IEEE Women in Engineering Affinity Group, Kharagpur Section

22/02/2023

WIE KGP section hosting training workshop on use of technology for e-teaching for teachers of rural schools during lockdown

Sohojpath সহজপাঠ Workshop, Lecture - 2Guide to online education: Transforming Classroom Education to E-learningBy Dr. Manjira SinhaAssistant ProfessorCentre ...

21/12/2022

IEEE WiE AG Kharagpur Section is pleased to welcome you all for Online Talk on
"NLP Applications and uses of Large Language Models in Industry" by
Dr. Lipika Dey, Chief Scientist, TCS Research, Delhi, India.
Date: December 21, 2022, Wednesday
Time: 6.00–7.00 PM (IST)
Meeting Link: https://meet.google.com/boy-czrz-paj

13/09/2021

Dear Members,

Greetings from IEEE India Council,

We are pleased to inform you that IEEE India Council Educational Activities Team, IEEE-OES and Marine Technology Society (MTS) India Section are organizing a Webinar on, "Women Leadership in Marine Technology, Engineering, and Science", involving women engineers, technologists and scientists focusing on students for career opportunities in the Marine sector on 14th September 2021. This event is endorsed as event of UN Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development by UNESCO IOC Paris.

The speakers of the event are:

Dr Susan K land, President IEEE

Dr Cleopatra Doumbia Henry, President, World Maritime University,Sweden and

Ms Zdenka Willis, President MTS.

More details about this event are given in the attached flyer.

Registration is free but mandatory

Registration Link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpceqpqT8vE9PoDkou0fgrthLj9kZ-j231

We request you to participate in this event and get benefitted. The online meeting link will be sent to all the registered participants on the previous day of the Webinar.

Dr.D.Devaraj,
Vice Chair, Educational Activities
E-mail:[email protected]

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We are pleased to inform you that IEEE India Council Educational Activities Team, IEEE-OES and Marine Technology Society (MTS) India Section are organizing a Webinar on, “Women Leadership in Marine Technology, Engineering, and Science”, involving women engineers, technologists and scientist...

04/09/2021

30/08/2021

IEEE Women In Engineering (WiE) Affinity Group Kharagpur Section, is organizing a webinar session on Sept 3rd, 2021 (Friday) by industry leaders.

The details of the session are as follows:

Topic: Hands-on session on making your data ready for AI

Description of the talk: Data practitioners spend a considerable amount of time in iterative pre-processing of data before it is considered to be of adequate quality for downstream machine learning tasks. Although time-consuming, pre-processing is an essential step because the quality of training data directly impacts the complexity as well as the accuracy of AI models. Getting insights into the quality of data before it enters a machine learning pipeline can significantly reduce model building time, streamline data preparation efforts and improve the overall reliability of the AI pipeline. In this session, we will walk through the various data quality challenges and try them on standard datasets.

Speaker 1: Hima Patel, Research Manager at IBM Research Lab, India

Biography: Hima Patel is an experienced researcher, technology leader and manages a team of researchers at IBM Research Labs, India. She is on the mission to build innovative tools and technologies to democratise data preparation for AI lifecycles for various data modalities. She has recently also been intrigued by the data challenges in modernisation of legacy database systems, and is leading the development of tools to solve some of these issues. Prior to IBM, she has spent time at research groups at Shell and GE, where she has focussed on problems related to using AI for asset management and medical devices. She is also deeply involved with IEEE Computer Society Bangalore and AnitaB organisations, and spends time volunteering on several initiatives.

Speaker 2: Ruhi Sharma Mittal, Research Advisory Engineer at IBM Research Lab, India

Biography: Ruhi Sharma Mittal is a Research Advisory Engineer at IBM Research Labs, India. In the DataOps team at IBM, she is currently working on building solutions to improve data quality to make data ready for machine learning pipelines. She did her Masters from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. She has authored and co-authored many research papers in top conferences. She has also filed several patents related to machine learning and applied AI. Her research interest includes Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and applied AI.

Date and Time: Sept 03, 2021 (Friday), 7 - 8.30 PM IST

Mode: Online

Registration Link: https://forms.gle/KQiQtVF8b8N8Wb4f7
(NOTE: Registration closes on Sep3, 2021 at 12:00 pm IST.
Link for joining the event will only be shared with the registered participants.)

26/06/2021

IEEE Women in Engineering Affinity Group, Kharagpur Section২৭ শে জুন ,২০১২ (সন্ধ্যা ৭.৩০ এ) একটি ই-ওয়ার্কশপ "সহজপাঠ ওয়ার্কশপ: অনলাইন এডুকেশন ট্রান্সফর্মিং ক্লাসরুম এডুকেশন ই-লার্নিং" এর মাধ্যমে শিক্ষকদের ডিজিটাল লার্নিং প্রক্রিয়ার প্রশিক্ষণ দেওয়ার উদ্যোগ নিচ্ছে ।

লোকেরা আগের চেয়ে বাড়ীতে বেশি সময় ব্যয় করায়, ডিজিটাল শেখার শিক্ষার প্রয়োজনীয় সংস্থান হিসাবে আবির্ভূত হয়েছে। মহামারীটি প্রযুক্তি দ্বারা চালিত এক পুরানো চক-টক শিক্ষণ মডেলকে রূপান্তরিত করেছে। ভার্চুয়াল ক্লাসে ভর্তিচ্ছুদের সংখ্যা তাত্পর্যপূর্ণ বৃদ্ধি পেয়েছে এবং এই প্রবণতাটি এখনও বহাল রয়েছে।

আপনি যদি আগ্রহী হন তবে নীচের গুগল ফর্মের লিঙ্কে ক্লিক করুন এবং কিছু তথ্য সরবরাহ করুন। এই অনলাইন সেমিনারের লিঙ্কটি ইমেলের মাধ্যমে আপনার কাছে পৌঁছে যাবে।
https://forms.gle/Wx3n2cCncdrFik929L

26/06/2021

IEEE Women in Engineering Affinity Group, Kharagpur Section is taking the initiative to train the teachers for the digital learning process by organizing an E-workshop "Sohojpath Workshop: Online Education Transforming Classroom Education to E-Learning" on June 27,2021 (7.30 pm).
Because people are spending more time at home than ever before, digital learning has become an essential educational resource. The pandemic has shifted the traditional chalk-and-talk teaching paradigm to one that is based on technology. The number of people taking virtual classes has increased dramatically, and this trend is certain to continue.
If you are interested, click on the Google Form link below and provide some information. The link to this online seminar will reach you via email.
https://forms.gle/Wx3n2cCncdrFik929
See you soon.

03/06/2021

Women in Engineering (WiE), IEEE Kharagpur Section and Ambar IIT KGP jointly present webinar on Trans Inclusion in Indian STEM Academia by Rai @ 6 June 2021 6-7 p.m. IST.

What does it mean to be a transgender person in India? What are the laws around gender transition? What can I/we do to help trans inclusion? How to be a trans ally? and How trans-friendly is our institute? Lets answer all of these questions.
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🌈 Event Timing: 6th June 2021. 6.00-7.00 pm

Registration Link: https://forms.gle/A94XUmgzr7UWqr4B6

Please register by June 6, 4 PM. The meeting link will be shared with the registered participants. All are welcome to attend!

🌈 Speaker: Neysara Rai, Gender Activist
🌈 Speaker Bio: Neysara is a human rights activist and founder of TransgenderIndia.com. Through her initiative, www.TransgenderIndia.com, she emancipates thousands of transgender people across India through awareness and knowledge, to make informed choices. Currently the information on the TransgenderIndia platform is translated into six major Indian languages, helping information break through socio-economic and language barriers.

TransgenderIndia is currently producing a Hindi language Youtube show called Kamala's PG. Kamala PG empowers trans-people to navigate the complex journey of gender transition.
Neysara also started the first ever trans-specific online discussion forum in India called “TALK”, which allows trans-people around the country to question and discuss issues about gender, life, career, and transition. “TALK” helps establish people-to-people connection between transgender people who are otherwise often isolated.

03/06/2021

*What does it mean to be a transgender person in India? What are the laws around gender transition? What can I/we do to help trans inclusion? How to be a trans ally? and How trans-friendly is our institute? Let's answer all of these questions*.
🚩 _IEEE WIE AFFINITY GROUP KGP Section and AMBAR IIT KGP_ jointly present
*Webinar on the need for inclusion in STEM*
🌈 *Event Timing*: 6th June 2021. 6.00-7.00 pm
🌈 *Book your ticket here*: https://forms.gle/A94XUmgzr7UWqr4B6
🌈 *Speaker*: Neysara Rai, Gender Activist
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19/05/2021

IEEE Women In Engineering (WiE) Affinity Group Kharagpur Section and Ambar, IIT Kharagpur is organizing a webinar talk on May 23, 2021 (Sunday).
The details of the talk are as follows:

Topic: "Gender Equality, Not just a term, part of our effort towards a more inclusive STEM"

Description of the talk: Science practice in India perceives itself to be an objective exercise. However, science is performed by scientists, who bring their own personal and social biases to their practice. Moreover, multiple pieces of evidence exist to show that science practice in India is dominated by cis heterosexual Savarna men. The webinar will highlight these inequities in Indian science practice through some data from the speaker's own work and well as those of others. Using some of his own work, he will also talk about how one can contribute to making STEM a more hospitable space for people from marginalized communities.

Speaker: Sayatan Datta, queer-trans science writer, communicator, and journalist, feminist multimedia science collective, TheLifeofScience.com

Biography: Sayantan Datta is a queer-trans science writer, communicator, and journalist. He currently works with the feminist multimedia science collective, TheLifeofScience.com

Date and Time: May 23, 2021, 6 - 7 PM

Mode: Online

Registration Link: https://forms.gle/G4VPSSbVvQaDayRB8
(Please register by May 22, 12 AM. The Google meet link will be shared with the registered participants.)

18/04/2021

IEEE Women In Engineering (WiE) Affinity Group Kharagpur Section is organising a webinar talk on April 22, 2021 (Thursday).
The details of the talk are as follows:

Topic: "Catch them young: Integrating gender sensitivity and inclusion in education"

Description of the talk: College life is the sweet phase in life where a student practices adulthood before going into the real world. What better time to explore the concept of inclusion and gender roles? We will look at what inclusion means and why this world needs it, especially in technology. The focus will also be on barriers and social conditioning, followed by possible ways to tackle this. The "diversity radar" is a muscle that can be built over time to pick up unconscious biases around us. The muscle can start with the easiest factor, gender and extend to other invisible structures like language, ethnicity and geography. Let us hope to start working on that muscle with this session.

Speaker: Maggie Inbamuthiah, CEO of Puppetica Media and Happifeet, India Advisor for the WISE (Women Invested to Save Earth)

Biography: Maggie Inbamuthiah is a technologist and entrepreneur with a passion for equity and inclusion. A multi-faceted personality, she is the CEO of Puppetica Media, bringing Indian stories to life; besides working as the India Advisor for the WISE (Women Invested to Save Earth) fund enabling entrepreneurs working on solutions to combat climate change. She runs Happifeet, an outdoors venture connecting people to nature and a nonprofit, Mandram, focused on bringing science and technology content in regional languages to the non-English speaking India. She is also the Community Director for the DEI network at Executive Networks. Having started her career with Infosys, more recently she was the Managing Director of AnitaB.org India, working towards 50/50 equity for women in technology. At AnitaB.org, Maggie was at the helm of the Grace Hopper Celebration conference India, as the conference grew from 3000 to 6000 attendees. Maggie has previously co-founded Employee Experts and My Campus Days, Tech product startups. Maggie is an avid trekker with many high altitude climbs in the Himalayas and recently, Kilimanjaro. A happy mother of two, Maggie is a writer and a yoga teacher. Maggie holds a Master's degree in HRM and Organizational Behaviour from the University of London and an Engineering degree from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/maggiei/?originalSubdomain=in

Date and Time: April 22, 2021, 7 - 8 PM

Mode: Online

Registration Link: https://forms.gle/Xq4o1yeYXCcB76KA9
(Please register by April 22, 12 PM. The Google meet link will be shared with the registered participants.)

05/03/2021

Dear All,
We are please to inform you that WiE is organizing a talk by Swati Chakrabarty, Deputy Director, Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy, Kolkata on disability, role of assistive technology and how as engineers we can lay a role in developing technologies to access accessibility and inclusion on 11 March, 5-6 PM.
Topic: "Role of assistive technology and how as engineers we can lay a role in developing technologies to access accessibility and inclusion"
Date and Time: 11 March 2021, 5:00 PM-6:00 PM
Speaker: Swati Chakrabarty, Deputy Director, Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy, Kolkata
Details of the talk:
Assistive technologies for people with multiple disabilities and complex communication needs access to assistive technologies and other adaptations is a right for persons with disabilities to accommodate their limitations. To be able to communicate is also a basic human right. Assistive technologies help people with complex communication needs to express themselves effectively. The lecture will showcase the benefits derived from using technologies by these perssons. We will also discuss the role of technologists to develop and promote use of assistive technologies for PWDs.
About the speaker:
Ms. Swati Chakrabarty did her Masters in Economics from Jadavpur University but was later drawn to the field of disability and did her post graduate training in assistive technology and Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) from Oxford University (as a TCTP scholar) and later went to Sydney University. She heads the department of Information Communication Technology at Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy, a national level NGO. She has won the international award (ABLENET) for developing the best, low-cost indigenous technology for AAC. She has presented papers and conducted training at many national and international forums and platforms. She is deeply involved with training in the field of disability and assistive technology for the last 30 years. Film making has always been a passion for her. She has been working in the audio-visual media for the last 10 years. Gender sensitivity and human rights having been her area of interest, her film 'I am Jeeja' won the National Film Awards 2017 as the Best Film on Social Issues (Non-fiction category) and many other national and International awards.

Mode: Online
Registration link: https://forms.gle/akAn7H1k7jXXuYgi9
(Please register by March 11, 10:00 AM. The Google meet link will be shared with the registered participants.)