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IIT BOMBAY ANNUAL REPORT 2019-20 IIT BOMBAY ANNUAL REPORT 2019-20 Content 1) Director’s Report 05 2) Academic Programmes 07 3) Research and Development Activities 09 4) Outreach Programmes 26 5) Faculty Achievements and Recognitions 27 6) Student Activities 31 7) Placement 55 8) Society For Innovation And Entrepreneurship 69 9) IIT Bombay Research Park Foundation 71 10) International Relations 73 11) Alumni And Corporate Relations 84 12) Institute Events 90 13) Facilities 99 a) Infrastructure Development b) Central Library c) Computer Centre d) Centre For Distance Engineering Education Programme 14) Departments/ Centres/ Schools and Interdisciplinary Groups 107 15) Publications 140 16) Organization 141 17) Summary of Accounts 152 Director's Report By Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri, Director, IIT Bombay Indian Institute of Technology Bombay acknowledged for their research contributions. (IIT Bombay) has a rich tradition of pursuing We have also been able to further our links with excellence and has continually re-invented international and national peer universities, itself in terms of academic programmes and enabling us to enhance research and educational research infrastructure. Students are exposed programmes at the Institute. to challenging, research-based academics and IIT Bombay continues to make forays into a host of sport, cultural and organizational newer territories pertinent to undergraduate activities on its vibrant campus. The presence and postgraduate education. At postgraduate of world-class research facilities, vigorous level, a specially designed MA+PhD dual institute-industry collaborations, international degree programme in Philosophy under the exchange programmes, interdisciplinary HSS department has been introduced. IDC, the research collaborations and industrial training Industrial Design Centre, celebrated 50 years opportunities help the students of IIT Bombay to of its golden existence earlier this year. At its excel and be ahead in the competitive professional 58th Convocation - specially created, first-of- environment. its-kind virtual reality-based convocation, held I am pleased to state that the Institute continues on August 23, 2020, the Institute awarded 2343 to be ranked as one of the top universities of the degrees (including 376 PhD degrees along with country and among the best in the world. IIT undergraduate and postgraduate degrees) to its Bombay attracts the brightest students from the students who have completed all their degree country for its Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral requirements during the current academic year. programmes. In the 62 years of its existence, about In the recent past, IIT Bombay has raised the 60,000 students have graduated from IIT Bombay. quality of its research and training to a greater The alumni of the Institute have made their alma height and now is focused on improving its mater proud through their achievements and research output further and to have more social contributions in diverse fields and our engagements engagements to help the country benefit in with them are steadily growing. Research, along socially relevant problems. with its translational opportunities, is an increasing The Research and development activity at focus of activity of the Institute. The Institute has IIT Bombay has continued its rapid momentum. been able to attract outstanding faculty members During the year 2019-20, 345 R&D sponsored from not just India but other parts of the globe projects and 705 consultancy projects with also. I am happy to inform that we have 681 faculty a financial outlay of Rs. 331.24 Crores have members on roll – with many of them globally been carried out in diverse areas of science, 5 IIT Bombay Annual Report 2019-20 engineering, management and social sciences. awarded to Prof. Sunita Sarawagi, Department Some of the major projects include as diverse of Computer Science and Engineering. Also, topics as (a) Quantum Computing Architecture Prof. Shubhananda Chakrabarti, Department of with Silicon-based Spin Qubits, (b) Establishment Electrical Engineering and Prof. Rohit Srivastava of a Technology Incubation Hub for IoT & IoE of Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering with a financial outlay of Rs. 170 crores, (C) IBM- were awarded 'Abdul Kalam Technology IITB AI Horizon Network Umbrella Project (d) Innovation National Fellowship'. Hybrid Layered Manufacturing Using Electron Despite no student being in the campus during Beam Cladding (EB-HLM), (e) Development the nation-wide lockdown, our faculty members of Compressed Hydrogen-Fuel Cell Integrated quickly engaged themselves into Covid-19 System Suitable for Light Duty Vehicles. In related research through internal funding. Some view of the growing importance of the area, of the developed technologies include: in-situ IIT Bombay has also set up an interdisciplinary gel for capture and inactivation of 2019-nCoV; Centre on Machine Intelligence and Data Science incinerator for safe disposal of masks/gloves, (CMInDS). portable/ wheeled UVC based germicidal units The Institute’s research was recognised for disinfection, and a wash resistant antiviral by peers and society in the form of several coating for textiles. An App specially developed awards and fellowships conferred on faculty for quarantine adherence (CORONTINE) has and students. Some of the major awards and been adopted in Odisha and Meghalaya. Other IT distinctions received by our faculty members based solutions include providing user-friendly include: Prof. Devang Khakhar, Department of and customized information access with human- Chemical Engineering, former Director of IIT in-the-loop system ‘World Wide Help’ which Bombay, has been conferred with D. Litt (h. c.) is operational at both KEM and IIT Bombay by Monash University, Australia. Prof. Subimal Hospital. Ghosh, Department of Civil Engineering and The progress of IIT Bombay on all fronts has Prof. Raghavan Sunoj, Department of Chemistry been extremely creditable in the past year despite have been awarded the prestigious S.S. Bhatnagar the unforeseen difficulties faced due to the award, J.C. Bose Fellowships have been awarded current pandemic. I would like to acknowledge to Prof. Soumen Chakrabarti, Department of the devoted efforts of the faculty, staff, students Computer Science and Engineering and Prof. and administration of the Institute towards Dulal Panda, Department of Biosciences and these goals. Bioengineering. The prestigious Swarnajayanti KEY FOCUS Fellowships have been awarded to Prof. G. To instill among all the theme of excellence Rajaraman of Department of Chemistry, To improving its research output further and and Prof. Subimal Ghosh, Department of to have more social engagements to help the Civil Engineering. The Infosys Prize 2019 country benefit in socially relevant problems. for Engineering and Computer Science was 6 ACADEMic PROGRAMMES (Due to COVID-19 outbreak, JEE(Advanced) IIT Bombay continues to make forays into 2020, which was scheduled to be held on May newer territories pertinent to undergraduate 17, 2020 has been rescheduled and was held on and postgraduate education. At postgraduate September 27, 2020). level, three master’s programmes have been At the 57th Convocation, a total of 2407* introduced: Dual Degree MA + PhD programme degrees were awarded. These include 181 PhDs, in Humanities and Social Sciences, MS by 32 Dual Degree (MTech/MPhil+PhD) and 38 research programme in Computer Science and Dual Degree (MSc+PhD), 12 MS (by Research), Engineering, and Inter-Disciplinary Dual Degree 6 Dual Degree (MSc+MTech), 576 MTech, (IDDD) programme towards a Masters (without 56 MDes, 27 MPhil, 110 MMgt, 226 two-year honours) in ‘Artificial Intelligence and Data MSc, 10 five-year integrated MSc, 368 Dual Science’ in the Centre for Machine Intelligence Degree (BTech+MTech), 683 BTech Degrees, and Data Science (C-MInDS). 4 Interdisciplinary Dual Degrees (BTech/ BS+MTech/ MSc), 6 Dual Degrees (BS+MSc), 21 IIT Bombay continues to be a sought-after BS, 15 BDes, and 14 PGDIIT. (*excluding degrees destination for UG and PG studies and attracts awarded during 57th interim convocation) the top performers in national examinations such as GATE, CEED, UCEED, NET, JAM With an increase in undergraduate (UG) and and JEE (ADV). Out of 37 available seats for postgraduate (PG) intake, the student population Undergraduate Common Entrance Exam for has undergone significant changes in the last Design (UCEED) at IIT Bombay, 16 out of top 10 years. In 2008-09, the number of on-roll UG 30 rankers have joined IIT Bombay for BDes students was 2583 (44.04%) while the number of programme. PG students was 3282 (55.95%) (Masters – 1774, 7 IIT Bombay Annual Report 2019-20 PhD – 1508). This has changed to 3900 (42.35%) The number of students graduating with a and 5307 (57.64%) for UG and PG students, PhD has also been steadily increasing. In the last respectively, in 2013-14. Presently, the Institute 10 years, the number of PhD degrees awarded has about 10949 students of which 4558 (41.6%) has gone up from about 180 to 385. A significant are UG and 6391 (58.37%) are PG. fraction of these are in the engineering discipline. In order to continue imparting high-quality All students involved in research at the Institute and holistic education to the much larger student are given an opportunity to interact with research population, the Institute continues to modify and community at the national and international evolve processes which can effectively address the level by providing funds to attend international