April 4, 2025
C-DAC Delhi successfully concluded an 80-hour Certificate Course in Brain Behavioural Cognitive Neuroscience (CCBBCN) from March 24th to April 4th, 2025. The course, delivered under the MEA's ITEC Scheme, benefited fifteen nominated participants from Mongolia, Mauritius, Uganda, Ethiopia, Uzbekistan, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Eritrea, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and Tajikistan.
On March 24th, 2025, C-DAC Delhi hosted an induction ceremony that commenced the Certificate Course in CCBBCN. The ceremony was characterized by the active involvement of participants from different Government Departments and Ministries across the eleven represented countries. Shri. Abhinav Dixit, Scientist G &HoD - ICD & ACTS, C-DAC Delhi, presided over the proceedings, and the event was graced by the presence of Dr. Priyanka Jain, Scientist F &HoD - NCAI & XR, alongside other senior officials from C-DAC Delhi.
The Valedictory Ceremony, signifying the culmination of the course and recognizing the hard work of the participants, faculty, and staff, was held at C-DAC, New Delhi, on April 4th, 2025.
The ceremony commenced with Shri. Abhinav Dixit welcoming the Chief Guest, Dr. Anatoliy Kremenchutskiy, Director - India Kazakhstan Centre of Excellence in ICT at Astana. This was followed by a welcome address from Shri. Vijay Kumar Kayat, Scientist E, ICD & ITEC Coordinator, C-DAC Delhi. Subsequently, Dr. Kremenchutskiy, Shri. Dixit, Shri. Kayat, and course faculty members Dr. Geetanjali Srivastava, Dr. Animesh Halder, Shri. Kartike Pushkarna, and Shri. Harsh Koria participated in the lighting of the lamp accompanied by Saraswathi Vandana.
Shri. Abhinav Dixit during his opening remarks highlighted the importance of ITEC scheme of Ministry of External Affairs under developmental assistance. He gave an insight on his experience of policy formulation, technology deployment, service delivery, capacity building, project management and administration in international collaboration. He urged participants to be the goodwill ambassadors of C-DAC to propagate course being offered under ITEC in India to their colleagues, friends and relatives. He applaudedfaculty for designing such a comprehensive, structured and rich content for the course while also appreciating the organising team at C-DAC Delhi. He also delivered a presentation on ITEC, C-DAC & its Global Footprint to all participants.
Dr. Anatoliy Kremenchutskiy, during his valedictory speech highlighted the importance of ITEC scheme of Government of India. Dr. Anatoliy Kremenchutskiy has done his M.S. in Engineer of Electrical Telecommunication during August 1974 - July 1979 from Tashkent Institute of Telecommunication and thereafter - PhD in digital line signals transmission over suspended and integrated cables on high-voltage lines from Moscow Institute of Telecommunication. He is currently working as Visiting Professor at Sharda University, Greater Noida, India. He is Secretariat coordinator on sustainable consumption and production at One Planet UN in Kazakhstan. Prior to that he served as Technical Advisor to Rector of Eurasian National University in Astana. Dr. Anatoliy is acting as Director at India-Kazakhstan Centre of Excellence in ICT since 2015 which is setup under mutual corporation with the financial assistance from Government of India. Dr. Anatoliy is also a Jury member of World Summit Awards Expert in Kazakhstan and WSA Global since 2005. He had also served as General Director - BAAK JV, Almaty during July 2000 - January 2019. He was also the Chief constructor - Jointstock Company under National Information Technologies, Astana. Dr. Anatoliy Kremenchutskiy has huge experience of Consulting, R&D, strategic management, human capital and personnel management, teaching, analysis, report writing, testing, negotiations, inventions decision-making theory, exact-thinking technology, NLP. Supervision and direct execution of scientific research and expertise, design, promotion and starting-up R&D projects. His areas of expertise include National Information Infrastructure, e-government, Photon Relay Lines, Information Society forming, Records Management, Knowledge Management, Analytical, Intellectual, Information, IoT systems, informatization and telecommunication, strategic and executive management of large-scale projects and sociological research up to state scale, innovation project selection, nomination and jury up to world scale.
During the Valedictory Ceremony, participants expressed their satisfaction with the new skills gained in AI, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Brain Behaviour, as well as their appreciation for the exposure to Indian culture, the heritage tour of Delhi and Agra, the hospitality, and the Indian cuisine. They indicated a strong interest in attending future courses at C-DAC in India.
The course faculty shared their positive experiences and feedback regarding the participants. Following this, Shri. Prashant Kumar presented a short film titled "Memoirs," which captured memorable moments from the participants' time at C-DAC New Delhi and in India.
Dr. Anatoliy Kremenchutskiy and Shri. Abhinav Dixit concluded the ceremony by presenting Course Completion Certificates and mementos to all the participants.
