Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur - Alumni

Alumni

  • N.R. Narayana Murthy, founded the software corporation Infosys
  • Pradeep Sindhu, founder - Juniper Networks
  • Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Padma Shri and Professor, Dept of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras)
  • Abhay Bhushan, author of File Transfer Protocol
  • Amitabh Thakur, an officer of the Indian Police Service, social activist, writer
  • Anil K. Rajvanshi, Director, Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute and winner of Jamnalal Bajaj Award 2001, FICCI award 2002, Globe Award 2009.
  • Ashoke Sen, FRS and Padma Shri, string theorist
  • Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, scientist in the area of NMR and biological membranes
  • Chandra Kintala, Professor and Director of Software Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology; Director(Retd.), Bell Labs, USA
  • Debabrata Goswami, scientist, famous for his "Adiabatic Quantum Computing" Work with Lasers; Wellcome Trust International Senior Research Fellow
  • Duvvuri Subbarao, 22nd Governor of Reserve Bank of India
  • Jainendra K. Jain, condensed matter theorist
  • K. VijayRaghavan (Director of National Centre for Biological Sciences) - 2003 Distinguished Alumnus Award Winner
  • Manindra Agrawal, Nitin Saxena, and Neeraj Kayal (proved with their AKS primality test that primality testing has a polynomial time algorithm, a major result in theoretical computer science). Clay Research Award, 2002, Godel Prize, 2006
  • Mriganka Sur, neuroscientist), Sherman Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience, Head, Dept of Brain and Cognitive Science MIT, Fellow of Royal Society
  • Rahul Ram, Indian bass guitarist, social activist and music composer, Indian Ocean (band)
  • Rajeev Motwani, computer scientist), Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Helped back companies such as PayPal and Google
  • Rajesh Gopakumar, physicist and string theorist at HCRI, Allahabad
  • Rajiv Dixit, social activist
  • Satyendra Dubey, whistle-blower whose murder shocked the nation
  • Shiraz Minwalla, a string theorist at TIFR who was awarded ICTP Prize for his contribution to theoretical physics
  • Utpal Bhattacharya, expert on financial ethics
  • Umang Gupta, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Keynote Systems, Inc.

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