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Aghalayam is the first woman to be appointed as the director of an IIT campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/daily-current-affairs-and-quiz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz: July 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is an&nbsp;IIT Madras alumna and professor in the Department of chemical engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The campus is scheduled to commence its first academic session in October 2023. It will offer a four-year bachelor of science degree in data science and artificial intelligence, as well as a two-year master of technology degree in the same discipline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently,&nbsp;India and Tanzania inked an MoU,&nbsp;which facilitated IIT Madras to launch its&nbsp;first international campus in Zanzibar, Tanzania&#8217;. 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