Director's Gallery

Pavaguda Venkata Indiresan (1928–2013) was an Indian engineer, educationist and administrator. His intellectual landscape comes from the fact that he encompasses so many different disciplines and has produced top-tier work in most of them. He is simultaneously an inventor, scientist, social scientist and lot’s more. On 16th April, 1979, Prof. P. V. Indiresan was appointed as Director of IIT Madras. He served as Director for a total of five years, until 24th July, 1984 and contributed quite extensively to the Institute during this period. One of his major contributions to the Institution was the introduction of a credit system which aimed at helping the students academically by allowing them the freedom of choice of subjects. The system also focused on the consistency of grades. He also introduced a system of having Deans in the Institute for the first time.