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ANNUAL REPORT 2016-2017

27th August, 2016 : DJ-CSI COMMITTEE ANNOUNCEMENTOn 27th August, the organizing committee of DJSCE’s Computer Society of Indiastudent chapter was formed with assistance from the previous committee, teachersand the principal. The following is the list of names of students chosen along with thepost they were chosen for:

DJ-CSI ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 2016-2017

CHAIRPERSONZAID MERCHANT

VICE CHAIRPERSON(TECHNICAL) VICE CHAIRPERSON(ADMINISTRATIVE)AKSHEN KADAKIA HEM ACHARYA

SECRETARY TREASURERRHEA SANGHVI VIRAJ MEHTA

CO-SECRETARY CO-TREASURERCHAHAT JAIN ZEEL DOSHI

SUBHASH NADKARNI

CO-TECHNICAL HEAD CO-TECHNICAL HEAD CO-TECHNICAL HEAD(EVENTS) (EVENTS) (CREATIVES)

RUSHABH DHARIA SIDDHANT GADA DISHITH POOJARY

EVENTS HEAD MARKETING HEAD LOGISTICS HEAD PUBLICITY HEADURVI MISTRY MIHIR GADA SHARANG UKIDVE PARTH MEHTA

BHAVYA SHAH RASHI AGRAWAL VARUN AGARWAL

CREATIVES CO-MARKETING EDITORIAL HEAD CO-PUBLICITYHEAD HEAD PRUTHA DUBHASHI HEAD

DEVANSHI DESAI PRANALI MANE SHWETA KRISHNAN MAITHILI SHAHSAGAR SHRINGARPURE


18th September, 2016 : TechnoScriptThe committee announced their first event “TechnoScript” which was a technicalarticle writing competition. The participating students had to write an article on anytechnical domain of their choice of with word count of 500-1000 words. The winningarticle was to be featured in DJ-CSI’s annual magazine “PROTOCOL”.

22nd and 24th September, 2016 : DJ-CSI CO-COMMITTEE SELECTIONThe newly formed organizing committee interviewed second year students from allbranches, who had applied to be a part of DJ-CSI. The following is the list of names ofstudents who were chosen, along with the department they had been chosen for:

DJ-CSI CO-COMMITTEE 2016-2017

Technical Team Marketing Team Publicity TeamSneh Gajiwala Rashika Singh Tanuj Bohra

Yashi Suba Tanya Gupta Shruti ShakhlaBhavya Shah Arjav Mehta Pranav Jain

Krish Parekh Vridhi Shah

Events Team Logistics TeamNiket Shah Prasham Shah

Saifil Momin Nishad KanePrapti Shanbhag Devansh Gosalia

Harshal Kapadia

Hard Creatives Team Soft Creatives Team Editorial TeamHrutwin Pottekkatt Vyom Unadkat Sneh Gajiwala

Priyesh Patel Raj Patel Krisha MehtaSayali Sant Akshay JainNeeti Vyas Anshul Vora

Rajavi Mehta Tanvi Ruparel


19th October, 2016 : Educational Seminar by Endeavour ClassesDJ-CSI invited some educators from Endeavour classes for students of third year ofthe department of Information Technology to guide them for decision making incontext of post graduation. They enlightened the students about the variousspecializations they can pursue to obtain their graduate degree. Doubts raised by thestudents were promptly cleared and the students were asked to provide theirfeedback at the end of the session.

November 2016 : DJ-CSI and DJ-NSS CollaborationDJ-CSI announced the launch of a brand-new website djnss.in for the NSS chapter ofour college in November 2016. The website was developed as a part of the technicalcollaboration between DJ-CSI and DJ-NSS. It was created with the intention ofmaking the task of managing and advertising events easier and more organized forDJ-NSS. It also aimed at moving ahead with the times, keeping in mind the ideologiesof the Prime Minister - those of Swachh Bharat, Make in India, and more importantly,a Digital India.The members of NSS work really hard, their calendar chock-a-block with eventstargeted at the welfare of others. Hundreds of students register for their events,which is quite time consuming and difficult to manage. The website will replacepaperwork with online registrations, which will not only be convenient for theapplicants, but would also provide the NSS with a complete database of theirmembers. Changes can be made to the website as and when required withoutrequiring assistance from DJ-CSI.

6th January, 2017 : TechnoScript winner announcementTechnoScript, a technical writing competition open to all students of our college, wasannounced by DJ-CSI in September,2016. The winner for the same was adjudged asMr. Ashwini Swain, a student of TE IT, who penned an article on the topic “DeepLearning”. His article featured in our annual magazine, "Protocol", which was madeavailable for all CSI members.

12th January,2017 to 19th January,2017 : CSI Membership DriveDJ-CSI conducted its annual membership drive in the period between January 12 andJanuary 19, 2017. A membership desk was set up in the ground floor lobby area forthe same between 8am and 6pm during the dates as specified above. Themembership fee for the same was ₹350/- (same as the previous year). The minimumnumber of members required was 75 and this year, DJ-CSI got 113 registrations for


membership. All members would receive a copy of the DJ-CSI annual magazineProtocol and would also receive 2 newsletters in the months of February andMarch. Members received the DJ-CSI guide called “import csi.guide;” which was acompilation of how and where to start learning HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript,MySQL, PHP, Django, Android and iOS for programming beginners to encouragethem to start coding. This was also done to encourage budding coders to participatein Codeshastra 3.0, the flagship event of DJ-CSI.

17th January, 2017 : Seminar on GRE/GMAT by Endeavor careersDJ-CSI invited some professors from Endeavour classes for students of second yearof the department of Information Technology to enlighten them about differentexams they need to prepare for to pursue higher studies in India and abroad. Theydiscussed the GRE, GMAT and CAT exam formats with the students. Differentcourses in the domains of Information Technology and Computer science asavailable in foreign universities were discussed with the students. The seminar wasconducted by Mr. Amit Panchmatia. A similar seminar was conducted by Mr. KartikKothari from Endeavour careers on October 19,2016 for the students of TE IT.

18th January, 2017 : Seminar by ITM (Institute for Technology and Management)Prof. Kanchan Kaur from ITM met with the fourth-year students of the departmentof Information Technology to discuss ways to ace the group discussions and personalinterviews during placements. She gave the students valuable tips about the sameand conducted mock group discussions.

27th January, 2017 : Test Prep and Profile Building Workshop by CollegepondMr. Jimeet Sanghavi, one of the lead counselors at Collegepond, spoke to thestudents of the third-year of the department of Information Technology about theGRE,TOEFL,IELTS and GMAT exams. He spoke about the ideal time-line that anaspiring student should follow while preparing for the above exams and the do’s anddon’ts regarding the same. He gave an overview of the application process includingSOPs, LORs, résumé, etc. He also advised students on profile building, planning ofeducational finances and about the importance of internships.


Codeshastra 3.0

This third edition of Codeshastra was unlike its previous two editions. Being aninter-college 24-hour overnight event this year, Codeshastra 3.0 was divided intotwo rounds – Round 0 (intra-college) and the Main Round (inter-college).Each team of two to four members registered on our website djcsi.co.in. Registrationfor this event was free.

22nd January, 2017 : Round 0 of Codeshastra 3.0Every year, a large number of teams from our college apply to participate inCodeshastra. However, only a selected few get to be a part of this hackathon.Inability to formulate an abstract that concisely and precisely describes their idea forthe selected problem statement is one of the reasons that many new teams areconsidered ineligible to participate. Due to this reason, many interested and talentedstudents of our college lost out on the opportunity to be a part of this event.To ensure that students of our college got exposure to this novel concept of ahackathon, DJ-CSI organized Round 0 of Codeshastra 3.0 where all interestedstudents of DJSCE were welcome to register for the event. This round was also anelimination round for the Main Round, an inter-college event.Round 0 of Codeshastra 3.0 took place from 7am to 7pm on January 22, 2017(Sunday) on the 5th floor. The two drawing halls (DH1 and DH2) and the twoclassrooms of the production department were utilized for the same. 52registrations were received out of which 48 teams participated. 197 participantswere present for this event. They consisted of students belonging the second, thirdand fourth year from the departments of Information Technology, ComputerEngineering and Electronics and Telecommunication.The problem statements for this round were released on Friday, January 20, 2017.Participating teams had to create a website or desktop application or a mobileapplication (Android or iOS) using any platform on any one of the problemstatements within the allocated time. The three problem statements were asfollows:

Create a meet-up platform where people with similar interests can meet andinteract with each other.

Create an online QR based treasure hunt with real-time data transmission Create a CHAT BOT for Codeshastra registrations

Mentors with experience in the fields of web and application development wereinvited for this round to help students with any problems arising during productdevelopment and to also act as judges for the event.


The mentors for this round were Mr. Ashutosh Parekh, Mr. Bhavya Sanghavi, Mr.Jash Kothari, Mr. Lekhraj Varshney and Mr. Nilay Shah (DJSCE alumni from the ITdepartment, 2016 batch) and Mr. Rahul Iyer (VJTI alumnus, 2016 batch).(Codeshastra was started under the helm of Mr. Nilay Shah, Chairperson of DJ-CSI forthe academic year 2014-2015.) They were all extremely supportive. The participantsloved interacting with them and found their feedback to be very helpful andenlightening. Faculty including Prof. Vinaya Sawant, Prof. Kriti Srivastava and Prof.Neha Katre were also present for part of the event. Our principal, Dr. Hari Vasudevan,also graced the event with his presence and presented all our esteemed mentorswith a token of appreciation.The teams were allowed to work on their product till 4pm post which presentationstook place where each team showcased their product to the mentors who nowacted as judges. Around 30 teams presented their products and 13 teams qualifiedfor the Main Round of Codeshastra 3.0.

Teams in Drawing Hall 1 after the commencement of the event.


Team “Teletubbies” in one of the classrooms

Some of the mentors (L-R) – Mr. Lekhraj Varshney, Mr. Rahul Iyer, Mr. Nilay Shah, Mr.Ashutosh Parekh. (Not in picture – Mr. Jash Kothari, Mr. Bhavya Sanghavi)


28th and 29th January, 2017 : Main Round of Codeshastra 3.0Codeshastra 3.0 was Mumbai’s first full-fledged 24-hour inter-college hackathonthemed “Digital India”, which was in tone with the mood of our nation and ourPrime Minister's vision. It was aimed at encouraging student participation andenhancing a student’s skills to develop useful applications based on the currenttrending theme. Following the trend present in hackathons held worldwide,Codeshastra 3.0 was held for 24 hours consecutively from 4pm on 28th January to4pm on 29th January,2017 thus making it one of SVKM’s first overnight hackathons.It was held in association with CSI Mumbai. L&T Infotech and Croma were our prizemoney sponsors, Uber was our ride partner, Brijeel was our water partner, Frappwas our student app partner and Prahaar was our newspaper partner along withsponsor Red Bull.

Inauguration ceremony:The inauguration ceremony of Codeshastra 3.0 took place on January 28, 2017 in theseminar hall on the third floor, 1 pm on-wards. Our Principal, Dr. Hari Vasudevan,Vice-Principal (Admin.), Dr. A. C. Daptardar, Vice-Principal (Acad.), Dr. Abhijit R. Joshiand the college’s Training and Placement Officer, Prof. R. S. Khavekar were present.Mr. Suresh Shan from Tech Mahindra was our Chief Guest for the event andrepresented CSI Mumbai for this event. The ceremony started with a short videopresentation highlighting the effort put in by the committee for this event which wasprepared by the soft creatives team headed by Mr. Dishith Poojary. After this, theceremonial lamp was lighted by the dignitaries along with Prof. Vinaya Sawant,Faculty Advisor of DJ-CSI and Mr. Zaid Merchant, Chairperson of DJ-CSI.Our Principal, Dr. Hari Vasudevan, spoke a few words of encouragement and wishedthe committee luck for the success of the event. Our Vice-Principal (Admin.), Dr. A.C.Dapatardar, also spoke a few words and highlighted the need of security in today’sworld. Dr. Abhijit R. Joshi, Vice-Principal (Acad.), spoke about the hackathon cultureand the theme of “Digital India”. Our Chief Guest, Mr. Suresh Shan was also invitedon stage to give his views on this event organized by DJ-CSI. Mr. Zaid Merchant,Chairperson of DJ-CSI, instructed the participants regarding the rules and code ofconduct for the event and also thanked the faculty and committee for theirwhole-hearted support for this event. The inauguration ceremony was concludedwith the recitation of the national anthem.


L-R: Mr. Suresh Shan (Chief Guest, CSI Mumbai) at the inaugural ceremony of Codeshastra3.0 along with our Principal, Dr. Hari Vasudevan, Vice-Principal (Admin.), Dr. A. C. Daptardar,Vice-Principal (Acad.), Dr. Abhijit R. Joshi and the college’s Training and Placement Officer,Prof. R. S. Khavekar


Codeshastra 3.0:

The Main Round of Codeshastra 3.0 began on January 28,2017 (Saturday) at 4pmand went till 4pm on January 29,2017 (Sunday) followed by the presentations. Thedrawing halls (DH1 And DH2) on the 5th floor were utilized for the same. 41 teamsparticipated in this event including 12 in-house teams and 29 outhouse teams fromacross 17 colleges across the city and state. There were 144 participants present intotal. Food and beverages were provided to the participants free of cost.Unrestricted Wi-Fi was also provided to all participants, courtesy of DJSCE and SVKM.All participants will receive certificates of participation from CSI Mumbai.All applications developed during the event constitute as intellectual property ofDJ-CSI and all participating teams were informed about the same.

The problem statements were released on January 26, 2017 at 1pm. They werebased on the following topics:

Digitizing Farming Aid the Disabled Disaster management

The mentors for this event were Mr. Vinit Nalhe (DJSCE alumnus of IT department),Mr. Amar Mehta (DJCSE alumnus of IT department), Mr. Swapnil Shrivastav and Mr.Moses Elijah (from TCS). DJSCE alumni and mentors for round 0, Mr. Nilay Shah, Mr.Jash Kothari and Mr. Lekhraj Varshney also graced this event with their presence.The mentors introduced a few guidelines for the participants at the start of the eventand encouraged the students to think out of the box. Our Principal, Dr. HariVasudevan, Vice-Principals Dr. A. C. Daptardar and Dr. Abhijit R. Joshi and TPO Prof.R.S. Khavekar visited the premises of the event and gave a few pointers to maintainthe sanctity of the event.

The event ran smoothly and dinner was provided to the participants at 8.30pm. Anunlimited supply of coffee is essential for such intense overnight events and thesame was provided to all participants. Sleeping bags were also provided to allparticipants so that they could take a break and have a respite from coding. Facultymembers Prof. Neepa Shah, Prof. Vinaya Sawant, Prof. Arjun Jaiswal and Prof. PratikKanani were present throughout the night to help tackle any issue that could’vearisen. Prof. Kriti Srivastava, Prof. Purva Raut, Prof. Harshal Dalvi and Prof. AmrutaPatil also lent their support for this event.


At around 2am, all participants were given a break and the trending “MannequinChallenge” was completed. Snack boxes were also provided to all teams to beat thenight hunger pangs. Come 8.30 am, participants were provided with a hot breakfastfollowed by a delicious lunch at 12.30pm. At around 1.00pm, the mentors took around where each team was asked to showcase a technical demonstration of theirproduct at that stage. Based on this, the mentors selected 12 teams (5 of whichbelonged to DJSCE) to showcase their product during the final presentation roundwhich took place post 4.30pm. They also gave feedback to the other teams andcommended 7 teams as special mentions for their innovative ideas.

Post the presentation round, the winners were adjudged as CCDev (DJSCE) followedby Teletubbies (DJSCE) as the first runners-up. Brawlers (RAIT) and Starlords (TCET)were tied at the third place. The 12 qualifying teams plus the 7 special mentionswere given vouchers and coupons from Croma and Frapp. The winning team wasawarded a cash price of ₹7000/- the second-place winners were awarded ₹5000/-while the teams tied at third place were awarded ₹3000/- each. All in all, prizesworth ₹75,000/- were given to the winning teams and special mentions. The bestcollege award was won by DJSCE owing to the highest scores being obtained byteams belonging to the college. The prize distribution ceremony was conductedjointly by Ms. Vinaya Sawant, faculty advisor, DJ-CSI and L&T Infotechrepresentatives, Ms. Priyanka Allen and Mr. Vishak G. from the HR department alongwith the mentors. The mentors were also given a token of appreciation for their helpand advice during this event.

The event thus ended on a high note with all participants acknowledging the effortsput in by the DJ-CSI committee and the staff to pull off such a big event without ahitch. This event, which saw a massive participation of over 340 students, was truly amemorable one and will be etched in our minds for years to come.


The mentors addressing the participants at the start of the event

The winning team, “CCdev”, being awarded their prize by Mr. Vishak and Ms. Priyanka Allenfrom L&T Infotech. Extreme right – Mentor Mr. Moses Elijah (TCS)


The mentors (L-R): Mr. Swapnil Shrivastav, Mr. Amar Mehta and Mr. Vinit Nalhe

Article on DJ-CSI’s “Codeshastra 3.0” in Marathi daily “Prahaar” dated February 15, 2017(Post-event)


Article on DJ-CSI’s “Codeshastra 3.0” in Marathi daily “Prahaar” dated January 26, 2017(Pre-event)


8th March, 2017 to 14th March, 2017 : CSI WEEKDJ-CSI conducted a series of technical workshops over the span of a week in March2017 at the 2nd floor Advanced Computing Lab. Commencing from 8th March, 2017and ending on 14th March, 2017, this series of workshops was collectively named“CSI WEEK” and saw packed classrooms throughout. With special discounts for itsmembers and enticing offers for non-members, the workshops conducted were asfollows:

8th March, 2017 - Databases using SQL:CSI week started off on 8th March, 2017 to a packed house. This introductoryworkshop on “Databases using SQL” was taught by Zaid Merchant, the chairpersonof DJ-CSI.Every application, irrespective of it being mobile based or web based, requires adatabase. SQL is an open source database management language that can be usedwith programming languages like Java, Python and PHP to create and managedatabases. Starting with basics of data definition language (DDL) and datamanipulation language (DML), the attendees of this workshop learnt how to create adatabase, insert data in the tables and also learnt how to update and alter a tablecontained in a database. Reaching higher levels of complexity, the participants alsolearnt about SQL joins and integrity constraints such as primary key, foreign key, nulland unique. With volunteers solving errors on the go, the participants received athorough learning experience. The students acknowledged the efforts of theinstructor to provide a good knowledge base of SQL keeping in mind the timeconstraints for the workshop.


9th March, 2017 - Photoshop:CSI week continued with the immensely popular “Photoshop” workshop which wasconducted on 9th March, 2017. Taught by Dishith Poojary, the co-technical head(creative) of DJ-CSI, participants were shown how to create fabulous looking imagesusing basic editing tools in Photoshop. Participants were given enough time torecreate each step on their computers and with the guidance of the volunteers allparticipants were able to follow all instructions satisfactorily.

Various features of Photoshop like distributing parts of the image in different layersto make editing easier and other tools like lasso, magic wand, etc. were taught. Awide variety of photo editing tips were shared with the participants. The attendeeswere surprised to know that they could also make small scale animations usingPhotoshop!

Dishith addressing the students


The students learning the intricacies of Photoshop

The skills which the students learnt in the workshop would act as a base for learningmore complex features of Photoshop. DJ-CSI was pleased with the highly positivefeedback to this workshop and was glad that the students were appreciative of theefforts of the instructor.


10th and 11th March, 2017 - Data structures using Python:The third workshop for CSI WEEK was the “Python” workshop. Conducted over aperiod of two days, the primary aim of this workshop was to introduce Python, ahigh-level object-oriented programming language, among students and also teachthe basics of data structures using python.On 10th March, 2017, the first segment of this workshop was taught by SiddhantGada, the co-technical head (events) of DJ-CSI . He introduced the language ofPython to the students who were taught how to write simplescripts in Python so thatthey could familiarize themselves with the syntax and structure of this language.

Siddhant introducing Python to the students


The next day, i.e., on 11th March, 2017, the second part of this workshop was taughtby Monik Pamecha, a fourth year student of our college belonging to thedepartment of Computer Science Engineering. He introduced the topic of datastructures to the attendees after teaching the concepts of objects and classes inPython.

Monik Pamecha


The importance and necessity of data structures including stacks, queues and binarysearch trees was also well explained. At the end of the workshop, applications ofthese data structures were discussed so that students could understand thesignificance of data structures. By the end of this two day workshop, students notonly learnt a new, simple yet powerful language but also discovered how toimplement it to solve real life problems.

Monik addressing the students


14th March, 2017 - Web development using Bootstrap:After many house-full workshops, it was finally time for our last event of CSI WEEK,the “Web development using Bootstrap” workshop, which aimed to lay thefoundation for web development for the student attendees. The workshopintroduced the concepts of HTML, CSS and Bootstrap and took place on 14th March,2017. The lead speaker and instructor for the event was Akshen Kadakia, thevice-chairperson (technical) of DJ-CSI. The workshop started with a basic explanationof HTML and a description of its features. The students followed Akshen as he tookthem through the basics of HTML including the header, para and div tags amongothers. Next, the workshop moved towards styling with Cascading Style Sheets orCSS. Firstly, Akshen explained styling within the HTML tags and then proceeded toseparate out the CSS rules into their own CSS file. Lastly, Bootstrap was introducedto the students and a pre-built example is used to explain how Bootstrap themes canbe quickly edited and modified for personal use instead of creating a web page fromscratch. This would be very crucial in situations such as a time based hackathon andstudents were informed of the widespread advantages of Bootstrap.

Akshen addressing the crowd


The participants hard at work during the workshop

Concluding CSI WEEK, DJ-CSI chairperson Zaid Merchant spoke about thetremendous effort that was put in by the committee and thanked the participantsfor coming in huge numbers and making this a very exciting, eventful and successfulCSI WEEK. The enthusiasm shown by the students of the college was sooverwhelming that many interested outhouse participants had to be turned awaydue to lack of space. This action-packed CSI WEEK ended with a thunderous round ofapplause from the students for their senior mentors.


23rd March, 2017 : Android Foundation WorkshopIn association with Trinity 2017, the annual socio-cultural and sports festival of ourcollege, DJ-CSI conducted the “Android Foundation” workshop which was taught byRushabh Dharia, the co-technical head (events) of DJ-CSI, on 23rd March, 2017. Thisworkshop attracted participants from our college as well as outhouse collegesincluding Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management and Engineering(MPSTME). Rushabh walked the participants through the steps of programming anAndroid application and explained each part of Android Studio in detail.

1st April, 2017 – DJ ASCIIWith the tremendous support of the faculties from the departments of ComputerEngineering and Information Technology of the college, DJ-CSI co-hosted the 2ndedition of DJ ASCII – a state level project competition along with DJ-ACM studentchapter on 1st April, 2017.There was a massive participation of the students from thecollege as well outhouse colleges. Various projects from different domains such asArtificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Data Mining, NLP, etc were presented tothe alumni of our college for Round One out of which 8 teams made their way to theFinal round. A team of five experts from the field of IT graced DJ-ASCII with theirpresence to judge the best projects of the competition and were overwhelmed bythe efforts put in by each participant to engineer their exuberating products. Alongwith the project presentations, posters were displayed by the students of the finalyear from Computer Department and Information Technology Department of thecollege. This splendid event concluded with the valedictory function disclosing theresults of the project presentation as well as the poster presentation. DJ-ASCII thusended on the note that the gap between the industrial demand and the educationsystem should be bridged by involving students to participate in competitions likethese and foster their technical and presentation skills.

DJ-CSI was the proud recipient of the “BEST ACTIVE CSI STUDENTBRANCH” award as approved by the CSI National ExecutiveCommittee (Execom) in the 5th meeting held at Bangalore on 18thMarch, 2017. Emerging triumphant over numerous other CSI studentbranches from across the country, DJ-CSI bagged this prestigiousNATIONAL LEVEL AWARD.

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