• MCIS students are runners-up in the “Freescale Cup India-2011

Shabeer Ali, Sneha Joseph and Rajendra Babu 3rd Semester M.Sc in Digital Design and Embedded Systems students from Manipal Centre for Information Science (MCIS), were runners-up in the “Freescale Cup India-2011”, a nationwide annual contest hosted by Freescale Semiconductors India in Collaboration with Center for Electronic Design and Technology (CEDT) from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore on September 19, 2011.

Thirtyfive colleges and 127 teams took part in the event which is part of Freescale‘s global initiative to promote innovation among engineering students and offer them a hands-on opportunity to put their engineering skills to test by creating microcontroller (MCU) programming and use various control strategies to develop the prototype of Driverless car.

In the competition, students were required to assemble an intelligent model racing car that automatically recognized the specially designed race track at the venue. Freescale provided technical support as well as the model car kits and development tools required to build a model racing car based on Freescale MCU technology. The event was the result of several months of challenging work in designing and assembling smart model cars for the race.

The participating teams were judged by a panel of experts from the automobile industry, embedded systems domain and academia. The entries were judged on the basis of several parameters, including speed, design and technology.
The students were awarded a trophy and prize money of Rs 50,000. They were guided by the MCIS faculty members Mr. Darryl Jeethesh D ‘Souza and Ms.Keerthana Prasad.



From L to R: Darryl Jeethesh D ‘Souza, Sneha Joseph, Rajendra Babu, Shabeer Ali and Keerthana Prasad

• Mr. Annaji Rao Garimella
  
  Mr. Annaji Rao Garimella, alumnus of MCIS, Manipal was awarded the prestigious Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation - (HENAAC) - AMD Scholarship for outstanding technical and leadership achievements. This was awarded by Dr. Dan Arvizu, Director of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) at HENAAC 2005 Conference at Anaheim, CA on October 9, 2005. Annaji received a scholarship of $5,000.
  
  Mr. Annaji is a distinguished alumnus of Manipal Centre for Information Science and did his masters degree in VLSI-CAD during the year February 2002. He is presently pursuing a PhD programme at New Mexico State University US. His specialisation is Analog/ Mixed Signal VLSI design.

• A student of VLSI CAD has won “Texas Instruments Best Design Idea Award” in International Conference on VLSI Design.
• Students of VLSI CAD have successfully designed “A complete VLSI Chip” in association with Karnataka Microelectronic Design Centre (Karmic).
• Mr.  Gopal Karemore
  
  Gopal Karemore from Manipal Centre for Information Science, Manipal University is the only person selected from India for a four years international PhD fellowship programme by the Spanish research group “Microsystems and Nanotechnologies for Chemical Analysis (MINOS), Barcelona, Spain. He will be working on Metabonomics data analysis for early detection of diabetes.
  
  Gopal Karemore is doing his master thesis on Chemical Structure Reconstruction as a guest research scholar from Manipal Centre for Information Science, Manipal University at the Department of Bioinformatics, The Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (A Premier German Government Research Organisation). Gopal is trying to combines pattern recognition techniques with supervised machinelearning concepts to segment significant semantic entities (e.g. chiral bonds, super atoms, reaction arrows) from image documents.