Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi held its 15th convocation on November 3, awarding degrees to 830 students. The graduating group included 560 BTech students, 237 MTech students and 33 doctoral scholars, according to reports of the ceremony.
The institute’s chancellor, Delhi Lieutenant Governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu, presided over the event. Microsoft India Development Center managing director and president Rajiv Kumar attended as chief guest. Director Sandeep Sen presented the institute’s annual report.
Saurav Mehra from Computer Science and Engineering and Riya Sachdeva from Electronics and VLSI Engineering received the Chancellor’s Gold Medal. The official convocation website lists six Institute Silver Medal recipients and two winners of medals for all-round performance.
Among postgraduate students, Pratik Pal received both the gold medal for academic performance and a best MTech thesis award. Ten researchers were recognised with Doctoral Dissertation Awards across fields including mathematics, computational biology, computer science and electronics. The ceremony also featured the graduates’ oath, marking the formal conclusion of the programme.
Archive location illustration: Nehru Place in Delhi, photographed on October 8, 2011. This is not the IIIT-Delhi campus or its 2026 convocation. Photo: Nehru Place by Varun Shiv Kapur, via Flickr, CC BY 2.0. Display may be resized or cropped; any adaptation remains under the linked licence.
