Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Punjab Engineering College Chandigarh has inducted its one-week short-term course on “Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Computing for Robust Engineering Applications” for the faculty, doctorate and postgraduate students sponsored by TEQIP-III.
The course was inaugurated by the Director, PEC along with distinguished guests from academia and industry. Dr. Rajesh Bhatia, Director (ad-interim) PEC laid the importance of evolving technologies and how new technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, etc. 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 the CSE department for its successful efforts in improving the research and development skills of our young minds through such high-end courses.
Convener, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Dr. Poonam Saini welcomed the participants from across various engineering institutes like NITs, state and central universities and motivated them to be actively engaged in the sessions and to make the most of this invaluable opportunity. She also highlighted the unwavering support from Dr. Trilok Chand, Head CSE, to make this event a reality. She appreciated the efforts of coordinators, Dr. Kanu Goel, Dr. Mamta and Dr. Satnam Kaur for their effortless planning to curate this STC. She thanked Dr. Sanjay Batish, TEQIP Head for his support and collaboration with the workshop.
Dr. Kanu Goel, briefed about the course and Dr. Mamta shed light on sessions themes and respective experts to engage all the participants. The first session started with a keynote talk by Dr. Nitin from PEC Chandigarh on “Introduction to AI and its Applications” followed by another session on “Smart Solutions: AI Applications for Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring” by Dr. Urvashi Garg from Dr. B R Ambedkar NIT, Jalandhar. The evening session was dedicated to the setup of AI-based tools and platforms for programming and project development requirements in future sessions. The one-week STC has been planned to curate to the need of industry as well as research skills acquisition. For one-week coverage, there are speakers from India and abroad universities as well as reputed industries to make the participants equipped with state-of-the-art knowledge in the AI domain.
