Friday, April 21, 2017

At Deloitte Hyderabad

The two days in the Deans Summit at Deloitte in Hyderabad held on 13 and 14 April 2017 can be best described as ‘extremely thought provoking’. It not only provided a good connect to academic leaders but also gave an effective feel of disruptive teaching-learning process in store for us in the future. Some of the learnings from the summit were: a little nudge, world-class institution, expectations from millennials/ GensZ and sustainability of education for societal growth. It was an excellent exposure sharing our breakthrough theme- ‘Dream industry engagement for employability enhancement’. The NorthCap University’s Director, School of Engineering & Technology, Prof. Ravindra Ojha was invited by Deloitte to attend this meet.


Guest Lecture on Cyber Attacks & Threats

An expert talk was delivered by Mr Rahul Tyagi, Vice President Lucideus Technology Pvt Ltd on ‘The Next Generation Cyber Attacks & Threats’ organized by the Dept of CSE & IT  for Cyber Security BTech and MTech  students on 11 April 2017. Mr Tyagi discussed about the different ways of exploitation, how a user’s mobile can be hacked, how sites can be exploited to download movies and pdf files just by accessing the internet smartly. He also suggested different types of projects which can be undertaken by students. Dr Supriya Raheja coordinated the event.

Mr Rahul Tyagi

Guest Lecture on Machine Learning

A guest lecture was conducted by Dr Sankalp Kallakuri, Technical Lead, Mando Softtech India on the topic ‘Machine Learning techniques and its application in Self-Driving cars’ for BTech CSE 3rd Year students on 11 April 2017. The focus of the lecture was on various types of Machine Learning algorithms. Dr Sankalp explained the concept of supervised and unsupervised algorithms for categorical and continuous domains. He also explained how these algorithms are used in self-driving cars, the current and future trends in this area and the companies that are actually working in this field. It was an interactive session and the speaker appreciated the students’ response to his follow up questions. 

Dr Sankalp Kallakuri is PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Stony Brook University, New York, USA where he has also worked as an Adjunct Faculty. 

Dr Sankalp Kallakuri

NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE ADMINISTRATION IN INDIA: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AND CHALLENGES ORGANIZED BY SCHOOL OF LAW, THE NORTHCAP UNIVERSITY

There have been series of deliberations among the legal academia and practitioners on the functioning of various agencies involved in the administration of criminal justice in the recent times. There is no denying the fact that such discourses do have a strong impact on the criminal justice process that involve the law enforcement agencies, prosecution, judiciary and corrections. With the advancement of science and technology, every stage of criminal proceeding encounters new challenges which need to be addressed. Access to justice, in general is a major challenge in the contemporary time and the factors responsible for its denial need to be pondered upon for a more accountable system of criminal justice. Taking these facts into consideration, School of Law, the NorthCap University in collaboration with the Indian Bar Association organized a ‘National Conference on Criminal Justice Administration in India: Contemporary Issues & Challenges’ on April 8, 2017. Eminent dignitaries from the legal fraternity such as Justice Vidya Bhushan Gupta, Former Judge, Delhi High Court, Prof. (Dr.) G.S. Bajpai, Registrar, National Law University Delhi, New Delhi and Sh. KTS Tulsi, Senior Advocate, the Supreme Court of India were present during the Inaugural Ceremony to grace the occasion. In his Welcome address, Prof. (Dr.) Prem Vrat, Pro-Chancellor, NCU expressed his pleasure to host the conference on a contemporary theme and stated “a holistic approach is the need of the hour towards facilitation of better criminal justice administration”. One of his suggestions was interlinking of law and technology to facilitate a smoother justice administration. Emphasizing on the importance of the Conference on an area which is highly crucial in today’s time, Mr. KTS Tulsi expressed concerns about the invisibility of the victims and the plight of the poor section in the criminal justice system. He also provided concrete suggestions such as recording of telephone calls in police stations during registration of cases and setting up a separate interrogation room facilitating a fair process. Justice Vidya Bhushan Gupta shared some of his experiences and challenges encountered during the justice delivery process. He referred to some of the crucial provisions of the Criminal law and encouraged the young lawyers to explore the possibility of their effective application in the administration of criminal justice. Justice Gupta also highlighted the plight of the victims in the process. Delivering the keynote address, Prof. (Dr.) G.S. Bajpai, Registrar, National Law University Delhi, emphasized on crucial issues such as access to justice, how the poor class is placed in the system and over-criminalization. He also expressed- “lesser importance has been given on criminal justice, which itself has become a problem rather than a solution”. Addressing the participants from all over the country, who have contributed their research papers on various relevant themes such as cyber-crime investigation, juvenile justice, courts etc, Prof. Bajpai suggested all the researchers from other institutions as well as the NorthCap University to focus on conducting empirical studies to identify the major challenges in the criminal justice system. The Conference had various technical sessions where around one hundred students and professionals from different institutions presented their research papers. The sessions were chaired by eminent academicians. Three research papers were awarded the First, Second and Third Prize in the Conference. The awardees are -

First Prize - Arshia Katyal, USLLS (GGSIPU), & Smrita Sinha, Amity Law School, Delhi

Second Prize - Anusha Arif & Akash Chaudhury, Aligarh Muslim University, U.P.

Third Prize - Jyotsna Arora & Karandeep Singh, USLLS (GGSIPU)

The awards and other certificates were distributed during the Valedictory Session held at the end of the day.