VIT-Virtusa Center of Excellence (CoE) on Java and Data Science MoU was signed on April 5th 2018 by our Vice President, Thiru. G.V.Selvam and Senior Vice President of Virtusa, Dr. Murali Padmanabahan

The different CoE activities are listed below:

• Train the trainer model- Six faculty members were given training on Data Science and Java to train the eleven Virtusa recruited students of 2018 batch.
• Faculty members trained the Virtusa recruited students.
• Virtusa in collaboration with VIT organized a code challenge event for the placed final year students along with pre final year students between 28th January 2018 to 2nd February 2018. The pre final year students who won the event were shortlisted for an internship interview and two students got internship offers.
• Assessments were taken by placed students after the completion of modules in Data Science during Wednesdays between 12 to 1 in the month of February 2018. Assessments in Java were held between 3rd April to 6th April .
• Virutsa recruited students completed online certifications in Data Science from Courseera for receiving performance bonus.

The following faculties trained the Virtusa selected students in Data Science between 24th Jan to 20th Feb 2018.

• Dr. RamKumar.T
• Dr. I.Sumaiya Thaseen
• Dr.Kuruva Lakshmanan
• Dr.Muthamil Selvan

The following faculties trained the Virtusa selected students in Java between 20th Feb to 30th March 2018.

• Dr. Thanapal
• Prof.Puviarasi
• Prof.Vanmathi
• Prof.Prabadevi.

As part of CoE, two faculties underwent 45 days training on Data Science in Virtusa during June 2018.

• Dr. Priya.V
• Prof.Chemmalar Selvi.

About the Program

In pursuit of driving learning programs in the areas of emerging technologies, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) has collaborated with Automation Anywhere, a global leader in Robotic Process Automation to launch certification programs. Under this collaboration, the institute has also set up “Bot Lab” – a centre of excellence to provide their students the access to Automation 360, world’s only Cloud Native, Web based platform for end-to-end automation.
The learning program for VIT students has been designed by a team of certified faculty members of the institute, coordinated by Prof. Vanmathi. The objective is to help the students to embark upon their RPA journey starting from process discovery to building basic bots. They will learn how business processes are evaluated and identified for automation and how building bots can help automate and solve time consuming and repetitive business processes. The students will be able to use recorders to capture actions and how you can use the various action packages available within Automation 360 to automate and solve complex, repetitive, time consuming business processes. As a next step, they will learn how to build resiliency within bots and reuse bots for scalability.

• The learning programs will be offered to final and pre-final Undergraduate engineering students along with some Postgraduate students.
• Learning will be reinforced through concepts and walk-through demos.

Expected learning outcome

• Describe the scope and phases of the RPA Development Lifecycle
• Describe the roles and responsibilities of the people involved, task performed and the best practices to be adopted
• Automate tasks using the Automation 360 Universal Recorder, AISense, and action packages
• Build resilient and scalable bots

About Robotic Process Automation

Robotic Process Automation is simple—and powerful—business process automation software. Robotic Process Automation enables you with tools to create your own software robots to automate any business process. Your "bots" are configurable software set up to perform the tasks you assign and control.
RPA really is for everyone. And the benefits of RPA span all industries and business units. Applying RPA for business process automation is limited only by the imagination and putting bots to work has never been easier, with a growing marketplace of ready-made, ready-to-deploy Digital Workers available on demand, requiring no specialized IT infrastructure.

About Automation Anywhere

Automation Anywhere is a global leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), empowering customers to automate end-to-end business processes with intelligent software bots – AI-powered digital workers that perform repetitive and manual tasks, resulting in dramatic productivity gains, optimized customer experience and more engaged employees. The company offers the world’s only cloud-native and web-based automation platform combining RPA, artificial intelligence, machine learning and analytics, yielding significantly lower TCO, higher security, and faster scalability than legacy monolithic platforms. Its Bot Store is the world's first and largest marketplace with more than 1,200 pre-built, intelligent automation solutions. Automation Anywhere has deployed nearly 3 million bots to support some of the world’s largest enterprises across all industries in more than 90 countries. For additional information, visit www.automationanywhere.com.
Automation Anywhere and AARI are a trademarks/service marks or registered trademarks/service marks of Automation Anywhere, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
For more information about the certification course contact Prof. Vanmathi C at vanmathi.c@vit.ac.in

About the Center

The VIT-REX Center for Cyber Forensics engaged in reach on child safety online, cyber bullying, Job Scam and Cyber Investigation and technology. The Center will also investigate the impact of technology on leadership, while developing national and international partnerships between governments, law enforcement. It aims to provide trainees with the skills they require to gather and analyse evidence, and to prepare technical reports according to the best international practices. The skills they gain at the center will enable them to find and deal with digital evidence in their work.
Vision, Mission, and Goals
Vision:
The leading Indian authority in empowering INDIA capabilities in the fields of cybercrime and cyber forensics.
Mission: A reliable authority in the fields of cybercrime and Cyber forensics through supporting and preparing research, developing academic and training programs, providing quality community awareness consultations and services, and providing a modern technical environment that helps find solutions to the most prominent digital security challenges.
Team
1. Governing Team/Council
2. CoE Advisories
3. CoE Technical team
4. CoE students

Strategic Goals
The center strives to achieve the following goals in the fields of cybercrime and cyber forensics:
1- To transfer knowledge and experience in line with digital security challenges
2- To provide and support applied research and specialized innovation
3- To provide a modern technical environment
4- To support decision making
5- To raise the level of scientific and professional cooperation between relevant India and international agencies
6- To raise levels of awareness in Indian society
The functions of the center include the following
1) Academic Programs:
Contributing to the preparation, development, and provision of specialized academic programs in the fields of cyber forensics and cybercrime
2) Training Programs:
Providing specialized training programs that result in professional certificates
3) Consultancy Services
1. Providing consultancy services to develop digital forensics environments and labs for beneficiaries
2. Delegating experts to security and judicial authorities
3. Providing consultancy services in the fields of digital investigation that include everything from identifying, collecting, examining, and analyzing digital evidence to the specialized technical report.
4) Community awareness services
1. Providing various community awareness activities in fields of cybercrime and digital investigation
2. Contributing to developing guidebooks in the fields of cybersecurity and digital evidence
3. Supporting and motivating community participation to find solutions for cyber security challenges
Coordinator
Dr. Priya V , Associate Professor, SITE