CSE students win first and second place awards at MetroCon 2017

Monday, November 6, 2017
CSE students win first and second place awards at MetroCon 2017
From left to right: Prabha Sundaravadivel, Laavanya Rachakonda, Venkata Prasanth Yanambaka, SESL Directors Prof. Saraju Mohanty and Prof. Elias Kougianos.

Congratulations to students of the Smart Electronic System Laboratory (SESL) on winning both first and second prizes in the poster competition at the IEEE MetroCon 2017 held on October 26 in Arlington, TX!

The first place paper was Energy-Efficient Physical Unclonable Functions for Secure IoT Environment, authored by V. P. Yanambaka, S. P. Mohanty, and E. Kougianos. The student author Venkata Prasanth Yanambaka was awarded the Best Student Poster of the Conference with a cash prize of $1,000.

The second place paper was I-Stress: A Stress Monitoring System through the IoT, authored by L. Rachakonda, P. Sundaravadivel, S. P. Mohanty, and E. Kougianos. Student authors Laavanya Rachakonda and Prabha Sundaravadivel were awarded Second Best Student Poster with a cash prize of $500.