chandigarh a twoday international conference on recent advances in engineering and computational sciences raecs 2015 began at panjab university pu on monday director of the national institute of technical teachers training research nitttr dr m p poonia was the chief guest on the occasion addressing the inaugural function dr poonia emphasized on problems faced by researchers and suggested ways to combat them for improving the quality of research work eminent professor dr d t shahani from iit delhi delivered the keynote address highlighting the teaching tactics that the faculty should adopt he also emphasized the need to focus on real life problems solutions through research he also stressed upon the need to use modern tools such as artificial intelligence in different areas of research while more than 100 research papers were presented on monday about 70 papers will be presented by various research scholars and faculty members from various prestigious universities and institutes on december 22 tuesday the conference sponsored by the institute of electrical and electronics engineers ieee is being organized by the university institute of engineering and technology uiet renowned scientists and researchers from all parts of the country and delegates from china bhutan south africa new zealand and the us would deliver expert lectures and give paper presentation at the conference dr anu a gokhale from illinois state university usa prof ashwani kumar from nitkurukshetra and prof dharam singh from university of namibia would preside over the sessions and deliver their expert talks during the sessions on december 22 the concluding day of the conference