IIT Delhi alumnus Mohit Aron donated one million dollars to IIT Delhi’s Computer Science and Engineering department. The money will go toward supporting faculty research and helping undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral students attend conferences, workshops, and competitions throughout the country and around the world.
Key Highlight:
- Mohit Aron, alumni of the Indian Institute of Delhi, donated $1 million to the school’s Computer Science and Engineering department.
- The money will go toward supporting faculty research and helping students attend conferences, workshops, and competitions throughout the country and around the world.
- According to the institute, the money will help the department become a world-class computer science department.
Mohit Aron, alumni of the Indian Institute of Delhi, donated $1 million to the school’s Computer Science and Engineering department. According to the institute, the Mohit Aron Endowment will help IIT Delhi’s Computer Science and Engineering Department become a world-class computer science department.
They plan to use it for faculty research and undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral students to go to various conferences and workshops and participate in competitive events in India and overseas.
Aron was a member of the IIT Delhi Computer Science and Engineering Department’s 1995 graduating class when he earned his BTech. In 2018, Rice University honored Aron with the “Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award,” recognizing his achievements after earning his Ph.D. in 2000. In 2019, he was also honored with the IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumni Award.
“My education from the Department of Computer Science at IIT Delhi has been a basic pillar of my career. I am what I am now in large part because of that,” remarked Mohit Aron when asked about his contribution. This present is my way of saying thanks to the department for everything they’ve done for me.”
According to Prem Kalra, IIT Delhi’s department head of computer science and engineering, “the CSE department has acquired several new faculty members in the recent two years.” Thanks to Mohit’s kind donation, both of these things will help us come closer to our objective of being in the top 50 CS departments worldwide by 2025 and in the top 30 in 2030.
IIT Delhi Director V. Ramgopal Rao praised Mohit Aron for his contribution, saying, “Alumni contributions, such as those of Mohit, are a vital resource to increase the Institute’s competitiveness in attracting students and faculty. To support research and training in CS, AI, data science, and related fields, IIT Delhi recently launched the School of Artificial Intelligence (ScAI).
The Office of the Alumni Affairs, IIT Delhi, organised an interactive session with Mr Mohit Aron, a 1995 batch alumnus, who is Founder and CEO of @Cohesity, a US-based enterprise storage company. pic.twitter.com/kLwMIIsVnM
— IIT Delhi (@iitdelhi) July 30, 2019
Cohesity founder and CEO, Dr. Mohit Aron, who was recently awarded IIT Delhi’s Distinguished Alumni Award, shares invaluable insights and his journey in this new video: https://t.co/BsQPv9VRFV pic.twitter.com/gp51tZGJD1
— Cohesity (@Cohesity) January 9, 2020
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