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IIIT Dharwad to hold 7th convocation today; Director General of CSIR D-G Kalaiselvi to be chief guest

The seventh annual convocation of the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Dharwad, will be held on Friday on its permanent campus at Tadasinakoppa, near Dharwad. Addressing presspersons on Wednesday, Director of IIIT-Dharwad S.R. Mahadeva Prasanna said that Director-General of CSIR and Secretary, DSIR, N. Kalaiselvi would be the chief guest. Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIIT Dharwad and noted industrialist Shridhar Vembu will preside over the ceremony. Prof. Prasanna said 257 graduates and one Ph. D scholar would be conferred degrees during the convocation. The graduating students include 132 candidates from Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) stream, 70 from Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) stream and 55 from Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) stream, he said. He said that apart from awarding various degrees, a number of institutional medals and awards would be be presented to meritorious students. Placements Prof. Prasanna said that over 160 students from IIIT Dharwad had been placed in reputed companies with the highest CTC being ₹71.94 lakh, while around 40 students opted for higher studies in reputed universities in India and abroad. Elaborating on the new initiatives, he said that that a KPTCL-funded consultancy to enhance the performance of high-voltage substation earthing systems had been taken up. An IKS (Indian Knowledge Systems) project supported by the Ministry of Education, focusing on extracting Indic concepts from ancient Indian literature through machine learning models has also been taken up, he said. He said the IKS division of the Ministry of Education had supported multiple long-term research efforts at the institute with a focus on culturally rooted technologies and innovation. Additionally, the institute continues to build its capabilities in wireless communication and AI, he said. Registrar Dr. Muruganatham Ponnusamy and others were present.