Week long faculty development programme concludes at Bhaderwah Campus.
BY ABID PAMPORI
Bhaderwah, November 11 : weeklong faculty development programme on REAL WORLD SCIENTIFIC AND NUMERIC COMPUTING USING DEEP LEARNING WITH PYTHON orgajised by department of Computer Science and IT, Bhaderwah Campus, the University of Jammu in collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology–Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) concludes here today at Lal Ded Auditorium Bhaderwah Campus.
The Department of Computer Science and IT, Bhaderwah Campus, University of Jammu signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)with iHUBDivyasampark, Indian Institute of Technology–Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) for fostering research & innovation towards product or technology development.
The MOU was signed in presence of the Prof. Umesh Rai, Vice-Chancellor, the University of Jammu by Prof. Arvind Jasrotia, Registrar, University of Jammu,and Dr. Manish Anand, CEO and Board Member of iHUBDivyasampark, IIT Roorkee. Prof. Umesh Rai appreciated the Head and faculty members of the Department of Computer Science and IT,Bhaderwah Campus,the University of Jammu for taking the initiative to establish strong linkages between academia, industry,Government, and International Organizations.
This workshop aims to make aware budding computer experts about real-world scientific and computing problems and to solve them by using deep learning.
Prof. Mansaf Alam, Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Jamia Milia Islamia, Dr. Yamuna Prasad, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Comp. Sc. & Engineering, IIT Jammu and Dr. Karan Nathwani, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Jammu delivered the lectures in these five days in the field of Data Science and Machine Learning.
An impressive Valedictory ceremony of workshop was conducted. The chief guest of the ceremony Prof. Vinod Sharma, Director of Ramnagar Campus, University of Jammu, in the presenceof the Guest of honor, Prof. Masaf Alam from Jamia Milia Islamia University. The Rector Bhaderwah Campus and Patron of the workshop, Prof. Rahul Gupta also congratulated the department of computer science and IT, Bhaderwah Campus, and the Indian Institute of Technology –Roorkee (IITRoorkee) for organizing such kind of workshop on the latest technology.
Addressing as the Chief Guest of the Valedictory Ceremony Prof. Vinod Sharma, pointed out the lack of awareness among the public about thelatest technologies which are used in the real world for solving scientific and numeric problems.
Adding to this he further said that this one-week faculty development program (FDP) on REAL WORLD SCIENTIFIC AND NUMERIC COMPUTING with a special focus on Python from Nov 7 to 11, 2022 will help to overcome those problems.
The Guest of honor of the FDP, Prof. Mansaf Alam said that Python is a general-purpose programming language that is becoming more and more popular for doing data science.
The co-convenor, Dr. Jatinder Manhas,Head ofthe department also addressed the inaugural and formally welcomed the esteemed guests. While addressing the audience he said, "The workshop on FDP will discuss issues relating to artificial intelligence, deep learning, and image analytics with particular emphasis on the emerging research paradigms in data science concerning its applications in various fields”.Toward the end of the event,
Dr. Abid Sarwar, assistant professor and the Organizing secretary of the programme presented a vote of thanks to the speakers, faculty, and the esteemed chief guest.He exclaimed that Teacher’s learning is a continuous process that promotes teachers’ teaching skills, master new knowledge, and develops new proficiency, which in turn, help improve students’ learning. He further said that only consistent and dedicated efforts can improve a teacher’s academic standards.
More than 60 participants (academic and research scholars) from different universities of the state and outside the state was attended this workshop.
On the occasion, Dr. Ashok Sharma, Dr. Neeraj Kumar, Mr. Ajay Lakhnotra, Mr. Arif Khateeb (Public Relations Officer), Ms. Bablu Sharma,Mr. Waseem Akram, Mr. Mohammad Avais, Dr. Umesh Chaudhary, Mr. Rachit Gupta, Ms. Priya Rani, Ms. Shallu Kotwal, Ms. Diksha Sambyal, and Ms. Ayushi Kotwal were also present