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Annual Report 2019-2020 (April 1, 2019 - March 31, 2020) Indian Institute of Technology Delhi www.iitd.ac.in Contents 1. ABOUT US 2-3 12. CENTRAL FACILITIES 93-97 2. VISION, MISSION, AND VALUES 4 • Central Library 93 • Hindi Cell 93 3. MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR 5-11 • Central Research Facility 94 4. YEAR IN REVIEW 12-13 • Educational Technology Services Centre 95 5. ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANISATION 14-15 • IIT Hospital 95 • Computer Services Centre 96 6. ACADEMIC UNITS AT IIT DELHI 16 13. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 98-109 7. CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE 17-18 • Academic and Sponsored Research 98 8. ACADEMIC PROFILE 19-24 • Foundation for Innovation and Technology 9. STUDENT PROFILE AND ACHIEVEMENTS 25-50 Transfer (FITT) 106 • Admissions 25 14. COLLABORATIONS 110-115 • International Students 34 • International Visitors 112 • Scholarships, Assistantships, and Awards 35 • Academic Performance 39 15. CORPORATE RELATIONS 116-118 • Students’ Recognitions 44 16. ENDOWMENT FUND 119 • Training and Placement 48 17. ALUMNI AFFAIRS 120-123 10. FACULTY PROFILE AND ACHIEVEMENTS 51-60 • Distinguished Alumni Award / • Faculty Strength 51 Alumni Service Award 120 • Teaching and Academic Staff in Position 52 • Interaction with Alumni 121 • New Appointments 57 • Alumni Contribution 122 • Faculty Awards and Recognitions 58 18. STUDENT AFFAIRS 124-135 11. PERFORMANCE OF ACADEMIC UNITS 61-92 19. ACADEMIC OUTREACH 136-138 • Publications 61 • Major Projects Undertaken 66 20. INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT 139-141 • Conferences/Seminars/Workshops/ 21. FINANCIALS 142-144 Lectures Organised 75 • Distinguished Visitors to the Academic Units 84 22. APPENDICES 145-150 • New Courses Developed 88 • Senate 145 • QIP/CEP/GIAN Programmes Organised 90 • Administrative and other Staff 147 • New Equipment Installed 91 • Other Committees 149 IIT DELHI CONTENTS 1 About us History The concept of the IITs was first introduced in a report of twenty-three IITs for higher education, research and in the year 1945 by Shri N.M. Sircar, then member of development in science, engineering and technology, Education on Viceroy’s Executive Council. Following his humanities and social sciences, and in management in recommendations, the first Indian Institute of Technology India. The others are at Bhilai, Varanasi, Bhubaneswar, was established in the year 1950 in Kharagpur. In his Bombay, Dhanbad, Dharwad, Gandhinagar, Goa, Guwahati, report, Shri Sircar had suggested that such Institutes Hyderabad, Indore, Jammu, Jodhpur, Kanpur, Kharagpur, should also be started in different parts of the country. The Madras, Mandi, Palakkad, Patna, Roorkee, Ropar, and Government having accepted these recommendations Tirupati. of the Sircar Committee decided to establish more Institutes of Technology with the assistance of friendly countries who were prepared to help. The first offer of Status help came from USSR which agreed to collaborate in the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi is an autonomous establishment of an Institute through UNESCO at Bombay. statutory organisation of the Government of India, This was followed by the Institutes of Technology at functioning within the “Institutes of Technology Act, Madras, Kanpur and Delhi with collaborations with West 1961” as amended by the “Institutes of Technology Germany, USA, and UK respectively. (Amendment) Act, 1963”. It is accorded the status of a deemed university with powers to frame its own academic IIT Delhi, established as College of Engineering in 1961, policy, to conduct its own examinations, and to award its was later declared an Institute of National Importance own degrees. The twenty-three Institutes of Technology under the “Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, are coordinated by an apex body known as IIT Council 1963”, re-named as “Indian Institute of Technology Delhi”, with the Minister for Education of the Government of and accorded the status of a deemed university. India as its Chairperson. The Institute was declared as an Presently, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi is one “Institute of Eminence” by the Government of India in 2018. 2 ABOUT US IIT DELHI Campus The Institute campus extends over an area of 320 acres. Tastefully laid out with the picturesque landscape and with numerous buildings of various types and, with clean and wide roads, the campus presents a spectacle of harmony in architecture and natural beauty. The campus area has been divided into four functional zones: IIT Delhi Campus Map • Residential zone for students; • Residential zone for the faculty and other supporting staff; • Academic zone for academic buildings and workshops; and • Cultural-cum-social and recreational zone for students. The site being longitudinal in shape, the academic and social-cum-cultural zones have been located mid-way between the two residential zones. The campus provides several essential amenities for community living like hospital, shopping center, banks, post office, community center, staff club, students’ activities center, stadium and playing fields etc. IIT Delhi has been extending its boundaries. One extension campus has been established in Sonepat, Haryana over 50 acres of land allocated by the Government of Haryana. A Technopark with high class facilities has been setup there. Another extension campus is planned in Jhajjar, Haryana over 50 acres of land. IIT DELHI ABOUT US 3 4 VISION, MISSION, AND VALUES IIT DELHI Message from the Director Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao IIT Delhi is pleased to release its Annual Report for the focus for now, that is infection testing, personal year 2019-2020 and I am delighted to share with you protection equipment, vaccine and drug research. the highlights of our major activities, achievements, At the same time, we will continue to focus on initiatives and future plans. research in clean energy, environment, sustainable infrastructure, healthcare, materials, Industry 4.0 Over the years, quietly but surely, we have also built and advanced computational systems (including a strong research tradition, which is easily seen in AI). IIT Delhi has made significant contributions in the impressive statistics that the Institute can boast many areas including academic activities, research, of in terms of various research indicators. Specially, innovation and technology development in pursuit of we have continuously improved on our credentials its excellence. in research as evidenced by way of publications and citations and Ph.Ds per faculty. Our target Ranking of IIT Delhi of continuously searching for and significantly It is a great pleasure and privilege for me to share increasing the intake of quality candidates into our that in the recently announced NIRF (National Ph.D programmes is on the right course and we have Institutional Rankings Framework), IIT Delhi has grown to a significant level in this direction over the improved its rankings both in the Engineering as last few years. well as in the Overall category. In the Engineering End of the last financial year brought unique Category, IIT Delhi is now ranked No. 2 in the country challenges presented to the mankind in form of for 2019. IIT Delhi has scored highest in Research COVID-19 pandemic. The current activities and and Professional Practice parameter with a score future plans have all plagued with deep uncertainty. of 96.18 among the top engineering institutions. Though, there are few realities that the nation will In the rankings published by India Today, IIT Delhi continue to demand quality education and research has been ranked #1 in 2019. Also, in the QS world from premier institutes like Indian Institutes of university rankings, IIT Delhi secured an overall rank Technology. And, the IIT Delhi community will of 182 in 2020 and in the Engineering category, IIT continue to overcome the challenges to provide Delhi is ranked at No. 61 in the world. In the QS India solutions that are of immediate needs. The current rankings 2020 IIT Delhi ranks 3 in India, in 2019 IIT pandemic has changed the spectrum of research Delhi was ranked 4, an improvement by one rank. We IIT DELHI MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR 5 have continuously improved our ranking in the last admitted 7 times more international students this 3 years both in NIRF as well as in the Engineering year compared to last year. We also started two new category of QS World ranking. Also, in the Research joint Ph.D. programmes with top universities abroad, Impact category of QS World ranking, IIT Delhi scored one with the University of Queensland in Australia 80.6 marks out of 100, making it to the league of top and another with NCTU in Taiwan. Together, in both research universities across the world. these joint Ph.D. programmes we admitted 30 Ph.D. students in the last one year. Faculty visited various Institution of Eminence universities in the USA, Malaysia, Bangladesh, and As you all know, IIT Delhi has been bestowed with Australia for attracting foreign students and faculty the status of Institution of Eminence in 2018. to IIT Delhi. We also launched a scheme for attracting Under the IoE status, the Institute has undertaken foreign Ph.D. students to IIT Delhi by creating an many new initiatives covering academic, research, International Ph.D. Fellowship Programme (IPFP) administrative and infrastructural domains during with 500 fellowships. IPFP was launched with about the year. All these initiatives undertaken are making a 65 students joining the programme in one semester good progress. Kudos to the entire faculty fraternity, this year. We also started a new M.Tech. programme students and staff for their outstanding contributions in Renewable Energy Technologies & Management leading to the IoE recognition for the Institute. Let sponsored by the International Solar alliance. In us realize that we stand on the shoulders of alumni, this M.Tech. programme we have students from 18 the retired faculty, the past leadership and the ex- developing countries. Thanks to IIT Delhi’s efforts, employees of the institute, as well as our well- a programme was also formally launched by MHRD wishers. We have created a dedicated IoE website for and MEA to fund 1,000 scholars from Association of information dissemination to external stake holders Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to pursue Ph.D.