BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Dhaka BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20380119T091407 TZOFFSETFROM:+0600 TZOFFSETTO:+0600 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=3TU;BYMONTH=1 TZNAME:+06 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20091231T230000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0700 TZOFFSETTO:+0600 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1TH;BYMONTH=12 TZNAME:+06 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20230315T232922Z UID:9148A070-3386-4ECB-9776-DE3111FA9CB0 DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dhaka:20221230T060000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dhaka:20221231T180000 DESCRIPTION:IIIT Naya Raipur hosted a two-day 8th IEEE International Women in Engineering (WIE) Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 202 2 (IEEE WIECON-ECE 2022)\, which was jointly organized by IEEE Bangladesh Section and IEEE Madhya Pradesh Section in collaboration with their WIE Af finity Groups and supported by Kalinga University. The conference was held on 30th & 31st of December 2022 in hybrid mode. The conference consisted of pre-conference tutorials and keynote addresses on various emerging topi cs by experts\, as well as technical paper presentations by researchers fr om across the world.\n\nThe inaugural session of the conference started wi th lighting of the lamp and Saraswati Vandana by the dignitaries on the da is\, followed by welcome address by the Conference Chairs. In their welcom e addresses\, Dr. Rajesh Ingle\, General Chair from India\, and Dr. Celia Shahnaz\, General Chair from Bangladesh\, IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Committee Chair\, 2023-24\, emphasized the significance of this conference and the role of IEEE towards women empowerment through such conferences. Dr. Celia Shahanaz then read out the message received from Dr. Saifur Rahm an\, IEEE President 2022 in which he congratulated the organizing team for organizing this 8th edition of the IEEE WIE Conference.\n\nDr. Nita Patel \, IEEE WIE Past Chair\, IEEE Computer Society President 2023\, then deliv ered her address online from USA\, motivating the participants to contribu te to the society through various IEEE initiatives. Dr. Lance Fung\, IEEE\ , Region 10 Director\, 2023-24 and Dr. Takako Hashimoto\, IEEE WIE Past Ch air\, IEEE Region 10 Director-Elect 2023-24\, then delivered their address es online giving their valuable suggestions on how women can get benefitte d from IEEE to succeed in their careers.\n\nProf. Fattah Shaikh\, Technica l Program Chair from Bangladesh\, then presented about the technical paper s submission and selection process and the various technical sessions plan ned for the conference. Dr. Pradeep Kumar Sinha\, Director\, IIIT Naya Rai pur\, then welcomed the dignitaries and the participants to IIIT-Naya Raip ur and thanked the organizers for giving IIIT-Naya Raipur the opportunity to host this international technical conference. In his address\, he prese nted the initiatives taken by IIIT-NR to strengthen its IEEE presence and activities for the benefit of faculty\, staff and students of the institut e. He then presented the statistics of the percentage of women in engineer ing profession globally. It was an eye opener for many participants to kno w that as per the 2018 data\, this is 19.7% for USA\, 17.57% for UK\, 21.8 % for Canada and 29.7% for India. He also mentioned that now many other pr ofessions like defence services\, aviation industry\, etc. are opening the ir doors to females for jobs which were earlier open to only males. This w as followed by the address of Prof. Rajiv Prakash\, Director\, IIT Bhilai and the Chief Guest of the inaugural session of the conference. In his add ress\, Prof. Prakash emphasised the importance of female engineering stude nts opting for various branches of engineering other than Computer Science \, Information Technology and Electronics. He mentioned that in STEM (Scie nce\, Technology\, Engineering and Mathematics) areas\, the percentage of female graduates in India is one of the highest in the world.\n\nImmediate ly after the inaugural session\, Dr. Tom Coughlin\, IEEE President-Elect 2 023\, delivered a keynote address on the benefits of becoming an IEEE memb er and the various opportunities that IEEE provides to professionals to en able them to contribute for the advancement of our society. Among various other talks\, DR. Bozenna Pasik-Duncan\, Professor\, University of Kansas\ , Lawrence\, Kansas delivered a keynote on Diversity and Inclusion in Stoc hastic Systems and Control – Research and Education. Among various other talks\, Dr. Vijayalaxmi Biradar\, Kalinga University\, delivered a talk o n Preparation of Effective Humanitarian Project Proposals meeting SDGs. Dr . P. A. Harsha Vardhini\, Dean IQAC & Professor\, Vignan Institute of Tech nology and Science\, Hyderabad\, delivered a talk on Women Empowerment\, w hile Dr. Sujata Chakravarty\, Dean\, School of Engineering and Technology\ , Centurion University of Technology and Management\, Bhubaneswar\, emphas ized on the importance of women taking engineering as a profession. Dr. Mo hammed Imamul Hassan Bhuiyan\, Professor\, Department of Electrical and El ectronic Engineering Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology ( BUET) conducted a workshop on Detection of Cyclic alternating Pattern in S leep with Deep Neural Network during the second day of the conference.\n\n Total 71 papers were presented in twelve sessions during the conference. T he conference was attended by several Postgraduate Students\, Research Sch olars\, and Faculty globally. Dr. Deepika Gupta\, Assistant Professor (ECE )\, IIIT-Naya Raipur was the Organizing Secretary of the conference.\n\nOn the second day\, Dr. Sandeep Gandhi\, Registrar\, Kalinga University\, Na ya Raipur\, India addressed the gathering. During valedictory ceremony\, o ut of 12 sessions\, 4 special track sessions: Artificial Intelligence\, Si gnal Processing\, Power Energy and Power Electronics\, and VLSI Robotics w ere conducted. 12 best presentation awards were given. Also\, 4 best paper awards were selected among 12 best presentations. Among all the best pres entations\, “An Improved Differential Evaluation based Sine Cosine Algor ithm for Designing Quadrature Mirror Filter Bank and its FPGA Implementati on” was selected as overall best paper award. Dr. P K Sinha\, Director a nd Vice Chancellor\, IIIT Naya Raipur\, concluded the valedictory ceremony to empowering Women for society upliftment by contributing different tech nology-driven solutions by young generations and with 2023 New Year Wishes .\n\nInternational Institute of Information Technology\, Naya Raipur (IIIT -NR)\, Naya Raipur\, Madhya Pradesh\, India LOCATION:International Institute of Information Technology\, Naya Raipur (I IIT-NR)\, Naya Raipur\, Madhya Pradesh\, India ORGANIZER:mmoshiulh@gmail.com SEQUENCE:3 SUMMARY:8th IEEE WIECON-ECE 2022\, 30-31 DEC\, 2022 URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/327733 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><strong>IIIT Naya Raipur hosted a two-day 8<sup>th</sup> IEEE International Women in Engineering (WIE) Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2022 (IEEE WIECON-ECE 2022)\, which w as </strong><strong>jointly </strong><strong>organized by </strong>IEEE Ba ngladesh Section and IEEE Madhya Pradesh Section in collaboration with the ir WIE Affinity Groups and supported by Kalinga University. The conference was held on 30<sup>th</sup> &amp\; 31<sup>st</sup> of December 2022 in hy brid mode. The conference consisted of pre-conference tutorials and keynot e addresses on various emerging topics by experts\, as well as technical p aper presentations by researchers from across the world.</p>\n<p>The inaug ural session of the conference started with lighting of the lamp and Saras wati Vandana by the dignitaries on the dais\, followed by welcome address by the Conference Chairs. In their welcome addresses\, Dr. Rajesh Ingle\, General Chair from India\, and Dr. Celia Shahnaz\, General Chair from Bang ladesh\, IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Committee Chair\, 2023-24\, empha sized the significance of this conference and the role of IEEE towards wom en empowerment through such conferences. Dr. Celia Shahanaz then read out the message received from Dr. Saifur Rahman\, IEEE President 2022 in which he congratulated the organizing team for organizing this 8<sup>th</sup> e dition of the IEEE WIE Conference.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Dr. Nita Patel\ , IEEE WIE Past Chair\, IEEE Computer Society President 2023\, then delive red her address online from USA\, motivating the participants to contribut e to the society through various IEEE initiatives. Dr. Lance Fung\, IEEE\, Region 10 Director\, &nbsp\;2023-24 and Dr. Takako Hashimoto\, IEEE WIE P ast Chair\, IEEE Region 10 Director-Elect 2023-24\, then delivered their a ddresses online giving their valuable suggestions on how women can get ben efitted from IEEE to succeed in their careers.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Pro f. Fattah Shaikh\, Technical Program Chair from Bangladesh\, then presente d about the technical papers submission and selection process and the vari ous technical sessions planned for the conference. Dr. Pradeep Kumar Sinha \, Director\, IIIT Naya Raipur\, then welcomed the dignitaries and the par ticipants to IIIT-Naya Raipur and thanked the organizers for giving IIIT-N aya Raipur the opportunity to host this international technical conference . In his address\, he presented the initiatives taken by IIIT-NR to streng then its IEEE presence and activities for the benefit of faculty\, staff a nd students of the institute. He then presented the statistics of the perc entage of women in engineering profession globally. It was an eye opener f or many participants to know that as per the 2018 data\, this is 19.7% for USA\, 17.57% for UK\, 21.8% for Canada and 29.7% for India. He also menti oned that now many other professions like defence services\, aviation indu stry\, etc. are opening their doors to females for jobs which were earlier open to only males. This was followed by the address of Prof. Rajiv Praka sh\, Director\, IIT Bhilai and the Chief Guest of the inaugural session of the conference. In his address\, Prof. Prakash emphasised the importance of female engineering students opting for various branches of engineering other than Computer Science\, Information Technology and Electronics. He m entioned that in STEM (Science\, Technology\, Engineering and Mathematics) areas\, the percentage of female graduates in India is one of the highest in the world.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\ n<p>Immediately after the inaugural session\, Dr. Tom Coughlin\, IEEE Pres ident-Elect 2023\, delivered a keynote address on the benefits of becoming an IEEE member and the various opportunities that IEEE provides to profes sionals to enable them to contribute for the advancement of our society. A mong various other talks\, DR. Bozenna Pasik-Duncan\, &nbsp\;Professor\, U niversity of Kansas\, Lawrence\, Kansas delivered a keynote on Diversity a nd Inclusion in Stochastic Systems and Control &ndash\; Research and Educa tion. Among various other talks\, Dr. Vijayalaxmi Biradar\, Kalinga Univer sity\, delivered a talk on Preparation of Effective Humanitarian Project P roposals meeting SDGs. Dr. P. A. Harsha Vardhini\, Dean IQAC &amp\; Profes sor\, Vignan Institute of Technology and Science\, Hyderabad\, delivered a talk on Women Empowerment\, while Dr. Sujata Chakravarty\, Dean\, School of Engineering and Technology\, Centurion University of Technology and Man agement\, Bhubaneswar\, emphasized on the importance of women taking engin eering as a profession. Dr. Mohammed Imamul Hassan Bhuiyan\,&nbsp\; Profes sor\,&nbsp\; Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering&nbsp\; Ba ngladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) conducted a works hop on Detection of Cyclic alternating Pattern in Sleep with Deep Neural N etwork during the second day of the conference.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&n bsp\;</p>\n<p>Total 71 papers were presented in twelve sessions during the conference. The conference was attended by several Postgraduate Students\ , Research Scholars\, and Faculty globally. Dr. Deepika Gupta\, Assistant Professor (ECE)\, IIIT-Naya Raipur was the Organizing Secretary of the con ference.</p>\n<p>On the second day\, Dr. Sandeep Gandhi\, Registrar\, Kali nga University\, Naya Raipur\, India addressed the gathering. During valed ictory ceremony\, out of 12 sessions\, 4 special track sessions: Artificia l Intelligence\, Signal Processing\, Power Energy and Power Electronics\, and VLSI Robotics were conducted. 12 best presentation awards were given. Also\, 4 best paper awards were selected among 12 best presentations. Amon g all the best presentations\, &ldquo\;An Improved Differential Evaluation based Sine Cosine Algorithm for Designing Quadrature Mirror Filter Bank a nd its FPGA Implementation&rdquo\; was selected as overall best paper awar d. Dr. P K Sinha\, Director and Vice Chancellor\, IIIT Naya Raipur\, concl uded the valedictory ceremony to empowering Women for society upliftment b y contributing different technology-driven solutions by young generations and with 2023 New Year Wishes.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR