List of notable Indian Institutes of Technology alumni
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List of notable alumni of the Indian Institutes of Technology, sorted by the year they graduated.
| Name | Campus | Year | Achievement |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.N. Khosla | Roorkee | 1916 | Founder President of Int. Commission on Irrigation and Drainage, Kennedy Gold Medal winner, Orissa Governor) |
| N.D. Gulhati | Roorkee | 1926 | Padma Bhushan (1961) |
| V. C. Kulandaiswamy | Kharagpur (M. Tech.) | 1956 | Padma Shri(1992) Padma Bhushan (2002) |
| Kirit Parikh | Kharagpur (M. Tech.) | 1957 | Founder, IGIDR; Member, Planning Commission. |
| Mani Lal Bhaumik | Kharagpur (Ph.D) | 1958 | Physicist, inventor of first excimer laser, honorary fellow of the American Physical Society and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, philanthropist and author. |
| Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya | Kharagpur | 1960 | Professor at Warwick University and advisor to Britain's Prime Minister. Padma Bhushan (2002), Knighthood(2003) |
| Ashok Soota | Roorkee | 1965 | CEO and Founder of MindTree |
| Suhas S. Patil | Kharagpur | 1965 | Founder and Chairman Emeritus Cirrus Logic Inc. |
| Prem Vrat | Kharagpur(B.Tech & M.Tech) | 1966 | Ex-Director IIT Roorkee |
| Satish Kaura | Kanpur | 1966 | Chairman and MD, Samtel Colour Limited |
| Muthuraman B. | Madras | 1966 | Managing Director of Tata Steel |
| Satish Pai | Madras | 1966 | Vice President, Schlumberger Oilfield Technologies |
| Arun Netravali | Bombay | 1967 | President, Bell Labs, Chief Scientist, Lucent, US National Medal of Technology |
| Kanwal Rekhi | Bombay | 1967 | CEO Ensim Corporation; Ex-CTO Novell;Founder of TiE - The IndUS Entrepreneurs |
| Subra Suresh | Madras | 1977 | Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT |
| R. Gopalakrishnan | Kharagpur | 1967 | Executive Director Tata Sons Ltd, Chairman of Tata Honeywell & Rallis India, Vice Chairman Tata Chemicals and Director,Tata Motors,Tata Power and Tata Teleservices |
| Rajinder Singh | Madras | 1967 | Noted spiritual leader and winner of Colombia's highest award medal of golden cross. |
| Srikumar Banerjee | Kharagpur | 1967 | Director, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, (BARC), Trombay |
| Vinod Gupta | Kharagpur | 1967 | Founder and Chairman of InfoUSA Inc. |
| Dinesh Mohan | Bombay | 1967 | Expert on urban transport, Henry Ford Professor at IIT Delhi |
| Marti G Subrahmanyam | Madras | 1967 | Charles E. Merrill Professor of Finance at Stern School of Business |
| Ramesh Agarwal | Bombay | 1968 | IBM Fellow, T.J. Watson Research CenterIBM |
| Kasturi Rangan | Madras | ? | Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business School |
| M.B. Lal | Kanpur (M Tech) | 1969 | Chairman and MD, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited |
| N.R. Narayana Murthy | Kanpur (M Tech) | 1969 | Co-founder and Chairman of Infosys |
| Arjun Malhotra | Kharagpur | 1970 | Co-founder, HCL Technologies |
| Prabhakar Goel | Kanpur | 1970 | Chairman, iPolicy Networks |
| Sartaj K Sahni | Kanpur | 1970 | Professor, University of Florida. Prominent CS author. |
| Victor Menezes | Bombay | 1970 | Senior Vice Chairman, Citigroup |
| Jalaiah Unnam | Madras | 1970 | Natl. Prime Contractor of the Year award by US Small Business Administration |
| Ajoy Kumar Bose | Kanpur | 1971 | Chairman, Interra Group, President and CEO, Atrenta Inc. |
| Rajat Gupta | Delhi | 1971 | Managing Director, McKinsey |
| Raj Srikanth | Madras | 1971 | Managing Director, Deutsche Bank Alex Brown, New York, USA |
| Umang Gupta | Kanpur | 1971 | Chairman and CEO, Keynote Systems |
| Ananth Raman | Madras | ? | UPS Foundation Professor of Business Logistics at Harvard Business School |
| Ronojoy "Rono" Dutta | Kharagpur | 1972 | Former President,United Airlines,Chairman, Air Sahara |
| Ajit Jain | Kharagpur | 1972 | President, Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group |
| Rakesh K Jain | Kanpur | 1972 | Professor, Harvard Medical School and Director, Steele Laboratory of Tumor Biology |
| Arogyaswami Paulraj | Delhi | 1973 | Professor, Stanford University |
| Som Mittal | Kanpur | 1973 | CEO Digital GlobalSoft |
| Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande | Madras | 1974 | Co-founder, Sycamore Networks |
| Vinita Gupta | Roorkee | 1973 | Chairperson and Founder, Quick Eagle Networks |
| Mriganka Sur | Kanpur | 1974 | Professor of Neuroscience, MIT |
| Pradeep S Sindhu | Kanpur | 1974 | Co-founder, Vice-President and CTO, Juniper Networks |
| Sunil Wadhwani | Madras | 1974 | Founder, iGate; Co-Chairman and CEO of iGate |
| Arun Sarin | Kharagpur | 1975 | CEO of Vodafone |
| Avi Nash | Bombay | 1975 | Advisory Director, Goldman Sachs |
| Bharat Desai | Bombay | 1975 | Chairman and CEO, Syntel |
| Jairam Ramesh | Bombay | 1975 | Member of Parliament, 2004 |
| Pawan Kumar Goenka | Kanpur | 1975 | COO, Mahindra and Mahindra |
| Rakesh Gangwal | Kanpur | 1975 | Former Exec-VP United Airlines, Ex-CEO US Airways |
| Sadanand D. Joshi | Bombay | 1975 | President, JTI Inc. |
| Sashi Reddi | Delhi | 1987 | Founder,CEO, AppLabs Technologies. |
| Rajiv Sangal | Kanpur | 1975 | Expert in language processing. First director of IIIT, Hyderabad |
| Sudhir Vyas | Kanpur | 1975 | Prominent diplomat. India's Ambassador to Bhutan |
| Y.P.S Suri | Kharagpur | 1975 | Country Head Outokumpu India Pvt Ltd |
| Muktesh Pant | Kanpur | 1976 | MD of Reebok India, later Chief Marketing Officer (worldwide) for Reebok |
| Gautam Barua | Bombay | 1976 | Director of IIT Guwahati |
| Vinod Khosla | Delhi | 1976 | Co-founder Sun Microsystems |
| Rajeev Kapoor | Delhi | 1976 | CTO - Senior Director of MAHLE Filter Systems India |
| Timothy Gonsalves | Madras | 1976 | Head of Dept, Computer Science Indian Institute of Technology, Madras |
| K.R. Rajagopal | Madras | ? | University distinguished professor and Forsyth Chair in Engineering at Texas A&M University |
| C. Mohan | Madras | 1977 | IBM Fellow & IBM India Chief Scientist, IBM Bangalore, India |
| Vipin Kumar | Roorkee | 1977 | Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Minnesota |
| Ambuj Goyal | Kanpur | 1978 | General Manager, IBM Information Management IBM |
| Manohar Parrikar | Bombay | 1978 | Chief Minister, Goa |
| B Santhanam | Madras | 1978 | CEO Saint-Gobain India |
| Nandan Nilekani | Bombay | 1978 | Co-founder and CEO of Infosys |
| Narendra Karmarkar | Bombay | 1978 | Polynomial time algorithm for LP problems, which is a leading breakthrough in Operations Research |
| Shrinivas Kulkarni | Delhi (M.Sc) | 1978 | Astrophysicist, professor at Caltech |
| Shanker Trivedi | Delhi | 1978 | CMO, Callidus Software, VP, Sun Microsystems |
| Amitabh Srivastava | Kanpur | 1979 | Corporate Vice President, Windows Core Operating System Development, Microsoft Corporation |
| Narayanaswami Ranganathan | Madras | ? | Professor at Université François Rabelais de Tours |
| Naveen Jain | Roorkee | 1979 | CEO and Co-founder, Intelius |
| B.N Narasimha Murthy | Madras | 1979 | Senior VP, Business Transition & Domestic Markets, of Hinduja TMT |
| Lalit Jalan | Kanpur | 1979 | Executive Director, Reliance Energy |
| S. Gopalkrishnan | Madras (M. Tech.) | 1979 | COO of Infosys |
| Sudheendra Kulkarni | Bombay | 1980 | Advisor to PM Atal Behari Vajpayee |
| Yogesh Gupta | Madras | 1981 | CTO, Computer Associates |
| Yogesh Kumar | Madras | 1981 | Director of Light Combat Aircraft (LCA-Tejas) project, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited |
| Srini Chari | Madras | 1981 | President & CEO of TurboWorx |
| Manoj Goel | Roorkee | 1981 | co-founder Internet Junction, a security company acquired by Cisco |
| Ajay Bharadhwaj | Delhi | 1982 | President, Biocon India |
| Shivakumar D. | Madras | 1982 | Vice-President and Country General Manager for Customer and Market operations, Nokia India |
| Krishna Bharat | Madras | 1982 | Creator of Google News, Principal Scientist, Google |
| Phaneesh Murthy | Madras | 1982 | Founder, iGate; Prior Worldwide Head of Sales and Marketing, & Board Member, Infosys |
| Padmashree Warrior | Delhi | 1982 | CTO, Motorola |
| Sreehari Narasipur | Madras | 1983 | Vice President, Product Development, Telelogic India |
| Ramesh Govindan | Madras | ? | Associate Professor at USC |
| Rajeev Motwani | Kanpur | 1984 | Professor, Stanford University. Guided the founders of Google. |
| Raghuram Rajan | Delhi | 1985 | Economic Counsellor, IMF; Fischer Black prize |
| Sandipan Deb | Kharagpur | 1985 | Author and journalist, author of "The IITians", earlier with Outlook group and presently editor of Financial Express |
| Manindra Agarwal | Kanpur | 1986 | Clay Research Award, 2002 |
| Krishna Kolluri | Madras | 1986 | Board of Directors, Nevis Networks; Executive VP at Juniper Networks |
| Hari T. N. | Madras | 1986 | Vice President and Global Head of Human Resources, tusa Corp. |
| K.N. Radhakrishnan | Madras | 1986 | President, TVS Motor Company |
| Kalpathi S. Suresh | Madras | 1986 | Chairman and CEO, SSi Ltd |
| Anurag Acharya | Kharagpur | 1987 | Principal Engineer,Google, Developed Google Scholar |
| Madhu Sudan | Delhi | 1987 | Nevanlinna Prize, 2002 |
| Raj Kamal Jha | Kharagpur | 1987 | Writer, famous for his Novel "The Blue Bedspread" |
| Debabrata Goswami | Kanpur | 1988 (M.Sc.) | Scientist, famous for his "Adiabatic Quantum Computing" Work with Lasers; Wellcome Trust International Senior Research Fellow |
| Partha De Sarkar | Madras | 1988 | CEO-IT and ITES, Hinduja TMT Ltd. |
| Rizwan Koita | Bombay | 1992 | Co founder of Transworks (Acquired by AV Birla Group of Companies |
| Prakash Bhalekar | Bombay | 1992 | CEO - MAHLE Filter Systems India |
| Amitabha Ghosh | Kharagpur | 1993 | Planetary Geologist, NASA, only Indian to have served in NASA's Pathfinder mission |
| Hari Balakrishnan | Madras | 1993 | Professor at MIT |
| Anurag Dikshit | Delhi | 1994 | Co-Founder,Partygaming |
| R. Shankar | Madras | ? | Chair, Dept of Physics, Yale University |
| Vikrant Bhargava | Delhi | 1994 | Co-Founder,Partygaming |
| Satyendra Dubey | Kanpur | 1994 | Whistle-blower whose murder shocked the nation |
| Chetan Bhagat | Delhi | 1995 | Best-selling author of "Five Point Someone" and "One Night @ The Call Centre" |
| Maheshwar Reddy | Madras | 1998 | Notable Socialite, Derivatives Trader |
| Sudarsun. S | Madras | 1999 | Director R & D, Checktronix India Pvt Ltd |
| Subrah Iyar | Bombay | ? | CEO WebEx Communications |
| Anant Koppar | Kharagpur | ? | Founder President of Kshema Technologies, one of India's first venture capital funded software services companies |
