| Name |
Campus |
Year |
Achievement |
| V. C. Kulandaiswamy |
Kharagpur (M. Tech.) |
1956 |
Padma Shri (1992) and Padma Bhushan (2002) |
| Kirit Parikh |
Kharagpur (M. Tech.) |
1957 |
Founder, IGIDR; Member, Planning Commission. |
| Mani Lal Bhaumik |
Kharagpur (Ph.D) |
1958 |
Physicist, contributed to early development of the 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 the University of Warwick and advisor to Britain's Prime Minister. Padma Bhushan (2002) and Knighthood (2003) |
| Ashok Soota |
Roorkee |
1965 |
CEO and Founder of MindTree |
| Suhas S. Patil |
Kharagpur |
1965 |
Founder and Chairman Emeritus Cirrus Logic Inc. |
| Muthuraman B. |
Madras |
1966 |
Managing Director of Tata Steel |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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 Center IBM |
| N.R. Narayana Murthy |
Kanpur (M Tech) |
1969 |
Co-founder and Chairman of Infosys |
| Arjun Malhotra |
Kharagpur |
1970 |
Co-founder, HCL Technologies |
| Victor Menezes |
Bombay |
1970 |
Senior Vice Chairman, Citigroup |
| Rajat Gupta |
Delhi |
1971 |
Managing Director, McKinsey |
| Ajit Jain |
Kharagpur |
1972 |
President, Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group |
| Anil K. Rajvanshi |
Kanpur |
1972 |
Director, Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute and winner of Jamnalal Bajaj Award 2001 and FICCI award 2002. |
| Arogyaswami Paulraj |
Delhi |
1973 |
Professor, Stanford University |
| Mriganka Sur |
Kanpur |
1974 |
Professor of Neuroscience, MIT |
| Pradeep S Sindhu |
Kanpur |
1974 |
Co-founder, Vice-President and CTO, Juniper Networks |
| Arun Sarin |
Kharagpur |
1975 |
CEO of Vodafone |
| Bharat Desai |
Bombay |
1975 |
Chairman and CEO, Syntel |
| Jairam Ramesh |
Bombay |
1975 |
Member of Parliament, 2004 |
| Vinod Khosla |
Delhi |
1976 |
Co-founder Sun Microsystems |
| Manohar Parrikar |
Bombay |
1978 |
Chief Minister, Goa |
| 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 |
| G. V. Loganathan |
Kanpur (M.Tech) |
1978 |
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute |
| Naveen Jain |
Roorkee |
1979 |
CEO and Co-founder, Intelius |
| Krishna Bharat |
Madras |
1982 |
Creator of Google News, Principal Scientist, Google |
| Padmasree Warrior |
Delhi |
1982 |
CTO, Motorola |
| Arvind Raghunathan |
Madras |
1984 |
Managing Director and Head of Global Arbitrage, Deutsche Bank |
| Rajesh Jain |
Bombay |
1984 |
CEO, Netcore Solutions, Founder, IndiaWorld |
| Raghuram Rajan |
Delhi |
1985 |
Economic Counsellor, IMF; Fischer Black prize |
| Manindra Agarwal |
Kanpur |
1986 |
Clay Research Award, 2002 ,Godel Prize, 2006 |
| 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 |
| Arvind Kejriwal |
Kharagpur |
1989 |
Indian social activist and crusader for greater transparency in Government. Winner of Ramon Magsaysay Emergent Leadership award in 2006 |
| Gunjan Sinha |
Delhi |
1989 |
Chairman, Metricstream |
| Ramanathan V. Guha |
Madras |
1989 |
Invented RSS |
| Anurag Dikshit |
Delhi |
1994 |
Co-Founder,Partygaming |
| 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" |
| 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 |
