PRAYAGRAJ, Sept. 10 -- As many as 728 students will receive degrees and 22 medals at the 21st convocation of the Indian Institute of Information Technology-Allahabad (IIIT-A), to be held at its Jhalwa campus on September 12.

Prof Arvind A Natu, chairman of the board of governors of IISER-Kolkata and MANIT-Bhopal, member of the IISER and NITSER Council and German Research Ambassador, will be the chief guest and deliver the convocation address. Prof Bhim Singh, professor at NSUT, New Delhi and Vigyan Shri awardee, and Apoorva Kumar, founder and CEO of Disseqt AI and an IIIT-A alumnus, will be the guests of honour.

Speaking to media persons on Thursday, IIIT-A director Prof Mukul Sharad Sutaone said the degrees would comprise 466 undergrad...