• Global Initiative of Academic Networks(GIAN) on Neuromorphic Architectures Advanced Topics on Spiking Neural Networks and their Learning Algorithms, December 19 – December 30, 2017
1. Foreign Faculty : N Sundararajan, Professor ( Retired ), EEE, NTU, Singapore
2. Host Faculty : S K Padma

• SJCE Alumni Best Project Award – 2017 Project title: “Pothole Detection System”, Students Name: Ravish K G, Jayesh K B, Kruthik M S and Pavan Kumar, (BE in Information Science and Engineering) under the guidance of Dr. D S Vinod.

• B S Mahanand has been awarded with a Raman postdoctoral fellowship from University Grants Commission, Government of India at Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, USA in 2016-17

• B S Mahanand, Ramesh Shreyas and his team have won Best Student Project award for the year 2015-16 from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).

• B S Mahanand has been awarded Best Ph.D. Thesis Award from the Government of Karnataka’s Board for IT Education Standards

• Arun Kumar and team was awarded 1st Place in Recognition Task in Sclera Segmentation and Eye Detection Benchmarking Competition in Conjunction with International Joint Conference on Biometrics 2017, October 1 – 4, 2017, Denver, Colorado, USA.
• B S Hairsh , Arun Kumar and team were awarded 1st Prize in Segmentation and 2nd Prize in Recognition in Sclera Segmentation Benchmarking Competition organized by The 9th IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (ICB-2016), June 13 – June 19, 2016, Sweden.
• B S Hairsh , Arun Kumar and team were awarded “Best Paper Award” during IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Applications (ICKEA 2016), 28-30 September, 2016, Singapore.

• S P Shivaprakash secured “Excellent Team Work award” in the short term course on “Creativity and Innovation” conducted by IIT Delhi.

• Vani H Y was awarded with Best Paper presentation for Research Paper titled “Noisy speech recognition using wavelets and FCM” in 4th international conference on information and network security” Kuala Lumpur Malaysia ,December 28 to 31, 2016

• M S Maheshan received Best Paper Award for presenting research paper entitled “Indexing based Classification: An Approach towards classifying Text Documents” at Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam on 15th – 17th June 2017.