New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Saturday address the 57th convocation ceremony of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Over 3000 graduating students, including 587 PhD scholars, will be conferred their degrees during the ceremony.

Recognising outstanding academic excellence, the prime minister will present the institute's most prestigious honours, including the President's Gold Medal, Director's Gold Medal, Shankar Dayal Sharma Gold Medal, and Perfect Ten Gold Medals to meritorious students, an official statement said on Friday.

Emphasising India's commitment to advancing cutting-edge research and artificial intelligence, Modi will inaugurate Param Pragya, an AI-powered high-performance supercomputing facility established at the Sonipat Campus of IIT Delhi.

According to the address by the IIT Delhi Director, "Convocation is also special since this is led by our first woman Dean Academics. This year we will be giving more than 3000 degrees including 587 PhD degrees. In today's convocation we look forward to our PM inaugurating the Param Pragya AI supercomputing facility – this has been funded by the National Supercomputing Mission and will provide significant compute for AI research."

The state-of-the-art facility is expected to significantly enhance the institute's capabilities in AI, data science, advanced computing and interdisciplinary research.

With inputs of PTI