Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Punjab Engineering College Chandigarh has inducted its one-week “DST-SERB sponsored high-end workshop (Karyashala) on Cryptocurrency and Blockchain: Fundamentals, Programming and Case Studies” for the doctorate and post graduate students under Accelerate Vigyan Scheme of Govt. of India.
The workshop was inaugurated by Director, PEC alongwith distinguished guest from academia and industry. Dr. Baldev Setia, Director PEC laid the importance of evolving technologies and how new technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, data science can be greatly beneficial for society as well. He highlighted that students can design cost-effective, safe and reliable solutions for many societal issues using such technologies. He congratulated CSE department for its successful efforts in improving the research and development skills of our young minds through such high-end workshops.
HOD, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Dr. Trilok Chand welcomed the participants from across various engineering institutes like NITs, IITs, universities and motivated them to be actively engaged in the sessions and to make the most of this invaluable opportunity. Dr. Poonam Saini, Coordinator of the workshop briefed about the workshop and shed light on sessions themes and respective experts to engage all the participants. The first session kickstarted with keynote talk by Dr. Raju Halder from IIT Patna on bitcoin and blockchain basics followed by another session dedicated to the set up of tools and platforms for programming and project development requirements in future sessions. The one-week workshop has been planned to curate to the need of industry as well as research skills acquisition. There will be experts from NITs, IITs and recognized industries to engage the participants and make them technology ready.
