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Hindustan Times
02-08-2025
- Science
- Hindustan Times
Adopting new technologies technologies is great challenge for future engineers: Tessy Thomas
New Delhi, Tessy Thomas, popularly known as the Missile Woman of India, on Saturday said adopting new technologies at a time when the world is rapidly digitizing and ensuring those technologies are "ethical, inclusive and sustainable" is a great challenge for "future engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs and leaders". Adopting new technologies technologies is great challenge for future engineers: Tessy Thomas Thomas, a distinguished scientist and former director general of the Defence Research and Development Organisation , made the comments while addressing the 56th convocation of the Indian Institute of Technology , Delhi. "At a time when the world is rapidly digitizing, adopting new technologies and ensuring those technologies are ethical, inclusive and sustainable is a great challenge for future engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs and leaders. Whether it is decarbonization, water conservation, digital equity, bio-innovation or an engineering marvel, let it be your contribution to society," she told the graduating students. Asserting "human values will matter more than the valuations" in a world "increasingly driven by data, algorithms and automation", Thomas said, "IIT education has prepared you to build systems and has trained you to be custodians of trust in a world dominated by technology." "You are entering a world brimming with complexity and creativity. In this decade, the world needs problem solvers, dreamers who implement, builders who take action and leaders who execute. Move on with the spirit of innovation, humility to learn from others and courage to walk paths uncharted," she added. A total of 2,764 IIT students, including 530 PhDs , were awarded degrees and diplomas at the convocation. Out of a total of 2,764 graduating students, 735 are females. Forty-three international students from around 20 countries were also awarded degrees. Twenty-year-old Chandan Godara, BTech in Civil Engineering, is the youngest graduate, and 63-year-old Gopal Krishan Taneja, PhD, is the oldest graduate to receive their degrees. The first graduates in the BTech course in Energy Engineering and three PG courses, the Interdisciplinary MTech course in Robotics and the Master of Science by Research in VLSI Design, Tools and Technology, and Artificial Intelligence were awarded degrees as well. The institute also honoured seven of its esteemed alumni with the Distinguished Alumni Awards 2025 at the convocation ceremony. Instituted in 1992, the DAA has been awarded to 151 alumni to date, representing excellence across diverse fields such as science, technology, entrepreneurship, public service, academia and innovation. This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without modifications to text.
Hindustan Times
09-06-2025
- Business
- Hindustan Times
IIM Bangalore announces Distinguished Alumni Awards 2025, four alumni to be honoured
The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore will be awarding four aumni with the Distinguished Alumni Awards 2025. The four alumni include Sandhya Shekhar, Prashant Jain, Mathew Cyriac, and Vineet Saraiwala. The institute will present the awards on June 15, 2025, during the reorientation of the Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP) and Post Graduate Programme in Business Analytics (PGPBA). Also read: IGNOU ODL, Online Admissions 2025: Register for July session via direct link here As informed by IIM Bangalore through a press statement, Sandhya Shekhar, PGP 1984, is an Advisor and Strategy Consultant to several corporate entities in the areas of Business Strategy and Digital Transformation. She serves as an Independent Director on the governing boards of Uno Minda Ltd., MI Torica, Mynda Onkyo, MITIL Polymer Pvt Ltd. and UCAL Ltd. Prashant Jain, PGP 1991, is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of 3P Investment Managers, and has previously served as Chief Investment Officer at HDFC Mutual Fund. Prashant has 31 years of investment management experience, and holds the distinction of being the only fund manager in India and one of the few globally, to have continuously managed a scheme for over 28 years (HDFC Balanced Advantage Fund), and the first fund manager in India to have managed 1 lac crore of equity funds. Also read: JAC Delhi Counselling 2025: Here's how to check round 1 seat allotment results at Mathew Cyriac, PGP 1994, is the Executive Chairman of the PE firm Florintree Advisors and Co-founder at deep tech fund Yali Capital. He earlier served as a founding member and PE Co-head of Blackstone India. He has been recognized for many firsts in his 30-year career spanning investing roles in India and the US. Vineet Saraiwala, PGP 2015, Founder and CEO of Atypical Advantage, has significantly influenced corporate India's approach towards disability inclusion as a business imperative. The Distinguished Alumni Awards was instituted in 2007 and presented to alumni in recognition of their achievements of exceptional merit and excellence in their chosen field of endeavor. Awardees receive a citation and her/his name is engraved on the Wall of Fame in the Institute. Also read: JoSAA mock seat allocation list 2025 out, here's how to check at IIM Bangalore said that the reorientation for the second-year students will include a series of faculty-led workshops focused on academic and professional recalibration for the final year. Additionally, the closing ceremony of the reorientation will feature PGP '94 alumnus Ganeshan Ramachandran, MD & Lead - Industry Groups, Accenture, and Raghu Polisetty, Senior Managing Director, Global Lead - Strategy & Consulting Global Network, Accenture, as Chief Guests. Meanwhile, the institute will host the orientation for the incoming cohort of its two-year fulltime MBA programmes, PGP and PGPBA, 2025-2027 batch, on June 9 2025. The chief guest of the programme will be Ronnie Screwvala, Chairperson and Co-Founder, Entrepreneur & Film Producer, who will be speaking at the inauguration ceremony to be held in the Open-Air-Theatre (OAT) at the IIMB campus. The orientation programme will provide briefings on programme expectations, online learning, administrative matters, activities, centres, committees, facilities, policies, and more. There will also be interactions with alumni groups. Furthermore, the programme will feature announcements of the Director's Merit List, the Director's Honours List, and key scholarship awards, IIM Bangalore informed. It added that the President of the Students' Affairs Council (SAC), Revanth Reddy, will address the gathering on student life at IIMB, followed by a cultural program to mark the conclusion of the ceremony.
