Ms. Neduri Shruthi final year ECE student, got an unique and a wonderful opportunity to present a paper in the International Conference called PHOTOPTICS 2018, conference which was held at Funchal, Madeira, Portugal from 25th to 27th January 2018. PHOTOPTICS is one of the top conferences on Photonics, held annually in Portugal. Ms. Shruthi presented a paper on “FDTD Modelling and simulation of Organic Light Emitting Diode with Improved Extraction Efficiency using Moth eye Anti-Reflective Coatings”. She was the only student from India to have participated and presented a paper in this prestigious conference.

      She had the opportunity to meet a lot of people from all over the world at the Conference and also interacted with a lot of PhD students and Professors from different countries. The Professors and people from industries were quite impressed with her paper and they found it very informative. Her paper was amongst top two papers, which was shortlisted for the “Best short paper award”.

   In Ms. Shruthi’s own words her experience of the trip

I’m very grateful to my college, Sai Vidya Institute of Technology and I would like to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt thanks to our beloved Director Prof. M R Holla, Principal Dr. H S Ramesh Babu and Dean (R&D) Dr. Narayan who gave me this unique opportunity. I specially thank Dr. Narayan for believing in me and giving this wonderful opportunity & also for encouraging me throughout the course. I really appreciate the time that I spent working with Prof. Chaya, Prof. Venkatesh from Department of ECE, on both a professional and personal level. I thank them for all their help. I would like to thank my parents for their support and encouragement. Today I am proud to be an SVITian

I have certainly learnt a lot about life outside India and this conference will directly or indirectly give me lots of opportunities abroad. It was an amazing experience to travel to Portugal all alone. I was supposed to take 3 flights and it was 30+ hrs journey. I travelled via Germany. It was also quite adventurous. The beautiful landscapes have left me flabbergasted and people were friendly. To sum up, it was once in a lifetime experience and I’ve learnt a lot.I have attached few pictures from my conference and the place.

Thank you.