Mumbai, Aug 8 (UNI) The 59th convocation of IIT Bombay was held online in Virtual Reality (VR) mode, keeping in view the safety measures during the ongoing pandemic on Saturday.

The personalized avatar of each graduate received the degree certificate from the personalized avatar of the Director Professor Subhasis Chaudhuri. All medal winners received their medals from the personalized avatar of the Chief Guest Professor Geoffrey Hinton, FRS, University of Toronto. The Institute thought it best to arrange such a VR-convocation for the graduating students so as not to put their health at risk but at the same time, they did not wish to deprive them of the sense of achievement and pride of passing out of India’s premier engineering Institute.