IIIT Hyderabad Concludes 24th Convocation, Awards 529 Degrees

Vineeth Bhat, B.Tech (Honours) in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) was awarded the IIITH gold medal in recognition of his outstanding academic performance. Revanth Kumar Gundam, (B.Tech in Computer Science and Master of Science in Computational Linguistics by Research dual degree) was awarded Best All-rounder for his notable contributions in academics, extra-curricular activities and IIITH services. Pradeep Kumar Pal (PhD in Computational Natural Sciences) received the Banyan Award for consistent voluntary efforts relating to student affairs.

Prof P J Narayanan also announced that he soon will be stepping down as the Director of the institute, after an amazing tenure of over 12 years, and will continue as a faculty member at the institute. Prof. Sandeep Shukla of IIT Kanpur will be the next Director, starting this August.

A senior professor at IIT Kanpur and an IEEE Fellow, Prof. Sandeep K. Shukla is known for his work in cybersecurity, formal methods, and embedded systems. He earned his Ph.D. from SUNY Albany and previously taught at Virginia Tech. At IITK, he directed the C3i Centre for cybersecurity and led national blockchain initiatives. He has published over 300 papers and serves as Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Embedded Systems. His honors include the US PECASE Award and the Humboldt Bessel Award.

Chief guest Ms Debjani Ghosh Distinguished Fellow, NITI Ayog, and former president of Nasscom congratulated the graduating students and wished them well for their future endeavours.

The Convocation is viewable at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn4KB4p2KJk

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ACADEMIC YEAR

• The graduating batch consists of 529 students (B.Tech – 109; B.Tech Honours – 64; Dual Degree – 101; Master of Science by Research – 49; M.Tech - 141; Ph.D. – 17 and MSIT – 48).

• A total number of 128 companies registered for placements; 75 companies conducted interviews.

• Eight new regular faculty members joined the institute in the past year. Several subject matter experts from the industry are engaged with teaching and research at the institute including adjunct faculty. We have 23 of them today.

The team of faculty, research students, research staff, and undergraduate students produced approximately 610 papers in top journals and conferences during the academic year 2024-25. In total, 41 of our Ph.D. students hold external competitive fellowships from the DST, Google, TCS, Microsoft, UGC, CSIR, various iHubs at IIIT-H, and from other organizations. This has resulted in the publication of high-quality research papers in peer-reviewed journals.

IIITH’s executive education programs are being delivered in a hybrid model and have produced over 4,500 plus professionals in about 8 years. 24 batches of the AI&ML program, 10 batches of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies, and 7 batches of Software Engineering for Data Science have been completed so far and currently 25th batch of AIML is underway.

The estimated existing alumni strength of the institute is 7756. The alumni have raised ₹4.83 crores since 2006 to help students on a pay-it-forward basis. To date, 73 students (UG, PG, DD) have been supported by them and 40 have already paid it forward, while 11 students are currently receiving the aid.