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This document is a report to the activities of the PICT ACM Students Chapter (PASC) during the year 2018. Reports explains the activities and events such as Workshops, SIGs, seminars, projects, technical events, non-technical events, membership drive and research paper of our members.

PICT ACM STUDENT CHAPTER ANNUAL REPORT 2018

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| CHAPTER INFORMATION

• Chapter Name: PICT ACM Student Chapter (PASC)

• Group ID: 156922

• Client Number: 5517732

• Chapter Type: Student

• Chapter Charter Date: December 19, 2016

• Chapter Website: http://pict.acm.org

• Chapter’s Contact Mail: acm.pict@gmail.com

• Chapter Faculty Advisor: Dr. Geetanjali Kale

Faculty Advisor’s Contact Mail: gvkale@pict.edu

• Chapter Chairman: Mr. Chinmay Saraf

Chairman’s Contact Mail: chinmaysaraf98@gmail.com

• Number of Chapter Members: 200

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| Technical Activities

Technical Activities carried throughout the year are:

1. Annual Technical and Non-Technical Event – Pulzion’18

2. Special Interest Groups (SIG) and Seminars

3. Projects

4. Research Papers

5. Workshops

6. PASC Hackathon

1. Annual Technical and Non-Technical Event – Pulzion’18 Pulzion 2018 was sponsored by Persistent Systems, Tieto, Monimo, Coding-Ninjas

and CyberCure. In a stretch of 5 years pulzion year has grown to a huge scale. Pulzion 18 witnessed a footfall of over 3000 to 13 events of varied domains and workshop. This year the adhered to the theme of ‘Time and Space’. The well-received competitions catered to competitive coders, networking lovers, circuit designers, creative writers, cricket enthusiasts, TV Series fans and business minds among others. Pulzion'18 had a two-day workshop on Ethical Hacking in association with Cybercure Solutions. The workshop received a positive response with the attendees receiving a hands-on experience of dealing with various malware and their security measures. The inaugural ceremony of Pulzion'18 was graced by dignitaries Dr R Venkateswaran(VP, Persistent Systems) as the Chief Guest and Mr Nilesh Sahasrabudhe as the Guest of Honour. Mr. Chandrashekhar Sahasrabudhe (COO, ACM India), Ms. Rashmi Jahagirdar were the reputable Chief Guest and the Guest of Honour, respectively, for the ceremony. Prolific personalities like Ms. Titiksha Mukherjee (Director Oil & Gas, Tieto India) and Mr. Ashutosh Bhosle (Founder, Monimo India) also graced the event with their august presence.

Pulzion’18 Website: http://pict.acm.org/pulzion-18/

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2. SIG and Seminars: Django SIG:

Django SIG series was conducted by Pratik Ratadiya. Concepts of basic architecture, models, views, URLs and templates were discussed and implemented. Hands-on experience student registration system was gained by participants. Innovative and motivated 23 participants attended the SIG.

Machine learning SIG:

Conducted by Pratik Ratadiya, and attended by over 35 students the session provided a brief idea about machine learning and various algorithms and opportunities present in it. The algorithm of Linear regression was explained in detail. A hands-on with house estimation system in python was also taken.

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Android SIG:

A series of Android SIG were conducted by Pratik Patil, Kshitij Patil and Shubham Chaudhari from 23 June 2018. The architecture of Android, Future Applications and concepts such as Layouts, adapters, intents, fragments and firebase were discussed. Projects such as Tic-Tac-Toe Game and Student Assistant were developed for hands-on experience.

Domain Introduction: A one-day seminar was conducted on 17nd September 2018 on “Introduction on various domains” for new PASC members so that they can choose one by their interest. The seminar made the picture of domains clear.

Web Development (HTML-CSS) A one day SIG was conducted on basics of web development for 1st year and 2nd-year students on 25th September 2018. It included front of web development. Basics HTML, CSS was covered in the session.

Data Structures:

Jay Chawla has started SIG on data structures. Series of discussions will be conducted and the first was conducted on 13 January 2019. Thinking of complexity of programming was discussed and ways to reduce complexity were learnt with the help of demonstrations.

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3. Projects: a. Visualization of Kubectl cluster nodes: Visualizing Kubectl clusters and

nodes using weavescope framework. Getting acquainted with docker and kubernetes concepts, By Mr. Pratik Ratadiya and team.

b. Heart disease detection: Making use of artificial intelligence algorithms for detecting heart disease probabilities over 13 parameters under the guidance of Patagonia Health Pvt. Ltd., USA, By Mr. Pratik Ratadiya and team.

c. Defect detection and classification using deep learning approach based on convolutional neural networks (December 2018 - Present), Dhwani Shah and team

d. Realtime event management system: A system based on Django and Firebase which can help monitor flow of crowd within various centres/stages at a particular event, By Mr. Pratik Ratadiya.

e. Digital Addresse System: A system which generates unique digital code for residential and industrial property in India(Feb 2018 – March 2018), By Mr. Pratik Patil and Ms. Shraddha Varat and team.

f. Headcount monitoring system for disaster management: An intelligent headcount monitoring system using neural networks which can count dense crowds thus useful at sites like Kumbh Mela. System runs through both web and android applications using a cloud database, By Mr. Pratik Ratadiya and team.

g. Synthetic oversampling for imbalanced data classification: Use of Synthetic oversampling technique(SMOTE) to reduce imbalance in data thus helping in producing better results for machine learning algorithms in case of consistent text samples, By Mr. Pratik Ratadiya and team.

h. Android Messenger with in-built chatbot: Produced a peer-to-peer chat application providing facilities like last-seen time, status of message delivered, status update, and profile update. It has an integrated chatbot which can also perform tasks based on commands, for example, click picturea and call a friend, By Urmil Shah.

i. Driver Slip Automation: Rental vehicle tracking, generating slips according to distance tracking and bill generation(Oct-2018 – Nov-2018), By Pratik Patil.

j. Predicting Price of Bitcoin Using LSTM Neural Networks: This project was aimed at developing a model using artificial neural networks that predicts the price of Bitcoin. It achieved RMSE less than 0.5%.

k. Classifying the stage of Diabetic Retinopathy Using Deep Residual Neural Networks: This project aimed at developing a classifier using ResNet - a deep convolutional neural network architecture for classification, By Sarang.

l. Pattern Recognition on Datasets from UCI Repository: This project was intended to develop the accuracy of datasets like Titanic, Glass, Hepatitis,

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Diabetes that are available on repository of University Of California, Irvine, By Sarang.

m. Supply Chain Management using Blockchain and IOT — Blockchain+IOT: Developed supply chain management system which keeps track of product and improves transparency between all the stakeholders in the supply chain and assures its quality using IOT, By Chinmay Saraf.

n. Smart Audit System using Blockchain — Blockchain: Developed a smart audit system which brings the traditional auditing process to a online platform and helps to rely on multiple CAs instead of one CA, By Chinmay Saraf.

o. Attendance log generation using Image Processing — Image Processing + Python (Flask): Developed the web application with team, which automatically tracks the activity of employee of the office through CCTV cameras and generates statistics of duration of his/her presence in the office premise, By Chinmay Saraf.

p. Medical Image Analysis using Deep Learning (ongoing) - Created an application to automatically classify the type of cancer seen in the slide image and to detect and segment the cancer-affected areas using Deep Learning. Achieved 97.33% accuracy in the classification of the sub-type of lymphoma cancer. It was aimed at eliminating the need to perform a time-consuming biopsy for cases of patients with no complications, thus speeding up pathological work, By Urmil Shah.

4. Research papers: a. Urmil Shah, A Hybrid Approach of ANN with PSO for Classification

Problems, IEEE TENCON Conference, South Korea, 2018.

b. Chinmay Saraf and Siddarth Sabadra Blockchain Platforms: A Compendium - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Innovative Research and Developement, Thailand.

c. Urmil Shah, Toward Designing an Automated Classification of Lymphoma sub-types using Deep Neural Networks, ACM CoDS-COMAD Conference, January, 2019

d. Urmil Shah and Sarang Mahajan, A Review of Deep Learning models used in Computer Vision, IEEE PUNECON Conference, December, 2018

e. Sarang Mahajan, Decentralization of Social Media using Blockchain, DOI : (arXiv:1811.11522 ).

5. Workshops: a. Artificial Intelligence:

A two-day workshop on Artificial Intelligence was conducted by PASC on 30th June and 1st July 2017 by renowned speaker Mr Vikramank Singh. (to know more about the speaker: www.vikramanksingh.com). The response to the workshop was overwhelming. Students from all over Pune were allowed

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to attend the workshop and the total number of registrations we received was around 70 candidates for the workshop.

b. Ethical Hacking :

A two-day workshop was conducted on ethical hacking on 25th and 26th of August 2017 by “Cybercure” expertise. It included an introduction to hacking, some basic hacking methods, etc. We received a response of nearly 150 candidates for the workshop.

6. PASC Hackathon: PASC conducted Hackathon for the first time ever in PICT for the First Year and Second Year Students. Themes were declared on the day of final team registration. The teams consisted of 2-4 members each. A time span of 1 week was given to complete projects. The projects were displayed on 28th March 2018 in PICT. The tremendous response was received from students on the final project presentation day.

| Community Services:

1. PASC – W With a view to commemorate women and their legendary achievements, PICT ACM Student Chapter, in association with ACM-W India and ACM Pune Professional Chapter, organized a unique event - Celebration of Women in Computing on Saturday, 24th February 2018.

The objective of this ceremony was to spread awareness about women empowerment and to encourage women to attain great feats in the technical domain by applauding and appreciating their talents. We organized this event to provide a platform for interaction with eminent

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individuals wherein they can learn about the various challenges and how one can overcome them.

There were various competitions organized for the participants which included JustCoding, Tech MCQ’s Test, Cerebro, BollyQuiz and Insight. The well-received competitions catered to competitive coders, creative writers and Bollywood movie fans. There were various side events for fun and entertainment.

2. Donation to flood: The Goodies from the prizes of Pulzion’18 where donated to the flood-affected zone of Karnataka.

3. NSS: NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME: JayPrakash Chawla and Mayur Wadekar from the third year are playing lead roles in PICT NSS team. Many PASC Members are the part of this team. They have worked in Kerela flood donation drive, Tree plantation at Taljai hill area and Dengue/Malaria awareness camp at Parvati.

| Participation in ACM India Activities

1. ACM Annual Event: Two chapter representatives and Chapter Counselor Dr. Geetanjali Kale attended the event on 15th February 2018 at Nagpur. PASC was awarded as the ‘Best ACM Student Chapter 2018’ in the event.

2. AICWIC The ACM India Summit was conducted on 28 June 2018 and ACM India celebration of women in computing(AICWIC 2018) was conducted on 29 June 2018 at PES University, Banglore. Two of our PASC representatives Ms Madhura

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Avachat and Ms Aishwarya Harpale represented PASC at the conferences. The witnessed the talks of eminent women representatives of ACM-W India and other dignitaries from the computing field.

3. Grace Hopper: GHCI 18 was conducted from 14 to 16th of November.11 students and 2 teachers counsellor participated in it. Our members participated in Tech talks, Career fair, Networking sessions, Talks on emerging technologies like Blockchain, AR and VR.

4. IRIS: Shlok Gilda presented the following paper in IRIS:

“Source Code Classification using Neural Networks” — 14th International Joint Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (JCSSE), Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand July 12, 2017 - July 14. The paper has also been selected for poster presentation at IRISS 2018: 12th Inter-Research-Institute Student Seminar in Computer Science, organized by ACM India. DOI: 10.1109/JCSSE.2017.8025917.

5. Compute: COMPUTE 2018 – An International Symposium organized by ACM India in collaboration with Chitkara University, Punjab. Five Members of PASC and Chapter Counsellor attended an event as Chapter representatives and presented three posters in a peer-reviewed conference Compute which is the

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flagship conference of the ACM India Council. The posters selected were entitled as-  

A. Decentralized audit system using Blockchain

B. Visually Impaired Assistant using Convolution Neural Network and Long Short Term Memory.

C. Automatic question paper generation

6. ACM-W Hackathon ACM-W Hackathon Final was conducted on 7th and 8th of October in

School of Computer Studies, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad. Our team was 11th nationally and qualified for finals.

Our project, Intelligent Judicial case Prioritizer, provided facility to register FIR online and based upon details, it assigns a priority number accordingly. This helps courts to prioritize court cases and its easy scheduling.

| ACHIEVEMENTS OF CHAPTER MEMBERS

1. Rajvardhan Oak, Former Vice-chairman got 333/340 in GRE. Admitted to UCB, California for M.S.

2. Present PASC Council- 100% placement.

3. Two PASC members qualified CAT exam with 96 and 98 percentile.

4. Pratik Patil, Shraddha Varat and team were recognized as ‘Best Innovator’ at Smart India Hackathon 2018.

5. Pratik Ratadiya was selected for IIT Bombay Fellowship and has completed it with blooming colours.

6. Pratik Ratadiya, Kshitij Patil and team won COEP Mindspark Hackathon 2018.