The endowment will be used to grow the department and establish it as a “world-leading Computer Science department,” according to the university.
Mohit Aron, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Delhi, has donated $1 million to the institute’s Computer Science and Engineering department. The Mohit Aron Endowment will be used to help IIT Delhi’s Computer Science and Engineering department establish itself as a world-leading Computer Science department, according to the institute. According to the department, the funds will be used to support the faculty’s research activities and to ensure that the department’s undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral students can attend conferences, workshops, and competitive events in India and abroad.
Aron completed his BTech in the Computer Science and Engineering department at IIT Delhi in the 1995 batch. Aron was awarded the “Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award” by Rice University in 2018, where he earned his PhD in 2000. In 2019, he was also honoured by IIT Delhi with the Distinguished Alumni Award. “My education from the Department of Computer Science at IIT Delhi has been a foundational pillar of my career, and I am what I am today in large part due to that,” Mohit Aron said of his contribution. This gift is my way of repaying the department for everything it has done for me.”
“The CSE department has added many new members to the faculty in the last two years,” said Prem Kalra, head, Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi. This, combined with Mohit’s generous gift, will help us achieve our goal of being among the top 50 computer science departments in the world by 2025, and within the top 30 by 2030.” “Alumni contributions, such as Mohit’s, are an important resource to enhance the Institute’s competitiveness in attracting both students and faculty,” V. Ramgopal Rao, Director, IIT Delhi, said in thanking Mohit Aron for his contribution. IIT Delhi has become an exciting and vibrant destination for research and training in CS, AI, Data Science, and allied areas with the recent launch of the School of Artificial Intelligence (ScAI).
