Graduation Ceremony

Batch of 2022 & 2023

Celebrating a decade of Academic Excellence

Saturday, 26th October, 2024 at 10:30 AM

The Director, Faculty, Staff and Students, take great pleasure in cordially inviting you for the Graduation Ceremony for the Batch of 2022 & 2023.

Chief Guest

Prof. Uday B Desai, Emeritus Professor - IIT Hyderabad and Chancellor, Anurag University has kindly consented to be the chief guest and deliver the convocation address.

Prof. Uday B. Desai is an Indian academician and the founding director of Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. He is a Professor Emeritus in Electrical engineering Chancellor ICFAI Dehradun, Chancellor Anurag University, Hyderabad Honorary Distinguished Professor Plaksha University and a Strategic Consultant for TSDSI (Telecom Standards Development Society of India). He served as the Director of IIT Hyderabad from June 2009 to July 2019, and is credited for taking it to rank among the top 10 engineering colleges in India in the NIRF engineering ranking. He was mentor Director of IIT Bhilai from May 2016 to February 2017 and founder and mentor Director for IIIT Sri City, Chittoor from 2013–2018.

Prof. Uday Desai received his B.Tech. degree from IIT Kanpur in 1974, did his M.S. from the State University of New York, Buffalo in 1976, and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A. in 1979, all in electrical engineering. From 1979 to 1984 he was an assistant professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Washington State University, Pullman, WA, U.S.A., and an Associate Professor at the same university from 1984 to 1987.

From 1987 to May 2009 he was a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He was Dean of Students at IIT-Bombay from August 2000 to July 2002. He has held visiting Associate Professor's positions at Arizona State University, Purdue University, and Stanford University. He was a visiting Professor at EPFL, Lausanne during the summer of 2002. From July 2002 to June 2004 he was the Director of HP-IITM R&D Lab at IIT Madras.

His research interest is in Cyber Physical Systems, AI, Internet of things, wireless communication, and statistical signal processing. He has been a coauthor of 9 research monographs, author of an edited book, and author/co-author of nearly 300 peer reviewed papers in international journals and conferences.