IIIT-A director awarded Educator of the Year Award, 2021

Prayagraj: Making the city and the institution proud, director of Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad (IIIT-A), Prof P Nagabhushan, have been conferred with the prestigious award of the IEEE Uttar Pradesh Section, a constituent organizational unit of IEEE, United States of America.

IEEE has recognised Prof Nagabhushan with the Educator of the Year Award-2021, for his outstanding contributions and exemplary services in the fields of technical education and to promote IEEE at various levels.

Sri Nivas Singh, the fellow IEEE and the chairman award and recognition committee informed that the names of many reputed persons from IIT, NIT, IIIT, and other universities and institutes from Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand were considered for the award, and among them, Prof Nagabhushan was found the most appropriate on the basis of the academic, technical, and societal services offered by him to the nation.

The award will be presented during the Annual General Body Meeting (AGM) of Uttar Pradesh on January 16 in Lucknow.

Notably, Prof Nagabhushan as director of IIIT-A has done several reformative programme, including scrapping of stereotyped examination system and successful introduction of assessment system at IIIT-A. Besides, new courses such as Business Informatics, PhD for professionals and MoU with ISRO are the landmark achievements of the institute.

The entire IIIT-A fraternity has congratulated Prof Nagabhushan for being selected for prestigious Educator of the Year-2021 award.