The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) is pleased to announce the establishment of the Institute’s first woman faculty chair, sponsored by Amit Dixit, Blackstone’s Head of Asia for Private Equity. The chair, named “The Amit Dixit Chair,” has been created through Mr. Dixit’s generous contribution to support the Institute in its efforts to honor outstanding women faculty members. It

Mr. Ganesh Hegde, senior PhD student at CTARA, IIT Bombay had spent one month with Aseem Foundation in the villages of J&K as part of the summer fieldwork. With the help from the Indian Army and GS Lab Pune, they successfully commissioned the first Solar Micro-Grid in a remote village Ghaggarhill, located 6000 ft above sea level.The grid has now been recently handed over to the residents of the

The Institute conferred ‘Prof. S. C. Sahasrabudhe Lifetime Achievement Award 2021' on Prof. Krithi Ramamritham, ‘Prof. S. C. Bhattacharya Award for Excellence in Research in Pure Sciences’ for 2020 on Prof. R. Sunoj, Prof. H. H. Mathur Award for Excellence in Research in Applied Sciences’ for 2020 on Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharya, 10 Distinguished Alumnus Awards and 5 Young Alumni Achiever Awards.The

IIT Bombay has been ranked 1st in India and 49th globally in Engineering and Technology with an overall score of 79.9 out of 100 in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings by Subject for 2021. The Institute has been ranked in 4 out of 5 broad subject areas, which includes Engineering & Technology, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and Management, and Arts and Humanities. The

Director of IIT Bombay Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri attended opening of Executive Education Complex on Tuesday, March 2, 2021 on fourth floor of Shailesh J. Mehta School Of Management building in the IIT Bombay campus. Prof. Chaudhuri interacted with (online) and thanked our Distinguished Alumni Dr. Shailesh J. Mehta for his continued support.

IIT Bombay students Mr. Abhishek Kumar, Mr. Debanjan Chandra, Ms. Ritutama Ghosh and Dr. Veenita Shah were selected for AWSAR Award by Department of Science and Technology (DST) on National Science Day celebrated on February 28, 2021. They received a prize of ₹10,000 each for best popular science stories under PhD category and Postdoctoral Fellow (PDF) category along with a certificate of

The Interim Session of 59th Convocation of IIT Bombay was held on Saturday, February 27, 2021 from 3.00 pm onwards at the Institute’s Convocation Hall in Hybrid mode (3-D Virtual Reality Enabled). Keeping in view the safety measures on priority during the pandemic, the physical participation to the function was limited to a few of the degree recipients, their parents, Institute functionaries and

IIT Bombay students Kritti Sharma, Kunal Deshmukh, and Harsh Kumar received a special mention under the "New Discovery award 2020" from the Astronomical Society of India. They work with the GROWTH-India telescope and the international GROWTH collaboration to search for and confirm Near-Earth Asteroids. Under a collaboration with the Zwicky Transient Facility in California, Kritti and Kunal

Dr Anil Kakodkar, Chairman, Rajiv Gandhi Science & Technology Commission, Government of Maharashtra (virtually) launched the mobile jaggery plant developed by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay at 11 am on Monday, February 22, 2021 in the presence of Director of IIT Bombay Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri, Dean (Alumni and Corporate Relations) Prof. Suhas Joshi and Dean (Research and Development)

The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) celebrated the 72nd Republic Day at the Institute’s campus on January 26, 2021. Following the COVID-19 rules and guidelines, this year’s Republic Day was celebrated with minimum number of attendees by maintaining social distance.The celebration began with the unfurling of the national flag by the Institute’s Director Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri