A 53-year-old senior professor of IIT-Kanpur has died due to cardiac arrest while delivering a lecture during an alumni meet, institute authorities said on Saturday.
Professor Sameer Khandekar, the dean of student affairs and head of mechanical engineering at IIT Kanpur, collapsed while giving a speech and passed away. He had been battling health issues since 2019. The IIT community is in shock and his final rites will take place after his son arrives from Cambridge University.