yeah alright so as I had introduced
earlier so we've got Ms. Nahid Afshan
I'll quickly do a run through again
Ms. Nahid Afshan, she is the Sr. Manager Admissions at BITS Pilani Dubai
Ayush is the entrepreneur. He will be talking about how to start a start-up and what happens after you do that
what is the life like once you have studied Computer Science  and you go for a start up. Then we have Rajdeep he will talk about what is an MS like
once you have graduated from Computer Science and then when do you your Masters how the life is gonna be like. Then we have Sweekriti
she has joined Microsoft she is going to be talking about how it feels like when you're
working under a big brand we have
De. Sujala Shetty she is the HOD computer science at BITS Pilani Dubai and she's going to
tell you about how the courses are and what is the grading and assessment like
And what are the normal experiences you go through and to add detail on that Mohammed Shoaib, He is a final year student at BITS Pilani
So alright! Guys, Panelists, so for a quick check let me leave it upto you. Can you please say a liitle bit starting with
Ms. Afshan just in the audience I can see a lot of people online right now
Okay Ayush let's go with you. 
Hi Everyone
name is Ayush Chordia I graduated from BITS Pilani Dubai campus in 2015 my majors
in computer science as Lohit was
mentioning I started a company called
Wrappup right out of college we were
basically building a voice assistant for
meetings we were acquired in 2018
by a startup called Voicea who were
invested by Google Microsoft and Cisco
and then Voicea was acquired by
Cisco in 2019 September so glad to be
on the panel and looking forward to the discussion today
Brilliant. Let's Ask Sweekriti
Hi Everyone! Very  excited to be on this panel. I graduated from BITS Dubai in 2013 I did my
masters in Boston I found a small startup
first and then in since past couple years I have been with Microsoft
really excited to talk to you guys today.
Brilliant! Let's have Rajdeep
hi guys my name's Rajdeep and I graduated
BITS Pilani Dubai in 2019. I majored in Computer Science and had gone for my Master in Applied Statistics and Data Science
here at Cornell University in fact I
graduated one week ago and yes and I'm
happy to be here and answer questions. 
That's great Rajdeep and congratulations on your graduation. Next up is Dr. Sujala
yeah hello everybody so good morning to all of you all
I'm Sujal Shetty I am assistant
professor and currently head the computer science department so any
queries that you have anything related
to our courses and the structure of the
courses you can you can ask your
questions so let's start with the topic
the first topic that we are looking. We circulated a form for
registration and in that registration
form we are students to ask a question in fact
I surprised to see some students asking
movements
Most of the questions, we've structured in several topics the first topic that we will take is
course structure so what kind of courses are you teaching so I think I'll shoot that
question to Dr Sujala Shetty who's the HOD of computer science at BPDC
so mam can you just quickly tell us what
is the kind of course structure what are
the kind of different segmentation that
students go through in computer science yeah so
generally what happens the first year is
the common to all students irrespective
of a branch you doing there are a
certain set of courses spread over two
semesters then after your second year
you have there are a few
core courses which have to be done and
then they're out of play
quite a few courses that every so nearly
something they compile operate these are
compulsory courses in addition to that
depending upon the interest of the
student there are a wide variety of
elective courses so it could be from
humanities it could be from management finance it could be core
engineering courses like the machine Iearning, AI, Applied Data Science many many different fields so depending upon what is your
interest you could pick and choose those
courses so that when you graduate you
graduating with more popular course in fact
from last year we we even started this
minor in data science so you could be
passing out with the BE in computer
science along with a minor in Data
science. That's Amazing!
fact being a BITSian myself
once you said electives I I just
remember the kind of the lectures we
were offered so I took mechanical
engineering but the kind of electives
that I was able to take some but
obviously very closely is related to
mechanical but then there were other
courses which I was able to do like
Printing, Audio/Visual advertising or this one
other course that I did was critical
analysis of literature ins which was
very different from anything that I had
experienced earlier so I think this this
the structure of taking electives
because lot of students sometimes ask
what if I take mechanical but I'm going
to do some courses of computer science
so I think that's another brilliant
thing that students can do in BITS Pilani
is that they can mix up the courses from
different disciplines and create a kind
of unique profile for themselves I
think that's that's an amazing thing so
you know Shoaib coming to you which has been your favourite course can you
tell me a little bit about that my most
favorite course hands down has to be the
algorithms course I love that course
fully it was explained there were lots
of very interesting topics
lots of new ideas lots of new
fundamental concepts they are very
important for computer science so the
algorithms course was hands-down the
best I had the most difficult course for
me was surprisingly networking because I'm not so into networking so it was very difficult to
understand you no how the the
packets travel over the network how your
data gets sent over how routers work
all of these different concepts that was
pretty difficult for me to understand
That's awesome! Sweekriti coming to you
I wanted to ask you so have
you started recruiting for your company yet
I am NOT in that cool part I'm one of the
people who just sits in my table in this
codes all day but I don't but I will
never lose a chance inside Microsoft
dream company to work for it's
absolutely amazing we I love working
here and if you do want to apply please
go ahead definitely come in at work with us
Going back to your BITS Pilani days what was your favourite course and you see any kind of
you know relation on what you learnt and kind of application you are doing right now in your company
Quite a bit actually a lot of the fundamental stuff
that we learned in bits itself including
like just even like I always like the
fact that we get to do shared courses
like Sujala Mam said in the first year I
feel like that just gave us so much of
like a good foundational base for us to
build on like you may not think about it
but there's some things that I still
apply some days just because of
something we learned in thermodynamics
and I'll be like oh hey wait that logic
sort of applies of this problem solved
here completely bizarre but it just
works out sometimes and yeah I mean
everything you learn you don't realize
it when you're learning unfortunately I
can say this now cause' I have passed out
but it matters it has eventually you
understand oh that was important but
Sujala ma'am I was in your AI course and
that was one of my favourite elective and it was so fun
and there was number theory that I did
the Preeti Ma'am that was also one of my I
like I like puzzles I like numbers so
that was those are my two favorite
courses that's awesome so are you saying
people who love numbers are the ones who
should go computer science or because I
have all been is believed that computer
science you know in fact there are two
kinds of in colleges I've seen so some
people who just teach you I mean
obviously talking from day above I've not  studied computer science teach you say language right
and then there is this other set of
amazing with it so do you see that
you know the two people their approach to  problem-solving working very differently
and and you any see difference in the kind of course is delivered in Pilani as compared to
Right, right. I always I always appreciated
that we very like practical in our
courses I feel like it was a lot more
easy for me like follow and apply cuz we
had like really good examples really
good professors of course and it's just
was easy to sort of correlate some stuff
that we were studying and they go okay
this is how it happens in real life like
the network's thing that Shoaib just
mentioned
I remember that course very confusing
for me too but then just you know a
couple of doubt sessions here and there
and it starts making sense and then when
you actually like have to sit and debug
the relatives router one day you will
remember that course so it's always
helpful trust me and BITS we do an
amazing job like I said I mean with
which is a way of course less structured
the way our professors are it's always
thinking ahead thinking very practical
thinking in in in the work force how it
works like even with our practice school
programs it's so good we get so much of
experience while still at school so yeah
and as for like who likes computer
science
I wouldn't segregated you need to like
numbers you need like puzzles of course
that helps that's fun if you just like
wires and you like I don't know bits and
zeros and you if you like problem
solving I think you'll enjoy computer
science. You like music you like computer
science so this is
correlations that's true I mean it's amazing
Sweekriti the other thing that you've
touched upon in fact that has given me
so many questions to ask so Saurabh why
don't we go ahead and change the topic
which is written below we've moved on
from Course structure. Let's talk about in general
the life
what is the life like for the students
Rajdeep coming to you you know I of
course you've gone ahead and did your
master's in applied statistics and
data science oh you must have been very
interested in it so I don't want to ask
you what what triggered that what what
built your interest around it were you
very clear that this is what you wanted
to do right after grade 12th or during
the college you did some things and that
drove you to do your market is
a good
question no man actually as you know a
lot of people in 12th just like hey
computer science looks pretty cool so
let's try doing that who knows what
might happen so that was me back then but
after I joined BITS and I kind of took up
courses like Data Structure and Algorithms  and other courses as well that
kind of forms the basic core of computer
science when you go ahead I kind of developed
liking towards I know from deriving insights from Data and I
don't know making predictions and
something of that sort
and that is where I developed an
interest for like statistics and data
science where you basically taking in
data and deriving insights which is also
a fundamental part of computer science as well
and so after I graduated from BITS Pilani
where I learnt a lot about computer science
I wanted to basically get an amalgam of
backgrounds where I could also get
statistics and maths as one of my strong
backgrounds because data science is a
very complex field where you have to
have good understanding of mathematics
statistics and computer science so that's what we have depart from it
there also uh okay so going very candid
here oh man after I graduated from BITS
I thought it's time to make money now I just
more studies can't be doing that
so haha so I have respect for people who
spend like in 3,4,5 years you know
getting an expertise in a particular
topic if then obviously it makes a lot
of sense because then they are able to
create the products which
otherwise they couldn't
coming to next for
bringing in Ayush and since I've
already talked about money so you know
nowadays it has become very interesting
because you can make quick buck provided
you're lucky and your work hard Saurabh
bring in Ayush I want to see that smile
yeah
so nowadays what's happening stuff I think
it started around 2010, 2011 when
entrepreneurship became a buzz word
in India and obviously talking  about Dubai here but
what was the time Ayush when entrepreneurship kicked off in Dubai was it the same time I or earlier I think Dubai was
slightly late in terms of you know the
Entrepreneurship boom compared to India
speaking of time around about 2014, 2013
companies like Kareem which is like the
uber equivalent of Middle East your
Souk's a couple of they have a couple of
exits around the region which really
sort of catapult the region and make
sure that you know entrepreneurship is a
viable sort of option going forward so
now I think the ecosystem is a lot more
sophisticated lot more and there's a lot
more money in the market there's a lot
more VCS out you know basic exits
basically define the region so you had a
couple of big exists the big of of being
the Kareem acquired by uber just about a
year ago and so you know those
acquisitions directly put middle east
on the map and specially Dubai in the
map and so Dubai is just this melting
pot of talent you have talent from all
over the world coming in and there's
incredible support on the local
government the King sector the the
enterprise customers so I think it's a
great place to start a company if
something that interests you
great so I want to raise back a little
and obviously so one thing which I
completely believe is that if you really
want to make a lot of money starting up
is the best way even if you fail at least you can start 3-4 times you can figure it out
but now I want to connect that to
computer science and ask you do you
think because right now all these
solutions are obviously technology backed
do you think it's more
probable than other students taking
computer science it becomes easier for
him look at her starter because look at
any of the companies which are coming up
now and having a good exit like all the
companies that you named just now
all of them have been actually
technology company even if a company is
there which is new sector is food it has
to be backed with technology and a unique
technology on that so how do you think
taking computer science makes your
chances a little higher or yeah
I'll keep it open and do you think
computer science has any relation to who starts up
so I think if
you look back at that success of a
start-up or what goes in building a
start right
technology is I think a big that is gonna
be a major differentiator but there is
more than technology itself
right is the product piece the actual
user experience the sales side of things
the marketing right so all the in these
different things have to work together
and work in collaboration to build a
successful product and you know get to a
successful exit at the end right my
background is heavy in machine
learning and technology and so learn
assess competence that we built earlier
and Wrappup my startup were built by me
personally I've always been a technology
enthusiast but the same time you know a
couple of things that I learned in
college were I mean very extremely
helpful when I start off my company
right I was very interested in finance
accounting economics right and so I
think those super critical and very core
kind of skills that you need when you're
probably building your own company
outright you need to understand cash
flow you need to understand sales side you need to understand economics for your
users right and so I think okay it's a
combination of both I I can't say
Comp Sci is just one tool that I can
attribute the success but it was
certainly helpful factor for me
personally bring to bring a very unique
skill set to the table in fact I was
reading an article before yesterday that
another bits in has joined the Unicorn
Club in India now there are three
unicorns from the BITS Pilani India now that's a huge number
one college producing these many
unicorns for grade 12th
audience who might not know what unicorn is
unicorn what is what you aspire to be you
know when you start it up so a billion
dollar valuation is what you're looking
for so big basket is one and the one
the latest one was a boost map so um
So Ayush going back to your college life of
what what prompted you to start up were
you very clear right from the start that
you want to start up or something happened
in college um so I started a company I
think right in my final year of college
entrepreneurship always sort of excited
me building a product out you know you
know scaling it and creating value was
something that was always of interest to
me personally and so are able to compete
I was building credible company tight in the final year of college and I think was
a great learning experience you know
trying to understand what it takes to
actually build a successful company and
so you know that was what sort of you
know prompted me I still call it 
accidental entrepreneur when we sided
wrap-up I met my co-founders at a
hackathon right I we were not looking to
form a company we just went to an
hackathon won the hackathon and that's
how our company started so very sort of
serendipitous story but I think the
building block of what led to us being
successful and having exit were laid
during college my college days
personally right right you know Sweekriti
pointed out a very interesting thing
that you know even if you are if you're
into music you need computer science even if you are into painting u need  computer science now
to be able to create a solution
which is so true because if you see from
90s onwards the kind of solution that
have come even in art or even is
something like food the kind of amazing
solution that have come and create a
dent in the industry have actually been
backed with hell lot of technology another
thing that I wanted to ask about is that
during my time and now in college there
was this joke going around that in India
people to engineering to figure out what
do they want to do in life which I think
has changed a little bit
now and especially abroad obviously you
know people choose very carefully what
do they want to do because they've
somehow figured out what they would want
to do even further than that so hence
this particular topic where the we will explore
what are the three options and that
can give more data to students to choose from
all right Dr. Sujala can you hear me 
now any chance ya little little what I'll direct my questions
say something Lohit
no no I can't hear you okay let me direct the question directly to Sweekriti now
I think okay all right so there is some lag  when so Sweekriti when you were doing your graduation in BPDC
were you guys preparing for and what what are
the kind of companies that came to your
campus how many people normally got
placed and what was the general placement scenario like
how many people wanted to go for higher ed on then start ups any numbers right I
unfortunately do not know of the exact
numbers I have a bad memory on exactly
how many come which company is how many
but we did have quite a few because I do
know a lot of my batch mates and
colleagues my batch mates have actually
got placed right out of school so they
didn't but there was quite a few of us
also who decided to our masters we also
had a good mix and option that they work
first and then decide to do an MBA or a
masters depending on what you know they
feel like doing so all those options are
again always open and then in BPDC
you get the same good options - I
decided to go ahead into my masters and
then work so again completely open all
options and what is the placement
process like in BPDC so so in fact I
know a bit about that because when I was
discussing it with Ms. Afshan who is
the senior manager of Admissions at BPDC
what she mentioned right now is that
people who take admission BITS Pilani
Dubai campus it's it's a win-win
because they one get the platform of
Dubai to get place and also they get the
platform with BITS India campus
they want to come back to India and
get a placement here they get to choose that
also of course they'll have to then
compete with all your students here but
then its a win-win because you get both the
platforms
so for computer science especially because I have
a lot of friends who have done the
masters and we know when they're looking
for job I would see see for mechanical it was
very simple to get placed right people
who come in it will be majorly an HR
interview if you are very confident and
if you can show that you can manage
stuff you would get please but for for
computer science its a very technical test
you know other soft skills don't matter as much
as your technicals
so how do you guys prepare for those
kind of you know entrance days because
normally people's dream companies would
be like Google or Facebook or Apple or
Microsoft and write this so how do you
prepare exams
sure I mean like all of
the courses that you take by prepare you
for the questions you'd be expecting so
all of your computers especially third
and fourth year courses everything you
learn that is usually what pop up in the
interview questions which is really
awesome and yeah and of course they are
technical so it's just scaled to see how
good your fundamentals are and how your
basics are I think Shoaib would also be a good
person to ask this question since he's
been in this and he's a lot more in touch
with the recent details and numbers so
from when I did it it's a lot then
interviews and to study you basically
just go back and revise everything you
learned in third and fourth year so yeah
you should you should direct it to Shoaib now
yeah correct so let's bring Shoaib now Shoaib you know my question so can
you answer that yeah okay I think just
to confirm are you talking about getting
placed
what do you need to know yeah I mean
what's the kind of process like do you
get support from the campus
how do you prepare for the exam because obviously
you've done of courses is but what apart
from that required to ensure that you
get placed you know in your dream company
sure first after the
question of about how you prepare for
these coding interviews so as Sweekriti mentioned
most of the courses that we learn in
BITS Pilani they prepare you for these
coding interviews but I feel like in terms
of the big tech companies all the big
companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon,
Microsoft all of these companies they
have a whole hiring process and the
hiring process consists of maybe three
phases the first phase is a coding
interview so for the coding interview
you really need to have a firm grasp on
algorithms you really need to prepare
well for algorithm know all the data
structures and they won't give you the
questions directly. They will
give you a variation of the question but
you need to apply those concepts those
concepts of putting the second phase
involves a logical test simple equations
and you need to figure out oh this is
some logical equations and need to
figure out what's the logic behind this
question so they are mostly mathematical based
and logical based and finally the third
phase comes a behavioral interview and
in the behavioral interview you you are
asked about real-life scenarios say
you're working in XYZ company and you
have you're given a situation where and
your coworker is not working very well
or you know he's not feeling okay how
would you handle this situation so this
this just really depends on yourself it
depends on your past experiences I don't
really think this is a way to prepare
for this but for the first you can
definitely prepare you can learn the
algorithms different algorithms and
structure you can learn have a basic
understanding of mathematical
foundations go through a variety of books and 
hopefully that should be enough to
prepare you for your coding interview
coming to the second constraint very
nicely detailed Shoaib first of all I'd
like to say that I mean it's a very
valuable insight to all the students and because
now they know what to keep in mind okay
so Shoaib what is the process Lohit my audio is now normal when you need you can come back yes Sujala I can hear you
now so right after Shoaib I will come back to you
this yeah okay so I how's the hiring process in BITS is like so bits mainly has two
internships one internship you get in
second year
which is for two months and there's
another internship which is in your
final year and that's for six months so
have a variety of options and bets you
have many different companies for second
year you get to apply to India you get
to apply to UAE and all of those lists of
companies are available you can apply to
all of them and it's mainly get selected
based on your credentials whether you
have a good GPA you know whether you
have some past experiences whether you
have built up for many projects so all of
these factors are a  big role into the
company that you get and and in your final year
you you have a six-month internship even
that also has the same rules the
mainly select you based on your credentials
past experiences
aspire to go for their
masters so give them plan on going
either to the U.S,  Europe. nowadays we have some students who prefer doing MBA exams
like they give GATE exam  CAT where they can do either ME or MBA in India so these are
some of the options but we can say about
75% of the students would still be
looking for jobs and they would be trying to these interviews and nowadays some students as Nahid mentioned
they are open to or platform is open for them they can go and compete in Indian campuses so when
companies come to the Indian campuses our students also send their CVs
and if they are shortlisted they are also called for interviews so we also have couple of students who were even placed in India
So lots have Universities have now shifted to this online mode so during classes we had a platform some of you may be aware that
BITS has this work integrated learning
program so it is generally people so
that is been going on I've been involved
in this process was completely on
the online platform exams conducted
online so students really come to
designated exam locations and give the
paper but this time because of this unusual
pandemic situation courses were conducted online that we even had
exams that we just finished last week  so even for exams we even went on the platform
It's a startup based in hyderabad so completely question paper could be set there everything could be randomised  questions are randomised options are randomised
and then we did it close to physical presence we monitored students by using they had to switch on their cameras and connect to google meet
then submission was done online evaluation was done online and we generally share the marks the students go through their paper
they have any kind of doubt they comeback generally it was a transparent process all the things were completely done online and
now we start and finishing with the grading
I would like to add how Dubai has responded to this Covid outbreak which we responded  which we've been able to contain this outbreak very very effectively
and to mitigate the repurcussions infact the recovery rate is almost at 64% now
as compared to the entire world is which is about 46% and even the death rate is just about 0.7% in UAE. So this give us we would be
able to probably get back to live classes from Sept 1 in UAE right that's something that I've
been reading about also that UAE
has been quite safe otherwise also in
doing Covid also the response has been
quite prompt and in fact as far as I
also know that BITS Pilani Dubai was actually when not able to go back when Bits Pilani Dubai
actually had the students comfortable at
their the hostel. I can see a  lot of
questions coming in Miss Afshan so I'd
like you to just answer some of them now
so Fazal is asking do you
have specializations on Robotics and AI
we have open electives as well as discipline related electives for our students what we mean by electives is courses of students choice
so students get to study courses of his or her choice and artificial intelligence robotics is one of the most popular electives adopted by our students
so if you have best training of these disciplines you can go ahead and take and infact even during this Covid situation
we have everything and students still have access to several titles related to AI,
computer programming, machine learning and the titles are available for access for the students this time
limiting in their phone so students can definitely find interesting subjects that amazing another question
for you
in fact you are the best person to
answer this question and the lot of
students have been asking is something
related to admissions procedure and what
is fees like and I think fees is going to be a
very detailed thing because I know a
little bit about multiple component so
also students what I'd like to say at
this point is that the link which has
which is given to you on YouTube in the
description if you click on it and if
you're interested to know about this
scholarship exam by BITS Pilani Dubai
campus where you can earn a scholarship
up to 10.6 lakhs in Indian
rupees and you can also figure you know
remain main updated about work the
deadlines etc you can click on that and
there are three options you can choose
out of this what are you interested in
you want to know about the scholarship
exam you wanna know about the admission
process so go to this particular link and
if you're interested then you can fill
this up and the team will get back to
you with relevant information and if any
any of your questions are not answered
during this live session the team will
get back to you with detail answer to
your question so do ensure that you put
up your details on that particular link
so that we can reach out to you because
there is a scholarship exam which is
going to come up this particular week
which will also have multiple benefits apart from the application
to a BITS pilani brand Now coming to the admission process  Yes Ma'am Computer Science is a four year
engineering degree program followed by bachelor in engineering in Computer Science and this has been offered in Dubai Campuses in the year 2000
I would say it has the highest number of
applicants and the most consistent in terms of demand
the minimum eligibility requirement to apply for computer science is 60% overall aggregate in the examination
our admissions are completely based on merit of grade 12th examination and availability of seats
so we do not have pre-entrance examination or admission test
since we take students from all over the globe we just go for by the recognized school boards the Indian CBSE or state boards and
we also look into IB boards A levels from UK and many other higher secondary boards from different countries internationals which are recognized
so admissions are completely based on the result your performance in these grade 12 examinations and
minimum of 60% you are eligible to apply and this is the most popular discipline to apply already told you
we have got applications four times this we have already recieved admissions for academic year 2020. So if anybody is interested
I would you to kindly and apply as early as possible
preferably before 18th June because also
have an option of securing provisional admission 
and option to also do a fast-track online
course in the month of July which is
being offered absolutely free to all the
merit holder students who has done their provisional admissions in June so if not
applied as yet kindly go ahead and do it
as early as possible because the seats are getting full very very fast I think that's a very useful information
thank you there's one more question
which a lot of students are asking like
Alok and many others have been asking is
this academic you are going to start as
usual or any delay due to the pandemic
that's a good
question we are getting this from
different students we intend to start this academic year from 1st Sept
we have published in our prospectus as August but we plan to delay it in case we
have any Visa delays these are delays so we are intended to start the program
from 1st September hopefully the international travel should open about by then
because we did have to start very early now regular working hour so hopefully will start this September just in case if
the travel has not yet started we will
start with our online classes with
academic year for this 2020 begins
on 1st September 2020 you all can apply take your admissions online
so I think that's that's a good point
because when there is some amount of
surety on when when when it's going to
start all right
so great I can see many more questions
coming in most of the questions are like
what are the first required from
students right
to excel in the subject which we've already
taken up but I think if you have if you
have any specific questions and you want
to shoot specifically to somebody we
write on that on that form and if not we cannot cover it  in this particular session because the time is almost up
we'll send an email with a response there alright Sponsored Research Work so is asking for Sponsored Research work should we talk about scholarship
Miss Nahid you can go ahead for scholarship also yeah am
I am sorry for interrupting but I thought I'll just talk about scholarship.
Scholarships are available under different categories as mentioned in the bulletin
you may kindly view our the bulletin on our website and have a look just want to give you an example of scholarship based on grade 12 examination,
based on bitsat score, we have based on PBISE
examination if you have a very
good term if you get aggregate score above 80% in grade 12 or your
bitsat score is above 150 and if you have pbise rank among the thousand then
you're sure to get a scholarship and I
would like to add that you can combine two
scholarships for the fourth year
provided he does not exceed over 50% of
the scholarship of that year so we have
ranging from fifty percent to
seventy-five percent that's awesome so
that's a good amount of incentive to
meritorious students
all right now someone  is asking
about the research work sponsored
research work so who would want to take
that up
can you hear me yes I can dr. Sujala so
I think yeah so let me bring that
question to dr. Sujala what is the
kind of research work that's going on
and how can students benefit out of it
now now bits is slightly slowly moving
from being just a purely teaching
Institute do a lot of research that is
happening so the research focus that
happens now
in fact even the UAE government now
comes up with a lot of proposals which
are open to to apply so there have been
a lot of instances where we
have applied for funded research and in
many cases it could be some small part
that a company is actually looking for
the solution to so in that case they can
outsource this work and then as a team
be in college work on a specific idea so
this is always something that is good
because could be we have a good number of on campus research scholars so it is something that are the civic scholars we masters program that is going on
plus for students who have more of inclination towards research these are somethings
that they could be a source right
also there is practice school program
which is a very famous program of
Bits Pilani where an internship which is
offered by the college for two months
after second gear and for six months in
the fourth year bits so which kind of companies are associated in it in practice program for
BITS Pilani Dubai Campus
so I think practice school in in  i.e., the practice school - I the end of the second year
be a general company is used just for a student to have a kind of play work how now it is actually to be
this is actually to be working as a
working professional. In the final year either
in the first or second semester they have complete five and a half
months only peers that is generally
going to be something that is very much
associated with the field
so somebody from maybe civil would be
working in maybe a construction company
mechanical could be working companies
associated students from computer
science generally work with IT companies
so which are the most famous which are
the most preferred computer science
companies that they look for in we now
have PWC here so that is quite
the sort of the company we have
we have MSD which is into
health care that is available there is
ESRI which is into a lot of
geo-informatics so these are some of the
companies that students looking to
sequence is there so these are sort of
companies that's amazing so I'm trying
to see more questions and there are
questions related to biotech mechanical
so guys I'd like to say at this point
that we are going to have a similar
session I hope in coming
Sundays we gonna pick up more depends
other streams and you'll have a similar
session for mechanical similar session
for electronics you will be able to
direct all those questions during those
sessions but it's very important that
you fill that particular form which is
in the description and tell us if
difference and in fact one option there
is that I'd want to attend a similar
session for a different stream so you
can go for that also now bring the panel
in Saurabh the whole panel in let's
make this discussion a little more fun
so this I I want to shoot this way since
at least the ones who studied in BITS
Pilani dubai campus you know in short
can you tell me which was your very
memorable moment in in on campus it
doesn't have to be very academic in
nature you can just tell me what has
been your most memorable moment on
campus are we going in an order or we
can start Sweekriti let's go with you I had to ask
For me, I lived in the hostel so hostel 4 p.m. is
tea time so everyone that was obvious
memorable
like you're done with classes you grab a
cup of you know chai and you you don't
have sit outside of the weather is nice
and sit in the sit inside catch up with
everyone that was always fun good
good chat we I used to have then other
extracurricular stuff so quiz club
music club playing with my band that was
always memorable all this super fun you
So you mentioned that you into keyboard and you play keyboard
yeah so we have lots of fun lots of good
events and I think Shoaib
can confirm this for me he did mention
that we have been but after school after
classes are done the slopes is the next
best hang out of bpdc where everybody
sits waiting for buses which now we have
benches it looks like so yeah it's
awesome that's awesome Ayush what about you your moments apart from winning the hackathon
I think is the late nights. I was part of the hostel as well and I think just the late nights
staying the hostels we love playing on
the LAN there I remember playing the
counter-strike on our lan is
I like to
say that it was similar to what Ayush
and Sweekriti said about the hostel nights
because I was also still in the hostel
and the late nights and hostel and not going to classes and I want to apologize Sujala ma'am as well I missed her classes
actually so they keep supporting me there were a lot of events well we had watched two weeks and we had
this BITS Sport Festival so a lot of
events where I could participate
those were also very memorable
so for me I think the most memorable moments I
probably all this stupid stuff me and my
friends did
we did we did a bunch of stupid stuffs in BITS and I but then you know as you
memory in your brain which you just
remember the entire time so like for
example some of the things we used to do in Institute was going to do a computer
science lab and just play a bunch of
games on the computers when we were free
sorry ma'am we use the computers for
gaming purposes and the other things you
know we just used to go to the canteen
play cards just move around the chairs
just do a bunch of stupid stuff I think
now is probably the most memorable moments that I had
in bits that's awesome okay I didn't get
his feed but I hope everyone else got
yes so now wrapping up this ready no I I
could but I could see these expressions
and I think that that speaks a lot I can
see how much fun he's having in Dubai
so now wrapping up the session with a quick question you know in 30 seconds I want all of you in fact with your perspective to
guide the Grade 12 students In fact not just guide. What's your state of mind on who do you think
is best suited for computer science and
and I'm hoping to get very varied kind of
answers because everybody has a very
different experience right when Miss
Nahid would speak probably from the
fact that she's been seeing a different
kind of students apply and then perform
also right who she's able to bring that
perspective
so what which kind of students do you
think is best suited for computer
science in 30 seconds let's start with
Sweekriti if you enjoy some problems some tackling like all different sorts of issues you
enjoy languages I guess you enjoy
learning different things because I feel
like I may have studied maybe one or two
languages in school but once I started
working I still not like a bunch of
different things and bunch of different
software but that's the life of a
engineer I think you keep having to
learn things on your feet so yeah if you
enjoy that kind of stuff and you're
having fun I think I think it's a really
fun field it's very varied you can you
can do gaming you can do animation and
you can do you can just write mobile
apps you can make websites I mean it's
it's it's really vast it's not really
like and even now there's like so much
to do this AI there is
VR there's so much happening so um yeah
if you want to like if you wanna have
fun some come to computer science I just
love the vibe Sweekriti has has you
know so your she is into gaming in fact
when I also what are you doing just now
it's night time for her and she was playing all these games
which I've never heard of it's amazing
and then she plays keyboard and then she
plays bass amazing Sweekriti amazing by
what you said is you know if people have
been doing languages in 11th, 12th but there
are some questions which are coming in
where students are asking that what if I
am not great or have not studied
computer things well in grade 11, 12
because you know people prepare for
their entrance exam so they've
neglect a certain subject if they're not done
computer science well can still take up
computer science provided they have you
know qualified for it and then is there a drawback to it
they be able to compete with all the
other guys who've done well alright yeah
they're a bunch of people in my batch I
remember who not done any computer
science in 11&12 like Nahid ma'am and Sujala ma'am mentioned earlier just the way
the core structure is in BITS you don't
have to worry about that because in the
first two years if you run it learning
all the fundamentals the same as
everyone else
so you'll be brought up to pace you will
be able to catch up with everyone and
even do better I mean I've seen people
excel so much more than you know when
they had no knowledge in the first year
so yeah I mean it's you will not feel
left behind you like to learn with
everyone it's the same pace and like
Nahid ma'am mentioned the tons of books
and tons of you know material online
that you can also use to like you know
sort of get yourself educated yep
that's very reassuring alright going to
next right to Rajdeep
so I might say any way you want
computer science as Sweekriti said that
somebody who likes tackle problems likes to
solve challenges and liked to do
something that requires analytical sense
as well but also it kind of is like
subjective in a manner like Comp Sci is a vast field right and
there are a lot of things that you can
do it computer science somebody might like
make websites and make things more
making apps a lot of people might work on the
server and they wanna like build
data infrastructure or the pipelines
some people like me who try to pursue
something else second day of science
where you kind of like use complex
models to make predictions and help
different business functions of a
company that could be another power some
people also like cyber security where
they like looking up how companies
protect their own servers from malware
attacks and cyber attacks or they are
involved in encryption of decryption of
messages that will be sent from say A to
B without any intercepting it so that
could be one potential interest some
might be interested in gaming as well
and designing gaming infrastructure as
well so it's a very branch field and
it's very attractive but it's and you
should go for Computer Science right
so what I'm hearing is one that if you
like to solve problem and do if you are
good with quant one you know so that's what I
have heard till now Rajdeep before I let you go I should thank you because
you were probably the only one who's
laughing at my jokes so thank you for
all the encouragement
bringing in Ayush now Ayush who do you think is
best suited to opt computer science I
think I mean as I mean what Sweekriti and rajdeep mentioned
problem-solving is a big
you know aspect of it but they are in
the other aspect this is that you are excited by technology you like to you
know you see a problem and
you know I think technologies are embed
in every part of life right now
and you know I wouldn't be surprised if in
next five years coding is the essential
skill to have right a lot of you know
process are getting automated a lot of
things are moving online so I think
generally if you enjoy technology you
know enamored by it it's something
you're passionate about you know I think
you will enjoy computer science right
there's a whole you know the computer
science coding side of things but they
on the other hand as well you know you
can have hard core data infrastructure or
machine learning robotics computer
vision
NLP right each of them require you know
very you know very very different skills
at the same time niche skill of you know
that particular domain but in the bottom
line or the the base for the
that you can really our passionate about
that problem you are you know hungry and
eager to learn skills and I think you
take you know putting the right attitude
and you have the right you know sort of
you know hunger for it I think you know
you'll excel in computer science
correct in fact yeah that's a
very interesting point or you know I think going
ahead everybody needs to have analytics as a
base right it because any kind of
problem that you're solving even if it's
an entertainment industry or any other
industry analytics is very important
respect of whichever stream you choose
problem solving what I'm hearing is the
basic skill set that you need to have to
be able to move ahead in a successful
way but now probably one should take
computer science if they really want to
create a solution themselves in the
domain but otherwise so even if you are
also taking a you know mechanical
engineering
now you can pair it up with certain
courses of science and then I have a
overall view maybe on how to develop a
product but then ultimately you have to
go to somebody who is really really
experienced in that particular domain
and it's somewhat similar to you even I
mean like you know I have colleagues I
work with I have people I've worked with
the past who have absolutely no
computers as its means even in undergrad
right right they did you know mechanical
or electronic communication in undergrad
and end up being you know master's in
computer science or people who have
absolutely no Comp Sci background at
all they were in liberal arts they study
economics in undergrad in the masters
and now do machine learning I think it's
that's a skill that you can acquire any
point of time as long as you know you
have the intention to learn it's you
know with the democratization of
knowledge right now you have all the
kinds of online courses of Coursera EDX
most universities have their courses
online it's something you know that you
can really easily pick up
there's enough resources out there and
so I think you know there's no sort of
barriers to entry anymore so I think you
know and I think it'll go improve a lot
more in the next coming years that's a
really good point there is very few
entry barriers now so in fact if you
wanna take courses you want to enhance
once you've taken it also in order to
get something at that point it is available. All right.
