IEEE WIE SBAG of the University of Jaffna won “Emerging Affinity Group Award 2024”

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The IEEE Women in Engineering Student Branch Affinity Group of the University of Jaffna (IEEE-WIE-SBAG-UoJ) has been honoured with the Emerging Affinity Group Award in the Student Affinity Group Category by the IEEE Sri Lanka Section presented at the IEEE Sri Lanka Section Awards Ceremony held on 15th of September 2024 at Hotel Sudu Araliya, Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka. The award acknowledges the group’s outstanding volunteer service and unwavering dedication to the IEEE Sri Lanka Section.

The IEEE-WIE-SBAG-UoJ conducted the following activities in the period of 16th January 2024 – to date in receiving the above award:

  • “GitHub: Hands-on-Session” held on 20-21 January 2024
  • “Mastering Your Career Blueprint” in collaboration with IEEE Computer Society Student Branch Chapter UoJ and Career Guidance Unit University of Jaffna held on 3 February 2024
  • “Beyond the Books: Navigating Examinations with Integrity” held on 29 February 2024
  • “Diverse Voices, United Vision- celebrating International Women’s Day 2024” held on 8 March 2024
  • “Igniting Research Passion – Vol.1 – Opportunities and Challenges in Big Data” held on 3 April 2024
  • “Igniting Research Passion – Vol.2 – Smart Connections: Unveiling the future at the Crossroads of IoT and AI” held on 9 April 2024
  • “Cybersecurity & Personal Leadership Session – celebrating International Girls in ICT Day 2024” held on 25 April 2024
  • “Igniting Research Passion – Vol.3 – Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Traffic Management” held on 11 May 2024
  • “Igniting Research Passion – Vol.4 – Cognitive Complexity in Software Engineering” held on 19 May 2024
  • GeSSoMI-2024: Cybersecurity Bootcamp in collaboration with Google exploreCSR Award between the University of Jaffna and University of Melbourne held on 17 June 2024
  • “AI in 4IR: Looking Back and Looking Forward – celebrating IEEE WIE Day 2024” held on 11 July 2024
  • “Shaping the Web’s Future with Decentralized Knowledge Graphs – Celebrating WWW Day” held on 1 August 2024
  • “Igniting Research Passion – Vol.5 – Smart Gait for Good Health” held on 19 August 2024
  • “Igniting Research Passion – Vol.6 – Transforming Computer Vision with Transformers” held on 2 September 2024
  • “Igniting Research Passion – Vol.7 – Beyond the Surface: A Dive into Deepfake Detection” held on 9 September 2024
  • “WIsdom Exchange: W(i)E Grow Together” held from 29 July 2024 to 4 September 2024

IEEE-WIE-SBAG-UoJ won the grant amount of USD 400, awarded by the R10 WIE IEEE DEI Grant 2024 on 29 April 2024.

Dr. (Ms.) R. Nirthika and her team were recognized for their achievement during her tenure (2024/2025) as Advisor/IEEE-WIE-SBAG-UoJ.

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