# TG Life
Many brilliant students of Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani), K K Birla Goa Campus, Zuarinagar, have been awarded prestigious scholarships and internships across the globe. While Arnav Gupta and Akul Gupta have been awarded the prestigious MITACS Globalink Research Internship sponsored by the government of Canada for the summer of 2019, Abhiraj Hinge was selected as one of the Economic Times Campus Stars - Class of 2018-19. Harsh Vijay who secured 21st rank in the National Graduate Physics Examination (NGPE) conducted by the Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT) in January 2019, has also been selected for the National Initiative on Undergraduate Sciences (NIUS) (Physics) Camp 16.1 organised by Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE), TIFR (Mumbai). Siddhant Vitthal Patil has been selected for the ILDP START plus 2019, International Linkage Degree Program for Developing Innovators Transforming Advanced Technology to Social Goals. Mehul Mohan has been awarded a scholarship to participate in the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2019 in California.
Arnav Gupta, a fourth-year biological sciences student, has secured the prestigious MITACS Globalink Reasearch Internship sponsored by the government of Canada for the summer of 2019 from May 1 to June 30. As part of this internship, Arnav will be undertaking research on ‘Bioinformatics Technician in Genomics & Metagenomics’ under Professor Robert Colautti at Queen’s University “ Kingston, Canada.
Mitacs Globalink Research Internship is a competitive program for international undergraduates Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong SAR, India, Mexico, Tunisia, United Kingdom, and Ukraine, that pairs top-ranked international students with specific research expertise with faculty at Canadian universities for a twelve week research project of mutual interest in the period of May to October. The research internship is held under the supervision of Canadian university faculty members in a variety of academic disciplines, from science, engineering and mathematics to the humanities and social sciences.
Third year student of Computer Science & Information Systems and Economics Akul Gupta has been awarded the prestigious MITACS Globalink Research Internship sponsored by the government of Canada for the summer of 2019 May 17 May to August 8. As part of his internship, Akul will be undertaking research on ‘Testing of Machine Learning Programs’ under Professor Hadi Hemmati at University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Abhiraj Hinge, a third-year computer science student, was selected as one of the Economic Times Campus Stars - Class of 2018-19. This year, 91 students were selected from a pool of 35,000 odd applicants from over 2,000 odd engineering colleges in India. The selection was conducted over four rounds, the first two of which were psychometric and domain-knowledge tests. Third round involved a group activity to determine leadership skills. The last round was an interview conducted by a panel member from a panel of CXOs. Abhiraj was interviewed by the CEO of Haptik Chatbots, a company that was subsequently acquired for $100 million by Reliance.
ET Campus Stars is an initiative for recognising and rewarding India’s brightest engineering students. Currently into its second edition, this initiative is meant to encourage and nurture young engineers who will be driving the growth of this country as they join the corporate bandwagon.
Harsh Vijay, a first-year student of Physics, secured 21st rank in the National Graduate Physics Examination (NGPE) conducted by The Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT) in January 2019. Harsh has also been selected for the National Initiative on Undergraduate Sciences (NIUS) (Physics) Camp 16.1 organised by Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE), TIFR (Mumbai) from June 10-22. With thrust on promoting undergraduate research and learning, the NIUS programme has been contributing towards training of students and teachers in theoretical and experimental science, preparation of pedagogical material and R & D in science education/laboratory training. Harsh is the only BITS students amongst the 72 students from prestigious colleges/universities across India who will participate in this programme.
Siddhant Vitthal Patil, a fourth-year student of EEE department studying ENI, has been selected for the ILDP START plus 2019, International Linkage Degree Program for Developing Innovators Transforming Advanced Technology to Social Goals. The program is scheduled from June 24-30 at Hiroshima University. Siddhant will be financially supported by the Sakura Science Plan, Japan Science and Technology Agency and Hiroshima University.
ILDP-START plus Program is an intensive short course, providing an introduction to the exciting and emerging field of cutting-edge technology of Hiroshima University, especially the laboratories relevant to ILDP target fields; smart infrastructure development, new energy, and environmental sustainability.
Mehul Mohan, a second year student of Computer Science & Information Systems, has been awarded a scholarship to participate in the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2019 scheduled from June 3-7 at San Jose, California (USA). WWDC is awarded to around 250-300 students globally and (nine students from India this time) offering free passes to attend WWDC in San Jose, California. Scholarship includes a ticket to the conference, lodging for the week and one year membership in the Apple Developer Programme.
