List of notable NIT alumni
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| Name | Campus | Year | Achievement |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subash Menon | NIT, DURGAPUR | 1986 | Founder and CEO of Subex Systems |
| Srinidhi Varadarajan | NIT, Warangal | 1994 | Creator of SystemX - the third fastest supercomputer in the world and quite possibly the cheapest price/performance of any supercomputer on the TOP500 list. Currently, he is the Director of Terascale Computing Facility and Associate Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. |
| Srini Raju | NIT, Kurukshetra | He is the founder and Chairman of ilabs and was also the Chief Operating Officer of Satyam Computer Services during 1992-2000. He is the founding CEO and Director of Satyam Enterprise Solutions Ltd. and was on the board of Sify Ltd. Mr Raju also held the position of CEO of Dun & Bradstreet Satyam Software Ltd. (now known as Cognizant Technology Solutions) | |
| Nitish Kumar | NIT, Patna, | Former union minister for railways under the NDA government and cuurently the chief minister of Bihar. Nitish kumar is an engineering graduate from the Bihar College of Engineering Patna which has now been upgraded into a full fledged NIT Patna in the year 2004 by the MHRD, GOI. | |
| Guruswami Ravichandran | NIT, Trichy | 1981 | Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering at the prestigious California Institute of Technology |
| Rohit Rai | NIT, Jaipur | He is the Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development at CTS Corp. | |
| Dr. Priya Prasad | NIT, Patna | A world-renowned biomechanics expert, Dr. Prasad has spent the past 30 years at Ford Motor Company studying the human body and its response to physical forces in vehicle crashes.He is a Fellow member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, and the chairman or member of various ISO / SAE committees and is also an NAE honoree. | |
| Savita Wakhlu | NIT, Srinagar | She has been appointed as one of the three new Board Members to The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation and is also the managing director of Jagriti Communications,a Training and Consulting Organization, specializing in Human Development | |
| VK Kala | NIT, Jaipur | He is currently the Vice President,of ,IDeas "Technology Center of Excellence" in Pune, India and a former officer in the Indian Air Force, where he was awarded the prestigious Vice Chief of Air Staff Commendation for services at Air Headquarters.He also holds a masters degree from IIT Delhi. | |
| Mr. Manoj Agarwala | NIT, Calicut | Vice President, Services ,Induslogic. He was one of the co-founders of the company. | |
| Sunil Kumar | NIT, Surathkal | 1990 | Associate Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology at the prestigious Stanford Graduate School of Business |
| Hari Murthy | NIT, Bhopal | 1986 | He is the head of Hexaware Technologies's North American Operations and an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad.Hexaware Technologies. |
| Krishan Batta | NIT, Warangal | Chief Operating Officer at Celetronix. | |
| Sanjay Verma | NIT, Kurukshetra | 1981 | He is the Managing Director of ITC Infotech.Prior to this, Mr. Verma was heading the operations of the Tobacco business of ITC Limited.
Mr. Verma is the Founder President of the TiE - Kolkata Chapter. and is also on the Board of ITC Infotech Inc. USA, ITC Infotech Ltd., UK. - the two 100% subsidiaries of ITC Infotech India Ltd and CLI3L e-Services Ltd. - the joint venture between ITC Infotech India Ltd. and Clientlogic, USA. |
| Tarun Amla | NIT, Calicut | Vice President and Chief Technology Officer,Isola Global. Isola Group leads the market in the design and production of innovative base materials used as the foundation for printed circuit boards. | |
| Satya Prabhakar | NIT, Trichy | 1985 | Founder and CEO of Sulekha.com - the largest portal for Indian community. |
| Vineet Vohra | NIT, Rourkela | Regional Director, Asia Pacific Region, Citibank Singapore. | |
| Dr. Damodar Acharya | NIT, Rourkela | 1981 | Chairman of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), a statutory body for development of technical education in India |
| V Sriram | NIT, Surathkal | Director of Infosys'China Operations. | |
| Aakash Khurana | NIT, Rourkela | Noted theatre and film personality. He is a winner of the coveted filmfare award and has acted in numerous films namely Sarfarosh, Saaransh, Trikaal. | |
| Vinod Kathail | NIT, Bhopal | He is the founder and CTO of Synfora - a hardware design company that has emerged out of HP Labsafter a 10 year research. Earlier, he led the Trimaran effort at Hewlett Packard in the role of Chief Architect of Elcor compiler, which constitutes most of the machine-dependent part of the Trimaran research infra-structure. | |
| Prof Laxmi Bhuyan | NIT, Rourkela | 1972 | Graduated from NIT Rourkela in 1972 then affiliated to Sambalpur University, Orissa. As of Aug 2005, he is serving as Editor for prestigious journals - IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) and Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC). He is also a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, Riverside. |
| Rajeev Madhavan | NIT, Surathkal | He is the co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Magma - a $150 million company that develops software for electronic design automation (EDA) | |
| Rajesh Vashist | NIT, Rourkela | 1980 | He is the President, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Ikanos - Ikanos Communications develops silicon solutions that are focused on delivering fiber-fast broadband access over existing copper lines. |
| Prof. Anurag Agarwal | NIT, Allahabad | Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad | |
| Mr. Vivek Man Singh | NIT, Allahabad | CEO of Asia Pacific Region Dell Inc.,Dell Corp. | |
| Pradeep Kar | NIT, Nagpur | A Serial entrepreneur, he is now the board member of GCI Solutions (erstwhile Planetasia). He is the founder of Microland Technologies, a big name in offshore infrastructure in India and also the founder of the portal indya.com | |
| Dinesh Keskar | NIT, Nagpur | A graduate of this NIT he is now the Vice - President of Boeing's Sales(Asia). | |
| Shirish B Purohit | NIT, Nagpur | A graduate of this NIT he is Founder and CEO of MIDAS Communications. | |
| S.Janakiraman | NIT, Trichy | President and CEO, R&D Services MindTree Consulting. | |
| K. V. Kamath | NIT, Surathkhal | 1969 | He is the CEO Of ICICI Bank and alumnus of IIM-A. |
| Rajan Narayanan | NIT, Trichy | 1979 | Vice President MindTree Consulting. |
| Prabir Kumar Basudhar | NIT, Durgapur | 1968 | Professor Civil Engg Dept IIT-Kanpur |
| Himanshu Rai | NIT, Surathkhal | Professor PM&IR XLRI-Jamshedpur | |
| Abinash Panda | NIT, Rourkela | Professor Organizational Behaviour XLRI-Jamshedpur | |
| Pankaj Baliga | NIT, Durgapur | 1968 | Vice president TCS(TATA Consultancy Services is a leading Global IT service provider.) |
| Nilotpal Ray | NIT, Durgapur | Managing Director Indian Iron and Steel Co (IISCO)a division of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL). | |
| Dr. Prasanta Kumar De | NIT, Durgapur | Professor of Operations Management SP jain Institute of Research and Management. | |
| Parvesh Minocha | NIT, Durgapur | 1982 | Managing Director Of Feeback Ventures Engineering & Project Management Division. |
