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IITaV
Newsletter
August 2016
Issue No. 15 |
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Message
from the IITaV President |
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Dear
IIT Alumni,
We have entered into 6th year since IITaV was incorporated as an
organisation of like minded IIT Alumni. The organisation has grown
steadily over these years through support of its members and tremendous
hard work by past and present Executive Committee.
Our activities are driven by IITaV’s key objectives and we remain
committed to enhance IIT brand equity in Australia through partnerships
with academic institutions, professional organisations, Industry and
the Government. I am pleased to report that Swinburne University of
Technology, Envision IT and The University of Melbourne are now our
Corporate Gold Members which is a testimony that IITaV is bringing
value to these partnerships.
IITaV provides a networking platform to IIT Alumni through regular
professional and social events. It is very encouraging to see that
these events are being attended by our members with their spouses in
increased numbers and the Executive Committee will ensure a better
experience for our members in our future networking events.
This year our “Annual Diwali Dinner” will be held on Sat 15th Oct.
Please hold the date and you will soon receive an invitation with
complete details. We would love to see you there with your family.
A Professional Networking Event is also being planned on Tue 25th Oct
in collaboration with Engineers Australia. I would encourage all the IITaV Alumni to attend this
event and become part of building IITaV brand with Engineers
Australia.
If you are not a member yet, I would like to invite you to join IITaV
and support the organisation in achieving its objectives. Membership
details can be found at IITaV website (iitav.org.au). Feel free to get
in touch with any member of the Executive Committee and discuss how you
can get involved and contribute in various initiatives being
implemented by the organisation this year.
Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the members
of Executive Committee and their families for their dedication and hard
work. Your efforts are much appreciated.
Ravi Singh
au.ravi.singh@gmail.com
Mob: 0401 216 422
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IITaV
is working busily on organising the following special events in October 2016.
- IITaV
Diwali Dinner on Saturday, 15th October 2016
- IITaV Special Feature Event
in Collaboration with Engineers Australia On Tuesday, 25th October
2016.
You
will see the invites soon in your inbox. Please
mark the dates in
your diary. We look
forward to your support and participation.
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Annual General Meeting 2016
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The
2016 Annual General Meeting (AGM) for IITaV was held on Saturday, 7th
May
2016, from 3:00 to 5:30 pm at ATC-Room
205, Swinburne University, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia 3122.
Twenty IITaV members attended the event.
Dr.
Raj Rajakumar, IITaV President for 2015-16, kicked off the
meeting. The Minutes of 2015 AGM was approved formally before Dr Raj
Rajakumar presented IITaV's annual report for 2015. He presented the
initiatives taken and the activities held during the year
2015-16.
He further thanked the 2015-16 Committee and noted the
increased attendance of IITaV Members in both Professional and Social
networking events. Treasurer, Dr. Rachana Kaudinya, presented the
Treasurer's report
for the year 2015. Reports of the AGM can be found here.
Following
the presentation of 2015-16 Annual and Treasurer's report, nominations
received for the 2016-17 Management Committee were tabled by Dr. Raj
Rajakumar. There was one nomination for each of the President, Vice
President, Treasurer and the Secretary positions and five nominations
for the five Committee Member positions. These were unanimously
approved as elected by the members. The elected members of the 2016-17
Management Committee are:
- President – Ravi Singh
- Vice President – Nikhil Kumar
- Treasurer – Rachana Kaudinya
- Secretary – Sridhar
Karuppasami
- Committee Member – Abaran Deep
- Committee Member - Abhay Sinha
- Committee Member – Ashok
Sharma
- Committee Member - Bala Kumble
- Committee Member – Dilip
Desai
More information on 2016-17 Management Committee can be found here.
IITaV
2016-17 President Ravi Singh took over the proceedings and
thanked
the past President, Dr. Raj Rajakumar, and the
2015-16 Committee Members Rakesh Saraf
and Vipin
Gaindhar for their contributions. He then honoured Dr. Raj Rajakumar
and Rakesh Saraf with a gift and IITaV's Certificate of Appreciation.
Vipin Gaindhar was unable to attend the AGM and the
Committee is looking forward to facilitate him in IITaV's upcoming
Social event.
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Vice
President Nikhil Kumar facilitated a brief discussion about the focus
areas of 2016-17. All participants provided their ideas,
which
the incoming Committee has collected, brainstormed and uses
it
as a template for scheduling the activities of IITaV this
year.
Many thanks for all vounteers and participants in making this AGM a
productive and successful one.
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"The Value of a Six: Dissecting a Cricketer’s Worth"
Prof Kayande,
Director, Centre for Business Analytics,
Melbourne Business School
29th June 2016
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With
T20 acutions around the
world fetching multi-million dollar contracts to cricket players for a
few weeks of play, many of us were curious on the strategies
used
by T20 franchises to win these auctions. Particularly, when a player
bought
with a multi-million dollar performing below par in comparison
to
a player bought for a bargain!!!
Prof
Kayande, from Melbourne
Business School,
showed us a glimpse
of
the strategies employed by these franchises, and the predictive models
using the players past performance data (which incidentally
is widely available). He
shared some key research results based on work done jointly
with Prof.
Stern,
the official custodian of Duckworth-Lewis-Stern
(DLS)
method
used
in rain curtailed cricket matches. The comparison between the results
of the predictive models and the opinion based approaches to the player
auctions was an eye-opener. ( Continue Reading)
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@Novotel,
Glen Waverley, 28th July 2016
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IITaV
recently had its July informal
networking event at Novotel, Glen Waverley. This is the first informal
networking event where partners of IITaV members were also invited to
attend. And it was equally reciprocated by our Members. Over 15
IITaV Members with their partners attended the gathering. A
late evening start and the venue location made it possible
for
many of the members to attend. It was nice to see the
networking going well into 9PM, which is a great endorsement that the
event was
well received by our Members.
IITaV President Ravi Singh and Rakesh Saraf (IITaV 2014-16 Committee
Member) discussed with the participants to
collect their thoughts for IITaV's upcoming Diwali event.
( More Photos)
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IITaV
members lend active guidance and support for Swinburne University’s
Industry related projects.
Dr Dilip Desai
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IITaV
Members would have seen a
recent email from IITaV (dated 12th July 2016) inviting them to express
interest
to participate in collaborative projects with our Gold Corporate
Member, Swinburne
University. The projects are part of Swinburne
University’s Master
of Professional Engineering course.
Sameer Babbar, Ajay Mehta, Rahu Tyagi, Rachana
Kaudinya, Ravi Singh and Dilip Desai from IITaV expressed
interest to participate in this
opportunity.
The course is an
initiative of Prof Ajay Kapoor (IITaV member) of Swinburne University.
It started in the week starting August 1. There are about 50+ students
in that course. They need to do a business related project over 12
weeks, and form groups of about 5 for each project. ( Continue Reading)
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Scaling
up of Million Solar Urja Lamp (SoUL) Programme from IIT
Bombay :
The completion of providing solar lamps to one million students in the
past two years, had led to the upscaling of this programme to
the
benefit of another 100 million students by the Governement of
India. The Programme started in 2014 has been
implemented by IIT Bombay with financial support from the Government,
Corporates and NGOs. (Read
More)
Pfizer and IIT Delhi Innovation
Program : IIT Delhi and Pfizer have signed a MoU to
create new intellectual properties (IP) and
promote
new business and innovations based on those IPs in the Healthcare
sector. One of these grants was awarded to Valetude Primus
Healthcare Pvt Ltd for their diagonostics method to detect
Typhoid
infection and the other award was granted to a wearable air
purification device designed by Standford India Biodesign 2015 fellows,
Debayan Saha and Shashi Rajan. (Read More)
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We
welcome Dr Pradeep Srivastava (IIT Delhi), Shuddhashil Dey (IIT
Kharagpur) and Vijay Susarla (IIT Madras) to our family of
IITaV members and take this
opportunity to thank all members for their continued participation in
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Swinburne University of
Technology is an Australian public university
based in Melbourne, Victoria. Swinburne operates five campuses in two
countries and has an enrolment of students across vocational,
undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Swinburne houses advanced labs such as Design for Ageing, Smart
Structure and Factory of Future labs. “ Being a corporate
member of IITAV, we benefit from collaborations and industry experts to
create a new forum for engineering students,” Professor
Ajay Kapoor, said. ( More)
Established
in 2002 in Melbourne, Envision
IT
develops software products for global markets. This includes
Standalone, Cloud based SaaS, Enterprise, Line of Business and mobile
applications.
Envision IT products are known for their ease of use, high
productivity, efficiency and reliability. Typically, our products offer
an ROI under 3 months. ( More)
The
University of Melbourne has had a
long standing involvement with India. During its formative years, The
University of Melbourne received high recognition when Lord Curzon, the
Viceroy of India (1899-1905), invited Professor Masson, Chair of
Chemistry at The University, to India to advise on the establishment of
the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. ( More)
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We
take this opportunity to thank everyone for their contributions.
To help us improve the newsletter, please send your feedback and
contributions (news, views and memories) for the next issue to
mail@iitav.org.au
Previous
editions of the newsletter are available here.
Members are also requested to update their profiles at our website.
Thank you.
IITaV Management Committee
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Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) are the premier institutes of
engineering education in India.
IITaV is the Alumni Association for IIT alumni in Victoria. |
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