The event was honored by the presence of Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh (Minister of State (IC) of the Ministry of Science & Technology and Ministry of Earth Sciences) and German Federal Minister of Education & Research, Ms. Bettina Stark-Watzinger. The project exhibitions were inaugurated by Dr. Jitendra Singh and I got an opportunity to brief our Indo-German Science & Technology Centre Women Involvement in Science and Engineering Research (WISER) project to the Minister. Many thanks to my Host, Prof. Dr. Akash Kumar (Chair of Embedded Systems) Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), for collaboration. There were several panel discussions on Indo-German Science & Technology cooperation on IGSTC, DAAD, DFG, and FAIR facilities. Shared a moment with Prof. V Ramgopal Rao (Vice Chancellor, BITS Pilani), Prof. Ashutosh Sharma (President, Indian National Science Academy), Ms. Dörte Merk (DLR) to explain our project on Hardware accelerator for sparse neural networks for AI applications. Also, honoured to attend the breakfast meeting with Hon'ble Federal Minister of Education and Research, Ms. Bettina Stark-Watzinger on 25th October 2024. Discussed about the representation of Women in Science and Technology and shared the experience of all WISER Awardees about their visit to Germany. Extremely grateful to Mr. Madhan R Sir, Director IGSTC and P V Lalitha Nair Madam for their immense support in carrying out the project. Many thanks to Mr. Saquib Shaikh for the coordination. Thanks to the administrative support from Indian Institute of Information Technology Kottayam . Indo-German Science & Technology Centre German Embassy New Delhi Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung I²CS Research Lab-IIIT Kottayam
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