Introduction

“Big Data Centre of Excellence" is the Research and Development centre of AKGEC. It is the first “Centre of Excellence" in AKTU, working in the field of BigData. It was established in 2013 and since 4 years it has been motivating and guiding the students into the world of Big Data. Big Data is the most trending technology of 21st century. It is the hottest market currently. Companies require Big Data Analysts to analyze the large amount of data being generated and gain insights from the data. Businesses are focusing more on agility and innovation, adopting BigData technologies help the companies achieve that in no time. The team aspires to develope skills in Big Data and gradually move from Machine Learning to Deep Learning and finally Artificial Intelligence.

Year wise Sessional Reports

The various technologies on which the team works are:

Machine Learning
Blockchain
Deep Learning
Big Data technologies
Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Apache Pig, Apache Hive, Apache Kafka, MongoDB, Apache Mahout, Cassandra, etc.
Web development
Angular, Django, PHP
Android development
Kotlin, Java

New comers are recruited as trainees through a recruitment drive. The trainees are given one month training and finalized on the basis of improvement and performance.

Besides helping students of our college, the centre tries to solve the problems of students from other colleges and IT professionals who are new to the world of Big Data. Others can communicate with the centre through website mentioned.

Activities/Events

Since its establishment, the centre is progressing tremendously, winning several online competitions as well as intercollege competitions in Big Data domain. The members of the centre participate in teams also and compete on national level.

Most fascinating and knowledge earning activity is “Knowledge Transfer Session” that takes place every week in the lab itself. During this session, the members share their knowledge on a topic, with other members and also clarify the doubts so that all members stand on the same level. This creates a very interesting and motivating environment in the lab itself.

RUSH HOUR

Big Data Centre of Excellence the research and development society of AKGEC successfully organized a one-day offline coding contest, “RUSH HOUR” for second-year students in IT labs on 30th November 2023. The event was successfully conducted on the Hacker rank platform. A total of 120 students from the second year participated in the event. The participants were registered in a team of two, where each team worked on solving problems and earned points. The least scoring teams got eliminated every few minutes and the last three standing teams were declared the winner.

The top three teams of the event are to be awarded with cash prizes.

POSITION TEAM NAME STUDENT NAME REWARD
1st Logic Hunters KRISHNA BANSAL 1500
MANASVI AGARWAL
       2nd Code Crushers PRANJAL 1000
SIDDHANT GUPTA
3rd RTD RAMNEET SINGH 500
PRASHANT CHAUDHARY

TOWNHALL’ 2023

The big data center of Excellence Society successfully organized ‘TOWNHALL’ – Two days Photoshop Workshop for 1st and 2nd-year students on 29th April and 30th April 2023. The workshop was focused on various technical domains such as Web Development, App Development, DevOps, Big Data, Machine Learning, UX/UI Designing, Cloud Computing and Blockchain. Total 139 students registered for the workshop with the first year and second year showing great enthusiasm. At the end, the event concluded with an interactive Q&A session during which doubts regarding different topics like hackathons, competitive programming, college exams etc. were cleared.After the event, certain tasks were given to the attendees. On the basis of task submission following mentioned below are the winners.

Name of winners:

Nameof the Winners Std.No. Domain Prize
Shikhar Pandey 2213088 Web Development Rs 1000+Tshirt
Rakshita 2211135 UI/UX Designing Rs 1000+Tshirt
Ananya Dixit 22154118 Machine Learning Rs 1000+Tshirt
Manas Srivastava 2210080 App Development Rs 1000+Tshirt

The workshop was effective and helped the students learn about the basics of each domain, which would further help them choose their desired field. Positive feedback was received from the students.

SANRACHNA’ 2022

The big data center of Excellence Society successfully organized ‘SANRACHNA’ – One day Photoshop Work shop on Adobe Photoshop tool for 2nd year students on 24th November, 2022 (4.00 PM-6.30PM). Total 150 students from all branches participated in the work shop. During the work shop, the team organized a quiz based on the content delivered. This increased the fun of the event manifold times. After completion of the work shop the candidates were given 3 tasks, out of which they had to complete any one and submit the task to the next day. On the basis of task submission following mentioned below are the winners.

Name of winners:

NAME OF WINNERS ROLL NO. RANK
ARUJ BANSAL 2100270120024 1
NAVODITA 2100270100104 2
NAITIK SHARMA 2100270120067 3

CODEMAZE 2022

The big data center of Excellence Society successfully organized Two Day offline event (CODEMAZE) for first year and second year students through HackerRank on 7th and 8th May 2022 under the supervision of Dr. Anu Chaudhary (HOD – IT), Dr. Ruchi Gupta (Associate Professor IT Department) and Mr. Sarvachan Verma (Assistant Professor IT Department).

The total 96 students from first year and 44 students from second year were participated in the event. The Participants were called up in a team of two where each team was given with 3 problem statements per round. After the completion of every round students were awarded with fun activities like riddles and puzzles. The bottom teams were eliminated after every round and this continued till the final round i.e. third round. After the successful completion of the event the winners were announced from each year. The top three teams of the event were awarded with the cash prizes.

YEAR POSITION TEAM NAME CANDIDATES STUDENT NO
1st 1st TEAM 1 ASHUTOSH K KUSHWAHA 2110083
RATNESH MISHRA 21153063
2nd TEAM 2 ANSHUMAN NANDAN 21164034
VEDANT PANDEY 2111031
3rd TEAM 3 ASHMIT PANDEY 2111006
ABHISHEK VERMA 2113093
YEAR POSITION TEAM NAME CANDIDATES STUDENT NO
2nd 1st TEAM 1 SARTHAK GUPTA 2015338
AYUSHI GAUTAM 2015434
2nd TEAM 2 SATWIK MAHESHWARI 2015344
SHREYANSH MOHAN 2015326
3rd TEAM 3 UDIT KANSAL 2011049
SHASHWAT PANDEY 2011049

Detail of Event: Abhiyantriki – Intra College 48-Hour Hackathon by Big Data Centre of Excellence (BDCoE)
Dates: 16th – 17th November, 2019
Prizes, if any: Prize Rs. 3000/- (Utkarsh Srivastava, IV Year CSE; Shresth Jauhari, IV Year CSE; Vibhas Saxena, III Year CSE)
Theme of the event: The sole purpose of Abhiyantriki was to create awareness about the vital technical skills needed for the students to help them for participating in National Level Hackathons in the future. Abhiyanrtiki provided a platform where the students were motivated and guided by the members of BDCoE in making their projects.

Event Name: 4th Foundation Day
Date: 10th April, 2019
Co-ordinators: Dr. Sushil Kumar and Ms. Anu Gupta

Event Name: 4 Days Workshop on Machine Learning with Python
Dates: 25th-28th Feb, 2019
Details of event: A four Day workshop was organized by Big Data Centre of Excellence on “Machine Learning with Python” under Dr. Sushil Kumar (Assistant Professor) and Ms. Anu Gupta, (Assistant Professor) Co-ordinator Big Data Centre of Excellence (BDCoE). The workshop commenced on 25th February, 2019 and successfully ended on 28th February, 2019. The students were taught basics of Python, Statistics, and various machine learning algorithms along with hands on practice on Jupyter Notebooks. A total of 36 students successfully completed the workshop. After the successful completion of the workshop, a competition was hosted on Kaggle and top three winning students were awarded with the cash price of worth Rs. 500, Rs.300 and Rs. 200 respectively along with certificate of appreciation.

Centre has been conducting various activities to guide more and more students into world of Big Data and to provide them a start so that they can excel in their interest. Various events conducted by the centre are-

  • Seminar for awareness regarding Big Data
  • Recruitment drive to recruit new members.
  • Training of newly recruited trainees
  • Workshop open to students of or college from all the branches and all the years
  • A game event open to all the students
  • Internal Hackathon- projects on Big Data

The workshops and courses conducted till date are:

  • Complete course on Hadoop Ecosystem
  • Workshop on Pig and Hive
  • Seminar on Big Data technologies
  • Workshop on Data Science with R
  • Machine Learning and Introduction to neural networks.
  • 17th and 18th February 2018, a 12 hours workshop was conducted , on the topic- “Machine Learning and Introduction to neural networks". The event was a great success with maximum participation from the students of 1st, 2nd and 3rd year.

Faculty coordinators-
Dr Ruchi Gupta (Associate Professor)
Mr. Rahul Sharma (Assistant Professor)
Mr Sarvachan Verma (Assistant Professor)