Shreyoshi Ghosh

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6 Days, 1000+ Offers

6 Days, 1000+ Offers

Times of India   Business Standard   India Today    CNBC TV18   Anandabazar IIT KGP has received 1000 job offers in a record 6 days. A total of 112 companies visited till December 6, 2018 with the 6th day ending with 1000+ offers. This included more than 250 PPOs. This has been the fastest 1000 till date, typically it takes a little more than a week. About 40% of the profiles offered are in IT-Software followed by 20% in core engineering, 15% each in analytics and e-Commerce and 10% in finance. "The dynamic content of the curriculum equipping the students with the necessary technical skill which is…
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Leading Cyber Security Education

Leading Cyber Security Education

Times of India     The Week    Business Standard IIT Kharagpur has been adjudged the winner of the DSCI Excellence Award 2018 for Cyber Security Education by NASSCOM's Data Security Council of India (DSCI). The Institute, which has been making waves in the areas of cybersecurity, IoT security and associated areas in Artificial Intelligence, was awarded for its focused curricula and research work in cryptography, hardware security, cyber security, network security, that has helped create awareness among students. "Our research and coursework in cyber security, network security and cryptography are targeted towards delivering the necessary technologies and also creating leaders in research, industry and governance who would bring…
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Smart Diagnostics for Pulmonary Healthcare

Smart Diagnostics for Pulmonary Healthcare

Business Standard (IANS)   Business Standard (PTI)    Deccan Chronicle   Biospectrum     Outlook    Quint     Devdiscourse Researchers at the Dept. of Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering at IIT Kharagpur have developed a decision support system to diagnose malignant and other diseased tissues in the lungs. While one system can refer to CT scan images to detect lung nodules and test them for the possibility of malignancy, a second software can detect Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) patterns in chest HRCT images. “Biopsy especially in the lungs is a critical process, hence conducted only after initial medical analysis is done by expert…
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Japan Fever Hits IIT KGP Placement

Japan Fever Hits IIT KGP Placement

Times of India   Times Now   Economic Times   Indian Express    Financial Express    Business Standard   The Week   The Hindu BusinessLine    ABP News  First Post Hindi Analytics is again ruling the roost in the first three days of campus placement at IIT Kharagpur with 150+ Analytics profiles among the 769 offers made so far.  The recruiters include top global corporations such as Microsoft, Intel, Barclays, Master Card, Qualcomm, EXL etc. offering positions in their offices in India and abroad. The American analytics company EXL has made 35 offers so far followed by Intel and Barclays with 29 and 22 offers respectively;…
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Business Analytics Program Ranked 2nd in QS Asia

Business Analytics Program Ranked 2nd in QS Asia

Times of India  The Week   Jagran Josh  Business Standard   The Hindu BusinessLine   Outlook  Millenium Post The Postgraduate Diploma in Business Analytics (PGDBA) jointly offered by IIT Kharagpur, IIM  Calcutta and Indian Statistical Institute has been ranked as top in India and 2nd in Asia by QS in the category business analytics courses. The course has been ranked 14th globally in the category. PGDBA is a two-year full-time residential diploma programme aimed at creating business analytics professionals employable by leading Indian and foreign firms. This programme is designed for those who have an analytical mindset, are interested in tackling challenging business problems, and…
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The Healing Ozone

The Healing Ozone

India Today    India Blooms   Business Standard   Economic Times    Financial Express   FirstPost   Outlook   The Week   CanIndia  New Indian Express   Quint  NDTV   AsiaNet  Manorama  Eenadu  India TV   Jagran Josh  Hitavada  Dainik Bhaskar While the world is debating on climate change and global warming, researchers at IIT Kharagpur have given the environmental evangelists a reason to rejoice. A research team from the Center of Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Science (CORAL) at IIT Kharagpur have come up with new data confirming that the Antarctic Ozone Hole is on a healing path. The researchers have collected data from 1979 to 2017, which shows though there was a loss…
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Strategic Engagement with Auckland

Strategic Engagement with Auckland

Business Standard   Times of India   Yahoo News  Outlook   Times Now    Jagran Josh   NDTV Global News, NZ   Indian Weekender, NZ IIT Kharagpur and the University of Auckland signed an MoU to foster academic exchange and research collaboration, faculty exchange and visiting/adjunct appointments, and student mobility. The institutes will typically explore opportunities for research in Healthcare Technologies, New Materials, Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence. “This is the first strategic partnership of the University of Auckland with a higher educational institution in India. The SPARC program of India is of specific interest to us. There are several research areas which are of mutual interest…
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Alumnus Honours Former Faculty

Alumnus Honours Former Faculty

Who Was Prof. A S Davis? It was 1965 . . . few pairs of eyes rolled watching a boy being grabbed by his neck from his room D-231 at RK Hall, by a Professor and taken to the laboratory. The Professor was A S Davis from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT Kharagpur. The young boy was Vinod Gupta (B.Tech./AG/1967), now an entrepreneur and philanthropist. Recently, Vinod has donated USD 100,000 to his alma mater IIT Kharagpur to set up a Chair Professorship in the memory of Prof. Davis. The teacher who won’t let me miss my lessons…
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Social Media to Help Disaster Relief

Social Media to Help Disaster Relief

Economic Times   Gadget Now   India Today   Business Standard  Business Standard (PTI)   Devdiscourse  VC Circle Your posts on social media and internal messaging applications can now help victims receive relief during natural disasters. While you tweet about the situation of the victims in specific locations in English or Hindi, a computer program can read through your empathetic post and send the relevant information to nearby relief operators. A research team led by Dr. Saptarshi Ghosh from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kharagpur is developing the algorithms for this task. At the wake of the recent Kerala floods and other…
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Sports Finds Centre Stage at IIT KGP

Sports Finds Centre Stage at IIT KGP

Following the feat of winning medal at the State Athletics Championship, IIT Kharagpur has again ventured in the sports arena by roping in professional tennis player Saurav Sukul to train the students' tennis team at IIT KGP. About 12 students are training for 4 hours a day of whom several are first time players. The Institute has also built a synthetic court for practice. Sukul who has played professional tennis in the international circuit has recently started to train the students. "Though national and international level circuits require a substantial amount of time to be invested and regular training is…
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