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IIIT-H Celebrates 17th Convocation

IIIT-H celebrated its 17th convocation ceremony on 11th August, graduating 423 students with a record number of 136 research students, including 11 Ph.Ds.

Shri Kris Gopalakrishnan, Executive Vice- Chairman of Infosys, was the chief guest at the ceremony and delivered the convocation address. Prof. Raj Reddy, Chairman, Governing Council of IIIT-Hyderabad presided over the ceremony.

Parkhiya Parv Keshavlal, B.Tech Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) was awarded the IIIT gold medal in recognition of his outstanding academic performance.

Programme gold medallists were Parkhiya Parv Keshavlal  (B.Tech in ECE), Abhinav Aggarwal (B.Tech in CSE), Kartik Dutta (Dual Degree in CSE), Tarun Gupt (Dual Degree in CSE -Lateral Entry), P Aditya Sreekar (Dual Degree in ECE), Malireddy Chanakya (Dual Degree in Computational Linguistics), Rohit Roy  (Dual Degree in Computational Natural Sciences), S V Krishna Rohit (Dual Degree in Exact Humanities), Nikita Wani ( M.Tech in CSE), M Chandravati (M.Tech in CSE), Yasala Chaithanya Raghava (M.Tech in Computer Aided Structural Engineering).

This year the B.Tech Best All-rounder award was presented to  Anjali Anil Shenoy B.Tech in CSE.

Speaking on the occasion, Prof. P J Narayanan said, “All-round development of the student is a key goal of IIIT Hyderabad. Opportunities to take part in cultural, sports and social activities exist at the institute. The human values program is continuing at the institute while it is spreading to different institutions in the country and has now been adopted by the IITs, different universities, AICTE, UGC, etc.”

Prof. P J Narayanan concluded his speech by congratulating the graduating students and their parents. He implored the new batch of students joining the ever-growing network of alumni to go out and conquer the world in their own unique ways and requested them keep a little bit of IIIT-H in their hearts and connect back with the institute of tomorrow to help push it forward.