IIIT-B students get lucrative job offers

BENGALURU: Last year, Abhijay Vuyyuuru, Anubhav Bhardwaj and Lijo Johny took part in a hackathon in Malaysia. Little did they know that the app they designed would land them each a job with a hefty package. On Sunday, the trio -students of the integrated M.Tech programme at

International Institute of Information Technology

, Bangalore (IIITB) — shared their success story at the

convocation ceremony

.

They were hoping to begin their career with a decent package, they said, but this was something else. “We never expected to get a job...We were just participating at a tech event in Malaysia in 2016. We created an app, Augbot, related to the construction industry . On emerging as global winners, one company offered us internships, then jobs,“said Abhijay .

The app offers information on construction tools; if the user scans a tool, the app shows how it's made, where it can be used etc,“ said Anubhav.

Visually impaired girl tops

Vidhya Y, who is 100% visually impaired, topped the first batch of master of science (MS) in digital society and was awarded the gold medal.The IIITB gold medal went to Gaurav Jain and Anusha P S.

The M Visveswaraya scholarship was given to Garodi Mahendra Bhagwan and Anusha P S; the Sri N Rama Rao medal for student of the year went to Yashvanth Kondi. Tarun Tater won the medal for all-rounder of the year while Khadim Bhatti was named entrepreneur of the year. The institute medal for contribution to IIITB community life was given to Priyanka Arora and for professional life, to S Bhargav.

Director of IIT-Kanpur Indranil Manna, who was chief guest at the convocation, urged students to give back to society all that they had learned at the institute.

Kris Gopalakrishnan, executive vice-chairman of Infosys and chairman of

IIIT Bangalore

, said, “We have to look beyond just doing our jobs and be open to ideas which can help people.Every sector needs information technology and we need to strengthen them with our knowledge.“

Forty-eight students received their degrees in intergrated M Tech while four were conferred with

PhD degrees.

Eight students got their master's degree in research, 149 got M Tech degrees, nine got MS in digital society while 51 got degrees in the sponsored M Tech programme.