Bhubaneswar: IIT-Bhubaneswar will celebrate the 10th Annual Convocation in a hybrid mode on Wednesday, October 20. The students can participate live in person or online during convocation.
IIT-Bhubaneswar director, Prof. RV Raja Kumar addressed a pre-event press conference on the occasion.
Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy will grace the occasion as the chief guest by virtual mode and address the convocation.
Chairman, Board of Governors (BoG), IIT-Bhubaneswar, Dr Rajendra Prasad Singh will preside over the event online. Prof RV Raja Kumar will present the convocation report and award the degrees to the students.
The Institute will confer degrees on 559 students including 35 PhD, 153 MTech, 79 MSc, 256 BTech and 36 Dual Degrees during the convocation.
The Gold Medal Winners
President of India Gold Medal: Dinesh Mohanty of Computer Science and Engineering for the best academic performance among the entire outgoing BTech students.
Director’s Gold Medal: Shivam Handa of the Mechanical Engineering and Mechanical Systems Design for the best academic performance during the entire outgoing Dual Degree (BTech+MTech) students.
Director’s Gold Medal: Saswat Kumar Panda of the Manufacturing Engineering for the best academic performance among the entire outgoing MTech students.
Director’s Gold Medal: Hitesh Gupta of the Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences for the best academic performance among the entire outgoing MSc.
“The convocation is a celebration of the graduation of students who earned their degrees with important learning during their peak youth hood and the institute is keen on their live participation. Therefore, the institute has come up with this very unique and innovative form of holding convocation during the last convocation itself and the same is being adopted this time too due to continuation of pandemic. We are very happy that Shri NR Narayana Murthy has consented to grace the occasion and to address the graduating students,” Professor Raja Kumar was quoted as saying in a press release.
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