IIT Delhi’s 54th Convocation: 2,357 students awarded degrees

Archit Babuna (BTech Computer Science and Engineering) received President’s Gold Medal and Aditya Vimal (BTech Civil Engineering) received Director’s Gold Medal.

Dr Gagandeep Kang, an eminent virologist and Director, Enterics, Diagnostics, Genomics and Epidemiology-Global Health, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA, was the chief guest on this occasion. (Image Credit: IIT Delhi)

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The Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-D) today hosted its 54th convocation ceremony in which nearly 2,350 graduating students will receive degrees.

A total of 2,357 students were awarded their degrees including students from MTech in Electric Mobility, Interdisciplinary MTech in Cyber Security, Masters in Public Policy, Master of Science in Research (MSR) in Materials Science and Engineering and Joint PhD programme with the University of Queensland, Australia.

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Archit Babuna (BTech Computer Science and Engineering) received President’s Gold Medal and Aditya Vimal (BTech Civil Engineering) received Director’s Gold Medal. Dibya Jyoti Sarangi, MTech in Applied Optics, was awarded the Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma (Former President of India) Gold Medal.

Three students Ashitha Devi Pattabi, MS (R) in Materials Science and Engineering; Narayani Bhatia, MS (R) in Electrical Engineering; and Mahajan Swapnil Dashrath (Meenal), MTech in Polymer Science and Technology received the Perfect Ten Gold Medal.

Dr Gagandeep Kang, a virologist and professor of microbiology at Christian Medical College, Vellore, was the chief guest at the convocation.

Institute also awarded its alumni with the Alumni Awards 2023. The distinguished alumni awardees are Ashutosh Sabharwal (Professor, Rich University, Houston), Pawan Kumar Jain (MD, INOX Air Products), Nalin Shinghal (CMD, BHEL), Aarti Gupta (Professor, Princeton University) and Gurtej S Sandhu (Senior Fellow and VP, Micron Technology).