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During my undergraduate studies at IITGN, I was fortunate to be supported by the Institute for many opportunities such as my foreign internship, research projects and participation in international

conferences. When I look back now I realize that very few institutions in India offer such support to students

be truly transformative in one’s career and it was

scholarship in memory of my grandfather who was

of their careers, IITGN alumni are incredibly passionate about giving back to the institute and I feel these scholarships are a great opportunity for alumni who want to maximize the impact of their donation. They are structured to be self-sustaining and will benefit students for a significant period of time to come. What better way to contribute!

- Rounak Mehta, BTech/ME/2015

I am Hritwick Banerjee. I am working as a Jr Scientist in the Locomotion in Bio-robotic & Somatic Systems at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS). My career & personal goal is to utilize engineering

tools, knowledge to foster significant breakthroughs in healthcare and improving quality of life as a frontier

This whole write-up depicted above would not have

I received from IIT Gandhinagar. It always felt we

the responsibility to build a world-class university together. So, IITGN is not only my Alma mater it is of our deepest sentiments. The more the time will roll, the more this institution will mature and so as we. And to conclude I can still remember the recited poem from our beloved director Prof Sudhir K Jain as “Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free.”

-Hritwick Banerjee, MTech/EE/2014

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Vol V, Issue I, Jan - Jun 2019FOOTPRINTS

ALUMNI ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPSRounak Mehta (BTech/ME/2015) set up a scholarship, “Shri Arjunraj Manakraj Mehta Scholarship” of ₹1 lakh per year in honor of his grandfather Shri Arjunraj Manakraj Mehta.

Sarthak Jain (BTech/EE/2012) set up a scholarship, “Ashok Jain Scholarship” of ₹1 lakh per year in honor of his late father Shri Ashok Jain.

The trio of Abhishek Kandoi (BTech/ME/2012), Maisum Ali Dairkee (BTech/ME/2012), and Anchit Gaurav (BTech/ME/2012) has been a pioneer in setting the first-named scholarship from Alumni at IIT

Gandhinagar- “KDG (Kandoi-Dairkee-Gaurav) Scholarship”.

Sai Chowdary Gullapally (BTech/EE/2016) set up a scholarship, “Vimala Srinivas Scholarship” in honor of his parents, Shri Srinivas Rao Gullapally and Smt. Vimala Gullapally. The scholarship of ₹1 lakh per year is to support the undergraduate students for international internships, projects, and other needs.

Luv Gupta (BTech/CL/2012) set up a scholarship, “Vinay Gupta Scholarship” of ₹1 lakh per year in honor of his father Shri Vinay Kumar Gupta.

Akshay Randad (BTech/ME/2015) set up a scholarship “Late Ajodyabai Gulabchandji Randad Scholarship” of ₹1 lakh per year in honor of his late grandmother, Smt. Ajodyabai Gulabchandji Randad.

Sarthak Jain

Sai Chowdary Gullapally

Luv Gupta

Akshay Randad

Shri Vinay Kumar Gupta

Late Smt Ajodyabai

Gulabchandji Randad

Shri Srinivas Rao Gullapally and Smt Vimala Gullapally

Abhishek Kandoi

Maisum Ali Dairkee

Anchit Gaurav

Rounak Mehta Shri Arjunraj Manakraj Mehta

Late Shri Ashok Jain

at the scale that IITGN does. These experiences can leader/scientist in the field of Biomedical Engineering.

passionate about education. Though in the early stages are a community extremely privileged to have given

only natural for me to pay it forward by setting up a been possible without the sincere support and warmth

Luv Gupta BTech/CL/2012

Yogesh Goyal BTech/CL/2012

Kanchan Patel BTech/CL/2012

Amit Asher BTech/EE/2012

Kundan Suguru BTech/EE/2012

E. Naveen Kumar BTech/EE/2012

Harsh Paliwal BTech/EE/2012

Yalla Sushmitha BTech/EE/2012

Vivek Kshirsagar BTech/EE/2012

Prathamesh Arvind Juvatkar BTech/EE/2012

Ankit Agarwal BTech/EE/2012

Nitesh Gupta BTech/EE/2012

Sarthak Jain BTech/EE/2012

Naveen Deepak V BTech/EE/2012

Neel Nadkarni BTech/EE/2012

Ajinkya Kulkarni BTech/ME/2012

Puneeth Nallan Chakravarthula BTech/ME/2012

Tanmay Hiralal Balwa BTech/ME/2012

Nikhil Haridas BTech/ME/2012

Pankaj Kumar Yadav BTech/ME/2012

Divya Bansal BTech/CL/2013

Garima Raghuwanshi BTech/CL/2013

Susmitha Purnima Kotu BTech/CL/2013

Adit Sunil Gupta BTech/CL/2013

Mohit Verma BTech/CL/2013

Nagender Singh BTech/CL/2013

Shrankhla Narya BTech/CL/2013

Mohit Malu BTech/EE/2013

Tarkeshwar Singh BTech/EE/2013

Ekta Prashnani BTech/EE/2013

Dhruv Rasesh Chokshi BTech/EE/2013

Chetas Divyeshkumar Joshi BTech/EE/2013

Shubham Ranka BTech/EE/2013

Yash Shah BTech/ME/2013

Ajinkya P Dahale BTech/ME/2013

Rajat Jain BTech/ME/2013

Shashank Pandey BTech/ME/2013

Ravi Agarwal BTech/ME/2013

Shyamal Kishore BTech/ME/2013

Sunil Patidar BTech/ME/2013

Prashant Patel BTech/ME/2013

Varun Kumar Gupta BTech/ME/2013

Mohak Patel BTech/ME/2013

Smit Alkesh Shah BTech/CL/2014

Anirudha Vishvakarma BTech/CL/2014

Sanjay Saroj BTech/CL/2014

Adit Bhardwaj BTech/EE/2014

Sunil Nair BTech/EE/2014

Hoosein Safdari BTech/EE/2014

Nisarg Nikhil Shah BTech/EE/2014

Vibhav Vikas Katre BTech/EE/2014

Sushrut Pramod Meshram BTech/EE/2014

Dhwanil Shukla BTech/EE/2014

Shashank Tyagi BTech/EE/2014

Suresh Choudhary BTech/ME/2014

Avinash N Tumkur BTech/ME/2014

Prateek Nyati BTech/ME/2014

Sumit Hemant Deshmukh BTech/ME/2014

Kotak Nihar Kamlesh BTech/ME/2014

Shubhangi Shamsundar Bansude BTech/ME/2014

Poonam Chand Meena BTech/ME/2014

Mihika Nitin Shah BTech/CL/2015

Nandan Paresh Vora BTech/CL/2015

Prem Prakash Meena BTech/CL/2015

Sukriti Gakhar BTech/CL/2015

Tushti Shah BTech/CL/2015

Preet Devang Shah BTech/EE/2015

Aashrith Koundinya Saras-wathibhatla BTech/ME/2015

Abhay C A BTech/ME/2015

Ajay Devedwal BTech/ME/2015

Akash Keshav Singh BTech/ME/2015

Randad Akshay Purushottamji BTech/ME/2015

Anshul Gupta BTech/ME/2015

Aryan BTech/ME/2015

Eepsit Tiwari BTech/ME/2015

Gupta Harsh Sanjay BTech/ME/2015

Ramesh Kumar BTech/ME/2015

Ronak Khandelwal BTech/ME/2015

Rounak Mehta BTech/ME/2015

Sachchit Kalyan Vekaria BTech/ME/2015

Soham Ravindra Harshe BTech/ME/2015

Ankit Pandole BTech/CL/2016

Lavdeep Kaur BTech/CL/2016

Manjot Singh BTech/CL/2016

Nishit Jaideep Shetty BTech/CL/2016

Vivek Maida BTech/CL/2016

Ravi Kumar BTech/EE/2016

Ajinkya Tupkar Jain BTech/EE/2016

Ashish Kumar Gupta BTech/EE/2016

Chinmay Kishor Ajnadkar BTech/EE/2016

Dipen Omprakash Somani BTech/EE/2016

Prashant Kumar BTech/EE/2016

Raj Shekhar BTech/EE/2016

Sai Chowdary Gullapally BTech/EE/2016

Veerabadra Lokesh Paturu BTech/EE/2016

Karan Palaskar BTech/ME/2016

Nirmal Jayaprasad Nair BTech/ME/2016

Om Vijay Margaj BTech/ME/2016

Parag Jayant Chitnis BTech/ME/2016

Pranshul Saini BTech/ME/2016

Rakesh Ranjan BTech/ME/2016

Sai Ravi Teja KVN BTech/ME/2016

Rahul Kumar Pandey BTech/ME/2016

Samarth Sanjiv Vaijanapurkar BTech/ME/2016

Abhinav Singh BTech/ME/2016

Yash Pratap Singh BTech/ME/2016

Hemant Kumar BTech/CE/2017

Manu Chaudhary BTech/CE/2017

Mayank Khewaria BTech/CE/2017

Narendra Sarswat BTech/CE/2017

Prerna Singh BTech/CE/2017

Roshan Agarwal BTech/CE/2017

Shaleen Chhajer BTech/CE/2017

Srinivasan A BTech/CE/2017

Akshay Kumar Verma BTech/CL/2017

Rushabh Pravin Desadla BTech/CL/2017

Dewansh Rastogi BTech/CL/2017

Kushagra Bhargava BTech/CL/2017

Nisha Rawat BTech/CL/2017

Priyanka Bansal BTech/CL/2017

Rajat Kumar Gupta BTech/CL/2017

Suman Kumari BTech/CL/2017

Aditya Ganesh BTech/EE/2017

Aravind Damacharla BTech/EE/2017

Naga Sindhu Namana BTech/EE/2017

Niharika BTech/EE/2017

Shubham Hanumant Patil BTech/EE/2017

Rajendra Singh BTech/EE/2017

Rishab Anand BTech/EE/2017

Rushi Nilesh Jariwala BTech/EE/2017

Sakshi Yadav BTech/EE/2017

Shashank Mehra BTech/EE/2017

Ankit Mittal BTech/ME/2017

Anurag Agrawal BTech/ME/2017

Nishanth BTech/ME/2017

Rohit Nanavati BTech/ME/2017

Suryakumar Subhash Mane BTech/ME/2017

Ajay Singh Shekhawat BTech/CE/2018

Anmol Kishore Raina BTech/CE/2018

Anusha Gupta BTech/CE/2018

Borse Dinesh Anil BTech/CE/2018

Homit Singh Pal BTech/CE/2018

Kansara Prakrut Haresh BTech/CE/2018

Pranav Kumar Gupta BTech/CE/2018

R Yashwanth Kumar BTech/CE/2018

Arul Mozhi Devan P BTech/CL/2018

Ayush Mathur BTech/CL/2018

Mridul Pareek BTech/CL/2018

Mukul Tyagi BTech/CL/2018

Roy Nikhil Aditya BTech/CL/2018

Aditya Goel BTech/EE/2018

Ayushman Tripathi BTech/EE/2018

Gohil Vasudev Arvindkumar BTech/EE/2018

ALUMNI DONORS JANUARY - JUNE 2019

ALUMNI UPDATES AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Abhishek Anand (BTech/CE/2017), working as a Software Development Engineer at Amazon India, gave a talk at MIT Pune on Machine

Learning. He was hosted by Bee Urban Co-Living Hostels in Pune, a venture run by another IITGN alumnus Rajat Gupta (BTech/CL/2017).

Pranshul Saini (BTech/ME/2016), who runs Sustainable India, gave

India, about the state of indian school education from a historical

perspective and the correction it requires.

A paper by Akhilesh Gotmare (BTech/EE/2016) titled “A closer look at Deep Learning Heuristics: Learning rate restarts, Warmup, and Distillation” got accepted at Seventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).

thesis at Texas A&M University.

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, an article on Silky Agrawal (MTech/CE/2015) got published in the Times of India.

Ansh Joshi (BTech/EE/2019), Akash Pallath

(BTech/MSE/2018) wrote an insightful piece in Fair Observer on the reforms required in the Indian education system.

Deepti Chopra (BTech/EE/2014), the co-founder of Adaface (incubated by Entrepreneur First Singapore), won at the HR Tech Summit Adrian. She also wrote an interesting blog on her Calvin &

Hobbes resume that got her interview calls from 21 out of 24 startups she applied for.

Niral Parikh (BTech/EE/2013),

Vijay Bharath (BTech/EE/2016) secured All India Rank # 228 in the

Prashant Borde (BTech/EE/2012) and Saurya Prakash (BTech/EE/2013) raised 1 million USD

funding from Prime Venture Partners for their start-up Recko.

Abhinay Rana (BTech/CL/2018) secured All India Rank #34 in GATE 2019.

Shubham Ranka (BTech/EE/ 2013), an MBA from IIM Calcutta, is working as a Product Manager at Paytm.

Himanshu Goswami BTech/EE/2018

Rushil Shamkant Vispute BTech/EE/2018

Shirpurkar Chinmay Deepak BTech/EE/2018

Varun Aggarwal BTech/EE/2018

Yashovardhan BTech/EE/2018

Darshil Jitendrabhai Chauhan BTech/ME/2018

Gohil Karan Nitinbhai BTech/ME/2018

Modi Harsh Jashvantbhai BTech/ME/2018

Relan Udit Surendra BTech/ME/2018

Singampalli Sai Rohit BTech/ME/2018

Trivedi Jaldhir Sanjay BTech/ME/2018

Vakharia Vismay Dilipkumar BTech/ME/2018

Ankita Abhay Joshi BTech/MSE/2018

Zainab Shabbar Patel BTech/MSE/2018

Badve Prathamesh Mahesh BTech/ME/2019

Sonar Chinmay Narendra BTech/ME/2019

B Ratna Bharti MA/HSS/2016

Bhandari Saumya Nareshkumar MA/HSS/2016

Sini Susan Varghese MA/HSS/2016

Tushar Meshram MA/HSS/2016

Khobragade PrateekPawankumar MA/HSS/2017

Mujeebu Rahman K C MA/HSS/2017

Pawan Sharma MA/HSS/2018

Samyak Shah MSc/CG/2015

Pamnani Ujjval Ashokkumar MSc/CG/2015

Goldy Yadav MSc/CG/2015

Aditya Singh MSc/CG/2015

Shivam Dhama MSc/MA/2015

Devu Mahesan MSc/CG/2016

Haby Koshy Mathew MSc/CG/2016

Karthikeyan P MSc/CG/2016

Jagini Kishore Kumar MSc/CG/2016

Midhula Chandran MSc/CG/2016

Rakhi MSc/CG/2016

Vipul V Nair MSc/CG/2016

Kanchan MSc/CH/2016

Sohhom Bandyopadhyay MSc/CG/2017

Vamakshi Yadav MSc/CH/2017

Ayushi Tyagi MSc/CH/2017

Jyotsna Saini MSc/CH/2017

Himanshu Kumar Singh MSc/CH/2017

Baby Ziliya N A MSc/CG/2018

Pavithra Ashok Kumar MSc/CG/2018

Afridi Zamader MSc/CH/2018

Ankush Tyagi MSc/CH/2018

Sarla Yadav MSc/CH/2018

Aritra Kumar Bhaduri MSc/MA/2018

Indrajit Narah MSc/MA/2018

Mishra Nidhi S MTech/CL/2014

Ritesh Jain MTech/EE/2014

Arun Gopalakrishnan Nair MTech/EE/2014

Sreejith R MTech/EE/2014

Manish Pillai MTech/ME/2014

Smitha S MTech/CE/2015

Nanditha J S MTech/CE/2016

Nikita Rankawat MTech/CE/2016

Vandana Rajput MTech/CL/2016

Raminder Kaur MTech/EE/2016

Harshit Nema MTech/CE/2017

Aditya Narendrabhai Vora MTech/EE/2017

Aditi Singhal MTech/BE/2018

Preetika MTech/BE/2018

Kaustubh Deshpande MTech/CE/2018

Rajdeep Ghosh MTech/CE/2018

Kusum Panwar MTech/CL/2018

Parth Prasoon Sunil Sinha MTech/CL/2018

Saikat Sen MTech/CL/2018

Sujata Sinha MTech/CS/2018

Biswajeet Rout MTech/EE/2018

Dhanapala Prudhviraj MTech/EE/2018

Tetali Harsha Vardhan MTech/EE/2018

Shiv Prakash MTech/EE/2018

Shivangi Singh MTech/ES/2018

Panchal Nevilkumar Mukeshbhai MTech/ME/2018

Ravinder Kumar MTech/ME/2018

Priyanka Rawat MTech/MSE/2018

Rana Pratap Singh MTech/MSE/2018

Rishi Dhawan MTech/MSE/2018

Sumitava Mukherjee PhD/HSS/2014

Neeraj Kumar PhD/HSS/2014

Hariharan P PhD/CL/2016

Alpana Ankush Thorat PhD/CL/2016

Payel Chattopadhyay Mukher-jee PhD/HSS/2016

Rameshkumar M Bhoraniya PhD/ME/2018

Abhishek Anand

Pranshul Saini

Rajat Gupta

Akhilesh Gotmare

Pranav Bagaria

Silky Agrawal

Ansh Joshi Akash Pallath Deepak Dhariwal

Deepti Chopra

Jinesh Shah

Niral Parikh

Vijay Bharath

Prashant Borde Saurya Prakash

Abhinay Rana

Shubham Ranka

an interview to Oriental Times (BTech/CL/2019) and Deepak Dhariwal

postgraduate from IIM Ahmedabadheads the Vadodara Division ofSwiggy.

UPSC Civil Services Examinations.

Pranav Bagaria (BTech/CL/2014)successfully defended his PhD

Jinesh Shah (BTech/ME/2014) startedas a fellow at Entrepreneur First India(an incubator backed by ReidHoffman, Co-Founder of LinkedIn).Jinesh has previously co-foundedtwo companies, UrbanHunt andIncent.

ALUMNI ENGAGEMENTS

MINI-REUNION IN DELHI-NCRA mini-reunion was held at Sugar and Spice, SDA Market, Hauz Khas, New Delhi on January 13, 2019, with Prof Sudhir K Jain and Prof Jaison Manjaly. The reunion was attended by alumni Swati Verma, Monica Yadav, Ankit Agarwal, Prateek Baldwa, Adnan Ahmed Ansari, Pankaj Gautam, Nitesh Gupta, Saurabh Singhal, Jugal Shah, Vaibhav Gupta, Shailendra Yadav, Punit Das, Yash Bohre, Arundhati B.

JEE OPEN HOUSE WITH ALUMNIIITGN invited all the JEE Advanced qualified students and their parents to an Open House at New Delhi (June 22, 2019), Mumbai (June 23, 2019) and Gandhinagar (June 23, 2019) as an opportunity to interact with IITGN Faculty, Students and Alumni and understand the innovative practices of IITGN. The Open House sessions at Delhi and Mumbai were hosted by Prof Jaison Manjaly and Prof Harish PM.

MINI-REUNION IN MUMBAIA mini reunion was held at Mumbai on January 6, 2019. The following BTech alumni attended this reunion: (from left to right) Aditya Samant, Aditya Ganesh, Sarabjeet Singh, Shubham Patil, Aditya Shah, Ayush Mathur

INSTITUTE ACTIVITIES

UDAAN- THE FORMAL FAREWELL DINNER FOR THE GRADUATING BATCHUdaan, the formal farewell dinner for the graduating batch and one of IITGN’s traditions, saw the presence of students of the graduating batch, staff & faculty members with their families on April 14, 2019. Udaan is one of the most awaited programs for the IIT Gandhinagar fraternity as all the students of the graduating batch come together to express their feelings, share memories and dine together.

IIT GANDHINAGAR BECOMES INDIA’S FIRST EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE TO RECEIVE EAT RIGHT CAMPUS AWARDIITGN subscribes to the philosophy of ‘Students First’, where the living conditions, food, health, and safety of students are all important concerns for the Institution. Since inception, IITGN has placed a great emphasis on hostel food, its quality, nutritional value, and hygiene, as a result of which, IIT Gandhinagar becomes India’s first educational institute to receive EAT RIGHT CAMPUS award by Food Safety and Standards Authority of India.

INAUGURATION OF DR KIRAN C PATEL CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTIIT Gandhinagar set up the Dr Kiran C Patel Centre for Sustainable Development (CSD) on January 30, 2019. The Centre aims to become the principal resource centre for sustainable development in India and develop a national and global network of leading experts and researchers on sustainability. The Dr Kiran C Patel Centre for Sustainable Development has been established with a generous endowment from Dr Kiran C Patel, a distinguished cardiologist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist based in Tampa, Florida, USA.

JEE Open House in New Delhi JEE Open House in Mumbai