About WeTA 2020

Virtual Conference on “Wearable Technologies & Applications (WeTA 2020): Emerging Trends and Innovations” is being organized online by the School of Electronics Engineering (SENSE), VIT Vellore from 26th to 27th June 2020. WeTA 2020 aims at providing a unique online interdisciplinary platform in bringing together academicians, researchers, industrialists and students across the world to highlight various emerging technologies and application trends as well as address various research challenges and latest innovations in the field of Flexible and Wearable Technologies.


Conference is held through Zoom at Free of Cost



Thrust Areas

  • Wearables for healthcare, navigation
  • Wearable sensors and advanced materials
  • Smart Fabrics
  • E-Textiles
  • IoT and wearables
  • Flexible, stretchable, printed & hybrid electronics
  • Fabrication, packaging and assembly techniques
  • Micro batteries, energy storage and energy harvesters

About VIT

Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) was established in 1984 as Vellore Engineering College by the Honourable Chancellor Dr. G. Viswanathan with the aim of providing quality higher education on par with international standards. VIT is recently recognized as Institution of Eminence (IOE) by Government of India. Having fully committed to its Vision - "Transforming life through excellence in education and research", VIT is focussing on quality teaching-learning process, research and innovation, which would make the institute distinct from others. Currently VIT has 4 campuses – in Vellore, Chennai, Amaravati (AP) and Bhopal (MP). The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) of the MHRD, Government of India, has identified VIT as the best Private Engineering Institution in India for 4 years in a row (NIRF-2016 2017, 2018 and 2019 rankings). VIT is Ranked No.1 Private Institution for Innovation (ARIIA 2019 award) by Govt. of India. VIT is the first and only in India to get 4 star rating from QS, the world universities ranking organization. VIT achieved 18th position among the engineering institutions in India by NIRF 2019, Govt. of India. In addition to this, the consortium of industries, FICCI conferred VIT with the “Excellence in Faculty award. VIT has consistently received “A” grade in the past three cycles of NAAC accreditation. In addition, VIT also has received the coveted ABET accreditation, which is widely recognized throughout the world. VIT has already been ranked by the major International rankings such as QS World University Ranking, QS BRICS University Ranking, QS Asia University Ranking, THE World University Ranking, THE Asia University Ranking, THE Emerging Economies University Ranking and US News Ranking. VIT is the first Institution in India to get 4 star rating by QS. VIT has A Grade accreditation from NAAC, Government of India. Further, 14 of its Engineering programmes have ABET- (USA) accreditation.


June 26-27
2020

Vellore,
India

Registration is
free of cost

12
Speakers

Speakers

Prof. Vijayan Sugumaran

Oakland University, Michigan, USA

Dr. Vivekananthan Venkateswaran

Jeju National University, South Korea

Dr. Bhaskar Dudemn

University of Surrey, UK

Mr. Arun Vydhyanathan

Xsens Netherlands

Prof. Bindu Salim

PSG Institute of Advanced Sciences

Dr. Rakesh Kumar Gupta,

University of Manchester, UK

Prof. Soumen Das

SMST, IIT Kharagpur

Dr. Mohan Kumar R

Country Head (India) for Wearable Technologies (AG)

Mr. Prabhanjan Rao

CEO Galore systems, Bangalore

Mr. Nitin Awasthi

Director, APSIS Solutions

Mr. R Dhakshinamoorthy

Principal Architect - IoT, TCS

Mr. Ganga Gopal

Sales Director, Xsens Netherlands

TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE- WeTA 2020

Organisers

Chief Patron

Dr. G. Viswanathan
Chancellor

Patrons

Mr. Sankar Viswanathan
Vice President

Dr. Sekar Viswanathan
Vice President

Mr. G. V. Selvam
Vice President

Ms. Kadhambari S. Viswanathan
Assistant Vice President

Dr. Sandhya Pentareddy
Executive Director

Co Patrons

Dr. Anand A. Samuel
Vice Chancellor

Dr. S. Narayanan
Pro-Vice Chancellor

Dr. K. Sathiyanarayanan
Registrar

Technical Advisory Committee

Dr.Zachariah C Alex
Director SPORIC
Dr.Elizabeth Rufus
Professor, SENSE
Mr. Ganga Gopal
Sales Director, Xsens Netherlands

Organizing Committee

Chairman : Dr.Harish Kitturr, Dean SENSE

Convenor: Dr. Dharani Bai G, SBT, SENSE

Coordinators:

Dr. Sivacoumar R- HOD, SBT, SENSE

Dr. Kathirvelan J

Dr. Prakash R

Dr. SharmilaNageswaran

Dr. Vidhya S

Dr. Arunkumar Chandrasekhar

Dr. Debashis Maji

Registration

Who Can Attend :

UG/PG students, Ph.D/Postdoc, faculties, scientists from R&D institutes and industry researchers intertested.


For details mail to weta.registration@vit.ac.in

Please join our conference through zoom webinar from your computer, tablet or smartphone for FREE. Details regarding link to the zoom webinar and password will be communicated to the registered email address.

E-Certificate :

E- certificates will be issued to all the participants.

Convenor

Dr. G. Dharani Bai
Associate Professor
Department of Sensors & Biomedical Technology,
Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT).
Vellore, Tamilnadu, India - 632 014.
Mobile: +91-98657 03990
Email: gdharanibai@vit.ac.in

For Registration related queries
Mail to weta.registration@vit.ac.in


*The virtual conference will be online via ZOOM Registration is free of cost. Participants can register using the link below on or before 24th June 2020

Designed and developed By
Centre for Wearable Technology and Applications School of Electronics Engineering
SENSE, VIT Vellore.

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