📚 Knowledge Connect (11): Conferences and Paper Publications

 1) A Python-Powered Workshop on Linear Algebra & Numerical Methods (From Equations to Execution): https://forms.gle/MhPzWQfU3nJEKbFF7

2) Five-Day Online EDP on Strategies to Develop Employability Skills: Understanding the Changing World of Work: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScrn1mEUbcoV4f1e_San3Iy2DE-ASrsjexqxTd_yIb3jZqugQ/viewform

3) Artificial Intelligence for Computing, Astronomy and Renewable Energy” (AICARE 2025): https://aicare.uem.edu.in/

4) 24th International Mathematics Conference will be held on December 18-19, 2025: 24imc.cumathbms.org

5) 2nd International Conference on Pioneering Developments in Computer Science and Digital Technologies (IC2SDT 2025): https://ic2sdt.nitdelhi.ac.in/

Book Recommendation: 🌟 I Came Upon a Lighthouse — A Story That Lights Your Way 🌟

At SFIT Library, there’s a book that quietly waits to change the way you see life — “I Came Upon a Lighthouse” by Shantanu Naidu.

This memoir is not just about a famous personality, Ratan Tata; it’s about the gentle power of kindness, resilience, and hope. Through heartfelt stories, it reveals how small acts of compassion and quiet strength can guide us through life’s toughest storms.

Every page is filled with warmth — from Tata’s deep empathy towards stray animals to his humble mentorship of young minds. The beautiful illustrations bring these moments to life, making the book feel like a comforting friend during uncertain times.

Reading I Came Upon a Lighthouse feels like finding a beacon when the fog is thick — a reminder that even when everything seems dark, a light shines somewhere, waiting to guide you.

If you’ve ever felt lost, overwhelmed, or simply in need of inspiration, this book is for you. Come to the SFIT Library, pick up your copy, and let it be your guide through the journey.

Sometimes, all it takes is coming upon a lighthouse to find your way.

Locate the book on our OPAC.

Book Bank Facility for the A.Y. 2025-2026

 Dear Students,

The Learning and Information Resource Centre (Library) is providing the Book Bank facility for the students of F.E. to B.E. (A.Y. 2025-2026) as follows:

For S.E. to B.E.

Date: 3rd August to 30th September 2025 

Timings: 12.15 pm to 1.00 pm or 1.15 pm to 2.00 pm

Due Date of returning Book Bank Books: 15/07/2026

Overdue Charges: Re. 1 per day per book

For F.E.:

After you receive your permanent PID number.

Types of Book Banks:

Students are requested to note the following: 

1) DO NOT disfigure (markings, tear, underline etc.) any of the books; failing which you would be liable to pay Rs.100/- per book and/or replace the book. 

2) It is expected that the students maintain the books in good reading conditions. 

3)Book Bank facility is available to the valid SFIT library members only. 

4)Return the books on or before the due date. 

STUDENTS WILL BE PROVIDED BOOKS ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVE BASIS. 

Celebrating Innovation — Best Project Reports Display at SFIT Library

 

From July 14 to 31, the SFIT Learning and Information Resource Centre showcased the Best Project Reports submitted by our talented students. This display highlights not just academic achievements but also creativity, perseverance, and problem-solving skills that define future innovators.

Project reports are crucial because they transform ideas into practical solutions, and seeing top-quality work encourages everyone to raise their own standards.

In the words of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam:
"Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level."

This collection celebrates the creative spirit and technical expertise of our students.

Why should you check it out?

• Learn how to organize and present your research clearly and effectively.

• Get inspired by innovative ideas that might spark your own project.

• Appreciate how teamwork and interdisciplinary approaches lead to strong outcomes.

As Dr. Kalam also said,
"Dream, dream, dream. Dreams transform into thoughts and thoughts result in action."

Let these projects be the inspiration for your own dreams and actions!

💭 Tales & Thoughts: From Crypto to Conscious Living

Time: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Venue: Library
Organized by: Learning and Information Resource Centre
Moderators: Ms. Varshita Yadav (Student, SE CMPN) & Mr. Mohammed Sufiyan Mithawala (Student, TE CMPN)
Next Session: 13th August 2025

🧭 Bridging the Gap: From What's Trending to What Truly Matters

In a world driven by fast-changing trends and digital noise, Tales & Thoughts continues to be a safe, stimulating space where students and faculty come together to reflect on deeper questions—of value, identity, and conscious living.

Our latest session, titled "From Crypto to Conscious Living," was a vibrant and thought-provoking journey through the intersections of finance, culture, emotion, and human values.

🔍 What We Explored

The conversation flowed freely, but a few standout threads defined our hour-and-a-half together:

• Quants & Bitcoin – Are we investing in real value, or merely swept by hype?

• Jane Street Scam – What happens when trust is breached in financial systems?

• Why Do Economies Take Center Stage? – Is money the only metric of meaning?

• Universal Human Values (UHV) – Are we chasing products or principles?

• The Power of Belonging – How does being part of a group shape our identity?

• Instagram Reels – A celebration of diversity or just algorithmic mimicry?

• The Need for Introspection – Why self-reflection can’t be optional anymore

• Idolizing Influencers & Icons – Where do we draw the line?

• Logic vs. Emotion – Must we always choose one over the other?

• Conscious Living – How do we shift from autopilot to awareness?

📚 Bonus Gem

The session concluded with a gentle recommendation:
“I Found a Lighthouse” by Shantanu Naidu – a reflective read on compassion, purpose, and learning from unexpected mentors.

🧠 The Core Takeaway

“In a fast-moving world, sessions like these help us pause, reflect, and realign—from what's trending to what truly matters.”

Tales & Thoughts isn’t just another discussion circle—it’s a reminder that meaning still matters. That it’s okay to question, to feel, and to think slowly in a world obsessed with speed.

Quiz on AI and DS - II was a blast!

🚀 Today’s Quiz Was a Blast! 🚀

We’re super excited that 119 students took part in the AI & Data Science II Quiz — a cool collab between the Department of INFT and the SFIT NDLI Club! 🎉

And here’s the best part — everyone who participated will get certificates from IIT Kharagpur. That’s a great way to show off your skills on your resume or LinkedIn!

But this isn’t just about certificates. These sessions actually give you stuff you can use:
✔️ Get hands-on with AI and Data Science topics that actually come up in real projects
✔️ Sharpen your problem-solving with quiz questions that challenge you — no boring textbook stuff here!
✔️ Meet and learn with people who are just as curious and passionate about tech as you are
✔️ Learn in a chill, fun environment — way better than just staring at slides or books

At SFIT, our faculty are working hard to bring back the library culture — one step at a time. The library isn’t just shelves of books; it’s becoming the go-to place for learning, discussing, and growing together. 📚✨

Libraries won’t go extinct anytime soon — because they’re about people, ideas, and community. And with AI on the rise, remember: AI will always be a tool that helps us understand and explore books better, not replace them.

If you want to be part of this vibrant learning scene, come to the library and join the next session. Real learning happens here — in real time, with real people, and real opportunities.

📚 Knowledge Connect (10): Upcoming Conferences and Call for Papers📢

Top Ranked Journals in Several JCR Categories

The following are examples of IEEE journals that ranked highly in their respective categories:

• IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials – #1 in Telecommunications, #1 in Computer Science, Information Systems (JIF: 46.7)
• IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine – #1 in Imaging Science, #1 in Remote Sensing (JIF 16.4)
• IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica – #1 in Automation and Control (JIF: 19.2)
• IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics – #1 in Computer Science, Cybernetics (JIF: 10.5)
• Proceedings of the IEEE – # 2 in Electrical Engineering (JIF: 25.9)
• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence – #3 in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence; #3 in Electrical Engineering (JIF 18.6)
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication – #2 in Telecommunications (JIF 17.2)
• IEEE Wireless Communications – #2 in Computer Science, Hardware and Architecture; #3 in Telecommunications (JIF: 11.5)

Details of current journal rankings in a few sample categories appear below. IEEE titles appear in bold.

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

IEEE has 24 of the top 30 journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering by Journal Impact Factor:

1 Nature Electronics
2 Proceedings of the IEEE
3 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
4 IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications
5 eTransportation
6 npj Flexible Electronics
7 IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles
8 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
9 IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
10 Progress in Quantum Electronics
11 IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
12 Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems
13 IEEE Wireless Communications
14 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
15 IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
16 IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications
17 IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
18 IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy
19 IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
20 IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
21 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
22 Progress in Electromagnetics Research-PIER
23 IEEE Internet of Things Journal
24 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
25 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
26 IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
27 IEEE Transactions on Communications
28 IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification
29 IEEE Communications Magazine
30 IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society

Telecommunications

IEEE has 23 of the top 30 journals in Telecommunications by Journal Impact Factor:

1 IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
2 IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
3 IEEE Wireless Communications
4 IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
5 IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
6 Satellite Navigation
7 IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
8 Progress in Electromagnetics Research-PIER
9 IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
10 IEEE Internet of Things Journal
11 IEEE Transactions on Communications
12 IEEE Communications Magazine
13 Internet of Things
14 Digital Communications and Networks
15 IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
16 IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
17 IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking
18 Internet Research
19 IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking
20 Vehicular Communications
21 Telecommunications Policy
22 IEEE Network
23 IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
24 IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
25 IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
26 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine
27 IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
28 IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
29 IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks
30 Journal of Lightwave Technology

Journal Rankings by CiteScore

CiteScore is a popular and widely accepted citation metric developed from Elsevier’s Scopus data. The 2024 CiteScore is calculated by dividing the total number of citations to peer-reviewed articles in a journal in 2021–2024 by the total number of peer-reviewed articles published in the journal over the same period. In the most recent CiteScore report by Scopus, a wide range of IEEE publications were consistently listed among the most-cited publications in multiple categories:

IEEE Rankings by Category

• 8 of the top 20 publications in Electrical Engineering
• 9 of the top 20 publications in Computer Software
• 8 of top 20 publications in Computer Hardware
• 7 of the top 20 publications in Signal Processing
• 4 of the top 5 publications in Computational Theory and Mathematics
• 3 of the top 5 publications in Automotive Engineering
• 2 of the top 5 publications in Applied Mathematics
• 2 of the top 5 publications in Control & Systems Engineering
• 2 of the top 5 publications in Computer Networks and Communications

Top Ranked Journals in Several CiteScore Categories

Following are examples of IEEE journals that ranked highly in their respective categories:

• IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials – #1/970 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (CiteScore: 86.2)
• Proceedings of the IEEE – #1/239 in General Computer Science, #2/970 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (CiteScore 71.1)
• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence – #1/665 title in Applied Mathematics, #1/197 in Computational Theory and Mathematics (CiteScore: 35.0)
• IEEE Signal Processing Magazine – #4/665 in Applied Mathematics, #4/183 in Signal Processing (CiteScore: 20.5)
• IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation – #2/197 in Computational Theory and Mathematics, #3/136 in Theoretical Computer Science (CiteScore 23.5)
• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems – #2/133 in Automotive Engineering (CiteScore: 17.8)
• IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine – #1/198 in Earth and Planetary Sciences, #2/174 in Instrumentation (CiteScore: 27.1)
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications – #4/507 in Computer Networks and Communications (CiteScore: 33.6)

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

IEEE has 8 of the top 20 publications in Electrical and Electronic Engineering by CiteScore:

1 IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
2 Proceedings of the IEEE
7 IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
9 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine
11 IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
14 IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing
19 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
20 IEEE Wireless Communications

Computer Networks and Communications

IEEE has 9 of the top 20 publications in Computer Software by CiteScore:

2 Proc. of the IEEE Computer Society Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
3 Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision
5 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
9 IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
10 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
13 IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
14 IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
15 IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
19 IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing

Journal Rankings by Eigenfactor

Eigenfactor® Score is a metric that calculates the number of times articles from a journal published in the last five years have been cited in the JCR year while also considering which journals have contributed these citations. High-scoring journals are seen as having a greater influence in the scientific community. IEEE publications scored highly in multiple categories:

• 8 of the top 10 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• 10 of the top 10 in Telecommunications
• 5 of the top 5 in Automation and Control Systems
• 4 of the top 5 in Artificial Intelligence
• 3 of the top 5 in Computer Hardware and Architecture

Details of current journal rankings in a few sample categories appear below. IEEE titles appear in bold.

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

IEEE has 8 of the top 10 journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering by Eigenfactor Score:

1 IEEE Access
2 Sensors
3 IEEE Transactions On Pattern Analysis And Machine Intelligence
4 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
5 IEEE Internet of Things Journal
6 Expert Systems With Applications
7 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
8 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience And Remote Sensing
9 IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
10 IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Telecommunications

IEEE has 10 of the top 10 journals in Telecommunications by Eigenfactor Score:

1 IEEE Access
2 IEEE Internet of Things Journal
3 IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
4 IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
5 IEEE Transactions on Communications
6 IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
7 IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
8 IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
9 IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
10 IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Artificial Intelligence

IEEE has 4 of the top 5 journals in Artificial Intelligence by Eigenfactor Score:

1 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
2 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
3 Expert Systems with Applications
4 IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
5 IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Journal Rankings by Article Influence Score

Article Influence® Score is a metric that determines the average influence of a journal's articles over the first five years after publication. IEEE publications scored highly in multiple categories:

• 8 of the top 10 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• 9 of the top 10 in Telecommunications
• 6 of the top 10 in Automation and Control Systems
• 6 of the top 10 in Computer Hardware and Architecture
• 5 of the top 10 in Cybernetics

Details of current journal rankings in a few sample categories appear below. IEEE titles appear in bold.

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

IEEE has 8 of the top 10 journals in Electrical and Electronic Engineering by Article Influence Score:

1 Nature Electronics
2 Proceedings of the IEEE
3 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
4 IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
5 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
6 FT Signal Processing
7 IEEE Wireless Communications
8 IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
9 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
10 IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine

Telecommunications

IEEE has 9 of the top 10 journals in Telecommunications by Article Influence Score:

1 IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
2 IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
3 IEEE Wireless Communications
4 IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
5 IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
6 IEEE Communications Magazine
7 IEEE Transactions on Communications
8 Satellite Navigation
9 IEEE Network
10 IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society

IEEE Journals Continue to Excel in Citation Rankings