51st Convocation November 7, 2020

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PROGRAMME Saturday, November 7, 2020 09:00 : Arrival / Welcome of the Guests attending in person 09:01 : Supply of robes to Senators and Guests participating in the Academic Procession 09:06 : Registrar invites the Guests to proceed 09:08 : Members of Senate and Guests participating in the Academic Procession assemble 09:11 : Academic Procession proceeds to the Dogra Hall. The Registrar will lead the procession. (Attendees in Dogra Hall will stand up when the procession enters the Dogra Hall and will remain standing till the procession culminates on the dais) 09:14 : Welcome of Guests joining online 09:17 : Vande Mataram 09:19 : Director requests the Chairman, BoG to declare the Convocation open 09:20 : The Convocation is declared open by the Chairman, BoG 09:21 : Director’s Report 09:36 : Address by the Chairman, BoG 09:46 : Presentation of Distinguished Alumni Awards 10:08 : Pronouncement of Award of Degrees 10:13 : Scroll signing by the Chairman, BoG 10:18 : Oath-taking by graduating students 10:21 : Award of Institute Medals 10:36 : Director introduces Guest of Honour Shri Sanjay Dhotre and invites him to give his address 10:38 : Address by Guest of Honour Shri Sanjay Dhotre, Hon’ble Union Minister of State for Education 10:48 : Director introduces Guest of Honour Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, Hon’ble Union Minister for Education, invites him to Launch eVIDYA and deliver his address 10:50 : Launch of eVIDYA and Address by Guest of Honour Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, Honorable Union Education Minister 11:00 : Chief Guest, Hon’ble Prime Minister joins the ceremony online 11:01 : Director welcomes the Chief Guest and invites him to deliver the Convocation Address 11:05 : Convocation Address by the Chief Guest 11:40 : Chief Guest leaves the ceremony and goes offline 11:41 : Director thanks Chief Guest and Guests of Honour for their Addresses 11:46 : Director requests the Chairman, BoG to declare the Convocation closed FIFTY FIRST 11:48 : The Convocation is declared closed by the Chairman, BoG ANNUAL CONVOCATION 11:50 : National Anthem 2020 11:52 : Academic Procession departs

IIT DELHI 1 THE VISITOR

Shri Ram Nath Kovind Hon’ble President of India and Visitor, IIT Delhi

2 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 THE CHIEF GUEST

Shri Narendra Modi Hon’ble Prime Minister

Shri Narendra Modi was sworn-in as India’s Prime Minister Leading international agencies have noted that under the on 30th May 2019, marking the start of his second term leadership of PM Narendra Modi, India has been eliminating in office. The first ever Prime Minister to be born after poverty at record pace. This is attributed to a series of Independence, Shri Modi has previously served as the pro-poor decisions taken by the Central Government. Prime Minister of India from 2014 to 2019. He also has Today, India is home to the world’s largest healthcare the distinction of being the longest serving Chief Minister programme, Ayushman Bharat. Covering over 50 crore of Gujarat with his term spanning from October 2001 to Indians, Ayushman Bharat provides top quality and May 2014. affordable healthcare to the poor and neo-middle class. In the 2014 and 2019 Parliamentary elections, Shri Modi The Lancet, considered among the most prestigious health led the Bharatiya Janata Party to record wins, securing journals in the world has lauded Ayushman Bharat, stating absolute majority on both occasions. The last time that a that this scheme attends to the larger discontent about the political party secured such an absolute majority was in health sector in India. The journal also noted PM Modi’s the elections of 1984. efforts to prioritise universal health coverage. Inspired by the motto of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Understanding that financial exclusion was a bane for the Sabka Vishwas’, Shri Modi has ushered in a paradigm poor, the Prime Minister launched the Pradhan Mantri Jan shift in governance that has led to inclusive, development- Dhan Yojana, that aimed at opening bank accounts for oriented and corruption-free governance. The Prime every Indian. Now, over 35 crore Jan Dhan accounts have Minister has worked with speed and scale to realise been opened. These accounts have not only banked the the aim of Antyodaya, or ensuring last-mile delivery of unbanked but also opened the doors for other avenues schemes and services. of empowerment.

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 3 Going a step ahead of Jan Dhan, Shri Modi emphasised On 2nd October 2014, Mahatma Gandhi’s Birth on Jan Suraksha, by giving insurance and pension cover Anniversary, the PM launched ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’ to the most vulnerable sections of society. The JAM a mass movement for cleanliness across the nation. The trinity (Jan Dhan- Aadhaar- Mobile) has led to elimination scale and impact of the movement is historic. Today, of middle men and ensured transparency and speed, sanitation coverage has risen from 38% in 2014 to 99%. powered by technology. Several states and Union Territories have been declared open defecation free (ODF). Substantive measures been In a first, over 42 crore people associated with the taken for a clean Ganga. unorganised sector now have pension coverage under the Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Man Dhan Yojana. During the The World Health Organisation has appreciated the very first Cabinet Meeting after the 2019 election results, a Swachh Bharat Mission and has opined that it would save similar pension scheme for traders was announced as well. three lakh lives. The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, launched in 2016 Shri Modi believes that transportation is an important provides free cooking gas connections to the poor. It means towards transformation. That is why, the has proven to be a major game-changer in providing Government of India has been working to create next- smoke-free kitchens to over 7 crore beneficiaries, most generation infrastructure be it in terms of more highways, of whom are women. railways, i-ways and waterways. The UDAN (Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik) Scheme has made aviation sector more 18,000 villages that were without electricity even after 70 people-friendly and boosted connectivity. long years of Independence have been electrified. PM Modi launched the ‘Make in India’ initiative to turn Shri Modi believes that no Indian should be homeless and India into an international manufacturing powerhouse. This to realise this vision, over 1.25 crore houses were built effort has led to transformative results. For instance, the between 2014 and 2019. The pace of house construction number of mobile manufacturing units has risen from 2 in remains as quick to fulfil the PM’s vision of ‘Housing for 2014 to 122 in 2019. India has made significant strides in All’ by 2022. ‘Ease of Doing Business’, improving its ranking from 142 Agriculture is a sector that is very close to Shri Narendra in 2014 to 77 in 2019. The Government of India rolled out Modi. During the interim budget of 2019, the Government the GST during a historic session of Parliament in 2017, announced a monetary incentive for farmers called the which has realised the dream of ‘One Nation, One Tax.’ PM Kisan Samman Nidhi. In almost three weeks, on 24th During his tenure, special attention has been paid to India’s February 2019, the scheme was launched and instalments rich history and culture. India is home to the world’s largest have been paid regularly since then. During the first statue, the State of Unity, a fitting tribute to Sardar Patel. Cabinet Meeting of PM Modi’s second term, it was decided This Statue was built through a special mass movement to extend the PM Kisan benefits to all farmers, removing where tools of farmers and soil from all states and Union the 5 acre limit that was present earlier. With this, the Territories of India were used, signifying the spirit of Government of India would be devoting almost R87,000 ‘Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat.’ crore per year for farmer welfare. PM Modi is deeply passionate about environmental causes. Shri Modi has also focused path-breaking initiatives for He has time and again called for closing of ranks to create agriculture ranging from Soil Health Cards, E-NAM for a clean and green planet. As Chief Minister of Gujarat, Shri better markets and a renewed focus on irrigation. On 30th Modi created a separate Climate Change Department to May 2019, PM Modi fulfilled a major promise by creating create innovative solutions to climate change. This spirit a new Jal Shakti Ministry to cater to all aspects relating was seen in the 2015 COP21 Summit in Paris where PM to water resources. Modi played a key role in the high-level deliberations.

4 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 Going a step ahead of climate change, PM Modi has the First), Palestine (Grand Collar of the State of Palestine), talked about climate justice. In 2018, Heads of State and Afghanistan (Amir Amanullah Khan Award), UAE (Zayed Government from several nations came to India for the Medal) and Maldives (Rule of Nishan Izzuddeen). In 2018, launch of the International Solar Alliance, an innovative PM received the prestigious Seoul Peace Prize for his effort to harness solar energy for a better planet. contribution to peace and development. Recognising his efforts towards environmental Shri Narendra Modi’s clarion call for marking a day as conservation, PM Modi was honoured with the United ‘International Day of Yoga’ received an overwhelming Nations ‘Champions of the Earth Award.’ response at the UN. In a first, a total of 177 Nations across the Fully sensitive to the fact that climate change has made our world came together and passed the resolution to declare planet prone to natural disasters, Shri Modi has brought 21st June as the ‘International Day of Yoga at the UN.’ a new approach to disaster management, harnessing Shri Modi was born on 17 September, 1950, in a small the power of technology and the strength of human town in Gujarat. His family belonged to the ‘other backward resources. As Chief Minister, he transformed Gujarat class’ which is among the marginalised sections of society. that had just been ravaged by a devastating earthquake He grew up in a poor but loving family ‘without a spare on 26th January 2001. Likewise, he introduced new rupee’. The initial hardships of life not only taught the systems to combat floods and droughts in Gujarat that value of hard work but also exposed him to the avoidable were internationally lauded. sufferings of the common people. This inspired him Through administrative reforms, Shri Modi has always from a very young age to immerse himself in service of given priority to justice for citizens. In Gujarat, he people and the nation. In his initial years, he worked with spearheaded the start of evening courts to ensure people’s the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a nationalist issues are resolved. At the Centre, he began PRAGATI organisation devoted to nation building and later devoted (Pro-Active Governance And Timely Implementation) to himself in politics working with the Bharatiya Janata expedite pending projects that were delaying growth. Party organization at National and State level. Shri Modi completed his MA in political science from Gujarat Shri Modi’s foreign policy initiatives have realised the University. true potential and role of world’s largest democracy. He began his first term in office in presence of all Heads of Shri Narendra Modi is a ‘People’s Leader’, dedicated to States of SAARC Nations and invited BIMSTEC leaders solving their problems and improving their well-being. at the start of the second. His address to the General Nothing is more satisfying to him than being amongst the Assembly of United Nations was appreciated across the people, sharing their joys and alleviating their sorrows. His world. Shri Modi became the first Indian Prime Minister to powerful ‘personal connect’ with the people on ground is embark on a bilateral visit to Nepal after a long period of complemented by a strong online presence. He is known 17 years, to Australia after 28 years, to Fiji after 31 years as India’s most techno-savvy leader, using the web to and UAE as well as Seychelles after 34 years. Since reach people and bring about change in their lives. He is taking over, Shri Modi attended UN, BRICS, SAARC and very active on social media platforms including Facebook, G-20 Summits, where India’s interventions and views on Twitter, Instagram, Sound Cloud, Linkedin, Weibo and a variety of global economic and political issues were other forums. widely appreciated. Beyond politics, Shri Narendra Modi enjoys writing. He PM Modi has been conferred various honours including has authored several books, including poetry. He begins the highest civilian honour of Saudi Arabia Sash of King his day with Yoga, which strengthens his body and mind Abdulaziz. Shri Modi has been also been conferred the top and instills the power of calmness in an otherwise fast- awards of Russia (The Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew paced routine.

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 5 GUEST OF HONOUR

Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ Hon’ble Union Minister for Education

Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ is the Union Minister of litterateur, poet, sensitive thinker on the Himalayas and Education, Government of India. He was born in 1959 in the Ganges. He has kept sensitive issues of Himalayas a remote village, Pinani of Pauri district of Uttarakhand. and Ganges in the Parliament. His contribution to His early childhood lacked in many aspects due to his Ganga cleanliness, especially by leading Sparsh Ganga financially humble background. Despite this, the brilliance campaign, has encouraged active public participation for of his intellect stood out. the cause. He initially served society as a teacher and later as He is not only a skilled politician but also a competent a journalist. His political journey started in 1987 as writer. While in active politics, the work of writing continued the central spokesperson of the Uttar Pradesh (now and he has written more than 75 books, which have been Uttarakhand) Sangharsh Samiti. In 1991, he was elected published in more than 10 languages all over the world as an MLA from the Karnprayag Assembly. In 1996, for the and India. These 75 books include poetry collection and first time, he became a Cabinet Minister in Uttar Pradesh. fiction collection and many of them have been translated With the establishment of the Uttarakhand state, he into many languages like English, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, became the Finance Minister and was handed over 12 German, French, etc. important departments. In the year 2007, he became the About 15 people has either completed or doing research Cabinet Minister and in 2009 the Chief Minister of the State. on his literature. He was elected as a member of the sixteenth Lok Sabha Despite being the commander of one of the important of India from Haridwar with an overwhelming majority of ministries of the country and being honored from the MPs. Re-elected from this Lok Sabha in the year 2019, country and abroad, Shri Nishank is a very simple persona he has now taken up the important responsibility of the with being soft-spoken. Despite his hard work of so many Ministry of Education, Government of India. years, he is immensely dedicated to serve the nation and He is recognized in the country and abroad as a writer, rests for only 4-5 hours throughout the day.

6 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 GUEST OF HONOUR

Shri Sanjay Dhotre Hon’ble Union Minister of State for Education

Shri Sanjay Dhotre is the Union Minister of State of education, both at the micro as well as macro levels. for Education, Communications, and Electronics & He actively engaged himself with the finalization of the Information Technology, Government of India. New Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and its roll out. Time- bound and effective implementation of the NEP towards Shri Dhotre is 4th time MP in current 17th Lok Sabha a radical transformation of the educational structure in and represent Akola parliamentary constituency. Before the country is an issue close to the heart of Shri Dhotre. becoming Member of Parliament, he was a Member of Maharshtra Legislative Assembly from 1999 to 2004. His areas of interest include Technology for Change, First time, he was elected as a Member of Parliament in Water Conservation, Infrastructure & Community 14th Lok Sabha in 2004. He has held some key positions Development, Environment and Climate Change, in various parliamentary committees. Sustainable Agriculture for marginal Farmers. An engineer by training, a practicing agriculturist and Shri Dhotre, held several distinguished positions and was industrialist, Shri Sanjay Dhotre has remained active in awarded for his outstanding contributions by Maharashtra social and political spheres for the last four decades. Govt. Industry Award for Excellent Performance (1987) He has keen interest in bringing changes in the life of and Late Shri Vasantrao Naik Memorial Award for common people by transforming agriculture in every Outstanding Work in Agricultural Sector (1999). He possible way. He is an ardent proponent of new cutting- was the former Vice Chairman of Maharashtra Council edge technologies and their application in all spheres of of Agricultural Education & Research Pune (MCAER), human engagement. He deeply connects with the issues Government of Maharashtra.

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 7 Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ Hon’ble Union Minister for Education

Dr. R. Chidambaram Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao Chairman, Board of Governors, IIT Delhi Director, IIT Delhi

8 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, established in 1963, is  developing close collaboration with industry through one of the Institutes of Technology in India created as centres exchange of personnel and undertaking consultancy of excellence for higher training, research and development in projects; science, engineering and technology.  developing strong collaboration links with other academic and research institutions in the country and abroad; OBJECTIVES  anticipating the technological needs for India and to plan  offering instruction in engineering and applied sciences at and prepare to cater to them; a level comparable to the very best in the world;  providing best possible facilities for postgraduate studies  developing continuing education programmes; and research;  preparing instructional resource material in the conventional  providing leadership in curriculum planning and laboratory as well as the audio-visual, the video and the computer- development; based modes; and  developing programmes for faculty development both for its  catering to the development of a culture for maintenance own staff and for teachers of other engineering institutions; and conservation.

Academic Statistics Faculty and Academic Staff (31.10.2020) 743 Current Enrolment (I Semester 2020-2021) Undergraduate Programmes 4,450 Postgraduate Programmes (M.Tech./M.S.(R)/M.Des./M.Sc./ 3,131 M.B.A./PG D.I.I.T.) Ph.D. 3,319 Total 10,900

Degrees Awarded (until 2019) (during 2019-20) Ph.D. 5,779 298 M.B.A. 1,790 116 M.S. (Research) 345 13 5-year Integrated M.Tech. in Bio-Chem. & Bio-Tech. 331 - M.Des. 368 20 M.Tech. 19282 522 5-year Dual Degree Programme (M.Tech. & B.Tech.) 1757 105 M.Tech. under Advanced Standing 23 10 5-year Integrated M.Tech. in Mathematics & Computing 511* 01 D.I.I.T. (PG) 151 01 PG D.I.I.T. (Naval Construction) 989 25 M.Sc. 3350 151 B.Tech. 17136 744 D.I.I.T. (UG) 20 13 Total 51,832 2,019 *Including 5-year Integrated Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Mathematics and Computer Applications.

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 9 Previous Convocations : Chief Guest No. Date Name of the Chief Guest

1st 3rd November, 1966 Dr. S. Radhakrishnan 2nd 16th Novembr, 1968 Smt. Indira Gandhi 3rd 27th October, 1969 Shri V.V. Giri 4th 16th November, 1970 Dr. V.K.R.V. Rao 5th 26th November, 1971 Shri Sidhartha Shankar Ray 6th 6th December, 1975 Prof. S. Nurul Hassan 7th 11th January, 1977 Shri Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed 8th 19th April, 1978 Shri Neelam Sanjiva Reddy 9th 9th December, 1978 Shri Morarji Desai 10th 9th December, 1979 Justice H.R. Khanna 11th 6th December, 1980 Prof. S. Nurul Hassan 12th 4th December, 1981 Dr. M.S. Swaminathan 13th 7th January, 1983 Shri Zail Singh 14th 20th January, 1984 Smt. Sheila Kaul 15th 8th December, 1984 Shri R. Venkataraman 16th 19th December, 1985 Shri Rajiv Gandhi 17th 29th December, 1986 Shri P.V. Narasimha Rao 18th 21st January, 1988 Shri K.C. Pant 19th 4th February, 1989 Prof. M.G.K. Menon 20th 18th August, 1989 Shri Sam Pitroda 21st 27th July, 1990 Shri Nanubhai Amin 22nd 26th July, 1991 Dr. Raja Ramanna 23rd 24th July, 1992 Dr. S.Z. Kasim 24th 23rd July, 1993 Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam 25th 13th August, 1994 Dr. K.R. Narayanan 26th 12th August, 1995 Dr. Manmohan Singh 27th 9th August, 1996 Shri S.R. Bommai 28th 9th August, 1997 Prof. Y.K. Alagh 29th 8th August, 1998 Shri Keshub Mahindra 30th 14th August, 1999 Dr. R.A. Mashelkar 31st 12th August, 2000 Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi 32nd 11th August, 2001 Shri N.R. Narayana Murthy 33rd 10th August, 2002 Dr. R. Chidambaram

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34th 9th August, 2003 Shri Bhairon Singh Shekhawat 35th 14th August, 2004 Shri Rajat Gupta 36th 13th August, 2005 Dr. Kiran Mazumdar - Shaw 37th 12th August, 2006 Shri Azim Premji 38th 11th August, 2007 Shri Montek Singh Ahluwalia 39th 9th August, 2008 Dr. R.K. Pachauri 40th 8th August, 2009 Shri Kapil Sibal 40th 9th August, 2009 Dr. G. Madhavan Nair 41st 7th August, 2010 Shri Mohammad Hamid Ansari 41st 8th August, 2010 Prof. Goverdhan Mehta 42nd 13th August, 2011 Dr. K. Kasturirangan 42nd 14th August, 2011 Shri M.S. Banga 43rd 28th October, 2012 Shri S. Ramadorai 44th 9th November, 2013 Shri Pranab Mukherjee 45th 1st November, 2014 Prof. George F. Smoot 46th 31st October, 2015 Dr. Raghuram G. Rajan 47th 6th November, 2016 Prof. C.N.R. Rao 48th 4th November, 2017 Shri. Ram Nath Kovind 49th 3rd November, 2018 Ms. Anu Aga 50th 2nd November, 2019 Dr. K. Sivan

Previous Convocations : Guests of Honour No. Date Name of the Guest of Honour 49th 3rd November, 2018 Prof. Rama Govindarajan, Mrs. Rashmi Nagabhushan, Ms. Mansi Madan Tripathy, Dr. Swati Basu, Mr. Sanjay Chatrath, Prof. Pankaj Jalote, Dr. Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Prof. K.R. Parthasarthy 50th 2nd November, 2019 Mr. Raghu Hari Dalmia, Dr. Seema Vinayak, Mr. Sunil Bhaskaran, Mr. M.S. Unnikrishnan, Mr. Thomas Varghese, Dr. Ashvini Kumar, Dr. Manish Gupta, Prof. Ritabrata Munshi

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 11 DIRECTOR’S REPORT

Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi Ji, Chief ‘International Day of Yoga’ received an overwhelming Guest of the Function, Hon’ble Minister of Education response at the UN. In a first, a total of 177 Nations Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank Ji and Hon’ble across the world came together and passed the Minister of State for Education Shri Sanjay Dhotre Ji, resolution to declare 21st June as the ‘International Guests of Honour, Dr. R. Chidambaram, Chairman, Day of Yoga at the UN.’ Shri Narendra Modi is a Board of Governors, Members of the Board and the ‘People’s Leader’, dedicated to solving their problems Senate, Degree recipients, Distinguished Guests, and improving their well-being. Nothing is more Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen. satisfying to him than being amongst the people, sharing their joys and alleviating their sorrows. His It is a great pleasure for me to welcome you all to this powerful ‘personal connect’ with the people on special Diamond Jubilee Year and the 51st Annual ground is complemented by a strong online presence. Convocation of Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, He is known as India’s most techno-savvy leader, and to present to you a brief report highlighting our using the web to reach people and bring about activities, achievements and future plans. We are change in their lives. He is very active on social media highly honoured and pleased to have with us Shri platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Narendra Modi Ji, Hon’ble Prime Minister, who has Sound Cloud, Linkedin, Weibo and other forums. kindly consented to be the Chief Guest on this solemn Beyond politics, Shri Narendra Modi enjoys writing. occasion. He has authored several books, including poetry. Shri Narendra Modi was sworn-in as India’s Prime He begins his day with Yoga, which strengthens his Minister on 30th May 2019, marking the start of his body and mind and instils the power of calmness second term in office. The first ever Prime Minister in an otherwise fast-paced routine. On behalf of to be born after Independence, Shri Modi has the Institute, I extend a very warm welcome to Shri previously served as the Prime Minister of India from Narendra Modi Ji. 2014 to 2019. He also has the distinction of being the longest serving Chief Minister of Gujarat with We are grateful to Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank Ji his term spanning from October 2001 to May 2014. and Shri Sanjay Dhotre Ji for kindly agreeing to be the Guests of Honour on this solemn occasion. They PM Modi has been conferred various honours have always extended their guidance and support in including the highest civilian honour of Saudi Arabia the various activities for the Institute from time to time Sash of King Abdulaziz. Shri Modi has been also which have led us to meet our goals. On behalf of been conferred the top awards of Russia (The Order the Institute, I extend a very warm welcome to them. of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First), Palestine (Grand Collar of the State of Palestine), Afghanistan I also take this opportunity to welcome Dr. R. (Amir Amanullah Khan Award), UAE (Zayed Medal) Chidambaram, Former Principal Scientific Advisor, and Maldives (Rule of Nishan Izzuddeen). In 2018, Government of India, who has recently taken over as PM received the prestigious Seoul Peace Prize for the Chairman, Board of Governors of IIT Delhi. He his contribution to peace and development. Shri is a renowned Indian Physicist and is known for his Narendra Modi’s clarion call for marking a day as integral role in India’s nuclear weapons program; he

12 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 coordinated test preparation for the Pokhran-I (1975) what is to be called IIT, imbibed and nurtured all of and Pokhran-II (1998). We look forward to and seek these qualities and became a Center of Excellence his guidance, support and direction to excel and for education, research and innovation. The five take the institution to higher level of excellence and older IITs followed initially a similar trajectory achievement. with each one of these IITs being mentored by a At the outset, I am pleased to share with you all specific country. IIT Delhi had UK as the founding that this year is something special for all of us that partner. IITs were set up as undergraduate centric our Institute is celebrating Diamond Jubilee Year institutions. They soon became the finest institutions starting from 16th August, 2020. Diamond Jubilee in the world for UG education. Since 1990’s, IITs is indeed a milestone for any institution and we wish started to focus more and more on research and to thank Hon’ble Vice President of India and Hon’ble at IIT Delhi we now have more post-graduate Minister for Education for inaugurating the year-long students than the undergraduates. In the QS World Diamond jubilee celebrations on August 17, 2020. rankings, specifically for Research Impact, IIT Delhi I congratulate every IIT Delhi community member, has consistently been ranked among the top 100 students, alumni, staff and faculty for achieving this institutions in the world for the citations/faculty data. unique milestone. Though, may be young overall, we Something else has also changed in the last decade. are still one of the oldest institutions of independent Many IIT Delhi students started to stay back in India India. We have a legacy of quality education and and contribute directly to the national growth. In the research; and we strive to take this legacy forward last 5 years, for example, less than 5% of IIT Delhi with a tangible action plan in the next decade. students have opted for careers abroad. Thanks to Diamond Jubilee Logo and Strategy Document of the our alumni, IIT Delhi has become a world leader and Institute were also released during the inauguration ranked #1 in India and among the top 10 institutions of this event. Our alumni and faculty teams worked in the world for entrepreneurship. This rank is closely with Mckinsey (which worked pro bono on this specifically for producing Unicorn founders. IIT Delhi project) to put together the 2030 Strategy document alumni have founded a total of 15 unicorns till date. for the institute which was released by the Hon’ble Of the 21 unicorns that are India based (as on August Vice President of India on August 17, 2020. An 2020) 8 have IIT Delhi Alumni as co-founders. implementation team is also formed involving our It is a great pleasure and privilege for me to share alumni for the execution of the measures outlined in that IIT Delhi, in the MHRD’s National Institutional the Strategy document. Rankings Framework, is ranked 2nd in Engineering Five older IITs were created during 1951 (IIT category and 3rd overall for 2020. In addition, the Kharagpur) to 1961 (IIT Delhi) as modern temples management school of IIT Delhi is ranked 8th by of learning after independence. IIT Delhi, being the NIRF for 2020. Among the other domestic the youngest of the older 5 IITs, also had the rankings, IIT Delhi is ranked 1st in the India Today’s characteristics which are usually ascribed to the Best Colleges Survey and 2nd in the Outlook’s youngest child in the family; highly social & energetic, Ranking. In QS Global subject rankings for the confident, creative and good at problem solving. category Engineering & Technology, IIT Delhi has IIT Delhi, starting with the founding Director Prof. improved its ranking from 61 last year to 47 this R.N. Dogra, who literally laid the foundation for year. IIT Delhi is among the only two Engineering

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 13 institutions in the country ranked among the top 50 donations received in the institute. We thank all our in the world for Engineering & Technology by QS. alumni, industries and other funding agencies for the IIT Delhi has also consistently been ranked among trust reposed in us. Our research is also showing its the top 100 institutions in the world for the research impact on the field. During the COVID times alone, impact, based on the citations/faculty data published IIT Delhi gave many technologies to the country by QS as part of its World University rankings. IIT and the world for prevention (over 4.5 million high Delhi is also ranked # 1 in the country for Startup quality PPEs in the last 6 months), detection (world’s founders among alumni and ranked among the top most affordable RT-PCR test which is being used in 10 institutions in the world for Unicorn (Billion dollar the country) and treatment (scientifically validating valued companies) founders. the effectiveness of Indian traditional medicines) As reported earlier, IIT Delhi was awarded the in the nation’s fight against COVID. We have also Institute of Eminence Status in 2018 for a period of developed close linkages with our strategic agencies five years and the institute has undertaken numerous in the last 3 years. Over 100 faculty members and initiatives in this regard. IIT Delhi is among the first 150 Ph.D. students are currently working at IIT Delhi 3 Institutions recognized by Govt. of India as an on a variety of issues related to providing advise and Institution of Eminence in 2018 after an elaborate technology to the agencies concerned with national screening process. Kudos to the entire faculty security. fraternity, students and staff for their outstanding The collective vision of IIT Delhi is to be a leading contributions leading to the IoE recognition for academic institution in the world by advancing the institute and the progress being made on the knowledge through high impact research and initiatives of the Institute under this status. We stand impart quality education to produce technologically on the shoulders of alumni, the retired faculty, the adept and socially conscious professionals, and past leadership and the ex-employees of the Institute by catalyzing innovation-driven entrepreneurship, as well as our well-wishers. thereby addressing strategic goals of the nation and It is these collective efforts that catapulted IIT the needs of global society. Our endeavour is to raise Delhi into an unprecedented growth path in the the bar and set higher benchmarks for ourselves and past 5 years. In the last 5 years, IIT Delhi faculty for the rest of the country. and students have written over 10000 high quality In the Financial Year 2019-20, the Institute received papers, filed over 500 patents, executed roughly 150 R611.69 Crores as grant (R541.60 Crores for industry projects and obtained over R1300 Crores Recurring Expenditure and R70.00 Crores for of research funding from competitive grants from Non-recurring Expenditure) from Ministry of all over the world. We have also created 18 new Education. The Institute generated about 16.17% Centers of Excellence with funding from alumni, of the actual recurring expenditure through internal industries and government agencies in the last 5 revenue generation from fees, sponsored research, years. These numbers are anywhere from 2X to 4X consultancies and continuing education programmes.. higher compared to any previous 5-year periods since the inception of the institute. Also, our alumni RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES commitments for fund donations to the institute in the I would like to emphasize that research is core to last one year exceeded the last 55 year total value of IIT Delhi’s culture and our faculty members and

14 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 research community have published 2,470 research organizations from Austria, Australia, Belarus, papers in the last one year. In the last financial year, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Ethiopia, European a total of 316 sponsored projects were sanctioned Commission, France, Finland, Germany, Holland, to the institute with a total value of R344 Crores. Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Kuwait, Industrial consultancy is another significant area of Latvia, Netherland, Nepal, Poland, Portugal, Russia, activity in the Institute. The nature and extent of the Slovenia, Sweden, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan, industrial consultancy projects undertaken by the Tunisia, UK, USA, etc. Major research activities Institute is an index of its credibility with the industry have also been undertaken in the areas of national and other institutions. In the last financial year, a importance. The Institute has undertaken in total 20 total of 345 consultancy projects were sanctioned new Collaborative Sponsored Research Projects with a total value of R35.95 Crores including 67 with International partners during the last one year. projects undertaken through FITT. Institute also IIT Delhi is also the National coordinator for the received 27 high value projects valued more than flagship Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA) program of the R1 Crore each. The most prominent projects include, Ministry of Education, which was originally conceived establishment of Sophisticated Analytical and at IIT Delhi. UBA is currently active in more than Technical Help Institute (SATHI), DST - IITD Energy 2600 higher educational institutes and engaged Storage Platform on Batteries (ESPOB), creation in more than 14000 villages. It is managed by IIT of Technology Innovation Hub (TIH) on Cobotics, Delhi through 45 Regional Coordinating Institutes, Design and Demonstration of Sustainable Building located at least one in every state, and 13 subject Infrastructure under CoESI and Enhancing India’s expert groups. UBA is now a major initiative of the Policy Analysis Capabilities to Meet Energy and Ministry of Education, Govt. of India, which provides Environment Challenges with Children’s Investment an opportunity for faculty and students of higher Fund Foundation, UK. educational institutions to work with the people of IIT Delhi has signed 30 Research MoUs with industry rural India and identify development challenges and government bodies this year including some of and evolving appropriate solutions for accelerating them being international in nature. sustainable growth in villages. The Institute is actively involved in collaborative The Institute has signed five major collaborative MoUs research with national and international organizations with (i) Open Health Systems Laboratory (OHSL), and universities to remain at the forefront of scientific USA, (ii) Indian space Research Organization (ISRO), and technological developments. The institute is Bengaluru, (iii) National Highways Authority of India running 25 joint research projects between faculties (NHAI), New Delhi, (iv) Master card Technology Pvt. of IIT Delhi, University college of London, UK; Ltd., Pune (v) Institute of Liver & Biliary Sciences Clemson University, USA and National Chiao Tung (ILBS), New Delhi in addition to 25 project related University (NCTU), Taiwan under Multi-Institutional MoUs. Interdisciplinary Research Programme (MFIRP) To highlight some of these major research initiatives initiated by us. and collaborations in detail - Technology Innovation A large number of collaborative Research Projects Hubs (TIH) on Cobotics sponsored by the Department are under operation with various institutes and of Science and Technology (DST) at New Delhi with

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 15 funds to the tune of R170 Crores for a five year period Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, in collaboration for carrying out research in multi-disciplinary areas with ICMR, has initiated a Centre of Excellence (CoE) of Robot and Human interactions; Sophisticated on Medical Devices to accelerate innovative medical Analytical & Technical Help Institute (SATHI) technologies and products. The primary focus of the sponsored by the Department of Science and CoE is to establish a single-point facility that can Technology towards augmentation of infrastructure help translate concepts to products by developing facilities for pursuing cutting-edge research with a design, limited production, and testing facility (as funding support of R125 Crores for five years; an MoU per CE/ISO certification). with the Open Health Systems Laboratory (OHSL), A state-of-the-art equipment capable of providing USA to set up an International Centre of Excellence continuous core samples of soil without cross- for Computational and Biomedical Sciences contamination used in environmental site R (ICECBS) with financial support of 10 Crores for a characterization has been procured by Indian period of five years to carry out advanced research Institute of Technology, Delhi through a research in the areas of Cancer Biology & Therapy, Ayurveda, project sponsored by the Ministry of Environment, Drug Development & Discovery, and Reconfigurable Forest & Climate Change. This equipment is first of its Computing & Hybrid Cloud C. kind in India and is typically used for high resolution United National World Food Programme (UNWFP) site characterization. has signed an MoU to support the project related to During the period October 2019-20, 146 patents & food supply chain management and storage. The IPs were filed and 18 licensing deals were signed by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has the Institute. In addition, 86 Faculty Interdisciplinary partnered with IIT Delhi for collaborative research to Research Projects (FIRP) and 89 multi-institutional improve the road infrastructure ecosystem. Towards FIRP projects with All Indian Institute of Medical this, an MoU has been signed on 6th August 2020. Sciences (AIIMS), Indian Council of Agricultural A Centre of Excellence (CoE) on Advance Data Research (ICAR), National Institute of Immunology Management System (ADMS) for Highways will be (NII) and All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) , setup at IIT Delhi with the financial support of R15 supported so far, to enhance inter-disciplinary Crores for a period of five years. research culture within the institute and also our M/s. MASTERCARD Technology Private Ltd. Pune connect with other institutions. Also, 19 Student has signed an MoU for research engagement in Start-up Action and 32 Discover & Learn projects the area of Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, have been supported to date. Data Science & Analytics, etc. towards Payment Technology aspects. Lastly, Institute of Liver Biliary Institute is successfully implementing mandated Sciences (ILBS), New Delhi, and Indian Institute research under DRDO-Joint Advanced Technology of Technology Delhi have signed an MoU on 22nd Research Centre at IIT Delhi. September 2020 to pursue multi-disciplinary research Under the NIDHI-Seed Support System (NIDHI- in a few focused areas concerning Liver diseases and SSS) program of DST, introduced in the year 2017, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Languages Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (ML), Sensor Development, Computational Biology, (FITT) unit at IIT Delhi provides funding to incubatee Big data etc. start-ups up to R1 crore. So far nine incubatees

16 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 have been supported by seed funding to the tune of from the alumni of the 1969 batch. R 3.24 crores. The BioNest, program of BIRAC, has During the 8th edition of the POSOCO Power System R provided seed grant up to 55 Lakhs to three biotech Awards (PPSA) award, jointly implemented by Power start-ups. FITT has been promoting the Women System Operations Corporation Ltd (POSOCO) Entrepreneurship and Empowerment (WEE) program and FITT, 15 awardees were shortlisted in Doctoral supported by the Department of Science and category and 15 candidates in the Master’s category. Technology. WEE classes were conducted during PPSA is awarded under the CSR initiatives with the weekends at IIT Delhi with the global industry activities in the area of power system and its related experts mentoring the woman entrepreneurs. During fields. The Doctoral awardees received a cash the 4th phase of this WEE program 14 women were prize of R1,00,000/- each and the Master awardees shortlisted for the award. received a cash prize of R40,000/- each. FITT, IIT Delhi has partnered with Invest India as the FITT and IIT Delhi have created a Section 8 company implementing agency for the Capacity development at the I-TEC, IIT Delhi’s Sonipat Campus under the workshops for women entrepreneurs, under the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) of the NITI AAYOG. “WING” initiative. The program intends to support The company, AIC IIT Delhi Sonipat Innovation and provide guidance to women entrepreneurs Foundation, will receive support from Atal Innovation through 30 Workshops across North India. FITT Mission to create a world class incubation facility has been selected as the Regional Technology with over 10,000 sq.ft. of space and state-of-the-art Transfer Office by BIRAC to cater to the IP and Tech physical infrastructure, in terms of capital equipment Transfer requirements of start-ups in North India. and operating facilities for incubatee start-ups. This program under the National Biopharma Mission has approved a grant-in-aid of R9 Crores for a period Sona Comstar has partnered with FITT and IIT Delhi of 3 years. FITT, IIT Delhi has partnered with BIRAC to support innovative solutions from start-ups that for the social immersion program SPARSH. A total of provide solutions of Safe, Clean and Eco-friendly 10 fellows will be supported with a monthly fellowship Mobility urban mobility. The program shall provide of R50 thousands per month for 18 months and a unencumbered funding support of up to R80 Lakhs grant of up to R5 Lakhs for prototype development. per start-up. The Deferred Placement Policy (DPP) offered by IIT The Faculty Innovation and Research-driven Delhi is being implemented by FITT for students who Entrepreneurship (FIRE) program has been launched opt out of placement in order to incubate their start- to support faculty members through funding and up ideas at TBIU. In the year 2019-20, 12 applicants business mentoring to develop technology-based have been shortlisted under DPP. In the year 2020, products and create enterprises. The FIRE program Mr. Vishwanath S. Hebbi was selected for the “Batch will allow faculty members to take their technology of 1969 innovation Fellow (Award)” on the proposal closer to market through their own start-ups where titled “Low Cost Therapy for Snakebite Treatment they can dedicate full time to their ventures. They can for Rural India”. The award is managed by FITT avail a funding of up to R50 Lakhs while also being with an aim to promote the spirit of innovation and able to avail sabbatical (1 year) and lien (2 additional entrepreneurship among the graduating students at years) from the institute. Three FIRE proposals have IIT Delhi. It is set up by the special funds received been sanctioned in the first instance to start with.

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 17 FITT has signed five major MoUs with viz (i) Indigram PPEs were supplied by IIT Delhi incubated start-ups. Labs foundation to support start-ups in the Agritech CORPORATE RELATIONS sector, (ii) STPI NOIDA to support start-ups in the Electronics and Information technology domains, Established in the year 2016, Office of Corporate (iii) Engineers India Limited to support start-ups Relations (CR) has been actively strengthening the with funding and mentoring under the EngSUI relations between IIT Delhi and industry. Backed program, (iv) Yuva Bharti Trust to set up an extension by a team of professionals with varied industry incubator in central Delhi and (v) National Technical experience, CR is actively engaged in catalyzing Research Organization (NTRO) for projects in the transfer of knowledge and emerging technologies area of camera development (primarily custom from academia to industry. CR leverages the power of image sensors) and processing (egAI) for intelligence multiple-society connect initiatives to catalyze cross- related operations. disciplinary learning avenues and cross-cultural Since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic globally, solution building. Corporate Relations aims to foster a IIT Delhi has aligned itself for the immediate needs of sustainable environment for innovation, promotion of the society and health care. I would like to highlight entrepreneurship, and towards building a responsive the significant contributions made by the research ecosystem to meet these demands in the global community at IIT Delhi in the fight against the global marketplace catering to various worldwide industries. pandemic. Researchers at IIT Delhi Kusuma School CR team has helped the institute in establishing of Biological Sciences (KSBS) have developed a critical research collaborations (through MoUs) in detection assay for COVID-19 which has now been past one year. Agilent Technologies has signed an approved by ICMR. The Corosure kit for coronavirus MoU with IIT Delhi to set up an incubator site for testing has been launched by the Hon’ble Minister of bioanalytical science to support research. Microsoft Education. The Corosure kit, priced at R399, is the continued its association with IIT Delhi by supporting cheapest Coronavirus testing kit yet in the market two COVID19 research projects. Both projects focus and is approved by the Drug Control General of India on timely detection of the coronavirus using RT-PCR (DCGI) and the Indian Council of Medical Research. and ELISA assay techniques. Mitsui signed an MoU ETEX is an IIT Delhi start-up that has launched an with the Institute and has funded a project on study affordable and effective face mask, KAWACH, for of Electric Vehicles, through their Mitsui Environment protecting and safeguarding people from the risk Engineering Trust funds. Dholera Industrial City of COVID-19. IIT Delhi has invited proposals for Development Limited (DICDL) signed an MoU to supercomputer-based COVID-19 research while carry on three research projects in Geothermal, P offering R1 Crore worth of computational time Electric and Road pavement, Electrical battery energy completely free. storage, Foundation design Tech, and Blockchain. IIT Delhi Researchers have Developed Web-Based Huawei Technologies India signed an MoU to carry Covid-19 Dashboard ‘PRACRITI’- PRediction and on two research projects on Unified multimodal Assessment Of CoRona Infections and Transmission index and Multi language SPO Extraction for KG. In India. IIT Delhi researchers have developed Corporate Relations Team also helped accelerate affordable PPE coverall that reaches adequate levels and expand collaborations for the COVID-19 of breathability. A total of 4.5 Million export quality related research, thus allowing our experts to move

18 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 forward quickly with high priority projects - including Delhi namely Aerogram and Kriya Labs. indigenously developed test kits, infection proof ReNew Power Centre of Excellence for Energy and fabric, face shields to name a few. The team has Environment, IIT Delhi felicitated the winners of the actively engaged and collaborated with Principal 2nd Annual Sustainability Leadership Award at a Scientific Advisor’s Office, CII, 45+ Faculties and IIT ceremony held on 19th February 2020.The awards, Delhi Incubated Start-ups in the process. The team instituted jointly by the ReNew Centre of Excellence has reached out to 100+ companies for possible (CoE) for Energy and Environment and the Indian collaboration opportunities and eventually curated Institute of Technology, Delhi (IITD) recognizes a total of 37 projects spanning across Support demonstrated action and exemplary leadership by Equipment (14 projects) to Diagnostics (10 projects) the students of IIT Delhi with respect to climate to Therapeutics (13 projects). As a result, the team change/sustainability and environment with a view was able to raise upwards of R 7 Crores funds for to enhance awareness and interest among students. activities and collaborations related to COVID-19. Dharampal Satyapal Group (DS Group) has entered Collaborations for the future are already in place, to into an MoU with IIT Delhi to establish DS Centre of name a few, Micron India has signed a broader intent Excellence for Entrepreneurship Development that of partnership under their URAM initiative and will will focus on developing a structured ecosystem for be funding research projects related to COVID-19 budding entrepreneurs and aims to develop itself as a under their CSR initiatives. Micron also invited IIT credible global entity on entrepreneurship. The centre Delhi students to participate in an international aims to nurture Entrepreneurship with training and robotics challenge. The student team from IIT Delhi mentorship as important internal activities; it will also won this international UV Robot Design Challenge, nourish relationships with the industry and investment under the guidance of Dr. Sunil Jha. Michael and community. Talented and emerging entrepreneurs Susan Dell Foundation has come forward to support will be identified through an open competition. The those IIT Delhi students with digital devices and selected teams will be offered space at the Centre data connectivity that are impacted by the prevailing as well as administrative support and mentorship COVID-19 pandemic and do not have required to ensure their success. The CoE will offer grants access to online learning resources. and supports for grassroots level organizations IIT Delhi has in total 18 Centre of Excellences to promote entrepreneurship through community- including the 5 newly established Centres of based interventions, with the long-term expectation Excellence with industry collaborations. is to make start-ups financially self-sufficient. DS Minister of State for Education inaugurated the Group has also made a contribution to establishing exhibition on clean air technologies organised by “DS Chair of Artificial Intelligence (AI)” to promote Centre of Excellence for Research in Clean Air excellence and leadership in the field of Artificial (CERCA) at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Intelligence and to facilitate wider and deeper on 25th February, 2020. The exhibition showcased interactions between the industry and academia. clean air technologies developed by IIT Bombay, J.K. Paper has principally approved the proposal IIT Ropar, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad and IIT Delhi. IIT for establishing a CoE in the Packaging for a period Delhi showcased the work it had carried out in the of 3 years. In the near term, the Centre will identify area of clean air through start-ups incubated at IIT talented researchers and emerging cutting edge

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 19 technologies in the field of packaging and encompass a Service, Autonomous Vehicles. The event was a number of projects pertaining to sustainable attended by Denso’s Vice President, Mr. Hiroyuki and environment friendly paper based packaging Wakabayashi, and various IIT Delhi faculty members. solutions. In the long term, the Centre will aim to It resulted in signing a project agreement with Prof. gradually establish itself as a credible, global entity Subodh Sharma (CSE) for the ‘Development of on Packaging. This Research and Development Smart Contracts driven Block Chain Applications’. Centre will equip J.K. Paper to be an established The research project will run for a period of 2 years. Packaging Solution Provider. The partnership is In February 2020, ‘Nano 2020 at IIT Delhi’ was subject to extent further based on the outcomes organized in the run-up to the 11th edition of from the CoE. “BENGALURU INDIA NANO 2020”, India’s biggest To foster the research collaboration, representatives nanotechnology event. It hosted the Industry- from Mehta Family Foundation, Zoomcar, Shell, and Academia Interaction while attendees getting a Twitter visited and held discussions the institute. CR glimpse of various research works of IIT Delhi team has also organized industry specific meets to scientists in the area of nanotechnology. facilitate the focused interaction among the industry In further industry collaborations, Tower Research representatives and institute’s researchers. In this Capital India Scholarship Award has been setup by series, Finland Day was organized in November Tower Research Capital as a merit scholarship of R2 2019 at IIT Delhi that consisted the delegation of Lakh per student per academic year for undergraduate The Permanent Secretary - Ministry of Economic students under their CSR program. An online Hacker Affairs and Employment, The Ambassador Designate Rank Test was conducted on November 6th, 2019, – Embassy of Finland, India, and other officials at IIT Delhi. Forty-eight students of 2nd and 3rd year from Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment, from Computer Science & Engineering, Mathematics Embassy of Finland, and Ministry of Education and and Electrical Engineering participated. Culture and Business Finland. Accompanying the Under the TCS Research Scholar programme, government officials was a delegation representing TCS has increased the stipend amounts for Junior the top 10 companies of Finland, namely City of Fellowship to R41,000 per month and Senior Tampere, IQM Finland Oy, Reaktor, Ramboll Finland Fellowship to R45,000 per month and added two more Oy, Quupa, Nokia, Kone and Fortum. The areas of scholars to the existing five scholars. technical collaboration included Imaging, Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Air Pollution. In the upcoming and planned activities, campaigns for Along with Industry Partnerships, there was also a the start-ups incubated at IIT Delhi will be conducted. discussion with The University of Tampere to hold An online event with JETRO (Japan External Trade joint programmes with IIT Delhi. The signing of the Organization) in the domain of automobile industry MOU is in progress. is planned. Denso Day was organized in January 2020, a INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT daylong event focused on setting technology The grants and funds are utilized in continuous collaborations and student recruitment. It included upgradation of the institute’s infrastructure, be it discussions and deliberations around three key academic blocks, research infrastructure, residential focus areas: FIoT: Factory IoT, MaaS: Mobility as facilities or recreational facilities for the residents of

20 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 the institute campus. Infrastructure development is a be utilized for creation of additional faculty and long continuous process, many of the current projects staff housing. were taken up a few years back and in their last For IIT Delhi’s Jhajjar Campus, which neighbours phase of completion. Among them, the construction AIIMS-Delhi’s Jhajjar campus, Government of of Nalanda Research Scholars Apartment Phase-I Haryana has also favourably considered to transfer was completed in all respects. The construction is 21 acres of land partly in exchange for land allotted in full swing for Engineering Blocks 99B and 99C, to us near Najafgarh drain. Research and Innovation Park and Indoor Sports Complex. New projects are being initiated and FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS approved for the construction of Diamond Jubilee IIT Delhi is backed up by a strong research Block (known as Academic Block 103), Sophisticated community, led by a faculty strength of 562 members. Analytical & Technical Help Institute (SATHI) building It is complimented by an additional research and at Sonepat campus for Central Research Facility. academic staff of 111 members that includes 72 World class research faculties are needed to be postdoctoral fellows. With the current sanctioned complemented with quality equipments. In this strength of 776 members, the institute aggressively regard, for the Central Research Facility at Sonepat looks to expand this strength in a phased manner campus, purchase and installation of equipment for the next five years. In the last year, the institute worth about R200 Crore have been undertaken under has made offers to 80 new faculty members and HEFA loans and IOE grants. 61 of them have already joined the institute. 20 In enhancement of housing capacity, a new Boys faculty members have also been appointed as Chair Hostel with 896 units, a new Girls Hostel with Faculty sponsored by alumni, industry and institute 320 units and additional Faculty Housing with 154 internal resources. units will be ready by the end of this financial year. Our faculty members are among the finest in the This will give a boost to much necessary housing country and are recognized internationally for requirements at the campus for both the students and their quality of research, teaching and curriculum faculty. Institute has further planned for additional development. They also contribute greatly for the 105 faculty apartments, redevelopment of a Boys development of the nation by being associated hostel with a capacity of 1450, redevelopment of with a large number of decision-making bodies, a Girls hostel with a capacity of 950 and 21 Type providing crucial guidance and advice on policy ‘C’ quarters for staff. Their construction is already matters and technical issues. Our distinguished being taken up under the IoE and EWS grants. In faculty colleagues continue to make a difference to addition, construction of Nalanda Research Scholars the world of Science, Engineering, Humanities and Apartments (Phase-II) is also being taken up through Management and continue to earn recognitions and HEFA loan. The DPRs of the new construction awards which bring glory to the Institute. Many of projects have already been submitted. them have been bestowed with honors, awards and In prospective developments, we are also happy to elected as Fellows of several professional national share that the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and international bodies during the last one year. (MOHUA) has favourably considered to allot 2.344 Some of the notable recognitions received by our acres of land at R.K. Puram (Sector - 3), which will faculty in the last one year include the following:

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 21 • Prof. Bhim Singh, Department of Electrical Engineering, has been elected Fellow of the Engineering has been declared as the winner Indian National Academy of Engineering. of the 2020 IEEE IAS Outstanding Educator/ • Prof. Jayadeva, Department of Electrical Mentor Award. Engineering, has been elected Fellow of the • Prof. Anurag S. Rathore Department of Chemical Indian National Academy of Engineering. Engineering has been named an Agilent • Prof. Suddhasatwa Basu, Department of Thought Leader in recognition of his leadership Chemical Engineering, Fellow of the Indian and contributions to the field of advanced National Academy of Engineering. methods for characterization of heterogeneity in biosimilar products. • Prof. Samaresh Das, CARE, has been awarded for the Institute for Smart Structures and Systems • Prof. Purnima Singh, Department of Humanities (ISSS, Department of Aerospace Engineering, & Social Sciences has been elected as President IISC), Young Scientist Award-2019. of the Psychological and Societal Development Division of the International Association of • Prof. Purnima Singh, Department of Humanities Applied Psychology. & Social Sciences, has been elected Fellow of National Academy of Psychology, India. • Prof. Suddhasatwa Basu, Department of • Prof. S.K. Koul, has been honoured with “IEEE Chemical Engineering has been elected as a Life Fellow”. fellow of “Royal Society of Chemistry”. • Prof. Abhisek Dixit, Department of Electrical • Prof. Bhim Singh, Professor of Department of Engineering, has been elected Fellow of the Electrical Engineering has been conferred the Institution of Engineers (India). INAE Outstanding Teacher Award 2020 by the Governing Council of the Academy of Indian • Prof. Kavya Dashora, Centre for Rural National Academy of Engineering. Development and Technology, has been awarded ‘Innovation in Food Award’ PETA, research • Prof. N.M. Anoop Krishnan of the Department outcome of developing Mockegg from plant of Civil Engineering, has been selected for the based sources. INAE Young Engineer Award 2020. • Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao, Director, IIT Delhi, has • Prof. Sumit Kumar Pramanick of the Department been invited to be a member of Editorial Advisory of Electrical Engineering has been selected for Board of Nano Letters, a very prestigious journal the INAE Young Engineer Award 2020. having impact factor of 12, for a period of three • Prof. Naveen Garg, Department of Computer years starting from January 1, 2020. Science & Engineering, has been elected Fellow • Prof. Saptrishi Mukherjee has been awarded The of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) • Prof. Kamal Kishore Pant, Department of Invitational Fellowship for Research in Japan. Chemical Engineering, has been elected Fellow • Prof. Sumitava Mukherjee has been selected of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. for the Award of Young Psychologist of the • Prof. Indra Narayan Kar, Department of Electrical National Academy of Psychology India for his

22 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 commendable contributions to psychology as a Physics and Prof. Samaresh Das, Centre for discipline and profession. Applied Research in Electronics (CARE), were • Prof. Dipti Ranjan Sahoo, Department of Civil jointly awarded the “Veena Arora Early Career Engineering, has been elected Fellow of the Research Award” instituted by our alumnus Institution of Engineers (India)’. Mr. Neeraj Arora. • Prof. Richa Kumar, Department of Humanities • Prof. Saptirishi Mukherjee, Department of & Social Sciences has won The Malcolm & Humanities & Social Sciences, has received Adiseshiah Trust’s National Award for outstanding the Award for “Quantitative Social Sciences social scientists below the age of 45 years. category (Game Theory)” from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) under DST. • Prof. Abhisek Dixit, Department of Electrical Engineering, has been elected fellow of The • Prof. Sreedevi Upadhyayula, Department of Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Chemical Engineering has been awarded Engineers “IETE”. “Innovation Award 2018-2018” for K-Model: Quick and Accurate Prediction of Crude Oil • Prof. M. Balakrishnan, Computer Science Blend Compatibility and Blend Optimization Engineering, was awarded the “Sulochana and of N-Number of Crude Oils from Secretary, Colonel A. Krishnaswami VrC VSM Faculty Government of India, Ministry of Petroleum & Lifetime Research Award” for overall research Natural Gas. contribution. The award was instituted by our distinguished alumnus Mr. K. Ananth Krishnan • Prof. Shashank Deep, Department of Chemistry has been elected fellow of “Fellow of the Royal • Prof. Amit Kumar, Computer Science Engineering, Society of Chemistry” (FRSC). was awarded the “Prof. PCP Bhatt Faculty Research Award” for Basic Research. The award • Prof. Kavya Dashora has been awarded “SRBS was instituted by our distinguished alumnus Women Scientist Award 2020”by Society for Mr. K. Ananth Krishnan. Research in Biological Sciences in recognition of • Prof. Ashwini Kumar Agrawal, Department of 15 years of her outstanding research and teaching Textile & Fibre Engineering, was awarded the in the field of agriculture, nanotechnology and “Prof K.L. Chopra Faculty Research Award” for rural development in India and globally. Applied Research. The award was instituted by our • Prof. Vasant Matsagar, Department of Civil distinguished alumnus Mr. K. Ananth Krishnan. Engineering has joined editorial board of the • Prof. Ashwini K. Agrawal, Professor of Department Structures and Buildings journal published by of Textile and Fibre Engineering has been the Institution of Civil Engineers (UK). He has conferred the “Eminent Engineering Personality” also been elected as a Fellow of the Institution by the Institution of Engineers (India) on of Engineers (India). the occasion of 33rd National Convention of • Prof. Abhisek Dixit, Department of Electrical Textile Engineers held at Ahmedabad, February Engineering, has joined the editorial board of 20-21, 2020. IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials • Prof. Rajendra Singh Dhaka, Department of Reliability (TDMR).

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 23 • Prof. (Ms.) Purnima Singh, Department of the Flagship journal of the Indian Sociological Humanities & Social Sciences, has been selected Society published by Sage. as Editor-in-Chief of Psychological Studies • Prof. Nomesh Bolia, Department of Mechanical published by Springer. Engineering, has been nominated for the DAAD • Prof. Ashok K. Ganguli, Department of Chemistry, ‘Research Stays 2020’ programme, where he will has been elected as Vice President of the be hosted by UDE (Germany) for the summer Chemical Research Society of India, (Indian to pursue research on reverse logistics of Institute of Science Bangalore) for 2020-2023. EV batteries. • Prof. Sagnik Dey, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences • Prof. Sanjeev Sanghi, Applied Mechanics has joined Atmospheric Environment (Elsevier Department has been selected as a member Journal) as Associate Editor, and joined Editorial of the editorial board of Proceedings of the Board of the journal Scientific Reports (Nature). Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy. • Prof. Rajendra Singh Dhaka, Department of Physics has been elected as National Core- • Prof. Shalini Gupta, Department of Chemical committee member of Indian National Young Engineering has been awarded the ‘National Academy of Science (INYAS) in Physics. award for young women showing excellence • Prof. Swades De, Department of Electrical through application of technology, for societal Engineering has been selected for the Shri benefits’, instituted by DST. Om Prakash Bhasin Award 2019 in the field of • Ms. Neha Singh Ph.D. scholar with Prof. Amit Electronics and Information Technology. Mehndiratta at CBME has been awarded • Prof. Jayan J. Thomas, Department of Humanities “Women Excellence Award” by the All India & Social sciences has been awarded the first Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh China-India Visiting Scholars Fellowship 2020. (Uttarakhand) under the aegis of Society of This is a fellowship instituted jointly by Ashoka Young Biomedical Scientists (SYBS), India for University and China-India Foundation. her valuable contribution in the field of Science • Prof. Shashank Deep, Department of Chemistry, & Technology and coming out with new and has been elected as a fellow of Royal Society innovative ideas which are beneficial for the of Biology (FRSB). human society.” The work was carried out by Ms. Neha during her Ph.D. research at IIT Delhi. • Prof. Rajendra Singh Dhaka and Prof. Saswata Bhattacharya, Department of Physics; Prof. • Prof. Arpan K. Kar, Department of Management (Ms.) Shalini Gupta, Department of Chemical Studies has been awarded second place in India Engineering; and Prof. (Ms.) Mani Mehra, for the prestigious “B.K. Birla Distinguished Department of Mathematics have been selected Research Scholar Awards for Social Science as Life Members of The National Academy of and Management 2019”. Sciences India. • Prof. Vibha Arora, Department of Humanities • Prof. Anupam Dewan, Department of Applied & Social Sciences has been invited to join Mechanics has joined as an Associate Editor, the Editorial Board of Sociological Bulletin, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical

24 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Memorial Award”, 2019 by the Council of the Engineering Science. Indian Chemical Society. • Prof. Samrat Mukhopadhyay, Department of • Prof. Bhim Singh, Professor of Department Textile & Fibre Engineering has been selected as of Electrical Engg. has been conferred the the Chairman of the Board of Academic Affairs Institution of Engineers (India), Delhi State of the ten institutes of IIHT (Indian Institute of Centre Eminent Engineering Personalities with Handloom Technology, Central sector IIHTs “Eminent Engineer Award for the year 2020” for are under administrative control of Ministry distinguished services in Engineering Profession. of Textiles, Government of India and State • Prof. Sunil K. Khare, Department of Chemistry, sector IIHTs are under administrative control of has been elected as Vice President of the respective state government and bodies) spread Biotech Research Society of India, and Executive throughout the country. Board Member for India in Asian Federation of • Prof. Virendra K. Vijay, Centre for Rural Biotechnology for 2020-2021. Development & Technology (CRDT), has been nominated for Academic Committee of Indian HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT Naval Academy (INA) Kerala for two years w.e.f. Staff recruitments have also been carried out 23.06.2020. at different levels during the period as per the • Prof. Prabal Talukdar, Professor, Department of Recruitment Rules of the Institute to support and Mechanical Engg. and Vice-Chairman, GATE strengthen the departments centres, schools and has been selected as a Associate Editor, ASME administrative units with suitable manpower in their Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering teaching, research and administrative activities. Applications, in the month of April, 2020. During the period, 32 offers were issued and 29 have • Prof. (Ms.) Dhanya C.T., Department of Civil joined the Institute. Staff members were deputed Engg, has been appointed as an Associate Editor for training in their specialized areas to upgrade and of the Journal of Earth System Science published update their subject knowledge.. by Springer. ERP development has progressed on many fronts • Prof. Sayan Ranu, Department of Computer like development of many core modules including Science & Engineering and Prof. Manan Suri, Accounts, Academics, IRD Accounts, Stores & Department of Electrical Engineering have been Purchase and Hospital, which are under various selected as Associate Members of the Indian stages of development and implementation. During Academy of Sciences, Bangalore. the pandemic phase, ERP has also contributed on many fronts like Developing Online System for No • Prof. Arpan Kumar Kar, Department of Dues for employees and students, Student On- Management Studies has been elected as Editor Boarding system, network services and various in Chief by Elsevier (information science unit) survey modules for faculty and staff. to lead a new journal “International Journal of Information Management Data Insights”. ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES/PROGRAMMES • Prof. Ashok K Ganguli, Department of Chemistry, All the above achievements are out of context until we has been nominated for “Professor J.N. Mukherjee reflect upon our student strength and their academic

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 25 excellence. IIT Delhi has in total 29 academic units Social Sciences. At undergraduate level (admission - 15 departments, 8 centres and 6 schools. A new through JEE Advanced), two new programs have School of Artificial Intelligence (ScAI) has been been introduced: (i) B.Tech. in Engineering and established this year and will admit Ph.D. students Computational Mechanics Programme in Department from Semester II, 2020-21. of Applied Mechanics Department, and (ii) B.Tech. in As of Academic Year 2020-2, these academic units Materials Engineering in the Department of Materials offer a total of 13 B.Tech. and 3 Integrated B.Tech./M. Science and Engineering. Tech. (Dual Degree)) programs, PhD Degree in Additional programs are under active consideration all academic units, 40 M.Tech. programs, 14 M.S. and development at various stages of discussion in (Research) streams, 5 M.Sc. disciplines, 3 MBA the Institute, such as a proposed M. Tech. in Artificial programs, Master of Design and PGDIIT (Naval Intelligence and Data Science, a proposed M.Tech. in Construction). IIT Delhi also offers Joint Ph.D. Electric Transportation, a proposed Masters in Public Degree programmes in collaboration with two top Policy, a proposed Bachelor of Design, a proposed partner universities, the University of Queensland in B.Tech. (Design), and a proposed B.Tech. in Energy Australia, and with National Chiao Tung University, Engineering. The curricula and other parameters Taiwan. Recently, a Joint PG Diploma with NITIE, of these programs are being worked out and after Mumbai has been started. adequate internal scrutiny and also external review, they are proposed to be rolled out in due course. In each academic year, IIT Delhi teaches around 1670 courses taken by the students, in addition to IIT Delhi was designated by Ministry of Education significant effort going into research work. to serve as the National Coordinator in its two flagship programmes, the Prime Minister’s Research Currently there are 4450 undergraduate, 3131 Fellowship (PMRF) program and the ASEAN-PhD postgraduate (non-Ph.D.) students, and 3319 Ph.D. Program. Both the programs are progressing in a students. This year 1209 Undergraduate students, healthy way, with IIT Delhi providing all the required 1420 postgraduate students (non-Ph.D.) and 612 Ph.D. coordination and administrative support. students have been admitted to IIT Delhi. We have 15% The Institute has approved the Online Courses in girls in the undergraduate programs and 23% overall. Continuing Education Program mode, under the This year, IIT Delhi has introduced 7 new academic brand name eVIDYA standing for Enabling Virtual & programmes, 5 at post-graduate level and 2 at under- Interactive-learning for Driving Youth Advancement. graduate level. The new programs introduced at This will provide access to a very large number post-graduate level are: (i) Interdisciplinary M.Tech. of students and professionals for attending online Programme in Cyber Security, (ii) M.S. (Research) courses at IIT Delhi. Aim of eVIDYA is to cater to programme in the Centre for Automotive Research the needs of industry, open participants at national and Tribology (CART), (iii) Joint PG Diploma in and International level. eVIDYA initiative will launch Visionary Leadership in Manufacturing (VLFM) the programmes in various areas of national Program between IIT Delhi and NITIE Mumbai, (iv) importance like Cyber Physical System/ Security, MSc in Economics in Department of Humanities and Renewable Energy Storage & Conversion, Embedded Social Sciences, (v) M.Sc. in Cognitive Science in Systems, Machine Learning, Construction Project Cognitive Science in Department of Humanities and Management, Anaerobic Digestion and Compressed

26 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 Biogas Technology, Microfluidics, Electric Vehicle, Advanced and the GATE examinations in 2020. I Massive Machine type communications for 5G would like to place on record my sincere appreciation and 6G, Technologies for Beyond 5G and 6G for the efforts of our JEE Advanced and the GATE Communications and many more. organizing teams as well as our faculty and staff for ‘IIT Delhi - NIT Early Admission to PhD’ program was successfully conducting these examinations during initiated and MoUs are signed with NIT Agartala, NIT the COVID times. They have worked day and night Tiruchirapalli and NIT Warangal. Selected students to ensure a smooth conduct of these nationally from NITs have already started their study in IIT Delhi. important tasks. Thanks to their selfless efforts, Discussions are on with several other NITs. Through nation has been able to save the academic calendar this scheme, we wish to to encourage meritorious of scores of students in the country who wish to students from NITs to pursue short term projects at study in IITs. IIT Delhi, take courses, and avail of an early offer to The ongoing and the next semesters are planned to Ph.D. at IIT Delhi subject to them meeting rigorous be conducted in the online mode and Institute, with selection criteria. the support of its administrative staff, is ready to take on any unforeseeable challenge in this regard. I would also like to highlight that institute reviews This year, all selection and interviews at post- and updates the course curriculum in timely manner. graduate level, as well as orientation and registration Appropriate modifications were adopted this year to of students were conducted online. Welcome, the current curriculum that came in place in 2013. orientation and registration of incoming UG students The changes will make the curriculum more relevant are also planned in a similar manner. and student friendly with a uniform load distribution. When the COVID-19 pandemic started leading TRAINING AND PLACEMENT to a nationwide lockdown, the Institute swiftly Major functions of the Office of Career Services, adapted the teaching to the online mode. Sufficient which is an important facilitation activity centre, outreach, surveys and initiatives were taken to includes arranging practical summer trainings, support the students who were forced to continue inviting and involving industries and organisations study in the digital mode. The Senate provisioned of repute with the aim of providing world class job the online doctoral defense for PhD students opportunities to undergraduate and postgraduate so that minimal disruption takes place to their students for suitable jobs in the industry and various academic progress and completion. Academic private and public sector organisations. OCS administration was completely brought online so also organizes pre-placement workshops, panel that students can manage their academic activities discussions, practice tests and career counselling with minimal disruption, even from their homes. talks by distinguished personalities from reputed Library resources were made available outside technical, industrial, management and research the campus through internet. The AGP: ‘Alternate organisations for the benefit of the students. Graduation Plan’ was adopted for the graduating The graduate outcomes is very critical for the class, so that the students can graduate in time reputation of the institute and I am glad to express and move to the further professional engagements. that like every year, this year as well, despite the IIT Delhi was the organizing institute for both JEE pandemic challenges, as many as 943 students were

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 27 placed through the Office of Career Services. A total Innovation Challenge, held during IIT Delhi’s social of 1095 job offers were made to by the companies for fest Kaizen’20, held on 29th Feb. and 1st March, the graduating class that includes 187 pre-placement 2020, was focused on ideating solutions to tackle offers while 60 students bagged more than one the issues of social isolation faced by elderly and offer. Approximately 85.88% of the students who having innovative solutions to increase accessibility opted the services through the OCS were placed. to perform day to day activities at public places. The remaining opted for higher studies/research or In the 54th Inter IIT Sports Meet (for Students) held at working on their own startup ventures while some IIT Kharagpur & IIT Bhubaneswar, IIT Delhi’s contingent got jobs on their own. We ensure that every student was declared Overall Runners-up (Women and Men at IIT Delhi gets a job and pursues a career path that Combined) and also Runners-up in Men’s category. he/she decides. In the 26th Inter IIT Staff Sports Meet held at IIT For the academic year 2020-21, due to prevailing Kharagpur, IIT Delhi won the General Championship Covid-19 pandemic situation, all the processes have Trophy (Men) for the second year in a row. been shifted to an online mode till students return to INTERNATIONALIZATION campus. Online live sessions have been organized on Youtube of orientation programmes for students To boost the diversity, exchange and briefing them on the process and policies to be followed internationalization among the student community, for Summer Internship and Placement and many institute is taking major steps. IIT Delhi has signed virtual sessions, placement preparation and readiness a total of 16 academic and research MoUs with sessions are being organized for the students. Many foreign universities and governments this year information sessions and expert talks were held in with Loughborough University U.K, Edith Cowan collaboration with industry leaders and IITD Alumni University Australia, American University in Cairo, Association to impart training to our students. L’Université D’Evry-Val-D’Essonne, Universiti Sains Malaysia, University College London, The American STUDENT AFFAIRS University in Cairo, University of Southern Denmark Apart from academics and research, our student Faculty of Engineering, KU Leuven Belgium, community is vibrant and organizes and participate University Transport Technology Hanoi, UIT The in various extracurricular activities through Student Arctic University of Norway, University of Leeds UK , Affairs Council that includes Hostel Management, Paderborn University, Bar-Ilan University, Israel and Recreational & Creative Activities, Sports Activities, National University Kyushu University Japan. Student Publications and Student Welfare. Interested New Zealand’s education ties with India have been students are have opportunity to be involved in strengthened by a New Zealand university-led National Service Scheme (NSS), National Cadet academic workshop at IIT Delhi, culminating with Corps (NCC) and Student Counselling Service. a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a Kaizen, the annual social festival of NSS IIT Delhi is a New Zealand Centre at IIT Delhi. The New Zealand platform to recognize the continuous improvements in Centre will be a focal point of academic activity for our society initiated and accelerated by the combined all eight New Zealand Universities and IIT Delhi. efforts of all socially motivated student bodies The two-day workshop, held at IIT Delhi on 10th and NGOs across India and abroad. The Social and 11th February, 2020, provided an opportunity

28 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 for academics from NZ universities and IIT Delhi Affairs and International Programmes (AAIP) office to discuss and develop projects for long term has been making active efforts to raise funds for research collaboration. Collaboration priorities under various Institute initiatives. Last year has been an discussion include sustainable cities, technologies extraordinary year for IIT Delhi as we were able to for clean water, cyber security and data science, accomplish a long cherished dream of establishing energy and environmental studies, and advanced a Global Alumni Endowment Fund - the first of its biological and healthcare systems and engineering. kind in India. This initiative has given a filip to our Last year, the Institute had students from more than fundraising raising efforts which has touched a new 25 countries like Afghanistan, Algeria, Benin, Bhutan, high and grown almost three times this year. This year Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Canada, Ethiopia, we have received R53.22 Crores in alumni donations. Gambia, Guinea, Guyana, Iran, Indonesia, Kenya, Among this, R46.75 Crores were received in the form Liberia, Madagascar, Nigeria, Nepal, Rwanda, of the Endowment. Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka, Somalia, Sudan, In recent years, the AAIP office has organized Syria, Taiwan, Turkey, USA and there has been multiple fundraising campaigns and some of these a tremendous rise in the number of International have been fairly successful. students over the years. I. Giving Week: This year the Giving Week was The fellow foreign students were facilitated in organised starting March 8th 2020. The initiative an interactive and cultural evening at the Annual was a success with about R16 Lakhs being collected International Students Dinner - “Celebrating Global during the campaign from alumni donors across Culture, An Orchestra of Diversity” this year. Such different continents. occasions are just a beginning of a much larger II. Each One Teach One: The “Each One Teach One” cultural change in the future where institute would campaign is borne out of our belief that if every alum be able to facilitate a sizeable number of students were to contribute the cost of education they received from foreign and diversified backgrounds. During at IIT Delhi, the Institute would have enough resources lockdown, regular interactions were organized with to be amongst the best universities of the world. Many international students staying on campus to address alumni heeded our call and over 16 lakh rupees any concerns. were contributed during the campaign this year. After a rigorous selection process, 58 students III. Stay-Con: This is an initiative to nurture a were identified for student exchanges at different connection between the alumni and the Institute and Universities abroad. Unfortunately, all Inbound and is specifically targeted to the younger alums of IITD. Outbound student exchanges for the Academic Year Alumni who participate in this initiative agree to pay 2020-21 had to be cancelled due to COVID-19. a fixed sum (minimum of R1000) per year to IITD for ALUMNI AFFAIRS as many years as they wish. IIT Delhi lays great emphasis on interaction between AAIP continues to make efforts to ensure that more the alumni and their alma mater. We are proud of our alumni participate in these campaigns and contribute alumni and their achievements. The success of the to the advancement of the Institute. alumni is one of the most important yardsticks by With the establishment of a Section 8 company, namely which we measure our achievements. The Alumni IIT Delhi Endowment Management Foundation, we

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 29 wish to bring a formal and transparent structure c) The Batch of 79 has endowed a Chair to promote of donations, investment and utilization of the excellence and leadership in teaching, research, Endowments. An alumnus of 1985 batch, Mr. Vinay and development in the field of Science, Piparsania, has joined as the CEO of the Endowment Engineering, Management, Humanities and Management Foundation. He is in the process of Social Sciences. building his team and identifying the key portfolios for d) 1995 batch alumnus Dr. Pankaj Gupta has a long-sustainable fund raising activities. In addition, endowed two chairs at the Institute - the a new 501(c)(3) organization “IIT Delhi Endowment “Nick McKeown Chair in Computer Science” foundation” has been set up in the United States for and the “Pankaj Gupta Chair in Privacy and receiving contributions to the endowment fund from Decentralization”. donors based in the North America. ALUMNI AWARDS Earlier this year, the institute has hosted the Silver Jubilee Reunion for the graduates of batch of 1995, The Institute recognises the outstanding contributions the Pearl Reunion for the graduates of batch of 1985 made by the alumni in various areas by conferring the and the Ruby Reunion for the graduates of batch Distinguished Alumni Awards and the Distinguished of 1979. All alumni were also invited to the annual Alumni Service Awards each year to recognize their Alumni Day, that was organized on December 22, achievements and outstanding contributions to 2019 last year. The reunions saw an overwhelming academics, business, profession and/or public service. participation from alumni. The alumni outreach were Distinguished Alumni Awards further strengthened with two overseas reunions This year the Distinguished Alumni Award will in Melbourne and Sydney earlier this year. These be conferred on – Prof. H. V. Jagadish, B.Tech. reunions help both the institute community and Electrical Engineering (1981), Bernard A. Galler alumni to share and exchange ideas for further Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engg & Computer collaborations in academia, research and also fund Science at the University of Michigan and Prof. raising. We hope to further organize such interactions Nemkumar Banthia, M.Tech. Structural Engineering in every possible part of the world through digital (1982), Canada Research Chair and Professor of mode in the near foreseeable future. Civil engineering at the University of British Columbia Our Alumni continue to support the Institute’s ability for their contributions in Teaching and Research; to attract and retain high-quality academic talent by Prof. Neville Pinto, B.Tech. Chemical Engineering endowing Chairs: (1980), President of the University of Cincinnati a) 1995 batch alumnus Mr. Prashant Gupta has for his contributions in Academic Leadership, Mr. created the Uma-Puruskar-Liril Gupta Chair Yashish Dahiya, B.Tech. Textile Technology (1994), in the area of Quantum Computing and High- Co-Founder and Group CEO, PolicyBazaar.com and Performance Computing. Mr. Deepinder Goyal, Integrated M.Tech. Mathematics and Computing (2005), Founder & CEO, Zomato for b) 1996 Batch alumnus Mr. Vivek S. Vaidya has their contributions in Entrepreneurship domain. created the Vaidya Saolapurkar Chair to promote excellence and leadership in teaching, research Distinguished Alumni Service Awards and development in the field of Mathematics. This year, Distinguished Alumni Service Award will

30 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 be conferred on Mr. Vikram Gupta, B.Tech. Chemical We are confident that your stay with the Institute Engineering (1993), Founder and Managing Partner, has enabled you to continue the process of lifelong IvyCap Ventures for his contributions in establishing learning and to take up challenging careers. We are the institute’s Endowment Fund. also confident that you will provide the leadership Graduates of Last Decade (GOLD) Awards the country and the world expects from you. We wish you success in whatever you choose to be. Keep in This year we have added a new alumni category to touch with your alma mater, support it in whatever recognize the young alumni who graduated in the last way you can, and keep the IIT Delhi flag flying high. decade and have made extraordinary contributions I am sure that you would work for a better world in their fields. This year, the maiden Graduates of where science and technology are used in socially Last Decade (GOLD) awards will be conferred on responsible ways, and in harmony with the nature. - Prof. Sanjam Garg, B.Tech. Computer Science We wish to see you become job providers and not and Engineering (2008), Assistant Professor at the remain as job seekers forever. Institute will always be University of California, Berkeley for his contributions your second home. After your parents, it will be the in Teaching and Research and Mr. Pankaj Chaddah, institute which will cherish your successes. Do not B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering (2007), co-Founder also forget that your education here was subsidized Zomato and Mindhouse for his contributions in anywhere from 100% to 70% from the tax payer’s Entrepreneurship domain. money, the money that could have gone to provide I congratulate all the awardees on behalf of the food for a hungry child. You need to pay back your institute debt at some point in time. That is the only way India ACKNOWLEDGEMENT can nourish and sustain excellence in her higher educational Institutions. I would like to acknowledge the support received in abundant measure from the Ministry of Education, I once again thank our Chief Guest, Hon’ble Prime the various sponsoring agencies, the collaborating Minister Shri Narendra Modi Ji, Guests of Honour, industries, institutions and alumni. I personally Hon’ble Minister of Education Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal acknowledge the support and encouragement I Nishank Ji and Hon’ble Minister of State for Education have received from the Members of the Board of Shri Sanjay Dhotre Ji, Chairman, Board of Governors, Governors, and from all my colleagues, and extend Dr. R. Chidambaram, and all the distinguished guests my appreciation to the students for their exemplary for being with us on this solemn occasion. behaviour and their contributions towards enriching the campus life. Thank you. Finally, I conclude by conveying my heartiest Jai Hind. congratulations and best wishes to each one of the 2019 graduates receiving their degrees and diplomas, and the 105 graduates receiving the awards/medals/ V. Ramgopal Rao cash prizes for their special achievements at the 51st Director, IIT Delhi Convocation of the Institute. November 7, 2020

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 31 Address by Chairman, Board of Governors

Honourable Chief Guest Prime Minister Narendra chemistry to Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Modiji, Hon’ble Minister of Education Shri Ramesh Neural Networks to Renewable Energy Systems, Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ji, Hon’ble Minister of State Climate change, urban water Management, and Rural for Education Shri Sanjay Dhotreji, distinguished Development Many of the programmes are naturally members of the Board of Governors, Professor inter-departmental, because the boundaries between Ramgopal Rao, Director of IIT Delhi, members of scientific disciplines are continuously becoming more the Senate, faculty and staff of IIT Delhi, invitees, and more fuzzy. There are also Centres here ranging guests, parents, and my dear young friends who are from Cyber Physical systems to Value Education in graduating today: Engineering. On behalf of the Board of Governors, it gives me A New Education Policy has been announced by immense pleasure to extend a very cordial and the Government, with many new forward-looking special welcome to our chief guest of this function features and flexibility, and all IIT Directors including Hon’ble Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and our IIT Delhi Director have welcomed it. All young people Guests of Honour Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ji, must have the opportunity to maximize their talents and Shri Sanjay Dhotreji. and make career choices in tune with their talents, and the New Education Policy provides the scope for The IIT system has, as we all know, has a very high that. A new Science, Technology & Innovation Policy global brand equity; and among the IITs, IIT Delhi is is also on the anvil. ranked among the top two. In the recent QS world subject rankings, IIT Delhi is ranked among the top In the World Science Advisers’ Meeting in New 50 for Engineering. Seeing the surge in the activities Zealand in 2014, we discussed the distinction I have noticed in the last few years in terms of R&D, between Policy for Science and Science for Policy. and the increased internationalization and industry Technology Foresight is required to select the Critical connect, these rankings will, I am sure, go up further. Technologies needed for rapid development of the A new Research & Innovation Park on the iit Delhi country, and for it to become a knowledge economy, main campus is on the verge of completion. IIT Delhi and these must be re-assessed periodically, based has a total of 10900 students, of which nearly 60% on the latest scientific developments. are post-graduate students. We have currently 3319 On this basis, the Critical Technologies for India today, Ph.D. students on the campus. I think, are strategic technologies—nuclear, space, We have leading research workers in various defence; technologies related to energy security, advanced and diverse research areas ranging health and water security, environmental security; from Pure Mathematics, Photonics and Theoretical agriculture and food security; low carbon energy

32 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 technologies, taking into account the threat of climate an ‘equal partner’ basis, and this is happening now. change/global warming; advanced manufacturing; After the degrees you get today, you young people artificial Intelligence; technologies for MSMEs and will start a new chapter in your careers, pursuing for sustainable rural development. In all this, we research, or acquiring additional academic need to develop self-reliance, with the objective of qualifications, or in industries. Some of you may achieving Atmanirbhar Bharat I am sure IIT Delhi will start your own enterprises. I wish you all the best in play a major role in achieving this goal. Of course, your future careers. Atmanirbharta does not mean we should not go in for international collaboration; we should but only on Thank you and Jai Hind

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 33 AWARD OF DEGREES, MEDALS & PRIZES

Distinguished Alumni Awards Ph.D. M.S. (Research) Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology; Computer Science and Engineering; Electrical Engineering; Mechanical Engg; Information Technology; Biologicical Sciences; Telecommunication Technology & Mgmt. Interdisciplinary M.Tech. Energy Studies; Energy & Environmental Management; Industrial Tribology & Maintenance Engineering; Instrument Technology; Opto-Electronics and Optical Communication; Polymer Science and Technology; Telecommunication Technology and Management; VLSI Design Tools and Technology. Interdisciplinary M.Des. Industrial Design. 5-year Integrated M.Tech. Mathematics and Computing. 5-year Dual Degree Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology; Chemical Engineering; Computer Science and Engg.; M.Tech. & B.Tech. Mathematics & Computing. M.Tech. Design Engineering; Engineering Mechanics; Chemical Engineering; Molecular Engineering-Chemical Synthesis & Analysis; Construction Technology and Management; Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering; Transportation Engineering; Structural Engineering; Construction Engineering and Management; Rock Engineering & Underground Structures; Environmental Engineering & Management; Water Resources Engineering; Computer Science and Engineering; Control and Automation; Communications Engineering; Integrated Electronics and Circuits; Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Drives; Power Systems; Computer Technology; Industrial Engineering; Mechanical Design; Production Engineering; Thermal Engineering; Applied Optics; Solid State Materials; Textile Engineering; Fibre Science and Technology; Radio Frequency Design and Technology; Atmospheric-Oceanic Science and Technology. M.Tech. Under Advanced M.Tech. in Construction Engg. & Management and B.Tech. in Civil Engg; M.Tech. in Mechanical Design and Standing B.Tech. in Mechanical Engg; M.Tech. in Solid State Materials and B.Tech. in Engineering Physics; M.Tech. in Production Engg. and B.Tech. in Production & Industrial Engineering; M.Tech. in Computer Science & Engg. and B.Tech. in Textile Technology; M.Tech. in Computer Science & Engg. and B.Tech. in Chemical Engg; M.Tech. in Computer Science & Engg. and B.Tech. in Production & Industrial Engg; M.Tech. in Structural Engineering and B.Tech. in Civil Engineering; M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering & B.Tech. in Textile Technology. M.B.A. Management Systems; Technology Management; Telecommunication Systems Management PG D.I.I.T. Naval Construction. M.Sc. Chemistry; Mathematics; Physics. B.Tech. Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology; Chemical Engineering; Civil Engineering; Computer Science and Engineering; Electrical Engineering; Electrical Engineering (Power & Automation); Mechanical Engineering; Production & Industrial Engineering; Mathematics & Computing; Engineering Physics; Textile Technology. D.I.I.T (UG) & D.I.I.T (PG) Medals and Prizes

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Prof. Neville G. Pinto

Neville G. Pinto received a B.Tech. in Chemical Cincinnati Business Committee (CBC), as president Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi of the Inter-University Council of Ohio, chair of the in 1980 and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Penn State Uptown Consortium in Cincinnati and chair of the University in 1985. Education Committee of the RESTART Task Force (a Neville G. Pinto serves as the 30th President of partnership of the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, the University of Cincinnati. A university teacher, CBC and Cincinnati Regional Business Committee). researcher and administrator with more than 35 years He also serves on the boards of the United Way of of experience in higher education, he became UC’s Greater Cincinnati and the Boys Scouts of America chief executive on February 20, 2017. He is the first Dan Beard Council. UC president to rise from the ranks of UC’s faculty Just prior to returning to UC to serve as president, since Herman Schneider, the founder of cooperative Dr. Pinto led the University of Louisville as acting education (1928-1932). president and professor of chemical engineering. Dr. Pinto leads the Cincinnati region’s only Carnegie Before serving at the University of Louisville, he Research 1 university – an institution attracting over served for 26 years on the faculty in chemical $452 million in annual external research grants and engineering at the University of Cincinnati, where contracts (including affiliates). In February 2018, he established the Adsorption and Ion Exchange he launched UC’s strategic direction, NEXT LIVES Laboratory, which focused on research in biochemical HERE, which is a new paradigm for university and environmental engineering. planning that allows the university to be nimble and In honoring Prof Neville G. Pinto, IIT Delhi recognizes responsive to the world’s changing landscape. his outstanding Academic Leadership. Through his Regionally, Pinto currently serves on the Ohio achievements, Prof. Pinto has brought glory to the Governor’s Executive Workforce Board and the name of the Institute.

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Prof. H.V. Jagadish

H.V. Jagadish received a B.Tech. in Electrical ISMB conference (2005), a trustee of the VLDB Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (Very Large DataBase) foundation (2004-2009), Delhi in 1981 and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of 1985. He is Bernard A Galler Collegiate Professor of the VLDB Endowment (2008-2014), and Program Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Chair of the VLDB Conference (2014). Since 2016, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and Director of he is Editor of the Morgan & Claypool “Synthesis” the Michigan Institute for Data Science. Before 1999, Lecture Series on Data Management. Among his he was Head of the Database Research Department many awards, he won the David E Liddle Research at AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NJ. Excellence Award (at the University of Michigan) Professor Jagadish is well known for his broad- in 2008, the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award in ranging research on information management, 2013, and the Distinguished Faculty Achievement and has approximately 200 major papers and 37 Award (at the University of Michigan) in 2019. His patents, with an H-index of 94. He is a fellow of popular MOOC on Data Science Ethics is available the ACM, “The First Society in Computing,” (since on EdX, Coursera, and Futurelearn. 2003) and of AAAS (since 2018). He served on the board of the Computing Research Association In honoring Prof. H.V. Jagadish, IIT Delhi recognizes (2009-2018). He has been an Associate Editor the outstanding contributions made by him in for the ACM Transactions on Database Systems Teaching and Research. Through his achievements, (1992-1995), Program Chair of the ACM SIGMOD Prof. Jagadish has brought glory to the name of the annual conference (1996), Program Chair of the Institute.

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Prof. Nemkumar Banthia

Nemkumar Banthia obtained a Master of Technology Society of Canada—the highest academic honor in Structural Engineering from Indian Institute of in Canada—and the Indian National Academy of Technology Delhi in 1982 and a Ph.D. from the Engineering. University of British Columbia in 1987. Dr. Banthia is the founding Scientific Director of Nemkumar Banthia is a Distinguished Professor and India-Canada Research Center: IC-IMPACTS – the Senior Canada Research Chair at the University most successful international center that IIT-Delhi of British Columbia. His academic output includes participates in as its prominent node. IC-IMPACTS 450 refereed papers, 9 patents, 20 monographs has graduated over 300 PhD students with 29 patents and nearly 75 doctoral and post-doctoral students. and 8 start-ups. At its core is the development of ‘low- Dr. Banthia serves on 9 editorial boards and is the cost’ technologies in water treatment, sustainable Editor-in-Chief of the J. of Cement and Concrete infrastructure and public health that have now been Composites with a 2020 Impact-Factor exceeding placed in a number of rural communities in India and 10. With his personal citations approaching 15000, First Nations communities in Canada. Dr. Banthia remains one of Top 25 ‘Most Cited in Construction & Building Materials’ as per Platinum Dr. Banthia humbly attributes his successes to his H-Index. strict but loving parents, his wife Kavita and his children Vinita and Varun. He emphasizes that his A civil engineer by training, Dr. Banthia’s research greatest source of inspiration are his 75 or so doctoral is in the areas of materials science, structural and post-doctoral students. engineering, 3D printing, sensing and artificial intelligence applied to infrastructure. Dr. Banthia In honoring Prof. Nemkumar Banthia, IIT Delhi has chaired over 30 international conferences and recognizes the outstanding contributions made has given over 250 keynotes in over 25 countries. by him in Teaching and Research. Through his With more than 30 international awards, Dr. Banthia achievements, Prof. Banthia has brought glory to the is a fellow of six global societies including the Royal name of the Institute.

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Mr. Yashish Dahiya

Yashish Dahiya received a B.Tech. in Textile Besides his passion & dedication towards his work, Technology from Indian Institute of Technology Yashish is an avid sportsperson. He is the Indian Delhi in 1994, a PG Diploma in Management from masters swimming champion and resents India at IIM Ahmedabad in 1996 and an MBA from INSEAD world masters swimming championships regularly. in 2001. He holds the 3rd fastest half ironman timing and Mr. Dahiya is currently the Group Chief Executive the 5th fastest Ironman timings amongst Indians Officer (Group CEO) & Co-Founder of Policybazaar. across all age groups and has the fastest timings com. In over 12 years Yashish has grown Policybazaar in his age group. He completes several Ironman to become a key influencer in consumer decisions distance-races each year. He was the board of around insurance, hosting over 100 million visitors Sports Association General Secretary and the best a year on its platform. He strongly believes that outgoing sportsman for his graduating batch at customers in India need more financial cover for IIT Delhi. death, disease, and disability and while this is a huge Before starting his entrepreneurial journey with social need, it is also the answer for the long-term Policybazaar, Yashish was the Managing Director of profitability of the insurance industry. The firm is the ebookers.com, a leading pan-European online travel largest digital distributor of Insurance in India. distributor. And worked as a strategy consultant with Recently, Yashish was honoured with the EY Bain & Co. in their London Office. Entrepreneur of the Year (EOY) 2019 award in the Financial Services category. Mr. Dahiya received this In honoring Mr. Yashish Dahiya, IIT Delhi recognizes award for revolutionizing the insurance sector with his Entrepreneurial excellence. Through his his disruptive thinking and bold vision, EY said in a achievements, Mr. Dahiya has brought glory to the press statement. name of the Institute.

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Mr. Deepinder Goyal

Mr. Deepinder Goyal received an Integrated M.Tech through building food delivery and dining out in Mathematics and Computing from Indian Institute experiences, and simplifying restaurant supply of Technology Delhi in 2005. chain. With a long-term vision of ‘better food for more Mr. Deepinder Goyal is the founder of one of the people’, zomato has a keen focus on sustainability largest food aggregators in the world - zomato. Under with global feeding foundation and zomato feeding his leadership, the startup that began as a platform India, that tackles hunger and food wastage at large for restaurant review and discovery in Delhi NCR scale. has grown into a company synonymous with food in Prior to founding zomato in 2008, Mr. Goyal worked over 500+ cities in India. Over 70 million people use as a management consultant with Bain & Company. zomato to decide where to eat through 1.5 million In honoring Mr. Deepinder Goyal, IIT Delhi recognizes listed restaurants across 24 countries around the his entrepreneurial excellence. Through his world. achievements, Mr. Goyal has brought glory to the Zomato today is empowering the entire ecosystem name of the Institute.

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Mr. Pankaj Chaddah

Pankaj Chaddah received a B.Tech. in Mechanical After moving on from Zomato, he has been angel Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi investing and mentoring start-ups. He is one of in 2007. A well-known face in the Indian start-up the founding members of the Plaksha University in community, Pankaj is one of the founders of Zomato, Chandigarh and is also an advisor to Akshayapatra. the country’s largest restaurant discovery and food As a next step in his entrepreneurial journey, Pankaj delivery service. He spent a decade with Zomato from has most recently co-founded Mindhouse, which is an online wellness venture. Within a year of launch, its inception in 2008 till 2018, helping to establish it Mindhouse is already one of the most promising as one of India’s first internet unicorns, as well as a mental health and wellness start-ups in the country. truly global giant in the food tech space. He stepped In honoring Mr. Pankaj Chaddah, IIT Delhi recognizes away from an operational role in Zomato in 2018 and his Entrepreneurial excellence. Through his retains a position on Zomato’s board of directors. achievements, Mr. Chaddah has brought glory to Prior to Zomato, Pankaj worked at Bain & Company. the name of the Institute.

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Prof. Sanjam Garg

Sanjam Garg received a Bachelor of Technology in previously considered impossible. Quanta Magazine Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian referred to Prof. Garg’s work on obfuscation as a Institute of Technology Delhi in 2008 and a Doctor of watershed moment for cryptography. Philosophy in Computer Science from the University Prof. Garg is the recipient of various honors such of California, Los Angeles in 2013. as the 2013 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, Prof. Sanjam Garg is currently an Assistant Professor and the 2020 Sloan Research Fellowship. His in the University of California, Berkeley. His research research has been recognized with the best paper interests are in cryptography and security. Via his awards at EUROCRYPT 2013, CRYPTO 2017 and research, Prof. Garg developed secure cryptographic EUROCRYPT 2018. In 2016, Garg was named to methods to obfuscate computer programs. Programs the Forbes magazine 30 under 30 list of globally obfuscated using these methods can be executed influential people changing science. as usual, but are essentially impossible to reverse- In honouring Prof. Sanjam Garg, IIT Delhi recognizes engineer. His approach to create ‘unhackable’ his outstanding contributions to teaching and research. software has enabled a range of new cryptographic Through his contributions and achievements, Prof. and cybersecurity applications; many of which were Garg has brought glory to the Institute.

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Mr. Vikram Gupta

Vikram Gupta received a B.Tech. in Chemical conceptualized and led IBM’s Healthcare and Life Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Sciences practice for Clinical Genomics. in 1993. A well-known figure in the Indian Venture Mr. Gupta is very active in the Indian start-up and Capital industry, Mr. Gupta is the Founder and Venture Capital ecosystem. He is the Co-Chairman Managing Partner of IvyCap Ventures, a USD 200mn of PEVCAI (Private Equity and Venture Capital) at Venture Capital Fund that invests through the Alumni ASSOCHAM and is an active member of IVCA (Indian ecosystems. He has around 25 years of experience in Venture Capital Association) and CII (Confederation Private Equity, Business Consulting, M&A, Strategy of Indian Industry). and Operations in Healthcare and Life Sciences, Education, Consumer Goods and other industries. Mr. Gupta was instrumental in conceptualising and setting up the IIT Delhi Global Alumni Endowment Before founding IvyCap, Mr. Gupta was the founding Fund. His passion for this Fund reflected in the member of a USD 100mn Healthcare focused Private Endowment Fund Song that he composed, sang, and Equity Fund that he conceptualized and raised in video-recorded, featuring some of the most eminent 2008 when the world markets were going through Alumni of IIT Delhi. turmoil. Prior to that he worked with IBM Business Consulting Services for many years in strategy In honoring Mr. Vikram Gupta, IIT Delhi recognizes and planning, business development and project his significant efforts and contributions towards the management across various assignments. He development and progress of the Institute.

42 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 MEDALS AND PRIZES

President’s Gold Medal Director’s Gold Medal Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma Gold Medal

Deepanshu Jindal Aashi Agarwal Muskan Kularia B.Tech. in Computer Science & B.Tech. in Textile Technology M.Tech. in Applied Optics Engineering

PERFECT TEN GOLD MEDALS

Muskan Kularia N Jayakrishnan Himanshu Yadav M.Tech. in Applied Optics M.Tech. in Mechanical Design M.Sc. in Mathematics

Venu Gopal Agarwal Hrit Roy Shubham Choudhary M.S.(R) in Mechanical Engg. M.Sc. in Mathematics M.S.(R) in Electrical Engineering

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 43 SILVER MEDALISTS

Simar Kaur Mattewal Jashan Singh Suri Siddhant Arora Tarun Gupta B.Tech. and M.Tech. B.Tech. and M.Tech. in Biochemical B.Tech. and M.Tech. in B.Tech. and M.Tech. in in Chemical Engg. Engg. and Biotechnology Computer Science and Engg. Mathematics and Computing

Shreya Johri Ashutosh Raj Amit Choudhary Khushal Sethi Salil Chandra B.Tech. in Biochemical B.Tech. in Civil Engg. B.Tech. in Chemical Engg. B.Tech. in Electrical Engg. B.Tech. in Electrical Engg. Engg. and Biotechnology (Power and Automation)

Saksham Jain Kshitij Gupta Chahat Chawla Swarnava Sanyal Khushank Singhal B.Tech. in Mechanical Engg. B.Tech. in Production and B.Tech. in Mathematics and B.Tech. in Engineering Physics B.Tech. in Textile Technology Industrial Engineering Computing

44 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 Abhinav Dhupar Memorial Award Prof. C.S. Jha Memorial Excellence Award Ankit Goyal Shweta Meena Alumni Award for Community Service Dogra Cash Award Jashan Singh Suri Yashasvi Maurya Amit Garg Memorial Entrepreneurship Award Dogra Educational Endowment Award Divyansh Mathur Tanu Bhardwaj Amit Garg Memorial Ethical Leadership Award Excellence Award for Best Project in HVAC & R Aditya Abhishek (Heating Ventilating, Air-Conditioning & Refrigeration) Singh Aditya Deonath Shanti Amit Garg Memorial Research Award Priyank Mukeshkumar Shah FITT Award for Best Industry Relevant Project Anjanee Kumar Mishra Prof. A.K. Sinha Cash Prize Anuj Allu Sai Haneesh Ankit Kumar Singh Dr. Amrik Singh Award Ganga Devi and Khem Chand Memorial Award Shivangi Shukla & Harmandeep (Jointly) Bhavesh Purohit Shri A.N. Dutta Memorial Award Shri Harbans Singh Memorial Award Rahul Panjiyar Pranav Wani Lt. Arpan Banerjee Award IEEE-PEDES 96 Award Rishav Raj Shiva Upadhyay Prof. Arun Kanda Memorial Cash Award IIIE Cash Award Kinshuk Agrawal Kinshuk Agrawal Bhagirathi-Bashisht Tiwari Award Himanshu Tiwari Karkare Adwait Makarand Prof. J. Nanda Cash Award of Excellence in Power Boss Award System Engineering Nikhil Goyal Ambuj Gupta Prarthana Jain Shri Jaidutt and Shrimati Saraswati Sodha Research Pratik Bhaskar Award Ayush De Leeladhar Shivang Rampriyan Dwivedi Pushpendra Pratap Maurya Shrimati Jawala Devi-Sita Ram Kaushik Award Mohammad Areeb Afzal & Devansh Agrawal (Jointly) Kirtankumar Bhaveshbhai Patel & Sripathi Anirudh R (Jointly) Buti Foundation Award Muskan Kularia Jayant Sinha Award Sumakesh Mishra Chand Rani-Banarsi Dass Duggal Memorial Award Rajat Gangadharan Dr. Kewal Krishan Baveja Cash Award Simar Kaur Mattewal Mrs. Chander Kanta Nanda Excellence Award Sumakesh Mishra K. Vasudevan Memorial Cash Award Yashasvi Maurya Khushank Singhal

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 45 Laxmi Bai - Lal Chand Khurana Memorial Award Punita Kumar - Sinha Award for All Round Excellence Tarun Gupta Namrata Tripathi

Leela Khushiram Cash Award Man Mohan Suri Project Award (U.G.) Jashan Singh Suri Ankur Sharma

Prof. M.C. Puri Memorial Award Rajindra Kumari Malhotra Memorial Prize Himanshu Yadav & Hrit Roy (Jointly) Tanmaye Soni

Prof. M.P. Singh Award Rajiv Bambawale Cash Award Kumar Ravi Prakash Deepanshu Jindal Prof. M.M. Chawla Cash Award Rajiv Bambawale Cash Prize Tarun Gupta Shikhar Tuli Chahat Chawla Mrs. Malti Singh and Shri Ram Rishi Singh Memorial Rahul Giri Memorial Cash Award Postgraduate Cash Award Animesh Singh Pawan Kumar Mrs. Sabita Karunes Memorial Award Prof. Mira Madan Memorial Excellence Award Ankit Sharma Lopa Pattanaik Sarla Devi Duggal Excellence Award for Women Shri & Smt. B.S. Nayyar Memorial Award for Excellence Aashi Agarwal & Anuja Trivedi (Jointly) Anuja Trivedi Aditya Abhishek Shashank Vikram Garg Award Partha Dhar Mudit Sharma Memorial Award Swarnava Sanyal Suresh Chandra Memorial Award (PG) Manas Joshi NBCC Prize of Excellence Rohen Singh Suresh Chandra Memorial Trust Award (UG) Rathi Sushant Shyam Shri O.P. Bansal Cash Award Diptangshu Sen N. Jayakrishnan Shri S.L. Duggal Excellence Cash Award Prof. O.P. Gupta Award Tanmaye Soni Karkare Adwait Makarand Shrimati Vijay-Usha Sodha Research Award Prof. P.K. Katti Award Sunil Indora Muskan Kularia Dr. P.L. Kapur and Mrs. Pushpa Kapur Memorial Award Suman - Upma Gupta Memorial Cash Award Chandra Sen & Kiran (Jointly) Simar Kaur Mattewal Prof. Pushpa Bajaj Award Sumant Sinha Sustainability Leadership Award Amit Baiju Urmila Patel Iyman Abrar Parampujya Baba Sant Nagpalji Award Suyash Chandra Memorial Cash Award Namrata Jain Ayush Singhal & Bhuvnesh Khandelwal (Jointly)

46 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Aakash Kumar Jain Anisha Pathak Awadhesh Pratap Singh Digpal Kumar Aali Pant Anjanee Kumar Mishra Baijnath Dileep Kumar Abdul Saleem Mir Ankit Bhawna Dinesh Khandelwal Abhilash Sahu Ankit Bhardwaj Bhera Ram Tak Divya Goel Abhishek Anand Ankita Shukla Bhimavarapu Divya Singhi Amarendra Reddy Abinash Mahanta Ankur Betageri Esha Baidya (Kayal) Budhaditya Chatterjee Agni Kumar Biswal Ankur Prabhat Sati Farheen Fauziya Chandan Sharma Ahmad Mohd Khalid Anoop Kant Godiyal Farooq Ahmad Bhat Chandrahas Subray Akash Kumar Anshul Gupta Shet Fatima Jalid Akhilesh Dadaniya Anuj Chandrika Bhardwaj Feleke Bayu Bati Akshay Anuj Kumar Changela Kandarp Gaurav Popatlal Alemayebu Abate Anushruti Jaiswal Gaurav Singh Shaurul Chavi Asrani Aparna Sharma Gautam Pant Amaren P. Das Dayanidhi Krishana Aranya Ghosh Gopal Babu Pathak Amit Kumar Archana Goyal Gulati Debajit Dey Govind Narayan Amit Kumar Arti Kataria Sharma Debashish Panda Amit Kumar Arun C Emmanuel Gul Afreen Debdutta Ghosh Amit Kumar Gupta Arun Goel Gurminder Singh Deepika Vatsa Amit Kumar Singh Arun Kumar V Harikesh Deepti Goel Amit Sharma Arunima Shukla Heena Dhawan Deepu Vijay M Ananya Das Ashish Kumar Jain Himanshu Jain Devendra Kumar Angela Susan Mathew Ashu Jain Pathak Hoor Fatima Anil Dighram Yadav Ashwani Jain Devjani Ray Huidrom Hemojit Singh Anil Kumar Aswathy R Dias Usham Viviano Iyman Abrar

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 47 Jagtap Pravin Shivaji Lopa Pattanaik Naveen Sisodia Pradeep Kundu Jagtar Singh Madhu Bochalya Neeti Keswani Pranab Kumar Rakshit Janibul Bashir Madhulika Mohanty Neha Bhadauria Prashant Pradhan Jatinder Singh Chandok Mahamaya Mohanty Neha Kaushik Prasun Mishra Jaya Lohani Mahendra D. Shahare Neha Singh Pratibha Kumari Jayesh M.P. Mainak Ghosh Roy Nidhi Mishra Pratisha Gangwar Jishnu R B Mainendra Kumar Nikhil Kateja Praveen Kumar Tripathi Dewangan Nikhil Kumar Singh Jitender Preeti Garg Mamata Mohanty Nilay Pandey Jitendra Kumar Priyanka Kaisar Ahmad Hajam Manish Bansal Nisha Priyanka Bhardwaj Kamal Kishor Pant Manish Kumar Jaiswal Nisha Dhawan Priyanka Bhartiya Kamal Kumar Manoj Sharma Nishant Parashar Priyanka Lochab Kamalika Banerjee Md. Samim Hassan Nitin Kumar Priyanka Nair Kapil Jainwal Meera Thapar Khanna Nitu Sharma Punit Singh Karthikeya G.S Megha Singh Nivida Chandra Purnima Barjatya Kimi Azad Miss Meera Noor Ulain Rizvi Purva Grover Komal Kumar Mohammad Adil Dar Omkar Suhas Vinchure Radha Kushwaha Konark Bisht Mohit Gupta Pankaj Kumar Sharma Rahul Pandey Krishna Kumar Monika Parswajit Kalita Raj Suresh Amonkar Krishna Nand Tripathi Mool Chand Parul Raturi Patel Ashwinkumar Rajbala Kritika Goyal Mriganka Sekhar Sarma Virambhai Rajesh Kedia Kumar Ravi Prakash Mujeeb Ahmad Pechetti Sasi Vinay Rajeshkumar Lakhvinder Singh N. Anvesh Reddy Piyush Chanana Devendrakumar Lakshmi Devi Vanumu Nabarun Saha Madarkar Piyush Kant Latheesh Mohan Naraveni Rajashekar Rajeshwar Verma Pooja Sahni (Nee Leeza Malik Natraj Mishra Swami) Rajiv Jha

48 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 Rajkumar K Sabeeha Shikha Sota Sunil Kumar Raju Pathak Sachin Kansal Shilpa Gahlot Supreet Kaur Ramanjit Ahuja Sagar Saroha Shreemohan Kumar Supreet Kaur Sinha Ramesh Kumar Sakshi Aggarwal Supriya Gupta Shrish Shukla Ratnesh Kumar Sakthivel P Suraj Suman Shubhrima Ghosh Rattan Lal Sandeep Kumar Surojit Poddar Shyam Krishna Joshi Rattandeep Singh Sangram Roy Susanta Hazra Siddharth Tamang Sanjay Singh Sushil Punia Ravi Kant Smita Pandey (Nee Swati Agarwal Ravi Parakash Gandhi Sanjib Kumar Sinha Mishra) Swatilekha Majumdar Ravi Pathak Santanu Basak Smriti Somnath Mitra Syed Ziaul Mustafa Ravi Tejasvi Sarvesh Kumar Mishra Satish Sonal Singhal T. Senthil Siva Ravinder Pal Singh Subramanian Saurabh Singh Sonam Jain Richa Gupta Tabish Nazir Mir Saurabh Verma Sonam Takkar Robin. E.J. Tanuja Nigam Sonia Gupta Sayari Das Rohit Bansal Soumik Adhikary Tarina Sharma Sethuraj K R Rouzbeh Maddah Sourabh Kumar Tewodros Tesfaye Shadab Murshid Woldemariam Ruchika Sehgal Srashti Dwivedi Shah Priyank Thaker Abhijit Ruhi Sonal Mukeshkumar Srividya Rajaram Harikumar Rupali Genu Bansode Shaily Verma Sumbul Hafeez Tripurari Nath Gupta Rupayan Roy Shambhu Azad Sumeet Mahajan Umesh Kumar Mishra Rupesh Mahendra Shashank Kumar Sumit Balguvhar Uttam Kumar Kumawat Tamgadge Gahlaut Sumit Kumar Singh Ved Prakash S Jitendra Pal Sheetal Punia Sumit Madan Vedabouriswaran G. S P Sreenivas Padala Shifali Kalra Sumit Negi Vedantham Lakshmi S.A. Kishore Kumar Shikha Saini Sunil Kumar Srinivas

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 49 Veena Singh Vijayalakshmi Vikas Pandey Vivek Semwal Yerramalle Veerendra Dhyani Vishakha Kaushik Zamir Ahmad Wani Vidhi Malik Vikas Kumar Singh Vishal Srivastava Zeba Naaz

MASTER OF SCIENCE (RESEARCH)

Biological Sciences Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Amar Nath and Shashi Iswarya Srinivasan Abhishek Gupta Mutyala Devi Khosla School of Info. Technology Amit Patel Pushpender Prasad Civil Engineering Anshul Mittal Parmeet Singh Panday Akshat Jain Srishti Kulshrestha Sakshi Arora Venu Gopal Agarwal Shubham Choudhary

INTERDISCIPLINARY MASTER OF TECHNOLOGY

Energy Studies Priyam Guria Prafulla Chaudhary Chalapaka Raja Neehar Aasheesh Jha Rishikesh Badagaiyan Priyansh Singh Dheeraj Kumar Bairwa Abhinav Prajapati Singh Aditya Deonath Raghavendra P Singh Gurram Karthikeya Solanki Sarma Abhishek Verma Shanti Rajat Gangadharan Kintali Kalyan Kumar Anish Tuteja Sripathi Anirudh R Ravi Shankar M Anuhya Ankur Mittal Vaishali Rishabh Srivastava Prateek Maheshwari Anshika Vishal Srivastava Sarthak Mittal Preeti Kingrani Anshuman Singh Yogesh Vishwakarma Suyash Ameta Shubham Gurparsad Singh Bagga Vikas Kumar Singh Industrial Tribology & Srishti Karkare Adwait Vikas Singh Maintenance Engg. V. Ajeeth Suryash Makarand Aashish Kumar Patwari Instrument Technology Patel Kirtankumar Optoelectronics & Bhaveshbhai Arun Pratap Singh Arju Shah Optical Communication Patil Sourabh Sanjeev Diwakar Singh Ashish Kumar Adarsh Chouhan

50 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 Animesh Raj Souvaraj De Sandeep Kumar Putlur Hithesh Reddy Arti Yadav Sudhanshu Ranjan Shiva Naresh Rahul Girotra Atul Menon Syed Mohammad Souma Jyoti Ghosh Shivaji Roy Sibtain Haider Deepanshu Sagar Sushant Shivam Gupta Gajendra Singh Yadav Zaheer Hassan Siddiqui Tanmay Kant Tiwari VLSI Design Tools & Goswami Vikas R V Giri Polymer Science and Varun Anandkumar Technology Technology Pande Kabir Kohli Amit Kumar Kumud Jindal Ajay Kumar Telecommunication Avee Kumar Mandeep Singh Dilawri Amit Patel Technology & Management Ayushi Garg Nirlesh Singh Chhavi Gupta Anshuman Singh Hemasai Kumar P Pooja Singh Desh Deepak Singh Devendra Khatri Keluskar Manasi Pradip Priyabrata Mallick Pandey Vinay Kumar Manshu Bishnoi Radhakant Singh Ram Niranjan Kartik Gupta Nitin Bisht Rahul Sahab Singh Partha Chowdhury Manas Ranjan Patro Prabaldeep Dhawan Malti Tomar Priyanka Sukhdeorao Pardhi Chandan Sachin Kumar Channe Waman Shubham Paliwal Sandeepkumar C K Rahul Singh Priyanshu Aggarwal Varun Upadhyaya

INTERDISCIPLINARY MASTER OF DESIGN

Industrial Design Ganesh Ram S Prakhar Verma Vijeyata Ojha

Anand S Iman Baidya Prankur Kataria Vipul Upadhyay Vishal Verma Anantha Kashyap S Kaushik D Priyanka Rai Vivekarasan M Anoushka Saha Kinshuk Anurag Kujur Rathod Pankhil Yash Bohre Deeksha Gupta Pauline Mariam John Swati Katariya Zothanzuala

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 51 5-YEAR DUAL DEGREE PROGRAMME MASTER OF TECHNOLOGY AND BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY

M.Tech. in Archit Aggarwal Prakash Choudhary Ankur Sharma Biochemical Engg. Bansod Yash Raju Prashant Chohla Banoth Haswee and Biotechnology & B.Tech. in Deepak Singh Bonal Prem Prakash Chakshu Goyal Biochemical Engg. and Devansh Agrawal Pulkit Sharma Dishant Singla Biotechnology Rahul A R Shubham Devendra Gaurav Yadav Rajesh Kumar Regar Akhil Kumar Devendra Dewanda Gollapalli Apoorva Saransh Maheshwari Bharti Meena Digvijay Das Gulshan Kumar Jangid Dhaval Rakesh Narwani Harilal Krishna Saurabh Subramaniam Harsh Vardhan Jain Divya Garg Herale Anushka Shivanshu Verma Harsimrat Singh Ananthraj Ekatmika Shubham Kumar Yadav Hirulkar Anket Prakash Jaya Meena Indhana Divya Jayasree Simar Kaur Mattewal Kashish Bansal Jashan Singh Suri Kaustubh Saxena Sourabh Gole Lovish Madaan Kancharana Preeti Raj Kiran Jain Suhani Agarwal Makkunda Sharma Malla Paramesh Mayank Deep Bansod Swapnil S Mavlikar Nikhil Goyal Nitesh Chaudhary Milan Goswami Vaibhav Sharma Palla Sai Bharath Prarthana Jain Mohammad Areeb Afzal Vashistha Anurag Pankaj Saini Maheshchandra Sashi Kalan Mukul Mittal Sanjay Kumar Kharwar Y Nikhil Varma Yugesh Verma Nazish Amber Saransh Goyal Yash Kumawat M.Tech. in Chemical Neha Kaswan Shreyas D Betal M.Tech. in Computer Engineering and Onam Sinha Shubham Yadav B.Tech. in Chemical Science & Engineering Engineering Pal Prakhar Singh and B.Tech. in Siddhant Arora Computer Science & Paridhi Gupta Aditya Choudhary Engineering Sudeep Agarwal Anuj Sahu Parth Jindal Abhishek Yadav Surya Chandra Kalia Anurag Rathore Prajval Kumar Amol Mukesh Bambode Twinkal Meena

52 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 M.Tech. in Ayush Agarwal Masa Akhil Samarth Gulyani Mathematics & Computing and Ayush Malpani Md Tausif Alam Sandeep Kumar B.Tech. in Mathematics Ayush Singhal Nikhil Kumar Agrawal Siddharth Khera & Computing Bhuvnesh Khandelwal Pranav Kumar Tarun Gupta Adarsh Kumar Aditya Narayan Singh Chinmay Singh Pulkit Goel Utsav Sen Aryaman Garg Kishan Sahu Ravi Khannawalia Yogesh Gupta

5-YEAR INTEGRATED MASTER OF TECHNOLOGY

M.Tech. in Mathematics & Computing Sourabh Singh Dhyania

M.TECH. UNDER ADVANCED STANDING

M.Tech. in Structural M.Tech. in Thermal M.Tech. in Computer M.Tech. in Computer Engineering and Engg. and B.Tech. Science & Engg. and Science & Engg. and B.Tech. in Civil Engg. in Mechanical B.Tech. in Mechanical B.Tech. in Production Devesh Kumar Engineering Engineering & Industrial Dewangan Shubham Raj Tomar Manas Joshi Engineering Mohd Danish Akshay Kumar Pansari M.Tech. in Mechanical M.Tech. in Computer M.Tech. in Engineering M.Tech. in Computer Design and B.Tech. in Science & Engg. and Analysis & Design and Science & Engg. and Mechanical Engg. B.Tech. in Textile B.Tech. in Mechanical B.Tech. in Engineering Shubham Technology Engineering Physics Vinay Arora Navreet Kaur Shashank Saxena Nilaksh Agarwal

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 53 MASTER OF TECHNOLOGY

Applied Mechanics Samarth Charandas Charan S Salian Toran Roy Dhengre Adil Eqbal Jitendra Mandi Vijay Raj Tomar Satish Kumar Advait Sanjay Pohekar Kushal Kumar Satya Prakash Construction Amar Kumar Kanaujiya Maregie Adugna Hailu Technology and Amit Kumar Management Shashank Kumar Puppala Harika Amit Sharma Srivastav Rohit Kumar Aditya Shiv Ankit Chaurha Shashwat Panda Sewale Kebede Ajay Singh Jhala Ankit Kumar Verma Shobhit Jain Alemayehu Akshay Kumar Arpit Singhvi Sreyansh Choudhury Shivam Gupta Amarjeet Singh Ashutosh Saraswat Vivek Chaudhary Sudha Kumari Debasis Bandhu Deepak Sumit Kumar Dhurjuti Das Biomedical Deepak Engineering Sunil Kumar Mahto Diwakar Mishra Digbijoy Mukherjee Arijit Dey Tanmaya Singhal Gagandeep Kumar Garg Hemant Kumar Nama Lata Kaushik Vidit Tiwari Gajavelli Venkatesh Krishan Kumar Manish Awasthi Vijay Kumar Joshi Shivani Dipak Kumar Sagar Mridula Vij Vikas Anand Kalidhas S Kush Agarwal Ramya V Molecular Engineering Kamal Krishna Mohammed Arif Roshni Kedia - Chemical Synthesis Mansoori and Analysis Madhur Goyal Narendra Singh Chemical Engineering Greesh Kumar Manoj B Naresh Kumar Abyansh Akarsh Roy Komal Kumari Gupta Mohd Raza Rizvi Rajnish Kumar Akanksha Dhayal Neha Jain Nihal Kumar Nihar Ranjan Rai Rakesh Kumar Anju Sheba Mathew Rahul Yadav Asha Devi Nitin Kumar Sachin Kumar Ravi Saini Avinash Raj Pankaj Sachin Kumar Thakur Rochak Kumar Sahil Chawla Badege Abera Sanbi Rana Praveen Kumar

54 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 Rahul Rathi Ankit Khurana Rock Engineering Swetasmita Prusty and Underground Shubham S Singh Anuj Gautam Uppala Akhila Bharathi Structure Shweta Thawait Gaurav Swami Chuna Ram Computer Science & Gautam Jindal Siddharthram R Mohd Sadiq Khan Engineering Hrishav Simranjeet Singh Shahnawaz Ahmad Aditya Kumar Kumar Rajnish Singireddy Guna Wala Brijesh Ashokbhai Aditya Mishra Shekar Reddy Pushkar Kaushik Anshu Bansal Vishnu Kant Pandey Rahul Kalra Environmental Barwaria Phaneesh Rahul Meena Engineering & Vijay Dutt Maaya Geotechnical & Management Geoenvironmental Rahul Panjiyar Chirag Manwani Eliza Vanlalpeka Engineering Ram Avtar Liler Garima Himanshu Bansal Akash Verma Rohen Singh Gaurav Shukla Jigyashu Nikol S Durga Prasad Dora Godse Saurabh Milind Keshab Chandra Kumar Praveen Oswal Shirpa Prakash Hariom Ahlawat Md Mustufa Satyam Dey Shivam Srivastava Radhika Jasbir Singh Supriya Bharti Transportation Rojna Sharma Konark Verma Engineering Udit Negi Sumit Suman Kumari Rekha Anjali Tarar V Rajesh Patro Urman Ali Mahendra Pratap Singh Varun Datta Harshit Gupta Mayank Jain Vishal Seth Kausik Pahari Water Resources Misha Mehra Engineering Md. Afroz Khan Construction Namrata Jain Engineering & Aman Gupta Mekuanint Getnet Nitish Raj Hunegnaw Management Bilal Khan Yusufi Aditya Mittal Prashant Kumar Sudeep Kumar Mishra Dereje Ayalew Avdhesh Singh Negi Sewagegnehu Prateek Gupta Sushant Rakesh Kumar Sharma Jyotiranjan Barik Prayas Sahni Structural Engineering Ved Prakash Sinha Nazeer Ahmad Faizi Pushkar Singh Abhishek Kumar Singh Venugopal Mahajan Rishabh Gupta Rohit Sharma

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 55 Ruturaj Mohanty Manish Kumar Rajat Kumar Shit Jeeban Kumar Sethi Sriraam S V Mohd Shamikh Shikhar Muley Khangar Churchill Hemraj Suraj S P V Nagajayanth Shiva Upadhyay Lalith Kumar S Varun Pareek Prakash Singh Power Systems Naina Mehta Purbesh Mitra Control and Abhinav Srivastava Nellimarla Hari Kiran Automation Rakesh Goyal Abinash Sahoo Parveen Bajaj Allu Sai Haneesh Sonali Rai Ambuj Gupta Patil Asmita Nandkumar Jagdambika Prasad Sunil Kumar Srivastava Arvind Kumar Sah Swapnil Agrawal K S Santosh Integrated Electronics Debanjan Dey Satyam Rohila & Circuits Kajol Bharti Karan Gupta Siddharth Kumar Chanchal Kumar Neelesh Kumar Saini Karri Pavan Kumar Wadood Ahmad Khan Divyank Kumar Singh Rahul Singh Mohneesh Rastogi Katakam Krishna Vamsi Industrial Engineering Rahul Yadav Nautiyal Aayush Girish Katari Srinu Indu Ashutosh Singh Rishabh Chauhan Mounika Kundurthi Santosh Kumar Kinshuk Agrawal Rohit Rana Sandeep Kaur Sirin Sanchay Pankaj Prajapat Satyam Singh Shishir Gautam Pokkunuri Saikrishna Shatyajit Dutta Sudeep Thakur Computer Technology Chaitanya Shubham Thakur Vindeshvari Prasad Abhay Gupta Purusharth Pathak Communications Gupta Abhishek Bohra Sambit Mohanty Engineering Viswesh K R Aghil Sabu Shashank Shekhar Ajay Bharti Ajinkya Purushottam Singh Power Electronics, Wasnik Amit Kumar Patel Electrical Machines Sundarmohan Besra Ashish Raheja and Drives Ankit Sharma Vinit Kumar Singh Deepak Meena Abhishek Ranjan Dahiphale Palash Baburao Mechanical Design Harshdeep Singh Kethavath Raju Naik Deepak Kumar Chandan Kumar Khedkar Shubham Narendra Kumar Pramod Chaudhary Devyani Agarwal Deepanshu Singh

56 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 Dharme Saurabh Sudhir Dipender Meena Rohit Prajapati Hardeep Singh Govind Yadav Himanshu Tiwari Roshan Ramesh Nehe Keshav Kumar Harsh Khandate Bharat Shardul Md Shahin Alam Devidas Harshit Kumar Jaiswal Vivek M Mohan Naina Mayank Gupta Himanshu Gupta Namrata Bansal Mohit Agarwal Applied Optics Mohit Tunwal Nitish Kumar Pulkit Dhaundyal Aman Mishra Shrivastava Mukul Gupta Shivam Sahu Prabal Dweep Khanikar Munna Kapoor Amol Deo Vishnuprasad C.G. Rajni N. Jayakrishnan Anjika Kumari Rishikesh Ashutosh Mishra Narayanasetti Harish Thermal Engineering Kumar Sanjeev Kumar Abhishek Gupta Dipti Ranjan Rana Nikam Shubham Savita Sahu Ajoy U. Gaurav Kumar Vasantrao Shabbin Rahiman K Ayush Bhardwaj Manish Kala Paridhi Mishra Sonika Singh Ayush Lamba Muskan Kularia Pyla Ramana Raju Sumit Kumar Bhoir Chaitanya Sunil Pranav Wani Raunak Singh Vikas Jangra Pushpalata Ritish Kamboj S. Dinesh Kumar Vivek Dey Bondalapati Abhishek Rohit Sandeep Gehani Chandra Prakash Textile Engineering Sivaragavi S A Sakshi Dasari Surya Shashank Shekhar Amit Shukla Tushar Sharma Bhagawan Ashish Rastogi Shreyansh Ratnam Gaurav Pratap Production Khare Bharat Gupta Engineering Gaurav Pundir Shruti Jain Danvendra Singh Abhishek Singh Jiwane Rohit Mohan Ganesh A Abhishek Singla Naman Kumar Jain Solid State Materials Harmandeep Ankit Gupta Pankaj Singh Ashutosh Kumar Himanshu Pundir Ankur Sharma Pawan Kumar Azminul Jaman Mulla Riyajahmad Anurag Yadav Rahul Pandey Gazal Gupta Moulaali

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 57 Nidhi Mittal Ramnath Kumar Radio Frequency Shrikant Kumar Design and Nitish Kumar Rupesh Kumar Shweta Singh Technology Rasujit Chongder Sagar Kumar Suyash Narain Singh Adil Mehmood Siddiqui Ravikant Prasad Verma Shankha Ghosh Ullas Taneja Ashish Tiwari Sandeep Kumar Maurya Sinchan Shit Ummang Gaurav Singh Srishti BAJPAI Vandna Kumari Puspad Shivangi Shukla Gauri Shankar Mishra Sumit Kumar Singh Vibhanshu Chaturvedi Shreejit Sarkar Gourav Yadav Yogesh Jangra Sumona Chakrabarti Textile Chemical Hardeep Kadian Atmospheric Veerhi Vishnu K P Processing Ishan Raj Sawla Oceanic Science and Abhishek Kumar Singh Fibre Science & Manish Kumar Singh Technology Technology Ankit Kumar Singh Manjari Bhavesh Purohit Abhishek Kumar Anushree Budhauliya Manu Kashyap Dwaipayan Chatterjee Amit Baiju Urmila Patel Ayishe Sanyal Nitin Bhardwaj Hari Kumar Anil Kumar Dewali Mallick Pranav Kumar Isha Singh Ashish Mishra Hayelom Belay Asefaw Prashant Kumar Kompella Siva Santhosh Sai Srujan Dashrath Alodiya Mayank Goel Rajat Srivastava Manish Gupta Jogender Mukul Gupta Rishi Vij Parsundeep Singh Kanchan Doheray Priyanka Tiwari Sanjeev Kumar Sharma Sayali Ravindra Meenal Agrawal Vhanbatte Vishal Vinod Saurabh Yadav Kulkarni Meharchand Vivek Yadav Shashank Mittal Shivani Sharma

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Management Systems Ankit Sharma Anuj Talwar Ashish Chauhan Akshay Ankita Dhamija Apte Manas Narendra A Shiva Kumar Akshay Choudhary Ankush Bagley Aritra Mukherjee Bhavsar Tanmay Manoj Aman Kumar Anmol Bansal Arjun Kumar Garg Chitransh Saxena

58 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 Daksh Pradeep Jain Pankaj Bansal Akansha Chaturvedi Rahul Gupta Deshini Varun Teja Patel Ruchit Hareshbhai Apnavi Chaturvedi Rahul Kumar Garima Kumar Prashanth G Arjun Sharma Rakesh Kumar Gaurav Maheswari Prateek Taneja Arpit Kumar Rai Rohit Rana Gurtej Singh Rahul Bambha Ashish Pandey Sangh Shekhar Harald Harris Raman Kumar Ayush Bansal Shantanu Hareesh Aluri Rishab Goyal Deepak Kumar Shiv Kumar Malik Harshit Singh Sai Chandra Nakka Deepali Singh Parmar Shivam Bawa Shivani Gupta Himanshu Bansal Saurabh Acharjee Devanshu Bajaj Shranik Kumar Jain Honey Chawla Shivam Khurana Gaurav Saraswat Shreya Huchche Mayuresh Shrinkhal Gupta Hayat Singh Mehra Ambadas Simardeep Singh Shubham Dixit Hemaabh Sethi Mendhiratta Kasturi Durga Babu Siddharth Chaturvedi Ishanee Bajpai Sneha Lall S Krushnakant Bhakre S Narayan Kanika Sharma Sonia Jain Kunal Jain Sonam Radheshyam Kiruthika T.k. Soumil Arora Kunal Nitin Agarwal Geeta Verma Lokesh Saini Suhail Manav Garg Soubhik Basu Manish Katyal Sujit Kumar Biswas Manjot Kaur S Sachin Mayanka Mishra Varun Dixit Mayank Jain Sumit Tyagi Meenakshi Sharma Vikas Sharma Meera Krishna S P V Alekhya Mohd Tayyab Rao Vikram Malik Vikram Gosain Mohit Mishra Nidhi Verma Yogesh Sharma Mohit Prabhakar Vinay Birhman Nishant Kumar Telecommunication Navin L Viraj Amrutlal Patel Bhatnagar Systems Management Nikhil Aggarwal Nitika Pasricha Technology Aastha Gupta Nishant Kishore Management Prachi Bhambani Ambika Prasad Chanda Nitish Singhal Abhinav Sharma Prachi Sinha Gokulkrishnan S P Amareswar Abhishek Chaudhary Priyanka Vibhishek Chandar K

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 59 PG D.I.I.T.

Naval Construction Megha Rachel Kurian Prabhu Dev Das Sai Sabarish M Abhay Singh Charan Mohammad Ziauddin Prerna Sharma Santhosh Kumar. S Akash Bhasin Parvez Priyanka Gusain Saumya Singh Ananth Kishore Murali Krishna G Rahul Pareek Saurabh Sharma Arpit Trivedi Nitin Agrawal Rahul Pillania Hitesh Singh Yadav Oommen Roy Rahul Thakur Srishti Tiwari Mandeep Singh Patil Akshay Hanmant Rishav Raj Sumit Kiran Chavan

Diploma of IIT Delhi (D.I.I.T.)

Civil Engineering Piyush Agarwal

MASTER OF SCIENCE

Chemistry Deeksha Gopaliya Koushik Makhal Raj Kumar Animesh Mishra Dharmendra Kumar Mahipal Rajat Kumar Ankit Yadav Verma Mansi Sharma Roopesh Kumar Anshu Divya Megha Ruchi Kumari Anuj Kumar Ekta Navneet Kumar Sagar Saini Anurag Verma Garima Satija Nidhi Saini Sandeep Kumar Arti Sharma Haridutt Sharma Nikunj Kumar Shiv Prashan Arvind Tiwari Henadri Debbarma Nisha Shivam Asgar Ali Jatin Grover Nishi Agarwal Shivam Srivastav Astha Tyagi Jitender Kumar Nitin Kumar Shweta Tyagi Banwari Lal Meena Kajal Priyanka Gogoi Simran Arora Dambarudhar Samal Karan Doda Rahul Stanzin Lzaod Danish Kartik Jain Rahul Kumar Sunil Kumar

60 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 Tiwari Vikas Omprakash Komal Lawat Physics Neha Dhanka Sheela Krishna Gopal Yadav Abhishek Kumar Poshika Gandhi Tushar Taneja Lalit Mohan Abhishek Verma Puneet Pareek Unik Arora Manish Kadela Akash Mishra Rahul Aggarwal Vanshita Garg Nasheed Jafri Akriti Singh Rahul Puri Vishal Kumar Naveen Gupta Aniket Dwivedi Raj Ashish Sudhir Nikhil Chanauria Kumar Mathematics Ankit Sharma Nikke Chejara Rajendra Singh Negi Adesh Dahiya Ankita Rawat Nitish Kumar Ravi Kumar Meena Ajeet Kumar Ram Anurag Saini Pankaj Kumawat Rohit Juneja Amit Arnab Ghosh Paramhans Kushwaha Rohit Kumar Anju Rani Ashutosh Raj Priyanka Sakshee Anshul Avantika Gautam Priyanka Gupta Sarita Kumari Aruna Ayan Halder Pulkit Mandowara Shelake Mukund Ashwini Kumar Chandan Nanasaheb Rajendra Babu Lal Choudhary Chandra Sen Shobha Ram Santosh Kumar Sharma Choudhary Baby Gill Debabrata Sahu Sarda Amar Shouvik Bhattacharjee Badri Vishal Singh Gopalkrushna Deepak Shouvik Sarkar Bhawna Sujata Singh Deepak Verma Dhalia Trishul Shubham Kumar Charan Kumar Sunil Kumar Payal Debadatta Ishani De Dhameliya Avinash Taruna Garg Shweta Vinubhai Khushbu Sharma Tushar Singh Soumyaranjan Khuntia Diksha Gupta Kiran Upendra Meena Subham Naskar Gurubachan Lalit Hari Utsav Kumar Singh Sumit Sharma Himanshu Yadav Manisha Vanshika Suresh Kumar Hrit Roy Ved Prakash Mishra Manoj Gupta Bhambhu Kanupriya Vikas Singh Mohit Verma Suvam Kumar Behera Keshav Vivek Meena Nakul Kumar Vishvajeet Sinha

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 61 BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY

Biochemical Engg. & Nikhil Shenoy Vivek Gurinder Singh Biotechnology Nipun Gupta Chemical Engineering Harsh Kanadi Abhishek Kumar Kushwaha Pragya Mehra Abhigya Parashar Himanshu Abhishek Kumar Singh Prateek Kumar Abhishek Patel Indra Kumar Rajak Agnihotri Aishwarya Singh Adeesh Kolluru Ishaan Gupta Puneet Lagoo Akashi Negi Aditi Gupta Jasleen Kaur Raghav Mishra Amit Kumar Aditya Jagrat Kshitiz Agrawal Rishi Dayanand Aditya Rajan Anshul Mandawat M S Aishwaryah Rohan Sanghi Akhil Kumar Anuja Trivedi Mayank Shukla Sannat Mengi Akhtar Hussain Arunima Singh Mehul Singhal Sanyam Modi Aman Singhal Avlokit Kumar Namrata Tripathi Saransh Kumar Ambati Chandra Sekhar Bharti Nakwal Namya Agarwal Satyageet Amit Choudhary Eeshwar Dutt Nirmal Navish Goyal Anant Rawatkar Ghanshyam Meena Satyajeet Kumar Neelanshu Anisha Singrodia Gulshan Verma Shreya Johri Nishtha Gupta Arpit Saraf Ishank Pahwa Sonal Arora Patel Pranav Avinash Shishir Khalkho Suyash Kumar Tak Patel Vedant Jivesh Madan Bhuwnesh Chaudhary Talabathula Ravali Karan Birpali Daksh Naruka Piyush Verma Kanaka Saran Kumar Shubham Dhanesh Sethia Pranav Nalinkumar Tanya Chaudhary Patel Madhur Virli Dharmendra Kumar Uddeshya Jaiswal Pranjal Kacholia Muskan Choudhary Meena Udiyaman Shukla Divya Choudhary Pratham Mehta Nadiyadra Hemal Nileshbhai Varuni Sarwal Divyansh Mathur Pratyush Dhasmana Navdeep Vikas Kumar Gaurav Singh Tanwar Rahul Motwani

62 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 Rajeev Bhomia Abhishek Verma Geetagya Dubey Pradeep Goyal Ravi Kant Singh Achyutam Rai Hargun Singh Grover Prashant Yadav Rohan Verma Adarsh Agrawal Harsh Gupta Prateet Garg Saryansh Adarsh Kumar Sonu Harsh Singla Pratik Bhaskar Satyam Anand Aditya Partap Singh Harshad Shukla Puneet Kumar Shikhar Goel Akarsh Shrivastava Himanshu Kumar Rahul Meena Shubham Gupta Akhil Kumar Himanshu Singh Rishabh Kumar Rewar Siddharth Singh Akshat Sharma Jitin Gupta Ritesh Kumar Soumya Prakash Animesh Jain Rohit Bidiyasar Behera Karamtote Prashanth Anirudh Katiyar Sanchit Bedi Sunil Kumar Keshav Prasoon Anjali Choudhary Sanchit Sharma Surya Garg Ketan Jain Ankit Goyal Sanchit Singh Ujjwal Nemchand Tater Kurapati Ruthwik Reddy Anoop Bishnoi Sandrana Sai Kumar Utsav Das Kushal Kumar Vaidhyaprakash Anurag Goyal Lokesh Harioudh Sangam Raj Choudhary Arvind Kumar Madhav Kumar Jha Sanjay Singh Tomar Vanshika Jindal Ashutosh Janu Manoj Kumar Yadav Satyam Kumar Varun Poddar Ashutosh Raj Md Fasih Raghib Saurabh Sharma Vikas Meena Ayush Sharma Shanu Singhal Mithilesh Kumar Vikash Kumar Basant Dudi Bhartiya Shivam Kartikeyan Atal Vipin Yadav Bharti Singh Chauhan Mohit Dayma Shivam Sachdeva Vishal Gupta Damanjeet Singh Mukul Anand Siddharth Tiwari Yash Madhurendra Devanshu Jorwal Nikhil Agrawal Sourabh Kumar Singh Yogesh Gupta Devendra Singh Meena Nilesh Kumar Sudhanshu Yadav

Civil Engineering Devendra Sonkeware Ojaswi Dubey Sudhir Kumar Aakash Bansal Divyansh Gupta Pankaj Joshi Sunil Kumar Yogi Abhinav Anand Garima Gupta Paras Arora Suraj Kumar

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 63 Suresh Animesh Singh Khammampati Anirudh Samarth Aggarwal Surya Prakash Ankit Akash Jha Konuganti Sai Kumar Sankalan Pal Reddy Chowdhury Tanmay Kumar Singh Ankush Shaw Korakoppula Suresh Saransh Verma Tanmay Meghwal Ansh Prakash Kulkarni Nikhil Dilip Sarthak R Vishnoi Tulsa Ram Anubhav Palway Kurmapu Venkata Shantanu Verma Anubhav Singh Uppadi Roshini Sai Vijaya Sai Prasanth Shashank Goel Anugu Sai Kiran Reddy Utkarsh Mishra Manas Meena Anupam Singh Shashwat Banchhor Varun Kumar Prashant Manav Rao Arpan Mangal Shashwat Shivam Vijay Kumar Manish Tanwar Meghwanshi Ayush Patel Shingi Siddhant Navin Minhaj Shakeel Vikas Faldoliya Ayush Verma Shreshth Tuli Mohit Choudhary Vikas Verma Chetan Mittal Shubham Parth Shah Vikram Kumar Danam Harshith Shubham Jain Pradyumna Meena Vinod Kumar Ghunavat Chandra Soumya Sharma Pranav Baurasia Virok Sharma Deepanshu Jindal Srijan Sinha Pranav Bhagat Vivek Kumar Divyanshu Saxena Sunil Kumar Pratyush Maini Yashasvi Maurya Donapati Hardhik Tarun Kumar Yadav Pulkit Gaur Yogendra Kumar Singh G S M Rishikesh Reddy Ujjwal Gupta Pushpam Anand Gampala Naveen Vaddadi Sai Rohan Computer Science & R Jayanth Reddy Golla Venkata Sai Varada Pavan Sai Engineering Dheeraj Rahul Bansal Vinayak Rastogi Abhinash Kumar Harshit Goel Rahul V Yash Raj Gupta Adigopula Sai Teja Himanshu Rajas Bansal Aditya Jain Jay Kumar Modi Ratanlal Electrical Engineering Aditya Jetha Karan Dwivedi Rathi Sushant Shyam Abhinav Kalra Akshat Khare Karra Akhilesh Rayala Harichandan Abhishek Bansal Akshay Neema Kartik Kumar Sachin Kumar Prajapati Aditya Abhishek

64 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 Akanshu Gupta Himanshu Garg Rahil Choudhary Vallamkondu Rushi Manoj Alla Upendher Reddy Hritik Bansal Rahul Kumar Jhajharia Vipul Vaibhav Aman Mohapatra Indr Raj Gurjar Rahul Meena Vivek Singal Amit Verma Jitender Singh Rahul Meena Vudala Sai Susrith Amit Yadav Kanish Garg Raman Yogesh Kumar Singh Anand Kumar Verma Kargil Singh Solanki Ravi Singh Ankit Agarwal Kashish Jain Ritwik Chakravarti Electrical Engineering (Power) Ankit Kumar Bunkar Khushal Sethi Rohad Prajwal Karamchand Kshitiz Vijayvargiya Ankit Meghwanshi Komarabathina Isaac Prasanth Sajal Jain Anubhav Bhatia Electrical Engineering Kunal Narayan Sandesh Sen (Power Automation) Apoorv Dankar Lakshya Pratap Rastogi Sankalp Garg Aakriti Singh Arpit Singh Malay Jain Santosh Kumar Aditya Varma Ashwin Tunga Mannam Akhil Sanyam Chhangani Akash Goyal Avinash Bhutani Marzooq Abdul Kareem Sarthak Sablania Akhil Kajla Chilukamari Shiva Sai Mayank Mishra Krishna Saurabh Kumar Akshat Agarwal N Tarun Sai Ganesh Dev Sureshbhai Gajera Shikhar Tuli Akshay Karol Nalawade Sarvesh Devesh Joshi Bharat Shivam Jain Aman Singh Dhruv Kawat Namonarayan Meena Shivansu Kumar Burma Vaishnavi Divyansh Gupta Nikhil Meena Shubham Priyadarshi Chinmaya Singh Gadhavi Yash Nishad Singhi Siddhant Jindal Dalvi Snigdha Suresh Gandhi Siddhesh Atul Nishant Verma Suramya Saxena Geetika Mathur Gantavya Bhatt Nitin Yadav Tanay Asija Haneesh Aggarwal Gaurav Jhajharia Parimeya Ranadive Tushar Chaudhary Hardik Saluja Harshit Jain Piyush Mittal Udit Raj Singh Harsh Jain Hemant Kumar Pogu Rahul Raju Vaibhav Porwal Harsh Jedia

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 65 Jitendra Vishwakarma Sonu Kumar Chandan Mittal Nitesh Singh Kartik Hans Tarun Sahu Devansh Jindal Paikrao Saurav Atul Kartik Mundra Usman Hafiz Devanshu Agarwal Parth Chopra Koduru Sidharth Vaibhav Kalra Dhabu Saurabh Patel Bilv Nemkumar Mahendra Meena Vinayak Goyal Pranav Chawla Dhruv Talwar Mayank Khatri Vishnu Solanki Pritesh Meena Diptangshu Sen Mayank Mishra Priyadarshan Mechanical Divyansh Rana Mihir Kumar Engineering Pulkit Agarwal Faraz Mazhar Milanjeet Singh Bhatti Abhinav Upadhyay Rishabh Jangid Harsh Kumar Naman Upadhyaya Abhishek Kumar Rishabh Verma Hemang Shekhar Naval Dubey Abhishek Kumar Meena Rohit Kumar Singh Himanshu Singh Pankaj Sanodiya Adarsh Kumar Sahu Sahil Singh Malik Chauhan Piyush Nain Akash Arun Gupta Sahil Vaish Jawanjal Priyadarshan Prafful Goyal Akash Pardasani Prakash Saksham Jain Pragya Gupta Akshmeet Meena Karmvir Singh Shashwat Jain Rachakonda Siddartha Alok Kumar Krishn Meena Shashwat Maiti Rahul Nimbal Aman Jain Kumar Saurav Shiba Narayan Biswal Rahul P Modpur Aman Sharma Kunal Indra Shivang Rampriyan Dwivedi Rohit Krishnia Aniket Gupta Kushaagra Goyal Shubham Kumar Salil Chandra Anshshiv Garg Kushaal Singh Shubham Mishra Samarth Mohan Arjun Bhardwaj Manish Baghel Shubham Satyarthi Satish Kumar Gaurav Arundhati Dixit Manish Yadav Shubham Verma Shivam Kumar Ayush Srivastava Mohit Khinchi Subhash Chand Meena Shubham Jain B Anirudh Krishna Nandkishore Subhasish Das Shweta Meena Bhuvesh Goyal Navneet Goyal Sudheer Kumar Siddharth Kumar Chaitanya Sharma Neeraj Verma Bhalothia

66 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 Sushant Mendiratta Fahad Jamal Rishabh Mohan Ajay Yadav Sharma Swapnesh Agrawal Harshit Abrol Akshay Jain Rithik Singh Tanmaye Soni Himanshu Suthar Alankrit Garg Sanidhya Tiwari Vikash Hitesh Agarwal Anshuman Shrivastava Sarthak Asati Vikram Baranwal Jaswant Meena Arjya Das Vinod Kumar Shagun Gupta Keshav Kumar Ayush Chaurasia Shantam Sharma Production and Khushee Chahat Chawla Industrial Engineering Shantnav Agarwal Kshitij Gupta Daanish Bansal Abhishek Singh Shivani Bansal Kudapa Milind Deepak Chaurasia Aditya Jain Chowdary Tanmay Goyal Eshan Balachandar Ajayendra Singh Lokesh Dadoriya Tushar Bansal Girraj Godiya Akash Mahajan Manuj Trehan Utkarsh Agrawal Harsh Kumar Akshay Patel Mata Prasad Utkarsh Gupta Alok Meena Kadam Ajit Balaji Mayank Kumar Utkarsh Prajapati Andiboyina Sai Vamsi Kaustubh Prakash Mihir Gautam Vibhu Rawat Anshul Agrawal Kishan K Patel Mihir Raj Vinay Kayath Anshul Morwal Kishan Kumar Mohit Goyal Vineet Topno Arpit Kumar Nikunj Gupta Kumar Prithvi Mishra Mathematics & Arsh Sidana Nirmal Kumar Mani Karan Soni Computing Arun Kumar Nishtha Saxena Nalin Gupta Aajeya Mahendra Jajoo Ashutosh Gamad Praket Parth Naman Jain Abhimanyu Swami Ayyangar Saket Pramod Kumar Tanwar Naman Singh Kanaujia Shivkumar Abhishek Kumar Pranjal Agarwal Parminder Singh Deepak Patel Abhishek Kumar Yadav Priyam Sodhiya Prakhar Anand Divyani Bhaiya Aditi Chaudhary Punit Prateek Goyal Doddi Shyam Kumar Aila Mani Deepak Naidu Rajan Gupta Reddy Priyank

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 67 Rupesh Kumar Dileep Paswan Rishi Raj Aashi Agarwal Sankhala Gaurav Kumar Ritwik Sain Abhishek Rawat Sambhav Khurana Gobind Singh Rudraksh Agarwal Abhishek Yadav Saurabh Kumar M Shah Gohil Nath Sarvesh Agarwal Akanksha Kanwal Shivam Singla Govind Nanda Saurabh Gupta Aman Jindal Siddhant Aman Yadav Hardik Sharma Seemant Tejasvi Siddhartha Shankar Ankit Choudhary Hari Krishnan C K Kahali Shantanu Nigam Ankit Shekhar Kshiti Sneh Rai Sparsh Garg Shaunak Sanjay Thakar Anmol Ratn Majumdar Adhish Tapas Shivaiy Arora Sudesh Sunil Wasnik Anuj Chopra Mudit Garg Shivam Goyal Tejasva Archit Agarwal Muhammad Mursaleen Shubham Verma Arijit Bhardwaj Engineering Physics Nandam Yashwanth Sonal Kumari Ashish Meena Abhijeet Gurjar Nikunj Verma Soumyadeep Sarkar Ashish Siyag Aditya Verma Pradyumna P Sumit Singh Ashutosh Agrawal Akshansh Choudhary Belgaonkar Suraj Bahuguna Ashutosh Singh Aman Mandia Prajwal Umatiya Suraj Goel Avtansh Thakur Aman Verma Pranav Jain Swarnava Sanyal Chaitanya Phuloria Anmol Ojha Prashant Meena Tanushrii Babu Ramesh Chintan Somani Aryan Verma Prashant Singh Chandel Tushar Maurya Deepak Mandloi Ashish Gautam Deuskar Aditya Prathamesh Pradeep Varunesh Kumar Ashutosh Ayush De Divekar Vishwakarma Eashan Bajaj Deepak Meena Prince Sonu Mayank Yash Badola Hansraj Sagar Deepak Sharma Raghav Kumar Yogesh Yadav Harish Jhajharia Deepanshu Raj Agarwal Textile Technology Harry Sehrawat Deshpande Ameya Rashmi Rajeev Uday Pantawane Aamna Afroz Harsh Garg

68 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 Harsh Gupta Navendu Vats Ravinder Kumar Sudhanshu Singh

Harsh Lal Neharika Singhal Renu Kumari Sumakesh Mishra

Himanshu Garg Nikhil Sareen Ridhi Jain Sumit Kumar

Hrithik Chaurasia Nikunj Sangwan Rishav Kumar Surya Prakash Shukla

Karan Yadav Nishchal Arya Rohan Jain Tanuj Singh Kaushal Kumar Parshant Kumar Samir Gupta Udit Keshav Kumar Nagar Pathlavath Shiva Kumar Sandeep Kumar Utkarsh Reniwal Khushank Singhal Pooja Kumari Meena Sarthak Inani Vaibhaw Kundan Kumar Prabhat Ranjan Satendra Kumar Vani Batra Maitreya Wagh Pranav Vilas Nagpure Saurabh Verma Vijay Laxmi Seervi Mamta Jat Pranay Piyush Seema Garhwal Vikas Dhayal Manas Singh Prateek Kinra Shashi Ranjan Kumar Vikash Kumar Manish Painkra Preeti Saini Shaurya Baveja Vini Meena Manohar Jamra Priyanshi Agarwal Sheetal Shraisth Viraj Singh Manoj Kumar Pushpendra Pratap Sheetal Suwalka Mayank Raj Yogi Maurya Vishavjit Sharma Shendre Unnati Milind Mitanshu Muchhal Rajapantula Uma Yatish Bansal Maheswara Rao Shrenic Tejawat Mukesh Kumar Yerule Adityaraj Rajkumar Dhakad Shubham Choudhary Dhananjay Nakrani Shashvat Mansukhbhai Ravi Golechha Sonal Jangir Yewale Jayant Avinash

D.I.I.T. (UG)

Amit Kumar Gupta Devang Yadav Kiran Kumar Metta Prateek Saxena

Anandu S Mukundan Dheeraj Sharma Kunji Lal Meena Sandip Reang Bharothu Venkata Suresh Babu Gautam Ranjan Navin Kumar Gupta Shah Shreyans Shrenik

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 69 THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS

Chairman, BoG Nominee of the State Nominees of the Senate Dr. R. Chidambaram Government Nalin Pant H. Rajesh Prasad, IAS Sangeeta Kohli Director of the Institute V. Ramgopal Rao Nominees of the I.I.T. Council Special Invitee U.P. Singh Ashok K. Ganguli V.K. Tiwari T.C. Kandpal Sumant Sinha Registrar Rajesh Ranjan M.K. Gulati (Secretary) (Officiating)

THE SENATE

V. Ramgopal Rao, R. Alagirusamy Naresh Bhatnagar N. Chatterjee Chairman S. Aravindan B.K. Behera Ratnamala Chatterjee (Ms.) (Director) R. Ayothiraman Gurmail Singh Benipal Shouribrata Chatterjee Deputy Directors P.K. Babu G. Bhuvaneswari (Ms.) R. Chattopadhyay T.C. Kandpal M. Balakrishnan Jayashree Bijwe (Ms.) Santanu Chaudhury Ashok K. Ganguli D.K. Bandhopadhyay Ranjan Bose (on Sujeet Chaudhary S. Banerjee deputation) Tapan Kumar Chaudhuri All Professors (or equivalent) Amitabha Bagchi S. Basu (on lien) Pramit Kumar Chowdhury Abhijit R. Abhyankar Varsha Banerjee (Ms.) Bhupendra Singh Butola Anoop Chawla K.M. Achutarao Ananjan Basu Vivek Vithal Buwa Ashish K. Darpe V.K. Agarwal (on lien) Kanika T. Bhal (Ms.) B.R. Chahar Amita Das (Ms.) Ashwini K. Agarwal Suresh Bhalla Mukesh Chander Apurba Das Monika Aggarwal (Ms.) A.N. Bhaskarwar Pritha Chandra (Ms.) Dipayan Das Babu J. Alappat Manav Bhatnagar V.M. Chariar Manoj Datta

70 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 Swades K. De K.C. Iyer Rakesh Khosa Sudipto Mukherjee S. Dharmaraja Josemon Jacob Sangeeta Kohli (Ms.) Amitabha Shashank Deep Jayan Jose Thomas Subodh Kumar Mukhopadhyay S.G. Deshmukh A.K. Jain Vivek Kumar Anjelie Multani (Ms.) S. Nagendran Anupam Dewan Nidhi Jain (Ms.) Amit Kumar Atul Narang Chinmoy Sarkar Dey Sanjeev Jain Arun Kumar K. Narayanan J.K. Dutt Manjeet Jassal (Ms.) S. Arun Kumar (CS&E) R.B. Nair (Ms.) Anil Jacob Elias Jayadeva S. Kundu S.N. Naik Naveen Garg M. Jagadesh Kumar (on N.D. Kurur lien) Arvind K. Nema Anup K. Ghosh Vansi Krishna Komarala Neeraj Kumar Jha Sunil Nath Sankalpa Ghosh Brejesh Lall Sunil Jha Alok Madan B.P. Patel Santanu Ghosh Joby Joseph Puneet Mahajan Sanjiva Prasad Sudarsan Ghosh Mangla Joshi (Ms.) Abhijit Majumdar B.S. Panda Sourabh Ghosh S.D. Joshi Anushree Malik (Ms.) Preeti Ranjan Panda N.K. Garg R.R. Kalaga Hitendra K. Malik Pulak Mohan Pandey Rahul Garg S.R. Kale Ranjan Kumar Mallik Raj Kumar Pandey James Gomes Prem Kumar Kalra Vasant Annasaheb Siddharth Pandey V.R. Gunturi Santosh Kapuria (on lien) Matsagar B.K. Panigrahi Amit Gupta I.N. Kar Mausam K.K. Pant Ashok Gupta Subrat Kar Aparna Mehra (Ms.) Nalin Pant Bhuvanesh Gupta Ravinder Kaur (Ms.) B.R. Mehta Kolin Paul Deepti Gupta (Ms.) D.R. Kaushal D.S. Mehta Sudip Kumar Pattanayek M.P. Gupta Saroj Kaushik (Ms.) Saroj Mishra (Ms.) Shankar Prakriya Pardeep K. Gupta A.K. Keshari Amruta Mishra (Ms.) Rajesh Prasad S.K. Gupta Rajesh Khanna Sukumar Mishra Goddam Vijay Prakash V. Haridas Mukesh Khare Prashant Mishra B. Premchandran Nabi Hasan S.K. Khare Aditya Mittal A. Ramanan Sriram Hegde Neeraj Khare Subodh V. Modak G.V. Ramana Harish Hirani Reetika Khera (Ms.) Manju Mohan (Ms.) Amit Rawal

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 71 N.G. Ramesh Ravi Shankar (Chy.) Jaya Jose Thomas Chairman, Time Table M.C. Ramteke Ravi Shankar (DMS) Amitabha Tripathi Committee A.D. Rao Anurag Sharma C.A. Tomy Shaikh Z. Ahammad Sreedevi Upadhyayula (Ms.) P.M.V. Subbarao R.K. Sharma Six Members of Faculty P.V. Madhusudan Rao Satyawati Sharma (Ms.) R.K. Varshney M.A. Haider P.V. Rao Seema Sharma (Ms.) Anil Verma Smruti Ranjan Sarangi S.C.S. Rao M.R. Shenoy M. Veerachary Sumeet Agarwal Anurag Singh Rathore Anupam Shukla S.V. Veeravalli Nomesh Bolia M.R. Ravi A.K. Shukla P. Vigneswara Ilavarsan Somnath Baidy Roy V. Ravishankar Aloka Sinha (Ms.) V.K. Vijay Maya Ramanath Anjan Ray Sujeet K. Sinha S.S. Yadav Three Alumni R.S. Rengasamy K.A. Subramanian Representatives Three Educationists Shantanu Roy D. Sundar from Outside IIT Delhi Rohit T. Koshy Sumantra Datta Roy Bhim Singh Gagandeep Kang Ravindra Kumar Nilanjan Senroy Harpal Singh S.S.V. Ramakumar Vishal Chadha Subir Kumar Saha Jai Deo Singh Najma Akhtar (Ms.) Ambuj D. Sagar J.P. Singh Four Student Representatives Mahim Sagar Maloy Kumar Singha Head, Central Faraz Mazhar Sanjeev Sanghi Purnima Singh (Ms.) Workshop Sarthak Kala Sanil V. Rajendra Singh D. Ravi Kumar Nitika Patwa Mukul Sarkar Shveta Singh (Ms.) Arif Mansoori Sameer Sapra Surya Prakash Singh Librarian Huzur Saran S.P. Singh Nabi Hasan Permanent Invitee - JR/ DR/AR (Academics) Anil Kumar Saroha Sushil One of the Wardens Atul Vyas Bhabani Kumar K. Sreenadh Satapathy A.K. Srivastava M.C. Ramteke Suresh Kumar Gohar (Karakoram Hostel) Jagdish T. Shahu Pankaj Srivastava Gokul Dev Bahuguna T.R. Sreekrishnan Kushal Sen Chairman, Grade & Registrar P. Senthilkumaran Prabal Talukdar Registration (UG & PG) Sandeep Chatterjee Sandeep Sen Geetam Tiwari (Ms.) Rajiv K. Srivastava (Secretary)

72 IIT DELHI 51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 THE CONVOCATION COMMITTEE

Shantanu Roy Pramit K. Chowdhury M.K. Gulati Abhijit R. Abhyankar (Chairperson) Anupam Shukla Mukesh Khandelwal S.K. Saha Ashok K. Ganguli K. Sreenadh Anuj Gaur Vivek Buwa T.C. Kandpal Pritha Chandra (Ms.) G.K. Taneja Pardeep Gupta K.C. Iyer Rajiv K. Srivastava Bhim Singh Arvind K. Nema Jyoti Kumar Joby Joseph Gokul Dev Bahuguna Sudipto Mukherjee Shaikh Zia Ahammad Mukul Sarkar Suresh Kr. Gohar Naveen Garg Amit Gupta M.R. Ravi Atul Vyas Sunil Kumar Khare K. Narayanan Kushal Sen (Member Secretary)

51st ANNUAL CONVOCATION 2020 IIT DELHI 73 ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE

THE VISITOR Shri Ram Nath Kovind (Hon’ble President of India)

CHAIRMAN, BOARD OF GOVERNORS Dr. R. Chidambaram

DIRECTOR Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao

DEPUTY DIRECTORS Prof. T.C. Kandpal (Operations) Prof. Ashok K. Ganguli (Strategy & Planning)

DEANS Prof. Shantanu Roy : Academics Prof. Naveen Garg : Alumni Affairs & Prof. S. Mukherjee : Faculty International Programmes Prof. S.K. Khare : Research & Development Prof. Arvind K. Nema : Student Affairs Prof. P.V. Rao : Planning Prof. K.C. Iyer : Infrastructure Prof. Anurag Singh Rathore : Corporate Relations

ASSOCIATE DEANS Prof. Anupam Shukla : Academics (Curriculum) Prof. Pramit K. Chowdhury : Students Events Prof. K. Sreenadh : Academics (PG Research) Prof. Deepti Gupta : Hostel Management Prof. Pritha Chandra (Ms.) : Academics (Academic Prof. Reetika Khera (Ms.) : Student Welfare Outreach & New Initiatives) Prof. Abhijit R. Abhyankar : Infra-Electrical Prof. Subodh Kumar : Faculty Prof. J.T. Shahu : Infra-Renovation Prof. Sukumar Mishra : R & D Prof. B. Premachandran : Infra-Maintenance

REGISTRAR Mr. M.K. Gulati (Officiating)

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M.K. Gulati Joint Registrar (IRD Accounts) Kalyan Kr. Bhattacharjee Joint Registrar (E-I, FAA, R&I, AA&IP) Atul Vyas Joint Registrar (Academics, Publication Cell) Mohd. Shamim Deputy Registrar (Accounts) N. Bhaskar Deputy Registrar (Director’s Office, Health Unit, ICC, Nodal Officer for Public Grievances (PG), Vigilance Matters, Gender Grievances) Ramesh Kumar Thareja Assistant Registrar (Recruitment Cell) (on contract) Alan V. Sinate Assistant Registrar (Store & Purchase Section) Mukesh Chand Assistant Registrar (Conference, Coordination) Raj Kumar Gupta Assistant Registrar (Accounts) Deb Ranjan Mukherjee Assistant Registrar (Accounts) Sanjay Pande Assistant Registrar (Estt.-II) Amitabh Mukherjee Assistant Registrar (Audit) S.N. Tiwari Assistant Registrar (on deputation) Suresh Kumar Gohar Assistant Registrar (Academics - UGS) Anand Prakash Assistant Registrar (Student Affairs, Hindi Cell) Rama Sharma (Ms.) Assistant Registrar (IRD) G.D. Bahuguna Assistant Registrar (Legal Cell, Academics - PGS) Mukesh Khandelwal Institute Engineer G.K. Taneja Executive Engineer Anuj Gaur Executive Engineer Ashok Kumar Executive Engineer Rafat Jamal Assistant Executive Engineer V.K. Bharaj Assistant Executive Engineer Prem Kumar Assistant Executive Engineer Brahm Prakash Assistant Executive Engineer Raju Ram Parihar Assistant Executive Engineer

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Pradip Karmarkar Assistant Executive Engineer (on deputation) Prem Singh Rawat Assistant Executive Engineer Vir Bhan Singh Assistant Executive Engineer Lily Khosa (Ms.) CMO (SAG), (Additional Charge, Head, Hospital Services) Renu Misurya (Ms.) CMO (SAG) Ajay Kumar Jain CMO (SAG), (Associate Head, Hospital Services) M.K. Sagar CMO (SAG) Anila Khosla (Ms.) CMO (SAG) P.K. Rajesh CMO (Homeopathy) Md. Ashafaque Hussain CMO Sayed Yasmeen Raunaq (Ms.) Sr. Medical Officer L. Pangerlemba Sr. Medical Officer Rajlaxmi Borah (Ms.) Medical Officer Abhishek Gupta Medical Officer Shalini Singh (Ms.) Medical Officer (Dental) (on contract) Deepak Negi Sports Officer Anishya O. Madan (Ms.) Industrial Liaison Officer Shachi Mathur (Ms.) Student Counsellor Aakriti Astha (Ms.) Student Counsellor (on contract) Krinika Doval (Ms.) Student Counsellor (on contract) Sandeep Sharma Security Officer and Transport Unit Shiv Prakash Yadav Public Relations Officer, PIO Bhupender Singh Principal Tech. Officer Uday Dadwal Tech. Officer Neeraj Kumar Tech. Officer

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