"No substitute for hard work to become a great engineer" | Prof Kamakoti, Director, IIT Madras

[00:01:50] Professor Kamakoti’s subject: What he teaches and research interests 

[00:04:20] Reconfigurable Intelligent Systems Engineering Lab: Origin of Shakti Project and the other Startups

[00:10:41] India Semiconductor Mission: What will India be able to achieve?

[00:12:28] B.Tech in Computer Science today: The 3 verticals and the coursework

[00:20:09] B.Tech in AI and Data Analytics: How is it different from a Computer Science B.Tech?

[00:24:49] Department of Medical Science: The courses it offers

[00:29:57] Academia Industry Handoff: The innovation and entrepreneurship stack

[00:35:55] Placement Cell to Career Pathway Cell: Jobs are not the only end goal for students

[00:42:30] JEE Exam: What makes it so difficult?

[00:46:14] Duality of JEE Rank: There is no bad course

[00:51:00] Advice to Parents: Talk to the child and understand their interest first

[00:55:26] Future of Science in 11th and 12th: Will students ever enjoy the syllabus?

[00:58:00] NIRF Rank 1 for 8 Years: What makes IIT Madras so good?

[01:01:12] Improvement in QS Rankings: Are international rankings aligned to what IITM can do?

[01:04:15] Siddhir Bhavati Karmaja: What does it mean, and how should students and alumni carry it forward?

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[00:01:18] IIT Madras

[00:14:14] The winner of the M Alumni Achiever award for this year is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University

[00:30:00] CFI building houses the Nirmaan centre on the first floor and the Gopalakrishnan Deshpande Centre on the second floor and the E-Cell.

[00:31:01] The Raftar Team is working on their race car in the background of the video

[00:51:09] Counselling used to be done in the ICSR hall earlier

[00:040:11] Sharan Jagathrakshakan from Mindgrove Technologies was Professor Kamakoti’s PhD student

[00:04:33] Professor Balaraman Ravindran joined the Computer Science department after Professor Kamakoti

[00:04:47] Professor Shankar Balanchandran joined after Professor Kamakoti and Professor Ravindran, and they began the RISE lab

[00:22:41] Sunil Wadhwani is one of the alumni of IIT Madras who has sponsored the Wadhwani School of AI and Data Engineering

[00:32:31] Professor Ravindra Gettu was the Dean before Professor Kamakoti

[00:36:19] Dr. Somnath C Roy was present at the IIT Madras Institute Day

[00:36:21] The chief of ANRF Dr. Shivkumar Kalyanaraman is an alumnus of IIT Madras

[00:46:51] The Finance Minister, Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman has allocated 6000 extra students in the 3rd generation IITs.

[00:54:35] The co-founder of Swiggy Phani Kishan Addepalli is a Computer Science alumnus of IIT Madras

[00:54:43] Sriram Kalyanaraman, another IIT Madras alumnus, helped in setting up the Happiness course in IIT Madras

[00:05:54] Mindgrove Technologies, InCore Semiconductors, Vyoma Systems and Saankhya Labs are the four startups that are using chips made by the Shakti project

[00:31:03] This video was recorded in the week that Ather Energy announced their IPO

[00:35:10] Agnikul is one of the deep core startups that was incubated in IIT Madras

[00:35:14] Professor Kamakoti mentions Avishkar Hyperloop and TuTr as some of the companies that have come out of E-Cell

[00:35:22] Planys Technologies and Solinas Technologies are also deep core technology startups that were incubated at IIT Madras

[00:27:10] The author of the book Virtual You was in IIT Madras recently and Professor Kamakoti recommends that all viewers should read this book.

[00:05:31] The Shakti Project is one of the big deliverables that has come out of the RISE lab

[00:10:29] The India Semiconductor Mission aims to build a strong semiconductor and display ecosystem, positioning India as a global hub for electronics

[00:25:04] Admission to the Medical Sciences department at IIT is through the IATS (IISER Aptitude Test)

[00:28:15] The Prime Minister came up with the NDHM (National Digital Health Mission)

[00:57:55] NIRF rank refers to the ranking of Indian higher education institutions based on the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) created by the Ministry of Education, Government of India