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Carbon Dioxide Capturing Drones

Amankumar Singh

Climate change and global warming The cost of manufacturing such a
are one of the biggest problems we fleet of drones would be far less
have faced in centuries and we need than setting a dedicated CO2
to act fast to prevent the world from extraction plant. Each drone will be
catastrophe. Electric vehicles and fitted with a CO2 scrubber
renewable energy are great mechanism. CO2 scrubbers are
initiatives but their outcomes won’t equipments that absorb CO2. These
matter in near future. Even if we scrubbers can be amine or sodium
reduce our CO2 emissions to zero hydroxide based. Many other
which is a utopian dream, we would alternate methods for CO2
still have an excess of CO2 in the absorption are under development.
atmosphere. Surely, there exists a The drones will return periodically
CO2 cycle in nature that would to unload captured CO2. These
balance the amount of CO2 in the drones will be fitted with high-end AI
atmosphere in a few hundred years, tools to help the drone to
but we need to heal our planet manoeuvre automatically and avoid
sooner. The only viable option is to any obstacles. Sensors onboard can
pull CO2 out of the atmosphere. help to collect critical data for
further research.
Many industries are already
developing technologies for CO2 The major problem with this
extraction from the atmosphere on a
smaller scale by installing machines approach of CO2 extraction is the
to suck up air and extract CO2 from it.
Although, installing and maintaining disposal of the collected CO2.
such machines is very expensive. In
the recent past, we have seen a huge Collected CO2 can be used in
success in the research and
production of autonomous drones synthetic fuels, carbonated
that need very little human
intervention. We can use these beverages or building materials.
autonomous drones to work as CO2
extractors from the atmosphere. However, the sheer amount of CO2

would be so huge that it cannot be

consumed in these manufacturing

units. Possibly, we could pump CO2

in saline aquifers or rather we can

send solidified CO2 in space.

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The One with Immortality

Piyul Patel

“How long do you wanna live? 80 Researchers believe that digital
years? 90?”
upload of a specific individual’s
In this era, you must have good
health to live that long. We’ve grown memory could be possible so long as
up learning that ‘Health is wealth’
and it does stand true! Well, at least you were able to “run” the simulated
in 2020. AI in future will completely
change this quote and make it the brain in its entirety. There is ongoing
other way round i.e “Wealth is
Health”. The future of AI has work to create an AI system to
something completely different in
store and it will blow your mind! “reincarnate” a person using an AI
One’s lifespan won't be timed from
their birth to death but more. One’s approach, blending recurrent neural
body could be dead but their
consciousness could still be networks and a system for language
preserved and exported to a world of
virtual reality. As biologists would understanding called ELMo.
suggest that a human brain could
likely be preserved and kept alive Recurrent Neural Networks is the
along with all the data and memories.
But to think of extracting all this data type of AI that the researchers are
and the human consciousness and to
immortalize it by saving this in zeros currently using to develop this
and ones seems a little far fetched
but not impossible. This data could concept. This is the same type of AI
remain static or could manifest into
an autonomous and self growing that is widely used in chatbots all
entity. Thus, via this transferred or
cloned data you could live and over the internet in apps, softwares
interact eternally in a virtual
paradise. and websites for years. So, basically

scanning and understanding a

person’s mind and their

consciousness. Next step? Uploading

this data i.e the memories and the

consciousness, into a virtual reality

and simulating it just like in reality.

In the larger view, the challenges

would not only be technical in

nature, we still need to ponder over

its implications on the human

psyche, conscience and sociology.

Nonetheless being digitally

immortal and all that would come

along with it does seem like

something we could look forward to.

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TECHNiCAL TEAM

CSI-RAIT, under its umbrella, has built multiple projects and has made
good use of most of them in recent years. The committee highly supports
opensource software and most of the projects built are publicly available.
Learn about some of the most significant projects the Tech Team has been
working on.

Perfest

Neil Agarwal, Somesh Koli and Anirudh Bhatt built Perfest in 2019, an event
ticketing platform built with the aim of reducing the use of paper for buying and
selling tickets. It has been successfully used for Techmate 2019 to shift to a more
eco-friendly option for ticketing. Built on top of React native web and MERN stack,
Perfest was able to scale to over 1000 concurrent users. It tackled the major
problem of ticketing in remote regions where internet availability is a difficulty,
with its inbuilt offline ticketing feature.

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Decrypt

Prathmesh Shirsat built the Decrypt website in 2020. Decrypt, built on top of the
opensource Bludit project, is the committee’s official self-hosted technical blog catering
to tech-newbies as well as geeks. Currently, the website handles heavy traffic and is
scalable enough to handle an even higher load.

Ideathon 2020

The team also built the website for Ideathon 2020. It was the source of all information
about the event which focused on novel research ideas for a given set of problem
statements. Keeping with the tradition, the official CSI website was also updated in 2020.
The GenTech FE community for motivating newcomers into the tech world has been abuzz
with activity. The team provides useful resources to the community and hosts coding
competitions like CodeStack for them.

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RESEARCH WiNG

The Research Team at CSI-RAIT has been consistently pursuing
interesting and relevant research topics. They have participated in
numerous hackathons and ideathons and have done incredibly well in
them. Two of the papers published even made it to international
journals!

Competitions

The team consisting of Prasanna Rajendran, Shubham Gurav, Mahitha
Bsl, Rajat Kapgate, Aniket Kamble and Prajakta Bonde ranked 250th out
of 6000 teams in the #MJFCODE19 Hackathon by the Motwani Jadeja
Foundation Team.

Rajat Kapgate and Prajakta Bonde participated in Kaggle COVID-19
Global forecasting week competitions and secured 50th rank among 452
entries.

At Crack The COVID19 Crisis hackathon by IBM, NASSCOM, Rajat Kapgate,
Aniket Kamble and Prajakta Bonde qualified as top 16 finalists.

Representatives of the research team were also the winners of the Smart
India Hackathon 2020 problem statement by ISRO.

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Projects A+

01 Rajat Kapgate, Aniket Kamble and Prajakta 57
Bonde authored the paper “Pollution
Mitigation and Flood Management by
Predictive Analysis of Green Cover in Urban
Landscape using Machine Learning”. This
paper explored the relationship between
green spaces in urban areas and climate
disasters. It involved automating the process
of tracking the number of trees locally which
has largely been a manual process until now. A
paper on “Smart Surveillance Using OpenCV,
Motion Analysis And Facial Landmark” was also
published.

02 The Plagiarism Checker project focuses on an
efficient plagiarism detection tool on
identifying suitable intracorporeal plagiarism
detection for text-based assignments by
comparing unigram, bigram, trigram of vector
space model with cosine similarity measure. A
manually evaluated and labelled dataset was
tested using unigram, bigram, and trigram
vectors. The project is in the research phase
and awaiting publication.

03 The Language Detection project addresses the
matter of Language Identification (LI) on short
segments of text. The central idea is to
compute the entropy of a document in several
contexts and assign it to the category where
the entropy is maximal.

04 Pyro, which is Python Robotics, is a robotics
programming environment written in Python
that enables you to explore topics in robotics.
Programming robot behaviours in Pyro is
somewhat similar to programming in a
high-level general-purpose programming
language; Pyro provides abstractions for
low-level robot-specific features much like the
abstractions provided in high-level
programming languages. This paper proposes
an extensive set of robot programming
modules, modelling techniques, and learning
materials. The project is in the research phase
and awaiting publication.

CSI WORKSHOPS

01 REST APIs using GOLANG workshop
A 2-day workshop where students were able to create REST APIs using GOLANG. The
workshop was led by CSI-RAIT's Chief Technical Officer, Somesh Koli, and saw great
success. Students were awarded with e-certificates for their participation in this
workshop held on 17th and 18th October, 2020.

02 UI/UX Design Workshop

CSI-RAIT conducted a prolific and interactive UI/UX Workshop. Mentored by Chief
Design Officer, Makarand Madhavi and Design Co-head, Anuj Patil, this workshop saw
a huge participation. Hosted on Youtube Livestream on 13th February, 2021, the
workshop brushed over basics of designing and Adobe XD.

03 GET SET C

A 2-day insightful workshop on C programming was conducted by CSI-RAIT on 13th and
14th of March, 2021. This event was highly useful for First Year Engineering students

for getting started with C programming language. It was mentored by Mr. Abhijeet

Khushwaha.

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COMPUTER DEPARTMENT
WORKSHOPS

01 Ideathon 2020Ideathon 2020 was organized by CSI-RAIT revolving the theme ‘Pattern Recognition’

to better understand the COVID-19 pandemic and provide innovative solutions for
societal benefits. This competition was held on 31st October, 2020.

02 Android Skill Dev Workshop (SDG RAIT)

Third Year Engineering students, Ayush Dongre and Anurag Patil organized an App
Development workshop on 20th and 21st March, 2021. They covered the basics of
Flutter, a framework to build iOS and Android apps. By the end of this workshop,
that was mentored by Mrs. Smita Bhoir Ma'am, participants created a preliminary
Flutter application.

03 Avishkar Research Convention

A research convention was organized by University Of Mumbai. It was organized on
24th March, 2021 and included discussions on rules and regulations, designing a
research proposal and preparing a research presentation. Faculty Coordinators
and the Student Coordinators worked together to manage and help the students
with their Project Submissions. Total 12 projects were presented by the
participants under Engineering and Technology Category at UG level.

04 ML Algorithms using Orange workshop

This Skill Development Session was organized by Department of Computer
Engineering in association with the RAIT CSI Student Chapter on 10th April, 2021.
The sessions were conducted by Dr. Bharti Joshi Ma’am. There were 2 sessions
conducted in this Workshop - Demonstration on Orange Tool and Practice on
Dataset.

01 CSI EVENTS
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Code Stack

Code stack was a team-based intra-collegiate level coding competition to solve
real-world problems based on fundamental programming concepts within the
provided duration of time using any language. It was an initiative by CSI and
Department of Computer Engineering to increase the quality of idea submissions
for hackathons especially Smart India Hackathon 2021. It was held on 5th October,
2020 on HackerRank and Akhilesh Ketkar, Madhur Nirmal and Praveena Acharya
emerged as winners!

Code-o-fiesta

A competitive coding event to assess and evaluate coding skills was held on
HackerRank on the 7th and 8th of November, 2020. There was much enthusiasm from
students' side for the same. Ths competition was won by Harshvivek Kashid,
Praveena Acharya and Tanisha Jain.

03 Technopedia

A technical writing competition was conducted for students based on the theme
'Realistic Predictions for Technology in 2040'. A great number of articles poured in
and it was a close competition. The winners of this competition were Amankumar
Singh and Piyul Patel. Check out their articles in this magazine on pages 50 and 52!

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CSI CORE

The beloved and talented President of CSI RAIT is a guiding
light to everyone. She is a staunch leader and is known for
putting her best foot forward at all times. Her mentorship is the
reason for the committee's smooth run and is indeed an
inspiration to the mentees.

You can count on the Vice President of CSI-RAIT to steer you in
the right direction by way of support and positive affirmations.
Her affable nature and people skills are admirable and help the
committee with its efficient functioning.

The strong-willed and determined Secretary of CSI-RAIT
possesses all the goodness of a competent leader. His
hardworking attitude and repose in taking tough decisions is a
learning lesson for everyone.

Although he is a man of few words, he manages to unite
everyone with his wise words of encouragement and teamwork.
The patience and composure of the Treasurer of CSI-RAIT
motivates everyone.

As the mastermind behind all the CSI-RAIT events, the Chief
Event Organizer is a perfectionist and an impeccable planner.
His work ethics along with his optimistic nature inspire the lot.

The cheerful and happy-go-lucky demeanour of CSI-RAIT’s Chief
Technical Officer fills the committee with optimism and
positivity. You can turn to him for guidance with the guarantee
that he will show up for you.

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