List of notable Indian Institutes of Technology alumni

Campus

Year

Achievement

A.N. Khosla

Roorkee

1916

Founder President of Int. Commission on Irrigation and Draingage, Kennedy Gold Medal winner, Orissa Governor (1962-68)

N.D. Gulhati

Roorkee

1926

Padma Bhusan (1961)

V. C. Kulandaiswamy

Kharagpur (M. Tech.)

1956

Padam Shri(1992) Padma Bhusan (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 Bob Kumar Bhattacharyya

Kharagpur

1960

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.

Professor Prem Vrat

Kharagpur(B.Tech & M.Tech)

1966

Director IIT Roorkee

Satish Kaura

Kanpur

1966

Chairman and MD, Samtel Colour Limited

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

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,various U.N. awards and speaker in world parliament of religions.

Dr. Srikumar Banerjee

Kharagpur

1967

Director, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, (BARC), Trombay

Vinod Gupta

Kharagpur

1967

Founder and Chairman of InfoUSA Inc.

Ramesh Agarwal

Bombay

1968

IBM Fellow, T.J. Watson Research CenterIBM

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

Ajoy Kumar Bose

Kanpur

1971

Chairman, Interra Group, President and CEO, Atrenta Inc.

Rajat Gupta

Delhi

1971

Managing Director, McKinsey

Umang Gupta

Kanpur

1971

Chairman and CEO, Keynote Systems

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

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

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.

Gautam Barua

Bombay (B. Tech.)

1976

Director of IIT Guwahati

Vinod Khosla

Delhi

1976

Co-founder Sun Microsystems

C. Mohan

Madras

1977

IBM Fellow, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, USA

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

Nandan Nilekani

Bombay

1978

Co-founder and CEO of Infosys

Narendra Karmarkar

Bombay

1978

Polynomial time algorithm for LP problems

Shanker Trivedi

Delhi

1978

CMO, Callidus Software, VP, Sun Microsystems

Amitabh Srivastava

Kanpur

1979

Corporate Vice President, Windows Core Operating System Development, Microsoft Corporation

Naveen Jain

Roorkee

1979

CEO And Co-founder, Intelius

Lalit Jalan

Kanpur

1979

Executive Director, Reliance Energy

S. Gopalkrishnan

Madras (M. Tech.)

1979

COO of Infosys

Ronojoy "Rono" Dutta

Kharagpur

1980

Former President,United Airlines,Chairman, Air Sahara

Sudheendra Kulkarni

Bombay

1980

Advisor to PM Atal Behari Vajpayee

Manoj Goel

Roorkee

1981

co-founder Internet Junction, a security company acquired by Cisco

Ajay Bharadhwaj

Delhi

1982

President, Biocon India

Padmashree Warrior

Delhi

1982

CTO, Motorola

Rajeev Motwani

Kanpur

1984

Professor, Stanford University

Raghuram Rajan

Delhi

1985

Economic Counseler, IMF; Fischer Black prize

Manindra Agarwal

Kanpur

1986

Clay Research Award, 2002

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

Rizwan Koita

Bombay

1992

Co founder of Transworks (Acquired by AV Birla Group of Companies

Amitabha Ghosh

Kharagpur

1993

Planetary Geologist, NASA, only Indian to have served in NASA's Pathfinder mission

Anurag Dikshit

Delhi (B. Tech.)

1994

Co-Founder,Partygaming

Vikrant Bhargava

Delhi (B. Tech.)

1994

Co-Founder,Partygaming

Subrah Iyar

Bombay

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CEO WebEx Communications

Anant Koppar

Kharagpur

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Founder President of Kshema Technologies, one of India's first venture capital funded software services companies