SAN JOSE, Calif. and LONDON, Dec. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Happiest Minds Technologies Limited(NSE: HAPPSTMNDS), a 'Born Digital . Born Agile', Mindful IT Company, today announced that it has been recognized as a 'Rising Star' across multiple categories in the ISG Provider Lens Digital Engineering Services Report 2023 by Information Services Group (ISG), a leading global technology research and advisory firm.

Happiest Mindsis the only company this year to earn the distinction of being a 'Rising Star'across 3 different categories Design and Development (Products, Services, Experience), Integrated Customer/User Engagement, and Platforms & Applications Services. The full ISG report for Happiest Minds can be downloaded here.

'Rising Star' indicates a company with a 'promising portfolio' and 'high future potential' by ISG's definition. This recognition across three different categories underscores the significant progress that Happiest Minds has made by building on the foundation of its digital engineering capabilities.

Dr. Tapati Bandhopadhyay, Lead Analyst at ISG,said, "Being an agile service provider right from its inception, Happiest Minds delivers digital platform engineering capabilities in an intuitive, context-aware manner. Happiest Minds offers design services to a broad range of enterprises that are at different stages of digital maturity and provides digital technology use cases to deliver improved agile CX and UX services."

Joseph Anantharaju, Executive Vice Chairman & CEO (PDES), Happiest Minds,said, "At Happiest Minds, we have constantly endeavoured to stay ahead of the technology curve to help our clients build future-ready products and platforms. Hence, it is gratifying to see that we are the only company recognized as a 'Rising Star' in 3 critical digital engineering quadrants. This recognition is a testament to our digital DNA and agile mindset complemented by our happiest people, happiest customers approach."

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Arsalaan Kashif, Senior Marketing Director, Happiest Minds, said, "Since its inception, Happiest Minds has had a strong engineering pedigree and digital DNA. As a result, we've helped many digital native clients create pioneering products and solutions in completely new market segments. The ISG Digital Case Study award that we won for our work with DoubleVerify and the 3 Rising Star recognitions for digital engineering underscore the value we've been able to deliver to our customers."

About Happiest Minds Technologies

Happiest Minds Technologies Limited (NSE: HAPPSTMNDS), a Mindful IT Company, enables digitaltransformationfor enterprises and technology providers by delivering seamless customer experiences, business efficiency and actionable insights. We do this by leveraging a spectrum of disruptive technologies such as:artificial intelligence,blockchain,cloud,digital process automation,internet of things,robotics/drones,security,virtual/ augmented reality,etc. Positioned as 'Born Digital . Born Agile', our capabilities span Product & Digital Engineering Services (PDES), Generative AI Business Services (GBS) and Infrastructure Management & Security Services (IMSS). We deliver these services across industry sectors such as automotive, BFSI, consumer packaged goods, e-commerce, EdTech, engineering R&D, healthcare, hi-tech, manufacturing, retail, and travel/transportation/hospitality. The company has been recognized for its excellence in Corporate Governance practices by Golden Peacock and ICSI. A Great Place to Work Certified company, Happiest Minds is headquartered in Bangalore, India, with operations in the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, and Middle East.

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George K. Giakos, Ph.D., professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been selected as one of the worlds top industry scientists by the Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Alliance (AIIA). The designation is given to scholars and scientists whom the organization believes can contribute towards the growth and dissemination of AI principles within the industry.

As a member of this alliance, Giakos will promote the practical applications of artificial intelligence across various industries, fostering economic development and societal progress and facilitating industry connections. The AIIA notified Giakos that he had been selected by its board members for his research and contributions in the field of artificial intelligence.

"I am incredibly honored to be named one of the world's top industry scientists by the AIIA, said Giakos. This recognition is a testament to the hard work and dedication of my research team, colleagues and students at Manhattan College. We are constantly striving to push the boundaries of artificial intelligence and its applications and I am excited to continue working alongside such a talented group of individuals."

Giakos research interests lie primarily in technology innovation, through the integration of physics, engineering and artificial intelligence. He has more than 20 U.S. and foreign patents and has published 350 peer reviewed papers. He is the founding director of the Laboratory of Quantum Cognitive Imaging and Neuromorphic Engineering q(CINE) and Bioinspired Space Systems. Since 2000, Giakos has conducted research at prestigious U.S. national laboratories and companies such as NASA, The Air Force Research Laboratory, The Office of Naval Research and Lockheed Martin on the development and advancement of polarimetric imaging systems. Polarimetric imaging systems can capture hidden details and information that ordinary cameras miss and can be used for many applications including, medical imaging, environmental monitoring and art restoration.

Giakos and his Manhattan College students pioneered an artificial intelligence vision sensor technology called a Polarimetric Dynamic Vision Sensor p(DVS)s," blending neuromorphic processors (types of computer chips modeled on the structure and function of the brain) with polarimetric principles (principles based on the understanding and manipulating the polarization of light) that can process visual information in a way that is similar to the human optical system.

The AIIA was established in 2023 and is based in Hong Kong. It brings together scholars, scientists, government agencies and universities that are engaged in technology, research and development, applications, scientific education, consulting and investment and financing in the field of artificial intelligence.

I congratulate our colleague Dr. George Giakos on his selection as one of the world's top industry scientists within AIIA," said Anirban De, Ph.D., interim dean of the School of Engineering. This is a well-deserved recognition of Dr. Giakos' impressive record of scholarship as a faculty member at Manhattan College.

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Ammonia, a main component of many fertilizers, could play a key role in a carbon-free fuel system as a convenient way to transport and store clean hydrogen. The chemical, made of hydrogen and nitrogen (NH3), can also itself be burned as a zero-carbon fuel. However, new research led by Princeton University illustrates that even though it may not be a source of carbon pollution, ammonias widespread use in the energy sector could pose a grave risk to the nitrogen cycle and climate without proper engineering precautions.

Publishing their findings November 6 in PNAS, the interdisciplinary team of 12 researchers found that a well-engineered ammonia economy could help the world achieve its decarbonization goals and secure a sustainable energy future. A mismanaged ammonia economy, on the other hand, could ramp up emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O), a long-lived greenhouse gas around 300 times more potent than CO2 and a major contributor to the thinning of the stratospheric ozone layer. It could lead to substantial emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx), a class of pollutants that contribute to the formation of smog and acid rain. And it could directly leak fugitive ammonia emissions into the environment, also forming air pollutants, impacting water quality, and stressing ecosystems by disturbing the global nitrogen cycle.

Fortunately, the researchers found that the potential negative impacts of an ammonia economy can be minimized with proactive engineering practices. They argued that now is the time to start seriously preparing for an ammonia economy, tackling the potential sticking points of ammonia fuel before its widespread deployment.

We know an ammonia economy of some scale is likely coming, said research leader Amilcare Porporato, the Thomas J. Wu 94 Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the High Meadows Environmental Institute. And if we are proactive and future-facing in our approach, an ammonia economy could be a great thing. But we cannot afford to take the risks of ammonia lightly. We cannot afford to be sloppy.

As interest in hydrogen as a zero-carbon fuel has grown, so too has an inconvenient reality: it is notoriously difficult to store and transport over long distances. The tiny molecule must be stored at either temperatures below -253 degrees Celsius or at pressures as high as 700 times atmospheric pressure, conditions that are infeasible for widespread transport and prone to leakage.

Ammonia, on the other hand, is much easier to liquify, transport, and store, capable of being moved around similarly to tanks of propane.

Moreover, an established process for converting hydrogen into ammonia has existed since the early 20th century. Known as the Haber-Bosch process, the reaction combines atmospheric nitrogen with hydrogen to form ammonia. While the process was originally developed as a cost-effective way to turn atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia for use in fertilizers, cleaning products, and even explosives, the energy sector has looked to the Haber-Bosch process as a way to store and transport hydrogen fuel in the form of ammonia.

Ammonia synthesis is inherently energy-intensive, and fossil fuels without CO2 capture are currently used to meet almost all of its feedstock and energy demands. But as the researchers pointed out in their article, if new, electricity-driven processes that are currently under development can replace conventional fossil-fuel-derived ammonia synthesis, then the Haber-Bosch process or a different process altogether could be widely used to convert clean hydrogen into ammonia, which can itself be burned as a zero-carbon fuel.

Ammonia is an easy way to transport hydrogen over long distances, and its widespread use in agriculture means there is already an established infrastructure for producing and moving ammonia, said Matteo Bertagni, postdoctoral researcher at the High Meadows Environmental Institute working on the Carbon Mitigation Initiative. You could therefore create hydrogen in a resource-rich area, transform it into ammonia, and then transport it anywhere its needed around the globe.

Ammonias transportability is especially attractive to industries reliant on long-distance transportation, such as maritime shipping, and countries with limited available space for renewable resources. Japan, for example, already has a national energy strategy in place that incorporates the use of ammonia as a clean fuel. Straightforward storage requirements mean that ammonia might also find use as a vessel for long-term energy storage, complementary to or even replacing batteries.

At first glance, ammonia seems like an ideal cure for the problem of decarbonization, Porporato said. But almost every medicine comes with a set of potential side effects.

In theory, burning ammonia should yield only harmless nitrogen gas (N2) and water as products. But in practice, Michael E. Mueller, associate chair and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, stated that ammonia combustion can release harmful NOx and N2O pollutants.

Most N2O emissions from ammonia combustion are the result of disruptions to the combustion process. N2O is essentially an intermediate species in the combustion process, Mueller said. If the combustion process is allowed to finish, then there will be essentially no N2O emissions.

Yet Mueller said that under certain conditions, such as when a turbine is ramping up or down or if the hot combustion gases impinge upon cold walls, the ammonia combustion process can become disrupted and N2O emissions can quickly accumulate.

For instance, the researchers found that if ammonia fuel achieves a market penetration equal to around 5% of the current global primary energy demand (which would require 1.6 billion metric tons of ammonia production, or ten times current production levels), and if 1% of the nitrogen in that ammonia is lost as N2O, then ammonia combustion could produce greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 15% of todays emissions from fossil fuels. The greenhouse gas intensity of such a loss rate would mean that burning ammonia fuel would be more polluting than coal.

Like ammonias N2O emissions, Robert Socolow, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, emeritus, and senior scholar at Princeton, said that widespread usage of ammonia in the energy sector will add to all the other impacts that fertilizer has already had on the global nitrogen cycle.

In a seminal paper published in 1999, Socolow discussed the environmental impacts of the food systems widespread use of nitrogen-enriched fertilizers to promote crop growth, writing that, Excess fixed nitrogen, in various guises, augments the greenhouse effectcontaminates drinking water, acidifies rainand stresses ecosystems.

As the energy sector looks toward ammonia as a fuel, Socolow said that it can learn from agricultures use of ammonia as a fertilizer. He urged those in the energy sector to consult the decades of work from ecologists and agricultural scientists to understand the role of excess nitrogen in disturbing natural systems.

Ammonia fuel can be done, but it cannot be done in any way we wish, said Socolow, whose 2004 paper with Stephen Pacala, the Frederick D. Petrie Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, emeritus, on stabilization wedges has become a foundation of modern climate policy. Its important that we look before we leap.

While the environmental consequences of an ammonia economy gone wrong are serious, the researchers emphasized that the potential stumbling blocks they identified are solvable through proactive engineering.

I interpret this paper as a handbook for engineers, Mueller said. By identifying the worst-case scenario for an ammonia economy, were really identifying what we need to be aware of as we develop, design, and optimize new ammonia-based energy systems.

For instance, Mueller said there are alternative combustion strategies that could help to minimize unwanted NOx and N2O emissions. While each strategy has its own set of pros and cons, he said that taking the time now to evaluate candidate systems with an eye toward mitigating emissions will ensure that combustion systems are poised to operate optimally for ammonia fuel.

Another option for accessing the energy in ammonia involves partially or fully splitting ammonia back into hydrogen and atmospheric nitrogen through a process known as cracking. Ammonia cracking, a line of research being actively pursued by Emily A. Carter, could help to make the fuel composition more favorable for combustion or even bypass the environmental concerns of ammonia burning by regenerating hydrogen fuel at the point of use. Carter is the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor of Energy and the Environment and senior strategic advisor and associate laboratory director for applied materials and sustainability sciences at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL).

Furthermore, several technologies already exist at the industrial scale to convert unwanted NOx emissions from combustion back into N2 through a process known as selective catalytic reduction. These technologies could be straightforward to transfer to ammonia-based fuel applications. And as a convenient bonus, many of them rely on ammonia as a feedstock to remove NOx something that there would already be plenty of in an ammonia-based system.

Beyond the engineering practices that could be developed to minimize the environmental impacts of an ammonia economy, Porporato said future work will also look beyond engineering approaches to identify policies and regulatory strategies that would ensure the best-case scenario for ammonia fuel.

Imagine the problems we could have avoided if we knew the risks and environmental impacts of burning fossil fuels before the Industrial Revolution began, Porporato said. With the ammonia economy, we have the chance to learn from our carbon-emitting past. We have the opportunity to solve the challenges weve identified before they become an issue in the real world.

The paper, Minimizing the Impacts of the Ammonia Economy on the Nitrogen Cycle and Climate, was published November 6 in PNAS. In addition to Porporato, Bertagni, Mueller, Socolow, and Carter, coauthors include J. Mark P. Martirez of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL); Chris Greig, Yiguang Ju, Sankaran Sundaresan, Mark Zondlo, and Rui Wang of Princeton University; and Tim Lieuwen of the Georgia Institute of Technology. The research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, the BP-funded Carbon Mitigation Initiative at Princeton University, and the Moore Foundation.

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The University of Toledo has been part of Pete Roccos life for quite a while.

Now a Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering, Pete Rocco began his Rocket journey as a student at Toledo Early College High School and then went on to earn his bachelors degree in bioengineering.

A first-generation college student, Rocco initially planned to pursue a career as a medical doctor. Then he discovered engineering, specifically mechanical engineering.

Pete Rocco spent spring semester at NASA Glenn Research Center as a safety mission and assurance intern.

Toward the last part of my bachelors degree, I realized my true passion was geared more toward mechanical engineering fatigue of materials, shape memory alloys to be specific after doing a co-op under my advisor, Dr. Mohammad Elahinia, Rocco said. I decided to stay on for my masters degree and focus on mechanical engineering.

My passion for fatigue of materials comes from the real-life fatigue failures that have happened aerospace, airplanes, buildings, bridges and other mechanical components that have failed and have caused tragic situations, including the loss of human life, he added. If we can understand the fatigue of materials and the mechanisms that lead to eventual failure, we can then create better materials for the future in real-world applications, in the best effort to prevent or correct serious failures from occurring.

Rocco spent the spring semester at NASA Glenn Research Center as a safety mission and assurance intern.

This NASA experience is thanks to the invaluable training I received at UT in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, he said. The academic and research programs at The University of Toledo are top-notch and truly set up students for a bright future. Without the guidance I received in academia and research at UT, my achievements would not be possible.

Rocco is scheduled to graduate with his Ph.D. in spring 2025.

Scheduled to graduate with his Ph.D. in spring 2025, Rocco said his career plans are flexible.

He may seek out an industrial research-based position, but he is also open to post-doctoral positions or teaching positions.

UToledo, including the College of Engineering, truly prepares students for success in the world, he said. The lessons you learn and the guidance you receive from your mentors are paramount, and UToledo and the College of Engineering are among the best regarding this.

Elahinia, Distinguished University Professor and chair of the Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department, has been Roccos mentor.

I admire Pete for his kind heart, dedication and eagerness to learn and collaborate, he said. He is always ready to take on a new challenge. He is equally ready to cooperate with others and to mentor. He has been a very successful instructor for both the Mechanical Engineering as well as Engineering Technology Department.

As an example of his passion for community engagement and mentoring, Pete recently participated in Manufacturing Day at the Toledo Technology Academy of Engineering, where he advised students on the possibilities and benefits of studying engineering at UToledo.

As a longtime Rocket, Rocco offered this advice for students who are thinking about their own journey in UToledos College of Engineering: Engineering is such a broad field that the options and possibilities are truly endless he said. One must identify what they are passionate about, and then go for it. The best part is that at The University of Toledo College of Engineering, this is truly possible.

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