8th IEEE WIECON-ECE 2022, 30-31 DEC, 2022
IIIT Naya Raipur hosted a two-day 8th IEEE International Women in Engineering (WIE) Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2022 (IEEE WIECON-ECE 2022), which was jointly organized by IEEE Bangladesh Section and IEEE Madhya Pradesh Section in collaboration with their WIE Affinity 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 topics by experts, as well as technical paper presentations by researchers from across the world.
The inaugural session of the conference started with lighting of the lamp and Saraswati 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 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 Rahman, IEEE President 2022 in which he congratulated the organizing team for organizing this 8th edition of the IEEE WIE Conference.
Dr. Nita Patel, IEEE WIE Past Chair, IEEE Computer Society President 2023, then delivered her address online from USA, motivating the participants to contribute to the society through various IEEE initiatives. Dr. Lance Fung, IEEE, Region 10 Director, 2023-24 and Dr. Takako Hashimoto, IEEE WIE Past Chair, IEEE Region 10 Director-Elect 2023-24, then delivered their addresses online giving their valuable suggestions on how women can get benefitted from IEEE to succeed in their careers.
Prof. Fattah Shaikh, Technical Program Chair from Bangladesh, then presented about the technical papers submission and selection process and the various technical sessions planned for the conference. Dr. Pradeep Kumar Sinha, Director, IIIT Naya Raipur, then welcomed the dignitaries and the participants to IIIT-Naya Raipur and thanked the organizers for giving IIIT-Naya Raipur the opportunity to host this international technical conference. In his address, he presented the initiatives taken by IIIT-NR to strengthen its IEEE presence and activities for the benefit of faculty, staff and students of the institute. He then presented the statistics of the percentage of women in engineering profession globally. It was an eye opener for 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 mentioned that now many other professions like defence services, aviation industry, 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 Prakash, 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 mentioned that in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) areas, the percentage of female graduates in India is one of the highest in the world.
Immediately after the inaugural session, Dr. Tom Coughlin, IEEE President-Elect 2023, delivered a keynote address on the benefits of becoming an IEEE member and the various opportunities that IEEE provides to professionals to enable 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 Stochastic Systems and Control – Research and Education. Among various other talks, Dr. Vijayalaxmi Biradar, Kalinga University, delivered a talk on Preparation of Effective Humanitarian Project Proposals meeting SDGs. Dr. P. A. Harsha Vardhini, Dean IQAC & Professor, 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 Management, Bhubaneswar, emphasized on the importance of women taking engineering as a profession. Dr. Mohammed Imamul Hassan Bhuiyan, Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) conducted a workshop on Detection of Cyclic alternating Pattern in Sleep with Deep Neural Network during the second day of the conference.
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 conference.
On the second day, Dr. Sandeep Gandhi, Registrar, Kalinga University, Naya Raipur, India addressed the gathering. During valedictory ceremony, out of 12 sessions, 4 special track sessions: Artificial 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. Among all the best presentations, “An Improved Differential Evaluation based Sine Cosine Algorithm for Designing Quadrature Mirror Filter Bank and its FPGA Implementation” was selected as overall best paper award. Dr. P K Sinha, Director and Vice Chancellor, IIIT Naya Raipur, concluded the valedictory ceremony to empowering Women for society upliftment by contributing different technology-driven solutions by young generations and with 2023 New Year Wishes.
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- Start time: 30 Dec 2022 06:00 AM
- End time: 31 Dec 2022 06:00 PM
- All times are (UTC+06:00) Astana
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- International Institute of Information Technology, Naya Raipur (IIIT-NR)
- Naya Raipur, Madhya Pradesh
- India