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Publish Date: November 12, 2021

IIT Delhi to Hold its 52nd Convocation on November 13th, 2021

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1. Ms Padmasree Warrior, a Distinguished Alumna and Founder & CEO, Fable to be Chief Guest

2. Over 2000 Graduating Students to be Awarded Degrees

3. IIT Delhi Alumnus Mr Anant Yardi to gift USD 10 Million to the Institute

New Delhi: IIT Delhi will hold its 52nd Convocation on November 13th, 2021. Ms Padmasree Warrior, a distinguished alumna and Founder & CEO, Fable will be the Chief Guest at the Convocation. Ms Warrior is also Board member of Microsoft and Spotify and former CEO, NIO U.S. and CTSO, Cisco.

Chief guest Ms Padmasree Warrior and Dr. R. Chidambaram, Chairperson, Board of Governors, IIT Delhi will address the graduating students.

Prof V. Ramgopal Rao, Director, IIT Delhi will present the Director’s report on this occasion.

At the 52nd Convocation, 2117 graduating students will be awarded their degrees.

S. No

UG Programmes

No. of Graduating Students

1.

B. Tech

                  734

2.

Dual Degree (B. Tech & M. Tech)

                    97

3. 

B. Tech & M. Tech under Advanced Standing

                    06

4.

M. Tech (05-Year Integrated Programme)

                    04

5.

Undergraduate Diploma

                    02

S. No

 

PG Programmes

 

No. of Graduating Students                 

1.

Ph.D

                   288

2.

M.Tech

                   608

3.

MBA

                   157

4.

Master of Science

                   151

5..

Master of Science (Research)- MSR

                     26

6.

Master of Design  

                     21

7.

PG Diploma of IIT Delhi (Naval Construction)

                     19

8.

Diploma of IIT Delhi (DIIT)

                     04

 

Total (UG + PG)

                 2117

The meritorious graduating students will be awarded the President’s Gold Medal, Director’s Gold Medal, Perfect Ten Gold Medal, the Institute Silver Medal and the awards instituted by donors.

Addressing the media on the eve of 52nd Convocation, IIT Delhi Director, Prof V. Ramgopal Rao said that Mr Anant Yardi, President and Founder of Yardi Systems, and an alumnus of IIT Delhi, has agreed to gift USD 10 million (Rs ~75 Cr) to the Institute.

Mr Yardi’s gift would enable IIT Delhi to create state-of-the art laboratories and attract talented students and researchers to its newly established School of Artificial Intelligence (ScAI).

At the 52nd Convocation, IIT Delhi will also present coveted Alumni Awards 2021 to its esteemed alumni. The Distinguished Alumni Award (DAA) will be presented to six alumni, the Graduates of Last Decade (GOLD) Award to four alumni and the Distinguished Alumni Service Award (DASA) will be presented to one alumnus.

Alumni Awards 2021

 

Distinguished Alumni Award (DAA)

Teaching & Research Category

    1. Dr Lov K Grover, BTech/Electrical Engineering/1981 Batch; An Independent Researcher

    2. Prof Somesh Jha, BTech/ Electrical Engineering/1985; Lubar Professor of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison           

    3. Prof Nandini Trivedi, MS/Physics/1981, Professor of Physics, Ohio State University

Entrepreneurship

    1. Mr Kapil Bharati, BTech/Mechanical Engineering/2000, Co-founder and CTO, Delhivery

    2. Mr Hitesh Oberoi, BTech/Computer Science Engineering/1994, Co-promoter, MD and CEO, Info Edge India Limited

Corporate Leadership

    1. Dr Satish Kumar Singh, BTech/Chemical Engineering/1981, Vice President, Moderna Therapeutics

 

Graduates of Last Decade (GOLD) Award

Teaching & Research

    1. Prof Deepak Vasisht, BTech/Computer Science Engineering/2013, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    2. Dr Divya Gupta, BTech & MTech/Computer Science Engineering/2011, Microsoft Research India

Entrepreneurship

    1. Mr Vidit Aatrey, BTech/ Electrical Engineering/2012, Founder and CEO, Meesho

    2. Mr Sanjeev Barnwal, BTech/EE/2012, Founder and CTO, Meesho

 

Distinguished Alumni Service Award (DASA)

    1. Mr Sandeep Singhal, BTech/Chemical Engineering/1992; MD, Westbridge Capital

 

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