Summary
Padmasree Warrior, a Distinguished Alumna, will be the chief guest
IIT Delhi alumnus Anant Yardi to gift 10 million US dollars to the Institute
IIT Delhi will hold its 52nd convocation on November 13. Padmasree Warrior, a distinguished alumna and founder and CEO, Fable, will be the chief guest at the convocation.
Warrior, who is also a board member of Microsoft and Spotify, and R. Chidambaram, chairperson, Board of Governors, IIT Delhi, will address the graduating students.
IIT Delhi director V. Ramgopal Rao will present the director’s report on this occasion.
Anant Yardi, President and Founder of Yardi Systems, and an alumnus of IIT Delhi, has agreed to gift 10 million US dollaers (Rs 75 Crore) to the institute, Rao said on the eve of the convocation.
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 ceremony, 2,117 graduating students will be awarded their degrees.
Here are the UG and PG programmes and the number of students graduating:
BTech: 734
Dual Degree (BTech and MTech): 97
BTech and MTech under advanced standing: 06
MTech (5-year integrated programme): 4
Undergraduate diploma: 2
PhD: 288
MTech: 608
MBA: 157
Master of Science: 151
Master of Science (Research): 26
Master of Design: 21
PG Diploma of IIT Delhi (Naval Construction): 19
Diploma of IIT Delhi (DIIT): 4
Total (UG + PG): 2,117
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.
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
Lov K Grover, BTech/Electrical Engineering/1981 Batch; independent eesearcher
Somesh Jha, BTech/ Electrical Engineering/1985; Lubar Professor of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Nandini Trivedi, MS/Physics/1981, professor of Physics, Ohio State University
Entrepreneurship
Kapil Bharati, BTech/Mechanical Engineering/2000, co-founder and CTO, Delhivery
Hitesh Oberoi, BTech/Computer Science Engineering/1994, co-promoter, MD and CEO, Info Edge India Limited
Corporate Leadership
Satish Kumar Singh, BTech/Chemical Engineering/1981, vice-president, Moderna Therapeutics Graduates of Last Decade (GOLD) Award Teaching & Research
Deepak Vasisht, BTech/Computer Science Engineering/2013, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Divya Gupta, BTech & MTech/Computer Science Engineering/2011, Microsoft Research India
Entrepreneurship
Vidit Aatrey, BTech/ Electrical Engineering/2012, Founder and CEO, Meesho
Sanjeev Barnwal, BTech/EE/2012, founder and CTO, Meesho
Distinguished Alumni Service Award (DASA)
Sandeep Singhal, BTech/Chemical Engineering/1992; MD, Westbridge Capital
Last updated on 12 Nov 2021
