IIT Delhi announces alumni awards 2021

The Indian Institute of Delhi (IIT) Delhi announced this year’s alumni award in various domains – Distinguished Alumni Award, Distinguished Alumni Service Award and Graduates of Last Decade (GOLD) Award. 

11 alumni felicitated 

IIT Delhi felicitated its 11 alumni for their contribution and achievements in the field of teaching and research, corporate leadership and entrepreneurship. The institute took to Twitter to announce the alumni awards 2021 and congratulated the award winners. 

Distinguished Alumni Award winners 

Prof Lov K Gover, BTech in Electrical Engineering (1981); Prof Somesh Jha, BTech in Electrical Engineering (1985); Prof Nandini Trivedi, MS in Physics (1981); Hitesh Oberoi, BTech in Computer Science Engineering (1994); Kapil Bharati, BTech in Mechanical Engineering (2000) and Satish Singh, BTech in Chemical Engineering (1981) have been felicitated with the Distinguished Alumni Award. 

Graduate of Last Decade (GOLD) Award winners 

Prof Deepak Vasisht, Btech in Computer Science Engineering (2013); Dr Divya Gupta, BTech and MTech in Computer Science Engineering (2011), Vidit Atrey, BTech in Electrical Engineering (2012) and Sanjeev Barnwal, BTech in Electrical Engineering (2012), bagged the Graduate of Last Decade (GOLD) Award. 

Distinguished Alumni Service Award winner 

Sandeep Singhal, BTech in Chemical Engineering (1992) has been honoured with the Distinguished Alumni Service Award. 

IIT Delhi recognises the achievement and contribution of its alumni to various fields by conferring Distinguished Alumni Awards and Distinguished Alumni Service Awards every year. It was only in 2020 that the institute instituted the GOLD award to recognise and celebrate outstanding achievements and contributions of young alumni of the institute in academics, business, profession, and public service. 

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