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Abstract:
EPICS Around the Globe
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
10:30am – 11:30am
East Room, 3 rd Floor
Panel:
EPICS (Engineering Projects in
Community Service)
The objective of the panel discussion will be an introduction of the Engineering
Projects In Community Service (EPICS) Program and the EPICS Initiative from
IEEE. Primary target audience for the panel is faculty and leadership from
academia around the world. The moderator will introduce in brief about EPICS
and its past success within IEEE and outside. Panel discussion will include
service oriented Projects as part of learning at undergraduate level, structuring
EPICS in academic curriculum and pre university Interaction
Moderator:
Prasanna Venkatesan is the co-founder of amgonna.com
and hubvents.com. He is primarily interested in business
models and technology that can enable effective real life
people connections. Prior to this, he worked with the IBM
Software Labs. At IBM in collaboration with IBM Research
he initiated and lead the iCollaborate project on people
connections that was further demonstrated in the ACM
SIGIR Conference. He also lead the IBM campus relations
effort for National Institute of Technology, Warangal from
where he graduated with Bachelors in Computer Science in 2008 and conducted
research on Security and access control techniques.
He has been an IEEE Volunteer since 2004. He is currently a voting member on
the IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB) and a member of the EAB Society
Education Outreach Committee (SEOC), EPICS and Pre University Education
Coordination Committee (PECC). He leaded the expansion of EPICS in
India initiating 15 projects in the last 2 years. He is also currently serving as the
R10 GINI Coordinator and R10 Membership development coordinator for IEEE
Computer Society. He is highly interested in IEEE Pre University efforts and
leads the Teacher in Service Program activities in India
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