Mr. Gurpreet Singh Chhabra is Head of the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Department. He has completed his Ph.D. in Deep Learning. His research areas include Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning. He is a Life Member of the “Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE)” and the “International Association of Engineers (IAENG)”.

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What keeps you connected with the Education Sector?

“Constant learning and updating the knowledge with the recent trends"

Education spreads awareness, it helps us stand up against wrong and for the right. It gives us a healthier lifestyle, helps us to be more productive. The key factors that keep me connected with the education sector are constantly learning and knowledge updating. Teaching and research are my passions. After my Graduation, I’ve been associated with the education sector. As an educator, I don’t just teach students, but also keep myself upskilling and learning the current trends. I am privileged to be connected directly with the field of education. SSIPMT has a great ecosystem that provides ample opportunities to support fast learning through regular activities such as workshops, guest lectures, interactions, and many more, and above all, the stakeholders give time to time encouragement as well through rewards and monetary benefits.

What are your roles and responsibilities towards the students?

“To associate subjects to faculty members and monitor academic progress”

As Head of the Department, I am accountable for the Department's academic affairs, like allocation of subjects to the faculty members before the commencement of the semester, Monitoring the academic progress of the departments, and the workloads of teaching and non-teaching employees. I also provide necessary inputs to the principal regarding all the departmental needs, such as faculty members, support staff, new equipment, books and journals, maintenance, and also update the proper functioning of the Department during weekly/fortnightly meetings. I am also responsible for uplifting R&D, Consultancy, and motivating faculties and students to publish Research papers in reputed Journals. I also conduct expert lectures, seminars, workshops, and conferences on a routine basis from time to time. 

Do you have any extracurricular programs to enhance the skills of the students?

“Providing Students with skill-enhancing programs and exposing them to real-world challenges”

Yes of course we do have many such programs and activities so that students can not only have great academic experience in the institute but also improve their life skills such as teamwork, cultural involvement, social skills, time and resource management, sense of commitment, and understanding of new perspectives. We organize some computer gaming contests, various NCC & NSS activities such as Blood Donation Camp, Plantation Drive, Cultural and Artistic Competitions, etc. Students are also actively involved in college-level celebrations of festivals. 

Sports activities such as Cricket tournaments along with other indoor and outdoor sports activities are held. College functions are always mainly organized and managed by students. Apart from their regular syllabus, students in the institute are highly encouraged to participate in stream-related activities such as Drone/Robot building, Code Competitions, Hackathon, and Moviemaking.

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How does the curriculum of SSIPMT ensure that the students are being prepared for the future?

“Provide students with 100% Placement Assistance”

We can speak with full confidence that SSIPMT ensures that our students are being prepared for the future, we are giving them all possible opportunities to shine. we're sure that they get many opportunities in our campus to get placed after they pass out from this Institute and placed into MNCs, including Infosys TCS, persistent Tech Mahindra, and a lot of organizations in which people dream to be placed. Higher education is another field where our students are performing their best, we have students around the globe, where they are making us feel proud, our students are in the government sector as well they are qualifying Gate, net, our students are nowhere lacking behind in the current scenario we keep them the up to date with technology, training and knowledge through which they don't feel embarrassed, Whenever they are moving out of Chhattisgarh or India. A lot of training internships we are having, other than this we are giving them platforms like GitHub, CodeChef, NVIDIA which are new to any engineering student.

How do you make the Course Curriculum industry-oriented?

“To bridge the gap between the practical and theoretical skills of students”

Vocational Training and Internships provide primary exposure to industry-level learning. To provide Industry oriented education, the approach of learning from an industry perspective is taught in the context of the application of that knowledge to product design, development, and operation. Students are motivated when they get the right opportunities and all the facilities. Currently, our focus is on innovative ways to make students learn. we are motivating them to go for start-ups, not just placements in MNCs are targeting is to evolve, as the innovation Centre we have facilities through which our students can focus better on this stream, other than this we are giving individual projects in each subject, we have a very good lab setup with all essential requirements, in a recently we have got Idea lab sponsored by AICTE, which we are going to utilize for our students for different practical and hands-on. GitHub, code chef, NVIDIA, Oracle Academy are some of the steps taken by our faculty and staff to motivate and make our students competitive. Regular competitions within our Institute are used for our students, they also get chances to perform at the state level, we have MOU with many companies through which they get an internship in the companies which they dream of.

What are the interventions you bring in apart from the curriculum to train the students?

“Encourage students to develop viable and marketable products/projects”

Specialized training programs like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, React, Competitive Programming, GitHub, Python, IoT, Drones, and Robotics, among others, are routinely arranged for students by the department's experienced faculty or by field experts from other academic and professional fields. The institute encourages students to develop viable and marketable products/projects that can be patented/registered as innovations and commercialized.

What would you like people to know about your institute they may not know?

“Handsome placement is provided to maximum eligible students”

At SSIPMT, we have always felt that the pursuit of genius needs an open and honest attitude. The combined efforts of the management, staff, parents, and students have made it one of the top institutes of technology and management education in Chhattisgarh, consistently providing top rankings in university results and a handsome placement of maximum eligible students in MNC giants such as Samsung R&D, Amazon, Cypress Semiconductor, HSBC, Tessolve, TCS, Tech Mahindra, Persistent, Syntel, and ITC. Our placement and outcome numbers are among the best in the state institutes affiliated with the same university. Our students have passed several higher education admission tests such as GATE, GRE, and GMAT. Product development and innovation are being actively pursued, such that even our first-year students are producing living products. 

What do you see as the greatest strengths of Shri Shankaracharya, Raipur?

“SSIPMT has five centers of Excellence with experienced teachers”

We have a lot of achievements, some of them are NBA accreditation, NAAC grading, Arya ranking. SSIPMT is considered one of the premier institutes in Chhattisgarh, recently we have IDEA labs sponsorship from AICTE. Our Institute has been verified to meet the ISO 9001: 2015 Quality Management System Standard. Since its establishment in 2008, SSIPMT has been honored to have achieved outstanding university results. We have five centers of Excellence established, CSI student chapter are an addition to our achievements, other than this we have IITB remote Centre for organizing different conferences and workshops for our students and faculties, placement record of a student’s basically they have added colors to a rainbow, they are placed very well throughout the globe, and we have best placement records in Chhattisgarh.

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What are some of the biggest challenges for higher education in general and for SSIPMT specifically?

“Recognising an institute at the national level with better ranking and ratings is the biggest challenge”

Following are some of the areas where improvements can do wonders for the institute:

  • Student Enrollment can be enhanced for even better facilities.
  • Financial Difficulties shouldn’t be a barrier due to Govt. Funding and scholarships.
  • Recognition at the national level with better Rankings and Ratings.
  • Online Education should be made possible along with offline classes simultaneously thus decreasing the impact of COVID-19.
  • Improvement in the lives and overall status of all the working staff increases the likelihood of the working environment.

Any suggestions you would like to give to the current youth and the aspiring students?

“Cope with Failure and Learn from Mistakes”

My advice to the future generation is that they must Cope with Failure and Learn from Mistakes.

  • Don’t be too harsh on yourself if your expectations are lagging and keep improving your skill. 
  • Think before you act. The simple but effective process of thought will help you avoid making critical mistakes that could cost you your freedom, education, or your life.
  • Do not be a follower. Avoid being part of the crowd.
  • Be humble. In the current environment, it is popular to be haughty or arrogant.
  • Do something You Are Passionate About
  • You may or may not become a very good IT person but being a Good Person is always in your hand and such kindness is known as the Key to Success. Plan and act in such a way that you don’t have to rush for your life choices and always Be a Lifelong Learner, Listen, ask questions, and be curious.