64 students awarded PhD degrees at IIT Mandi convocation

This year, a total of 33 female students in undergraduate programme; 49 in postgraduate and masters programmes, 28 in PhD programme and four in iPhD programme have graduated from IIT Mandi. 

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi celebrated its 10th convocation, with a graduating class of 462 students (348 male and 114 female). This year, the institute awarded 64 PhDs, which is the highest number of PhDs awarded at IIT Mandi in an academic year till date. 

The institute has seen a rise in the number of girl students passing out in different streams. This year, a total of 33 female students in undergraduate programme; 49 in postgraduate and masters’ programmes, 28 in PhD programme and four in iPhD programme have graduated from IIT Mandi surpassing the numbers from the previous years.  

Prof Stuart R Hameroff, University of Arizona, the United States was the chief guest. Akhilesh Gupta, Secretary, Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), New Delhi; Kingshuk Banerjee, Director, Hitachi India Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru, and Woochan Chang, Director, KOICA India, New Delhi, were the guests of honor.  

Prof Laxmidhar Behera, Director, IIT Mandi, said, “I wish my heartiest greetings to all our graduating students. They will become the torch bearer of the Institute. I am sure that their professional competencies and uncompromising character will empower them to lead the society in various ways. Their success will also be the success of IIT Mandi.”  

He said, “In the coming years, my focus will be to encourage faculty members and research scholars to publish impactful research works that are at par with the best Universities across the world. We must be solving real-live problems around us that will impact the lives of the people around. To encourage the research ecosystem, we have raised the seed grant to faculty members from 5 lakh to15 lakh.” 

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