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Happy New Year 201

ET me wish all of you a Very Happy New Year 2018. As I
Lwelcome the new year, I also look back at the previous
year - 2017 and I am happy to find some of the
developments during the last year which are very
importantlandmarksinthejourneyof20+yearsofIDRBT.

The first and foremost is the IDRBT Journal of Banking
Technology. For an academic ins tu on, it is certainly a
proud moment to start a Journal for publishing high
quality research papers in the area of Banking Technology
from researchers across the globe. It is so heartening to
receive acceptance from highly reputed researchers to
our invita on to be on the Editorial Board of the journal. It
theCenterasCenterofExcellenceinCyberSecurity.Thisis
is equally heartening to receive good ar cles from
the second Center of Excellence in IDRBT a er the Center
established researchers and prac oners for the first
ofExcellenceinAnaly cs.
issue itself. With the support of all of them, we could
publishthefirstissueoftheJournalduring2017. The above and several other research ac vi es helped
the Ins tute to get the status of Scien fic and Industrial
The second milestone is the receipt of first Patent to the
Research Organiza on (SIRO) extended by three more
Ins tute. Under the guidance of our faculty, research
years ll March 31, 2020 by the Department of Scien fic
scholarsoftheIns tutehaveproducedoriginalanduseful
and Industrial Research, Ministry of Science and
work in the areas of Cyber Security, Analy cs and
Technology,GovernmentofIndia.
Affordable Technologies and applied for patents during
the past one-and-a-half years. We have received patent In addi on to the developments on academic side, the
fortheworkinCyberSecurityandtheothertwoareunder Ins tute is also improving its physical infrastructure in a
process. The year 2017 can be remembered as the year major way. Work rela ng to construc on of an addi onal
theIns tutegotitsfirstpatent. floor on the Academic Wing has just commenced. The
addi onal space is to meet the increasing demand for
The third milestone is the record number of Ph. D.
various ac vi es, including EDP and PGDBT. Plans for
submissions. The Ins tute has memorandums of
renova ng the auditorium are also on board. Further, one
understanding with University of Hyderabad; NIT,
of the exis ng floors in the Hostel Wing has been
Warangal and NIT, Tiruchirapalli for offering Ph. D.
renovated to accommodate 12 more rooms to serve the
programme at IDRBT. Out of 25+ research scholars
increasing demand from par cipants of various
presently on campus, six submi ed their theses during
programmesandconferences.
the year 2017 on topics varying from Security to
BiometricstoAnaly cstoCloudCompu ng. I am sure the ac vi es during 2018 would be similar to,
and possibly be er than, those in 2017 and that the
The fourth milestone is the recogni on for the Center for
Ins tutewillcon nueonthepathofgrowth.
Cyber Security by an external Research Advisory
Commi ee. The commi ee recommended eleva on of WishingyouallaveryHappyNewYear2018again .

Place: Hyderabad
Date: January 01, 2018 (Dr. A. S. Ramasastri)