UWS Student wins NASSCOM Innovation Award at cebit

Avtar Gil (third right), Sachin Pilot (centre), NASSCOM President, Som Mittal (left), NSW MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Premier and for Asia-Pacific Trade, Peter Toole (2nd left), NSW Minister for Finance and Services, Greg Pearce (2nd right), and Anu Agrawal (right) with Winners of the 2012 NASSCOM Innovation Student Awards

UWS nominated three teams from the UWS School for Computing, Engineering and Mathematics for the 2012 NASSCOM Innovation Award. Jarred Mack and Jonathan Weightman participated with their real time 3D application “LiquidWeb Experiment” and Walied Askarzai pitched his idea of “Artificial Management”.

The third project presented by Dr Avtar Gil, a medical practitioner for more than 25 years and PhD student at UWS, won the award with his innovative program called STEP ON IT. This mobile application is an eHealth solution that provides real time feedback on key health measurements.

The inaugural NASSCOM Innovation Student Awards were presented by The Hon. Sachin Pilot, Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India, The Hon Greg Pearce, Minister of Finance, NSW and Mr Paul Toole, MP and Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Premier and for Asia-Pacific Trade.

The Awards were judged by an independent judging panel, with students presenting their concepts to leaders in the corporate sector. Mr. Anu Agrawal, Chairman of NASSCOM Australia said, “We are privileged to recognise the high level of innovation from students of Australia’s universities. The content and quality of the presentations to our judges was excellent and demonstrated many fine examples of originality.”

Students were supported by their supervisors and UWS Innovation. The Innovation team provided pitching guidance, rehearsals and advice on how to structure their application. The outcome reflects UWS’s strong market and community orientation. Through our activities, UWS Innovation is building a reputation for supporting delivery of pioneering research which results in practical, commercially accessible products and processes. To find out more click on the link to UWS Innovation  or send us an email to ip@uws.edu.au