School of Computing

Computer Science Engineering

&
Information Technology

Advanced AI & Block Chain

By
Mr.Ramprakash Ramamoorthy
Director - AI Research
Zoho Corporation - Chennai

AY 2020-21
Held on
ICC-118 07th to 11th September 2020
 TABLE OF CONTENT

S.No Title Page No

1 Course Proposed by the Department 001

2 Course Approval Letter 003

3 Expert Profile 004

4 Confirmation from the Expert 006

5 Course Syllabus 008

6 Students Name List 009

7 Schedule of the classes 011

8 Attendance percentage 012

9 Photos 014

10 Honorarium to the Expert 016

11 Exam Question Paper 018

12 Sample answer sheet 020

13 Examination Marks 038

14 Attendance and Result Analysis 041

15 Student Feedback 042

16 Expert Feedback 045

9/10/2020 Gmail - Fwd: Industry category

RAGHAVENDRAN SRINIVASAN <[email protected]>

Fwd: Industry category

1 message

Dean Industry Relations / TBI Vel Tech, Chennai <[email protected]> Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 3:25 AM
To: Raghavendran Srinivasan <[email protected]>

Please discuss tomorrow

Dr. P. Chandra Kumar

Vel Tech TBI
+91 9600040254

Begin forwarded message:

From: "HOD CSE Vel Tech, Chennai" <[email protected]>

Date: 11 August 2020 at 3:40:57 PM GMT+5:30
To: Director Industry Relations <[email protected]>
Cc: "Assoc. Prof, CSE Vel Tech, Chennai" <[email protected]>
Subject: Fwd: Industry category

Sir
please arrange courses under higher learning/industry category
Thanking you

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From: R.Srinivasan Vel Tech, Chennai <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 10:33 PM
Subject: Industry category
To: <[email protected]>

Dear Sir,
This is to your kind no ce that for the industry category, the following are the courses
listed here for 2020-2021. Kindly consider sir.
1. Agile and scrum
2. Reinforcement Learning
3. Device drivers
4. Embedded programming
5. Web security
6. Devops
7. Mongo DB
8. Augmented Reality
9. Informatica
10. Angular JS
11. Reactive JS
12. Cyber Threat Intelligence
13. Nmap(Network mapper)
14. Machine learning in python
15. Information & Network Security with Attack Prevention
16. Trends In Cyber Security
17. Intelligent app
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18. Django
19. End-To-End IoT Fundamentals, Value Chains And Market Segments
20. Spark

Thanks and regards,

R.Srinivasan

Department of CSE

Veltech

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Thanks & Regards ,

Dr V. SRINIVASA RAO
M.Tech, Ph.D
Head, Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Dean , School of Computing e: [email protected]
Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr.Sagunthala w: www.veltech.edu.in
R&D Institute of Science and Technology
400 feet Outer Ring Road, Avadi,
Chennai-600 062, Tamil Nadu, India
Mobile No : 7338803041 , 9948584110

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Contact
Ramprakash Ramamoorthy
www.linkedin.com/in/ Director - AI Research at Zoho Corporation
ramprakashramamoorthy Chengalpattu
(LinkedIn)

Summary
Top Skills
Text Mining To be an exemplary employee driven by values, there by driving my
Sentiment Analysis employer to
Open Source Software excellence in revolutionizing the global IT industry.

Languages
English (Full Professional) Experience
Tamil (Native or Bilingual)
Zoho Corporation
8 years 10 months

Member Leadership Staff - Machine Learning & Analytics

May 2015 - Present (5 years 5 months)
Chennai Area, India

Product owner / Technical product management at Zoho Labs, an unit

specialising in Machine Learning and analytics for Zoho's suite of products.
Lead and contribute to a team that specialises on Machine Learning and
Analytics. The platform currently serves a billion requests a day!

Member Technical Staff

May 2012 - May 2015 (3 years 1 month)
Chennai

Machine Learning, Data Science, Apache Spark, Neural Networks, Technical

Product management, Technology mentoring, Search (Lucene/Solr), Scaling
up, Log management, Stream processing(Twitter Storm), Cross language
services development (Apache Thrift) and the likes...

Project Trainee
December 2011 - April 2012 (5 months)
Worked on sentiment analysis and big data processing

Zoho Corporation
Software Development Intern
May 2011 - August 2011 (4 months)
Chennai

Intern for the Zoho Challenge team, worked on Moodle-Challenge integration

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Education
Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy
B.Tech, Information & Communication Technology · (2008 - 2012)

KVS Matric Higher Secondary School

· (1994 - 2008)

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9/11/2020 Gmail - Fwd: Credit Course for Vel Tech students_regarding

RAGHAVENDRAN SRINIVASAN <[email protected]>

Fwd: Credit Course for Vel Tech students_regarding

1 message

Industry Relations Office Vel Tech, Chennai <[email protected]> Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 7:39 PM
To: Technical Secretary to Chancellor Sivakumar <[email protected]>, RAGHAVENDRAN SRINIVASAN
<[email protected]>
Cc: Director Industry Relations <[email protected]>

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From: Ramprakash Ramamoorthy <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: Credit Course for Vel Tech students_regarding
To: dindoffice <[email protected]>

Dear Sir,

Please find attached my LinkedIn profile here : https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramprakashramamoorthy/

Here's a brief description :

Ramprakash has been leading the AI and Blockchain efforts at ZOHO Corporation. He kickstarted
the AI efforts within the company and built the company’s AI platform from scratch. Today, the
platform powers AI features across ZOHO Corp’s suite of products and handles a ball park 100
Million requests a day. A passionate leader, with a levelheaded approach to emerging tech. and
frequents talking at a lot of tech. conferences and events. Has been with ZOHO for close to a
decade now.

Hope that helps. Thank you.

--
Ramprakash Ramamoorthy,
Zoho Labs.

---- On Thu, 03 Sep 2020 12:14:47 +0530 Industry Relations Office Vel Tech, Chennai
<[email protected]> wrote ----

Thank you very much sir.

--
With best Regards.
Prof. C.S.SIVAKUMAR,
Adviser Industry Relations & Professor-Mech Dept,
Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science &Technology.
Mobile: 09445049402.
Email ID: [email protected],
Website:http://www.veltech.edu.in

On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 at 11:45, Industry Relations Office Vel Tech, Chennai <[email protected]> wrote:

---------- ---------
From: Ramprakash Ramamoorthy <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: Credit Course for Vel Tech students_regarding
To: Dindoffice <[email protected]>

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Dear Sir,

We can do option 2 if students are used to 3 hour classes.

So we will do Monday to Friday 3:45pm to 7pm. Hope I’m correct.

I’m travelling and will share my profile details by end of day today.

--
Ramprakash Ramamoorthy,
Zoho Labs.

---- On Thu, 03 Sep 2020 11:28:16 +0530 Industry Relations Office Vel Tech, Chennai<dindoffice@veltech.
edu.in> wrote ----

Dear Sir,
Regarding change of timing:As the students from different sections of CSE will be
registering for this course,we have administrative problems to reschedule classes of all
these sections and are unable to start the classes at 2/3PM.
I suggest two options:
First option:Request alternatively to have the classes @2 hours daily for 6 days from
Monday to Saturday(7th to 12th Sep) and the last class of 3 hours on the following Sunday
on 13th Sep.This should meet our both requirements of continuity as well as not stretching
too long hours.
Second option :@3 hours from Monday to Friday (7th to11th Sep).We are presently
conducting other similar courses as per this schedule@3hours daily.
Request confirms your convenience.
Regarding Level of students:All Final year students.
Request your Resume along with your Photo for Intro to students.

With best Regards.

Prof. C.S.SIVAKUMAR,
Adviser Industry Relations & Professor-Mech Dept,
Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science &Technology.
Mobile: 09445049402.
Email ID: [email protected],
Website:http://www.veltech.edu.in

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From: Prof. C.S.SIVAKUMAR Adviser Industry Relations & Professor-Mech Dept, Vel T
<[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2020 at 21:38
Subject: Fwd: Credit Course for Vel Tech students_regarding
To: Technical Secretary to Chancellor Sivakumar <[email protected]>

---------- Forwarded message ---------

From: Ramprakash Ramamoorthy <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: Credit Course for Vel Tech students_regarding
To: dindoffice <[email protected]>

Dear Sir,
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Thank you for your email and I am delighted that the syllabus has gone through the approval. I think
it's totally fine about the time taken for vetting the syllabus. I hope to make it worthwhile for the
students.

I have a doubt regarding the time - Since it's going to be a 3 hour class, can we start it a bit
earlier say 2PM or 3PM? For example, if we start at 2pm, we can end it by 5:15pm (two 90 minute
sessions with a 15 minute break in between). If we start at 3:45pm, it's going to extend to 7pm. While
I'm absolutely fine doing it, would the students be ok stretching it till 7pm? If possible and ok with the
students' schedule, I propose we start at 2pm.

And for continuity, I would want to do it on 7,8,9,10 and 11 September (Monday to Friday) at
whichever time in the evening you deem convenient. Also I would like to know which year the
students belong to, so I can mould my content's difficulty level accordingly.

Please confirm the timings based on the students schedule and we're good to go Sir.

Thank you and looking forward to...

--
Ramprakash Ramamoorthy,
Zoho Labs.

---- On Wed, 02 Sep 2020 18:12:40 +0530 Industry Relations Office Vel Tech, Chennai
<[email protected]> wrote ----

Dear Sir,
Greetings from Vel Tech!!!
We thank you for support and interest in giving the credit course. We thank you for
introducing this topic. The course titled Advanced AI & Blockchain and the syllabus as
given is ok. As this course is to be added to the topics already approved by the academic
board of studies,it took some time to include this topic.We regret for this time delay.

We will inform the students to register for this course and the classes can be started
from 7th Sep at 345 PM.(as indicated by you).Request you to give a schedule
specifying the remaining 4 dates at the same time 3.45 PM.
My colleague Mr.Ragavendiran,Assistant Professor is the coordinator for this
course.He will be giving Microsoft Team Platform details for virtual classes.
Thanking you once again.
With best Regards.
Prof. C.S.SIVAKUMAR,
Adviser Industry Relations & Professor-Mech Dept,
Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science &Technology.
Mobile: 09445049402.
Email ID: [email protected],
Website:http://www.veltech.edu.in

---------- Forwarded message ---------

From: Ramprakash Ramamoorthy <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2020 at 15:07
Subject: Re: Credit Course for Vel Tech students_regarding
To: Chennai <[email protected]>
Cc: Dindoffice <[email protected]>, Vtu C.S.Sivakumar <[email protected]>,
RAGHAVENDRAN SRINIVASAN <[email protected]>

Thank you for the update, Sir.

--
Ramprakash Ramamoorthy,
Zoho Labs.

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---- On Wed, 02 Sep 2020 12:20:05 +0530 [email protected]<[email protected]> wrote ----

Dear Sir,

Thank you very much for your kind acceptance to deliver the course. Yes we have given
the syllabus to CSE dean and getting feedback from them. We will confirm as soon as
possible.

Regards,

Dr. P. Chandrakumar
Dean Industry Relations,

On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 12:13 PM Industry Relations Office Vel Tech, Chennai
<[email protected]> wrote:

---------- Forwarded message ---------

From: Ramprakash Ramamoorthy <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: Credit Course for Vel Tech students_regarding
To: dindoffice <[email protected]>

Dear Sir,

Did you happen to check the syllabus? Any thoughts and feedback on the same? Thank
you.

--
Ramprakash Ramamoorthy,
Zoho Labs.

---- On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 21:21:13 +0530 Ramprakash Ramamoorthy

<[email protected]> wrote ----

Dear Sir,

Thank you for the email. All credits to Mr. Rajendran for driving this initiative.

I am proposing a course that encompasses advanced AI and Blockchain. The

objective of the course would be to help students understand and develop production
ready Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain systems and get first hand exposure to
systems that are in production today and industry research. The course would also
help the students appreciate the broader effect these tech. can bring in to enterprise
software.

The course titled Advanced AI & Blockchain shall be suitable for third and final year
Computer Science & IT students. It's a 5 unit course. Each unit shall be covered in a 3
hour session. So we can plan 3 hour sessions for 5 days session starting 7th
September. You can please advise the best time for the course. Later, we can even
have a toned down version of the same syllabus to 2nd year CS/IT and all year ECE
students.

Have attached the syllabus in PDF format. You can also find the editable doc version
here : https://workdrive.zohoexternal.com/external/6OxchwY7zBj-J8HFH . Looking
forward to your feedback and advise on further steps.

Regarding the Nvidia GPU server, will discuss with my team and come back sometime
soon.

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Ramprakash Ramamoorthy,
Zoho Labs.

---- On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 17:46:58 +0530 Industry Relations Office Vel Tech,
Chennai <[email protected]> wrote ----

Dear sir,
Greetings Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr Sagunthala R&D Institute of
Science & Technology !!!

At the outset our profound thanks to Managing Director,

Mr.Rajendran Dandapani, who has kindly agreed to support
in our endeavor of providing quality education to the
student community.

This has ref to the Telephonic discussion on this subject.

I am sending this mail with a request to share your
expertise with students in the form of lectures for a
duration of 15 hours on any one or more of the
following specialized topics that adds to their skill
set (this can be covered in as many sessions each of
minimum 2 hours on any convenient dates during the
period 7th Sep to 15th October 2020).
This time the course will be conducted through on line
Platform in view of the prevailing situation and to avoid
gathering in large number.
We pay an honorarium of Rs 25000 for 15 hours.
Topics for CSE/IT students:
1. Agile and Scrum
2. Reinforcement Learning
3. Device Drivers
4. Embedded programming
5. Web Security
6. Devops
7. Mongo DB

8. Augmented Reality
9. Informatica
10. Angular JS
11. Reactive JS
12. Augmented reality
13. Cyber Threat Intelligence
14. Nmap(Network mapper)
15. Machine Learning in
Python
16. Information & Network
Securitywith attack
Prevention.
17. Intelligent App
18. Django
19 End to End IoT
Fundamentals,Value
Chains and Market
Segments
20 Spark
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Topics for ECE students:

1.Machine Learning
2.Deep Learning
3.Machine to Machine Communication
4.System on Chip Design
5.Software Defined Radio
6.Video Signal Processing

You may choose any one or two topics from the list given
above(Preference be given to CSE/IT students as they are in
large numbers.).
You are also free to choose any other topics of your expertise
if not included in the above list.
Request you to choose the topics you propose to deliver
along with syllabus contents in the format for which I am
attaching herewith a sample syllabus for a similar topic.
It was nice talking to you. Looking forward to continuous
support in all our endeavors of enriching the student
community.
We also look forward to your expert advice in optimum
utilization of facilities “NVIDEA DGX1 Deep Learning
Server” at Vel Tech.
Awaiting your favorable consideration and reply so as to
take this proposal forward.
With best Regards,

Prof. C.S.SIVAKUMAR
Adviser Industry Relations & Professor-Mech Dept,
Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science
&Technology.
Mobile: 09445049402
Email ID: [email protected]
Website:http://www.veltech.edu.in

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Thanks & Regards,

Dr. P. Chandrakumar e: [email protected]

Dean Industry Relations / TBI w: www.veltech.edu.in
m: +91 99400 24007/ 9600040254 400 feet Outer Ring Road, Avadi,
Chennai-600 062, Tamil Nadu, India.
Veltech

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 Advanced AI & Blockchain
Unit 1 - Introduction
Statistics refresher, p-values, linear algebra, matrix manipulation, ML and AI
Introduction, Cross validation, Error functions, Five clans of ML - Analogizers, Bayesians,
Connectionists, Evolutionaries and symbolists, Reinforcement Learning, GANs

Unit 2 - Production AI fundamentals

Python frameworks, Plumbing data pipelines, deterministic functions, probabilistic
functions, attention mechanism, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Few
shot learning techniques, transfer learning, tri-training

Map reduce, Apache Spark, RDDs, GPU Deployments, load balancing AI requests

Unit 3 - Causation & counterfactual inference

Causation, counterfactual basics, correlation to causation, causal graphs, ladder of
causation, do-calculus basics, causal computation

Cyber threat intelligence, malware detection using AI, monitoring endpoints using AI

Unit 4 - Blockchain & Distributed Systems

Introduction to Blockchain, Distributed Systems, flavours of consensus, consensus
protocols, Applications of Blockchain, Ledger Computing

Unit 5 - Blockchain & Cryptography

Crypto basics, cryptocurrency in blockchain, merkle tree fundamentals, privacy by
design, homomorphic encryption, Poet in Blockchain, deploying blockchain - private and
permissioned networks
 One Credit Course - Students List

Course Name: Advanced AI & Block chain (ICC 118)

Expert Details: Mr.Ramprakash Ramamoorthy, Director - AI Research,
Zoho Corporation, Chennai
S.No ID.No Students Name Dept
1 vtu10035 MUKKAMALA VENKATA SAI PRAKASH CSE
2 vtu10054 PUNNAPALLI VINOD KUMAR CSE
3 vtu10061 GANTA UMA MAHESWAR REDDY CSE
4 vtu10071 HARSH DONGARE CSE
5 vtu10122 B.V.N.SUDEER RAJA CSE
6 vtu10151 DAYA SAGAR GAJAVILLI CSE
7 vtu10162 Y PAVAN GANESH CSE
8 vtu10163 S.S.S.CHAKRAVARTHI CSE
9 vtu10221 VIKKURTHI BHARGAVA SAI CSE
10 vtu10294 SOURAV KUMAR CSE
11 vtu10366 CHANDAN KUMAR CSE
12 vtu10639 RAM BABU KUMAR RAI CSE
13 vtu10859 SUNIL BHANDARI CSE
14 vtu12445 B. DURGA PHANI KUMAR CSE
15 vtu12446 R. CHANDU CSE
16 vtu12788 CHERUKURI DEEXITH CSE
17 vtu12789 K VINOD KUMAR REDDY CSE
18 vtu12846 B. LAKSHMI GANESH CSE
19 vtu12861 THURAKA PAVANI PRIYA CSE
20 vtu12984 PULAGAM JYOTHI BHARGAVI CSE
21 vtu13135 Y. YASWANTH REDDY CSE
22 vtu14247 M JAGADEESWAR REDDY CSE
23 vtu14275 G. BHARATH SIMHA REDDY CSE
24 vtu14278 KONDE MONIKA CSE
25 vtu14292 K EDUKONDALU CSE
26 vtu14298 M. VINAY BABU CSE
27 vtu14446 HIMANSHU KUMAR CSE
28 vtu14546 D.PRAVEENKUMAR CSE
29 vtu14650 K.SRIRAM CSE
30 vtu15037 BONALA KALYAN KUMAR CSE
31 vtu15042 DADI RAMYA HARIKA CSE
32 vtu8699 NISHANT YADAV IT
33 vtu8718 G.SUBRAMANYAM CSE
34 vtu8729 GADDIPATI LOHIT CHOWDARY CSE

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S.No ID.No Students Name Dept
35 vtu8809 BANKA VENKATA SURENDRA CSE
36 vtu8811 JAISHNU.S IT
37 vtu8819 HEMANTH M.K IT
38 vtu8821 MISOOMA TAHIR CSE
39 vtu8836 E YESWANTH CSE
40 vtu8861 TAMIL SELVAN.E IT
41 vtu8862 SHRIDNARAN.M IT
42 vtu9152 K MOJESH CSE
43 vtu9238 BIJJULA SATISH KUMAR REDDY CSE
44 vtu9283 P PRABODHAN REDDY CSE
45 vtu9387 BANDARUPALLI NITISH KUMAR CSE
46 vtu9862 G.MOHITH NAIDU CSE
47 vtu9871 SUDEEP SINGH CSE
48 vtu9877 SATTI SAI SRI RAMI REDDY CSE
49 vtu9888 V.BHANU PRAKASH REDDY CSE
50 vtu9891 N.SREERAM CHARAN CSE
51 vtu9897 THOTAMSETTY SUJITH RAO CSE
52 vtu9950 ANNAPU REDDY KULENDER REDDY CSE
53 vtu9974 MAMILLA ABISHAI KRUPA SAGAR CSE
54 vtu9982 SIKENDRA KUMAR CSE
55 vtu9999 S SAI SIVA SANDEEP KRISHNA CSE

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Specialized Credit courses on “Advanced AI & Block chain”
By
Mr.Ramprakash Ramamoorthy, Director - AI Research
Zoho Corporation - Chennai

07th to 11th September 2020

Course Schedule

Date Topic
Statistics refresher, p-values, linear algebra, matrix manipulation,
ML and AI. Introduction, Cross validation, Error functions, Five
07.09.2020
clans of ML - Analogizers, Bayesians, Connectionists, Evolutionaries
and symbolists, Reinforcement Learning, GANs.
Python frameworks, Plumbing data pipelines, deterministic
functions, probabilistic functions, attention mechanism, Computer
08.09.2020 Vision, Natural Language Processing, Few shot learning techniques,
transfer learning, tri-training, Map reduce, Apache Spark, RDDs,
GPU Deployments, load balancing AI requests.
Causation, counterfactual basics, correlation to causation, causal
graphs, ladder of causation, do-calculus basics, causal computation
09.09.2020
Cyber threat intelligence, malware detection using AI, monitoring
endpoints using AI.
Introduction to Block chain, Distributed Systems, flavours of
10.09.2020 consensus, consensus protocols, Applications of Block chain, Ledger
Computing.
Crypto basics, cryptocurrency in block chain, merkle tree
fundamentals, privacy by design, homomorphic encryption, Poet in
11.09.2020
Block chain, deploying block chain - private and permissioned
networks.
 One Credit Course - Attendance Precentage
Course Name: Advanced AI & Block chain (ICC 118)
Expert Details: Mr.Ramprakash Ramamoorthy, Director - AI Research, Zoho Corporation, Chennai

7 Sep 2020 8 Sep 2020 9 Sep 2020 10 Sep 2020 11 Sep 2020 No of Total Attendance
S.No ID No Name of the students Dept 3.45PM to 3.45PM to 3.45PM to 3.45PM to 3.45PM to Hours No. of Precentage
6.45PM 6.45PM 6.45PM 6.45PM 6.45PM Present hours %

1 vtu10035 MUKKAMALA VENKATA SAI PRAKASH CSE P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) A (0/3) P (3/3) 14 15 93.3
2 vtu10054 PUNNAPALLI VINOD KUMAR CSE A (0/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) A (0/3) P (3/3) 11 15 73.3
3 vtu10061 GANTA UMA MAHESWAR REDDY CSE P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) 15 15 100
4 vtu10071 HARSH DONGARE CSE P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) 15 15 100
5 vtu10122 B.V.N.SUDEER RAJA CSE P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) 15 15 100
6 vtu10151 DAYA SAGAR GAJAVILLI CSE P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) 15 15 100
7 vtu10162 Y PAVAN GANESH CSE P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) 15 15 100
8 vtu10163 S.S.S.CHAKRAVARTHI CSE P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) 15 15 100
9 vtu10221 VIKKURTHI BHARGAVA SAI CSE P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) 15 15 100
10 vtu10294 SOURAV KUMAR CSE P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) 15 15 100
11 vtu10366 CHANDAN KUMAR CSE A (0/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) A (0/3) P (3/3) 11 15 73.3
12 vtu10639 RAM BABU KUMAR RAI CSE P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) 15 15 100
13 vtu10859 SUNIL BHANDARI CSE P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) P (3/3) 15 15 100
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10/21/2020 Gmail - Fwd: Thanks a lot for conducting the course on “Artificial Intelligence and Block Chain" for Vel Tech students

DHARMARAJ M <[email protected]>

Fwd: Thanks a lot for conducting the course on “Artificial Intelligence and Block
Chain" for Vel Tech students
1 message

Industry Relations Office Vel Tech, Chennai <[email protected]> Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 12:10 PM
To: Technical Secretary to Chancellor Sivakumar <[email protected]>, RAGHAVENDRAN SRINIVASAN
<[email protected]>, DHARMARAJ M <[email protected]>
Cc: Director Industry Relations <[email protected]>

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From: Ramprakash Ramamoorthy <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: Thanks a lot for conducting the course on “Artificial Intelligence and Block Chain" for Vel Tech students
To: dindoffice <[email protected]>

Dear Sir,

1. Just checked and I confirm that I've received the honorarium in my account on Friday 23rd. Thank you.
2. Reg. student projects, I will come back by end of this week Sir. Since we have to do it remotely on a large scale,
our HR is working on some aspects. Will revert shortly. Thank you.

--
Ramprakash Ramamoorthy,
Zoho Labs.

---- On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 12:23:58 +0530 Industry Relations Office Vel Tech, Chennai
<[email protected]> wrote ----

Dear sir,
1.Honorarium amount is transferred to your account as per our finance.Kindly acknowledge and
confirm receipt by return mail.
2.Regarding Student Projects for B.Tech: Request let us know the domain in which Zoho will require
students/Alternatively required number of students can also be shortlisted from a batch of say 20 or
30 students.
Awaiting your confirmation and support.

With best Regards.

Prof. C.S.SIVAKUMAR,
Adviser Industry Relations & Professor-Mech Dept,
Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science &Technology.
Mobile: 09445049402.
Email ID: [email protected],
Website:http://www.veltech.edu.in

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From: Ramprakash Ramamoorthy <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: Thanks a lot for conducting the course on “Artificial Intelligence and Block Chain" for Vel Tech
students
To: Dindoffice <[email protected]>
Cc: Rajendran Dandapani <[email protected]>

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10/21/2020 Gmail - Fwd: Thanks a lot for conducting the course on “Artificial Intelligence and Block Chain" for Vel Tech students

Dear Sir,

Pleasure is mine. Looking forward to working together on future assignments.

All thanks to Mr. Rajendran, without whom this wouldn’t have happened. Thank you Raj.

--
Ramprakash Ramamoorthy,
Zoho Labs.

---- On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 14:54:21 +0530 Industry Relations Office Vel Tech, Chennai<[email protected]>
wrote ----

Dear Sir,
Greetings from Vel Tech!!!
We thank you profusely for conducting the course on “Artificial Intelligence and
Block Chain” and especially sharing your thoughts related to this topic with the
students, that sure will enable them to dig more into the nuances on this subject,
thus acquiring new skill sets and become employable.
I take this opportunity to thank Mr. Rajendran sir, without whose support ,this
would not have happened.
We look forward to Zoho for their continued support in our endeavor of providing
quality education and related opportunities to the student community.
With best Regards.
Prof. C.S.SIVAKUMAR,
Adviser Industry Relations & Professor-Mech Dept,
Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science &Technology.
Mobile: 09445049402.
Email ID: [email protected],
Website:http://www.veltech.edu.in

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 SCHOOL OF COMPUTER
DEPARTMENT OF CSE & IT
ADVANCED AI & BLOCK CHAIN

B.Tech. - CSE / IT

Course Category: Specialized Courses Max. Marks: 50

Course Title: Advanced AI & Block Chain Date of Exam: 10.10.20
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Answer ALL Questions; Each Question Carries TEN Marks

1. (a) What are the five clans of ML? Write a brief description of each of the clans
(or)

(b) Explain p-values in detail. Also mention a real life application of p-values

2. (a) Explain back propagation and its application in neural networks

(or)

(b) Explain a distributed system with HDFS. Also elaborate on the name node, data node and
other components of the distributed system.

3. (a) Elaborate on the ladder of causation. Draw and explain a simple causal graph.

(or)

(b) Explain hamming codes with an example.

4. (a) Explain how a block chain works and illustrate with a real life use case.

(or)

(b) Explain byzantine fault tolerance problem and its application in cryptography

5. (a) Explain Eigen vectors and their applications

(or)

(b) Explain the disadvantages of a block chain system and elaborate on the technology's future
potential.

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 Attendance Analysis
Course Name: Advanced AI & Block Chain (ICC 118)
Expert Details: Mr.Ramprakash Ramamoorthy, Director - AI Research, Zoho
Corporation, Chennai

Number of the students Registered Number of the students Present

Number of the students Absent

55 55 55 55 55 55 55 55

45 47

10 8
0 0 0

07.09.2020 08.09.2020 09.09.2020 10.09.2020 11.09.2020

Attendance Analysis
Course Name: Advanced AI & Block Chain (ICC 118)
Expert Details: Mr.Ramprakash Ramamoorthy, Director - AI Research, Zoho Corporation, Chennai

Date 07.09.2020 08.09.2020 09.09.2020 10.09.2020 11.09.2020

Number of the students Registered 55 55 55 55 55
Number of the students Present 45 55 55 47 55
Number of the students Absent 10 0 0 8 0

Result Analysis - Advanced AI & Block Chain (ICC 118)

55
50
43 40

Number of the students Number of the students No of students appeared for Number of the students
Registered Eligible Exam Earned Credit

Course Name: Advanced AI & Block Chain (ICC 118)

Number of the students Registered 55
Number of the students Eligible 50
No of students appeared for Exam 43
Number of the students Earned Credit 40
 School of Computing
Department of Computer Science Engineering

Students Feedback on Course Faculty

Course Name : ADVANCED AI & BLOCK CHAIN (ICC 118)

Expert Name : Mr.Ramprakash Ramamoorthy
Designation : Director- AI Research
Organization : ZOHO Corporation
City : Chennai

Analysis of Students Feedback on Course Faculty

S. No Questions Asked Marks Out of 5

1 Learning outcomes in this course are clearly articulated 3.51

2 The syllabus content is up to your understanding 3.49
3 The learning resources are made readily available 3.49
4 Subject delivery by the expert 3.59
5 Subject content usefulness in building your career 3.43
6 Overall rating of the course 3.51

Total No of Participants : 51
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