Student Co-curricular Activities and Achievements at SSN Institutions
International Level
Harshavardhan Suresh, Kiran Raj KB, Deepak Sriram of IV year participated in ACM ICPC Asia Chennai Regional Contest at international level held during 11.1.2024 to 12.1.2024 hosted by IIITDM Kancheepuram, Chennai and secured 2nd rank.
In order to nurture the competitive programming skills amongst students, the department initiated a coding club which was inaugurated on 28.2.2017 by Mr. Anoop Kalbalia, Business Head, Codechef. The club received a Grant of Rs. 1,00,000/- from AICTE Financial Assistance under Scheme for Promoting Interests, Creativity, and Ethics among Students (SPICES) for the academic year 2022-23.

Vignesh Balaji S of 2019-23 Batch attended UNESCO-India-Africa (UIA) Hackathon conducted by Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell (MIC) and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) from 22nd November 2022 to 25th November 2022 at Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida.
Aathish Sivasubrahmanian of III year CSE participated in hackXGPT, the HackMIT 2023 puzzle CTF held from 4 .7.2023 to 7.8.2023 organized by Massachusetts Institute of Technology at international level and secured 18th place internationally, securing guaranteed admission to HackMIT, MIT’s annual flagship Hackathon.
National Level
Nanda Harishankar Krishna, Naveen Narayanan, Reshma Ramesh Babu and Rohit Midha from 2017- 2021 batch were selected as one of the 50 people selected for the Computer Vision track at Google summer school.
DevelopHER Srinithyee S K from 2018-2021 batch participated in the DevelopHER the Coding Challenge specially for women by the Engineers at Twitter. Srinithyee S. K and her team won the first prize.
State Level
Namshika S N, Aadithya Hariharan, Keerthipriya M S and Manickam L of IV-year CSE made it to the semifinals and won overall 3rd place in the Regional Finals (Chennai District) of the IBM Nalaiya Thiran Tech Showcase.
Team ID: PNT2022TMID53079
Team Leader: Namshika S N
Team Members: Aadithya Hariharan, Keerthipriya M S, Manickam L
Place Conducted: St. Josephs Institute of Technology, Chennai
Date Conducted: 4th March, 2023
Project Topic: IOT based safety gadget for child safety monitoring and notification.
Prize won: 3rd place in the Regional Finals
Report: For the Regional Finals, a total of 30 teams across Chennai were shortlisted. Various industry experts were called in as judges, to make up a panel of 9, notably employees from Zoho and professors from other respected academic institutes. There were 3 panels and 2 rounds of the competition, first wherein the teams were split into 3 panels (10 teams each) with 3 judges each, and the top 2 teams from each panel selected. Then a final round with the 6 teams and all 9 judges was conducted. We placed 3rd in the overall competition, showcasing our presentation and demo using the IBM tools such as Node RED and IBM Watson.
Vignesh Balaji S of II year CSE has developed “Pretty LMS” mobile app with the following features:
An easier way to access your courses Finding a course page on LMS to submit your assignments, LMS Assignments, Self Assignments. This app makes finding the right course page easy by simplifying the LMS homepage. Just go to the course page to view all your courses in one place!
The app is available in the Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vigbality.prettylms
Vignesh Balaji S
Tamil Nadu Police Hackathon
A State-level hackathon on Cyberattacks was conducted by IIT, Madras and Tamil Nadu Police Department on 23rd November 2019. Mohanasundar and Jothishmathi of 2017-21 batch secured First Place among 111 teams with cash award of Rs. 50,000. The students were recognized as volunteers to protect the state from cyber attack. Mohanasundar, Kandavel and Jyothishmathi have published their innovation Text steganography tool. The page has 1.7K stars in Github securing the #1 position in steganography tools.
Students’ Extra Curricular Activities
International Level
Yuvapriya N, Vishnu Praba A J, Shankari SR, Samah Syed of II year CSE C have participated in International Conclave for Women in STEM held on 18.3.2024 to 19.3.2024 organized by Agaram foundation & Anna University at College of Engineering, Guindy.
National Level
State Level
Sathvika. V. S of 3 rd year CSE has participated in the Table Tennis tournament organized by Kongu Engineering college at State level during 10.9.2023 to 11.9.2023 and secured First Place.
S Jagrath Mithun of II year CSE has participated in Anna University Zonals for basketball held on 27.9.23 at SRM Easwari Engineering College and secured second place in basketball at inter college state level.
Sathvika of II year CSE has participate at the Inter Engineering College State level Table Tennis tournament conducted by Sairam College of Engineering on the 29th of September 2022.
Pradeep G and Shashank Panda of 3rd Year CSE was placed Second in “Aakrithi Battle of Bands Eastern/Fusion” hosted by VIT Chennai on 27 Nov 2021.
Pradeep G and Shashank Panda of 3rd year CSE was placed second in “Tarang” hosted by IIT Madras on 8th January 2022.
Shashank Panda of 3rd year CSE was placed first in “Decibels” hosted by IIT Madras on 7th January 2022.
Student Activities for Integrated M.Tech CSE
- Team participation in Smart India Hackathon (SIH) conducted by the Government of India.
- Participating in ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC).
- Internship opportunities in reputed organizations with stipend.
- Motivated to participate in various research activities such as Image CLEF, etc., at the international level.
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