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The following is the announcement for fund-raising lunch event at Bangalore on March 21, 2010. This appeal is being sent by IT-BHU Alumni Association to all alumni who wish to attend the event
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Invitation for ITBHU Alumni Lunch Meet in Bangalore on March 21, 2010
The Bangalore Chapter of IT-BHU Global Alumni Association is pleased to announce the next IT-BHU Alumni meet on Sunday, March 21st, 2010 at Bowring Institute, St Marks Rd, (Near M G Road) Bangalore. We invite you and your family to be a part of this gathering of proud IT-BHU alumni.
Where: Bowring Institute, St Marks Rd, (Near M G Road) Bangalore.
Google Map:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=112049271942844347657.0004773f487c128c8bf6f&ll=12.938356,77.586887&spn=0.014953,0.01929&z=16
Donation: Minimum Rs. 500 per person attending (contributions higher than Rs. 1000 strongly suggested). All proceeds go to IT-BHU Global Alumni Association (India). Donations are tax-exempt under Section 80G.
Key Attraction: Along with the regular update and cultural events, we would be setting up an Entrepreneur cell. We will announce the details and take your input in the meet.
RSVP: Please use the link to confirm your participation:
http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?inviteId=GWADVGGRNMDDUWRJFQED&unknownUser=true.
You may email Sumit at sumitkrdey@gmail.com or call at 9844725620 for anything related to the event.
We look forward for your suggestions and participation to make the event successful.
Alumni who are interested in specific networking opportunities (HR, and PR activities) kindly contact Sumit (+91 9844725620)
More details attached here.
Invitation IT-BHU Alumni meet Bangalore 21st March 2010.pptRegards:
Sumit Kumar Dey, Saurabh Chandra, Ajit Agarwal and the organizing team.
For ITBHU Global Alumni Association Bangalore Chapter
http://www.itbhuglobal.org/chapters/geo/bangalore
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Rakesh Pandey (Chemical 1977) has joined Raymonds to expand their retail business. Prior to that, he worked at Marico’s Kaya business. The Kaya business was for providing skincare products and herbal remedies for the beauty enhancement.
(Rakesh Pandey)
http://www.asiaretailcongress.com/Rakesh_Pandey.html
Raymond has the biggest retail network and is known for quality of its products and innovations. Raymond does India Proud to dress ‘The Complete Man’ with World’s First ‘Super 240s’ fabric.
Before this assignment Rakesh Pandey was the Chief Executive Officer of Kaya Ltd. since its inception in 2002. Kaya is a pioneering venture in the skin care space in the country. As CEO of Kaya, both for India and International, he aimed to bring effective and innovative skin solutions to the Indian consumer, backed by world class technology and service and also extended the Kaya brand to other innovative solutions for the consumer.
Rakesh has over 25 years of experience in India and Europe in the areas of Business Strategy, Business incubation, HR, Projects & Supply Chain, etc. This included stints at British Oxygen, UK and Hindustan Unilever Ltd.
Rakesh is B. Tech (Honours) in Chemical Engineering from IITBHU. He has attended Global Program on Management Development at University of Michigan (USA)
His interests lie in deploying innovation in business with a pioneering mindset and establishing new businesses. His management style is participative, open and informal with high emphasis on goal achievement and excellence.
He believes in a holistic balance between mind, body and soul, and is engaged in this balancing act by finding time for a wellness regime, playing squash, reading and traveling to new destinations.
Rakesh can be contacted at: rakesh.pandey@raymond.in
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http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/company-news/raymond-india/newsdetails.aspx?news_id=82268
Raymond to ramp up store countFebruary 11, 2010 (India)
Rakesh Pandey, President (retail and business development), Raymond Ltd, stated that over the next two years, they intend to enhance their retail business earnings by around 30-40 percent from the present earnings of Rs. 10 billion. For the purpose the company aims to establish more stores in smaller cities.
He released the information while talking to the press at the AIMA event and also added that the company earned a total income of Rs. 3.76 billion for the third quarter ended on December 31, whereas for the nine-month period it could reach Rs. 10.18 billion.
Raymond in its retail vertical encompasses, the ‘Raymond shop’ which is a premium retail store offering total clothing solutions for men, the ‘Brand Shop’ – an exclusive outlet for the firm’s nonaligned brands and ‘Be:Home’, a speciality multi-brand home retail chain for soft home furnishings and accessories.
To meet the objectives, the company is pacing up its retail expansion, particularly in smaller cities and also in the forthcoming two years, plans to add 300 new stores to the current 500 outlets, of which 80 percent are franchisees, Mr. Pandey informed.
He also announced that, they plan to start around 250 stores in tier II and tier III cities majority, which will adhere to the franchisee model, with an approximate store size between 1,000 and 1,500 sq. ft.
Fibre2fashion News Desk - India |
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http://www.asiatraveltips.com/news10/141-MakeMyTrip.shtml
MakeMyTrip has appointed Amit Somani as Chief Products Officer and Mukesh Singh has assumed the role of Senior Vice President (Technology Development).
(Amit Somani)
Amit Somani has joined MakeMyTrip as Chief Products Officer where he will head online products. He has more than fifteen years of experience, including working with IBM and Google. Amit is a graduate in Computer Science & Engineering from Institute of Technology, BHU and Masters in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin, Madison. In his previous role at Google, Amit led product management for various products like Google AdWords Keyword Recommendations, Mobile Products and Search, Consumer & Infrastructure.
As the Senior Vice President of Technology Development, Mukesh Singh will oversee the technological evolution of MakeMyTrip - one of the strongest IT based travel companies in the world. Mukesh has over 11 years of relevant experience, having worked with Zoesis, eGain Communications, Sumtotal System, Timeline Studios and Amazon. He holds a B. Tech degree in Computer Science & Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He also pursued a graduate level course on Interactive Virtual Environments, Synthetic Characters, Image Representation for Vision and Advanced Computer Graphics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts.
Mukesh was responsible for search, sponsored links and payments products at Amazon India. With specialization and extensive experience in various aspects of e-commerce, both the new hires are expected to contribute significantly towards MakeMyTrip’s continuous endeavours to create competitive differentiators.
Commenting on these appointments, Deep Kalra, CEO & Founder, MakeMyTrip.com said, “Despite the slump in the industry over the better part of 2008-09, we have demonstrated profitability and emerged stronger. As we consolidate our strengths, we will continue to maintain our competitive edge by investing in resources - this includes technology, infrastructure and as importantly, best-in-industry talent. As I welcome Amit and Mukesh to MakeMyTrip, I am certain their diverse experience and skill-set will help us scale newer peaks in customer and IT innovation.”
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http://www.webinnovation.in/2008mum/SpeakersProfile.htm#AmitSomani
(From 2008 article)
Amit Somani leads Product Management activities for Google, India in the areas of Search, Consumer Applications and Infrastructure for India. Prior to this, Amit was the Director for the Enterprise Search and Discovery business at IBM based out of San Jose, California. That portfolio provided enterprise search, discovery, text analytics and content integration capabilities to enterprise customers. Earlier, Amit started his career at IBM's Almaden Research Center and contributed in the areas of Data driven E-Commerce applications, web applications, database query & transaction processing and Database performance. He has published several papers, holds 5 patents and is the recipient of 3 IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement awards. He holds a B. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IT-BHU, India and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University Of Wisconsin at Madison, USA.
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(Dr. Anil Bhardwaj)
Dr. Anil Bhardwaj has been elected as Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy. The fellowship is effective from Jan 01, 2010. He is currently Head, Planetary Sciences Branch, Space Physics Laboratory at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Trivandrum 695022, India.
Dr. Anil Bhardwaj can be contacted at: Anil_Bhardwaj@vssc.gov.in; Bhardwaj_spl@yahoo.com
The announcement reads:
“Anil Bhardwaj (b. 01.06.1967), PhD, Head, Planetary Science Branch, Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Trivandrum 695 022.
Anil Bhardwaj has made significant contributions in the field of planetary atmospheres and solar system x-rays. He discovered soft-x-ray emissions from the aurorae and x-ray flares from Jupiter and Saturn.”
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About Dr. Anil Bhardwaj:
Dr. Anil Bhardwaj joined ISRO in 1993, after completing Ph.D. in Applied Physics (Space and Planetary Science) from the IT-BHU, as a research scientist at Space Physics Laboratory (SPL) of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Center (VSSC), Trivandrum. Dr. Bhardwaj is currently a Senior Research Scientist and Head of the Planetary Sciences Branch of SPL, VSSC.
Dr. Bhardwaj is a recipient of 2007 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for his outstanding achievements in the area of Planetary Sciences. He also received the ISRO Team Achievement award for year 2008 for his work in the Chandrayaan-1 mission. He was awarded NRC Senior Fellowship by US National Academy of Science, and worked at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center for ~2 year during 2004-2005. He was also awarded fellowship grant by United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs (UN-OOSA), Vienna, Austria, in 1996. Dr. Bhardwaj is also a Fellow of of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore; and Indian Geophysical Union, Hyderabad.
His primary field of research is observational and theoretical studies of planetary surfaces, atmospheres, ionospheres, and their coupling with magnetosphere and solar wind. His current research interests include aurora and airglow emissions, chemistry of planetary atmospheres-ionospheres, lunar-solar wind interactions, ENA imaging, multi-wavelength (X-ray, ultraviolet, visible, radio) study of planetary emissions, and comparative planetology. The planetary bodies that he has worked on include Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Moon, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Triton, Titan, Rings of Saturn, Io plasma Torus, Mars, Earth, and Comets.
Dr. Bhardwaj is the Principal Investigator of the SARA experiment on Chandrayaan-1 – the first Indian Lunar Mission. He has been the Principal- and Co-Investigator on many observation programs with Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope of NASA; XMM-Newton X-ray Observatory of ESA; and Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) of India.
Dr. Bhardwaj has over 75 refereed publications, 5 chapters in books including a Chapter in the Encyclopedia of the Solar System (2007), and has edited 4 books. His collaborative research programs span over 30 research institutes in USA, Europe, and Asia.
He is currently the President of Planetary Science Section of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS); the Editor-in-chief of Advances in Geosciences (Planetary Science volume); a Member of the Board of Advisory Editors of European Journal Space Science Reviews (Springer Publication) and had been a Member of the Editorial Board of journal Planetary and Space Science (Elsevier journal) for 2007-2009. He has convened several special sessions at conferences in India and aboard on topics related to planetary sciences. He is a life member of Astronomical Society of India, Kerala Academy of Sciences, Indian Society of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Plasma Science Society of India, Indian Physics Association, Indian Science Congress Association, and a member of American Geophysical Union. He is a member of several ISRO and national level committees related to Planetary and Space Sciences research programs in India.
Dr. Bhardwaj’s research findings have led to several Press Releases by NASA and ESA and made the cover pages of journals as well as “American Geophysical Union Journal Highlights”. He has discovered X-rays from rings of Saturn, soft X-rays from Earth’s aurora, and made the first detection of “X-ray flares” from Jupiter and Saturn. Several special news report on his research have appeared in New Scientist, Science News, Space Now, etc. and several national and international daily.
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Additional Links:
* Dr. Anil Bhardwaj [APP '92] awarded Bhatnagar Award for 2007
http://www.itbhuglobal.org/archives/2007/09/dr_anil_bhardwaj_app_92_awarde.html
*Interview with Dr. Anil Bhardwaj in Chronicle Sept. 2007 issue:
http://www.itbhuglobal.org/chronicle/archives/2007/09/
* Saturn reflects X-rays from Sun....Ringed Protector of Earth
http://bbsnews.net/article.php/20050525105244793
* Curriculum Vitae of Dr. Anil Bhardwaj (quite old version!)
http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2007/docs/cv_bhardwaj.pdf
Hydrogen offers a new way to study the Moon
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEM8TBYRA0G_index_0.html
Talking to NDTV
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/video/video.aspx?id=41961
*Indian National Science Academy
http://insaindia.org/index.php
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(Dr. Supten Sarbadhikari)
The magazine, Medical Equipment & Automation is published quarterly by Chari Publications Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai. Some info about the magazine is available from the publisher’s website: http://www.charypublications.in/
The following interview was published in Oct-Dec 2009 issue of the magazine. The article can be viewed in PDF form here.
Interview-SUPTENDRA NATH SARBADHIKARI.pdf________________________
About Dr. Supten Sarbadhikari
Dr. Supten Sarbadhikari is known as leading authority about bioinformatics in India. His interview was published in Chronicle in August 2008 issue:
http://www.itbhu.org/chronicle/archives/2006/08/index.html#000874
His Home Page is: http://sites.google.com/site/supten/
He is currently the Founding Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics at PSG IMS&R, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
He has been appointed as an office bearer of HL7 organization:
http://www.itbhuglobal.org/chronicle/archives/2009/05/index-alumni-world.php#004333
You can find more detail about him in the above link.
He can be reached at: Supten@gmail.com
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Interview
Dr Suptendra Nath Sarbadhikari, the Founding Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics at PSG IMS&R, Coimbatore shares during interview with Medical Equipment & Automation that The informatics tools, commonly known as Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools, judiciously applied to healthcare delivery, can help us to deliver more effective, more efficient and more patient-oriented health care.
Q: Medical informatics can be called the art and science of processing biomedical or healthcare information. Please brief us on the various advantages of Medical informatics.
Health information management is becoming increasingly important to effective and efficient health care. The informatics tools, commonly known as Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools, judiciously applied to healthcare delivery, can help us to deliver more effective, more efficient and more patient-oriented health care.
However, improperly used they would waste time and money, create inefficiencies, and dehumanize our interactions with each other. Healthcare delivery personnel who understand and are able to utilize health informatics tools and applications will be more empowered to deliver better healthcare.
Q: You have pioneered in this area of modern medical technology. Can you give us a brief account in regards to your expertise and research interests?
After MBBS, I completed my PhD in Biomedical Engineering from IT-BHU, Varanasi. My PhD thesis was on building diagnostic decision support systems from EEG in Depression. After that I was a Research Associate and then an Honorary Visiting Scientist at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata where I extended my work on soft computing tools for clinical decision support systems (CDSS), using inference and rule generation techniques.
Following that I have been a faculty at the Sikkim Manipal University; School of Medical Science and Technology, IIT Kharagpur; and the Centre for Digital Health, Amrita University. At Amrita, I was the Course Coordinator for M.Sc. (Medical Informatics) and M. Tech. (Biomedical Engineering). Since January 2008 I have been setting up the Department of Biomedical Informatics in PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Coimbatore. I have been working on decision support systems throughout. However, one of my fundamental papers has been on neuro-informatics and has been widely cited globally.
Q: In a country like ours where there is an acute shortage of healthcare professionals and infrastructures, can medical informatics serve as blessings in resolving these issues? If yes, how?
Certainly. It can form the backbone for health literacy campaign where health care workers and students can be introduced to advance health literacy, adult basic education learners can be trained for immediate application to daily life and the students up to Class 12 and beyond can also be targeted to improve the health literacy of future generations.
Health literacy applies to all individuals and to health systems. For example: An individual can be health literate by using the skills needed to find, understand, evaluate, communicate, and use information on health. Similarly, Health care professionals can be health literate by presenting information in ways that improve understanding and ability of people to act on the information. Finally, Systems can be health literate by providing equal, easy, and shame-free access to and delivery of health care and health information.
Would you like to share your views regarding the state of medical informatics in India?
In 2005, I had written an article on “The state of medical informatics in India: A roadmap for optimal organization” which has been well cited globally. Right now not many hospitals in India are fully digital. My personal guess is that within the next 5-10 years all healthcare delivery will be somehow linked to ICT.
Even the WHO aims to make all persons in the world have access to an informed healthcare provider by 2015. The scenario is likely to become positive very soon with the current Government intending to stress a lot for optimally utilizing the ICT resources in all sectors of life including healthcare. With Dr Sam Pitroda having taken over as the Advisor to the PM on information, infrastructure and innovation, things are likely to move fast very soon. The excellent ICT infrastructure in India will be utilized optimally for healthcare delivery, among other areas.
Q: Can you highlight the major barriers and initiatives needed in optimizing the use of Medical Informatics in India?
We can divide the barriers into three: attitudinal, technological and financial. For the attitudinal “change” the necessity is of “change management” where the end users (health care delivery personnel as well as the patients) need to be made aware of the benefits and involved as major stakeholders during the planning phase before thrusting on systems over them. Technology is advancing very fast and technological barriers are being overcome.
However, there is a mismatch between the language and workflows of the healthcare delivery systems / personnel and the ICT technocrats. Again training for proper multidisciplinary understanding would be necessary. For the financial constraints, better allocation of scant resources and proper prioritization will be of immense help.
Q: Do you think that basic medical science education should include medical informatics as a compulsory subject?
Definitely. I have also written an article regarding the same, “Basic medical science education must include medical informatics”. However, it should not be treated like a separate subject.
Medical students need to acquire a lot of soft skills like communication skills and medical informatics is similar to that. Enrico Coiera, has compared “Informatics tools” to the “stethoscope” in cardiology. It cannot “replace” the doctor but can very much “empower” the doctor to treat the patient better. “Informatics” is the “logic of health care”.
Q: What is your opinion regarding e-learning in medical education? Do you think it has a role in raising awareness of medical informatics?
Of course. I am happy to inform that my Supercourse lecture: “How to design an effective e-learning course for medical education” has been among the “Top 20” to be downloaded globally. I have been successfully running e-learning courses on health informatics and I offer a fully online 12-week Certificate Course on Health Informatics at PSG IMS & R.
In my online course I have been getting students from all over the world for e. g., USA, UK, Europe, Africa, Iran, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. The general feedback is very good since all my modules have a mandatory time-bound assignment that is akin to a real life problem. I offer round the clock online mentoring.
Participants successfully completing courses on health informatics are likely to be involved in the identification, planning, implementation and use of computer-based information systems in all areas of the healthcare industry, including hospitals and health directorates. The ones from a technology background may envision the potential benefits of using computers and work at the interface of technology and society in the area of healthcare delivery.
Q: As medical technology has gone through tremendous transformation, what are the most significant changes you have noticed in the field of biomedical engineering recently?
The most significant contributions of clinical biomedical engineering have been in instrumentation for diagnosis, therapy, and rehabilitation. Cell biology, tissue engineering, and nanotechnology also have emerged as clinical realities. Imaging, telemedicine and virtual robotic surgery are some of the other emerging areas. Molecular and genomic medicine, systems biology and interactomics are some of the more recent ones.
Q: What according to you has been the most exciting and interesting progress in the field of automated diagnostic systems in the last 10 years?
Global mandate is on reducing errors, improving quality, and lowering cost in health care and move towards Individualized medicine. Also, the realization that CDSS is necessary and ways to implement it usefully have to be found out. Patient centric view, using open source tools and collaboration among healthcare users are gradually replacing the age-old top heavy approaches.
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Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University
Varanasi 221005, UP