About
5th September is the birthday of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, who was the first vice-president and the second president of India and an excellent educator, and hence rightfully celebrated as Teachers’ Day.
The Teachers' Day function is to celebrate and felicitate our distinguished colleagues who have excelled as teachers and also those who have contributed immensely over their long and distinguished career here at IIT Kanpur to help build our Institution.
Chief Guest
Professor Pankaj Jalote Emeritus Professor at IIIT-Delhi, of which he is also the founding Director. Prior to this, he has been a Chair Professor at IIT Delhi, Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the IIT Kanpur, and an Assistant Professor at University of Maryland at college Park. On leave from academia, he was Vice President at Infosys Technologies Ltd. for 2 years, and a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Corporation, Redmond for a year. He has a B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur, MS from Pennsylvania State University, and Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of six books including the highly acclaimed CMM in Practice, which has been translated in Chinese, Japanese, Korean etc, and the best-selling text book on Software Engineering (latest edition: Software Engineering using Open Source and genAI, Springer, 2025). He has also authored Building Research Universities in India (SAGE, Nov 2020), and has written many opinion articles on higher education in India in leading newspapers.
His research interests are in Software Engineering using AI, AI for public good, and Higher Education.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE and INAE and a Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Kanpur and Siebel School of Computing and Data Science of UIUC.
DTA Awardees
Professor Neeraj Misra
Statistics and Data Science
1989 Awardee
Professor Subhajit Roy
Computer Science & Engineering
25 Years of Service
Professor Anil Seth
Computer Science & Engineering
Professor Mini Chandran
Humanities and Social Sciences
Professor Kamal Krishna Kar
Mechanical Engineering
Professor Avinash Kumar Agarwal
Mechanical Engineering
Professor Kasturi Vasudevan
Electrical Engineering
Professsor Abhijit Kushari
Aerospace Engineering
Professor Anupam Saxena
Mechanical Engineering
Professor Harshwardhan Wanare
Physics
Mrs. Anju Dixit
Computer Centre
ETA Awardees
Professor Arjun Ramakrishnan
Biological sciences and Bioengineering
Professor Salil Goel
Civil Engineering
Professor Chunendra Kumar Sahu
Civil Engineering
Professor Yogesh Moreshwar Joshi
Chemical Engineering
Professor Viswanathan Shankar
Chemical Engineering
Professor Vishal Govind Rao
Chemistry
Professor Ritika Gautam
Chemistry
Professor Debadatta Mishra
Computer Science & Engineering
Professor Shatarupa Thakurta Roy
Design
Professor Faiz Hamid
Management Sciences
Professor Amit Shukla
Management Sciences
Professor Sukumar Vellakkal
Economic Sciences
Professor Ketan Rajawat
Electrical Engineering
Professor Subrahmanya Swamy Peruru
Electrical Engineering
Professor A R Harish
Electrical Engineering
Professor Sayan Chattopadhyay
Humanities and Social Sciences
Professor Esha Chatterjee
Humanities and Social Sciences
Professor Niraj Mohan Chawake
Materials Science and Engineering
Professor Palanikumar Shunmugaraj
Mathematics
Professor Thirumalai Muthukumar
Mathematics
Schedule
- Date: September 05, 2026 (Saturday)
- Time: 05:00 PM (Tea at 4:30 pm on L19 foyer)
Venue L19