● Students Achievements

● Dr.P.S. Sreeja, Asst. Prof., received Encouragement Award in the Independence Day celebration

HITS (August, 2019) ● Dr. P.S. Sreeja Visited Technological University, Dublin, Ireland and presented her research article in an International Conference on Language and Knowledge Engineering during Oct. 2019. ● Dr. P.S. Sreeja, Asst. Prof., and Mr. Anurag Sinha (BCA) visited ISRO, Sriharikota, as their idea proposal got selected in HEMSI 2019 oraganized by ISRO and IIT during Dec. 2019. ● Dr.P.S. Sreeja recieved an Invitation from London Journal Press to join the Mangement Team as a

Honorary Rosalind Member of London Journals Press for her significant research work in July 2020. ● Dr. S. Lakshmisridevi, Asst. Prof. received “Encouragement Award” at the Independence Day celebration, HITS. ● Ms. Chitradevi D. Asst. Prof., got "Active Partcipation Women" award from CSI, India.

IT

Dr. B. Dwarakanath Asst. Prof. received “Infosys Inspire Partnership Award” by Nov. 2019 from Infosys.

ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

● Dr. Aby K. Thomas was invited as the key note speaker for AICTE sponsored National

Conference on "Recent Advances in On-Board Ship Automation" held on 26 & 27 Sept. 2019 in

AMET University, Chennai. ● Dr. Sakthidasan, Assoc. Prof. was awarded the “Best Teacher Award” during August 2019. He was also, o Honoured by “Best Paper Publication Award” during January 2020. o Obtained the “Best IEEE Conference Paper Award” during June 2020. o Received the “IEEE Outstanding Reviewer Award” in May 2020. o Achieved the title “Professional Achievement” during IEEE Day 2020. ● Dr.Vallikannu.AL received a fund of Rs 2,64,000/- from AICTE for conduct of STTP during

January 2020.

ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

• Dr. Uppu Ramachandraiah, Dr. S Sekar, Dr.A. K Parvathy, Profs. Asst. Profs. received “Research

Promotion Awards” in 2019. • Ms.M. Sujatha and Ms. M. Maheswari, Asst. Profs. awarded with PhD Degree in 2019. • Mrs. C. E Geethadevi received award for “25 Years of Service” in Hindustan Institute of

Technology and Science. • Mrs. C. E Geethadevi, Mr.N. Mahiban Lindsay, Dr. Nageswara Rao and Ms.S. Priyadarshini Asst.

Profs. received yearly “Best Attendance Award” in 2019.

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• Dr. Uppu Ramachandraiah was Resource Person on Recent Developments in control and automation techniques in the TEQIP III Sponsored STTP on 19 Dec. 2019 organized at

Pondicherry University, Pondicherry. • Dr.A. K Parvathy, Prof. gave Invited talk on “Virtual Power Plant” in University of Leeds on 3

July 2019. • Dr.A.K. Parvathy, was Resource Person for two-day DST- ICPS sponsored National level workshop entitled “Multi agent system and its application in cyber physical micro grid” on 4 Aug. 2019 at Annamacharya Institute of Technology and Science, Rajampet. She also was, o Invited Speaker for 35th National Convention of Electrical Engineers & National Conference On “Storing Energy for a Sustainable Future–Future Energy in any Isolated World” from 7 to 9 Nov. 2019 organized by Electrical Engineering Division, IEI, Chennai. o Invited Speaker for 2 Day National Conference on Consumer Engagement in the Electricity Sector in Chennai – 29-30 Nov.2019 organized by Citizen consumer and Civic Action Group (CAG) • Mr. Adarsh Vijayan Pillai, Resource Person for Training Programme-II on UPS& Battery maintenance, HITS on 1 Feb.2020 • Ms. S.K. Indumathi, Asst. Prof., secured All India Rank 1, Rank 2 Rank 3 in Online Quiz

Competitions on AICTE Initiatives on Leadership Talk Series conducted by MHRD – IIC between

Apr. and May 2020. • Ms. S.K. Indumathi and Dr. M. Maheswari, Faculty Mentor for the students’ team participated in

IEEE India Covid Move- Online Hackathon 2.0 Challenge conducted by IEEE India council from 17 to 19 Apr. 2020 and won Third Prize.

ELECTRONICS AND INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERING

• Mr. N. Jeyakkannan, Asst. Prof. received "Teacher for Peace Award", from Gandhi Peace

Foundation, Chennai on 05 Oct. 2019.

CHEMISTRY

● Dr.S. Sumathi, Professor received the best attendance award for the year 2019. ● Dr.P.S. Raghavan, Professor Published a book titled " Engineering Materials" - Dhanam

Publications, July 2018 ● Dr.B. Gajalakshmi, Asst. Prof., published a Book titled " A Text Book on Engineering

Chemistry".

PHYSICS

● Dr. V. Parthasaratthy, HoD, received an “Encouragement Award” from HITS for more publications (14 papers) in Journals during the calendar year 2019.

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MATHS

● Dr. D. Nagarajan, Prof. received a Funded Project titled “A New Formulation of General Fuzzy

Automata with Output Associated with the Transitions” from the Ministry of Higher Education,

Malaysia in Sept. 2019. He also received the “Best Teacher Award” from HITS for 2019-2020 ● Dr. G. Kavitha, Asst. Prof. authored a book titled “Matrices & Calculus” published by Dhanam

Publications. She has also authored revised editions of “Operations Research”, and “Probability,

Random Processes, Statistics and Queuing Theory”. She has also been, o Invited as the Chief Guest for the Inauguration of the Association of Mathematics, Numera 2020 held on 12 Mar. 2020 in Dhanraj Baid Jain College (Autonomous), Chennai. o Received a Digital Badge and Achievement for completing a professional course "IBM Data Science Professional Certificate" o Received a Digital Badge for progression as "Explorer Level 1" from IBM Community team. ● Mr. H. Ebenezer, Asst. Prof. received the Attendance Award from HITS for 2019-2020. ● Dr. A. Rajkumar, Assoc. Prof. was invited as the Chief Guest for MATHISTICA 2019 held on 30

Aug. 2019 in Annai Veilankanni College for Women, Chennai. ● Dr. R. Sundara Rajan, Assoc. Prof. gave an Invited talk on 3 June 2019 in Department of

Computer Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore. He also had, o Research Discussion on 7 June 2019 in School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore. o Research discussion on 18 June 2019 in Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore, Singapore. o Invited Talk as a visiting researcher on 10 & 11 June 2019 in Institute for Mathematical Research, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia. o Research Collaboration & Invited Talk on 12 June 2019 in Department of Research and Consultancy, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Malaysia. o Invited Talk on 5 & 6 Mar. 2020 in International Workshop on Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (IWDMTCS 2020) organized by Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur, Chennai. ● Dr. M. Latha Maheswari, Asst. Prof. received Doctoral Degree from HITS in Aug. 2019.

LANGUAGES

● Dr. Akkara Sherine, Prof. & Head received “Competent Communicator Award”, Advanced

Communicator Bronze, Silver and Gold, High Performance Leadership Certificate from

Toastmasters International 2020. She also has, o Received Best Speaker Award at the World Education Summit, Delhi in 2019,

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o Invited to Present at Artistotle University, Greece for the ICML conference and two papers published in the scopus indexed springer series. o Received the Best Chapter Award as Convenor of HEAD ELTAI Kancheepuram Chapter at Amity University Delhi 2019. o Contributed and compiled the documents for important world ranking agencies, THE and QS and placed HITS on global arena with excellent rankings in THE Impact Rankings., QS Stars Ratings, QS Iguage Ratings, QS BRICS Rankings, QS Asia Pacific Rankings, QS e Lead certification. ● Ms. G. B. Hemadarshini, Asst. Prof., Dept of Languages and Editor, won a Letter of Appreciation and Cash Prize 20,000/- for Exceptional Editing and Design of the HCELLENCE Magazine for the academic year 2018-19 on Teachers Day. ● Mr. Nagaraju and Mr. Samuel, Asst. Profs., completed Level 5 of Leadership Development in

Toastmasters ● Dr. Tenzin Norbu, Asst. Prof., was awarded for his outstanding PhD thesis, “Bon, Buddhist and the Modern Tibet: An Epistemological Inquiry” by the Tibetan Government on the 59th Tibetan

Democracy Day on 2 Sept. 2019.

SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

● Dr. M.K. Badrinarayanan participated and represented HGI and HITS at the NAFSA 2019 held at

Washington DC and the Myanmar Higher Education Expo held at Yangon and Mandalay. ● Dr. M.K. Badrinarayanan delivered an online lecture on "Indian Steel Industry" for the students of

IMAT Programme of IFAS-Trier, Germany. ● Prof. R.J.T. Nirmal Raj was invited as a speaker in the 13th Annual Global Water Alliance

Conference. ● Prof. S. Hemalatha had conducted about 12 Training Programmes to mid-level executives of several star hotels across Chennai on theme "Inculcating Ownership Culture among Millennial

Workforce: Principles of Organisational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB)”; and has sensitized about 260 millennial executives across the star hotels on OCB. ● Dr. M. Rajeswari, Professor, has completed highest number of Online Certification Programmes in

Coursera. ● Dr. B. Senthilkumar, Assoc. Prof. was recognized as a NPTEL Discipline Star (Management) in

Dec. 2019 for completing more than 50 weeks of learning successfully Dr. Harihara Sudhan, Asst. Prof., was certified as Financial Modeling and Valuation Analyst.

FDA

Mr. Obulum Vidya Sagar, Asst. Prof. won “Best Craftmanship Award” at Let’s Think Sustainable Competition held by Antway Fashions Chennai.

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LAW

• Dr. Mony, Dean, Law participated and chaired a session in an International Conference at Malaya

University, Kula Lampur from 8 to 10 Sept. 2019. He presented a Paper on “International Human

Rights of Child” which was published in ISBN Proceedings. He also, o Published a Book on “Private International Law” as a subject Book in association with Central Law Publications, Allahabad, 2019 Edn. and o Presided as Guest of Honour for the Mangalam Press Conclave on 3 and 4 July 2019 at Hotel Regency Tower, Trivandrum.

LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE

• Dr. M Veerachamy was awarded with “National Best Librarian Award” by Madras Library

Association (MALA).