Students and staff at IIIT Bengaluru’s 26th convocation ceremony on Sunday.
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Around 316 students graduated in the 26th convocation ceremony of the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT-B) here on Sunday.
While 95 graduates were from the Integrated Master of Technology, 175 from the Master of Technology, 32 from the Master of Science by Research, and 14 PhD scholars.
Disclosing the details of IIIT-B’s placement and highest package earned by students, Debabrata Das, Director, IIIT-B said, “This year, one of the students’ from Integrated MTech programme has secured a record package of ₹1.5 crore, with two students securing packages of ₹1.3 crore. Over 22 students have secured annual salary packages exceeding ₹60 lakh, 27 students have received packages between ₹40-60 lakh, and over 110 students have been offered packages above ₹20 lakh per annum.”
Mr. Das added, “IIIT-B has started India’s first Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) Division in academia. Tele-MANAS, a platform to help people in distress is one such example for DPI. Now, the national tele-mental health platform developed by us has received over 40 lakh calls and made a difference.”
Be ready for change
Meanwhile, Chief Guest, Professor Rajat Moona, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, said,
“In today’s AI-driven age, the pace of change in technology has become even faster. In past few years, the changes brought in by AI in our own life have become tremendous. Even as you are graduating, you probably would have seen the series of transformations that have been brought by AI. Such transformations will continue and one must be ready for it.”
The IIITB Gold Medal for MTech was awarded to Singuru Manognya, while Subhajeet Lahiri received the Institute Gold Medal for Integrated MTech. The Sir M. Visvesvaraya Scholarship Awards were conferred on Subhajeet Lahiri and Ketaki Srikrishna Tamhanakar. Siddharth Kothari received the Sitaram Jindal Gold Medal and was also honoured with the Late Sri N. Rama Rao Medal for Best Outgoing Student (Male), while Yukta Arvind Rajapur received the corresponding medal for Best Outgoing Student (Female). The Institute Medals for contributions to community and professional life were conferred on Sankalp Kothari and Daksh Sharma.
Siddharth Kothari and Sankalp Kothari are twin brothers and both graduated in MTech in Computer Science Engineering today from IIITB. While Siddharth was awarded with Sitaram Jindal Gold Medal and was also honoured with the Late Sri N. Rama Rao Medal for Best Outgoing Student (Male), Sankalp was honoured with the Institute medal for contributions to community and professional life.
Speaking to The Hindu, Siddharth said, “It was a great journey, I made a lot of friends, participated in everything from extracurriculars to academics, had some of the best experiences of my life, and I am leaving as a person completely changed for the better. I am looking forward to the milestones ahead in my career.”
The Convocation also marked two significant milestones in the Institute’s journey. IIIT-Bangalore celebrated the graduation of its 100th PhD scholar in Computer Science and Engineering. Vikas Vazhayil, a neurosurgeon from NIMHANS, was awarded a doctorate for his research on autonomous robotic neurosurgery.
Mr. Vikas said, “The research focused on the theory behind developing surgical algorithms which can guide neurosurgical robots while performing brain surgery. There are plans to build a series of neurosurgical robots based on the work done so far.”
Published – July 05, 2026 07:53 pm IST
