Nutrition in women and children

Great Work!

Ms Lakshmi Durga Chava says “sustainable solutions emerge when the people themselves develop them and manage them. That is why community managed models have a higher chance of succeeding”. She adds further “ It is neither the public not the private sector can deliver the services to the last mile. Rather, it is the poor people themselves who if trained and empowered are the best able to do so”.nity managed models have a higher chance of succeeding”. She adds further “ It is neither the public not the private sector can deliver the services to the last mile. Rather, it is the poor people themselves who if trained and empowered are the best able to do so”.

Happy to have met a passionate worker.

For further information: Community run centres-world bank report

Centre for Cyber Security and Data Analytics launched

Centre for Cyber Security and Data Analytics is launched at Andhra University : ISEA Project Phase 2, MeitY, Govt of India

The Centre for Cyber Security and Data Analytics at Andhra University campus aims at providing additional knowledge on contemporary issues, challenges and practices related to information security and data analytics related topics. The Centre envisions to train students, faculty, industry and government organizations involving experts from corporates and other academic institutions with the support of NASSCOM through APSSDC. TV9 coverage of the same is given below.

The Centre has necessary hardware and software infrastructure to train batches of size 30 in these areas. The Centre is partly funded by ISEA (information Security Education and Awareness) Project phase-2 of MeitY, Government of India. Under this scheme, IIT Kharagpur and IIT Guwahati will mentor the research carried out at this Centre. Prof M. Shashi and Prof V. Valli Kumari are the Chief and Co-Investigators of this project.

The Centre is open for conducting any hands on workshops and training programmes in the relevant fields upon request. The participants can experiment with the firewalls, switches, virtual wireless controllers, access points, network security, application security softwares and data analytics tools. In future necessary environment for cloud security and forensics will be provided. The participants can appear for certification exams.

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Profile in Brief

Prof  Valli Kumari Vatsavayi

Professor of Computer Science and Systems Engineering,

Andhra University

Experience: 27 years in teaching , research and administration.

email: vallikumari@gmail.com

Positions held:
  • Vice Chairperson for the AP State Council for Higher Education ( 1 year 8 months).
  • CEO, AP Innovation Society, GoAP (1 year)
  • Director for Andhra University Computer Center (4 years).
  • Founder Head of the Department for Computer Science and Engineering, AU College of Engg for Women.
Activities:
  • An active consultant to several government/public sector/private organisations.
  • Successfully completed six consultant projects for Naval Science and Technological Laboratories
  • and two projects of DST, Govt of India.
  • Successfully managed the computerisation of Integrated Common Entrance Test (ICET) for MCA/ MBA in AP State, on behalf of Convener and APSCHE from 2009 to 2011 and Education Common Entrance Test(EdCET) from 2012 to 2014.
  • A member of IEEE, ACM, CRSI, ISTE, IETE and CSI.
  • Founder Vice-Chair of IEEE Vizag Bay Subsection.
  • Executive Member of Andhra Pradesh State Knowledge Mission since 2014
  • State nodal officer for Digital India Week, 2015.
Education
  • PhD in Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Andhra University
  • MTech in Computer Science and Technology, Andhra University
  • BE in Electronics and Communications Engineering, SRKR Engineering College, Bhimavaram affiliated to Andhra University.
  • Microsoft Certified Professional in VC++ with MFC
  • IBM certified Professional in DB2 
Research Summary

Presently most of my research is inclined towards large data, distributed data, security and web technologies. My research publications are in the following areas :

Network Security, Data Privacy, Data Engineering, Distributed Systems, Semantic Web / Web Technologies and Software Engineering

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WiFi at AU

The total bandwidth for AU through NKN is  1Gbps

Redundant link is through BSNL for 200Mbps (BSNL) with a backbone  support of 1Tbps

Average bandwidth consumed in campus is 600Mbps.

5800 systems are using internet facility with average bandwidth of 300Mbps.

8270 students are registered for Wi-Fi access in departments and hostels with speed of 54Mbps each, using advanced network infrastructure.

For authentication we use security like MAC filtering, username and password.

Student application forms are kept in website http://cc.auvsp.edu.in/aucc/application.jsp

Advanced Network Infrastructure followed by http://cc.auvsp.edu.in/aucc/home.jsp

Andhra University in 151-200 slab in QS BRICS and 301-350 in QS ASIA

QS University Rankings: BRICS is an annual ranking of the top universities in the five BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Andhra University is ranked in 151-200 slab in QS BRICS and 301-350 in QS ASIA

QS BRICS Rankings List

QS Asia Rankings

The eight indicators used are :

Academic reputation (30%)
This is based on analysis of QS’s major global survey of academics, who are asked to identify the top-performing universities in their own field of expertise.

Employer reputation (20%)
This is based on QS’s major global survey of graduate employers, who are asked to identify the universities they perceive as producing the best graduates.

Faculty/student ratio (20%)
This reflects the number of students enrolled per full-time academic faculty member employed. The aim is to give an indication of commitment to teaching and student support.

Staff with a PhD (10%)
Based on the proportion of academic staff members with a PhD, this indicator aims to assess how successful universities have been in recruiting highly qualified faculty members – a major priority for many institutions in the BRICS countries.

Papers per faculty (10%)
Calculated using data from Scopus, this indicator assesses research productivity, based on the number of research papers published per academic staff member.

Citations per paper (5%)
Again calculated using the Scopus database, this indicator aims to assess research impact, based on the frequency with which an institution’s research is cited by other researchers.

International faculty (2.5%)
This score reflects the percentage of faculty members at the university who are international, to show how successful each institution has been in attracting academics from further afield.

International students (2.5%)
This last indicator reflects the percentage of students enrolled at the university who are international, giving a further indication of each institution’s global appeal.

Smart Village Challenge Contest 2016 at Centre for Open Innovation: Prizes worth 12.75 Lakhs

Dr Solomon, University of California, Berkeley writes:

Dear Indian Students,

It was fun working with you earlier this year. Here is another challenge for this summer with real seriousness surrounding Prototying a Smart Village in India. This was a personal request from the Hon. Chief Minister of Andhra and will provide you with much visiablity of your hard work.  We have over 12 firms partnering with us to make this project a success they include: Trianz, Google, IBM, Cisco, Tyco, Paradigm Mtuity, Qualcomm, Sahaj, EVx, Ericsson, Tech Mahindra, Potential.com

Please go through the attached summary and email Mr. David Maracine in case you are interested, dmaracine@university.edu. Also copy Manav Subodh at UC Berkeley who is the Project Director administering this challenge, manav.subodh@berkeley.edu. Dr. Valli is the Director of the Open Innovation Center at Andhra Univesity will be our host once again, please contact her for logistical questions , smartvillagechallenge@gmail.com  as we get closer to the June 20, 2016, the date of your presentations.

Please do not write to me or contact me as I will be travelling in the summer and will not be in a position to respond to your emails.

Letter of Invitation from UC Berkeley – Smart Village Challenge to Deans (1)

Blessings,

 Solomon Darwin

Executive Director

Center for Corporate Innovation

UC Berkeley-Haas School of Business

Office 510-643-4133  Cell 510-316-8286