New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Saturday address the 57th convocation ceremony of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Over 3000 graduating students, including 587 PhD scholars, will be conferred their degrees during the ceremony.
Recognising outstanding academic excellence, the prime minister will present the institute’s most prestigious honours, including the President’s Gold Medal, Director’s Gold Medal, Shankar Dayal Sharma Gold Medal, and Perfect Ten Gold Medals to meritorious students, an official statement said on Friday.
The President’s Gold Medal, Director’s Gold Medal, Shankar Dayal Sharma Gold Medal and Perfect Ten Gold Medals recognise outstanding achievement across different academic categories.
With the Prime Minister addressing the graduating batch and inaugurating a new AI-focused supercomputing facility, the IIT Delhi convocation will bring together two key themes — academic excellence and India’s push to expand advanced technology and research capabilities.
The Prime Minister will also present IIT Delhi’s highest academic honours to meritorious students during the ceremony. These include the President’s Gold Medal, Director’s Gold Medal, Shankar Dayal Sharma Gold Medal and Perfect Ten Gold Medals.
The supercomputing facility is expected to strengthen IIT Delhi’s capabilities in artificial intelligence, data science, advanced computing and interdisciplinary research. It will support computationally intensive research and provide infrastructure for work involving emerging technologies.
The inauguration comes at a time when AI and high-performance computing are becoming increasingly central to research across engineering, science and other disciplines.
The facility is also expected to contribute to IIT Delhi’s broader research ecosystem by enabling researchers and students to undertake projects requiring substantial computing resources.
