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ABARAM Award

Research Aspiring Mind 2024-25. The overall award for the entire batch.

ABARAM

Research Aspiring Mind

31st Annual Day, 25 April 2025.
My post about the win ↗

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Overall award for the entire batch

₹20,000

Prize

3

Conference papers presented

/ before the award

I spent college building things and presenting them. That meant three conference papers, a TIFR internship and a run of hackathons.

At the 31st Annual Day, Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College named me Research Aspiring Mind of the Year.

/ the plaque

Research Aspiring Mind of the Year. V Kanish, B.E. Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, 2024-2025.

Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, Coimbatore
The plaque, up close.

/ after the award

With our entire department faculty.
With my family.
With my amazing friends.

/ the research behind it

  1. Aug 2023Presented a research paper, “AR based Fault Detection System for Industrial Machinery”, at the 4th Swinburne Sarawak Postgraduate Research Conference, Swinburne University of Technology, Malaysia.
  2. Aug 2023Presented an IEEE paper, “Monitoring of Prosthetic Leg during Rehabilitation using IoT”, at ICAISS 2023, CARE College of Engineering, Trichy.
  3. Jul 2024Presented an IEEE paper, “AI based Smart Boot Space Management System”, at ICSCSS 2024.
  4. Jul 2024Project intern at the GRAPES-3 Cosmic Ray Laboratory, TIFR Ooty. Calibrated and tested the frontend electronics of the world's largest muon telescope.

/ prizes

  1. 1stPoster presentation at the National Mathematics Day contest, Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, Dec 2021.
  2. 2ndProject presentation at the same National Mathematics Day contest, Dec 2021.
  3. 3rdPoster presentation at YOUTHZEST'22, run by my department, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Jun 2022.
  4. 1stPaper presentation at Inter O Fest '23, a national technical symposium at Sree Sakthi Engineering College, Feb 2023.
  5. 1stProject presentation at KRISHNECS 23, a national technical symposium at Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Sep 2023.

/ hackathons

  1. Top 10of 1,500 teams across India, shortlisted for the final of Capgemini's CodeX Hackathon, run with AWS.
  2. FinalistHACKHEIST 2022, a three-day hackathon run by Microsoft Learn Ambassadors at Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, May 2022.
  3. FinalistiTech Hackfest 2023, a national hackathon at PSG Institute of Technology and Applied Research, Aug 2023.
  4. ParticipantQuantum Hacks, a 24-hour national hackathon at New Horizon College of Engineering, Bangalore, Jan 2024.
  5. Semi FinalistTECHGIUM 7th edition, a national open innovation challenge by L&T Technology Services. The semi final was a virtual proof-of-concept round.

/ clubs and events

2022 to 2024

Events I organised

  • SANGRAHA, my department's national technical symposium, in 2022 and 2023
  • PHILEX, an inter-college event by the college's Philatelic Club, in 2022 and 2023
  • YOUTHZEST 24, an inter-college event with three technical and two non-technical events
  • “Build a device with sensors: do it yourself”, an IoT workshop for school students
2022 to 2025

Clubs I was a member of

  • Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE)
  • Association of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineers (AEINSTENS)
  • Instrument Society of India (ISOI)
  • Social Development Club
  • Entrepreneurship Development Cell