Three NIT-T students make the grade
R. KRISHNAMOORTHY
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Their work in three institutions abroad has earned praise and the promise of academic collaboration with NIT-T.
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PHOTO: R.M. RAJARATHINAM
FRUITFUL EXPOSURE: (From left) Ankit Srivastava, Subhodeep Moitra and Palash Kusumwal of National Institute of Technology - Tiruchi.
By successfully completing their three-month internships in world famous institutions and organisations abroad this year with distinction, three final-year B.Tech. students of National Institute of Technology - Tiruchi, have set a new benchmark for NITians.
Palash Kusumwal of Electronics and Communication Engineering department, and Subhodeep Moitra and Ankit Srivastava of Computer Science and Engineering department have joined the bandwagon of IITians, who are usually preferred from India for such internships, to express the technical potential of India abroad, and gather a global perspective of research. Incidentally, they had pursued internships in IITs in the past three years.
Palash Kusumwal completed three projects on WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) networks at Ecole Superieure D’Ingenieurs En Electrotechnique Et Electronique D’ Amiens (School of Higher Engineering in Electrical and Electronics), France. He developed a model for the upcoming revolutionary WiMAX and MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) technologies in the communication field, working on MATLAB (a high performance interactive software package for scientific and engineering computation) and JAVA platforms.
ESIEE judged Palash’s performance as “very satisfactory” on all assessment parameters: Realisation of aims set; work completed; value of technical choices; seriousness of purpose and organisation; use of personal potential; report submitted, and use of facilities available within or outside the institution. Earning a pass with merit (A+ mark) under the criteria, ‘unusual and intelligent approach to problem-solving’, Palash was judged by his Supervisor Nicolas Dailly thus; “very serious and hard working student. Thorough knowledge of telecommunications, especially radio communications, radio frequencies and antenna design.” Similar was the achievement of Subhodeep Moitra, who did his internship at Institute Nationale Richirche Informatique et Automatique (National Institute for Research in Computing and Automation), Rennes, France. He worked on cutting edge research in the fields of algorithms, statistics and civil engineering — a fusion of all these fields. His project, Damage Detection Using Subspace Methods, involved arriving at intelligent methods for detecting damage in civil structures like bridges and refineries using computer algorithms and statistical techniques, on Scilab (a numerical computational package) platform.
Ankit Srivastava did his internship as a Summer Analyst at Lehman Brothers, Hong Kong (a financial institution with businesses all over the globe and rated as fourth best investment bank in United States). His project was on market data automation scripts based on TCL (Tool Command Language).
He worked in its Capital Market Division, developing applications and automation scripts for traders and middle office people. Ankit developed a framework on database reconciliation and reporting, involving object-oriented concepts in C++ and JAVA, and technologies like XML (Extensible Markup Language), JAXP (Java Application Programming Interface for XML Processing), etc. He says that the most interesting aspect about the internship was the knowledge he could gain about business products and financial sector.
Impressed by their achievements, the host entities had expressed interest in having academic collaboration with the NIT-T. The trio returned with immense pride over the awe and admiration with which students the world over they came across looked at Indian strides in science and technology. The benchmark that these students have set is certain to prompt subsequent batches to make internships in world-class institutions a trend, observed S. Raghavan, senior faculty, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, NIT-T.
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