IIT Delhi gets new director

IIT Delhi gets new director

Tue, Jan 11 2022 IIT Delhi gets new director

IIT Bombay Professor Rangan Banerjee has been appointed as the next director of IIT Delhi, the incumbent director of the Institute Prof Ram Gopal Rao announced Monday.

Banerjee, a Forbes Marshall Chair Professor in IIT Bombay, is BTech from the same institute. Later, he obtained a PhD (Mechanical Engineering) also from IIT Bombay.

JNU Vice-Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar and IIT Delhi professor at the Department of Applied Mechanics Santhosh kapuria were also shortlisted for the post.

The search-cum selection panel constituted for this purpose has interviewed the shortlisted candidates in September last year.