ABOUT PANJAB UNIVERSITY, CHANDIGARH

Panjab University is the fourth oldest university of the country, established in 1882 at Lahore. The University acquired
this campus at Chandigarh in 1955-56. It is a University of
national character and stature by virtue of its age, experience, achievements, philosophy. It has drawn its faculty and
students from all over the country. Panjab University has a
long tradition of pursuing excellence in teaching and research in Science & Technology, Humanities, Social Sciences, performing arts and sports. The 78 teaching and re-

ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE

Interested persons should send their consent before
25th April, 2016 at the following email address:Key Dates
Email: vmangat@pu.ac.in
Participants will be selected on first-come-first-serve
basis as the number of seats are limited. Registration
form on the enclosed performa duly signed by the appropriate authorities should be submitted along with
the proof of payment (cash or DD) by 3rd May, 2016.
Paid accommodation can be arranged on request as
per availability.

Panjab University

One week
Faculty Development Programme
on
Data Analytics and Big Data
(May 23-28, 2016)

search departments and 15 Centers/Chairs for teaching and

research are spread over 550 acres, in Sectors 14 & 25.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

The University campus vibrates with outstanding academic

ambience and fervent research culture. Recently it has been

Ms. Roopali Garg

accredited by NAAC with a CGPA of 3.35 on a 4 point scale

Ms. Inderdeep Kaur Aulakh

at A grade in 2015. it has been ranked as 1st among univer-

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sities in India and 38th in Asia in the Times Higher Education

Ms. Puneet Jai Kaur

Asian Universities Ranking 2015.

ABOUT UIET
The UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY at PANJAB UNIVERSITY has prospered by leaps
and bounds over the years achieving great academic

Ms. Amandeep Verma

Ms. Rajkumari
Ms. Sukesha Sharma
Dr. Yogita
Ms. Neelam Goel

heights. Started in 2002, measuring up to the high stand-

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ards of university, the Institute has set quality standards in

Mr. Sukhvir Singh

Technical Education. The vision of UIET is to be the frontrun-

Mr. Rajneesh Singla

ner in engineering education and research.

Mr. Gurmukh Singh

Institute has good liaison with Industry, Research Organiza-

Ms. Shaweta

tion as well as renowned Institutes. Bharti Group has set up

Mr. Nand Kishore

Organized by:

a chair in Telecommunication to boost research in this area.

The institute is a member of Campus Connect Programme of
Infosys. It has also signed M.O.U.s with other prestigious
organizations like IIT, Roorkee., University of Western Aus-

TECHNICAL SUPPORT

tralia, CSIR, Infosys, etc.

TEQIP
The TEQIP

(Technical Education Quality Improvement

Programme) is a World Bank initiative to improve effi-

Mr. Sudhir Goel

Mr. Arun Dhawan

Mr. Kapil Kaushal

Mr. Vikas Bali

Ms. Paramjit Kaur

Mr. Satish Sharma

Mr. Arjun Gore

Mr. Anoop Kakria

ciency and effectiveness of the Technical education management system. UIET has been bestowed with the prestigious TEQIP-II by Ministry of Human Resource and development, Government of India. The project aims at
strengthening the institution to improve learning outcomes

FOR ANY QUERY

Contact No. +919814475450(M)

Department of Information Technology,

University Institute of Engineering & Technology,
Panjab University, Chandigarh
Sector 25 ,Chandigarh, 160014.

Venue:
Academic Block 1, UIET,
Panjab University, Sector 25, Chandigarh

and employability of graduates. This honor is the manifestation of seminal contributions of UIET in rendering services
in the development of different engineering sectors with a
strong focus on post graduate and doctoral programmes.

Email: vmangat@pu.ac.in
Website: www.uiet.puchd.ac.in

REGISTRATION FORM

One week
INTRODUCTION
Interested in increasing your knowledge of the Big
Data landscape? This program is for those new to
data science and interested in understanding why

CHIEF PATRON

Faculty Development Programme on

Data Analytics and Big Data

Prof. Arun Kumar Grover

Vice Chancellor
Panjab University, Chandigarh

(May 23-28 , 2016)

the Big Data Era has come into existence. It is for

those who want to become conversant with the terminology and the core concepts behind big data
problems, applications, and systems. It is for those
who want to start thinking about how Big Data
might be useful in their business or career. Big data

Name: .

PATRON

Designation (Faculty/Research Scholar:)

Prof. Renu Vig

Director
UIET, Panjab University, Chandigarh

analytics is the process of examining big data to uncover hidden patterns, unknown correlations and

PROGRAM COORDINATORS

tists and others can analyze huge volumes of data

that conventional analytics and business intelligence
solutions can't touch.

OBJECTIVE
Faculty Development Programme on Data Analytics
and Big Data , is being organized by Department of

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other useful information that can be used to make

better decisions. With big data analytics, data scien-

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1. Dr. Veenu Mangat

Assistant Professor,
Department of IT, UIET, Panjab University.
2. Ms. Nidhi
Assistant Professor,
Department of IT, UIET, Panjab University.

Address for Correspondence: .

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REGISTRATION

E-mail Id:

Information Technology, UIET, PU, Chandigarh, on

23rd 28th May, 2016. The aim of this FDP is to ex-

The registration fee will be accepted in the form of

plore research areas in the field of Data Analytics and

cash or Demand Draft latest by 3rd May, 2016.

Big Data . It will provide a forum for exchange of ide-

The fee details are as follows:

as and results among researchers, academicians and

Faculty/ Research Scholar:

participant

practitioners working on different aspects of Big data

and analytics. There will be plenary lectures and invited presentations by well known experts in concerned
areas related to

Hadoop, MapReduce based pro-

cessing (Pig, Hive), Big Data Stream Mining, Big Data

in E-commerce, Practical Tools and Technologies for
Data Analytics, Cloud Computing for Data Analytics

Registration Fee:

Cash/ D.D

D.D Amount:
Rs. 1500/- per

Demand Draft should be made in favor of :

Director, UIET, Panjab University.
Payable at Chandigarh.

D.D No.
D.D Date:

RESOURCE PERSONS

and Big Data, etc.

The lectures will be delivered by experts from institutes and industries like NITTTR, IIT Ropar, Infosys,
DEF Team Solutions Pvt. Ltd., PEC University of
Technology and other domain experts.

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