Research Cluster Of Computing – RCC

Achievements 2019-20

Smart India Hackathon: Team XCODERS won MHRD’s SMART INDIA HACKATHON 2019 under Software Edition Category on problem statement of MSME at LPU nodal center, during the Grand Finale of third edition (Software) of Smart India Hackathon- 2019, held on March 2 and March 3, 2019. It is the world biggest Open Innovation Model organized at 48 nodal centers across the country simultaneously by Ministry of HRD and with assistance and observation of AICTE, MIC MSME, i4c and Persistent.

De1CTF CTF 2019 : Team De1ta: Mr. Deepak Rana, Mr. Prince Kaliraman, Mr. Lakshya and Mr. Anmol, scored 182^nd position out of 1000 International participants at the De1CTF CTF 2019 (48 Hrs) Jeopardy-style Online Capture the Flag Competition. The online game is opened to all participants around the world.

YEAR 2020-21

Team PurAire – 2nd runner up Health Science and Allied Subject Category

The Zonal Level of Anveshan 2020 was organized at Amity University Gurugram where more than 50 teams participated among 5 categories. Team PurAire: Ashish Chaudhary, Balbeer Singh, and Nilansh Khurana, B.Tech. CSE students of Manav Rachna University under the guidance of Dr. Parneeta participated in the Health Science and allied Subject Category where they competed with 15 other teams from different colleges and different Disciplines of North Zone and bagged 3rd position in Health and Science category and got selected for Nationals of Anveshan 2020.

2. Computer Science & Technology Department, Manav Rachna University congratulates Team – PSYCRYPTERS working under the guidance of RCC (Research Cluster of Computing) for grabbing the opportunity to compete in Smart India Hackathon (SIH) Finals.

SIH has been launched by the Union Human Resource Development Minister Shri Prakash Javadekar, in collaboration with #CISCO, #MyGov, and #NASSCOM to harness the creativity and expertise of students. It is 36 hours non – stop digital product development competition during which teams of technology students build innovative digital solutions for the problems posted by different central government ministries/departments and industries.

Best wishes to RCC Team – PSYCRYPTERS comprising Minhajul Hossain, Parul Taneja, Deepak Rana, Naman Gupta, Parikshit Sharma, Prince Kaliraman & Manav Rachna marks its presence at Smart India Hackathon

3.Mukul Singh, Parul Taneja, Ridhi Sethi, Deepak Rana, and Abhishek Pandey (B.Tech CST 4th Semester,RCC,MRU), won 2nd Prize in 24hrs HACKATHON “TECHNOVATION” under the theme – “Security & Surveillance”, amongst 151 teams across the state.

The team presented the solution – P-BAND (#PollutionBand), to detect pollution along with security tool kit. P-BAND is a wearable, portable and cost efficient device to detect air quality index with a mobile application connected to server and website to track one’s location. It can also be used as a security tool kit for girls and children.

All the team members won INR 20,000 and also got certificate from Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority in association with Sharda University.

4. Facial Recognition and RFID Lock Project | Silver Medal | YASH 2020

B.Tech CSE students of Manav Rachna University: Karan Aditya Ghoshal, Prince Kaliraman and Deepak Rana, won Silver Medal in Youth Activities for Superior Humanity – YASH 2020, organized by Foundation for Global Science Initiatives (FGSI).

They competed against 40 teams of the Engineering and Technology category in the Masters age-group.

The team’s project, Facial Recognition & RFID Lock, is a solution for the upcoming challenge in Physical Security. It provides effective protection with the usage of 2 Factor Authentication.

Due to it being scalable and easy to manage, this solution is also highly flexible and customizable, meaning that it can be also implemented with existing systems without any problem. The usage of physical hardware and smart software makes it a unique solution.

5. Blissboard Project | Silver Medal | Yash 2020

Students of B.Tech CSE Manav Rachna University: Mukul Singh and Parul Taneja, participated in an international competition ‘YASH 2020 organized by the Foundation of Global Science Initiatives (FGSI) and won ‘Silver Medal’ in the category of master age group.

Their product Blissboard provides an External Keyboard for Visually impaired peoples. BlissBoard has been implemented in such a way that any person can type using Braille Script (language). It helps visually impaired people to connect with Social Life and access various features of their phone manually and by voice too.

6.Team Apostles – Second Prize | 24hrs HACKATHON TECHNOVATION @Sharda University

The students of B.Tech. Computer Science & Technology, under RCC Manav Rachna University Deepak Rana, Lizel Mehta, Prince Kaliraman and Karan Aditya Ghoshal, won 2nd prize in 24hrs HACKATHON TECHNOVATION at Sharda University. They won the prize under the theme – “Security and Surveillance”, amongst 238 teams across the country.

The team presented the solution i.e. Hi Jack-et, to detect pollution along with security tool kit. Hi Jack-et consists of a wearable Jacket, a smartphone application and a web app. It tells the concentration of Particular Matter around you and about the harmful gases concentration present near you. Not only this, Hi Jack-et is also having the feature of temperature adjustability i.e. heating and cooling effect according to the user wish.

There are charging and aux bypass to charge on the go so there is more mobility and you can charge it on the go. There is snapin extra battery module. It can track one’s location and can also be used as a security toolkit for girls and children.

Team won prize money of INR 20,000 and also got certificate from Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority in association with Sharda University.

2018 RCC Achievements

Android Development Team:
Completed first Swachh Green Faridabad App for Faridabad Industries Association. This app connects Faridabad people for marathon. This app is to be uploaded on FIA’s official website. A team of contributors comprising of FCA students Mr. Chandan Kumar and Mr. Karan Chandra has developed the system under supervision of Dr. Jay Bhatnagar. They have also trained 20 to 30 interested students from FET, MRU and FCA on App Development process.

Web Development Team:
Completed Web Development & Android App for Umeed NGO, New Delhi, under MoU with Umeed Organization. A team of contributors comprising of FCA & FET students Ms. Somaya Dwivedi, Ms. Nikita Popply, Mr. Sachin Kamat & Mr. Rishab Bisht has developed the system under supervision of Dr. Jay Bhatnagar. They have also trained 10 to 15 interested students from FET, MRU and FCA on Web Development process.

Student profile competition 

Foldable Smart solution entry:
A team of students comprises of FET students Mr. Chander Shekhar and Mr. Mayank Gupta under the supervision of Dr. Jay Bhatnagar has proposed a solution for foldable smart phone which was organized by US Department of Commerce (Innocentive Skills).

GD Goenka Speed Challenge:
Three teams of students comprise of MRU, FET & FCA students Mr. Palash Dubey, Mr. Pulkit Sharma, Mr. Saurabh Sethi Mr. Karan Chandra and Mr. Chandan Kumar with projects Satvik Food, Energy Advisor & Swachh Green City under the supervision of Dr. Jay Bhatnagar has been selected for GD Goenka Speed Challenge.

Sign of literacy software environment – Linguistic skills:
This is a student’s software package which talks about listening and spoken linguistic pronunciation. This software package is under development with FCA students Mr. Chandan Kumar & Mr. Karan Chandra under the supervision of Dr. Jay Bhatnagar.

Team PurAire – 2nd runner up Health Science and Allied Subject Category.

• Research Publications (Scopus, WOS, SCIE, EBSCO or HQ with impact factor)

Research Publications

• Riya Sapra, P.Dhaliwal. “Securing data using blockchain.” In Principles of Internet of Things (IoT) Ecosystems: Insight Paradigm. Intelligent Systems Reference Library “Springer”. (Accepted, In Print)
• Dhaliwal, A.Kumar, P. Potalia. 2019. “An Approach for handling concept drifting streams: Early Dynamic Weighted Majority”. Presented at the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Data Science (ICCIDS-2019), 6-7^th Sept., 2019, Gurgaon, India.
• Riya Sapra and Parneeta Dhaliwal. 2018. “Blockchain: The new era of Technology.” In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Grid Computing (PDGC), Shimla, India, 495-499. DOI: 10.1109/PDGC.2018.8745811
• Savita and Parneeta Dhaliwal. 2018. An Ensemble Approach for Handling the Novel Instances in Dynamic data. In Proceedings of 5th International Conference on  Parallel, Distributed and Grid Computing(PDGC), pp. 19-23, Shimla, India. DOI: 1109/PDGC.2018.8745803
• Ashish Chaudhary, Nilansh Khurana, Parneeta Dhaliwal, 2019. “ Smartcare for Incapacitated Population” presented at the International Conference on Recent Trends in Computer Applications & Information Technology (RTCAIT2019) on 19-20^th April, 2019, Mullana, India.
• Yashika Sharma, Sachin Lakra, “Green Cloud Job Scheduling and Load Balancing using Hybrid Biogeography based Optimization and Genetic Algorithm: A proposed approach”, Accepted in International conference on Micro-Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Ghaziabad, UP, India, 28-29 September, 2019.
• Yashika Sharma, Sachin Lakra, “A Transition towards Green IT: An Initiative”, Accepted in International conference on Micro-Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Ghaziabad, UP, India, 28-29 September, 2019.
• Sanjay Kumar, Priyanka Gupta, Sachin Lakra, Lavanya Sharma, Ram Chatterjee, “The Zeitgeist Juncture of “Big Data” and its Future Trends”, IEEE COMITCON-2019, Faridabad, India, 14-16 February, 2019, pp. 493-497.
• Shailja Gupta, Sachin Lakra, Manpreet Kaur, “ Sentiment Analysis using Partial Textual Entailment”, IEEE COMITCON-2019, Faridabad, India, 14-16 February, 2019, pp. 57-61.

To be in progress