VIT | Vidyalankar Institute of Technology
Autonomous Institute
Affiliated to University of Mumbai
COMPUTER ENGINEERING STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION (CESA)
Dr. Suja Jayachandran
Staff Convener
Tanisha Sharma
Student Convener
- Prof. Suja Jayachandran
- Mark John
Student Convener
RECENT ACTIVITIES
HackFest: Innov8 Tmrw Multi-round inter-college hackathon with 699+ teams participated and competed across ideation, mentorship, and final pitching rounds.
AI With Intent Online workshop by Mr. Laxmikant Tiwari on Generative AI, LLMs, and building AI-powered applications.
Alumni Unplugged Online alumni podcast by Ms. Aditi Ganji on career pathways and skill development.
Cognition Clash AI/ML project pitch competition at VIT where student teams were rigorously cross-questioned by judges on methodology and design decisions.
AgentX Summit Hands-on offline workshop by Mr. Laxmikant Tiwari on building Agentic AI SQL assistants using LangChain and Google Gemini AP.
Think Rift Fast-paced research challenge where teams identified real-world research gaps and pitched innovative solutions under 1-hour time pressure.
Gravity Trails Multi-round team competition at VIT featuring maze-solving, charades, rapid-fire quizzes, and dares to test cognitive agility under pressure.
Stellar QuestA hybrid tech treasure hunt testing logical reasoning and teamwork through tech-themed puzzles.
Plethora 2023 was conducted as a week long event from 13th March 2023-17th March 2023.This flagship event was comprised of both technical and fun competitions.
Workshop on Website building and React js The speaker for this event was Mr.Kalpak Tole,Software Engineer at Protect Once.In this two day event participant learned about basics of Web development technologies.
Workshop on API 101 with Postman The speaker for this event was Mr. Ali Mustufa,Senior Developer Advocate, Postman,TEDx Speaker,Cloud & ML Trainer.In this event participant learned about basics of API technologies.
Seminar on Git, GitHub and open sourc The speaker for this event was Platform Engineer at Quantiphi.In this event participant learned about basics of Git and GitHub.
Workshop on IPR Patents, Designs The speaker for this event was Dr. Pankaj Borkar, Dy. Controller of Patents & Designs, GL-Mech. IPO Mumbai and RGNIIPM, Nagpur.In this event participant learned about basics of IPR and Patent Filing.
Workshop on React.js The speaker for this event was Mr.Pravin Kumar, GSSoC ’23,Open Source Contributor & Specialist on React JS, Redux, MERN Stack & LAMP Stack.In this event participant learned about basics of React js.
Webinar on Game Development The speaker for this event was Mr. Pravin Mane, a Senior Unity Game and Augmented Reality Developer.In this two day event participant learned about basics of Game development.
Webinar on Applications and Emerging Trends in AI was conducted by Mr.Utpal Chakraborty Chief Data Scientist awarded Top 20 AI Thought Leaders 2021. The participants learned about the various concepts in the domain of AI and how they can start into the field as a beginner.
Workshop on Applications of Deep Learning was conducted by Mr.Mohit Uniyal Instructor and Product engineer at Coding Blocks and Mentor at Tensor Flow. Participants learned about different concepts in Deep Learning. In addition, they got insight about Deep Learning concepts used in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
Workshop on Mental Health Awareness in times of Pandemic was conducted in association with Techfest IIT Bombay by Mr.Fabian Almeida.
Workshop on Static website hosting using AWS Simple Storage Service workshop Participants learned about web hosting service and AWS S3 and they got hands on experience through this workshop.
Talk on TensorFlow.js was conducted on VIT YouTube channelby Mr. Jason Mayes.
Architecting Scalable Applications with FIREBASE workshop Around 88 students & working professionals participated. Participants learned about different concepts of firebase, scalability, how to use and implement these technologies in future projects.
DevOps Technology – The Next Decade workshop Around 60 students participated. Participants learned about different complex concepts of Git & GitHub, Puppet, Containerization, and software management and how to use these technologies in different areas.
Workshop on Blockchain Around 75 students participated. Participants learned about the basics of Blockchain & how to carry out their professional plans using the futuristic technology.
PyData & Google Study Jam on Cloud workshop Around 200 students participated. Participants learned about accessing Google Cloud, and different Machine Learning , Artificial Intelligence courses on cloud. Earning badges from Google was a perk of this workshop.
Workshop on Data Science Around 40 students participated. Participants learned about the basics of Data Science and Data Analytics.
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