News & Achievements

Date - 14th November 2016 As part of community development initiative, students and teachers of University of Engineering & Management (UEM), Kolkata organized a programme with the street children on the occasion of Children's Day (14th November 2016).

Date - 14th October 2016 Raj Jain received his Ph.D. in 1978 from Harvard University and an M.E. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Dr. Jain is currently a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of ACM, a Fellow of AAAS, a winner of ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time award,Center for Development of Advanced Computing – Advanced Computing and Communications Society (CDAC-ACCS) Foundation Award 2009, WiMAX Forum Individual Contribution Award 2008, 2014 Distinguished Alumnus Award from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore Alumni Association, and ranks among the top 90 in CiteSeerX’s list of Most Cited Authors in Computer Science.  

Date - 14th October 2016 Axel Krings received his doctorate (1993) and master’s (1991) degrees in computer science from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, a Dipl. Ing. (1982) in electrical engineering from the FH-Aachen, Germany, and joined the University of Idaho Computer Science faculty in 1995.

Mr. Avijit Basu is now working as an engineer in Juniper Networks which is the leading company in networking domain along with Cisco. He himself manufacturers network cards, ICs, line cards etc. He was full of praise for the students of UEM after the interaction. In the first picture, you can see (left to right):- 1) Prof. Soumen Banerjee, UEM Kolkata 2) Mr. Avijit Basu, Juniper Networks 3) Prof. Dr. D. K. Banwet, Emeritus Professor IIT Delhi and Vice-Chancellor UEM Kolkata 4) Prof. Dr. Biswajoy Chatterjee, IEM-UEM group 5) Prof. Dr. Rajiv Ganguly, Dean UEM Kolkata In the second picture, you can see (left to right):- 1) Mr. Avijit Basu, Juniper Networks 2) Prof. Dr. Abir Chatterjee, Senior Professor UEM Kolkata 3) Prof. Dr. Biswajoy Chatterjee, IEM-UEM group

Date - 15th October 2016 James Cole is currently a professor at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. He graduated from the University of Maryland, PhD physics (high energy and particle physics), and after a post-doctorate at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics) he went to the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) , and then the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). At ARL he developed simulated annealing programs for pattern recognition, and at NRL he began his current research. Prof. Cole wrote parallel computer programs with advanced visualizations to model sound propagation in complicated ocean environments.

Motoharu Fujigaki is a Professor in the Department of Human and Artificial Intelligent Systems Division of Advanced Informatics and Machinery at University of Fukui, Japan. He obtained his Bacherlor of Engineering and Master of Engineering degrees from Faculty of Engineering Science, Osaka University and his Ph.D. from Osaka University in 2001.  

Date - 13th October 2016 Prof. Rodney Vaughan is the Sierra Wireless Chair in Communications at Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada. His university training was in New Zealand and Denmark. Most of his career has been as an electronics system designer, and he joined academia (SFU) in 2003.

Date - 30th October, 2016 The Telegraph newspaper covered the IEEE UEMCON 2016 conference organized by IEM and UEM, at its October 30, 2016 issue at the Happenings page.

Date - 20th,21st and 22nd January 2017 Here is a glimpse of the few major events under the banner.