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TTAABBLLEE OOFF CCOONNTTEENNTTSS Index Team's Note Head's Message Tête-à-Tête with Prof. Shiladri Chakraborty Know your Professor: Amit Sethi Career Opportunities for Electrical Engineers Applying for Research Internships Golden Jubilee Special Teachers Day 01 Don't forget to fill our reader survey! What would you like to know about in the next issue? From Electrical Engineering to Painting: Interview with Vinay Sane Expert Insight: Rizwan Koita on the Future of Digital Healthcare Wellness in the Moment Informal Section: Launching EE Creatives Online Chaturs to Offline Ranchos! 03 05 20 24 27 31 07 11 32 02 15 19

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EE is one of the largest departments in IIT Bombay in the terms of the number of active faculty members, students enrolled and ongoing research funding. The department has made rapid strides during the last decade in all spheres of education and research. Our undergraduate program has always been known to be one of the best engineering undergraduate programs in the country. We now emphasize post-graduate education and research in a significant way. In our department, Masters and Doctoral students outnumber undergraduate students today. Our sponsored research activities have multiplied several folds. From 2002 to 2022, there has been a tenfold increase in terms of the sponsored research budget. The department has set up many state-of-the-art research laboratories and centres such as the Center for Excellence in Nanoelectronics, the National Center for Photovoltaic Research and Education, Telecom Center of Excellence. We recognize that we have a tremendous role to play in driving our country’s technology roadmap in the Electronics sector. If you are an alumnus of EE reading this, it is time to get in touch with us. Believe me, these are exciting times and we would love to get your support. Alumni support has always been a great driving force in the progress of our institute and we value our continued relationship with all alumni. Finally, our department has a long tradition of striving for excellence in whatever we do. I hope we will be able to maintain this in the years to come. Prof. Kishore Chatterjee Head of Department Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay 02

Tête-à-Tête withProf. Shiladri Chakraborty RESEARCH IN EV BATTERIES AND CHARGING Here is where ongoing inter-disciplinary research in EV batteries, charging stations and BMS, as well as smart infrastructure development, comes in. INTRODUCTION Prof. Shiladri works in the area of power electronics and energy conversion. Power electronics is a key enabling technology for a variety of applications like renewable energy systems, transportation electrification, space, >[email protected]

KNOW YOUR PROFESSOR: AMIT SETHI Prof. Amit Sethi works in image processing, computer vision, and machine learning. For the last few years, he has been working in deep learning and its application to digital pathology to analyse cancer tissue images. We reached out to Prof Amit Sethi to understand his research interests and career journey. Following are some excerpts from the conversation that followed: Can you walk us through your journey here at IIT Bonmbay? Before joining IIT Bombay in 2017, I was at IIT Guwahati where I worked with cancer pathology images using image processing and AI. AI being the “hot” field it is, I was fortunate to get undergrads as well as post-graduates to come together and brainstorm on the problems that I was working on. I already had a collaboration with Tata Memorial and attained two more after coming here. With these, I realized that entities from different domains can come together to build ideas that can lead to the betterment of the people. Since the number of people interested in this field was much larger now, I mused, why not start a new lab here? What are some of the challenges that you’ve faced? One of the major roadblocks in this field is the small training >[email protected]. For submissions, email [email protected] Thanks for reading! Team BH and Team ACE Background Hum