Vijay Kumar honored as distinguished IIT Alumnus

OEIT director, Vijay Kumar, was recently honored with the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Chosen for their outstanding achievements, Distinguished Alumni participate in an award function, held as part of the Institute Day on April 21, 2011. The Institute intends for distinguished alumni to inspire current IIT students.

Kumar earned his Bachelors (B. Tech) in Chemical Engineering and M. S. (Industrial Management) from IIT Madras. He shares the honor of ITT-M distinguished alumnus with a few others at MIT such as Profs. George Verghese and Subra Suresh, and also Dr. Desh Deshpande.

Newspaper links with more information are as follows:
 

1. The New Indian Express: Date Jan 27, 2011
2. Times of India: Date Jan 27, 2011