Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

09/05/2023 | News release | Distributed by Public on 09/06/2023 01:18

IIT Bombay Celebrates Teachers’ Day 2023

Commemorating the birth anniversary of noted philosopher, educationist and statesman, Dr S Radhakrishnan, IIT Bombay celebrated its Teachers' Day at the Institute campus on September 5, 2023. Dr. Arunava Majumdar, Dean, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Jay Precourt Professor, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University was the Chief Guest on the occasion.

The function began with a welcome address by the Institute's Director Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri followed by the speech by the Chief Guest. During his interaction with the faculty and students, the Director of the Institute Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri commented, "Recognition of excellence is a societal commitment as it helps in boosting the overall performance of the system collectively. IIT Bombay is proud that many of its faculty members and students have been performing excellently to take us to a greater height".

Sharing his own experience on the occasion, the Chief Guest of the function Dr. Arunava Majumdar said, "The respect that students have for their teachers is really about whether the teachers could inspire curiosity in their minds. When a student completes a course from such an inspiring teacher, he or she gets a sense of accomplishment. It gives a confidence that they can now tackle some issues and problems that they could not before. That sense of accomplishment is what marks a good teacher".

The presentation of awards included the International Award for Excellence in Research in Engineering and Technology; Professor S.P. Sukhatme Award for Excellence in Teaching; Dr. P. K. Patwardhan Technology Development Award (2022) and the Excellence in Academics Award.

The IIT Bombay International Award for Excellence in Research in Engineering and Technology (instituted by Mr. Sandeep Naik and Mr. Shantanu Rastogi) was conferred on Dr. Nitin Saxena, N. Rama Rao Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur, in commendation of his outstanding contributions in the areas of computational algebra and complexity, including solving a long-standing open problem in algorithmic number theory related to efficiently checking for the primality of numbers.

Awardees of Professor S.P. Sukhatme Award for Excellence in Teaching are as follows:

- Prof. Pradeep Amboor Madathil, Department of Aerospace Engineering

- Prof. Kumar Singh, Department of Earth Sciences

- Prof. Suneet Singh, Department of Energy Science and Engineering

- Prof. Shishir Jha, Centre for Policy Studies formerly with SJMSOM

- Prof. Amartya Mukhopadhyay, Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science

- Prof. Tanmay Bhandakkar, Department of Mechanical Engineering

- Prof. Avijit Chatterjee, Department of Aerospace Engineering

- Prof. Dipankar Saha, Department of Electrical Engineering

- Prof. Saravanan Vijayakumaran, Department of Electrical Engineering

- Prof. Uday Khedker, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

- Prof. Mandar Inamdar, Department of Civil Engineering

- Prof. Ranjan Panda, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

- Prof. Salil Kulkarni, Department of Mechanical Engineering

- Prof. Sankagiri Umasankar, Department of Physics

- Prof. Pichai Ramadevi, Department of Physics

Dr. P. K. Patwardhan Technology Development Award (2022) was awarded to Prof. Bhaskaran Raman, Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Prof. Kameswari Chebrolu, Department of Computer Science and Engineering in recognition of their innovative R&D work on "SAFE: Smart Authenticated Fast Exam".

One of the highlights of the programme involved recognizing the top-performing students of each class. About 61 students were felicitated by the Institute Director Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri for their superlative academic performance

The Teachers' Day function was attended by Dean (Academic Programmes) Prof. Avinash Mahajan, Dean (Faculty Affairs) Prof. Neela Natraj, Dean (Research and Development) Prof. Sachin Patwardhan, Heads of Departments, faculty members, staff and students in large numbers.