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legacy
the SSN IEEE Student Branch

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CONTENTS
ADVISOR NOTES
ALUMNI NOTES
EVENT ARCHIVES
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
APRIL
MAY
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CONTENTS
JUNE
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER
NOVEMBER

DECEMBER
EDITORIAL TEAM
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advisor
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note
 DR. T. SREE SHARMILA
ISSUE 1 2022 IEEE STUDENT BRANCH COUNSELOR

Dear members of the IEEE Student Branch,

I would like to express my gratitude to the

Management of SSN Institutions, Dr. Kala
Vijayakumar, President, SSN Institutions, Dr. V.
E. Annamalai, Principal, SSNCE, Dr. S. Radha,
Vice Principal, SSNCE, Dr. C. Aravindan,
Professor and Head, Department of
Information Technology, SSNCE, for their
support and encouragement towards the
development of the SSN IEEE Student Branch.

I would also like to extend my appreciation to the faculty advisors of the IEEE
Communication Society (ComSoc) student branch chapter, Engineering in Medicine
and Biology Society (EMBS) student branch chapter, Computer Society (CS)
student branch chapter, Photonics Society (PS) student branch chapter, and
Women in Engineering Affinity Group (WIE-AG), as well as the Chair, Vice-Chair,
Secretary, Treasurer, and Executive Committee Members, for their constant support
in organizing activities for the benefit of the student members.

I am honoured to have served as the IEEE Student Branch Counselor since 2017
and to have had the opportunity to support your efforts in advancing engineering
and technology while serving society. I have witnessed firsthand the incredible
passion and dedication that every student member possesses. Your commitment to
excellence in your field and your desire to make a positive impact in the world is
truly remarkable.

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 DR. T. SREE SHARMILA
ISSUE 1 2022 IEEE STUDENT BRANCH COUNSELOR

I am grateful for the experiences and opportunities that I have had as the
counsellor, and I am proud of all that we have accomplished together, from
organizing workshops and seminars to participating in competitions and
conferences. The involvement, hard work, and dedication of all members have been
exceptional.

As we move forward, I look forward to continuing to work with each one of you to
achieve our student branch vision and mission and to make a positive difference in
the world. Let us continue to push the boundaries of what is possible and make a
lasting impact on society.
Thank you for your continued dedication and hard work, and for being a part of this
incredible IEEE Student Branch community.

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alumni
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 POOJA SRINIVASAN
ISSUE 1 IEEE COMSOC CHAIR '21 | IEEE SB TREASURER '21
2022

Pooja Srinivasan was a B.E

Electronics and Communication
Engineering student of batch
2018-2022. Currently, she is
pursuing her Master of Science in
Data Science at Columbia
University, US. Her research
interests include the areas of
Statistics, Fuzzy Logic, Natural
Language Processing, and
Machine Learning. She aims to
be a Data Scientist / ML
researcher in the product and
service industry to work on
realistic problem solving by designing experiments, interpreting data & inferring
conclusions, and eventually leading the data science team.

During her time at SSN, Pooja was an active member of IEEE and served as the chair
of the IEEE communications society chapter (2021–2022), treasurer of the IEEE
student chapter (2021–2022), and secretary of the IEEE communications society
chapter (2020–2021). Pooja was a notable member of our college's design club
(SDC) and had a zeal for design, especially graphic design. She eventually rose to
the position of Head of Design at SDC and Impulse, the departmental magazine for
ECE.

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 POOJA SRINIVASAN
ISSUE 1 IEEE COMSOC CHAIR '21 | IEEE SB TREASURER '21
2022

Along with having technical capabilities, Pooja mentions that "Membership and roles
held in student groups, particularly IEEE and events, honed my leadership and
communication skills." Also, she says, "All of these experiences have enhanced my
planning & organizing skills, interpersonal communication, decision-making
capabilities, and persuasion. With these skills, I was able to strike a balance between
academics, research, and extracurricular activities, which I am confident will also be
pivotal to my professional success.” Finally, Pooja expresses her strong belief in this
statement: "Being the leaders of these clubs trained me in a variety of ways, and I
learned who I really was. The leadership positions I took in college helped me
become confident and bold, which is essentially one of the reasons for my success
in UG.”

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 VARSHA
ISSUE 1 IEEE EMBS CHAIR '22 | IEEESB VICE CHAIR
2022

Dear SSN,

I’m Varsha, a grad student at

Duke University pursuing Medical
Technology Design. It's been an
eye-opening first semester here
and I'm continuing to learn and
grow with my peers in this 1.5 year
masters journey.

With that being said, I’ll always be

grateful to SSN for giving me an
unforgettable undergrad
experience. During my stint at

SSN, I was fortunate enough to be the Chairperson of IEEE EMBS and Vice-Chair of
IEEE. Creating an impact through community is a key part of who I am, and
motivated me to join the IEEE society. These student organisations helped me
explore and learn to stay connected, especially during the pandemic, through virtual
expert talks, invigorating webinars, and hackathons. It gave me the platform to be in
the forefront of event organisation and allowed me to lead the launch of the EMBS
Newsletter “The Bionik Times” for the first time in the BME Department!

The IEEE society and their multiple flagship events helped me develop the
strengths and skills that are driving my professional career even now. I'm grateful to
have been part of such a wonderful experience.

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 VARSHA
ISSUE 1 IEEE EMBS CHAIR '22 | IEEESB VICE CHAIR
2022

Every student should grab these exciting opportunities as they come along and
"Enjoy the process of learning and growing". Good luck to everyone!

With love,
(Alumni) Varsha

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 MICHAEL
ISSUE 1 IEEESB CHAIR '22
2022

Hi,
I'm Michael, an alumni of SSN
(2018-2022) IT Department. I'm
currently working as a Software
Developer in Lynk Logistics.
During my period at SSN, one of
the best things that happened to
me was being part of IEEE.
Initially I was an active volunteer
for IEEE events which was fun-
filled and informative.It also
helped me gain a lot of new
friendships with students from
other departments and

batches.During my final year, I was honoured with the role of 'Chair of IEEE'. This
gave me an amazing opportunity to learn and practice great qualities like leadership,
commitment, perseverance and much more.IEEE helped me explore areas other
than my academics which serves to help me till date. I will forever be grateful to SSN
for giving me a chance to be a part of IEEE.

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 AADHITYA B. KAILASH
ISSUE 1 IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY CHAIR 21
2022

I am Aadhithya B.Kailash, student

of SSN-IT 2022 batch. I was the
Chair of SSN IEEE Computer
Society Student Branch Chapter
for the year 2021-22. I have been
an active member in IEEE for 4
years. As a Chair, I have
organized various events,
workshops and contests for the
members and non-members of
IEEE.

I have volunteered for our

student branch’s flagship event,

Hack and Tackle, 24-hour hackathon. I also participated in the IEEE Xtreme
competitions and secured top ranks. This was a great opportunity for me to fine tune
my programming skills and to learn to work productively and effectively as a team.
Under Sree Sharmila ma’am’s guidance, I have organised various IEEE events such
as placement talks, coding contests, paper presentations, membership drives and
technical workshops on ML, data analytics & blockchain among many others.

I am also a recipient of the IEEE Richard E. Merwin scholarship for Fall 2021. It
consists of a $1000 USD cash grant and an opportunity to act as IEEE Computer
Society Regional Student Ambassador. This scholarship was awarded in recognition
of my exemplary involvement in student chapter activities, excellent academic

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 AADHITYA B. KAILASH
ISSUE 1 IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY CHAIR '21
2022

achievements, and extracurricular activities. Being the first student from SSN to win
this scholarship, I feel extremely proud to bring recognition for the SSN IEEE branch
at a global level. Our professors and college management supported me throughout
the process. I also got the opportunity to share my experience with REM scholarship
in the event organized by KnowYourIEEE team and to network with other scholars
from around the globe.

I believe that the various responsibilities that I handled have shaped me into a well-
rounded person. Finding workarounds for the challenges I faced have instilled in me
a spirit of optimism and resourcefulness. The student membership allows the
students to expand their network, share knowledge and to find ways to use their
skills for the benefit of the society. I encourage the students in our college to join
IEEE and to be a part of the world’s largest technical professional organization.

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 KEERTIVAAS
ISSUE 1 IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY VICEE CHAIR '21
2022

Hi, I am Keertivaas. I am currently

working as a Software Engineer at
PayPal. In my time at SSN, I have
been a part of IEEE and IEEE
Computer Society. In my final
year, I was the Vice Chair of SSN
IEEE Computer Society and the
coordinator of SSN IEEE Student
Branch Website for that year.

IEEE Experience has played a

very significant part in shaping
the person I am. I have always
enjoyed working with different

volunteers and the aspects of planning and coordinating a group to achieve a

common goal was a significant learning experience.

We got to know about the other IEEE student society chapters in our college during
the IEEE Induction meet in Oct 2021. I got to know the SSN EMBS AND Comsoc
chairs then and it was a networking experience for us. We also had an interaction
with the juniors about our clubs and chapters.

We had a placement talk with Mr MS Vignesh, Paypal. It was conducted to enable

students to understand about oncampus and offcampus opportunities. It was my
first time reading a welcome address and it gave a lot of confidence. We went on to

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 KEERTIVAAS
ISSUE 1 IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY VICEE CHAIR '21
2022

conduct Webinars, workshops, Contests and Paper presentation events as a part of

IEEECS which were a grand success. It was a wonderful team of individuals of Anni,
Afsheen, Karthik Raja, etc and led by Aadhithya. Sree Sharmila maam was our faculty
coordinator.

We also went ahead and conducted an event called Techathlon which was an IEEE
event. Each student chapter had a contest in it and the winner would be chosen
based on the cumulative score. It was an amazing networking experience to
coordinate with Michael, Varsha, Santhoshiya and other Ieeecs, Embs and Comsoc
volunteers.

I also had the opportunity of coordinating the SSN IEEE Website development.
Working alongside talented individuals like Karthik Raja and Hariharan gave an
awesome end result. We showcased the website and it was accepted well.

We were also given an awesome farewell when our tenure ended in May 2022. It
was indeed a bittersweet moment and the club was in safe hands.

Each event taught me something new and gave some learning experience. The
event conducting and speaking experience was something that is very tough to get
at a very young age and IEEE gave me that. The exposure I would go on to add onto
many things in my life.

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JANUARY
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SINGING CONTEST

The beginning of the

new year also marked
the beginning of a new
event for IEEE
Computer Society –
The Singing Contest.
This event was an
online one and got 10
entries out of which 3
winners were chosen.
This event led to a
good increase in the
number of followers for
IEEECS’s Instagram
page as well.
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SESSION ON “ACHIEVING PROBLEM -
SOLUTION FIT AND PRODUCT- MARKET FIT”

The second event of the The session highlighted

month was conducted the impact of innovation
by the IEEE in developing a market
Communications fit product and had a
Society. This was an participation of around
online event as well via 100 students.
Google meet focussing
on the theme
“Achieving Problem -
Solution Fit and
Product- Market Fit”.
The session was
handled by Ms. J.
A.Radhika, Artist and
Founder, Queen Bee
Crafts and Creative Arts,
Coimbatore.
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IEEE TECHATHLON

Techathlon was the

biggest event of the
month, which was
organized by IEEE
Student Branch. Teams
had to battle out each
other in not just 1, but 3
different technical
events. The three
events were Code
Sprint, Sketch it up and
Circuit Sync. The
winners were awarded
with cash prizes.
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WEBINAR ON STUDY ABROAD

The fourth event was a

webinar on Study Abroad by
Ms. Shabnam Banu from
Manya Education. The aim of
the talk was to guide
students on how they had to
plan for studying abroad.
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PAPER PRESENTATION

The final event of the month

was an online event on Paper
Presentation which had 15
teams participating in it. This
event was conducted by IEEE
Computer Society and was an
amazing opportunity for
students to learn in detail about
a few core subjects, which was a
part of the curriculum, and also
helped them to develop their
presentation skills.
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FEBRUARY
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PROCODE LONG CHALLENGE

February was kickstarted

with a Competitive
Programming contest called
ProCode Long Challenge
conducted by IEEE Student
Branch and IEEE Computer
Society. The event was
online, was conducted on
HackerRank and had 22
participants. Participants had
to solve three problems of
varying difficulty and the 3
winners were chosen based
on the points they had
scored.
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WEBINAR ON SPEECH RECOGNITION

The second event for the a Research scientist at MERL.

month was an online webinar The webinar focused on
on “Combining signal improving Automatic Speech
processing and deep Recognition(ASR) with front-
learning for Speech end processing like speech
Recognition” conducted by denoising, speech
IEEE Student Branch and dereverberation, source
IEEE Computer Society. The separation, and multi-source
webinar had 64 participants. localization.
The speaker was Dr. Aswin
Shanmugam,
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ONLINE SB SAC MEETING
& WEBINAR ON VIDEO PROCESSING

Further, the IEEE SB SAC

online meeting that was
attended by 20 SSN IEEE
members, had the objective
to plan the upcoming
calendar events. The fourth
event of the month was a
Webinar on Video capture
and processing. The webinar
was graced by Dr. V.
Masilamani, Professor,
IIITD&M and he focused on
the evaluation and metrics to
analyze the quality of the
video content.This event
which was attended by 65
participants, was conducted
by IEEE Student Branch and
IEEE Computer Society.
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REM SCHOLARSHIP
& SB SAC MEETING

The most impactful event of the

month was the felicitation of
Aadhithya B Kailash for winning
the Richard E. Merwin student
scholarship worth USD1000
from IEEE Computer Society.
Following this, there was a
webinar on Higher studies by
Mr. Sriram, Chief Instructor and
Admissions Associate,
Magoosh-Learner’s Cortex. The
talk was attended by 30
students and mainly focused on
“Graduate School Admissions As a closure to February,
Conclave ''. there was another IEEE SB
SAC Committee meeting,
that discussed the technical
and volunteering activities of
Hack and Tackle 4.0. This
meeting was attended by 17
IEEE student members.
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MARCH
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SB SAC COMMITTEE MEETING

The IEEE Student Branch,

SSNCE, brings to you the
latest edition of
our The month was kickstarted by an
newsletter for the month informative SB SAC Committee
of March, with updates on meeting, co-organized by SSN
the knowledge-enriching IEEE SB and IEEE Computer
events, activities and Society Student Branch Chapter,
programmes that took SSNCE, hosted online on the 5th
place. The IEEE Student of March, 2022. The meeting led
Branch gives students a to discussions about various
community of peers and a competitions and tasks published
connection to faculty and by AICrowd, a community that
industry professionals hosts challenges which tackle
who drive innovation in diverse problems in Artificial
countless technical fields. Intelligence with real-world
It gives students various impact.
opportunities to get
involved in technical
conferences, meetings,
special projects, and
outreach programs, giving
them a sense of
accomplishment and
developing them into
skillfully sound individuals.
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INAUGURAL SESSION OF PROCODE: OFFICIAL
CODING CLUB OF IT DEPT, SSNCE
The second event of the
month was the Inaugural
Session of ProCode: The
official Coding Club of the
IT Dept, SSNCE. The
inauguration took place on
8th March, 2022 on
Microsoft teams and was
conducted by the IEEE
Computer Society student
chapter, SSNCE. ProCode is
an intra-departmental club
and its goal is to pass on the
knowledge and experience
gained in various fields, to
those who wish to learn.
ProCode provides guidance
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and training on DSA for
placements, competitive
programming, ML, web and
app development. The plan
for the upcoming ProCode
sessions was discussed. An
exclusive questionnaire
session was conducted at
the end of the programme
to clear the doubts of the
students regarding DSA,
internships, placements,
and higher studies. The
meeting was attended by
the 1st & 2nd years students
of the IT department and
saw 25 active participants.
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XTREME 2021 - FELICITATION
& MAATHARE (மாதரே)

On 9th March, 2022, the

felicitation programme for
the top 3 winning teams of
IEEE Xtreme 2021, a global
challenge in which teams of
students compete in a 24-
hour time span against each
other to solve a set of
programming problems,
took place at the IT
Conference Hall. It was
On the very same day, SSN
attended by 18 students.
IEEE WIE (Women in
Engineering), SSNCE
conducted a special virtual
seminar titled "Maathare
(மாதரே)" for Women's Day.
The keynote addresses were
delivered on “The Mathematics
of Kolangal”, by Dr. R.
Srinivasan, Professor,
Department of IT, SSNCE and
“LeadX - Work-Life Balance” by
Dr. S. Radha, Vice-Principal &
Professor, Department of ECE,
SSNCE. The seminar witnessed
75 active participants.
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HACK & TACKLE 4.0
A 24-HOUR VIRTUAL HACKATHON

The Department of agriculture, social welfare,

Information Technology in cyber security, AR/VR,
association with the SSN computer vision, COVID and
IEEE Student Branch and agriculture. The Ideation
IEEE Computer Society phase received 110 problem
student chapter conducted statements from 40
a 24-Hour Hackathon, Hack colleges across India and a
& Tackle 4.0 during 10 -11 total of 41 teams consisting
March 2022 through virtual of 153 students from various
mode. It had two phases disciplines participated in
namely, Ideation phase the hackathon phase
(Phase I) and a 24-hour virtually. The top 8
Hackathon phase (Phase II). performances were
The hackathon welcomed shortlisted for the power
problem statements from all judging round and on
over India on 9 different evaluation based on the
tracks: environment, juries, the best 5 teams
healthcare, women’s safety, were awarded cash prizes.
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A COMPLETE GUIDANCE ON
OVERSEAS EDUCATION

On 19th March, 2022 a The final event of the month

webinar on “A complete was the Student industry
guidance on overseas interactive session,
organized by the student
education” was organized
body of SSN-IEEE-EMBS for
by the IEEE Computer
students and industrialists.
Society student chapter, The senior scientist at
SSNCE. The speakers were Philips Research, Mr. Meru
Ms. Spoorthi Sagar, Director, Patil, started off with his talk
Magoosh, and Ms. Pushpa about the various
Prasad, Senior Counselor, advancements in the
Magoosh. They gave medical industry and the
wonderful insights into the wide prospects of bio-
medical engineering and
education opportunities
research. The talk was
provided overseas and the
mainly focused on the
students found the talk very
application of AI, Ml, DL,
inspiring and informative. Medical Device Life cycle
and AR/VR and the future
prospectives of these
domains in the field of
biomedical engineering. He
also introduced the ongoing
projects that are currently
undertaken by various
companies across India and
the world. On the whole,
students found it as an
informative session and
were able to gain more
insight into the industry.
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APRIL
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HEALTHWARE 2.0

The IEEE Student Branch, AI & ML, point-of-care, and

SSNCE welcomed the medical app development.
month of April by Participants were given the
conducting the annual freedom to choose any
flagship event suitable problem statement
HEALTHWARE 2.0, a three- of their choice. With a
day online hackathon unique proposal and
conducted by SSN IEEE innovative solutions, cash
EMBS during 15th -17th April prizes, and pre-incubation
2022. The motive of the at IIT-Madras Healthcare
event was to test students’ Technology Innovation
creativity, skills, and Centre were arranged with
determination in all fields of certificates for all the
healthcare. The themes participants.
included wearable tech, IoT,
remote monitoring,
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NON-TECHNICAL EVENT – IEEE FANATICS

IEEE Computer Society

followed up with a non-
technical event IEEE
Fanatics on 21 April 2022.
The event took place in the
Mini Auditorium and was
attended by 113 students
forming 39 teams. The
event consisted of three
different unique rounds
based on the various topics,
enabling them to exhibit
their calibre and skill in
various fields. The event
was designed to promote
coordination, and teamwork
and aimed to improve the
team spirit between team
members. The entire event
was a fantastic success and
students had a very fun and
exciting experience.
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MAY
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AN ONLINE SESSION ON "HOW TO PLAN FOR
START-UP AND LEGAL & ETHICAL STEPS”

The SSN IEEE The talk covered various

Communications Society legal and ethical steps
Student Branch organized involved in starting a
an online session on "How business, with an emphasis
to plan for start-up and on ethical issues and legal
legal & ethical steps" on components. The session
May 5, 2022. The session also included a Q&A session
was conducted by Dr. K to answer any questions the
Indhumathi, Associate participants had. The goal
Professor at Saveetha was to provide a brief
Engineering College in introduction to the process
Chennai. of converting innovation
into a start-up and the
necessary steps to take.
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CRYPTIC CHASE

The IEEE Computer Society

Student Branch and SSN
College of Engineering
organized an online tech- The participants were
based Cryptic Hunt called expected to use their
"Cryptic Chase" on May 21, creativity and critical
2022. Participants were thinking skills to solve the
required to decipher the riddles. Smruthi Balaji, Trisha
given clues to progress to Balakrishnan, and Shreya
the next level. The event Sevelar of SNU 1st year AI
was conducted on MS DS and IoT won the first
Teams, and websites were prize in the event.
used to monitor the
participants' progress.
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A WEBINAR ON "CAREER OPPORTUNITIES IN
THE VLSI DOMAIN”

The IEEE Communications the VLSI domain and the

Society Student Branch of required skill sets such as
SSN College of Engineering hardware, EDA tools, SOC
organized a webinar titled verification, and foundry
"Career Opportunities in the tool development. The
VLSI Domain" on May 25, speaker also discussed
2022. Dr T V R Anantharaj various organizations that
from Western Digital students may approach for
Corporation in San Jose, their career. A brief
California, handled the question-and-answer
session. The webinar aimed session followed the
to inform students about presentation.
the different career
opportunities available in
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NON-TECHNICAL EVENT – SAYONARA
FAREWELL

The SSN IEEE computer The seniors shared their

society student branch experiences and anecdotes,
chapter organized a non- and motivational talks were
technical event called delivered on building a
"Sayonara Farewell" on 27 strong community
May 2022 to bid farewell to relationship. The event
their senior members. The ended with a cake-cutting
event was full of fun ceremony and a
activities, including a photoshoot.
murder mystery and
Pictionary, and certificates
and mementos were
distributed to the seniors by
Dr Sree Sharmila.
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JUNE
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AN ONLINE SESSION ON "HOW TO PLAN FOR
START-UP AND LEGAL & ETHICAL STEPS”

The former is an assistant

professor at SNU, Chennai
and the latter is a senior ML
engineer at Mad Street Den
/ blox AI. The choice of
speakers was made so as to
provide an approach to ML
from a research as well as
an industry perspective. As
the session proceeded, the
The month of June brought
crowd of 40 participants
with it a wave of solemnity.
followed the evolution of
The end-semester
ML from its earliest days to
examinations of the even
the applications of ML/DL in
semester took a grip on the
the context of current world
campus, with everyone
affairs from both startups to
rushing to handle one exam
tech giants. The speakers
after another. In the midst of
also provided the students
this chaos, the IEEE
with pointers on how to
Computer Society held
model their own ML training.
MINDS, a webinar, an
avenue for the participants
to deep dive into ML.
Conducted on MS Teams,
the speakers of the event
were Dr. Ram Prasad
Krishnamoorthy and Mr.
Abhishek Pal.
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ONLINE SB SAC MEETING

August marked the beginning

of the academic year 2022-23.
In accordance with the fresh
start, an online meeting was
arranged to culminate ideas
from the Students Activities
Committee of the IEEE
Student Branch of SSN.
Twenty members joined their
heads to discuss and
construct a framework for the
activities of that year. The
outcome resulted in a solid
guideline for the technical and
non-technical events for the
upcoming year.
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MEJORAR – MOCK INTERVIEW

Kick-starting the events for

this year, we had IEEE
Computer Society’s
Mejorar- A Mock Interview.
With the impending
placement season of the
final years, the club took an
initiative to help their peers
feel more prepared. Drawing
on the first round of
interviews conducted by
most IT recruiters, the 175
participants took an
aptitude test and a coding
test on the Unstop platform.
All the participants found
the experience very
enriching and helpful in
pinning down their rank with
respect to the others.
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ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND START-UP
CHALLENGES WEBINAR

IEEE ComSoc followed up

with their online webinar on
Assistive technology and
start-up challenges. Dr. M.
Balakrishnan, the speaker,
is a professor of dept of
CSE at IIT, Delhi. His
ventures in the field of
entrepreneurship were no
walk in the park, yet the
results bore fruits that
would be forever
appreciated by the visually
challenged. The walking aid
with obstacle avoidance
and the 3D printed braille
textbook, both his success
stories, instilled a great
sense of inspiration in the
audience.
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IEEE CS SB CHAPTER MEETING

The mock interview was

followed by a meeting with
all the office bearers of the
IEEE Computer Society SSN
Student Branch. This
informal session was to
address the new members
of the committee and keep
them in the know about
IEEE membership and other
IEEE benefits such as
Richard E. Merwin Student
Scholarship. As a natural
flow of events, a
brainstorming session about
the upcoming events by the
club.
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WEBINAR ON VTOOLS REPORTING

The momentum carried

into September with an
informal session with
the IEEE Computer
Society on how to use
Vtools. This tool is now
regularly used to
update the event
activities on the IEEE
website for the rest of
the world to follow.
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PRO-TIPS

Right after, we had the

Pro-Tips Talk held by the
IEEE Computer Society.
The agenda was to cater
to the students who
wanted insider information
on cracking companies in
the Marquee section.
Software Development
Engineers from Google,
Mr. Murugappan Sekar
and Ms. Sneha Sridhar
were invited as speakers.
The speakers conveyed all
the key points for
placement preparation.
The session was highly
interactive with many
enthusiastic second, third
and fourth years eagerly
shooting their questions.
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CIRCUITIES

TESLA was an offline

marathon of tech & non-tech
events conducted by the
Dept. of ECE that took the
college by storm. IEEE
ComSoc conducted the
event Circuities. It was an
electronics-based
competition. 136 students
went in and two teams
emerged as the winners on
the other the two rounds of
circuit-based MCQs and
hands-on circuit designing
on Falstad. The competition
was fierce and provided the
perfect avenue for the
students to apply their
course materials.
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IEEEXTREME AWARENESS DRIVE

The month of October

began with an awareness
drive for the IEEEXtreme
coding competition. The
event was held online via MS
teams. The main goal of the
event was to raise awareness
about the IEEEXtreme
coding content. Joseph
Amirtharaj, a former
IEEEXtreme participant, who
ranked first on the national
level shared his experience
and also gave pointers on
what could have been done
better. Afterward,
participants took part in a
Q&A session.
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DISTINGUISHED VISITOR PROGRAM ON “A 7-
LEVEL HOME AUTOMATION SYSTEM”

The distinguished visitor . The program was an eye-

program on "A 7-level smart opener for the students who
home system" was were interested in learning
organized by the about the latest
Department of Information
advancements in home
Technology, SSN IEEE
automation technology. A quiz
Student Branch, IEEE
was conducted by Mr. H. R.
Computer Society Student
Branch Chapter in Mohan, Vice-Chair, IEEE
association with IEEE Computer Society, Madras
Computer Society, Madras Chapter, who increased the
Chapter. The presentation excitement of the event by
by Mr. Mohamed Rawidean, adding cash prizes to each
a DVP speaker of IEEE question.
Computer Society having
over 20 years of experience
in the design, development,
and installation of smart
home systems, educated us
on its various levels
depending on complexity
and ease of use while
concurrently explaining the
obstacles faced by smart
home developers and
enthusiasts around the
world
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IEEE XTREME 16.0 -
A 24 HOUR PROGRAMMING COMPETITION

IEEEXtreme 16.0 (hybrid The competition drew

mode) is a 24-hour
programming competition
hosted by the Department
of Information Technology
in association with the SSN
IEEE Student Branch.
participants from around the
world, all eager to test their
coding skills and compete for
top honors. The intense
competition showcased the
best and brightest minds in
programming, demonstrating
the power of collaboration and
innovation in the world of
IEEEXtreme.
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IEEE DAY CELEBRATION 2022

IEEE Day is an annual event filled activities. The volunteers

of great significance for the planned various events such
SSN IEEE Student Branch as workshops on ReactJS, and
and its associated societies. Pictionary, seminars, treasure
The Student Branch
hunts, and awareness camps
Chapter, Communication
to celebrate IEEE Day with
Society SBC, EMBS SBC,
great enthusiasm.
Photonics Society SBC, and
Women in Engineering
Affinity Group collaborated
to organize a series of fun-
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TECHNICAL SEMINAR ON HIGHER STUDIES

The SSN IEEE student On November 4, 2022, a

branch and IEEE Computer workshop on ReactJS was also
Society Student Branch conducted as part of Invente
recently organized an 7.0, with an aim to provide
exciting event called
participants with hands-on
DataWhiz on November 3,
experience in building
2022. This event aimed to
dynamic web applications
educate participants on the
latest trends and using this popular JavaScript
advancements in the field library. Overall, these events
of data analytics. The guest were well-received by aspiring
speakers included Ms. professionals seeking to
Parvathavarthini Raman, a enhance their skills in the
Big Data/Machine Learning areas of datawhiz and react JS.
Engineer at Paypal, who
shared valuable insights
into the world of data
analysis.
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WORKSHOP ON AI & ML

December marked the

month of the Annual Tech
Fest of SSNCE, Invente 6.0.
On this occasion SSN
IEEE Computer Society
organized a workshop on AI
and ML with Mr.
Siddhardhan S, ML
Engineer at
GAVS Technologies as the
resource person. There was
a footfall of 350 attentive
and inquisitive
participants from various
colleges. Introductory
session included concepts
such as AI, ML and Deep
Learning which was
followed by a quiz in which
Top 3 scorers were
awarded. This informative
and
engaging session ended
with a Hands-On session
where participants were
given an opportunity to
work on a Deep Learning
use case – “Cat Vs Dog”
image classification.
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DATAWHIZ

The SSN IEEE Computer

Society Student Branch
Chapter organized an event
called DataWhiz as part
of the annual Tech Fest,
Invente 6.0, on December
2nd, 2022. Participants
were provided with
themes and data and were
required to use tools such
as PowerBI and Tableau to
create visually
appealing and informative
data visualizations. The
event was open to all
individuals interested in
design, data analytics, and
illustrative storytelling.
Students demonstrated
their skills in creating data
visualizations that
conveyed a story or
revealed interesting
patterns. Overall, the event
showcased
students' talents in
data visualization and
storytelling.
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HEXATHLON

The SSN IEEE In the first round, participants

Communication Society completed a 25-question MCQ
Student Branch Chapter test within 30 minutes. The
and AECE conducted second round involved
"HEXATHLON" implementing design-based
as part of INVENTE, a questions related to five
national-level tech domains, with scores awarded
symposium. The event for successful implementation.
comprised six domains, The final score was the sum of
including Electronic scores in both rounds, and the
Circuits, Control Systems, top two teams were declared
Digital System Design, winners and runners-up,
Internet of Things, Python, respectively.
and Circuit Theory. Thirty-
eight teams with 103
participants from various
colleges in Tamil Nadu took
part in the event, which had
two timed rounds.
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PAPER PRESENTATION

The SSN IEEE Ten teams were selected for

Communication Society the second round, where they
Student Branch Chapter presented their papers and
organized a "Paper were evaluated based on
Presentation" event on 2 content, presentation, novelty,
December 2022. A total of scope of work, and ability to
21 teams comprising 51 field questions. The final score
students participated in the was calculated based on these
event, which had two parameters.
evaluation rounds. In the
first round, participants
submitted their abstracts
by email, which were
evaluated by IEEE
COMSOC Committee
members.
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DATA UTOPIA
As part of Invente, the SSN
IEEE Communication
Society Student Branch
Chapter organized an event
called "Data Utopia". The
event had 7 teams
comprising 11 students from
different departments. The
event consisted of two
rounds that tested
participants' knowledge of
Statistics, Probability, Data
Analysis, and Machine
Learning.
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In the first round, participants
had to answer multiple-choice
questions within a time limit of
20 minutes. In round 2, teams
were given a starter notebook
and dataset to perform EDA
and find a model match. The
teams' scores were based on
the accuracy of the model,
quality of predictions, and
answers to certain questions
mentioned in the notebook.
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WEBINAR ON BEAUTIFUL SEQUENCE

The IEEE Women in The session commenced on

Engineering of Madras 17th November 2022 with a
Section jointly with SSN warm welcome to the
IEEE Student Branch attendees and dignitaries,
organized a webinar titled followed by an introduction to
"Beautiful Sequence - the session and its key
Kolam" with the aim to takeaways.
inspire people with the The speaker was introduced by
concepts and design of the Dr. T Sree Sharmila, Chair of
traditional art form. Dr. R IEEE WIE MAS, and a total of
Srinivasan, a professor at 60 participants benefited from
SSN College of the session.
Engineering, was the
guiding light of the webinar.
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WEBINAR ON HOW TO GENERATE AND
VALIDATE START-UP IDEAS

The IEEE Women In The webinar aimed to provide

Engineering of Madras
Section collaborated with
SSN IEEE Student Branch
to host a webinar on "How
to generate and validate
start-up ideas" on 21
December 2022. The
session was conducted by
Dr. N. Bhalaji, an Associate
Professor from the
Department of Information
Technology, SSN College of
Engineering.
attendees with insights on
various startup ideas and how
to validate them. The event was
attended by 45 participants
who
gained valuable knowledge
and insights. Overall, it was a
successful and informative
event.
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