One Week Faculty Development Programme On Data Sciences & Its Research Challenges
1st - 5th January, 2018
Mr. Vinod Kumar, Assistant Professor, IT Department , Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurgaon attended one-week Faculty Development Programme on “Data Sciences & Its Research Challenges” at Lingaya’s University, Faridabad, Haryana from 1st - 5th January 2018 organized by School of Computer Science Department (Lingaya’s University). A dedicated team of R&D Experts, professionals working in these specialized areas, academicians from reputed Industries / Institutes / Universities attended the program
The course was designed to impart advanced training to the in-service faculty members of Engineering Colleges and Universities all over India, to enhance their knowledge on latest technologies and to create awareness about recent trends in the field of data science. The objective of the programme was to discuss the basic and advanced topics of data science with practical approach and highlighted the scope of numerous researches on data science and challenges.
On 1st January 2018, Prof. Latha Banda (Course co-coordinator) inaugurated the FDP with his address to the dignitaries and the participants. Prof. Ari Rosenberg (Chief Guest from University of Wisconsin- Madison), Prof. Pichesvar Gadde (Chancellor from Lingaya’s University) were present during the inauguration ceremony. Ms. Meenu, briefed the course, training schedule and modules covered in FDP.
Mr. Suketu Nayak (CEO at GetWings Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad) started the session with the introduction of Cloud Computing and Azure. He also gave practical session on Azure App Services.
On 2nd January 2018, Mr. Suketu took session on Azure Traffic Manager, Load Balancer, Application Gateway and its security issues. In last session of the day, he gave practical knowledge on Azure Machine Learning.
On 3rd January 2018, Mr. Lalit from Lingaya’s University explained, how to write a good quality research paper. He also gave practical session on python language.
On 4th January 2018, Mr. Deepak, CEO, Sedulity and Technologies, Delhi delivered lecture on Big Data and Hadoop. He also gave an insight to his company and concluded his session with real life examples of big data.
On 5th January 2018, Ms. Susmita Samanta (Evalueserve Pvt. Ltd., Gurgaon) explained Patents and its Economic Importance. She also described rights procedure for Patent filing and drafting.
In the closing ceremony, valedictory session was headed by Prof. Latha. The dignitaries were presented a memento. The certificates were distributed by Prof. Pichesvar Gadde. The FDP was concluded with a vote of thanks by Ms. Meenu.
The programme provided a common platform to the research scholars and faculty members for discussing the current problems and scope in data science.