Gratitude to the IIT Delhi faculty.

Thank you for bringing an energy systems engineer's honesty to the leadership of IIT Delhi, and for keeping the institute's eyes fixed on the energy transition India actually needs.

Thank you for hydroclimatology that treats floods and droughts as solvable engineering questions, and for shaping academics for one of India's most demanding campuses.

Thank you for two decades of building AI systems that read, plan, and answer at web scale, and for helping raise India's first dedicated school of artificial intelligence at IIT Delhi.

Thank you for approximation algorithms of rare elegance, and for recorded lectures that made theoretical computer science feel alive to students far beyond Delhi.

Thank you for smart fibres and functional textiles that carry Indian materials science into daily life, and for stewarding research across the institute as Dean.

Thank you for illuminating ionic liquids and green solvents with fluorescence, and for the care you bring to IIT Delhi's faculty community as Dean.

Thank you for power grids made smarter by computational intelligence, and for the steady, everyday mentorship you give students as Dean of Student Affairs.

Thank you for showing how land, wind farms, and atmosphere shape one another, and for building atmospheric science capacity where India needs it most.

Thank you for the SmartCane and decades of assistive technology that gave hundreds of thousands of visually impaired Indians safer, more independent mobility.

Thank you for the optics textbooks that taught generations across the world, and for a lifetime of making fiber optics and photonics understandable and beautiful.