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IIT Madras celebrates Institute day

Chennai, Apr 23 (UNI) The IIT Madras celebrated its 66th Institute Day in the campus on Wednesday with students, faculty, alumni, teaching and non-teaching staff.
This occasion was also utilized to honour extraordinary achievers among faculty, researchers, students and the alumni.

While the institute scaled numerous heights in the last one year, a major feat was the unparalleled achievement of being ranked No.1 in ‘Overall’ Category for the sixth consecutive year in NIRF Rankings and in ‘Engineering Institutions’ category for nine consecutive years – from 2016 to 2024.
The Chief Guest for the occasion was Dr. Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Chief Executive Officer,
Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), who is a 1993 Batch (B.Tech in Computer
Science) student of IIT Madras.
For his immense accomplishments in the field of technology and business, IIT Madras conferred
the Distinguished Alumnus Award upon him in 2021.
In his address, Prof. V. Kamakoti, Director, IIT Madras, said, “Last academic year has been both
challenging and rewarding, including the conferring of Padma Shri on Dr. Pawan Goenka, Chairman,
BoG, IIT Madras and IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Awardee Sethuraman Panchanathan, Director, U.S. National Research Foundation. Our BS in Data Science and Applications program
has been a major success with three students securing top positions in the top 10 of the GATE DA Paper, including AIR 1.”
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