15th National Frontiers of Engineering (NatFoE) Symposium

About the Symposium


The National Frontiers of Engineering Symposium was launched by the INAE in 2006 as one of its annual flagship events. It brings together young and outstanding engineering professionals (aged ~30-45 years) from industry, universities, and research organizations to deliberate upon emerging and leading-edge research and development work in the domain of engineering and technology. Convening engineering professionals and technologists from various fields and providing a platform for braintorming the contemporary and futuristic issues related to frontiers areas translational research and innovation. The desired mode of interaction may include collaborative work, complementary development of new techniques and approaches, and establishment of contacts among the next generation of leaders in engineering. The format of the symposia encourages both formal and informal discussion in groups as well as one-on-oneformat. Speakers may be advised to focus their talks on current cutting-edge research in their respective disciplines to colleagues outside their field and to address questions such as: What are the major research problems and distinctive tools used? What are the current limitations in advancing and possible ways to overcome these limitations?

Important Dates : July 9-10, 2021


Co-located with NatFoE this year will be Innovation in Manufacturing Processes (IMP), a national project competition open to all engineering students and practitioners (undergraduate, postgraduates - not PhD students - and startups). For more information, see here.

Apply for IMP here.

Organizers


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Prof. Murty B S

Theme : Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Dr. Amit Acharyya

Dr. Amit Acharyya

Dr. Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Dr. Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Theme : Advances in Materials and Manufacturing Technology

Dr. Suhash Ranjan Dey

Dr. Suhash Ranjan Dey

Dr. Suryakumar S

Dr. Suryakumar S

Theme : Infrastructure + Unconventional Energy

Dr. Chandra Shekhar Sharma

Dr. Chandra Shekhar Sharma

Dr. Mahendrakumar Madhavan

Dr. Mahendrakumar Madhavan

Theme : Rural Entrepreneurship

Dr. Mudrika Khandelwal

Dr. Mudrika Khandelwal

Dr. Sushmee Badhulika

Dr. Sushmee Badhulika

Speakers and Participants


Theme : Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Speakers

Dr. Piyush Rai

Dr. Piyush Rai
IIT Kanpur

Dr. Preethi Jyothi

Dr. Preethi Jyothi
IITB

Dr. Sunny Manchanda

Dr. Sunny Manchanda
DRDO DYSL AI

Dr. Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Dr. Vineeth N Balasubramanian
IIT Hyderabad

Dr. Amit Acharyya

Dr. Amit Acharyya
IIT Hyderabad

Participants

Dr. Sai Subrahmanyam Gorthi

Dr. Sai Subrahmanyam Gorthi
IIT Tirupati

Dr. Mridula Verma

Dr. Mridula Verma
IDRBT

Dr. Abhijnan Chakraborty

Dr. Abhijnan Chakraborty
IIT Delhi

Dr. Debangshu Dey

Dr. Debangshu Dey

Dr. Yamuna Prasad

Dr. Yamuna Prasad
IIT Jammu

Dr. Mansi Sharma

Dr. Mansi Sharma
IIT Madras

Theme : Advances in Materials and Manufacturing Technology

Speakers

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Dr. Neena S. John
Center for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS)

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Dr. Vikranth Racherla
IIT Kharagpur

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Dr. Senthilkumaran K
IIIT DM Kancheepuram

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Dr. Suryakumar S
IIT Hyderabad

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Dr. Suhash Ranjan Dey
IIT Hyderabad

Participants

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Dr. Tapasi Sen
INST

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Dr. Chandra Sekhar Tiwary
IIT Kharagpur

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Raghu Adla
Founder & CEO, Paninian India Pvt. Ltd.

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Dr. D. Venkata Kiran
IIT Tirupati

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Ms. Priyanka Nadig
CYIENT

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Dr. I. A. Palani
IIT Indore

Theme : Infrastructure + Unconventional Energy

Speakers

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Dr. Syed K. K. Hussaini
IIT Patna

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Dr. Arjun Sil
NIT Silchar

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Dr. Ramendra S. Dey
INST Mohali

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Dr. Mahendra K. Madhavan
IIT Hyderabad

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Dr. Chandra Shekhar Sharma
IIT Hyderabad

Participants

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Dr. Abhishek Rajput
IIT Indore

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Dr. Raheena M
IIT Ropar

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Dr. Jothi Saravanan
IIT Bhubaneshwar

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Dr. R. Vinu
IIT Madras

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Dr. Mukesh Kumar
IIT Ropar

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Dr. Ananya G.
GODI Energy

Theme : Rural Entrepreneurship

Speakers

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Dr. Shailendra Tiwari
Fasal

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Dr. Omkar Prasad
IIT Hyderabad

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Dr. Rajib deb
ICAR - NDRI Karnal

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Dr. Sriparna Chatterjee
CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar

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Dr. Mudrika Khandelwal
IIT Hyderabad

Participants

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Dr. Poonam Kumari
IIT Guwahati

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Dr. Swati Ghosh Acharrya
HCU

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Dhruv Gupta
Head of Operations, iTIC Incubator, IIT Hyderabad

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Dr. Priya Jadhav
IIT Bombay

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Dr. Siddhartha Singha
IIT Guwahati

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Dr. Sushmee Badhulika
IIT Hyderabad

Theme : Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav

Speakers

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Dr. Suhani Mohan
Saral Deisgn

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Dr. Pooja Devi
CSIR-CSIO

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Dr. Mitesh Khapra
IIT Madras

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Dr. Tapas Kumar Maji
JNCASR

Schedule


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Detailed Schedule


Inaugural Session

July 9, 2021 (Friday) (9:00-9:25)

09.00 - 09.05 Welcome Remarks (Prof. B. S. Murty, Director, IITHyderabad)
09.05 - 09:10 About NatFoE Symposium: Prof. Sivaji Chakravorti, VicePresident, INAE
09:10 - 09:20 Presidential Remarks (Prof. Indranil Manna, President,INAE)
09:20 - 09:22 Releasing Symposium Abstract Booklet
09:22 - 09:25 Vote of Thanks (Dr. Chandra Shekhar Sharma, Coordinator,NatFoE 2021)

Session-1 (Theme: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning)

09.30 - 09.45 Dr. Vineeth N Balasubramanian
(Towards Explainable and Robust AI Practice)
09.45 - 10:00 Dr. Piyush Rai
(Learning Continually Without Forgetting Past Knowledge)
10:00 - 10:15 Dr. Preethi Jyothi
(New Frontiers for Automatic Speech Recognition)
10:15 - 10:30 Dr. Sunny Manchanda
(Continual Learning Machines)
10:30 - 10:45 Dr. Amit Acharyya
(AI For Next Generation Healthcare Systems Design)
10:45 - 11:30 Discussion

Session-2 (Theme: Advances in Materials & Manufacturing Technology)

14.30 - 14.45 Dr. Suhash Ranjan Dey
(Electrochemical Process for Design and Development of New Age Materials)
14.45 - 15:00 Dr. Neena S John
(Metal Oxide Nanomaterials with Spiky Morphology for Multifunctional Applications)
15:00 - 15:15 Dr. Senthilkumaran Kumaraguru
(Towards Faster Qualification of Powder Bed Fusion Process Through Multiscale Linked Surrogate Models)
15:15 - 15:30 Dr. Vikranth Racherla
(Solid State Sintering Using Friction Processing)
15:30 - 15:45 Dr. Suryakumar S
(Studies on Additive Manufacturing of Large Metallic Components)
15:45 - 16:30 Discussion

Session-3 (Theme: Infrastructure & Unconventional Energy)

09.30 - 09.45 Dr. Mahendrakumar Madhavan
(Cold-Formed Steel for Sustainable Construction)
09.45 - 10:00 Dr. Arjun Sil
(Quantification and Spatial Mapping of Atmospheric Corrosion Hazards in Indian Context)
10:00 - 10:15 Dr. Syed Khaja Karimullah Hussaini
(Stabilisation of Ballasted Rail Tracks to carry High-Speed Trains)
10:15 - 10:30 Dr. Ramendra Sundar Dey
(Improvisation in Carbonaceous Materials and their Implication in Metal-air Battery and Third Generation Ammonia Synthesis)
10:30 - 10:45 Dr. Chandra Shekhar Sharma
(Metal-CO2 Battery: An Indigenous Technology for India’s Mars Mission and An Attempt to Fix CO2 Emissions on Earth)
10:45 - 11:30 Discussion

Session-4 (Theme: Rural Entrepreneurship)

14.30 - 14.45 Dr. Prasad S. Onkar
(Role of Technology and Design in Rural Development)
14.45 - 15:00 Dr. Rajib Deb
(Entrepreneurship Opportunities in Indian Livestock)
15:00 - 15:15 Dr. Shailandra Tiwari
(Steering Data Driven Agriculture in India: A Way Towards Lower Cost Better Output)
15:15 - 15:30 Dr. Sriparna Chatterjee
(A Way Towards Sand Based Add-On Filter For Zero Bacteria Drinking Water)
15:30 - 15:45 Dr. Mudrika Khandelwal
(Antimicrobials For Preservation of Fresh Produce and Hygiene)
15:45 - 16:30 Discussion

Special Session on Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsava

July 10, 2021 (Saturday) (11:30-13:00)

11.30 - 11.45 Dr. Suhani Mohan
(Rural Entrepreneurship Model for Improving Menstrual Hygiene)
11.45 - 12:00 Dr. Pooja Devi
(Green Synthesized Hybrid Nanostructured Materials for Green Hydrogen Generation)
12:00 - 12:15 Dr. Mitesh M. Khapra
(Samanantar: The Largest Publicly Available Parallel Corpora Collection for 11 Indic Languages)
12:15 - 12:30 Dr. Tapas Kumar Maji
(Metal-organic 'Soft' Hybrids for Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction and H2 Production)
12:30 - 13:00 Discussion

Special Evening Talks

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July 9, 17:15-18:00 hrs

Advances in Aerospace Materials and Manufacturing Technologies

by
Dr. Tessy Thomas
Distinguished Scientist & Director General - Aeronautical Systems (AS)
DRDO, Ministry of Defence, Government of India

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July 10, 17:45-18:30 hrs

Evolution of high strength automotive steels and their future

by
Dr. Debashish Bhattacharjee
Vice President (Technology and New Materials Business), Tata Steel.

Cultural Event


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