399,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":45} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide" style="grid-template-columns:45% auto"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b11.png" alt="" class="wp-image-399"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 5 and we were back on the Zoom call ready for the day. An early morning interaction with the alumni followed by a discussion on the mental well-being of students was very helpful. The invited talk afterwards was enriching and enlightening and was delivered by Professor Dheeraj Sanghi. A live demonstration of self-defense classes was also conducted along with an introduction to the sports culture in IIITD. We also glimpsed all the engaging and amusing events conducted in the college throughout the year by the Cultural Council, such as Odyssey, TedX and Esya. Club activities for the day were conducted by Muse, Evariste, The 65th Square, GirlUp Udaan, ACM, Women in Tech, Madtoes and Trivialis. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Each activity was filled with so much passion and enjoyment, I really felt like joining all the clubs then and there. The most fun part of the day however was the e-Sports Tournament as it saw different students teaming up together to be the winner. I sadly lost the tournament but once again ended up making more friends. In fact, I didn’t even win a single activity throughout the Induction but I still feel like I won, with all the new friends and bonds I have made.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 6 saw us learning even more about the college rules and structure as we attended meetings about the IT infrastructure/policies, Academics@IIITD and also a session by the amazing Student Council. It was then time for the jewel of the crown, the TALENT NIGHT. From the first performance till the very last one, everyone couldn’t help but cheer with utmost exuberance as the enthusiasm ran high throughout the event and as for me I was just left in awe of my fellow batch mates. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[406,407,408]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b12.png" alt="" data-id="406" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=406" class="wp-image-406"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b13.png" alt="" data-id="407" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=407" class="wp-image-407"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b14.jpg" alt="" data-id="408" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=408" class="wp-image-408"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The last day of the Induction saw us interacting with our respective departments and meeting the ever amazing faculty. An important session about Anti-ragging was also conducted followed by an introduction to the Mess and food available in the college. We wrapped up the event with another quick selfie showcasing our t-shirts and a smile on every face. The Induction concluded with the long-awaited performances by Kuhu Gracia and Rahul Dua. We all hummed along with the euphonious voice of Kuhu Gracia. The zoom call was then lit up with laughter as the final performance was by the ever funny Rahul Dua. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[413,414]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b15-1.jpg" alt="" data-id="413" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=413" class="wp-image-413"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b16-1.jpg" alt="" data-id="414" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=414" class="wp-image-414"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The zoom meeting was then terminated and\nit finally dawned upon me, the Induction was over. 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This was followed with an event fondly mentioned ‘Creating Memories’ and this is where we were introduced to the ever-awesome Dean of Student Affairs, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru Sir or as we call him PK Sir, and then and there I knew exactly the kind of fun energy we should expect from the Induction. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":383,"mediaType":"image"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b3-1024x643.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-383"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">We were presented with a virtual tour of the college followed by a discussion session with sir. The event concluded with the well-renowned selfie by PK sir and it was by this point I realised I was not shivering with cold anymore but now it was because of all the excitement I couldn''t contain. "Welcome to IIITD'''' was the next part and included an address by the Director of IIITD Prof. Ranjan Bose and a very good Q&A session. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The next part was the invited talk session delivered by the co-founder of Infosys Mr. Kris Gopalakrisnan who enlightened us about our role in the 4th Industrial Technology Revolution. We had afterwards a brief introduction to the Research Culture in IIITD which was then followed by an awesome Ice breaking session where we got to interact with our seniors and performed a fun activity where we were divided into small groups and each of us shared our Bucket lists which we intended to fulfill in our college years. After a great session of bonding and making friends I went to sleep thinking this day was definitely going to be the best one throughout the event but then came Day 2.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[386,387],"align":"center","className":"aligncenter"} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b4.png" alt="" data-id="386" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=386" class="wp-image-386"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b5-1.png" alt="" data-id="387" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=387" class="wp-image-387"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe started the day\nwith a Yoga session which was actually conducted on all the subsequent days,\nand we then followed through to an informative talk about the Office of Student\nAffairs and all the different Student councils operating in the college. The\ninvited talk of the day was delivered by Professor Pankaj Jalote who encouraged\nus to enjoy our first two years and explore as much as possible. He very\nsmartly summarized his point of view with a T-model of learning which basically\nmeans learning only our subjects of intrigue in depth. We then had a few\nfactual sessions and afterwards we had an introduction to many of the clubs\nactive in the college. \n\n\n\n</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaPosition":"right","mediaId":390,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":43} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right" style="grid-template-columns:auto 43%"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b6.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-390"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">This was also the day when we noticed the daily changing hoodies and caps of different Universities worn by PK sir which quickly became a fun quiz activity for all of us. The day concluded with an Open Mic Session conducted by LitSoc, the literature club, and as a lover of poetry myself I thoroughly enjoyed the performances by various batch mates and even recited a poem myself. This time when I went to sleep I thought okay maybe this day was the best, no way can it be topped now but boy was I proven wrong each and every day. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":393,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":45} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide" style="grid-template-columns:45% auto"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b7.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-393"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 3 found us learning even more about how fantastic of a college IIITD is and what all state of the art facilities we have at our disposal via sessions by the ENT and the Facility Management Service. Let me ask you if you have ever heard of a Dean going on an impromptu tour of the college just because students wanted to see the campus, because that actually happened as we all saw PK sir giving us a tour of the college. Acharya Prashant was the invited speaker of the day and he beautifully explained the importance of the Upanishads and inspired us to make spirituality a part of our lives. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The alumni meet session afterwards was very helpful and insightful as we got to know about how the college played an integral part in their respective journeys and got first-hand experience of life after graduating from IIITD. After the particularly engaging alumni meet, we finally got introduced to Competitive Coding in a session conducted by the Foobar club. The event was very inclusive and made sure to divide us depending on our coding experience and gave the problems accordingly. Many students went crazy solving the problems and even woke up the whole night pondering over the solutions. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[394,395]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b8.png" alt="" data-id="394" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=394" class="wp-image-394"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b9.png" alt="" data-id="395" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=395" class="wp-image-395"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 4 and the\nenthusiasm was soaring to new heights with students even more excited than the\nfirst day, eager to enjoy all the activities planned for the day. We received a\nbrief intro about the Student Mentorship Program after which we had the invited\ntalk of the day by Ms. Ira Singhal. We all felt motivated and inspired as we\nlearned of her journey and the importance of perseverance in whatever we want\nto achieve in our lives. After that, we had a presentation about all the facilities\nprovided by the Library, and honestly, kindles for borrowing was not something\nI expected at all. The parent interaction afterwards was a much-needed session\nas many parents got their doubts cleared and were able to make sure that their\nchildren are now in good hands. Various fun activities were planned for the day\nby many different clubs such as Machaan, Audiobytes, Finnexia, Electroholics\nand Cyborg. We could only attend one activity at a time but from what I have\ngathered from my friends, all the activities were full of enjoyment and\nknowledge. The perfect day was brought to the perfect end with a surprise live\nperformance by Shubham J, who with his melodious tracks carried us through the\njourney we would go through in the upcoming 4 years.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":396,"align":"center","width":479,"height":299} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b10.png" alt="" class="wp-image-396" width="479" height="299"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The next day,\na Sunday was a break from the event for all the students and we still were busy\ninteracting on the Discord server made for us, as we played different games\ntogether, or simply just listened to music together. Bonding with people in an\nonline format is not easy but with the efforts of IIITD and all the seniors, I\nwould say I am sure to have already made some life-long friends.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":399,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":45} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide" style="grid-template-columns:45% auto"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b11.png" alt="" class="wp-image-399"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 5 and we were back on the Zoom call ready for the day. An early morning interaction with the alumni followed by a discussion on the mental well-being of students was very helpful. The invited talk afterwards was enriching and enlightening and was delivered by Professor Dheeraj Sanghi. A live demonstration of self-defense classes was also conducted along with an introduction to the sports culture in IIITD. We also glimpsed all the engaging and amusing events conducted in the college throughout the year by the Cultural Council, such as Odyssey, TedX and Esya. Club activities for the day were conducted by Muse, Evariste, The 65th Square, GirlUp Udaan, ACM, Women in Tech, Madtoes and Trivialis. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Each activity was filled with so much passion and enjoyment, I really felt like joining all the clubs then and there. The most fun part of the day however was the e-Sports Tournament as it saw different students teaming up together to be the winner. I sadly lost the tournament but once again ended up making more friends. In fact, I didn’t even win a single activity throughout the Induction but I still feel like I won, with all the new friends and bonds I have made.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 6 saw us learning even more about the college rules and structure as we attended meetings about the IT infrastructure/policies, Academics@IIITD and also a session by the amazing Student Council. It was then time for the jewel of the crown, the TALENT NIGHT. From the first performance till the very last one, everyone couldn’t help but cheer with utmost exuberance as the enthusiasm ran high throughout the event and as for me I was just left in awe of my fellow batch mates. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[406,407,408]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b12.png" alt="" data-id="406" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=406" class="wp-image-406"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b13.png" alt="" data-id="407" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=407" class="wp-image-407"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b14.jpg" alt="" data-id="408" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=408" class="wp-image-408"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The last day of the Induction saw us interacting with our respective departments and meeting the ever amazing faculty. An important session about Anti-ragging was also conducted followed by an introduction to the Mess and food available in the college. We wrapped up the event with another quick selfie showcasing our t-shirts and a smile on every face. The Induction concluded with the long-awaited performances by Kuhu Gracia and Rahul Dua. We all hummed along with the euphonious voice of Kuhu Gracia. The zoom call was then lit up with laughter as the final performance was by the ever funny Rahul Dua. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[413,414]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b15-1.jpg" alt="" data-id="413" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=413" class="wp-image-413"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b16-1.jpg" alt="" data-id="414" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=414" class="wp-image-414"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The zoom meeting was then terminated and\nit finally dawned upon me, the Induction was over. I started feeling a bit\nnostalgic and I know\nit''s weird to be missing something that started just a week ago, but I felt as\nif it had been going on forever, as if I had always been a part of IIITD. I\ncan’t even begin to express my gratitude to all the awesome faculty members of\nIIITD and the seniors who specially took out time for us in the midst of their\nend-semester exams. The whole event I believe will be forever etched in my\nmemory and it’s safe to say that I can always easily summarize the whole event\nin just three words - IIITD INDUCTION OP (overpowered)!!</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","customFontSize":11} -->\n<p style="font-size:11px;text-align:right">Blog by: Akshat Saini (B.Tech, Class of 2024)<br>Pictures by: Vishnu Shon, Vishesh Jain & Prof. PK </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'B.Tech. Induction 2020- A Blog by #Classof2024', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '380-revision-v1', '', '', '2021-01-05 11:37:54', '2021-01-05 06:07:54', '', 380, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/380-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (425, 1, '2021-01-05 11:39:49', '2021-01-05 06:09:49', '<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The year is\n2020 and the date is 16<sup>th</sup> December, as Covid-19 still reigns terror\nover people all around the world, a selected set of about 600 students wake up\nall excited for it is the first day of their Induction program and the sweet\nbeginning of their college life at IIITD. I still remember the wide grin on my\nface as I donned the very special t-shirt provided to us for the event.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[421,422],"imageCrop":false,"align":"center","className":"aligncenter"} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-2"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b1-2.jpg" alt="" data-id="421" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/b-tech-induction-2020-a-blog-by-classof2024/b1-3/" class="wp-image-421"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b2-2.png" alt="" data-id="422" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/b-tech-induction-2020-a-blog-by-classof2024/b2-3/" class="wp-image-422"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"> The program kicked off with a mention of the social media presence of the college and we were encouraged to actively take part in all the events and tag the official handles in all the Induction related posts. This was followed with an event fondly mentioned ‘Creating Memories’ and this is where we were introduced to the ever-awesome Dean of Student Affairs, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru Sir or as we call him PK Sir, and then and there I knew exactly the kind of fun energy we should expect from the Induction. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":383,"mediaType":"image"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b3-1024x643.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-383"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">We were presented with a virtual tour of the college followed by a discussion session with sir. The event concluded with the well-renowned selfie by PK sir and it was by this point I realised I was not shivering with cold anymore but now it was because of all the excitement I couldn''t contain. "Welcome to IIITD'''' was the next part and included an address by the Director of IIITD Prof. Ranjan Bose and a very good Q&A session. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The next part was the invited talk session delivered by the co-founder of Infosys Mr. Kris Gopalakrisnan who enlightened us about our role in the 4th Industrial Technology Revolution. We had afterwards a brief introduction to the Research Culture in IIITD which was then followed by an awesome Ice breaking session where we got to interact with our seniors and performed a fun activity where we were divided into small groups and each of us shared our Bucket lists which we intended to fulfill in our college years. After a great session of bonding and making friends I went to sleep thinking this day was definitely going to be the best one throughout the event but then came Day 2.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[386,387],"align":"center","className":"aligncenter"} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b4.png" alt="" data-id="386" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=386" class="wp-image-386"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b5-1.png" alt="" data-id="387" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=387" class="wp-image-387"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe started the day\nwith a Yoga session which was actually conducted on all the subsequent days,\nand we then followed through to an informative talk about the Office of Student\nAffairs and all the different Student councils operating in the college. The\ninvited talk of the day was delivered by Professor Pankaj Jalote who encouraged\nus to enjoy our first two years and explore as much as possible. He very\nsmartly summarized his point of view with a T-model of learning which basically\nmeans learning only our subjects of intrigue in depth. We then had a few\nfactual sessions and afterwards we had an introduction to many of the clubs\nactive in the college. \n\n\n\n</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaPosition":"right","mediaId":390,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":43} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right" style="grid-template-columns:auto 43%"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b6.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-390"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">This was also the day when we noticed the daily changing hoodies and caps of different Universities worn by PK sir which quickly became a fun quiz activity for all of us. The day concluded with an Open Mic Session conducted by LitSoc, the literature club, and as a lover of poetry myself I thoroughly enjoyed the performances by various batch mates and even recited a poem myself. This time when I went to sleep I thought okay maybe this day was the best, no way can it be topped now but boy was I proven wrong each and every day. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":393,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":45} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide" style="grid-template-columns:45% auto"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b7.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-393"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 3 found us learning even more about how fantastic of a college IIITD is and what all state of the art facilities we have at our disposal via sessions by the ENT and the Facility Management Service. Let me ask you if you have ever heard of a Dean going on an impromptu tour of the college just because students wanted to see the campus, because that actually happened as we all saw PK sir giving us a tour of the college. Acharya Prashant was the invited speaker of the day and he beautifully explained the importance of the Upanishads and inspired us to make spirituality a part of our lives. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The alumni meet session afterwards was very helpful and insightful as we got to know about how the college played an integral part in their respective journeys and got first-hand experience of life after graduating from IIITD. After the particularly engaging alumni meet, we finally got introduced to Competitive Coding in a session conducted by the Foobar club. The event was very inclusive and made sure to divide us depending on our coding experience and gave the problems accordingly. Many students went crazy solving the problems and even woke up the whole night pondering over the solutions. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[394,395]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b8.png" alt="" data-id="394" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=394" class="wp-image-394"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b9.png" alt="" data-id="395" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=395" class="wp-image-395"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 4 and the\nenthusiasm was soaring to new heights with students even more excited than the\nfirst day, eager to enjoy all the activities planned for the day. We received a\nbrief intro about the Student Mentorship Program after which we had the invited\ntalk of the day by Ms. Ira Singhal. We all felt motivated and inspired as we\nlearned of her journey and the importance of perseverance in whatever we want\nto achieve in our lives. After that, we had a presentation about all the facilities\nprovided by the Library, and honestly, kindles for borrowing was not something\nI expected at all. The parent interaction afterwards was a much-needed session\nas many parents got their doubts cleared and were able to make sure that their\nchildren are now in good hands. Various fun activities were planned for the day\nby many different clubs such as Machaan, Audiobytes, Finnexia, Electroholics\nand Cyborg. We could only attend one activity at a time but from what I have\ngathered from my friends, all the activities were full of enjoyment and\nknowledge. The perfect day was brought to the perfect end with a surprise live\nperformance by Shubham J, who with his melodious tracks carried us through the\njourney we would go through in the upcoming 4 years.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":396,"align":"center","width":479,"height":299} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b10.png" alt="" class="wp-image-396" width="479" height="299"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The next day,\na Sunday was a break from the event for all the students and we still were busy\ninteracting on the Discord server made for us, as we played different games\ntogether, or simply just listened to music together. Bonding with people in an\nonline format is not easy but with the efforts of IIITD and all the seniors, I\nwould say I am sure to have already made some life-long friends.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":399,"mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":45} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide" style="grid-template-columns:45% auto"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b11.png" alt="" class="wp-image-399"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 5 and we were back on the Zoom call ready for the day. An early morning interaction with the alumni followed by a discussion on the mental well-being of students was very helpful. The invited talk afterwards was enriching and enlightening and was delivered by Professor Dheeraj Sanghi. A live demonstration of self-defense classes was also conducted along with an introduction to the sports culture in IIITD. We also glimpsed all the engaging and amusing events conducted in the college throughout the year by the Cultural Council, such as Odyssey, TedX and Esya. Club activities for the day were conducted by Muse, Evariste, The 65th Square, GirlUp Udaan, ACM, Women in Tech, Madtoes and Trivialis. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Each activity was filled with so much passion and enjoyment, I really felt like joining all the clubs then and there. The most fun part of the day however was the e-Sports Tournament as it saw different students teaming up together to be the winner. I sadly lost the tournament but once again ended up making more friends. In fact, I didn’t even win a single activity throughout the Induction but I still feel like I won, with all the new friends and bonds I have made.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">Day 6 saw us learning even more about the college rules and structure as we attended meetings about the IT infrastructure/policies, Academics@IIITD and also a session by the amazing Student Council. It was then time for the jewel of the crown, the TALENT NIGHT. From the first performance till the very last one, everyone couldn’t help but cheer with utmost exuberance as the enthusiasm ran high throughout the event and as for me I was just left in awe of my fellow batch mates. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[406,407,408]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b12.png" alt="" data-id="406" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=406" class="wp-image-406"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b13.png" alt="" data-id="407" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=407" class="wp-image-407"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b14.jpg" alt="" data-id="408" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=408" class="wp-image-408"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The last day of the Induction saw us interacting with our respective departments and meeting the ever amazing faculty. An important session about Anti-ragging was also conducted followed by an introduction to the Mess and food available in the college. We wrapped up the event with another quick selfie showcasing our t-shirts and a smile on every face. The Induction concluded with the long-awaited performances by Kuhu Gracia and Rahul Dua. We all hummed along with the euphonious voice of Kuhu Gracia. The zoom call was then lit up with laughter as the final performance was by the ever funny Rahul Dua. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[413,414]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b15-1.jpg" alt="" data-id="413" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=413" class="wp-image-413"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/b16-1.jpg" alt="" data-id="414" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=414" class="wp-image-414"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px">The zoom meeting was then terminated and\nit finally dawned upon me, the Induction was over. 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Inspired by the tech innovation, Mukul took up the challenge of entrepreneurial journey and opted out of campus placements to follow his passion. During his last year in IIIT-Delhi, he started his own venture ‘Swapeco’, with a vision to divert recyclables from India''s unsanitary landfills. In a very short span of time, Mukul has turned Swapeco into a growing venture. <br><br>Let’s read about this young entrepreneur’s journey from a student to the founder of a growing startup, in his own words. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"><strong>Tell us about yourself</strong><br>I am a freshly minted B.Tech- ECE graduate and Founder & CEO of the startup called “Swapeco”. I was quite fascinated by the idea of startups from a young age. On joining IIIT-Delhi as a student, I was fortunate to get exposure to a number of consumer internet companies that visited campus for placements. 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Well, not anymore!! A large number of fresh graduates are now taking up entrepreneurship to address problems faced by the society at the ground level and are redefining the world.<br><br>IIIT-Delhi being a research-oriented institute, has always committed to developing innovative solutions to improve the quality of life and making a positive impact on society through technology-based interventions. We encourage our students to seek out challenges in the society and cater to them through the most innovative solutions. Many of our alumni have taken divergent paths in their career, but there is one thing common among all, a commitment towards making an impact. <br><br>Here is an intriguing story of one of our alumnus from the youngest graduated batch, Mukul Chhabra (Class of 2020) who is contributing significantly to the Indian startup ecosystem and bringing a positive difference in the society. Inspired by the tech innovation, Mukul took up the challenge of entrepreneurial journey and opted out of campus placements to follow his passion. During his last year in IIIT-Delhi, he started his own venture ‘Swapeco’, with a vision to divert recyclables from India''s unsanitary landfills. In a very short span of time, Mukul has turned Swapeco into a growing venture. <br><br>Let’s read about this young entrepreneur’s journey in his own words, from a student to the founder of a growing startup. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"><strong>Tell us about yourself</strong><br>I am a freshly minted B.Tech- ECE graduate and Founder & CEO of the startup called “Swapeco”. I was quite fascinated by the idea of startups from a young age. On joining IIIT-Delhi as a student, I was fortunate to get exposure to a number of consumer internet companies that visited campus for placements. It was during these times that I observed how a simple idea with not much of rocket science, having the capability to solve a genuine problem, can be shaped into a business. When I was in my final year at the college that is when I started Swapeco with a vision to bring about a systematic change in India''s recyclable waste management problems. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"><strong>What inspired you to start Swapeco?</strong><br>I am always passionate about solving social problems through self-sustainable business models. In India, households & enterprises sell off their recyclables to traditional recyclable waste vendors (also called "Kabadiwalas"). These recyclable waste vendors play a crucial role in India''s recycling industry. But, there are several problems that people face while dealing with these traditional waste buyers like time-mismatch, trust & safety issues, recyclables channeled to unauthorized recyclers, unregulated prices, etc. Due to these problems, a lot of people have stopped segregating & selling off their recyclables to these vendors. Only 20% of India''s total recyclable waste is actually recovered (market potential~ $15Bn) whereas 80% recyclables end up in landfills leading to severe air pollution & groundwater contamination. I saw this sector as an opportunity because of its huge market size and unorganized nature at the same time. 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We are doing around 40 pickups a day as of now, and wish to achieve a pickup frequency of 600 pickups per day by the end of 2 years. In the next 3 years, our target is to divert around 5000 metric tonnes of recyclables per month from landfills to recycling units. Now that we have successfully completed a pilot run in Delhi NCR, we plan to explore the Delhi market only for the next 2 years and are planning to come up with a franchise model to expand Swapeco in other cities as well.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[473,475,476,482],"columns":4,"align":"center"} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-4 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2-768x1024.jpg" alt="" data-id="473" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=473" class="wp-image-473"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/4-766x1024.jpeg" alt="" data-id="475" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=475" class="wp-image-475"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/5-768x1024.jpeg" alt="" data-id="476" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=476" class="wp-image-476"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/6-1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" data-id="482" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=482" class="wp-image-482"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"><strong>What role has IIIT-Delhi played in your journey so far?</strong><br>Being an ECE student I started my entrepreneurial journey during my second year with my Drone-Tech Startup called, “DroneMed”. We received constant support like access to labs, expensive drone equipment and guidance from IIIT-Delhi. Under the guidance of our faculty advisor, Dr P.B Sujit we built a fully autonomous VTOL UAV which was capable of flying both like a quadrotor as well as a fixed-wing plane and switch between the 2 modes whenever required and could be used to deliver emergency supplies like medication, food, blood etc. DroneMed received various recognitions from organizations like Lockheed Martin, DST, Tata Trusts & Indian Air Force, however, it was eventually halted due to a lack of proper drone regulations in India at that time. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[485,486,487,488],"columns":4} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-4 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1-1022x1024.jpg" alt="" data-id="485" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=485" class="wp-image-485"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2-1-1024x768.jpg" alt="" data-id="486" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=486" class="wp-image-486"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/3-1024x767.jpg" alt="" data-id="487" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=487" class="wp-image-487"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/4-1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" data-id="488" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=488" class="wp-image-488"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">After a few months, I started working on Swapeco.\nIIIT-Delhi was always supportive whether it was a deep tech startup (DroneMed)\nor a “not so deep” tech-related startup (Swapeco). 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But, there are several problems that people face while dealing with these traditional waste buyers like time-mismatch, trust & safety issues, recyclables channeled to unauthorized recyclers, unregulated prices, etc. Due to these problems, a lot of people have stopped segregating & selling off their recyclables to these vendors. Only 20% of India''s total recyclable waste is actually recovered (market potential~ $15Bn) whereas 80% recyclables end up in landfills leading to severe air pollution & groundwater contamination. I saw this sector as an opportunity because of its huge market size and unorganized nature at the same time. 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We are doing around 40 pickups a day as of now, and wish to achieve a pickup frequency of 600 pickups per day by the end of 2 years. In the next 3 years, our target is to divert around 5000 metric tonnes of recyclables per month from landfills to recycling units. 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We received constant support like access to labs, expensive drone equipment and guidance from IIIT-Delhi. Under the guidance of our faculty advisor, Dr P.B Sujit we built a fully autonomous VTOL UAV which was capable of flying both like a quadrotor as well as a fixed-wing plane and switch between the 2 modes whenever required and could be used to deliver emergency supplies like medication, food, blood etc. DroneMed received various recognitions from organizations like Lockheed Martin, DST, Tata Trusts & Indian Air Force, however, it was eventually halted due to a lack of proper drone regulations in India at that time. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[485,486,487,488],"columns":4} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-4 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1-1022x1024.jpg" alt="" data-id="485" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=485" class="wp-image-485"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2-1-1024x768.jpg" alt="" data-id="486" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=486" class="wp-image-486"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/3-1024x767.jpg" alt="" data-id="487" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=487" class="wp-image-487"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/4-1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" data-id="488" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=488" class="wp-image-488"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">After a few months, I started working on Swapeco.\nIIIT-Delhi was always supportive whether it was a deep tech startup (DroneMed)\nor a “not so deep” tech-related startup (Swapeco). We had a few\nentrepreneurship-related courses that were offered in college and these courses\nhelped me a lot to understand and learn the basics of entrepreneurship and how\nto start a proper company. During these entrepreneurship courses, we got\nintroduced to the IIIT-Delhi Innovation and Incubation Center (IIITDIC) for the\nfirst time which is the hub of entrepreneurial activities in the college and\nprovides incubation facilities to startups like us. We approached IIITDIC who\nloved our idea and thus we pre-incubated our startup with them. Ever since\nthen, the center has been providing us with facilities like constant mentorship\nfrom experts, infrastructure and much-needed networking. 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A total of 75 teams participated in the competition and our rank was better than that of the team from some of the top colleges in the world like Harvard, UCLA, Virginia Tech, Cornell, etc. And believe me, this achievement was way bigger for us than the prize money we had won. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Meet the Youngest Entrepreneur of IIIT-Delhi!!', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '471-revision-v1', '', '', '2021-04-08 12:27:30', '2021-04-08 06:57:30', '', 471, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/471-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (495, 1, '2021-04-08 12:29:08', '2021-04-08 06:59:08', '<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Getting a degree from top engineering colleges was often seen as a key to high-paying jobs and a convenient life. Well, not anymore!! A large number of fresh graduates are now taking up entrepreneurship to address problems faced by the society at the ground level and are redefining the world.<br><br>IIIT-Delhi being a research-oriented institute, has always committed to developing innovative solutions to improve the quality of life and making a positive impact on society through technology-based interventions. We encourage our students to seek out challenges in the society and cater to them through the most innovative solutions. Many of our alumni have taken divergent paths in their career, but there is one thing common among all, a commitment towards making an impact. <br><br>Here is an intriguing story of one of our alumnus from the youngest graduated batch, Mukul Chhabra (Class of 2020) who is contributing significantly to the Indian startup ecosystem and bringing a positive difference in the society. Inspired by the tech innovation, Mukul took up the challenge of entrepreneurial journey and opted out of campus placements to follow his passion. During his last year in IIIT-Delhi, he started his own venture ‘Swapeco’, with a vision to divert recyclables from India''s unsanitary landfills. In a very short span of time, Mukul has turned Swapeco into a growing venture. <br><br>Let’s read about this young entrepreneur’s journey in his own words, from a student to the founder of a growing startup. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"><strong>Tell us about yourself</strong><br>I am a freshly minted B.Tech- ECE graduate and Founder & CEO of the startup called “Swapeco”. I was quite fascinated by the idea of startups from a young age. On joining IIIT-Delhi as a student, I was fortunate to get exposure to a number of consumer internet companies that visited campus for placements. It was during these times that I observed how a simple idea with not much of rocket science, having the capability to solve a genuine problem, can be shaped into a business. When I was in my final year at the college that is when I started Swapeco with a vision to bring about a systematic change in India''s recyclable waste management problems. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What inspired you to start Swapeco?</strong><br>I am always passionate about solving social problems through self-sustainable business models. In India, households & enterprises sell off their recyclables to traditional recyclable waste vendors (also called "Kabadiwalas"). These recyclable waste vendors play a crucial role in India''s recycling industry. But, there are several problems that people face while dealing with these traditional waste buyers like time-mismatch, trust & safety issues, recyclables channeled to unauthorized recyclers, unregulated prices, etc. Due to these problems, a lot of people have stopped segregating & selling off their recyclables to these vendors. Only 20% of India''s total recyclable waste is actually recovered (market potential~ $15Bn) whereas 80% recyclables end up in landfills leading to severe air pollution & groundwater contamination. I saw this sector as an opportunity because of its huge market size and unorganized nature at the same time. After months of research and discussions with my friends about this sector, Swapeco came into existence.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"><strong>Tell us about your startup</strong><br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:columns -->\n<div class="wp-block-columns has-2-columns"><!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:image {"id":472} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-472"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">I started the company along with Ashutosh Kumar (IIITD Alumnus, Class of 2019) who is the Co-Founder & CTO of Swapeco with a vision to organize the recyclable waste management sector in India. Swapeco''s digital recycling platform (App/Web) enables users to dispose of their recyclables in a responsible and rewarding manner. Our users are mainly households & enterprises that can simply schedule a doorstep pickup for their recyclable items like paper, plastics, metals, e-waste, etc. & get paid for them. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column --></div>\n<!-- /wp:columns -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">We are trying to blend the traditional recycling business with technologies like mobile applications, IoT-based smart weighing scales and analytics. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>Where do you see SWAPECO in the next few years?</strong><br>Swapeco has a team of 12 members currently, operating in Delhi NCR, and in the past 12 months, we have registered more than 20,000 users and diverted more than 3,00,000 Kgs of recyclables from landfills to the recycling units. We are doing around 40 pickups a day as of now, and wish to achieve a pickup frequency of 600 pickups per day by the end of 2 years. In the next 3 years, our target is to divert around 5000 metric tonnes of recyclables per month from landfills to recycling units. Now that we have successfully completed a pilot run in Delhi NCR, we plan to explore the Delhi market only for the next 2 years and are planning to come up with a franchise model to expand Swapeco in other cities as well.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[473,475,476,482],"columns":4,"align":"center"} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-4 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2-768x1024.jpg" alt="" data-id="473" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=473" class="wp-image-473"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/4-766x1024.jpeg" alt="" data-id="475" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=475" class="wp-image-475"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/5-768x1024.jpeg" alt="" data-id="476" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=476" class="wp-image-476"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/6-1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" data-id="482" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=482" class="wp-image-482"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What role has IIIT-Delhi played in your journey so far?</strong><br>Being an ECE student I started my entrepreneurial journey during my second year with my Drone-Tech Startup called, “DroneMed”. We received constant support like access to labs, expensive drone equipment and guidance from IIIT-Delhi. Under the guidance of our faculty advisor, Dr P.B Sujit we built a fully autonomous VTOL UAV which was capable of flying both like a quadrotor as well as a fixed-wing plane and switch between the 2 modes whenever required and could be used to deliver emergency supplies like medication, food, blood etc. DroneMed received various recognitions from organizations like Lockheed Martin, DST, Tata Trusts & Indian Air Force, however, it was eventually halted due to a lack of proper drone regulations in India at that time. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[485,486,487,488],"columns":4} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-4 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1-1022x1024.jpg" alt="" data-id="485" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=485" class="wp-image-485"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2-1-1024x768.jpg" alt="" data-id="486" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=486" class="wp-image-486"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/3-1024x767.jpg" alt="" data-id="487" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=487" class="wp-image-487"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/4-1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" data-id="488" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=488" class="wp-image-488"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">After a few months, I started working on Swapeco.\nIIIT-Delhi was always supportive whether it was a deep tech startup (DroneMed)\nor a “not so deep” tech-related startup (Swapeco). We had a few\nentrepreneurship-related courses that were offered in college and these courses\nhelped me a lot to understand and learn the basics of entrepreneurship and how\nto start a proper company. During these entrepreneurship courses, we got\nintroduced to the IIIT-Delhi Innovation and Incubation Center (IIITDIC) for the\nfirst time which is the hub of entrepreneurial activities in the college and\nprovides incubation facilities to startups like us. We approached IIITDIC who\nloved our idea and thus we pre-incubated our startup with them. Ever since\nthen, the center has been providing us with facilities like constant mentorship\nfrom experts, infrastructure and much-needed networking. I am really thankful\nto IIIT-Delhi for providing such an excellent entrepreneurial ecosystem in the\ncollege and giving the students ample opportunities to benefit from it.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>Important accomplishments of your career</strong><br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:columns -->\n<div class="wp-block-columns has-2-columns"><!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">DroneMed was the first biggest achievement of my tech career and leading the UAV team from IIIT-Delhi that secured 6th rank in the 17th edition of the coveted Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Student Unmanned Aerial Systems (AUVSI SUAS) Competition held in USA in June 2019 was another. A total of 75 teams participated in the competition and our rank was better than that of the team from some of the top colleges in the world like Harvard, UCLA, Virginia Tech, Cornell, etc. And believe me, this achievement was way bigger for us than the prize money we had won. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:image {"id":493} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/5-1024x767.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-493"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column --></div>\n<!-- /wp:columns -->', 'Meet the Youngest Entrepreneur of IIIT-Delhi!!', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '471-revision-v1', '', '', '2021-04-08 12:29:08', '2021-04-08 06:59:08', '', 471, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/471-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (496, 1, '2021-04-08 12:30:40', '2021-04-08 07:00:40', '<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Getting a degree from top engineering colleges was often seen as a key to high-paying jobs and a convenient life. Well, not anymore!! A large number of fresh graduates are now taking up entrepreneurship to address problems faced by the society at the ground level and are redefining the world.<br><br>IIIT-Delhi being a research-oriented institute, has always committed to developing innovative solutions to improve the quality of life and making a positive impact on society through technology-based interventions. We encourage our students to seek out challenges in the society and cater to them through the most innovative solutions. Many of our alumni have taken divergent paths in their career, but there is one thing common among all, a commitment towards making an impact. <br><br>Here is an intriguing story of one of our alumnus from the youngest graduated batch, Mukul Chhabra (Class of 2020) who is contributing significantly to the Indian startup ecosystem and bringing a positive difference in the society. Inspired by the tech innovation, Mukul took up the challenge of entrepreneurial journey and opted out of campus placements to follow his passion. During his last year in IIIT-Delhi, he started his own venture ‘Swapeco’, with a vision to divert recyclables from India''s unsanitary landfills. In a very short span of time, Mukul has turned Swapeco into a growing venture. <br><br>Let’s read about this young entrepreneur’s journey in his own words, from a student to the founder of a growing startup. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"><strong>Tell us about yourself</strong><br>I am a freshly minted B.Tech- ECE graduate and Founder & CEO of the startup called “Swapeco”. I was quite fascinated by the idea of startups from a young age. On joining IIIT-Delhi as a student, I was fortunate to get exposure to a number of consumer internet companies that visited campus for placements. It was during these times that I observed how a simple idea with not much of rocket science, having the capability to solve a genuine problem, can be shaped into a business. When I was in my final year at the college that is when I started Swapeco with a vision to bring about a systematic change in India''s recyclable waste management problems. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What inspired you to start Swapeco?</strong><br>I am always passionate about solving social problems through self-sustainable business models. In India, households & enterprises sell off their recyclables to traditional recyclable waste vendors (also called "Kabadiwalas"). These recyclable waste vendors play a crucial role in India''s recycling industry. But, there are several problems that people face while dealing with these traditional waste buyers like time-mismatch, trust & safety issues, recyclables channeled to unauthorized recyclers, unregulated prices, etc. Due to these problems, a lot of people have stopped segregating & selling off their recyclables to these vendors. Only 20% of India''s total recyclable waste is actually recovered (market potential~ $15Bn) whereas 80% recyclables end up in landfills leading to severe air pollution & groundwater contamination. I saw this sector as an opportunity because of its huge market size and unorganized nature at the same time. After months of research and discussions with my friends about this sector, Swapeco came into existence.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"><strong>Tell us about your startup</strong><br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:columns -->\n<div class="wp-block-columns has-2-columns"><!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:image {"id":472} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-472"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">I started the company along with Ashutosh Kumar (IIITD Alumnus, Class of 2019) who is the Co-Founder & CTO of Swapeco with a vision to organize the recyclable waste management sector in India. Swapeco''s digital recycling platform (App/Web) enables users to dispose of their recyclables in a responsible and rewarding manner. Our users are mainly households & enterprises that can simply schedule a doorstep pickup for their recyclable items like paper, plastics, metals, e-waste, etc. & get paid for them. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column --></div>\n<!-- /wp:columns -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">We are trying to blend the traditional recycling business with technologies like mobile applications, IoT-based smart weighing scales and analytics. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>Where do you see SWAPECO in the next few years?</strong><br>Swapeco has a team of 12 members currently, operating in Delhi NCR, and in the past 12 months, we have registered more than 20,000 users and diverted more than 3,00,000 Kgs of recyclables from landfills to the recycling units. We are doing around 40 pickups a day as of now, and wish to achieve a pickup frequency of 600 pickups per day by the end of 2 years. In the next 3 years, our target is to divert around 5000 metric tonnes of recyclables per month from landfills to recycling units. Now that we have successfully completed a pilot run in Delhi NCR, we plan to explore the Delhi market only for the next 2 years and are planning to come up with a franchise model to expand Swapeco in other cities as well.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[473,475,476,482],"columns":4,"align":"center"} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-4 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2-768x1024.jpg" alt="" data-id="473" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=473" class="wp-image-473"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/4-766x1024.jpeg" alt="" data-id="475" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=475" class="wp-image-475"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/5-768x1024.jpeg" alt="" data-id="476" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=476" class="wp-image-476"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/6-1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" data-id="482" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=482" class="wp-image-482"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What role has IIIT-Delhi played in your journey so far?</strong><br>Being an ECE student I started my entrepreneurial journey during my second year with my Drone-Tech Startup called, “DroneMed”. We received constant support like access to labs, expensive drone equipment and guidance from IIIT-Delhi. Under the guidance of our faculty advisor, Dr P.B Sujit we built a fully autonomous VTOL UAV which was capable of flying both like a quadrotor as well as a fixed-wing plane and switch between the 2 modes whenever required and could be used to deliver emergency supplies like medication, food, blood etc. DroneMed received various recognitions from organizations like Lockheed Martin, DST, Tata Trusts & Indian Air Force, however, it was eventually halted due to a lack of proper drone regulations in India at that time. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[485,486,487,488],"columns":4} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-4 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1-1022x1024.jpg" alt="" data-id="485" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=485" class="wp-image-485"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2-1-1024x768.jpg" alt="" data-id="486" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=486" class="wp-image-486"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/3-1024x767.jpg" alt="" data-id="487" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=487" class="wp-image-487"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/4-1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" data-id="488" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=488" class="wp-image-488"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">After a few months, I started working on Swapeco.\nIIIT-Delhi was always supportive whether it was a deep tech startup (DroneMed)\nor a “not so deep” tech-related startup (Swapeco). We had a few\nentrepreneurship-related courses that were offered in college and these courses\nhelped me a lot to understand and learn the basics of entrepreneurship and how\nto start a proper company. During these entrepreneurship courses, we got\nintroduced to the IIIT-Delhi Innovation and Incubation Center (IIITDIC) for the\nfirst time which is the hub of entrepreneurial activities in the college and\nprovides incubation facilities to startups like us. We approached IIITDIC who\nloved our idea and thus we pre-incubated our startup with them. Ever since\nthen, the center has been providing us with facilities like constant mentorship\nfrom experts, infrastructure and much-needed networking. 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Well, not anymore!! A large number of fresh graduates are now taking up entrepreneurship to address problems faced by the society at the ground level and are redefining the world.<br><br>IIIT-Delhi being a research-oriented institute, has always committed to developing innovative solutions to improve the quality of life and making a positive impact on society through technology-based interventions. We encourage our students to seek out challenges in the society and cater to them through the most innovative solutions. Many of our alumni have taken divergent paths in their career, but there is one thing common among all, a commitment towards making an impact. <br><br>Here is an intriguing story of one of our alumnus from the youngest graduated batch, Mukul Chhabra (Class of 2020) who is contributing significantly to the Indian startup ecosystem and bringing a positive difference in the society. Inspired by the tech innovation, Mukul took up the challenge of entrepreneurial journey and opted out of campus placements to follow his passion. During his last year in IIIT-Delhi, he started his own venture ‘Swapeco’, with a vision to divert recyclables from India''s unsanitary landfills. In a very short span of time, Mukul has turned Swapeco into a growing venture. <br><br>Let’s read about this young entrepreneur’s journey in his own words, from a student to the founder of a growing startup. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"><strong>Tell us about yourself</strong><br>I am a freshly minted B.Tech- ECE graduate and Founder & CEO of the startup called “Swapeco”. I was quite fascinated by the idea of startups from a young age. On joining IIIT-Delhi as a student, I was fortunate to get exposure to a number of consumer internet companies that visited campus for placements. It was during these times that I observed how a simple idea with not much of rocket science, having the capability to solve a genuine problem, can be shaped into a business. When I was in my final year at the college that is when I started Swapeco with a vision to bring about a systematic change in India''s recyclable waste management problems. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What inspired you to start Swapeco?</strong><br>I am always passionate about solving social problems through self-sustainable business models. In India, households & enterprises sell off their recyclables to traditional recyclable waste vendors (also called "Kabadiwalas"). These recyclable waste vendors play a crucial role in India''s recycling industry. But, there are several problems that people face while dealing with these traditional waste buyers like time-mismatch, trust & safety issues, recyclables channeled to unauthorized recyclers, unregulated prices, etc. Due to these problems, a lot of people have stopped segregating & selling off their recyclables to these vendors. Only 20% of India''s total recyclable waste is actually recovered (market potential~ $15Bn) whereas 80% recyclables end up in landfills leading to severe air pollution & groundwater contamination. I saw this sector as an opportunity because of its huge market size and unorganized nature at the same time. 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We are doing around 40 pickups a day as of now, and wish to achieve a pickup frequency of 600 pickups per day by the end of 2 years. In the next 3 years, our target is to divert around 5000 metric tonnes of recyclables per month from landfills to recycling units. 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Inspired by the tech innovation, Mukul took up the challenge of entrepreneurial journey and opted out of campus placements to follow his passion. During his last year in IIIT-Delhi, he started his own venture ‘Swapeco’, with a vision to divert recyclables from India''s unsanitary landfills. In a very short span of time, Mukul has turned Swapeco into a growing venture. <br><br>Let’s read about this young entrepreneur’s journey in his own words, from a student to the founder of a growing startup. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"><strong>Tell us about yourself</strong><br>I am a freshly minted B.Tech- ECE graduate and Founder & CEO of the startup called “Swapeco”. I was quite fascinated by the idea of startups from a young age. On joining IIIT-Delhi as a student, I was fortunate to get exposure to a number of consumer internet companies that visited campus for placements. 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But, there are several problems that people face while dealing with these traditional waste buyers like time-mismatch, trust & safety issues, recyclables channeled to unauthorized recyclers, unregulated prices, etc. Due to these problems, a lot of people have stopped segregating & selling off their recyclables to these vendors. Only 20% of India''s total recyclable waste is actually recovered (market potential~ $15Bn) whereas 80% recyclables end up in landfills leading to severe air pollution & groundwater contamination. I saw this sector as an opportunity because of its huge market size and unorganized nature at the same time. 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Swapeco''s digital recycling platform (App/Web) enables users to dispose of their recyclables in a responsible and rewarding manner. 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We are doing around 40 pickups a day as of now, and wish to achieve a pickup frequency of 600 pickups per day by the end of 2 years. In the next 3 years, our target is to divert around 5000 metric tonnes of recyclables per month from landfills to recycling units. Now that we have successfully completed a pilot run in Delhi NCR, we plan to explore the Delhi market only for the next 2 years and are planning to come up with a franchise model to expand Swapeco in other cities as well.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[473,475,476,482],"columns":4,"align":"center"} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-4 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2-768x1024.jpg" alt="" data-id="473" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=473" class="wp-image-473"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/4-766x1024.jpeg" alt="" data-id="475" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=475" class="wp-image-475"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/5-768x1024.jpeg" alt="" data-id="476" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=476" class="wp-image-476"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/6-1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" data-id="482" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=482" class="wp-image-482"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What role has IIIT-Delhi played in your journey so far?</strong><br>Being an ECE student I started my entrepreneurial journey during my second year with my Drone-Tech Startup called, “DroneMed”. We received constant support like access to labs, expensive drone equipment and guidance from IIIT-Delhi. Under the guidance of our faculty advisor, Dr P.B Sujit we built a fully autonomous VTOL UAV which was capable of flying both like a quadrotor as well as a fixed-wing plane and switch between the 2 modes whenever required and could be used to deliver emergency supplies like medication, food, blood etc. DroneMed received various recognitions from organizations like Lockheed Martin, DST, Tata Trusts & Indian Air Force, however, it was eventually halted due to a lack of proper drone regulations in India at that time. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[485,486,487,488],"columns":4} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-4 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1-1022x1024.jpg" alt="" data-id="485" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=485" class="wp-image-485"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2-1-1024x768.jpg" alt="" data-id="486" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=486" class="wp-image-486"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/3-1024x767.jpg" alt="" data-id="487" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=487" class="wp-image-487"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/4-1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" data-id="488" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=488" class="wp-image-488"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">After a few months, I started working on Swapeco.\nIIIT-Delhi was always supportive whether it was a deep tech startup (DroneMed)\nor a “not so deep” tech-related startup (Swapeco). We had a few\nentrepreneurship-related courses that were offered in college and these courses\nhelped me a lot to understand and learn the basics of entrepreneurship and how\nto start a proper company. During these entrepreneurship courses, we got\nintroduced to the IIIT-Delhi Innovation and Incubation Center (IIITDIC) for the\nfirst time which is the hub of entrepreneurial activities in the college and\nprovides incubation facilities to startups like us. We approached IIITDIC who\nloved our idea and thus we pre-incubated our startup with them. Ever since\nthen, the center has been providing us with facilities like constant mentorship\nfrom experts, infrastructure and much-needed networking. 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A total of 75 teams participated in the competition and our rank was better than that of the team from some of the top colleges in the world like Harvard, UCLA, Virginia Tech, Cornell, etc. And believe me, this achievement was way bigger for us than the prize money we had won. <br><br>When I started my company in 2019, little did I know that in such a short period of time my startup will bag such prestigious accolades. In December 2019, we were among the winners of ‘Startup India-Whatsapp Challenge’ which was launched to inspire entrepreneurs to develop solutions that have socio-economic impact on the Indian economy. We were also one of the three winning startups of the Urban Works Innovation Challenge 2019-2020 by Columbia Global Centers, Mumbai that supports innovators and entrepreneurs who are passionate about producing viable and interdisciplinary tech-based solutions for transforming 21st century cities in India into sustainable and safe work environments. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:columns {"columns":3} -->\n<div class="wp-block-columns has-3-columns"><!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:image {"id":498} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/9-1024x767.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-498"/><figcaption> <br>AUVSI SUAS Competition USA</figcaption></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:image {"id":500,"width":172,"height":272} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/11-647x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-500" width="172" height="272"/><figcaption> <br>Urban Works Innovation Challenge</figcaption></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:image {"id":499} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/10.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-499"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column --></div>\n<!-- /wp:columns -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Another milestone in my career was winning the Mbillionth Awards South Asia in the "Early Stage Startups" category which was organized by Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) & Facebook in February 2020. And very recently we have received a Facebook Grant for SMBs. <br><br>I hope to continue working towards my goal and fulfilling my dream of not just being a successful entrepreneur but also giving back to society in all my capacities. <br> <br>The journey to become a successful entrepreneur is full of obstacles and hardships. But with his unceasing dedication and perseverance, Mukul has achieved a pinnacle at such a young age and is an inspiration for all the aspiring and inquisitive minds at IIITD who want to make a change in the society through their innovative ideas. <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Meet the Youngest Entrepreneur of IIIT-Delhi!!', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '471-revision-v1', '', '', '2021-04-08 12:40:24', '2021-04-08 07:10:24', '', 471, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/471-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (502, 1, '2021-04-08 12:41:23', '2021-04-08 07:11:23', '<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Getting a degree from top engineering colleges was often seen as a key to high-paying jobs and a convenient life. Well, not anymore!! A large number of fresh graduates are now taking up entrepreneurship to address problems faced by the society at the ground level and are redefining the world.<br><br>IIIT-Delhi being a research-oriented institute, has always committed to developing innovative solutions to improve the quality of life and making a positive impact on society through technology-based interventions. We encourage our students to seek out challenges in the society and cater to them through the most innovative solutions. Many of our alumni have taken divergent paths in their career, but there is one thing common among all, a commitment towards making an impact. <br><br>Here is an intriguing story of one of our alumnus from the youngest graduated batch, Mukul Chhabra (Class of 2020) who is contributing significantly to the Indian startup ecosystem and bringing a positive difference in the society. Inspired by the tech innovation, Mukul took up the challenge of entrepreneurial journey and opted out of campus placements to follow his passion. During his last year in IIIT-Delhi, he started his own venture ‘Swapeco’, with a vision to divert recyclables from India''s unsanitary landfills. In a very short span of time, Mukul has turned Swapeco into a growing venture. <br><br>Let’s read about this young entrepreneur’s journey in his own words, from a student to the founder of a growing startup. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"><strong>Tell us about yourself</strong><br>I am a freshly minted B.Tech- ECE graduate and Founder & CEO of the startup called “Swapeco”. I was quite fascinated by the idea of startups from a young age. On joining IIIT-Delhi as a student, I was fortunate to get exposure to a number of consumer internet companies that visited campus for placements. It was during these times that I observed how a simple idea with not much of rocket science, having the capability to solve a genuine problem, can be shaped into a business. When I was in my final year at the college that is when I started Swapeco with a vision to bring about a systematic change in India''s recyclable waste management problems. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What inspired you to start Swapeco?</strong><br>I am always passionate about solving social problems through self-sustainable business models. In India, households & enterprises sell off their recyclables to traditional recyclable waste vendors (also called "Kabadiwalas"). These recyclable waste vendors play a crucial role in India''s recycling industry. But, there are several problems that people face while dealing with these traditional waste buyers like time-mismatch, trust & safety issues, recyclables channeled to unauthorized recyclers, unregulated prices, etc. Due to these problems, a lot of people have stopped segregating & selling off their recyclables to these vendors. Only 20% of India''s total recyclable waste is actually recovered (market potential~ $15Bn) whereas 80% recyclables end up in landfills leading to severe air pollution & groundwater contamination. I saw this sector as an opportunity because of its huge market size and unorganized nature at the same time. After months of research and discussions with my friends about this sector, Swapeco came into existence.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"><strong>Tell us about your startup</strong><br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:columns -->\n<div class="wp-block-columns has-2-columns"><!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:image {"id":472} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-472"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">I started the company along with Ashutosh Kumar (IIITD Alumnus, Class of 2019) who is the Co-Founder & CTO of Swapeco with a vision to organize the recyclable waste management sector in India. Swapeco''s digital recycling platform (App/Web) enables users to dispose of their recyclables in a responsible and rewarding manner. Our users are mainly households & enterprises that can simply schedule a doorstep pickup for their recyclable items like paper, plastics, metals, e-waste, etc. & get paid for them. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column --></div>\n<!-- /wp:columns -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">We are trying to blend the traditional recycling business with technologies like mobile applications, IoT-based smart weighing scales and analytics. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>Where do you see SWAPECO in the next few years?</strong><br>Swapeco has a team of 12 members currently, operating in Delhi NCR, and in the past 12 months, we have registered more than 20,000 users and diverted more than 3,00,000 Kgs of recyclables from landfills to the recycling units. We are doing around 40 pickups a day as of now, and wish to achieve a pickup frequency of 600 pickups per day by the end of 2 years. In the next 3 years, our target is to divert around 5000 metric tonnes of recyclables per month from landfills to recycling units. Now that we have successfully completed a pilot run in Delhi NCR, we plan to explore the Delhi market only for the next 2 years and are planning to come up with a franchise model to expand Swapeco in other cities as well.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[473,475,476,482],"columns":4,"align":"center"} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-4 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2-768x1024.jpg" alt="" data-id="473" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=473" class="wp-image-473"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/4-766x1024.jpeg" alt="" data-id="475" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=475" class="wp-image-475"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/5-768x1024.jpeg" alt="" data-id="476" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=476" class="wp-image-476"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/6-1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" data-id="482" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=482" class="wp-image-482"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What role has IIIT-Delhi played in your journey so far?</strong><br>Being an ECE student I started my entrepreneurial journey during my second year with my Drone-Tech Startup called, “DroneMed”. We received constant support like access to labs, expensive drone equipment and guidance from IIIT-Delhi. Under the guidance of our faculty advisor, Dr P.B Sujit we built a fully autonomous VTOL UAV which was capable of flying both like a quadrotor as well as a fixed-wing plane and switch between the 2 modes whenever required and could be used to deliver emergency supplies like medication, food, blood etc. DroneMed received various recognitions from organizations like Lockheed Martin, DST, Tata Trusts & Indian Air Force, however, it was eventually halted due to a lack of proper drone regulations in India at that time. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[485,486,487,488],"columns":4} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-4 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1-1022x1024.jpg" alt="" data-id="485" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=485" class="wp-image-485"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2-1-1024x768.jpg" alt="" data-id="486" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=486" class="wp-image-486"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/3-1024x767.jpg" alt="" data-id="487" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=487" class="wp-image-487"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/4-1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" data-id="488" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=488" class="wp-image-488"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">After a few months, I started working on Swapeco.\nIIIT-Delhi was always supportive whether it was a deep tech startup (DroneMed)\nor a “not so deep” tech-related startup (Swapeco). We had a few\nentrepreneurship-related courses that were offered in college and these courses\nhelped me a lot to understand and learn the basics of entrepreneurship and how\nto start a proper company. During these entrepreneurship courses, we got\nintroduced to the IIIT-Delhi Innovation and Incubation Center (IIITDIC) for the\nfirst time which is the hub of entrepreneurial activities in the college and\nprovides incubation facilities to startups like us. We approached IIITDIC who\nloved our idea and thus we pre-incubated our startup with them. Ever since\nthen, the center has been providing us with facilities like constant mentorship\nfrom experts, infrastructure and much-needed networking. I am really thankful\nto IIIT-Delhi for providing such an excellent entrepreneurial ecosystem in the\ncollege and giving the students ample opportunities to benefit from it.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>Important accomplishments of your career</strong><br>DroneMed was the first biggest achievement of my tech career and leading the UAV team from IIIT-Delhi that secured 6th rank in the 17th edition of the coveted Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Student Unmanned Aerial Systems (AUVSI SUAS) Competition held in USA in June 2019 was another. A total of 75 teams participated in the competition and our rank was better than that of the team from some of the top colleges in the world like Harvard, UCLA, Virginia Tech, Cornell, etc. And believe me, this achievement was way bigger for us than the prize money we had won. <br><br>When I started my company in 2019, little did I know that in such a short period of time my startup will bag such prestigious accolades. In December 2019, we were among the winners of ‘Startup India-Whatsapp Challenge’ which was launched to inspire entrepreneurs to develop solutions that have socio-economic impact on the Indian economy. We were also one of the three winning startups of the Urban Works Innovation Challenge 2019-2020 by Columbia Global Centers, Mumbai that supports innovators and entrepreneurs who are passionate about producing viable and interdisciplinary tech-based solutions for transforming 21st century cities in India into sustainable and safe work environments. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:columns {"columns":3} -->\n<div class="wp-block-columns has-3-columns"><!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:image {"id":498,"align":"center"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/9-1024x767.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-498"/><figcaption> <br>AUVSI SUAS Competition USA</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:image {"id":500,"align":"center","width":172,"height":272} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/11-647x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-500" width="172" height="272"/><figcaption> <br>Urban Works Innovation Challenge</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:image {"id":499,"align":"center"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/10.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-499"/><figcaption> <br>Mbillionth Awards South Asia<br></figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column --></div>\n<!-- /wp:columns -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Another milestone in my career was winning the Mbillionth Awards South Asia in the "Early Stage Startups" category which was organized by Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) & Facebook in February 2020. And very recently we have received a Facebook Grant for SMBs. <br><br>I hope to continue working towards my goal and fulfilling my dream of not just being a successful entrepreneur but also giving back to society in all my capacities. <br> <br>The journey to become a successful entrepreneur is full of obstacles and hardships. But with his unceasing dedication and perseverance, Mukul has achieved a pinnacle at such a young age and is an inspiration for all the aspiring and inquisitive minds at IIITD who want to make a change in the society through their innovative ideas. <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Meet the Youngest Entrepreneur of IIIT-Delhi!!', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '471-revision-v1', '', '', '2021-04-08 12:41:23', '2021-04-08 07:11:23', '', 471, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/471-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (503, 1, '2021-04-08 12:42:10', '2021-04-08 07:12:10', '<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Getting a degree from top engineering colleges was often seen as a key to high-paying jobs and a convenient life. Well, not anymore!! A large number of fresh graduates are now taking up entrepreneurship to address problems faced by the society at the ground level and are redefining the world.<br><br>IIIT-Delhi being a research-oriented institute, has always committed to developing innovative solutions to improve the quality of life and making a positive impact on society through technology-based interventions. We encourage our students to seek out challenges in the society and cater to them through the most innovative solutions. Many of our alumni have taken divergent paths in their career, but there is one thing common among all, a commitment towards making an impact. <br><br>Here is an intriguing story of one of our alumnus from the youngest graduated batch, Mukul Chhabra (Class of 2020) who is contributing significantly to the Indian startup ecosystem and bringing a positive difference in the society. Inspired by the tech innovation, Mukul took up the challenge of entrepreneurial journey and opted out of campus placements to follow his passion. During his last year in IIIT-Delhi, he started his own venture ‘Swapeco’, with a vision to divert recyclables from India''s unsanitary landfills. In a very short span of time, Mukul has turned Swapeco into a growing venture. <br><br>Let’s read about this young entrepreneur’s journey in his own words, from a student to the founder of a growing startup. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"><strong>Tell us about yourself</strong><br>I am a freshly minted B.Tech- ECE graduate and Founder & CEO of the startup called “Swapeco”. I was quite fascinated by the idea of startups from a young age. On joining IIIT-Delhi as a student, I was fortunate to get exposure to a number of consumer internet companies that visited campus for placements. It was during these times that I observed how a simple idea with not much of rocket science, having the capability to solve a genuine problem, can be shaped into a business. When I was in my final year at the college that is when I started Swapeco with a vision to bring about a systematic change in India''s recyclable waste management problems. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What inspired you to start Swapeco?</strong><br>I am always passionate about solving social problems through self-sustainable business models. In India, households & enterprises sell off their recyclables to traditional recyclable waste vendors (also called "Kabadiwalas"). These recyclable waste vendors play a crucial role in India''s recycling industry. But, there are several problems that people face while dealing with these traditional waste buyers like time-mismatch, trust & safety issues, recyclables channeled to unauthorized recyclers, unregulated prices, etc. Due to these problems, a lot of people have stopped segregating & selling off their recyclables to these vendors. Only 20% of India''s total recyclable waste is actually recovered (market potential~ $15Bn) whereas 80% recyclables end up in landfills leading to severe air pollution & groundwater contamination. I saw this sector as an opportunity because of its huge market size and unorganized nature at the same time. After months of research and discussions with my friends about this sector, Swapeco came into existence.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"><strong>Tell us about your startup</strong><br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:columns -->\n<div class="wp-block-columns has-2-columns"><!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:image {"id":472} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-472"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">I started the company along with Ashutosh Kumar (IIITD Alumnus, Class of 2019) who is the Co-Founder & CTO of Swapeco with a vision to organize the recyclable waste management sector in India. Swapeco''s digital recycling platform (App/Web) enables users to dispose of their recyclables in a responsible and rewarding manner. Our users are mainly households & enterprises that can simply schedule a doorstep pickup for their recyclable items like paper, plastics, metals, e-waste, etc. & get paid for them. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column --></div>\n<!-- /wp:columns -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">We are trying to blend the traditional recycling business with technologies like mobile applications, IoT-based smart weighing scales and analytics. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>Where do you see SWAPECO in the next few years?</strong><br>Swapeco has a team of 12 members currently, operating in Delhi NCR, and in the past 12 months, we have registered more than 20,000 users and diverted more than 3,00,000 Kgs of recyclables from landfills to the recycling units. We are doing around 40 pickups a day as of now, and wish to achieve a pickup frequency of 600 pickups per day by the end of 2 years. In the next 3 years, our target is to divert around 5000 metric tonnes of recyclables per month from landfills to recycling units. Now that we have successfully completed a pilot run in Delhi NCR, we plan to explore the Delhi market only for the next 2 years and are planning to come up with a franchise model to expand Swapeco in other cities as well.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[473,475,476,482],"columns":4,"align":"center"} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-4 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2-768x1024.jpg" alt="" data-id="473" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=473" class="wp-image-473"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/4-766x1024.jpeg" alt="" data-id="475" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=475" class="wp-image-475"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/5-768x1024.jpeg" alt="" data-id="476" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=476" class="wp-image-476"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/6-1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" data-id="482" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=482" class="wp-image-482"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What role has IIIT-Delhi played in your journey so far?</strong><br>Being an ECE student I started my entrepreneurial journey during my second year with my Drone-Tech Startup called, “DroneMed”. We received constant support like access to labs, expensive drone equipment and guidance from IIIT-Delhi. Under the guidance of our faculty advisor, Dr P.B Sujit we built a fully autonomous VTOL UAV which was capable of flying both like a quadrotor as well as a fixed-wing plane and switch between the 2 modes whenever required and could be used to deliver emergency supplies like medication, food, blood etc. DroneMed received various recognitions from organizations like Lockheed Martin, DST, Tata Trusts & Indian Air Force, however, it was eventually halted due to a lack of proper drone regulations in India at that time. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[485,486,487,488],"columns":4} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-4 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1-1022x1024.jpg" alt="" data-id="485" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=485" class="wp-image-485"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2-1-1024x768.jpg" alt="" data-id="486" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=486" class="wp-image-486"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/3-1024x767.jpg" alt="" data-id="487" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=487" class="wp-image-487"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/4-1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" data-id="488" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=488" class="wp-image-488"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">After a few months, I started working on Swapeco.\nIIIT-Delhi was always supportive whether it was a deep tech startup (DroneMed)\nor a “not so deep” tech-related startup (Swapeco). We had a few\nentrepreneurship-related courses that were offered in college and these courses\nhelped me a lot to understand and learn the basics of entrepreneurship and how\nto start a proper company. During these entrepreneurship courses, we got\nintroduced to the IIIT-Delhi Innovation and Incubation Center (IIITDIC) for the\nfirst time which is the hub of entrepreneurial activities in the college and\nprovides incubation facilities to startups like us. We approached IIITDIC who\nloved our idea and thus we pre-incubated our startup with them. Ever since\nthen, the center has been providing us with facilities like constant mentorship\nfrom experts, infrastructure and much-needed networking. I am really thankful\nto IIIT-Delhi for providing such an excellent entrepreneurial ecosystem in the\ncollege and giving the students ample opportunities to benefit from it.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>Important accomplishments of your career</strong><br>DroneMed was the first biggest achievement of my tech career and leading the UAV team from IIIT-Delhi that secured 6th rank in the 17th edition of the coveted Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Student Unmanned Aerial Systems (AUVSI SUAS) Competition held in USA in June 2019 was another. A total of 75 teams participated in the competition and our rank was better than that of the team from some of the top colleges in the world like Harvard, UCLA, Virginia Tech, Cornell, etc. And believe me, this achievement was way bigger for us than the prize money we had won. <br><br>When I started my company in 2019, little did I know that in such a short period of time my startup will bag such prestigious accolades. In December 2019, we were among the winners of ‘Startup India-Whatsapp Challenge’ which was launched to inspire entrepreneurs to develop solutions that have socio-economic impact on the Indian economy. We were also one of the three winning startups of the Urban Works Innovation Challenge 2019-2020 by Columbia Global Centers, Mumbai that supports innovators and entrepreneurs who are passionate about producing viable and interdisciplinary tech-based solutions for transforming 21st century cities in India into sustainable and safe work environments. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:columns {"columns":3} -->\n<div class="wp-block-columns has-3-columns"><!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:image {"id":498,"align":"wide"} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image alignwide"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/9-1024x767.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-498"/><figcaption> <br>AUVSI SUAS Competition USA</figcaption></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:image {"id":500,"align":"wide"} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image alignwide"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/11-647x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-500"/><figcaption> <br>Urban Works Innovation Challenge</figcaption></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:image {"id":499,"align":"wide"} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image alignwide"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/10.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-499"/><figcaption> <br>Mbillionth Awards South Asia<br></figcaption></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column --></div>\n<!-- /wp:columns -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Another milestone in my career was winning the Mbillionth Awards South Asia in the "Early Stage Startups" category which was organized by Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) & Facebook in February 2020. And very recently we have received a Facebook Grant for SMBs. <br><br>I hope to continue working towards my goal and fulfilling my dream of not just being a successful entrepreneur but also giving back to society in all my capacities. <br> <br>The journey to become a successful entrepreneur is full of obstacles and hardships. 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Well, not anymore!! A large number of fresh graduates are now taking up entrepreneurship to address problems faced by the society at the ground level and are redefining the world.<br><br>IIIT-Delhi being a research-oriented institute, has always committed to developing innovative solutions to improve the quality of life and making a positive impact on society through technology-based interventions. We encourage our students to seek out challenges in the society and cater to them through the most innovative solutions. Many of our alumni have taken divergent paths in their career, but there is one thing common among all, a commitment towards making an impact. <br><br>Here is an intriguing story of one of our alumnus from the youngest graduated batch, Mukul Chhabra (Class of 2020) who is contributing significantly to the Indian startup ecosystem and bringing a positive difference in the society. Inspired by the tech innovation, Mukul took up the challenge of entrepreneurial journey and opted out of campus placements to follow his passion. During his last year in IIIT-Delhi, he started his own venture ‘Swapeco’, with a vision to divert recyclables from India''s unsanitary landfills. In a very short span of time, Mukul has turned Swapeco into a growing venture. <br><br>Let’s read about this young entrepreneur’s journey in his own words, from a student to the founder of a growing startup. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"><strong>Tell us about yourself</strong><br>I am a freshly minted B.Tech- ECE graduate and Founder & CEO of the startup called “Swapeco”. I was quite fascinated by the idea of startups from a young age. On joining IIIT-Delhi as a student, I was fortunate to get exposure to a number of consumer internet companies that visited campus for placements. It was during these times that I observed how a simple idea with not much of rocket science, having the capability to solve a genuine problem, can be shaped into a business. When I was in my final year at the college that is when I started Swapeco with a vision to bring about a systematic change in India''s recyclable waste management problems. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What inspired you to start Swapeco?</strong><br>I am always passionate about solving social problems through self-sustainable business models. In India, households & enterprises sell off their recyclables to traditional recyclable waste vendors (also called "Kabadiwalas"). These recyclable waste vendors play a crucial role in India''s recycling industry. But, there are several problems that people face while dealing with these traditional waste buyers like time-mismatch, trust & safety issues, recyclables channeled to unauthorized recyclers, unregulated prices, etc. Due to these problems, a lot of people have stopped segregating & selling off their recyclables to these vendors. Only 20% of India''s total recyclable waste is actually recovered (market potential~ $15Bn) whereas 80% recyclables end up in landfills leading to severe air pollution & groundwater contamination. I saw this sector as an opportunity because of its huge market size and unorganized nature at the same time. After months of research and discussions with my friends about this sector, Swapeco came into existence.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"><strong>Tell us about your startup</strong><br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:columns -->\n<div class="wp-block-columns has-2-columns"><!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:image {"id":472} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-472"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">I started the company along with Ashutosh Kumar (IIITD Alumnus, Class of 2019) who is the Co-Founder & CTO of Swapeco with a vision to organize the recyclable waste management sector in India. Swapeco''s digital recycling platform (App/Web) enables users to dispose of their recyclables in a responsible and rewarding manner. Our users are mainly households & enterprises that can simply schedule a doorstep pickup for their recyclable items like paper, plastics, metals, e-waste, etc. & get paid for them. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column --></div>\n<!-- /wp:columns -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">We are trying to blend the traditional recycling business with technologies like mobile applications, IoT-based smart weighing scales and analytics. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>Where do you see SWAPECO in the next few years?</strong><br>Swapeco has a team of 12 members currently, operating in Delhi NCR, and in the past 12 months, we have registered more than 20,000 users and diverted more than 3,00,000 Kgs of recyclables from landfills to the recycling units. We are doing around 40 pickups a day as of now, and wish to achieve a pickup frequency of 600 pickups per day by the end of 2 years. In the next 3 years, our target is to divert around 5000 metric tonnes of recyclables per month from landfills to recycling units. Now that we have successfully completed a pilot run in Delhi NCR, we plan to explore the Delhi market only for the next 2 years and are planning to come up with a franchise model to expand Swapeco in other cities as well.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[473,475,476,482],"columns":4,"align":"center"} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-4 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2-768x1024.jpg" alt="" data-id="473" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=473" class="wp-image-473"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/4-766x1024.jpeg" alt="" data-id="475" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=475" class="wp-image-475"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/5-768x1024.jpeg" alt="" data-id="476" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=476" class="wp-image-476"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/6-1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" data-id="482" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=482" class="wp-image-482"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What role has IIIT-Delhi played in your journey so far?</strong><br>Being an ECE student I started my entrepreneurial journey during my second year with my Drone-Tech Startup called, “DroneMed”. We received constant support like access to labs, expensive drone equipment and guidance from IIIT-Delhi. Under the guidance of our faculty advisor, Dr P.B Sujit we built a fully autonomous VTOL UAV which was capable of flying both like a quadrotor as well as a fixed-wing plane and switch between the 2 modes whenever required and could be used to deliver emergency supplies like medication, food, blood etc. DroneMed received various recognitions from organizations like Lockheed Martin, DST, Tata Trusts & Indian Air Force, however, it was eventually halted due to a lack of proper drone regulations in India at that time. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[485,486,487,488],"columns":4} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-4 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1-1022x1024.jpg" alt="" data-id="485" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=485" class="wp-image-485"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2-1-1024x768.jpg" alt="" data-id="486" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=486" class="wp-image-486"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/3-1024x767.jpg" alt="" data-id="487" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=487" class="wp-image-487"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/4-1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" data-id="488" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=488" class="wp-image-488"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">After a few months, I started working on Swapeco.\nIIIT-Delhi was always supportive whether it was a deep tech startup (DroneMed)\nor a “not so deep” tech-related startup (Swapeco). We had a few\nentrepreneurship-related courses that were offered in college and these courses\nhelped me a lot to understand and learn the basics of entrepreneurship and how\nto start a proper company. During these entrepreneurship courses, we got\nintroduced to the IIIT-Delhi Innovation and Incubation Center (IIITDIC) for the\nfirst time which is the hub of entrepreneurial activities in the college and\nprovides incubation facilities to startups like us. We approached IIITDIC who\nloved our idea and thus we pre-incubated our startup with them. Ever since\nthen, the center has been providing us with facilities like constant mentorship\nfrom experts, infrastructure and much-needed networking. I am really thankful\nto IIIT-Delhi for providing such an excellent entrepreneurial ecosystem in the\ncollege and giving the students ample opportunities to benefit from it.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>Important accomplishments of your career</strong><br>DroneMed was the first biggest achievement of my tech career and leading the UAV team from IIIT-Delhi that secured 6th rank in the 17th edition of the coveted Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Student Unmanned Aerial Systems (AUVSI SUAS) Competition held in USA in June 2019 was another. A total of 75 teams participated in the competition and our rank was better than that of the team from some of the top colleges in the world like Harvard, UCLA, Virginia Tech, Cornell, etc. And believe me, this achievement was way bigger for us than the prize money we had won. <br><br>When I started my company in 2019, little did I know that in such a short period of time my startup will bag such prestigious accolades. In December 2019, we were among the winners of ‘Startup India-Whatsapp Challenge’ which was launched to inspire entrepreneurs to develop solutions that have socio-economic impact on the Indian economy. We were also one of the three winning startups of the Urban Works Innovation Challenge 2019-2020 by Columbia Global Centers, Mumbai that supports innovators and entrepreneurs who are passionate about producing viable and interdisciplinary tech-based solutions for transforming 21st century cities in India into sustainable and safe work environments. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:columns {"columns":3,"align":"wide"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-columns alignwide has-3-columns"><!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:image {"id":498,"align":"wide"} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image alignwide"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/9-1024x767.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-498"/><figcaption> <br>AUVSI SUAS Competition USA</figcaption></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:image {"id":500,"align":"wide"} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image alignwide"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/11-190x300.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-500"/><figcaption> <br>Urban Works Innovation Challenge</figcaption></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:image {"id":499,"align":"wide"} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image alignwide"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/10.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-499"/><figcaption> <br>Mbillionth Awards South Asia<br></figcaption></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column --></div>\n<!-- /wp:columns -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Another milestone in my career was winning the Mbillionth Awards South Asia in the "Early Stage Startups" category which was organized by Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) & Facebook in February 2020. 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Inspired by the tech innovation, Mukul took up the challenge of entrepreneurial journey and opted out of campus placements to follow his passion. During his last year in IIIT-Delhi, he started his own venture ‘Swapeco’, with a vision to divert recyclables from India''s unsanitary landfills. In a very short span of time, Mukul has turned Swapeco into a growing venture. <br><br>Let’s read about this young entrepreneur’s journey in his own words, from a student to the founder of a growing startup. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"><strong>Tell us about yourself</strong><br>I am a freshly minted B.Tech- ECE graduate and Founder & CEO of the startup called “Swapeco”. I was quite fascinated by the idea of startups from a young age. On joining IIIT-Delhi as a student, I was fortunate to get exposure to a number of consumer internet companies that visited campus for placements. It was during these times that I observed how a simple idea with not much of rocket science, having the capability to solve a genuine problem, can be shaped into a business. When I was in my final year at the college that is when I started Swapeco with a vision to bring about a systematic change in India''s recyclable waste management problems. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What inspired you to start Swapeco?</strong><br>I am always passionate about solving social problems through self-sustainable business models. In India, households & enterprises sell off their recyclables to traditional recyclable waste vendors (also called "Kabadiwalas"). These recyclable waste vendors play a crucial role in India''s recycling industry. But, there are several problems that people face while dealing with these traditional waste buyers like time-mismatch, trust & safety issues, recyclables channeled to unauthorized recyclers, unregulated prices, etc. Due to these problems, a lot of people have stopped segregating & selling off their recyclables to these vendors. Only 20% of India''s total recyclable waste is actually recovered (market potential~ $15Bn) whereas 80% recyclables end up in landfills leading to severe air pollution & groundwater contamination. I saw this sector as an opportunity because of its huge market size and unorganized nature at the same time. After months of research and discussions with my friends about this sector, Swapeco came into existence.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"><strong>Tell us about your startup</strong><br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:columns -->\n<div class="wp-block-columns has-2-columns"><!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:image {"id":472} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-472"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">I started the company along with Ashutosh Kumar (IIITD Alumnus, Class of 2019) who is the Co-Founder & CTO of Swapeco with a vision to organize the recyclable waste management sector in India. Swapeco''s digital recycling platform (App/Web) enables users to dispose of their recyclables in a responsible and rewarding manner. 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We are doing around 40 pickups a day as of now, and wish to achieve a pickup frequency of 600 pickups per day by the end of 2 years. In the next 3 years, our target is to divert around 5000 metric tonnes of recyclables per month from landfills to recycling units. Now that we have successfully completed a pilot run in Delhi NCR, we plan to explore the Delhi market only for the next 2 years and are planning to come up with a franchise model to expand Swapeco in other cities as well.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[473,475,476,482],"columns":4,"align":"center"} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-4 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2-768x1024.jpg" alt="" data-id="473" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=473" class="wp-image-473"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/4-766x1024.jpeg" alt="" data-id="475" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=475" class="wp-image-475"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/5-768x1024.jpeg" alt="" data-id="476" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=476" class="wp-image-476"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/6-1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" data-id="482" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=482" class="wp-image-482"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What role has IIIT-Delhi played in your journey so far?</strong><br>Being an ECE student I started my entrepreneurial journey during my second year with my Drone-Tech Startup called, “DroneMed”. We received constant support like access to labs, expensive drone equipment and guidance from IIIT-Delhi. Under the guidance of our faculty advisor, Dr P.B Sujit we built a fully autonomous VTOL UAV which was capable of flying both like a quadrotor as well as a fixed-wing plane and switch between the 2 modes whenever required and could be used to deliver emergency supplies like medication, food, blood etc. DroneMed received various recognitions from organizations like Lockheed Martin, DST, Tata Trusts & Indian Air Force, however, it was eventually halted due to a lack of proper drone regulations in India at that time. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[485,486,487,488],"columns":4} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-4 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1-1022x1024.jpg" alt="" data-id="485" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=485" class="wp-image-485"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2-1-1024x768.jpg" alt="" data-id="486" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=486" class="wp-image-486"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/3-1024x767.jpg" alt="" data-id="487" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=487" class="wp-image-487"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/4-1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" data-id="488" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=488" class="wp-image-488"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">After a few months, I started working on Swapeco.\nIIIT-Delhi was always supportive whether it was a deep tech startup (DroneMed)\nor a “not so deep” tech-related startup (Swapeco). We had a few\nentrepreneurship-related courses that were offered in college and these courses\nhelped me a lot to understand and learn the basics of entrepreneurship and how\nto start a proper company. During these entrepreneurship courses, we got\nintroduced to the IIIT-Delhi Innovation and Incubation Center (IIITDIC) for the\nfirst time which is the hub of entrepreneurial activities in the college and\nprovides incubation facilities to startups like us. We approached IIITDIC who\nloved our idea and thus we pre-incubated our startup with them. Ever since\nthen, the center has been providing us with facilities like constant mentorship\nfrom experts, infrastructure and much-needed networking. I am really thankful\nto IIIT-Delhi for providing such an excellent entrepreneurial ecosystem in the\ncollege and giving the students ample opportunities to benefit from it.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>Important accomplishments of your career</strong><br>DroneMed was the first biggest achievement of my tech career and leading the UAV team from IIIT-Delhi that secured 6th rank in the 17th edition of the coveted Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Student Unmanned Aerial Systems (AUVSI SUAS) Competition held in USA in June 2019 was another. A total of 75 teams participated in the competition and our rank was better than that of the team from some of the top colleges in the world like Harvard, UCLA, Virginia Tech, Cornell, etc. And believe me, this achievement was way bigger for us than the prize money we had won. <br><br>When I started my company in 2019, little did I know that in such a short period of time my startup will bag such prestigious accolades. In December 2019, we were among the winners of ‘Startup India-Whatsapp Challenge’ which was launched to inspire entrepreneurs to develop solutions that have socio-economic impact on the Indian economy. We were also one of the three winning startups of the Urban Works Innovation Challenge 2019-2020 by Columbia Global Centers, Mumbai that supports innovators and entrepreneurs who are passionate about producing viable and interdisciplinary tech-based solutions for transforming 21st century cities in India into sustainable and safe work environments. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[498,500,499]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/9-1024x767.jpg" alt="" data-id="498" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=498" class="wp-image-498"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/11-647x1024.jpg" alt="" data-id="500" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=500" class="wp-image-500"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/10.jpg" alt="" data-id="499" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=499" class="wp-image-499"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Another milestone in my career was winning the Mbillionth Awards South Asia in the "Early Stage Startups" category which was organized by Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) & Facebook in February 2020. And very recently we have received a Facebook Grant for SMBs. <br><br>I hope to continue working towards my goal and fulfilling my dream of not just being a successful entrepreneur but also giving back to society in all my capacities. <br> <br>The journey to become a successful entrepreneur is full of obstacles and hardships. But with his unceasing dedication and perseverance, Mukul has achieved a pinnacle at such a young age and is an inspiration for all the aspiring and inquisitive minds at IIITD who want to make a change in the society through their innovative ideas. <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Meet the Youngest Entrepreneur of IIIT-Delhi!!', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '471-revision-v1', '', '', '2021-04-08 12:45:37', '2021-04-08 07:15:37', '', 471, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/471-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (507, 1, '2021-04-08 12:47:40', '2021-04-08 07:17:40', '<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Getting a degree from top engineering colleges was often seen as a key to high-paying jobs and a convenient life. Well, not anymore!! A large number of fresh graduates are now taking up entrepreneurship to address problems faced by the society at the ground level and are redefining the world.<br><br>IIIT-Delhi being a research-oriented institute, has always committed to developing innovative solutions to improve the quality of life and making a positive impact on society through technology-based interventions. We encourage our students to seek out challenges in the society and cater to them through the most innovative solutions. Many of our alumni have taken divergent paths in their career, but there is one thing common among all, a commitment towards making an impact. <br><br>Here is an intriguing story of one of our alumnus from the youngest graduated batch, Mukul Chhabra (Class of 2020) who is contributing significantly to the Indian startup ecosystem and bringing a positive difference in the society. Inspired by the tech innovation, Mukul took up the challenge of entrepreneurial journey and opted out of campus placements to follow his passion. During his last year in IIIT-Delhi, he started his own venture ‘Swapeco’, with a vision to divert recyclables from India''s unsanitary landfills. In a very short span of time, Mukul has turned Swapeco into a growing venture. <br><br>Let’s read about this young entrepreneur’s journey in his own words, from a student to the founder of a growing startup. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"><strong>Tell us about yourself</strong><br>I am a freshly minted B.Tech- ECE graduate and Founder & CEO of the startup called “Swapeco”. I was quite fascinated by the idea of startups from a young age. On joining IIIT-Delhi as a student, I was fortunate to get exposure to a number of consumer internet companies that visited campus for placements. It was during these times that I observed how a simple idea with not much of rocket science, having the capability to solve a genuine problem, can be shaped into a business. When I was in my final year at the college that is when I started Swapeco with a vision to bring about a systematic change in India''s recyclable waste management problems. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What inspired you to start Swapeco?</strong><br>I am always passionate about solving social problems through self-sustainable business models. In India, households & enterprises sell off their recyclables to traditional recyclable waste vendors (also called "Kabadiwalas"). These recyclable waste vendors play a crucial role in India''s recycling industry. But, there are several problems that people face while dealing with these traditional waste buyers like time-mismatch, trust & safety issues, recyclables channeled to unauthorized recyclers, unregulated prices, etc. Due to these problems, a lot of people have stopped segregating & selling off their recyclables to these vendors. Only 20% of India''s total recyclable waste is actually recovered (market potential~ $15Bn) whereas 80% recyclables end up in landfills leading to severe air pollution & groundwater contamination. I saw this sector as an opportunity because of its huge market size and unorganized nature at the same time. After months of research and discussions with my friends about this sector, Swapeco came into existence.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"><strong>Tell us about your startup</strong><br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:columns -->\n<div class="wp-block-columns has-2-columns"><!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:image {"id":472} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-472"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">I started the company along with Ashutosh Kumar (IIITD Alumnus, Class of 2019) who is the Co-Founder & CTO of Swapeco with a vision to organize the recyclable waste management sector in India. Swapeco''s digital recycling platform (App/Web) enables users to dispose of their recyclables in a responsible and rewarding manner. Our users are mainly households & enterprises that can simply schedule a doorstep pickup for their recyclable items like paper, plastics, metals, e-waste, etc. & get paid for them. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column --></div>\n<!-- /wp:columns -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">We are trying to blend the traditional recycling business with technologies like mobile applications, IoT-based smart weighing scales and analytics. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>Where do you see SWAPECO in the next few years?</strong><br>Swapeco has a team of 12 members currently, operating in Delhi NCR, and in the past 12 months, we have registered more than 20,000 users and diverted more than 3,00,000 Kgs of recyclables from landfills to the recycling units. We are doing around 40 pickups a day as of now, and wish to achieve a pickup frequency of 600 pickups per day by the end of 2 years. In the next 3 years, our target is to divert around 5000 metric tonnes of recyclables per month from landfills to recycling units. Now that we have successfully completed a pilot run in Delhi NCR, we plan to explore the Delhi market only for the next 2 years and are planning to come up with a franchise model to expand Swapeco in other cities as well.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[473,475,476,482],"columns":4,"align":"center"} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-4 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2-768x1024.jpg" alt="" data-id="473" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=473" class="wp-image-473"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/4-766x1024.jpeg" alt="" data-id="475" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=475" class="wp-image-475"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/5-768x1024.jpeg" alt="" data-id="476" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=476" class="wp-image-476"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/6-1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" data-id="482" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=482" class="wp-image-482"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What role has IIIT-Delhi played in your journey so far?</strong><br>Being an ECE student I started my entrepreneurial journey during my second year with my Drone-Tech Startup called, “DroneMed”. We received constant support like access to labs, expensive drone equipment and guidance from IIIT-Delhi. Under the guidance of our faculty advisor, Dr P.B Sujit we built a fully autonomous VTOL UAV which was capable of flying both like a quadrotor as well as a fixed-wing plane and switch between the 2 modes whenever required and could be used to deliver emergency supplies like medication, food, blood etc. DroneMed received various recognitions from organizations like Lockheed Martin, DST, Tata Trusts & Indian Air Force, however, it was eventually halted due to a lack of proper drone regulations in India at that time. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[485,486,487,488],"columns":4} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-4 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1-1022x1024.jpg" alt="" data-id="485" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=485" class="wp-image-485"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2-1-1024x768.jpg" alt="" data-id="486" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=486" class="wp-image-486"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/3-1024x767.jpg" alt="" data-id="487" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=487" class="wp-image-487"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/4-1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" data-id="488" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=488" class="wp-image-488"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">After a few months, I started working on Swapeco.\nIIIT-Delhi was always supportive whether it was a deep tech startup (DroneMed)\nor a “not so deep” tech-related startup (Swapeco). We had a few\nentrepreneurship-related courses that were offered in college and these courses\nhelped me a lot to understand and learn the basics of entrepreneurship and how\nto start a proper company. During these entrepreneurship courses, we got\nintroduced to the IIIT-Delhi Innovation and Incubation Center (IIITDIC) for the\nfirst time which is the hub of entrepreneurial activities in the college and\nprovides incubation facilities to startups like us. We approached IIITDIC who\nloved our idea and thus we pre-incubated our startup with them. Ever since\nthen, the center has been providing us with facilities like constant mentorship\nfrom experts, infrastructure and much-needed networking. I am really thankful\nto IIIT-Delhi for providing such an excellent entrepreneurial ecosystem in the\ncollege and giving the students ample opportunities to benefit from it.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>Important accomplishments of your career</strong><br>DroneMed was the first biggest achievement of my tech career and leading the UAV team from IIIT-Delhi that secured 6th rank in the 17th edition of the coveted Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Student Unmanned Aerial Systems (AUVSI SUAS) Competition held in USA in June 2019 was another. A total of 75 teams participated in the competition and our rank was better than that of the team from some of the top colleges in the world like Harvard, UCLA, Virginia Tech, Cornell, etc. And believe me, this achievement was way bigger for us than the prize money we had won. <br><br>When I started my company in 2019, little did I know that in such a short period of time my startup will bag such prestigious accolades. In December 2019, we were among the winners of ‘Startup India-Whatsapp Challenge’ which was launched to inspire entrepreneurs to develop solutions that have socio-economic impact on the Indian economy. We were also one of the three winning startups of the Urban Works Innovation Challenge 2019-2020 by Columbia Global Centers, Mumbai that supports innovators and entrepreneurs who are passionate about producing viable and interdisciplinary tech-based solutions for transforming 21st century cities in India into sustainable and safe work environments. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[498,500,499]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/9-1024x767.jpg" alt="" data-id="498" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=498" class="wp-image-498"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/11-647x1024.jpg" alt="" data-id="500" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=500" class="wp-image-500"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/10.jpg" alt="" data-id="499" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=499" class="wp-image-499"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Another milestone in my career was winning the Mbillionth Awards South Asia in the "Early Stage Startups" category which was organized by Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) & Facebook in February 2020. 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Inspired by the tech innovation, Mukul took up the challenge of entrepreneurial journey and opted out of campus placements to follow his passion. During his last year in IIIT-Delhi, he started his own venture ‘Swapeco’, with a vision to divert recyclables from India''s unsanitary landfills. In a very short span of time, Mukul has turned Swapeco into a growing venture. <br><br>Let’s read about this young entrepreneur’s journey in his own words, from a student to the founder of a growing startup. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"><strong>Tell us about yourself</strong><br>I am a freshly minted B.Tech- ECE graduate and Founder & CEO of the startup called “Swapeco”. I was quite fascinated by the idea of startups from a young age. On joining IIIT-Delhi as a student, I was fortunate to get exposure to a number of consumer internet companies that visited campus for placements. It was during these times that I observed how a simple idea with not much of rocket science, having the capability to solve a genuine problem, can be shaped into a business. When I was in my final year at the college that is when I started Swapeco with a vision to bring about a systematic change in India''s recyclable waste management problems. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What inspired you to start Swapeco?</strong><br>I am always passionate about solving social problems through self-sustainable business models. In India, households & enterprises sell off their recyclables to traditional recyclable waste vendors (also called "Kabadiwalas"). These recyclable waste vendors play a crucial role in India''s recycling industry. But, there are several problems that people face while dealing with these traditional waste buyers like time-mismatch, trust & safety issues, recyclables channeled to unauthorized recyclers, unregulated prices, etc. Due to these problems, a lot of people have stopped segregating & selling off their recyclables to these vendors. Only 20% of India''s total recyclable waste is actually recovered (market potential~ $15Bn) whereas 80% recyclables end up in landfills leading to severe air pollution & groundwater contamination. I saw this sector as an opportunity because of its huge market size and unorganized nature at the same time. After months of research and discussions with my friends about this sector, Swapeco came into existence.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"><strong>Tell us about your startup</strong><br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:columns -->\n<div class="wp-block-columns has-2-columns"><!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:image {"id":472} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-472"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">I started the company along with Ashutosh Kumar (IIITD Alumnus, Class of 2019) who is the Co-Founder & CTO of Swapeco with a vision to organize the recyclable waste management sector in India. Swapeco''s digital recycling platform (App/Web) enables users to dispose of their recyclables in a responsible and rewarding manner. 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We are doing around 40 pickups a day as of now, and wish to achieve a pickup frequency of 600 pickups per day by the end of 2 years. In the next 3 years, our target is to divert around 5000 metric tonnes of recyclables per month from landfills to recycling units. Now that we have successfully completed a pilot run in Delhi NCR, we plan to explore the Delhi market only for the next 2 years and are planning to come up with a franchise model to expand Swapeco in other cities as well.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[473,475,476,482],"columns":4,"align":"center","className":"aligncenter"} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-4 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2-768x1024.jpg" alt="" data-id="473" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=473" class="wp-image-473"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/4-766x1024.jpeg" alt="" data-id="475" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=475" class="wp-image-475"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/5-768x1024.jpeg" alt="" data-id="476" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=476" class="wp-image-476"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/6-1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" data-id="482" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=482" class="wp-image-482"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What role has IIIT-Delhi played in your journey so far?</strong><br>Being an ECE student I started my entrepreneurial journey during my second year with my Drone-Tech Startup called, “DroneMed”. We received constant support like access to labs, expensive drone equipment and guidance from IIIT-Delhi. Under the guidance of our faculty advisor, Dr P.B Sujit we built a fully autonomous VTOL UAV which was capable of flying both like a quadrotor as well as a fixed-wing plane and switch between the 2 modes whenever required and could be used to deliver emergency supplies like medication, food, blood etc. DroneMed received various recognitions from organizations like Lockheed Martin, DST, Tata Trusts & Indian Air Force, however, it was eventually halted due to a lack of proper drone regulations in India at that time. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[485,486,487,488],"columns":4} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-4 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1-1022x1024.jpg" alt="" data-id="485" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=485" class="wp-image-485"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2-1-1024x768.jpg" alt="" data-id="486" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=486" class="wp-image-486"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/3-1024x767.jpg" alt="" data-id="487" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=487" class="wp-image-487"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/4-1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" data-id="488" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=488" class="wp-image-488"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">After a few months, I started working on Swapeco.\nIIIT-Delhi was always supportive whether it was a deep tech startup (DroneMed)\nor a “not so deep” tech-related startup (Swapeco). We had a few\nentrepreneurship-related courses that were offered in college and these courses\nhelped me a lot to understand and learn the basics of entrepreneurship and how\nto start a proper company. During these entrepreneurship courses, we got\nintroduced to the IIIT-Delhi Innovation and Incubation Center (IIITDIC) for the\nfirst time which is the hub of entrepreneurial activities in the college and\nprovides incubation facilities to startups like us. We approached IIITDIC who\nloved our idea and thus we pre-incubated our startup with them. Ever since\nthen, the center has been providing us with facilities like constant mentorship\nfrom experts, infrastructure and much-needed networking. I am really thankful\nto IIIT-Delhi for providing such an excellent entrepreneurial ecosystem in the\ncollege and giving the students ample opportunities to benefit from it.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>Important accomplishments of your career</strong><br>DroneMed was the first biggest achievement of my tech career and leading the UAV team from IIIT-Delhi that secured 6th rank in the 17th edition of the coveted Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Student Unmanned Aerial Systems (AUVSI SUAS) Competition held in USA in June 2019 was another. A total of 75 teams participated in the competition and our rank was better than that of the team from some of the top colleges in the world like Harvard, UCLA, Virginia Tech, Cornell, etc. And believe me, this achievement was way bigger for us than the prize money we had won. <br><br>When I started my company in 2019, little did I know that in such a short period of time my startup will bag such prestigious accolades. In December 2019, we were among the winners of ‘Startup India-Whatsapp Challenge’ which was launched to inspire entrepreneurs to develop solutions that have socio-economic impact on the Indian economy. We were also one of the three winning startups of the Urban Works Innovation Challenge 2019-2020 by Columbia Global Centers, Mumbai that supports innovators and entrepreneurs who are passionate about producing viable and interdisciplinary tech-based solutions for transforming 21st century cities in India into sustainable and safe work environments. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[498,500,499]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/9-1024x767.jpg" alt="" data-id="498" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=498" class="wp-image-498"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/11-647x1024.jpg" alt="" data-id="500" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=500" class="wp-image-500"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/10.jpg" alt="" data-id="499" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=499" class="wp-image-499"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Another milestone in my career was winning the Mbillionth Awards South Asia in the "Early Stage Startups" category which was organized by Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) & Facebook in February 2020. 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Inspired by the tech innovation, Mukul took up the challenge of entrepreneurial journey and opted out of campus placements to follow his passion. During his last year in IIIT-Delhi, he started his own venture ‘Swapeco’, with a vision to divert recyclables from India''s unsanitary landfills. In a very short span of time, Mukul has turned Swapeco into a growing venture. <br><br>Let’s read about this young entrepreneur’s journey in his own words, from a student to the founder of a growing startup. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"><strong>Tell us about yourself</strong><br>I am a freshly minted B.Tech- ECE graduate and Founder & CEO of the startup called “Swapeco”. I was quite fascinated by the idea of startups from a young age. On joining IIIT-Delhi as a student, I was fortunate to get exposure to a number of consumer internet companies that visited campus for placements. It was during these times that I observed how a simple idea with not much of rocket science, having the capability to solve a genuine problem, can be shaped into a business. When I was in my final year at the college that is when I started Swapeco with a vision to bring about a systematic change in India''s recyclable waste management problems. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What inspired you to start Swapeco?</strong><br>I am always passionate about solving social problems through self-sustainable business models. In India, households & enterprises sell off their recyclables to traditional recyclable waste vendors (also called "Kabadiwalas"). These recyclable waste vendors play a crucial role in India''s recycling industry. But, there are several problems that people face while dealing with these traditional waste buyers like time-mismatch, trust & safety issues, recyclables channeled to unauthorized recyclers, unregulated prices, etc. Due to these problems, a lot of people have stopped segregating & selling off their recyclables to these vendors. Only 20% of India''s total recyclable waste is actually recovered (market potential~ $15Bn) whereas 80% recyclables end up in landfills leading to severe air pollution & groundwater contamination. I saw this sector as an opportunity because of its huge market size and unorganized nature at the same time. After months of research and discussions with my friends about this sector, Swapeco came into existence.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":15} -->\n<p style="font-size:15px"><strong>Tell us about your startup</strong><br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:columns -->\n<div class="wp-block-columns has-2-columns"><!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:image {"id":472} -->\n<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-472"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image --></div>\n<!-- /wp:column -->\n\n<!-- wp:column -->\n<div class="wp-block-column"><!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">I started the company along with Ashutosh Kumar (IIITD Alumnus, Class of 2019) who is the Co-Founder & CTO of Swapeco with a vision to organize the recyclable waste management sector in India. Swapeco''s digital recycling platform (App/Web) enables users to dispose of their recyclables in a responsible and rewarding manner. 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We are doing around 40 pickups a day as of now, and wish to achieve a pickup frequency of 600 pickups per day by the end of 2 years. In the next 3 years, our target is to divert around 5000 metric tonnes of recyclables per month from landfills to recycling units. Now that we have successfully completed a pilot run in Delhi NCR, we plan to explore the Delhi market only for the next 2 years and are planning to come up with a franchise model to expand Swapeco in other cities as well.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[473,475,476,482],"columns":4,"align":"center","className":"aligncenter"} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-4 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2-768x1024.jpg" alt="" data-id="473" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=473" class="wp-image-473"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/4-766x1024.jpeg" alt="" data-id="475" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=475" class="wp-image-475"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/5-768x1024.jpeg" alt="" data-id="476" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=476" class="wp-image-476"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/6-1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" data-id="482" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=482" class="wp-image-482"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What role has IIIT-Delhi played in your journey so far?</strong><br>Being an ECE student I started my entrepreneurial journey during my second year with my Drone-Tech Startup called, “DroneMed”. We received constant support like access to labs, expensive drone equipment and guidance from IIIT-Delhi. Under the guidance of our faculty advisor, Dr P.B Sujit we built a fully autonomous VTOL UAV which was capable of flying both like a quadrotor as well as a fixed-wing plane and switch between the 2 modes whenever required and could be used to deliver emergency supplies like medication, food, blood etc. DroneMed received various recognitions from organizations like Lockheed Martin, DST, Tata Trusts & Indian Air Force, however, it was eventually halted due to a lack of proper drone regulations in India at that time. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[485,486,487,488],"columns":4} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-4 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1-1022x1024.jpg" alt="" data-id="485" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=485" class="wp-image-485"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2-1-1024x768.jpg" alt="" data-id="486" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=486" class="wp-image-486"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/3-1024x767.jpg" alt="" data-id="487" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=487" class="wp-image-487"/></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/4-1-1024x768.jpeg" alt="" data-id="488" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=488" class="wp-image-488"/></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">After a few months, I started working on Swapeco.\nIIIT-Delhi was always supportive whether it was a deep tech startup (DroneMed)\nor a “not so deep” tech-related startup (Swapeco). We had a few\nentrepreneurship-related courses that were offered in college and these courses\nhelped me a lot to understand and learn the basics of entrepreneurship and how\nto start a proper company. During these entrepreneurship courses, we got\nintroduced to the IIIT-Delhi Innovation and Incubation Center (IIITDIC) for the\nfirst time which is the hub of entrepreneurial activities in the college and\nprovides incubation facilities to startups like us. We approached IIITDIC who\nloved our idea and thus we pre-incubated our startup with them. Ever since\nthen, the center has been providing us with facilities like constant mentorship\nfrom experts, infrastructure and much-needed networking. 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A total of 75 teams participated in the competition and our rank was better than that of the team from some of the top colleges in the world like Harvard, UCLA, Virginia Tech, Cornell, etc. And believe me, this achievement was way bigger for us than the prize money we had won. <br><br>When I started my company in 2019, little did I know that in such a short period of time my startup will bag such prestigious accolades. In December 2019, we were among the winners of ‘Startup India-Whatsapp Challenge’ which was launched to inspire entrepreneurs to develop solutions that have socio-economic impact on the Indian economy. 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It was during these times that I observed how a simple idea with not much of rocket science, having the capability to solve a genuine problem, can be shaped into a business. When I was in my final year at the college that is when I started Swapeco with a vision to bring about a systematic change in India''s recyclable waste management problems. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What inspired you to start Swapeco?</strong><br>I am always passionate about solving social problems through self-sustainable business models. In India, households & enterprises sell off their recyclables to traditional recyclable waste vendors (also called "Kabadiwalas"). These recyclable waste vendors play a crucial role in India''s recycling industry. 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We had a few\nentrepreneurship-related courses that were offered in college and these courses\nhelped me a lot to understand and learn the basics of entrepreneurship and how\nto start a proper company. During these entrepreneurship courses, we got\nintroduced to the IIIT-Delhi Innovation and Incubation Center (IIITDIC) for the\nfirst time which is the hub of entrepreneurial activities in the college and\nprovides incubation facilities to startups like us. We approached IIITDIC who\nloved our idea and thus we pre-incubated our startup with them. Ever since\nthen, the center has been providing us with facilities like constant mentorship\nfrom experts, infrastructure and much-needed networking. 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A total of 75 teams participated in the competition and our rank was better than that of the team from some of the top colleges in the world like Harvard, UCLA, Virginia Tech, Cornell, etc. And believe me, this achievement was way bigger for us than the prize money we had won. <br><br>When I started my company in 2019, little did I know that in such a short period of time my startup will bag such prestigious accolades. In December 2019, we were among the winners of ‘Startup India-Whatsapp Challenge’ which was launched to inspire entrepreneurs to develop solutions that have socio-economic impact on the Indian economy. 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At present, I’m working on the Adobe Sensei Platform team. We build and run a cloud computing powered Machine Learning platform for Adobe’s in house ML and AI needs, covering all aspects of the ML lifecycle from data management and processing, experimentation, model training, model publishing and finally model deployment in services or products.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>How was your journey after graduating from IIIT-Delhi? </strong><br>My journey is probably the easiest and simplest to describe!<br><br>I got a job at Adobe from campus placements, I joined it, and have been here ever since. Within this large time frame, I’ve switched teams a couple of times and got an opportunity to experience different domains of the industry. When I first started with my journey as a software engineer, I was drafted into the image processing and compression team. We were responsible for creating and maintaining software that manipulated images for Adobe software - think JPG, PNG, GIF decoders and encoders, image resizing etc. It was quite challenging, especially because I did not like the kind of Math that goes in this domain, and didn’t study it much at college either. But I had no choice, so I had to dive in. The meta skills of adapting and learning quickly which I had inculcated as a student at IIIT-Delhi came in handy, and through my stint of 2 years with this team, I was even able to get a patent on a new JPG compression algorithm. <br><br>I worked for some time in an Adobe Creative Cloud team, which built and evolved a content platform that was similar to, say, Dropbox or Google Drive. Here I got some experience of working with systems with a global scale of millions of requests per second and handling petabytes of data on a regular basis. Later, I moved to my current team, where we combine cloud computing with ML, and build systems to accelerate, optimize and standardize all machine learning at Adobe. <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>How would you describe your life at IIIT-Delhi?</strong><br>When I had joined, the Institute was just 2 years old and did not have its own campus. It shared a space in the NSIT Campus in Dwarka. That’s how I discovered it because I stayed in Dwarka and happened to go past the NSIT campus a few times, and noticed the “IIIT-Delhi” banner at the gate. And I must admit, I was not the most informed person. It seems crazy now when I think that a happy coincidence like that was what kick started my whole adult life! <br> <br>Life at IIIT-Delhi was amazing, happy and very fulfilling! It has been 11 years since I first stepped foot, and 7 years since I left, but the memories I have from my college life are still fresh and among some of the most cherished ones. IIIT-Delhi provided a great environment with great learning opportunities -both curricular, and co-curricular! I also met some great people, had marvelous adventures with them, and formed bonds for life. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":610,"align":"center","width":372,"height":278} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img1_IIITD.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-610" width="372" height="278"/><figcaption>College trip to Rishikesh (2011)</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>Describe the clubs/activities you were a part of, and what were your favorite moments?</strong><br>I think you might hear this from nearly every IIITDian from the 2008-2012 era, that we have been part of many clubs and activities and in various forms. IIIT-Delhi was a fairly small community back then, everyone was sort of called upon to don multiple hats. 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Very, very fulfilling experiences. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[628,629]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img3_IIITD-2.jpg" alt="" data-id="628" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=628" class="wp-image-628"/><figcaption> <br>C<strong>onducting a FooBar CodeClass (2013)</strong><br></figcaption></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img-4_IIITD-1-1024x768.jpg" alt="" data-id="629" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=629" class="wp-image-629"/><figcaption> <br><strong>ProSorts were fun!</strong> </figcaption></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>How did you manage your studies along with co-curricular activities?</strong><br>To be honest, I did not really think too much about it. 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Imparting excellent technology skills is obvious, but apart from that I developed many meta skills as well that have come in very handy in my career. I got the chance to explore my passions in technology, music, and organizing. Every time I needed guidance, our faculty would be more than happy to help. <br><br>When we wanted to participate in ICPC, the faculty happily provided us with the tools and resources, along with guidance. When we qualified past prelims and had to go on-site for regional rounds of ICPC, the Institute sponsored our travel. When we wanted to learn music and practice, the Institute sponsored lakhs worth of music instruments. When we wanted to organize large scale events, we got encouragement, mentorship and support from faculty and staff on how to go about it.<br><br>All those are examples (and only a few of many) of challenges where I was empowered. These things are underrated in the impact it can have on trajectories of careers, and even I realized them much later in hindsight. I was grateful when I did.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":634,"align":"center","width":395,"height":296} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img-5_IIITD-1024x768.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-634" width="395" height="296"/><figcaption>ICPC Regionals at IIT Kharagpur</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What advice would you give to IIIT-Delhi students on how to make the most out of their college life along with their studies?</strong> <br>I would say to just dive into as many things as you want to, and not miss out on opportunities or passions because of worries about time. It may sound incredulous to you right now, but as someone who has spent 7 years on the other side of college, believe me as I say this - there’s a LOT of time in college to pursue everything you want to, and that time is much more than what you will find on the other side. You are in the phase of your life where you have tons of opportunities, and also the most energy you might have in your lives, whether physical or mental. Make the most of it.<br><br>Commit to studies diligently - it will empower you with the skills to flourish. Allow passions outside of studies to also develop -they would keep you going through the hustle, let you meet and form bonds with more people. Take on responsibilities- they help you learn and grow into empathetic people and leaders. Join that club you are thinking about and organize that event or run that club - whatever suits you, without giving a second thought. 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At present, I’m working on the Adobe Sensei Platform team. We build and run a cloud computing powered Machine Learning platform for Adobe’s in house ML and AI needs, covering all aspects of the ML lifecycle from data management and processing, experimentation, model training, model publishing and finally model deployment in services or products.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>How was your journey after graduating from IIIT-Delhi? </strong><br>My journey is probably the easiest and simplest to describe!<br><br>I got a job at Adobe from campus placements, I joined it, and have been here ever since. Within this large time frame, I’ve switched teams a couple of times and got an opportunity to experience different domains of the industry. When I first started with my journey as a software engineer, I was drafted into the image processing and compression team. We were responsible for creating and maintaining software that manipulated images for Adobe software - think JPG, PNG, GIF decoders and encoders, image resizing etc. It was quite challenging, especially because I did not like the kind of Math that goes in this domain, and didn’t study it much at college either. But I had no choice, so I had to dive in. The meta skills of adapting and learning quickly which I had inculcated as a student at IIIT-Delhi came in handy, and through my stint of 2 years with this team, I was even able to get a patent on a new JPG compression algorithm. <br><br>I worked for some time in an Adobe Creative Cloud team, which built and evolved a content platform that was similar to, say, Dropbox or Google Drive. Here I got some experience of working with systems with a global scale of millions of requests per second and handling petabytes of data on a regular basis. Later, I moved to my current team, where we combine cloud computing with ML, and build systems to accelerate, optimize and standardize all machine learning at Adobe. <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>How would you describe your life at IIIT-Delhi?</strong><br>When I had joined, the Institute was just 2 years old and did not have its own campus. It shared a space in the NSIT Campus in Dwarka. That’s how I discovered it because I stayed in Dwarka and happened to go past the NSIT campus a few times, and noticed the “IIIT-Delhi” banner at the gate. And I must admit, I was not the most informed person. It seems crazy now when I think that a happy coincidence like that was what kick started my whole adult life! <br> <br>Life at IIIT-Delhi was amazing, happy and very fulfilling! It has been 11 years since I first stepped foot, and 7 years since I left, but the memories I have from my college life are still fresh and among some of the most cherished ones. IIIT-Delhi provided a great environment with great learning opportunities -both curricular, and co-curricular! 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I follow AudioBytes even today and it’s great to see the current students taking it to places. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":617,"align":"center","width":413,"height":263} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img2_IIITD.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-617" width="413" height="263"/><figcaption>Performing at Esya''11- my first stage show</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Another club I was closely involved with was FooBar. I liked competitive programming and had also participated in ICPC (10/10, would recommend the students to try their hands at it). I got to collaborate with a great team and establish FooBar in 2013, with a dream that the club members ensure that IIIT-Delhi makes it to ICPC world finals within 10 years (and they did it in 7 years). We could only lay the groundwork, but the students since then have really dialed it to 11. My favorite moments from FooBar were the initial days of hours of brainstorming to come up with formats of events, designing a structure for the club, and then eventually organizing and participating in CodeClasses and ProSorts. 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I am not a very disciplined person when it comes to time management (not proud of it), and yet I found it fairly easy to navigate (well, most of the time). Sure, there were short bursts of times of stress around deadlines, but that was more because I would leave things to the last minute. I think with a bit of planning and discipline people can do much better than me in managing. The one thing that did work well with me though, and sorry to get a bit preachy here, was attending the lectures and classes live. Those 1.5 hours were super productive, and would translate to 2x-3x the amount of time if I tried to catch up later.<br><br>So, one piece of advice- Don’t skip classes, and save time!<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What role has IIIT-Delhi played in your career so far? </strong><br>IIIT-Delhi has shaped my life to where I am today, and honestly, I am not exaggerating. Imparting excellent technology skills is obvious, but apart from that I developed many meta skills as well that have come in very handy in my career. I got the chance to explore my passions in technology, music, and organizing. Every time I needed guidance, our faculty would be more than happy to help. <br><br>When we wanted to participate in ICPC, the faculty happily provided us with the tools and resources, along with guidance. When we qualified past prelims and had to go on-site for regional rounds of ICPC, the Institute sponsored our travel. When we wanted to learn music and practice, the Institute sponsored lakhs worth of music instruments. When we wanted to organize large scale events, we got encouragement, mentorship and support from faculty and staff on how to go about it.<br><br>All those are examples (and only a few of many) of challenges where I was empowered. 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It may sound incredulous to you right now, but as someone who has spent 7 years on the other side of college, believe me as I say this - there’s a LOT of time in college to pursue everything you want to, and that time is much more than what you will find on the other side. You are in the phase of your life where you have tons of opportunities, and also the most energy you might have in your lives, whether physical or mental. Make the most of it.<br><br>Commit to studies diligently - it will empower you with the skills to flourish. Allow passions outside of studies to also develop -they would keep you going through the hustle, let you meet and form bonds with more people. Take on responsibilities- they help you learn and grow into empathetic people and leaders. Join that club you are thinking about and organize that event or run that club - whatever suits you, without giving a second thought. 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Many of our students are epitome of how to make the most of your time as a student at IIIT-Delhi, one of them being Kshitiz Bakshi (Alumnus, Class of 2014), who in addition to being involved with many clubs, was also a founding member of a few student clubs, such as AudiBytes (the music club of IIIT-Delhi) and FooBar, which still exist today and have been taken over by younger generations. <br><br>We interviewed Kshitiz and here’s what he has to say about his IIITD ride, full of experiences which shaped him into the person he is today.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>Tell us about yourself </strong><br>I joined IIIT-Delhi in 2010 in the B.Tech CSE Program, and graduated in 2014. Currently, I am a Level 4 SDE at Adobe India, operating out of the Noida campus (Covid blip aside). I joined Adobe from campus placements at IIIT-Delhi, and have completed 7 years at the organization this year! At present, I’m working on the Adobe Sensei Platform team. We build and run a cloud computing powered Machine Learning platform for Adobe’s in house ML and AI needs, covering all aspects of the ML lifecycle from data management and processing, experimentation, model training, model publishing and finally model deployment in services or products.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>How was your journey after graduating from IIIT-Delhi? </strong><br>My journey is probably the easiest and simplest to describe!<br><br>I got a job at Adobe from campus placements, I joined it, and have been here ever since. Within this large time frame, I’ve switched teams a couple of times and got an opportunity to experience different domains of the industry. When I first started with my journey as a software engineer, I was drafted into the image processing and compression team. We were responsible for creating and maintaining software that manipulated images for Adobe software - think JPG, PNG, GIF decoders and encoders, image resizing etc. It was quite challenging, especially because I did not like the kind of Math that goes in this domain, and didn’t study it much at college either. But I had no choice, so I had to dive in. The meta skills of adapting and learning quickly which I had inculcated as a student at IIIT-Delhi came in handy, and through my stint of 2 years with this team, I was even able to get a patent on a new JPG compression algorithm. <br><br>I worked for some time in an Adobe Creative Cloud team, which built and evolved a content platform that was similar to, say, Dropbox or Google Drive. Here I got some experience of working with systems with a global scale of millions of requests per second and handling petabytes of data on a regular basis. 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It has been 11 years since I first stepped foot, and 7 years since I left, but the memories I have from my college life are still fresh and among some of the most cherished ones. IIIT-Delhi provided a great environment with great learning opportunities -both curricular, and co-curricular! 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We could only lay the groundwork, but the students since then have really dialed it to 11. My favorite moments from FooBar were the initial days of hours of brainstorming to come up with formats of events, designing a structure for the club, and then eventually organizing and participating in CodeClasses and ProSorts. 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Imparting excellent technology skills is obvious, but apart from that I developed many meta skills as well that have come in very handy in my career. I got the chance to explore my passions in technology, music, and organizing. Every time I needed guidance, our faculty would be more than happy to help. <br><br>When we wanted to participate in ICPC, the faculty happily provided us with the tools and resources, along with guidance. When we qualified past prelims and had to go on-site for regional rounds of ICPC, the Institute sponsored our travel. When we wanted to learn music and practice, the Institute sponsored lakhs worth of music instruments. When we wanted to organize large scale events, we got encouragement, mentorship and support from faculty and staff on how to go about it.<br><br>All those are examples (and only a few of many) of challenges where I was empowered. 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It may sound incredulous to you right now, but as someone who has spent 7 years on the other side of college, believe me as I say this - there’s a LOT of time in college to pursue everything you want to, and that time is much more than what you will find on the other side. You are in the phase of your life where you have tons of opportunities, and also the most energy you might have in your lives, whether physical or mental. Make the most of it.<br><br>Commit to studies diligently - it will empower you with the skills to flourish. Allow passions outside of studies to also develop -they would keep you going through the hustle, let you meet and form bonds with more people. Take on responsibilities- they help you learn and grow into empathetic people and leaders. Join that club you are thinking about and organize that event or run that club - whatever suits you, without giving a second thought. 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Many of our students are epitome of how to make the most of your time as a student at IIIT-Delhi, one of them being Kshitiz Bakshi (Alumnus, Class of 2014), who in addition to being involved with many clubs, was also a founding member of a few student clubs, such as AudiBytes (the music club of IIIT-Delhi) and FooBar, which still exist today and have been taken over by younger generations. <br><br>We interviewed Kshitiz and here’s what he has to say about his IIITD ride, full of experiences which shaped him into the person he is today.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>Tell us about yourself </strong><br>I joined IIIT-Delhi in 2010 in the B.Tech CSE Program, and graduated in 2014. Currently, I am a Level 4 SDE at Adobe India, operating out of the Noida campus (Covid blip aside). I joined Adobe from campus placements at IIIT-Delhi, and have completed 7 years at the organization this year! At present, I’m working on the Adobe Sensei Platform team. We build and run a cloud computing powered Machine Learning platform for Adobe’s in house ML and AI needs, covering all aspects of the ML lifecycle from data management and processing, experimentation, model training, model publishing and finally model deployment in services or products.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>How was your journey after graduating from IIIT-Delhi? </strong><br>My journey is probably the easiest and simplest to describe!<br><br>I got a job at Adobe from campus placements, I joined it, and have been here ever since. Within this large time frame, I’ve switched teams a couple of times and got an opportunity to experience different domains of the industry. When I first started with my journey as a software engineer, I was drafted into the image processing and compression team. We were responsible for creating and maintaining software that manipulated images for Adobe software - think JPG, PNG, GIF decoders and encoders, image resizing etc. It was quite challenging, especially because I did not like the kind of Math that goes in this domain, and didn’t study it much at college either. But I had no choice, so I had to dive in. The meta skills of adapting and learning quickly which I had inculcated as a student at IIIT-Delhi came in handy, and through my stint of 2 years with this team, I was even able to get a patent on a new JPG compression algorithm. <br><br>I worked for some time in an Adobe Creative Cloud team, which built and evolved a content platform that was similar to, say, Dropbox or Google Drive. Here I got some experience of working with systems with a global scale of millions of requests per second and handling petabytes of data on a regular basis. Later, I moved to my current team, where we combine cloud computing with ML, and build systems to accelerate, optimize and standardize all machine learning at Adobe. <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>How would you describe your life at IIIT-Delhi?</strong><br>When I had joined, the Institute was just 2 years old and did not have its own campus. It shared a space in the NSIT Campus in Dwarka. That’s how I discovered it because I stayed in Dwarka and happened to go past the NSIT campus a few times, and noticed the “IIIT-Delhi” banner at the gate. And I must admit, I was not the most informed person. It seems crazy now when I think that a happy coincidence like that was what kick started my whole adult life! <br> <br>Life at IIIT-Delhi was amazing, happy and very fulfilling! It has been 11 years since I first stepped foot, and 7 years since I left, but the memories I have from my college life are still fresh and among some of the most cherished ones. IIIT-Delhi provided a great environment with great learning opportunities -both curricular, and co-curricular! I also met some great people, had marvelous adventures with them, and formed bonds for life. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":610,"align":"center","width":372,"height":278} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img1_IIITD.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-610" width="372" height="278"/><figcaption>College trip to Rishikesh (2011)</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>Describe the clubs/activities you were a part of, and what were your favorite moments?</strong><br>I think you might hear this from nearly every IIITDian from the 2008-2012 era, that we have been part of many clubs and activities and in various forms. IIIT-Delhi was a fairly small community back then, everyone was sort of called upon to don multiple hats. In a way, that provided a great platform and opportunity to encourage everyone to explore different things.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Music has always been one of my passions. I was lucky to find more like-minded people in a small community, and together we did the grind through various iterations, to ultimately establish AudioBytes, the music club. That club was, and still is, close to my heart. Some memories I cherish till date are of hustling and buying instruments for the music club, or organizing events at campus like Karaoke Nights or Talent Nights, and then eventually organizing music events at Odyssey ‘14, our first cultural fest. I follow AudioBytes even today and it’s great to see the current students taking it to places. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":617,"align":"center","width":413,"height":263} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img2_IIITD.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-617" width="413" height="263"/><figcaption>Performing at Esya''11- my first stage show</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Another club I was closely involved with was FooBar. I liked competitive programming and had also participated in ICPC (10/10, would recommend the students to try their hands at it). I got to collaborate with a great team and establish FooBar in 2013, with a dream that the club members ensure that IIIT-Delhi makes it to ICPC world finals within 10 years (and they did it in 7 years). We could only lay the groundwork, but the students since then have really dialed it to 11. My favorite moments from FooBar were the initial days of hours of brainstorming to come up with formats of events, designing a structure for the club, and then eventually organizing and participating in CodeClasses and ProSorts. Very, very fulfilling experiences. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[628,629]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img3_IIITD-2.jpg" alt="" data-id="628" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=628" class="wp-image-628"/><figcaption> <br>C<strong>onducting a FooBar CodeClass (2013)</strong><br></figcaption></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img-4_IIITD-1-1024x768.jpg" alt="" data-id="629" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=629" class="wp-image-629"/><figcaption> <br><strong>ProSorts were fun!</strong> </figcaption></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>How did you manage your studies along with co-curricular activities?</strong><br>To be honest, I did not really think too much about it. I am not a very disciplined person when it comes to time management (not proud of it), and yet I found it fairly easy to navigate (well, most of the time). Sure, there were short bursts of times of stress around deadlines, but that was more because I would leave things to the last minute. I think with a bit of planning and discipline people can do much better than me in managing. The one thing that did work well with me though, and sorry to get a bit preachy here, was attending the lectures and classes live. Those 1.5 hours were super productive, and would translate to 2x-3x the amount of time if I tried to catch up later.<br><br>So, one piece of advice- Don’t skip classes, and save time!<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What role has IIIT-Delhi played in your career so far? </strong><br>IIIT-Delhi has shaped my life to where I am today, and honestly, I am not exaggerating. Imparting excellent technology skills is obvious, but apart from that I developed many meta skills as well that have come in very handy in my career. I got the chance to explore my passions in technology, music, and organizing. Every time I needed guidance, our faculty would be more than happy to help. <br><br>When we wanted to participate in ICPC, the faculty happily provided us with the tools and resources, along with guidance. When we qualified past prelims and had to go on-site for regional rounds of ICPC, the Institute sponsored our travel. When we wanted to learn music and practice, the Institute sponsored lakhs worth of music instruments. When we wanted to organize large scale events, we got encouragement, mentorship and support from faculty and staff on how to go about it.<br><br>All those are examples (and only a few of many) of challenges where I was empowered. These things are underrated in the impact it can have on trajectories of careers, and even I realized them much later in hindsight. I was grateful when I did.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":634,"align":"center","width":395,"height":296} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img-5_IIITD-1024x768.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-634" width="395" height="296"/><figcaption>ICPC Regionals at IIT Kharagpur</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What advice would you give to IIIT-Delhi students on how to make the most out of their college life along with their studies?</strong> <br>I would say to just dive into as many things as you want to, and not miss out on opportunities or passions because of worries about time. It may sound incredulous to you right now, but as someone who has spent 7 years on the other side of college, believe me as I say this - there’s a LOT of time in college to pursue everything you want to, and that time is much more than what you will find on the other side. You are in the phase of your life where you have tons of opportunities, and also the most energy you might have in your lives, whether physical or mental. Make the most of it.<br><br>Commit to studies diligently - it will empower you with the skills to flourish. Allow passions outside of studies to also develop -they would keep you going through the hustle, let you meet and form bonds with more people. Take on responsibilities- they help you learn and grow into empathetic people and leaders. Join that club you are thinking about and organize that event or run that club - whatever suits you, without giving a second thought. Try new things!! <br><br>If I could go back and make one change in my life at IIIT-Delhi, it would be not to shy away from trying more things!<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":636,"align":"center","width":411,"height":273} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img-6_IIITD-1024x683.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-636" width="411" height="273"/><figcaption>Me and my team organizing the music events at Odyssey''14, and the Band Antarishk that performed for us. Working for this fest was one of the most fulfilling experiences of my life. </figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->', 'Shades of Life in IIIT-Delhi | A Saga of Kshitiz Bakshi from Class of 2014', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '607-revision-v1', '', '', '2021-11-26 12:35:27', '2021-11-26 07:05:27', '', 607, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/607-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (641, 1, '2021-11-26 12:36:35', '2021-11-26 07:06:35', '<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">College life, as crazy as it may sound, is an amalgamation of education, career, friendships, and much more. It is that part of your journey wherein you learn, grow, figure yourself out, and while you are trying to understand life, you also plan for your future. 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Many of our students are epitome of how to make the most of your time as a student at IIIT-Delhi, one of them being Kshitiz Bakshi (Alumnus, Class of 2014), who in addition to being involved with many clubs, was also a founding member of a few student clubs, such as AudiBytes (the music club of IIIT-Delhi) and FooBar, which still exist today and have been taken over by younger generations. <br><br>We interviewed Kshitiz and here’s what he has to say about his IIITD ride, full of experiences which shaped him into the person he is today.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>Tell us about yourself </strong><br>I joined IIIT-Delhi in 2010 in the B.Tech CSE Program, and graduated in 2014. Currently, I am a Level 4 SDE at Adobe India, operating out of the Noida campus (Covid blip aside). I joined Adobe from campus placements at IIIT-Delhi, and have completed 7 years at the organization this year! At present, I’m working on the Adobe Sensei Platform team. We build and run a cloud computing powered Machine Learning platform for Adobe’s in house ML and AI needs, covering all aspects of the ML lifecycle from data management and processing, experimentation, model training, model publishing and finally model deployment in services or products.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>How was your journey after graduating from IIIT-Delhi? </strong><br>My journey is probably the easiest and simplest to describe!<br><br>I got a job at Adobe from campus placements, I joined it, and have been here ever since. Within this large time frame, I’ve switched teams a couple of times and got an opportunity to experience different domains of the industry. When I first started with my journey as a software engineer, I was drafted into the image processing and compression team. We were responsible for creating and maintaining software that manipulated images for Adobe software - think JPG, PNG, GIF decoders and encoders, image resizing etc. It was quite challenging, especially because I did not like the kind of Math that goes in this domain, and didn’t study it much at college either. But I had no choice, so I had to dive in. The meta skills of adapting and learning quickly which I had inculcated as a student at IIIT-Delhi came in handy, and through my stint of 2 years with this team, I was even able to get a patent on a new JPG compression algorithm. <br><br>I worked for some time in an Adobe Creative Cloud team, which built and evolved a content platform that was similar to, say, Dropbox or Google Drive. Here I got some experience of working with systems with a global scale of millions of requests per second and handling petabytes of data on a regular basis. Later, I moved to my current team, where we combine cloud computing with ML, and build systems to accelerate, optimize and standardize all machine learning at Adobe. <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>How would you describe your life at IIIT-Delhi?</strong><br>When I had joined, the Institute was just 2 years old and did not have its own campus. It shared a space in the NSIT Campus in Dwarka. That’s how I discovered it because I stayed in Dwarka and happened to go past the NSIT campus a few times, and noticed the “IIIT-Delhi” banner at the gate. And I must admit, I was not the most informed person. It seems crazy now when I think that a happy coincidence like that was what kick started my whole adult life! <br> <br>Life at IIIT-Delhi was amazing, happy and very fulfilling! It has been 11 years since I first stepped foot, and 7 years since I left, but the memories I have from my college life are still fresh and among some of the most cherished ones. IIIT-Delhi provided a great environment with great learning opportunities -both curricular, and co-curricular! I also met some great people, had marvelous adventures with them, and formed bonds for life. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":610,"align":"center","width":372,"height":278} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img1_IIITD.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-610" width="372" height="278"/><figcaption>College trip to Rishikesh (2011)</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>Describe the clubs/activities you were a part of, and what were your favorite moments?</strong><br>I think you might hear this from nearly every IIITDian from the 2008-2012 era, that we have been part of many clubs and activities and in various forms. IIIT-Delhi was a fairly small community back then, everyone was sort of called upon to don multiple hats. In a way, that provided a great platform and opportunity to encourage everyone to explore different things.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Music has always been one of my passions. I was lucky to find more like-minded people in a small community, and together we did the grind through various iterations, to ultimately establish AudioBytes, the music club. That club was, and still is, close to my heart. Some memories I cherish till date are of hustling and buying instruments for the music club, or organizing events at campus like Karaoke Nights or Talent Nights, and then eventually organizing music events at Odyssey ‘14, our first cultural fest. I follow AudioBytes even today and it’s great to see the current students taking it to places. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":617,"align":"center","width":413,"height":263} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img2_IIITD.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-617" width="413" height="263"/><figcaption>Performing at Esya''11- my first stage show</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Another club I was closely involved with was FooBar. I liked competitive programming and had also participated in ICPC (10/10, would recommend the students to try their hands at it). I got to collaborate with a great team and establish FooBar in 2013, with a dream that the club members ensure that IIIT-Delhi makes it to ICPC world finals within 10 years (and they did it in 7 years). We could only lay the groundwork, but the students since then have really dialed it to 11. My favorite moments from FooBar were the initial days of hours of brainstorming to come up with formats of events, designing a structure for the club, and then eventually organizing and participating in CodeClasses and ProSorts. Very, very fulfilling experiences. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[628,629]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img3_IIITD-2.jpg" alt="" data-id="628" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=628" class="wp-image-628"/><figcaption> <br>C<strong>onducting a FooBar CodeClass (2013)</strong><br></figcaption></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img-4_IIITD-1-1024x768.jpg" alt="" data-id="629" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=629" class="wp-image-629"/><figcaption> <br><strong>ProSorts were fun!</strong> </figcaption></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>How did you manage your studies along with co-curricular activities?</strong><br>To be honest, I did not really think too much about it. I am not a very disciplined person when it comes to time management (not proud of it), and yet I found it fairly easy to navigate (well, most of the time). Sure, there were short bursts of times of stress around deadlines, but that was more because I would leave things to the last minute. I think with a bit of planning and discipline people can do much better than me in managing. The one thing that did work well with me though, and sorry to get a bit preachy here, was attending the lectures and classes live. Those 1.5 hours were super productive, and would translate to 2x-3x the amount of time if I tried to catch up later.<br><br>So, one piece of advice- Don’t skip classes, and save time!<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What role has IIIT-Delhi played in your career so far? </strong><br>IIIT-Delhi has shaped my life to where I am today, and honestly, I am not exaggerating. Imparting excellent technology skills is obvious, but apart from that I developed many meta skills as well that have come in very handy in my career. I got the chance to explore my passions in technology, music, and organizing. Every time I needed guidance, our faculty would be more than happy to help. <br><br>When we wanted to participate in ICPC, the faculty happily provided us with the tools and resources, along with guidance. When we qualified past prelims and had to go on-site for regional rounds of ICPC, the Institute sponsored our travel. When we wanted to learn music and practice, the Institute sponsored lakhs worth of music instruments. When we wanted to organize large scale events, we got encouragement, mentorship and support from faculty and staff on how to go about it.<br><br>All those are examples (and only a few of many) of challenges where I was empowered. These things are underrated in the impact it can have on trajectories of careers, and even I realized them much later in hindsight. I was grateful when I did.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":634,"align":"center","width":395,"height":296} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img-5_IIITD-1024x768.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-634" width="395" height="296"/><figcaption>ICPC Regionals at IIT Kharagpur</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What advice would you give to IIIT-Delhi students on how to make the most out of their college life along with their studies?</strong> <br>I would say to just dive into as many things as you want to, and not miss out on opportunities or passions because of worries about time. It may sound incredulous to you right now, but as someone who has spent 7 years on the other side of college, believe me as I say this - there’s a LOT of time in college to pursue everything you want to, and that time is much more than what you will find on the other side. You are in the phase of your life where you have tons of opportunities, and also the most energy you might have in your lives, whether physical or mental. Make the most of it.<br><br>Commit to studies diligently - it will empower you with the skills to flourish. Allow passions outside of studies to also develop -they would keep you going through the hustle, let you meet and form bonds with more people. Take on responsibilities- they help you learn and grow into empathetic people and leaders. Join that club you are thinking about and organize that event or run that club - whatever suits you, without giving a second thought. 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Many of our students are epitome of how to make the most of your time as a student at IIIT-Delhi, one of them being Kshitiz Bakshi (Alumnus, Class of 2014), who in addition to being involved with many clubs, was also a founding member of a few student clubs, such as AudiBytes (the music club of IIIT-Delhi) and FooBar, which still exist today and have been taken over by younger generations. <br><br>We interviewed Kshitiz and here’s what he has to say about his IIITD ride, full of experiences which shaped him into the person he is today.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>Tell us about yourself </strong><br>I joined IIIT-Delhi in 2010 in the B.Tech CSE Program, and graduated in 2014. Currently, I am a Level 4 SDE at Adobe India, operating out of the Noida campus (Covid blip aside). I joined Adobe from campus placements at IIIT-Delhi, and have completed 7 years at the organization this year! At present, I’m working on the Adobe Sensei Platform team. We build and run a cloud computing powered Machine Learning platform for Adobe’s in house ML and AI needs, covering all aspects of the ML lifecycle from data management and processing, experimentation, model training, model publishing and finally model deployment in services or products.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>How was your journey after graduating from IIIT-Delhi? </strong><br>My journey is probably the easiest and simplest to describe!<br><br>I got a job at Adobe from campus placements, I joined it, and have been here ever since. Within this large time frame, I’ve switched teams a couple of times and got an opportunity to experience different domains of the industry. When I first started with my journey as a software engineer, I was drafted into the image processing and compression team. We were responsible for creating and maintaining software that manipulated images for Adobe software - think JPG, PNG, GIF decoders and encoders, image resizing etc. It was quite challenging, especially because I did not like the kind of Math that goes in this domain, and didn’t study it much at college either. But I had no choice, so I had to dive in. The meta skills of adapting and learning quickly which I had inculcated as a student at IIIT-Delhi came in handy, and through my stint of 2 years with this team, I was even able to get a patent on a new JPG compression algorithm. <br><br>I worked for some time in an Adobe Creative Cloud team, which built and evolved a content platform that was similar to, say, Dropbox or Google Drive. Here I got some experience of working with systems with a global scale of millions of requests per second and handling petabytes of data on a regular basis. Later, I moved to my current team, where we combine cloud computing with ML, and build systems to accelerate, optimize and standardize all machine learning at Adobe. <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>How would you describe your life at IIIT-Delhi?</strong><br>When I had joined, the Institute was just 2 years old and did not have its own campus. It shared a space in the NSIT Campus in Dwarka. That’s how I discovered it because I stayed in Dwarka and happened to go past the NSIT campus a few times, and noticed the “IIIT-Delhi” banner at the gate. And I must admit, I was not the most informed person. It seems crazy now when I think that a happy coincidence like that was what kick started my whole adult life! <br> <br>Life at IIIT-Delhi was amazing, happy and very fulfilling! It has been 11 years since I first stepped foot, and 7 years since I left, but the memories I have from my college life are still fresh and among some of the most cherished ones. IIIT-Delhi provided a great environment with great learning opportunities -both curricular, and co-curricular! I also met some great people, had marvelous adventures with them, and formed bonds for life. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":610,"align":"center","width":372,"height":278} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img1_IIITD.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-610" width="372" height="278"/><figcaption>College trip to Rishikesh (2011)</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>Describe the clubs/activities you were a part of, and what were your favorite moments?</strong><br>I think you might hear this from nearly every IIITDian from the 2008-2012 era, that we have been part of many clubs and activities and in various forms. IIIT-Delhi was a fairly small community back then, everyone was sort of called upon to don multiple hats. In a way, that provided a great platform and opportunity to encourage everyone to explore different things.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Music has always been one of my passions. I was lucky to find more like-minded people in a small community, and together we did the grind through various iterations, to ultimately establish AudioBytes, the music club. That club was, and still is, close to my heart. Some memories I cherish till date are of hustling and buying instruments for the music club, or organizing events at campus like Karaoke Nights or Talent Nights, and then eventually organizing music events at Odyssey ‘14, our first cultural fest. I follow AudioBytes even today and it’s great to see the current students taking it to places. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":617,"align":"center","width":413,"height":263} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img2_IIITD.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-617" width="413" height="263"/><figcaption>Performing at Esya''11- my first stage show</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Another club I was closely involved with was FooBar. I liked competitive programming and had also participated in ICPC (10/10, would recommend the students to try their hands at it). I got to collaborate with a great team and establish FooBar in 2013, with a dream that the club members ensure that IIIT-Delhi makes it to ICPC world finals within 10 years (and they did it in 7 years). We could only lay the groundwork, but the students since then have really dialed it to 11. My favorite moments from FooBar were the initial days of hours of brainstorming to come up with formats of events, designing a structure for the club, and then eventually organizing and participating in CodeClasses and ProSorts. Very, very fulfilling experiences. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[628,629]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img3_IIITD-2.jpg" alt="" data-id="628" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=628" class="wp-image-628"/><figcaption> <br>C<strong>onducting a FooBar CodeClass (2013)</strong><br></figcaption></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img-4_IIITD-1-1024x768.jpg" alt="" data-id="629" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=629" class="wp-image-629"/><figcaption> <br><strong>ProSorts were fun!</strong> </figcaption></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>How did you manage your studies along with co-curricular activities?</strong><br>To be honest, I did not really think too much about it. I am not a very disciplined person when it comes to time management (not proud of it), and yet I found it fairly easy to navigate (well, most of the time). Sure, there were short bursts of times of stress around deadlines, but that was more because I would leave things to the last minute. I think with a bit of planning and discipline people can do much better than me in managing. The one thing that did work well with me though, and sorry to get a bit preachy here, was attending the lectures and classes live. Those 1.5 hours were super productive, and would translate to 2x-3x the amount of time if I tried to catch up later.<br><br>So, one piece of advice- Don’t skip classes, and save time!<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What role has IIIT-Delhi played in your career so far? </strong><br>IIIT-Delhi has shaped my life to where I am today, and honestly, I am not exaggerating. Imparting excellent technology skills is obvious, but apart from that I developed many meta skills as well that have come in very handy in my career. I got the chance to explore my passions in technology, music, and organizing. Every time I needed guidance, our faculty would be more than happy to help. <br><br>When we wanted to participate in ICPC, the faculty happily provided us with the tools and resources, along with guidance. When we qualified past prelims and had to go on-site for regional rounds of ICPC, the Institute sponsored our travel. When we wanted to learn music and practice, the Institute sponsored lakhs worth of music instruments. When we wanted to organize large scale events, we got encouragement, mentorship and support from faculty and staff on how to go about it.<br><br>All those are examples (and only a few of many) of challenges where I was empowered. These things are underrated in the impact it can have on trajectories of careers, and even I realized them much later in hindsight. I was grateful when I did.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":634,"align":"center","width":395,"height":296} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img-5_IIITD-1024x768.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-634" width="395" height="296"/><figcaption>ICPC Regionals at IIT Kharagpur</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What advice would you give to IIIT-Delhi students on how to make the most out of their college life along with their studies?</strong> <br>I would say to just dive into as many things as you want to, and not miss out on opportunities or passions because of worries about time. It may sound incredulous to you right now, but as someone who has spent 7 years on the other side of college, believe me as I say this - there’s a LOT of time in college to pursue everything you want to, and that time is much more than what you will find on the other side. You are in the phase of your life where you have tons of opportunities, and also the most energy you might have in your lives, whether physical or mental. Make the most of it.<br><br>Commit to studies diligently - it will empower you with the skills to flourish. Allow passions outside of studies to also develop -they would keep you going through the hustle, let you meet and form bonds with more people. Take on responsibilities- they help you learn and grow into empathetic people and leaders. Join that club you are thinking about and organize that event or run that club - whatever suits you, without giving a second thought. 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It is that part of your journey wherein you learn, grow, figure yourself out, and while you are trying to understand life, you also plan for your future. On one hand, the aim of education is to impart knowledge and skills to the students, however, it should not just be restricted within the four walls of the classroom. <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">In today’s fast paced world, it has become essential for an educational institute to not just focus on the theoretical aspect of education but also foster holistic development of its students. And, in order to promote holistic development, the significance of co-curricular activities should not be neglected. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">At IIIT-Delhi, we not only provide a strong research culture through experiential learning, but we also provide a dynamic environment for our students with ample opportunities to participate and get involved in various activities outside of academics. Many of our students are epitome of how to make the most of your time as a student at IIIT-Delhi, one of them being Kshitiz Bakshi (Alumnus, Class of 2014), who in addition to being involved with many clubs, was also a founding member of a few student clubs, such as AudiBytes (the music club of IIIT-Delhi) and FooBar, which still exist today and have been taken over by younger generations. <br><br>We interviewed Kshitiz and here’s what he has to say about his IIITD ride, full of experiences which shaped him into the person he is today.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>Tell us about yourself </strong><br>I joined IIIT-Delhi in 2010 in the B.Tech CSE Program, and graduated in 2014. Currently, I am a Level 4 SDE at Adobe India, operating out of the Noida campus (Covid blip aside). I joined Adobe from campus placements at IIIT-Delhi, and have completed 7 years at the organization this year! At present, I’m working on the Adobe Sensei Platform team. We build and run a cloud computing powered Machine Learning platform for Adobe’s in house ML and AI needs, covering all aspects of the ML lifecycle from data management and processing, experimentation, model training, model publishing and finally model deployment in services or products.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>How was your journey after graduating from IIIT-Delhi? </strong><br>My journey is probably the easiest and simplest to describe!<br><br>I got a job at Adobe from campus placements, I joined it, and have been here ever since. Within this large time frame, I’ve switched teams a couple of times and got an opportunity to experience different domains of the industry. When I first started with my journey as a software engineer, I was drafted into the image processing and compression team. We were responsible for creating and maintaining software that manipulated images for Adobe software - think JPG, PNG, GIF decoders and encoders, image resizing etc. It was quite challenging, especially because I did not like the kind of Math that goes in this domain, and didn’t study it much at college either. But I had no choice, so I had to dive in. The meta skills of adapting and learning quickly which I had inculcated as a student at IIIT-Delhi came in handy, and through my stint of 2 years with this team, I was even able to get a patent on a new JPG compression algorithm. <br><br>I worked for some time in an Adobe Creative Cloud team, which built and evolved a content platform that was similar to, say, Dropbox or Google Drive. Here I got some experience of working with systems with a global scale of millions of requests per second and handling petabytes of data on a regular basis. Later, I moved to my current team, where we combine cloud computing with ML, and build systems to accelerate, optimize and standardize all machine learning at Adobe. <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>How would you describe your life at IIIT-Delhi?</strong><br>When I had joined, the Institute was just 2 years old and did not have its own campus. It shared a space in the NSIT Campus in Dwarka. That’s how I discovered it because I stayed in Dwarka and happened to go past the NSIT campus a few times, and noticed the “IIIT-Delhi” banner at the gate. And I must admit, I was not the most informed person. It seems crazy now when I think that a happy coincidence like that was what kick started my whole adult life! <br> <br>Life at IIIT-Delhi was amazing, happy and very fulfilling! It has been 11 years since I first stepped foot, and 7 years since I left, but the memories I have from my college life are still fresh and among some of the most cherished ones. IIIT-Delhi provided a great environment with great learning opportunities -both curricular, and co-curricular! I also met some great people, had marvelous adventures with them, and formed bonds for life. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":610,"align":"center","width":372,"height":278} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img1_IIITD.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-610" width="372" height="278"/><figcaption>College trip to Rishikesh (2011)</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>Describe the clubs/activities you were a part of, and what were your favorite moments?</strong><br>I think you might hear this from nearly every IIITDian from the 2008-2012 era, that we have been part of many clubs and activities and in various forms. IIIT-Delhi was a fairly small community back then, everyone was sort of called upon to don multiple hats. In a way, that provided a great platform and opportunity to encourage everyone to explore different things.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Music has always been one of my passions. I was lucky to find more like-minded people in a small community, and together we did the grind through various iterations, to ultimately establish AudioBytes, the music club. That club was, and still is, close to my heart. Some memories I cherish till date are of hustling and buying instruments for the music club, or organizing events at campus like Karaoke Nights or Talent Nights, and then eventually organizing music events at Odyssey ‘14, our first cultural fest. I follow AudioBytes even today and it’s great to see the current students taking it to places. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":617,"align":"center","width":413,"height":263} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img2_IIITD.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-617" width="413" height="263"/><figcaption>Performing at Esya''11- my first stage show</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Another club I was closely involved with was FooBar. I liked competitive programming and had also participated in ICPC (10/10, would recommend the students to try their hands at it). I got to collaborate with a great team and establish FooBar in 2013, with a dream that the club members ensure that IIIT-Delhi makes it to ICPC world finals within 10 years (and they did it in 7 years). We could only lay the groundwork, but the students since then have really dialed it to 11. My favorite moments from FooBar were the initial days of hours of brainstorming to come up with formats of events, designing a structure for the club, and then eventually organizing and participating in CodeClasses and ProSorts. Very, very fulfilling experiences. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[628,629]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img3_IIITD-2.jpg" alt="" data-id="628" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=628" class="wp-image-628"/><figcaption> <br>C<strong>onducting a FooBar CodeClass (2013)</strong><br></figcaption></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img-4_IIITD-1-1024x768.jpg" alt="" data-id="629" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=629" class="wp-image-629"/><figcaption> <br><strong>ProSorts were fun!</strong> </figcaption></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>How did you manage your studies along with co-curricular activities?</strong><br>To be honest, I did not really think too much about it. I am not a very disciplined person when it comes to time management (not proud of it), and yet I found it fairly easy to navigate (well, most of the time). Sure, there were short bursts of times of stress around deadlines, but that was more because I would leave things to the last minute. I think with a bit of planning and discipline people can do much better than me in managing. The one thing that did work well with me though, and sorry to get a bit preachy here, was attending the lectures and classes live. Those 1.5 hours were super productive, and would translate to 2x-3x the amount of time if I tried to catch up later.<br><br>So, one piece of advice- Don’t skip classes, and save time!<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What role has IIIT-Delhi played in your career so far? </strong><br>IIIT-Delhi has shaped my life to where I am today, and honestly, I am not exaggerating. Imparting excellent technology skills is obvious, but apart from that I developed many meta skills as well that have come in very handy in my career. I got the chance to explore my passions in technology, music, and organizing. Every time I needed guidance, our faculty would be more than happy to help. <br><br>When we wanted to participate in ICPC, the faculty happily provided us with the tools and resources, along with guidance. When we qualified past prelims and had to go on-site for regional rounds of ICPC, the Institute sponsored our travel. When we wanted to learn music and practice, the Institute sponsored lakhs worth of music instruments. When we wanted to organize large scale events, we got encouragement, mentorship and support from faculty and staff on how to go about it.<br><br>All those are examples (and only a few of many) of challenges where I was empowered. These things are underrated in the impact it can have on trajectories of careers, and even I realized them much later in hindsight. I was grateful when I did.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":634,"align":"center","width":395,"height":296} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img-5_IIITD-1024x768.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-634" width="395" height="296"/><figcaption>ICPC Regionals at IIT Kharagpur</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What advice would you give to IIIT-Delhi students on how to make the most out of their college life along with their studies?</strong> <br>I would say to just dive into as many things as you want to, and not miss out on opportunities or passions because of worries about time. It may sound incredulous to you right now, but as someone who has spent 7 years on the other side of college, believe me as I say this - there’s a LOT of time in college to pursue everything you want to, and that time is much more than what you will find on the other side. You are in the phase of your life where you have tons of opportunities, and also the most energy you might have in your lives, whether physical or mental. Make the most of it.<br><br>Commit to studies diligently - it will empower you with the skills to flourish. Allow passions outside of studies to also develop -they would keep you going through the hustle, let you meet and form bonds with more people. Take on responsibilities- they help you learn and grow into empathetic people and leaders. Join that club you are thinking about and organize that event or run that club - whatever suits you, without giving a second thought. 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Many of our students are epitome of how to make the most of your time as a student at IIIT-Delhi, one of them being Kshitiz Bakshi (Alumnus, Class of 2014), who in addition to being involved with many clubs, was also a founding member of a few student clubs, such as AudiBytes (the music club of IIIT-Delhi) and FooBar, which still exist today and have been taken over by younger generations. <br><br>We interviewed Kshitiz and here’s what he has to say about his IIITD ride, full of experiences which shaped him into the person he is today.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>Tell us about yourself </strong><br>I joined IIIT-Delhi in 2010 in the B.Tech CSE Program, and graduated in 2014. Currently, I am a Level 4 SDE at Adobe India, operating out of the Noida campus (Covid blip aside). I joined Adobe from campus placements at IIIT-Delhi, and have completed 7 years at the organization this year! At present, I’m working on the Adobe Sensei Platform team. We build and run a cloud computing powered Machine Learning platform for Adobe’s in house ML and AI needs, covering all aspects of the ML lifecycle from data management and processing, experimentation, model training, model publishing and finally model deployment in services or products.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>How was your journey after graduating from IIIT-Delhi? </strong><br>My journey is probably the easiest and simplest to describe!<br><br>I got a job at Adobe from campus placements, I joined it, and have been here ever since. Within this large time frame, I’ve switched teams a couple of times and got an opportunity to experience different domains of the industry. When I first started with my journey as a software engineer, I was drafted into the image processing and compression team. We were responsible for creating and maintaining software that manipulated images for Adobe software - think JPG, PNG, GIF decoders and encoders, image resizing etc. It was quite challenging, especially because I did not like the kind of Math that goes in this domain, and didn’t study it much at college either. But I had no choice, so I had to dive in. The meta skills of adapting and learning quickly which I had inculcated as a student at IIIT-Delhi came in handy, and through my stint of 2 years with this team, I was even able to get a patent on a new JPG compression algorithm. <br><br>I worked for some time in an Adobe Creative Cloud team, which built and evolved a content platform that was similar to, say, Dropbox or Google Drive. Here I got some experience of working with systems with a global scale of millions of requests per second and handling petabytes of data on a regular basis. Later, I moved to my current team, where we combine cloud computing with ML, and build systems to accelerate, optimize and standardize all machine learning at Adobe. <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>How would you describe your life at IIIT-Delhi?</strong><br>When I had joined, the Institute was just 2 years old and did not have its own campus. It shared a space in the NSIT Campus in Dwarka. That’s how I discovered it because I stayed in Dwarka and happened to go past the NSIT campus a few times, and noticed the “IIIT-Delhi” banner at the gate. And I must admit, I was not the most informed person. It seems crazy now when I think that a happy coincidence like that was what kick started my whole adult life! <br> <br>Life at IIIT-Delhi was amazing, happy and very fulfilling! It has been 11 years since I first stepped foot, and 7 years since I left, but the memories I have from my college life are still fresh and among some of the most cherished ones. IIIT-Delhi provided a great environment with great learning opportunities -both curricular, and co-curricular! I also met some great people, had marvelous adventures with them, and formed bonds for life. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":610,"align":"center","width":372,"height":278} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img1_IIITD.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-610" width="372" height="278"/><figcaption>College trip to Rishikesh (2011)</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>Describe the clubs/activities you were a part of, and what were your favorite moments?</strong><br>I think you might hear this from nearly every IIITDian from the 2008-2012 era, that we have been part of many clubs and activities and in various forms. IIIT-Delhi was a fairly small community back then, everyone was sort of called upon to don multiple hats. In a way, that provided a great platform and opportunity to encourage everyone to explore different things.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Music has always been one of my passions. I was lucky to find more like-minded people in a small community, and together we did the grind through various iterations, to ultimately establish AudioBytes, the music club. That club was, and still is, close to my heart. Some memories I cherish till date are of hustling and buying instruments for the music club, or organizing events at campus like Karaoke Nights or Talent Nights, and then eventually organizing music events at Odyssey ‘14, our first cultural fest. I follow AudioBytes even today and it’s great to see the current students taking it to places. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":617,"align":"center","width":413,"height":263} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img2_IIITD.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-617" width="413" height="263"/><figcaption>Performing at Esya''11- my first stage show</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Another club I was closely involved with was FooBar. I liked competitive programming and had also participated in ICPC (10/10, would recommend the students to try their hands at it). I got to collaborate with a great team and establish FooBar in 2013, with a dream that the club members ensure that IIIT-Delhi makes it to ICPC world finals within 10 years (and they did it in 7 years). We could only lay the groundwork, but the students since then have really dialed it to 11. My favorite moments from FooBar were the initial days of hours of brainstorming to come up with formats of events, designing a structure for the club, and then eventually organizing and participating in CodeClasses and ProSorts. Very, very fulfilling experiences. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[628,629]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img3_IIITD-2.jpg" alt="" data-id="628" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=628" class="wp-image-628"/><figcaption> <br>C<strong>onducting a FooBar CodeClass (2013)</strong><br></figcaption></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img-4_IIITD-1-1024x768.jpg" alt="" data-id="629" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=629" class="wp-image-629"/><figcaption> <br><strong>ProSorts were fun!</strong> </figcaption></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>How did you manage your studies along with co-curricular activities?</strong><br>To be honest, I did not really think too much about it. I am not a very disciplined person when it comes to time management (not proud of it), and yet I found it fairly easy to navigate (well, most of the time). Sure, there were short bursts of times of stress around deadlines, but that was more because I would leave things to the last minute. I think with a bit of planning and discipline people can do much better than me in managing. The one thing that did work well with me though, and sorry to get a bit preachy here, was attending the lectures and classes live. Those 1.5 hours were super productive, and would translate to 2x-3x the amount of time if I tried to catch up later.<br><br>So, one piece of advice- Don’t skip classes, and save time!<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What role has IIIT-Delhi played in your career so far? </strong><br>IIIT-Delhi has shaped my life to where I am today, and honestly, I am not exaggerating. Imparting excellent technology skills is obvious, but apart from that I developed many meta skills as well that have come in very handy in my career. I got the chance to explore my passions in technology, music, and organizing. Every time I needed guidance, our faculty would be more than happy to help. <br><br>When we wanted to participate in ICPC, the faculty happily provided us with the tools and resources, along with guidance. When we qualified past prelims and had to go on-site for regional rounds of ICPC, the Institute sponsored our travel. When we wanted to learn music and practice, the Institute sponsored lakhs worth of music instruments. When we wanted to organize large scale events, we got encouragement, mentorship and support from faculty and staff on how to go about it.<br><br>All those are examples (and only a few of many) of challenges where I was empowered. These things are underrated in the impact it can have on trajectories of careers, and even I realized them much later in hindsight. I was grateful when I did.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":634,"align":"center","width":395,"height":296} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img-5_IIITD-1024x768.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-634" width="395" height="296"/><figcaption>ICPC Regionals at IIT Kharagpur</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What advice would you give to IIIT-Delhi students on how to make the most out of their college life along with their studies?</strong> <br>I would say to just dive into as many things as you want to, and not miss out on opportunities or passions because of worries about time. It may sound incredulous to you right now, but as someone who has spent 7 years on the other side of college, believe me as I say this - there’s a LOT of time in college to pursue everything you want to, and that time is much more than what you will find on the other side. You are in the phase of your life where you have tons of opportunities, and also the most energy you might have in your lives, whether physical or mental. Make the most of it.<br><br>Commit to studies diligently - it will empower you with the skills to flourish. Allow passions outside of studies to also develop -they would keep you going through the hustle, let you meet and form bonds with more people. Take on responsibilities- they help you learn and grow into empathetic people and leaders. Join that club you are thinking about and organize that event or run that club - whatever suits you, without giving a second thought. 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Many of our students are epitome of how to make the most of your time as a student at IIIT-Delhi, one of them being Kshitiz Bakshi (Alumnus, Class of 2014), who in addition to being involved with many clubs, was also a founding member of a few student clubs, such as AudiBytes (the music club of IIIT-Delhi) and FooBar, which still exist today and have been taken over by younger generations. <br><br>We interviewed Kshitiz and here’s what he has to say about his IIITD ride, full of experiences which shaped him into the person he is today.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>Tell us about yourself </strong><br>I joined IIIT-Delhi in 2010 in the B.Tech CSE Program, and graduated in 2014. Currently, I am a Level 4 SDE at Adobe India, operating out of the Noida campus (Covid blip aside). I joined Adobe from campus placements at IIIT-Delhi, and have completed 7 years at the organization this year! At present, I’m working on the Adobe Sensei Platform team. We build and run a cloud computing powered Machine Learning platform for Adobe’s in house ML and AI needs, covering all aspects of the ML lifecycle from data management and processing, experimentation, model training, model publishing and finally model deployment in services or products.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>How was your journey after graduating from IIIT-Delhi? </strong><br>My journey is probably the easiest and simplest to describe!<br><br>I got a job at Adobe from campus placements, I joined it, and have been here ever since. Within this large time frame, I’ve switched teams a couple of times and got an opportunity to experience different domains of the industry. When I first started with my journey as a software engineer, I was drafted into the image processing and compression team. We were responsible for creating and maintaining software that manipulated images for Adobe software - think JPG, PNG, GIF decoders and encoders, image resizing etc. It was quite challenging, especially because I did not like the kind of Math that goes in this domain, and didn’t study it much at college either. But I had no choice, so I had to dive in. The meta skills of adapting and learning quickly which I had inculcated as a student at IIIT-Delhi came in handy, and through my stint of 2 years with this team, I was even able to get a patent on a new JPG compression algorithm. <br><br>I worked for some time in an Adobe Creative Cloud team, which built and evolved a content platform that was similar to, say, Dropbox or Google Drive. Here I got some experience of working with systems with a global scale of millions of requests per second and handling petabytes of data on a regular basis. Later, I moved to my current team, where we combine cloud computing with ML, and build systems to accelerate, optimize and standardize all machine learning at Adobe. <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>How would you describe your life at IIIT-Delhi?</strong><br>When I had joined, the Institute was just 2 years old and did not have its own campus. It shared a space in the NSIT Campus in Dwarka. That’s how I discovered it because I stayed in Dwarka and happened to go past the NSIT campus a few times, and noticed the “IIIT-Delhi” banner at the gate. And I must admit, I was not the most informed person. It seems crazy now when I think that a happy coincidence like that was what kick started my whole adult life! <br> <br>Life at IIIT-Delhi was amazing, happy and very fulfilling! It has been 11 years since I first stepped foot, and 7 years since I left, but the memories I have from my college life are still fresh and among some of the most cherished ones. IIIT-Delhi provided a great environment with great learning opportunities -both curricular, and co-curricular! 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In a way, that provided a great platform and opportunity to encourage everyone to explore different things.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Music has always been one of my passions. I was lucky to find more like-minded people in a small community, and together we did the grind through various iterations, to ultimately establish AudioBytes, the music club. That club was, and still is, close to my heart. Some memories I cherish till date are of hustling and buying instruments for the music club, or organizing events at campus like Karaoke Nights or Talent Nights, and then eventually organizing music events at Odyssey ‘14, our first cultural fest. I follow AudioBytes even today and it’s great to see the current students taking it to places. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":617,"align":"center","width":413,"height":263} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img2_IIITD.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-617" width="413" height="263"/><figcaption>Performing at Esya''11- my first stage show</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Another club I was closely involved with was FooBar. I liked competitive programming and had also participated in ICPC (10/10, would recommend the students to try their hands at it). I got to collaborate with a great team and establish FooBar in 2013, with a dream that the club members ensure that IIIT-Delhi makes it to ICPC world finals within 10 years (and they did it in 7 years). We could only lay the groundwork, but the students since then have really dialed it to 11. My favorite moments from FooBar were the initial days of hours of brainstorming to come up with formats of events, designing a structure for the club, and then eventually organizing and participating in CodeClasses and ProSorts. Very, very fulfilling experiences. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[628,629]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img3_IIITD-2.jpg" alt="" data-id="628" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=628" class="wp-image-628"/><figcaption> <br>C<strong>onducting a FooBar CodeClass (2013)</strong><br></figcaption></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img-4_IIITD-1-1024x768.jpg" alt="" data-id="629" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=629" class="wp-image-629"/><figcaption> <br><strong>ProSorts were fun!</strong> </figcaption></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>How did you manage your studies along with co-curricular activities?</strong><br>To be honest, I did not really think too much about it. I am not a very disciplined person when it comes to time management (not proud of it), and yet I found it fairly easy to navigate (well, most of the time). Sure, there were short bursts of times of stress around deadlines, but that was more because I would leave things to the last minute. I think with a bit of planning and discipline people can do much better than me in managing. The one thing that did work well with me though, and sorry to get a bit preachy here, was attending the lectures and classes live. Those 1.5 hours were super productive, and would translate to 2x-3x the amount of time if I tried to catch up later.<br><br>So, one piece of advice- Don’t skip classes, and save time!<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What role has IIIT-Delhi played in your career so far? </strong><br>IIIT-Delhi has shaped my life to where I am today, and honestly, I am not exaggerating. Imparting excellent technology skills is obvious, but apart from that I developed many meta skills as well that have come in very handy in my career. I got the chance to explore my passions in technology, music, and organizing. Every time I needed guidance, our faculty would be more than happy to help. <br><br>When we wanted to participate in ICPC, the faculty happily provided us with the tools and resources, along with guidance. When we qualified past prelims and had to go on-site for regional rounds of ICPC, the Institute sponsored our travel. When we wanted to learn music and practice, the Institute sponsored lakhs worth of music instruments. When we wanted to organize large scale events, we got encouragement, mentorship and support from faculty and staff on how to go about it.<br><br>All those are examples (and only a few of many) of challenges where I was empowered. These things are underrated in the impact it can have on trajectories of careers, and even I realized them much later in hindsight. I was grateful when I did.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":634,"align":"center","width":395,"height":296} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img-5_IIITD-1024x768.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-634" width="395" height="296"/><figcaption>ICPC Regionals at IIT Kharagpur</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What advice would you give to IIIT-Delhi students on how to make the most out of their college life along with their studies?</strong> <br>I would say to just dive into as many things as you want to, and not miss out on opportunities or passions because of worries about time. It may sound incredulous to you right now, but as someone who has spent 7 years on the other side of college, believe me as I say this - there’s a LOT of time in college to pursue everything you want to, and that time is much more than what you will find on the other side. You are in the phase of your life where you have tons of opportunities, and also the most energy you might have in your lives, whether physical or mental. Make the most of it.<br><br>Commit to studies diligently - it will empower you with the skills to flourish. Allow passions outside of studies to also develop -they would keep you going through the hustle, let you meet and form bonds with more people. Take on responsibilities- they help you learn and grow into empathetic people and leaders. Join that club you are thinking about and organize that event or run that club - whatever suits you, without giving a second thought. 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Many of our students are epitome of how to make the most of your time as a student at IIIT-Delhi, one of them being Kshitiz Bakshi (Alumnus, Class of 2014), who in addition to being involved with many clubs, was also a founding member of a few student clubs, such as AudiBytes (the music club of IIIT-Delhi) and FooBar, which still exist today and have been taken over by younger generations. <br><br>We interviewed Kshitiz and here’s what he has to say about his IIITD ride, full of experiences which shaped him into the person he is today.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>Tell us about yourself </strong><br>I joined IIIT-Delhi in 2010 in the B.Tech CSE Program, and graduated in 2014. Currently, I am a Level 4 SDE at Adobe India, operating out of the Noida campus (Covid blip aside). I joined Adobe from campus placements at IIIT-Delhi, and have completed 7 years at the organization this year! At present, I’m working on the Adobe Sensei Platform team. We build and run a cloud computing powered Machine Learning platform for Adobe’s in house ML and AI needs, covering all aspects of the ML lifecycle from data management and processing, experimentation, model training, model publishing and finally model deployment in services or products.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>How was your journey after graduating from IIIT-Delhi? </strong><br>My journey is probably the easiest and simplest to describe!<br><br>I got a job at Adobe from campus placements, I joined it, and have been here ever since. Within this large time frame, I’ve switched teams a couple of times and got an opportunity to experience different domains of the industry. When I first started with my journey as a software engineer, I was drafted into the image processing and compression team. We were responsible for creating and maintaining software that manipulated images for Adobe software - think JPG, PNG, GIF decoders and encoders, image resizing etc. It was quite challenging, especially because I did not like the kind of Math that goes in this domain, and didn’t study it much at college either. But I had no choice, so I had to dive in. The meta skills of adapting and learning quickly which I had inculcated as a student at IIIT-Delhi came in handy, and through my stint of 2 years with this team, I was even able to get a patent on a new JPG compression algorithm. <br><br>I worked for some time in an Adobe Creative Cloud team, which built and evolved a content platform that was similar to, say, Dropbox or Google Drive. Here I got some experience of working with systems with a global scale of millions of requests per second and handling petabytes of data on a regular basis. Later, I moved to my current team, where we combine cloud computing with ML, and build systems to accelerate, optimize and standardize all machine learning at Adobe. <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>How would you describe your life at IIIT-Delhi?</strong><br>When I had joined, the Institute was just 2 years old and did not have its own campus. It shared a space in the NSIT Campus in Dwarka. That’s how I discovered it because I stayed in Dwarka and happened to go past the NSIT campus a few times, and noticed the “IIIT-Delhi” banner at the gate. And I must admit, I was not the most informed person. It seems crazy now when I think that a happy coincidence like that was what kick started my whole adult life! <br> <br>Life at IIIT-Delhi was amazing, happy and very fulfilling! It has been 11 years since I first stepped foot, and 7 years since I left, but the memories I have from my college life are still fresh and among some of the most cherished ones. IIIT-Delhi provided a great environment with great learning opportunities -both curricular, and co-curricular! I also met some great people, had marvelous adventures with them, and formed bonds for life. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":610,"align":"center","width":372,"height":278} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img1_IIITD.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-610" width="372" height="278"/><figcaption>College trip to Rishikesh (2011)</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>Describe the clubs/activities you were a part of, and what were your favorite moments?</strong><br>I think you might hear this from nearly every IIITDian from the 2008-2012 era, that we have been part of many clubs and activities and in various forms. IIIT-Delhi was a fairly small community back then, everyone was sort of called upon to don multiple hats. In a way, that provided a great platform and opportunity to encourage everyone to explore different things.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Music has always been one of my passions. I was lucky to find more like-minded people in a small community, and together we did the grind through various iterations, to ultimately establish AudioBytes, the music club. That club was, and still is, close to my heart. Some memories I cherish till date are of hustling and buying instruments for the music club, or organizing events at campus like Karaoke Nights or Talent Nights, and then eventually organizing music events at Odyssey ‘14, our first cultural fest. I follow AudioBytes even today and it’s great to see the current students taking it to places. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":617,"align":"center","width":413,"height":263} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img2_IIITD.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-617" width="413" height="263"/><figcaption>Performing at Esya''11- my first stage show</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px">Another club I was closely involved with was FooBar. I liked competitive programming and had also participated in ICPC (10/10, would recommend the students to try their hands at it). I got to collaborate with a great team and establish FooBar in 2013, with a dream that the club members ensure that IIIT-Delhi makes it to ICPC world finals within 10 years (and they did it in 7 years). We could only lay the groundwork, but the students since then have really dialed it to 11. My favorite moments from FooBar were the initial days of hours of brainstorming to come up with formats of events, designing a structure for the club, and then eventually organizing and participating in CodeClasses and ProSorts. Very, very fulfilling experiences. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[628,629]} -->\n<ul class="wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img3_IIITD-2.jpg" alt="" data-id="628" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=628" class="wp-image-628"/><figcaption> <br>C<strong>onducting a FooBar CodeClass (2013)</strong><br></figcaption></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img-4_IIITD-1-1024x768.jpg" alt="" data-id="629" data-link="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/?attachment_id=629" class="wp-image-629"/><figcaption> <br><strong>ProSorts were fun!</strong> </figcaption></figure></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>How did you manage your studies along with co-curricular activities?</strong><br>To be honest, I did not really think too much about it. I am not a very disciplined person when it comes to time management (not proud of it), and yet I found it fairly easy to navigate (well, most of the time). Sure, there were short bursts of times of stress around deadlines, but that was more because I would leave things to the last minute. I think with a bit of planning and discipline people can do much better than me in managing. The one thing that did work well with me though, and sorry to get a bit preachy here, was attending the lectures and classes live. Those 1.5 hours were super productive, and would translate to 2x-3x the amount of time if I tried to catch up later.<br><br>So, one piece of advice- Don’t skip classes, and save time!<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What role has IIIT-Delhi played in your career so far? </strong><br>IIIT-Delhi has shaped my life to where I am today, and honestly, I am not exaggerating. Imparting excellent technology skills is obvious, but apart from that I developed many meta skills as well that have come in very handy in my career. I got the chance to explore my passions in technology, music, and organizing. Every time I needed guidance, our faculty would be more than happy to help. <br><br>When we wanted to participate in ICPC, the faculty happily provided us with the tools and resources, along with guidance. When we qualified past prelims and had to go on-site for regional rounds of ICPC, the Institute sponsored our travel. When we wanted to learn music and practice, the Institute sponsored lakhs worth of music instruments. When we wanted to organize large scale events, we got encouragement, mentorship and support from faculty and staff on how to go about it.<br><br>All those are examples (and only a few of many) of challenges where I was empowered. These things are underrated in the impact it can have on trajectories of careers, and even I realized them much later in hindsight. I was grateful when I did.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":634,"align":"center","width":395,"height":296} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Img-5_IIITD-1024x768.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-634" width="395" height="296"/><figcaption>ICPC Regionals at IIT Kharagpur</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"customFontSize":14} -->\n<p style="font-size:14px"><strong>What advice would you give to IIIT-Delhi students on how to make the most out of their college life along with their studies?</strong> <br>I would say to just dive into as many things as you want to, and not miss out on opportunities or passions because of worries about time. It may sound incredulous to you right now, but as someone who has spent 7 years on the other side of college, believe me as I say this - there’s a LOT of time in college to pursue everything you want to, and that time is much more than what you will find on the other side. You are in the phase of your life where you have tons of opportunities, and also the most energy you might have in your lives, whether physical or mental. Make the most of it.<br><br>Commit to studies diligently - it will empower you with the skills to flourish. Allow passions outside of studies to also develop -they would keep you going through the hustle, let you meet and form bonds with more people. Take on responsibilities- they help you learn and grow into empathetic people and leaders. Join that club you are thinking about and organize that event or run that club - whatever suits you, without giving a second thought. 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For instance, while ChatGPT can readily generate Verilog code for a 3-bit full adder, it encounters difficulties when tasked with writing code for implementing a 3-bit full adder operating at 1 Hz. This challenge arises due to the necessity for integrating multiple hardware blocks. Therefore, the complexity of system design on hardware platforms requires the augmentation of AI with the natural intelligence of humans. It was observed that students who approached their labs with academic diligence and regularity were able to derive more substantial benefits from ChatGPT in navigating these challenges.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>ELD course includes 3-hour open book lab exam and students were\nallowed to use ChatGPT this year. To assess students and usefulness of the\nChatGPT, the exam questions were structured into three parts:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> 1. 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Numerous studies\nand news articles have discussed the repercussions of ChatGPT on the efficacy\nof academic take-home assignments and projects. Computer engineering and\nhumanities fields have particularly experienced notable challenges due to\nChatGPT, leading to some universities imposing bans on its use by students.\nThis blog delves into exciting insights on the effectiveness of ChatGPT for\nhardware courses in the VLSI domain. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In August-November 2023, Indraprastha Institute of\nInformation Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi) offered the ECE270: Embedded Logic\nDesign (ELD) course to approximately 120 second-year undergraduate students.\nThis course specifically focuses on the design of digital hardware circuits and\nembedded systems on a system-on-chip (SoC). Like other programming courses, ELD\nincludes weekly hardware labs programmed using Verilog, a hardware description\nlanguage (HDL) and C/C++. This year, students could utilize ChatGPT in lab\nhomework and exams. The subsequent discussion sheds light on the students''\nexperiences regarding the efficacy of ChatGPT in the context of hardware labs.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>ChatGPT proved exceptionally valuable for generating Verilog\nand C/C++ code for a given requirement. In numerous instances, the produced\ncodes exhibited efficiency suitable for hardware implementation, allowing\nstudents to streamline their search time. Moreover, ChatGPT demonstrated its\nversatility by crafting test benches, which is crucial for testing circuit\nfunctionality through simulations. Many students leveraged ChatGPT to deepen\ntheir understanding of various Verilog concepts and existing codes, finding it\na practical companion that provided comprehensive explanations. 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This observation underscores the\nlimitations of ChatGPT in addressing the complexities associated with the\nbroader aspects of hardware design and integration beyond code generation.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In the second half of the course, students were introduced\nto the Zynq SoC, a fusion of processor and FPGA. This marked a point where ChatGPT\nencountered its most significant challenges. The primary objective of this\nsegment was to evaluate whether a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) operation was\nmore efficient in processor or FPGA. 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Computer engineering and\nhumanities fields have particularly experienced notable challenges due to\nChatGPT, leading to some universities imposing bans on its use by students.\nThis blog delves into exciting insights on the effectiveness of ChatGPT for\nhardware courses in the VLSI domain. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In August-November 2023, Indraprastha Institute of\nInformation Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi) offered the ECE270: Embedded Logic\nDesign (ELD) course to approximately 120 second-year undergraduate students.\nThis course specifically focuses on the design of digital hardware circuits and\nembedded systems on a system-on-chip (SoC). Like other programming courses, ELD\nincludes weekly hardware labs programmed using Verilog, a hardware description\nlanguage (HDL) and C/C++. This year, students could utilize ChatGPT in lab\nhomework and exams. The subsequent discussion sheds light on the students''\nexperiences regarding the efficacy of ChatGPT in the context of hardware labs.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>ChatGPT proved exceptionally valuable for generating Verilog\nand C/C++ code for a given requirement. In numerous instances, the produced\ncodes exhibited efficiency suitable for hardware implementation, allowing\nstudents to streamline their search time. Moreover, ChatGPT demonstrated its\nversatility by crafting test benches, which is crucial for testing circuit\nfunctionality through simulations. Many students leveraged ChatGPT to deepen\ntheir understanding of various Verilog concepts and existing codes, finding it\na practical companion that provided comprehensive explanations. As a result,\nChatGPT minimized reliance on Teaching Assistants and functioned as a readily\navailable 24x7 assistant throughout the learning process.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":696,"mediaType":"image"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Picture1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-696"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","fontSize":"regular"} -->\n<p class="has-regular-font-size">In contrast to software programming, which predominantly revolves around writing code, hardware labs encompass a broader scope beyond coding. With that, the true challenge for ChatGPT arises, especially with a system design that entails multiple hardware blocks and algorithm-to-architecture mapping on the hardware platform. This needs a good understanding of VLSI tools, hardware platforms, and integration of multiple hardware blocks. For instance, while ChatGPT can readily generate Verilog code for a 3-bit full adder, it encounters difficulties when tasked with writing code for implementing a 3-bit full adder operating at 1 Hz. This challenge arises due to the necessity for integrating multiple hardware blocks. Therefore, the complexity of system design on hardware platforms requires the augmentation of AI with the natural intelligence of humans. It was observed that students who approached their labs with academic diligence and regularity were able to derive more substantial benefits from ChatGPT in navigating these challenges </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>ELD course includes 3-hour open book lab exam and students were\nallowed to use ChatGPT this year. To assess students and usefulness of the\nChatGPT, the exam questions were structured into three parts:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> 1. Writing Verilog\ncode for sequential circuits</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> 2. Integrate with\nexisting hardware blocks discussed in labs</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> 3. Test on hardware</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As expected, students heavily reliant on ChatGPT excelled in\nthe first part. However, these same students encountered substantial challenges\nin the subsequent two tasks, which involved integrating the code with existing\nhardware blocks and conducting hardware tests. This observation underscores the\nlimitations of ChatGPT in addressing the complexities associated with the\nbroader aspects of hardware design and integration beyond code generation.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In the second half of the course, students were introduced\nto the Zynq SoC, a fusion of processor and FPGA. This marked a point where ChatGPT\nencountered its most significant challenges. The primary objective of this\nsegment was to evaluate whether a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) operation was\nmore efficient in processor or FPGA. While ChatGPT proficiently generated C/C++\ncode for the processor, it struggled considerably in designing the FPGA\ncircuit, highlighting its limitations in system design capabilities. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":697,"mediaType":"image"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Picture2.png" alt="" class="wp-image-697"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","fontSize":"regular"} -->\n<p class="has-regular-font-size">In the last few months, there has been a proliferation of purpose-built Generative Pre-Trained Transformers (GPTs, such as RTLLM) that facilitate the configuration of hardware using generated Verilog files, making system design easier. The launch of ChatGPT-4 has further fuelled optimism that AI is swiftly advancing in this domain. While AI tools like ChatGPT contribute valuable assistance, the intricate nature of hardware design, especially the need for nuanced decision-making and understanding of SoC design flow in various VLSI tools, makes human involvement, aka natural intelligence, critical. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In summary, we advocate for the use of AI-based tools like ChatGPT in hardware courses, with the caveat that students possessing natural intelligence understand its limitations and advantages.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>* We employed ChatGPT to enhance this article.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","fontSize":"small"} -->\n<p style="text-align:right" class="has-small-font-size">A blog by:<br><br> Kunal Sharma (B.Tech. EVE)<br> Annika Sinha (B.Tech. EVE)<br> Nishita Bharat Lohana (B.Tech. 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Computer engineering and\nhumanities fields have particularly experienced notable challenges due to\nChatGPT, leading to some universities imposing bans on its use by students.\nThis blog delves into exciting insights on the effectiveness of ChatGPT for\nhardware courses in the VLSI domain. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In August-November 2023, Indraprastha Institute of\nInformation Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi) offered the ECE270: Embedded Logic\nDesign (ELD) course to approximately 120 second-year undergraduate students.\nThis course specifically focuses on the design of digital hardware circuits and\nembedded systems on a system-on-chip (SoC). Like other programming courses, ELD\nincludes weekly hardware labs programmed using Verilog, a hardware description\nlanguage (HDL) and C/C++. This year, students could utilize ChatGPT in lab\nhomework and exams. The subsequent discussion sheds light on the students''\nexperiences regarding the efficacy of ChatGPT in the context of hardware labs.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>ChatGPT proved exceptionally valuable for generating Verilog\nand C/C++ code for a given requirement. In numerous instances, the produced\ncodes exhibited efficiency suitable for hardware implementation, allowing\nstudents to streamline their search time. Moreover, ChatGPT demonstrated its\nversatility by crafting test benches, which is crucial for testing circuit\nfunctionality through simulations. Many students leveraged ChatGPT to deepen\ntheir understanding of various Verilog concepts and existing codes, finding it\na practical companion that provided comprehensive explanations. As a result,\nChatGPT minimized reliance on Teaching Assistants and functioned as a readily\navailable 24x7 assistant throughout the learning process.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"align":"full","mediaId":696,"mediaType":"image"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignfull"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Picture1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-696"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","fontSize":"regular"} -->\n<p class="has-regular-font-size">In contrast to software programming, which predominantly revolves around writing code, hardware labs encompass a broader scope beyond coding. With that, the true challenge for ChatGPT arises, especially with a system design that entails multiple hardware blocks and algorithm-to-architecture mapping on the hardware platform. This needs a good understanding of VLSI tools, hardware platforms, and integration of multiple hardware blocks. For instance, while ChatGPT can readily generate Verilog code for a 3-bit full adder, it encounters difficulties when tasked with writing code for implementing a 3-bit full adder operating at 1 Hz. This challenge arises due to the necessity for integrating multiple hardware blocks. Therefore, the complexity of system design on hardware platforms requires the augmentation of AI with the natural intelligence of humans. It was observed that students who approached their labs with academic diligence and regularity were able to derive more substantial benefits from ChatGPT in navigating these challenges </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>ELD course includes 3-hour open book lab exam and students were\nallowed to use ChatGPT this year. To assess students and usefulness of the\nChatGPT, the exam questions were structured into three parts:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> 1. Writing Verilog\ncode for sequential circuits</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> 2. Integrate with\nexisting hardware blocks discussed in labs</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> 3. Test on hardware</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As expected, students heavily reliant on ChatGPT excelled in\nthe first part. However, these same students encountered substantial challenges\nin the subsequent two tasks, which involved integrating the code with existing\nhardware blocks and conducting hardware tests. This observation underscores the\nlimitations of ChatGPT in addressing the complexities associated with the\nbroader aspects of hardware design and integration beyond code generation.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In the second half of the course, students were introduced\nto the Zynq SoC, a fusion of processor and FPGA. This marked a point where ChatGPT\nencountered its most significant challenges. The primary objective of this\nsegment was to evaluate whether a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) operation was\nmore efficient in processor or FPGA. While ChatGPT proficiently generated C/C++\ncode for the processor, it struggled considerably in designing the FPGA\ncircuit, highlighting its limitations in system design capabilities. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":697,"mediaType":"image"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Picture2.png" alt="" class="wp-image-697"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","fontSize":"regular"} -->\n<p class="has-regular-font-size">In the last few months, there has been a proliferation of purpose-built Generative Pre-Trained Transformers (GPTs, such as RTLLM) that facilitate the configuration of hardware using generated Verilog files, making system design easier. The launch of ChatGPT-4 has further fuelled optimism that AI is swiftly advancing in this domain. While AI tools like ChatGPT contribute valuable assistance, the intricate nature of hardware design, especially the need for nuanced decision-making and understanding of SoC design flow in various VLSI tools, makes human involvement, aka natural intelligence, critical. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In summary, we advocate for the use of AI-based tools like ChatGPT in hardware courses, with the caveat that students possessing natural intelligence understand its limitations and advantages.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>* We employed ChatGPT to enhance this article.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","fontSize":"small"} -->\n<p style="text-align:right" class="has-small-font-size">A blog by:<br><br> Kunal Sharma (B.Tech. EVE)<br> Annika Sinha (B.Tech. EVE)<br> Nishita Bharat Lohana (B.Tech. 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Numerous studies\nand news articles have discussed the repercussions of ChatGPT on the efficacy\nof academic take-home assignments and projects. Computer engineering and\nhumanities fields have particularly experienced notable challenges due to\nChatGPT, leading to some universities imposing bans on its use by students.\nThis blog delves into exciting insights on the effectiveness of ChatGPT for\nhardware courses in the VLSI domain. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In August-November 2023, Indraprastha Institute of\nInformation Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi) offered the ECE270: Embedded Logic\nDesign (ELD) course to approximately 120 second-year undergraduate students.\nThis course specifically focuses on the design of digital hardware circuits and\nembedded systems on a system-on-chip (SoC). Like other programming courses, ELD\nincludes weekly hardware labs programmed using Verilog, a hardware description\nlanguage (HDL) and C/C++. This year, students could utilize ChatGPT in lab\nhomework and exams. The subsequent discussion sheds light on the students''\nexperiences regarding the efficacy of ChatGPT in the context of hardware labs.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>ChatGPT proved exceptionally valuable for generating Verilog\nand C/C++ code for a given requirement. In numerous instances, the produced\ncodes exhibited efficiency suitable for hardware implementation, allowing\nstudents to streamline their search time. Moreover, ChatGPT demonstrated its\nversatility by crafting test benches, which is crucial for testing circuit\nfunctionality through simulations. Many students leveraged ChatGPT to deepen\ntheir understanding of various Verilog concepts and existing codes, finding it\na practical companion that provided comprehensive explanations. As a result,\nChatGPT minimized reliance on Teaching Assistants and functioned as a readily\navailable 24x7 assistant throughout the learning process.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"align":"full","mediaPosition":"right","mediaId":696,"mediaType":"image"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignfull has-media-on-the-right"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Picture1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-696"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","fontSize":"regular"} -->\n<p class="has-regular-font-size">In contrast to software programming, which predominantly revolves around writing code, hardware labs encompass a broader scope beyond coding. With that, the true challenge for ChatGPT arises, especially with a system design that entails multiple hardware blocks and algorithm-to-architecture mapping on the hardware platform. This needs a good understanding of VLSI tools, hardware platforms, and integration of multiple hardware blocks. For instance, while ChatGPT can readily generate Verilog code for a 3-bit full adder, it encounters difficulties when tasked with writing code for implementing a 3-bit full adder operating at 1 Hz. This challenge arises due to the necessity for integrating multiple hardware blocks. Therefore, the complexity of system design on hardware platforms requires the augmentation of AI with the natural intelligence of humans. It was observed that students who approached their labs with academic diligence and regularity were able to derive more substantial benefits from ChatGPT in navigating these challenges.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","fontSize":"small"} -->\n<p style="text-align:right" class="has-small-font-size">Figure 1Generated using VEED.IO</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>ELD course includes 3-hour open book lab exam and students were\nallowed to use ChatGPT this year. To assess students and usefulness of the\nChatGPT, the exam questions were structured into three parts:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> 1. Writing Verilog\ncode for sequential circuits</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> 2. Integrate with\nexisting hardware blocks discussed in labs</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> 3. Test on hardware</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As expected, students heavily reliant on ChatGPT excelled in\nthe first part. However, these same students encountered substantial challenges\nin the subsequent two tasks, which involved integrating the code with existing\nhardware blocks and conducting hardware tests. This observation underscores the\nlimitations of ChatGPT in addressing the complexities associated with the\nbroader aspects of hardware design and integration beyond code generation.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In the second half of the course, students were introduced\nto the Zynq SoC, a fusion of processor and FPGA. This marked a point where ChatGPT\nencountered its most significant challenges. The primary objective of this\nsegment was to evaluate whether a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) operation was\nmore efficient in processor or FPGA. While ChatGPT proficiently generated C/C++\ncode for the processor, it struggled considerably in designing the FPGA\ncircuit, highlighting its limitations in system design capabilities. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":697,"mediaType":"image"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Picture2.png" alt="" class="wp-image-697"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","fontSize":"regular"} -->\n<p class="has-regular-font-size">In the last few months, there has been a proliferation of purpose-built Generative Pre-Trained Transformers (GPTs, such as RTLLM) that facilitate the configuration of hardware using generated Verilog files, making system design easier. The launch of ChatGPT-4 has further fuelled optimism that AI is swiftly advancing in this domain. While AI tools like ChatGPT contribute valuable assistance, the intricate nature of hardware design, especially the need for nuanced decision-making and understanding of SoC design flow in various VLSI tools, makes human involvement, aka natural intelligence, critical. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In summary, we advocate for the use of AI-based tools like ChatGPT in hardware courses, with the caveat that students possessing natural intelligence understand its limitations and advantages.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>* We employed ChatGPT to enhance this article.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","fontSize":"small"} -->\n<p style="text-align:right" class="has-small-font-size">A blog by:<br><br> Kunal Sharma (B.Tech. EVE)<br> Annika Sinha (B.Tech. EVE)<br> Nishita Bharat Lohana (B.Tech. 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Computer engineering and\nhumanities fields have particularly experienced notable challenges due to\nChatGPT, leading to some universities imposing bans on its use by students.\nThis blog delves into exciting insights on the effectiveness of ChatGPT for\nhardware courses in the VLSI domain. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In August-November 2023, Indraprastha Institute of\nInformation Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi) offered the ECE270: Embedded Logic\nDesign (ELD) course to approximately 120 second-year undergraduate students.\nThis course specifically focuses on the design of digital hardware circuits and\nembedded systems on a system-on-chip (SoC). Like other programming courses, ELD\nincludes weekly hardware labs programmed using Verilog, a hardware description\nlanguage (HDL) and C/C++. This year, students could utilize ChatGPT in lab\nhomework and exams. The subsequent discussion sheds light on the students''\nexperiences regarding the efficacy of ChatGPT in the context of hardware labs.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>ChatGPT proved exceptionally valuable for generating Verilog\nand C/C++ code for a given requirement. In numerous instances, the produced\ncodes exhibited efficiency suitable for hardware implementation, allowing\nstudents to streamline their search time. Moreover, ChatGPT demonstrated its\nversatility by crafting test benches, which is crucial for testing circuit\nfunctionality through simulations. Many students leveraged ChatGPT to deepen\ntheir understanding of various Verilog concepts and existing codes, finding it\na practical companion that provided comprehensive explanations. As a result,\nChatGPT minimized reliance on Teaching Assistants and functioned as a readily\navailable 24x7 assistant throughout the learning process.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":696,"align":"right"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Picture1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-696"/><figcaption>Fig 1 Generated using VEED.IO</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In contrast to software programming, which predominantly revolves around writing code, hardware labs encompass a broader scope beyond coding. With that, the true challenge for ChatGPT arises, especially with a system design that entails multiple hardware blocks and algorithm-to-architecture mapping on the hardware platform. This needs a good understanding of VLSI tools, hardware platforms, and integration of multiple hardware blocks. For instance, while ChatGPT can readily generate Verilog code for a 3-bit full adder, it encounters difficulties when tasked with writing code for implementing a 3-bit full adder operating at 1 Hz. This challenge arises due to the necessity for integrating multiple hardware blocks. Therefore, the complexity of system design on hardware platforms requires the augmentation of AI with the natural intelligence of humans. It was observed that students who approached their labs with academic diligence and regularity were able to derive more substantial benefits from ChatGPT in navigating these challenges.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>ELD course includes 3-hour open book lab exam and students were\nallowed to use ChatGPT this year. To assess students and usefulness of the\nChatGPT, the exam questions were structured into three parts:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> 1. Writing Verilog\ncode for sequential circuits</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> 2. Integrate with\nexisting hardware blocks discussed in labs</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> 3. Test on hardware</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As expected, students heavily reliant on ChatGPT excelled in\nthe first part. However, these same students encountered substantial challenges\nin the subsequent two tasks, which involved integrating the code with existing\nhardware blocks and conducting hardware tests. This observation underscores the\nlimitations of ChatGPT in addressing the complexities associated with the\nbroader aspects of hardware design and integration beyond code generation.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In the second half of the course, students were introduced\nto the Zynq SoC, a fusion of processor and FPGA. This marked a point where ChatGPT\nencountered its most significant challenges. The primary objective of this\nsegment was to evaluate whether a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) operation was\nmore efficient in processor or FPGA. While ChatGPT proficiently generated C/C++\ncode for the processor, it struggled considerably in designing the FPGA\ncircuit, highlighting its limitations in system design capabilities. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":697,"mediaType":"image"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Picture2.png" alt="" class="wp-image-697"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","fontSize":"regular"} -->\n<p class="has-regular-font-size">In the last few months, there has been a proliferation of purpose-built Generative Pre-Trained Transformers (GPTs, such as RTLLM) that facilitate the configuration of hardware using generated Verilog files, making system design easier. The launch of ChatGPT-4 has further fuelled optimism that AI is swiftly advancing in this domain. While AI tools like ChatGPT contribute valuable assistance, the intricate nature of hardware design, especially the need for nuanced decision-making and understanding of SoC design flow in various VLSI tools, makes human involvement, aka natural intelligence, critical. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In summary, we advocate for the use of AI-based tools like ChatGPT in hardware courses, with the caveat that students possessing natural intelligence understand its limitations and advantages.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>* We employed ChatGPT to enhance this article.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","fontSize":"small"} -->\n<p style="text-align:right" class="has-small-font-size">A blog by:<br><br> Kunal Sharma (B.Tech. EVE)<br> Annika Sinha (B.Tech. EVE)<br> Nishita Bharat Lohana (B.Tech. ECE)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'ChatGPT for Hardware: Is Artificial Intelligence an Answer?', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '695-revision-v1', '', '', '2024-01-02 11:28:31', '2024-01-02 05:58:31', '', 695, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/695-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (704, 1, '2024-01-02 11:31:11', '2024-01-02 06:01:11', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The evolution of Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer\n(ChatGPT), an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, has profoundly influenced\nour communication, learning, and exploration of the unknown. Numerous studies\nand news articles have discussed the repercussions of ChatGPT on the efficacy\nof academic take-home assignments and projects. Computer engineering and\nhumanities fields have particularly experienced notable challenges due to\nChatGPT, leading to some universities imposing bans on its use by students.\nThis blog delves into exciting insights on the effectiveness of ChatGPT for\nhardware courses in the VLSI domain. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In August-November 2023, Indraprastha Institute of\nInformation Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi) offered the ECE270: Embedded Logic\nDesign (ELD) course to approximately 120 second-year undergraduate students.\nThis course specifically focuses on the design of digital hardware circuits and\nembedded systems on a system-on-chip (SoC). Like other programming courses, ELD\nincludes weekly hardware labs programmed using Verilog, a hardware description\nlanguage (HDL) and C/C++. This year, students could utilize ChatGPT in lab\nhomework and exams. The subsequent discussion sheds light on the students''\nexperiences regarding the efficacy of ChatGPT in the context of hardware labs.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>ChatGPT proved exceptionally valuable for generating Verilog\nand C/C++ code for a given requirement. In numerous instances, the produced\ncodes exhibited efficiency suitable for hardware implementation, allowing\nstudents to streamline their search time. Moreover, ChatGPT demonstrated its\nversatility by crafting test benches, which is crucial for testing circuit\nfunctionality through simulations. Many students leveraged ChatGPT to deepen\ntheir understanding of various Verilog concepts and existing codes, finding it\na practical companion that provided comprehensive explanations. As a result,\nChatGPT minimized reliance on Teaching Assistants and functioned as a readily\navailable 24x7 assistant throughout the learning process.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":696,"align":"right"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Picture1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-696"/><figcaption>Fig 1 Generated using VEED.IO</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In contrast to software programming, which predominantly revolves around writing code, hardware labs encompass a broader scope beyond coding. With that, the true challenge for ChatGPT arises, especially with a system design that entails multiple hardware blocks and algorithm-to-architecture mapping on the hardware platform. This needs a good understanding of VLSI tools, hardware platforms, and integration of multiple hardware blocks. For instance, while ChatGPT can readily generate Verilog code for a 3-bit full adder, it encounters difficulties when tasked with writing code for implementing a 3-bit full adder operating at 1 Hz. This challenge arises due to the necessity for integrating multiple hardware blocks. Therefore, the complexity of system design on hardware platforms requires the augmentation of AI with the natural intelligence of humans. It was observed that students who approached their labs with academic diligence and regularity were able to derive more substantial benefits from ChatGPT in navigating these challenges.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>ELD course includes 3-hour open book lab exam and students were\nallowed to use ChatGPT this year. To assess students and usefulness of the\nChatGPT, the exam questions were structured into three parts:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> 1. Writing Verilog\ncode for sequential circuits</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> 2. Integrate with\nexisting hardware blocks discussed in labs</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> 3. Test on hardware</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As expected, students heavily reliant on ChatGPT excelled in\nthe first part. However, these same students encountered substantial challenges\nin the subsequent two tasks, which involved integrating the code with existing\nhardware blocks and conducting hardware tests. This observation underscores the\nlimitations of ChatGPT in addressing the complexities associated with the\nbroader aspects of hardware design and integration beyond code generation.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In the second half of the course, students were introduced\nto the Zynq SoC, a fusion of processor and FPGA. This marked a point where ChatGPT\nencountered its most significant challenges. The primary objective of this\nsegment was to evaluate whether a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) operation was\nmore efficient in processor or FPGA. While ChatGPT proficiently generated C/C++\ncode for the processor, it struggled considerably in designing the FPGA\ncircuit, highlighting its limitations in system design capabilities. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":697,"align":"left"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Picture2.png" alt="" class="wp-image-697"/><figcaption>Fig 2 Source https://imgflip.com/i/7uxwz3</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In the last few months, there has been a proliferation of purpose-built Generative Pre-Trained Transformers (GPTs, such as RTLLM) that facilitate the configuration of hardware using generated Verilog files, making system design easier. The launch of ChatGPT-4 has further fuelled optimism that AI is swiftly advancing in this domain. While AI tools like ChatGPT contribute valuable assistance, the intricate nature of hardware design, especially the need for nuanced decision-making and understanding of SoC design flow in various VLSI tools, makes human involvement, aka natural intelligence, critical. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In summary, we advocate for the use of AI-based tools like ChatGPT in hardware courses, with the caveat that students possessing natural intelligence understand its limitations and advantages.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>* We employed ChatGPT to enhance this article.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","fontSize":"small"} -->\n<p style="text-align:right" class="has-small-font-size">A blog by:<br><br> Kunal Sharma (B.Tech. EVE)<br> Annika Sinha (B.Tech. EVE)<br> Nishita Bharat Lohana (B.Tech. ECE)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'ChatGPT for Hardware: Is Artificial Intelligence an Answer?', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '695-revision-v1', '', '', '2024-01-02 11:31:11', '2024-01-02 06:01:11', '', 695, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/695-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (705, 1, '2024-01-02 11:32:32', '2024-01-02 06:02:32', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The evolution of Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer\n(ChatGPT), an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, has profoundly influenced\nour communication, learning, and exploration of the unknown. Numerous studies\nand news articles have discussed the repercussions of ChatGPT on the efficacy\nof academic take-home assignments and projects. Computer engineering and\nhumanities fields have particularly experienced notable challenges due to\nChatGPT, leading to some universities imposing bans on its use by students.\nThis blog delves into exciting insights on the effectiveness of ChatGPT for\nhardware courses in the VLSI domain. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In August-November 2023, Indraprastha Institute of\nInformation Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi) offered the ECE270: Embedded Logic\nDesign (ELD) course to approximately 120 second-year undergraduate students.\nThis course specifically focuses on the design of digital hardware circuits and\nembedded systems on a system-on-chip (SoC). Like other programming courses, ELD\nincludes weekly hardware labs programmed using Verilog, a hardware description\nlanguage (HDL) and C/C++. This year, students could utilize ChatGPT in lab\nhomework and exams. The subsequent discussion sheds light on the students''\nexperiences regarding the efficacy of ChatGPT in the context of hardware labs.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>ChatGPT proved exceptionally valuable for generating Verilog\nand C/C++ code for a given requirement. In numerous instances, the produced\ncodes exhibited efficiency suitable for hardware implementation, allowing\nstudents to streamline their search time. Moreover, ChatGPT demonstrated its\nversatility by crafting test benches, which is crucial for testing circuit\nfunctionality through simulations. Many students leveraged ChatGPT to deepen\ntheir understanding of various Verilog concepts and existing codes, finding it\na practical companion that provided comprehensive explanations. As a result,\nChatGPT minimized reliance on Teaching Assistants and functioned as a readily\navailable 24x7 assistant throughout the learning process.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":696,"align":"right"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Picture1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-696"/><figcaption>Fig 1 Generated using VEED.IO</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In contrast to software programming, which predominantly revolves around writing code, hardware labs encompass a broader scope beyond coding. With that, the true challenge for ChatGPT arises, especially with a system design that entails multiple hardware blocks and algorithm-to-architecture mapping on the hardware platform. This needs a good understanding of VLSI tools, hardware platforms, and integration of multiple hardware blocks. For instance, while ChatGPT can readily generate Verilog code for a 3-bit full adder, it encounters difficulties when tasked with writing code for implementing a 3-bit full adder operating at 1 Hz. This challenge arises due to the necessity for integrating multiple hardware blocks. Therefore, the complexity of system design on hardware platforms requires the augmentation of AI with the natural intelligence of humans. It was observed that students who approached their labs with academic diligence and regularity were able to derive more substantial benefits from ChatGPT in navigating these challenges.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>ELD course includes 3-hour open book lab exam and students were\nallowed to use ChatGPT this year. To assess students and usefulness of the\nChatGPT, the exam questions were structured into three parts:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> 1. Writing Verilog\ncode for sequential circuits</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> 2. Integrate with\nexisting hardware blocks discussed in labs</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> 3. Test on hardware</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As expected, students heavily reliant on ChatGPT excelled in\nthe first part. However, these same students encountered substantial challenges\nin the subsequent two tasks, which involved integrating the code with existing\nhardware blocks and conducting hardware tests. This observation underscores the\nlimitations of ChatGPT in addressing the complexities associated with the\nbroader aspects of hardware design and integration beyond code generation.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In the second half of the course, students were introduced\nto the Zynq SoC, a fusion of processor and FPGA. This marked a point where ChatGPT\nencountered its most significant challenges. The primary objective of this\nsegment was to evaluate whether a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) operation was\nmore efficient in processor or FPGA. While ChatGPT proficiently generated C/C++\ncode for the processor, it struggled considerably in designing the FPGA\ncircuit, highlighting its limitations in system design capabilities. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {"id":697,"align":"left"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Picture2.png" alt="" class="wp-image-697"/><figcaption>Fig 2 Source https://imgflip.com/i/7uxwz3</figcaption></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In the last few months, there has been a proliferation of purpose-built Generative Pre-Trained Transformers (GPTs, such as RTLLM) that facilitate the configuration of hardware using generated Verilog files, making system design easier. The launch of ChatGPT-4 has further fuelled optimism that AI is swiftly advancing in this domain. While AI tools like ChatGPT contribute valuable assistance, the intricate nature of hardware design, especially the need for nuanced decision-making and understanding of SoC design flow in various VLSI tools, makes human involvement, aka natural intelligence, critical. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In summary, we advocate for the use of AI-based tools like ChatGPT in hardware courses, with the caveat that students possessing natural intelligence understand its limitations and advantages.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>* We employed ChatGPT to enhance this article.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","fontSize":"small"} -->\n<p style="text-align:right" class="has-small-font-size">A blog by IIITD Students from Batch of 2022:<br><br> Kunal Sharma (B.Tech. EVE)<br> Annika Sinha (B.Tech. EVE)<br> Nishita Bharat Lohana (B.Tech. ECE)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'ChatGPT for Hardware: Is Artificial Intelligence an Answer?', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '695-revision-v1', '', '', '2024-01-02 11:32:32', '2024-01-02 06:02:32', '', 695, 'https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/695-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0), (750, 1, '2024-01-09 08:47:38', '2024-01-09 03:17:38', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It was a chilly Monday morning in Himachal. I sat outside an Operation Theatre, at a 3-hr drive from my house in Bir, on no sleep, waiting to get an update on my friend who broke his foot in a freak accident in the middle of the night. Let me tell you one thing, if you plan to live in Himachal, make sure you’re doubled up on your health insurance and have a chopper on call to take you to a sane hospital because you ain’t getting any here.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I sat there purposelessly, frantically glancing up at any medical staff coming out of the OT, like I am on an Indian Telly Soap. My mind was racing, hosting an extempore on pretty much every topic under the sun. I remembered an interesting call I got, just before my friend had decided to break his foot. It had left me with a strange feeling I didn''t quite process then, so now was a good time.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I was asked to pen this piece down for the graduating batch of IIIT-Delhi, Batch of 2021. Another batch graduated in lockdown. It struck me then. A dainty calendar with a picture of Tulips, issued by Bharat Petroleum hung on the hospital wall opposite me. The date was 7th June 2021, a complete year had passed since I finished college.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It was strange, surreal that it had just been a year. The circumstances of my graduation were a bit better than those of the 2021-batch ones, something the batch of 2020 could not have thought of when we were graduating. Not receiving a formal farewell was nothing short of the end of the world for us. We made extensive plans with our Admin about how we’d like a photo-op (no-ifs) when we attended the convocation with the Batch of 2021. Hilarious. Like Harry Potter, we assumed we<br>were the only chosen ones.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I remembered my convocation day pretty well. Though the actual event of graduation was the least memorable part of it.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":751,"mediaType":"image"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_8623-683x1024.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-751"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","fontSize":"regular"} -->\n<p class="has-regular-font-size">It was in the last week of September, time of the glorious cabbage-harvest season in the upper Himalayas. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I was trekking up to the remote village of Rajgundha with a bunch of friends. As soon as I got my signal back, my phone chimed, it was a screenshot from a friend. A picture of me from the youtube telecast of my graduation scheduled for that morning, which I had forgotten completely about.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I was still drenched from the storm I earlier got caught in. We had just hiked up a steep, gush incline, slippery enough to make a herd of cows in front of us slip, falling right back on us and had barely been able to make it out of it. I smiled at the picture, forwarded it to my mum and dad with a smiley and told them I had reached safely. And that was that. a rather uneventful end to 4 glorious years of Undergrad. My March-2020-self really didn’t have a chance at guessing what the future held.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>My life, like everybody else’s, went into slug mode the day lockdown 2020 was announced. Post which, the "milestones" kept coming, offering no real change. Kind of like the 18th b’day, we’re told all our life it’s a BIG deal, but when the day comes, it''s just that, a day. Things would have been different in a non-covid world with a farewell, high-tea, IFAP, scribble day. I often ponder though, if these are just ''Institutions'' in place to exert the importance of other institutions, making them grand & complete. Much like a bow pasted on a bouquet, useless in function, yet a bouquet is considered incomplete without it. Maybe because it hides the chaos of the ribbons underneath holding the stems together.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I could never tell if that''s what the empty feeling was, an incompleteness caused by the absence of a bow (read: parties that make time fly). Like my mind cleared out some space in anticipation of the feeling of contentment that was supposed to come with graduation, but never quite arrived. A nurse appeared coming out of the OT breaking my chain of thoughts. I hoped she’d turn towards me. She didn’t. Instead she attended to a vase of drying flowers, changing the water in the vase in a futile attempt to save them. Everybody knows they need water, soil and sunlight, basic 4th class science. The thoughts resumed but the image of the flowers stuck.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I wondered why us humans, habitual of proper appearances and quick solutions, didn’t resort to fixing the flowers by painting over the faded colours of petals and tying sticks underneath the petals to hold them up still. My now gibberish-ing brain concluded that’s just stupid. Why, though? ( I now sounded to myself a lot like my therapist. He tends to do that everytime I tell him how I feel, ask a why and that’s it. Effective effortless therapy strategy incase you want some quick cash playing a shrink.)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Why would painting the flowers be stupid though ?<br><strong>Impermanence of the solution. Easy.</strong><br>Then why do we try to fix our life by painting it with the colours of expectations and framing it with societal standards. In the hope of an accepted existence? occasionally gratifying ourselves with things like a picture of us throwing a black cap in the air. This fix of ours is as stupid as I sounded talking about painting flowers. The flowers will fall under the pressure of the paint and ice-cream sticks that morphed its natural form. No?<br>Just like the flowers, what we need is a nourished interior no?<br>But how.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The empty space, with time, got filled up with self doubt, instability, lack of passion? All normal, confusing, but also very important because they’re like the clutch-to-the gears-of-our-life. Without them we won’t change our pace (faster, slower whatever the need be). these emotions are indications, Similar in function to the wilting of a flower.<br>What nurtures us? Our circumstance. And what leads us to our circumstance? Our decisions.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>My one such decision was staying back in Bir, when I originally intended to visit the hamlet for just a couple of weeks in September 2020. I wrote this in August 2021. With a paragliding pilot license in my hand (something I did to address my fear of heights and because I didn’t think I could do it), a house with a vip view of the rainbows of the beautiful Bir monsoons, a furry friend I love, and a place in the mountains to call my own.<br><br>The mountains and its inhabitants have taught me that life is perhaps nothing but a tapestry of the outcomes of our decisions, both small and big. You mess up and paint around it or coat the entire canvas with a fresh colour and start again, my favorite usually is getting a new canvas, of course. <br>So as to answer a few questions.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Why did I move to Himachal? to surrender to my decisions and bow out on my circumstances. I wanted to decide the minutest details for myself like what I’ll have for dinner to things as big as getting a house here or suspend myself in air, on a thin sheet of cloth.<br>What’s my life like here? As random as the above passage.<br>Am I happy ? When I decide to be.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>After a 3-hour wait, the doctor came out, and there my friend was, smiling, being dragged out in a wheelchair. 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I sat outside an Operation Theatre, at a 3-hr drive from my house in Bir, on no sleep, waiting to get an update on my friend who broke his foot in a freak accident in the middle of the night. Let me tell you one thing, if you plan to live in Himachal, make sure you’re doubled up on your health insurance and have a chopper on call to take you to a sane hospital because you ain’t getting any here.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I sat there purposelessly, frantically glancing up at any medical staff coming out of the OT, like I am on an Indian Telly Soap. My mind was racing, hosting an extempore on pretty much every topic under the sun. I remembered an interesting call I got, just before my friend had decided to break his foot. It had left me with a strange feeling I didn''t quite process then, so now was a good time.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I was asked to pen this piece down for the graduating batch of IIIT-Delhi, Batch of 2021. Another batch graduated in lockdown. It struck me then. A dainty calendar with a picture of Tulips, issued by Bharat Petroleum hung on the hospital wall opposite me. The date was 7th June 2021, a complete year had passed since I finished college.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It was strange, surreal that it had just been a year. The circumstances of my graduation were a bit better than those of the 2021-batch ones, something the batch of 2020 could not have thought of when we were graduating. Not receiving a formal farewell was nothing short of the end of the world for us. We made extensive plans with our Admin about how we’d like a photo-op (no-ifs) when we attended the convocation with the Batch of 2021. Hilarious. Like Harry Potter, we assumed we<br>were the only chosen ones.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I remembered my convocation day pretty well. Though the actual event of graduation was the least memorable part of it.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":751,"mediaType":"image"} -->\n<div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="https://blog.iiitd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_8623-683x1024.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-751"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"placeholder":"Content…","fontSize":"regular"} -->\n<p class="has-regular-font-size">It was in the last week of September, time of the glorious cabbage-harvest season in the upper Himalayas. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I was trekking up to the remote village of Rajgundha with a bunch of friends. As soon as I got my signal back, my phone chimed, it was a screenshot from a friend. A picture of me from the youtube telecast of my graduation scheduled for that morning, which I had forgotten completely about.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div>\n<!-- /wp:media-text -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I was still drenched from the storm I earlier got caught in. We had just hiked up a steep, gush incline, slippery enough to make a herd of cows in front of us slip, falling right back on us and had barely been able to make it out of it. I smiled at the picture, forwarded it to my mum and dad with a smiley and told them I had reached safely. And that was that. a rather uneventful end to 4 glorious years of Undergrad. My March-2020-self really didn’t have a chance at guessing what the future held.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>My life, like everybody else’s, went into slug mode the day lockdown 2020 was announced. Post which, the "milestones" kept coming, offering no real change. Kind of like the 18th b’day, we’re told all our life it’s a BIG deal, but when the day comes, it''s just that, a day. Things would have been different in a non-covid world with a farewell, high-tea, IFAP, scribble day. I often ponder though, if these are just ''Institutions'' in place to exert the importance of other institutions, making them grand & complete. Much like a bow pasted on a bouquet, useless in function, yet a bouquet is considered incomplete without it. Maybe because it hides the chaos of the ribbons underneath holding the stems together.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I could never tell if that''s what the empty feeling was, an incompleteness caused by the absence of a bow (read: parties that make time fly). Like my mind cleared out some space in anticipation of the feeling of contentment that was supposed to come with graduation, but never quite arrived. A nurse appeared coming out of the OT breaking my chain of thoughts. I hoped she’d turn towards me. She didn’t. Instead she attended to a vase of drying flowers, changing the water in the vase in a futile attempt to save them. Everybody knows they need water, soil and sunlight, basic 4th class science. The thoughts resumed but the image of the flowers stuck.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I wondered why us humans, habitual of proper appearances and quick solutions, didn’t resort to fixing the flowers by painting over the faded colours of petals and tying sticks underneath the petals to hold them up still. My now gibberish-ing brain concluded that’s just stupid. Why, though? ( I now sounded to myself a lot like my therapist. He tends to do that everytime I tell him how I feel, ask a why and that’s it. 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NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,AUTO_INCREMENT=1322; -- -- AUTO_INCREMENT for table `wp_posts` -- ALTER TABLE `wp_posts` MODIFY `ID` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,AUTO_INCREMENT=758; -- -- AUTO_INCREMENT for table `wp_termmeta` -- ALTER TABLE `wp_termmeta` MODIFY `meta_id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT; -- -- AUTO_INCREMENT for table `wp_terms` -- ALTER TABLE `wp_terms` MODIFY `term_id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,AUTO_INCREMENT=15; -- -- AUTO_INCREMENT for table `wp_term_taxonomy` -- ALTER TABLE `wp_term_taxonomy` MODIFY `term_taxonomy_id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,AUTO_INCREMENT=15; -- -- AUTO_INCREMENT for table `wp_usermeta` -- ALTER TABLE `wp_usermeta` MODIFY `umeta_id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,AUTO_INCREMENT=296; -- -- AUTO_INCREMENT for table `wp_users` -- ALTER TABLE `wp_users` MODIFY `ID` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,AUTO_INCREMENT=3; /*!40101 SET CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT 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