List of IIT Kanpur people
This is a list of people affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
Notable faculty
Name | Affliliation | Notability | References |
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H. C. Verma | Former professor, Nuclear physics | Authored several school, undergraduate and graduate textbooks, the most popular being the two-volume Concepts of Physics, co-founded Shiksha Sopan, a social upliftment organization for economically weaker children living near the campus of IIT Kanpur, Padma Shri recipient | |
Manindra Agrawal | Department of Computer Science and Engineering | Recipient of the first Infosys Prize for Mathematics, Gödel Prize, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Sciences and Padma Shri recipient | [1][2] |
Debabrata Goswami | Professor of Chemistry | Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Institute of Physics, Optical Society of America (OSA) Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers | [1][2][3] |
Arun Kumar Biswas | Former Professor, Department of Metallurgical Engineering | Founder president of Indian Language Society, member of the INSA National Commission for History of Science, editorial board member of the Indian Journal of the History of Science | [3][4] |
Subramania Ranganathan | Former Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry | Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology recipient | |
Yogesh M. Joshi | Professor of Department of Chemical Engineering | Elected fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering | |
Avinash Kumar Agarwal | Professor of Department of Mechanical Engineering | Elected fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (2013), Society of Automotive Engineers, US (2012), National Academy of Science, Allahabad (2018), Royal Society of Chemistry, UK (2018), International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (2016), and Indian National Academy of Engineering (2015) | |
Gautam Biswas | Professor of mechanical engineering | Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and Institution of Engineers (IEI) | |
Debabrata Goswami | Department of Chemistry | FRSC, FInstP, Fellow (OSA), Fellow (SPIE), associate editor, Science Advances | [4][5][6] |
Notable alumni
Business
Name | Class Year | Notability | References |
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Arvind Krishna | 1985 | CEO of IBM; Director of IBM Research | [5] |
Bhaskar Pramanik | 1972 | Former CEO of Microsoft India | [6] |
Mukesh Bansal | 1997 | Founder of Myntra; CEO and Founder of Cure.fit | [7] |
Som Mittal | Former President of NASSCOM | [8] | |
N.R. Narayana Murthy | 1969 | Founder & Chairman Emeritus of Infosys, Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan | [9] |
Jagjeet (Jeet) S. Bindra | 1969 | Director at Edison International | |
Muktesh Pant | 1976 | Former CEO of Yum China | [10] |
Sangeet Paul Choudary | CEO & Founder of Platformation Labs and Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum | ||
Umang Gupta | 1971 | chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Keynote Systems | [11] |
Lalit Jalan | 1979 | CEO of Reliance Infrastructure | |
Prashant Pathak | Chairman of Investment Committee of Business Development Bank of Canada, CEO of Ekagrata Inc. | ||
Pradeep Sindhu | 1974 | Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer/Vice chairman of the board of directors of Juniper Networks Inc. | |
Rakesh Gangwal | 1975 | Co-founder of IndiGo airline | [12] |
V. K Matthews | Founder chairman IBS software services | ||
Prakash Bare | Actor, producer, Technologist |
Politics and civil services
Name | Class Year | Notability | References |
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Abhay Karandikar | 1988, 1994 | Secretary Department of Science and Technology Former Director, IIT Kanpur | [13] |
Ashwini Vaishnaw | 1994 | Former Indian Administrative Service officer Minister of Railways Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Minister of Communications | [14] |
Amitabh Thakur | 1989 | Indian Police Service officer known for his anti-corruption advocacy, now active for ensuring accountability and transparency in public life through political party Adhikar Sena | |
Prem Das Rai | 1976 | former Member of Parliament | |
Saurabh Kumar | 1986 | former Ambassador of India to Iran | [15] |
Sudhir Vyas | 1975 | former Ambassador of India to Germany | [16] |
Satyendra Dubey | 1994 | Project Director in National Highways Authority of India assassinated for exposing corruption in the Golden Quadrilateral highway project. | [17] |
Ashutosh Sharma | 1982 | Secretary Department of Science and Technology | |
Ram Sewak Sharma | 1978 | Chairman, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India | |
Duvvuri Subbarao | 1969 | 22nd Governor of Reserve Bank of India | [18] |
Krishnamurthy Subramanian | 1994 | 17th Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India | [19] |
Muralee Thummarukudy | Chief Disaster Risk Reduction at United Nations Environment Programme |
Science and technology
Name | Class Year | Notability | References | |
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Abhay Bhushan | 1965 | Author of the File Transfer Protocol | ||
Kare Narain Pathak | 1967 | Condensed matter physicist, Former Vice-Chancellor & Professor Emeritus at Panjab University. | [20] [21] | |
Atish Dabholkar | 1985 | String theorist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [22] | |
Avinash Deshpande | 1980 | Astrophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [23] | |
Mahan Mj | 1992 | Mathematician and a recipient of the 2011 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award | ||
Rakesh Jain | 1972 | Distinguished Tumor researcher at Harvard Medical School and recent winner of National Medal of Science. | ||
Bhrigu Nath Singh | 1998 | Director General of IITRAM. Professor and former HAL chair professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur | [24] | |
Sirshendu De | 1998 | Recipient of 2011 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award and professor of chemical engineering department, IIT Kharagpur | ||
Shahid Jameel | 1979 | Virologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [25] | |
Ashok Jhunjhunwala | 1970 | Padma Shri and professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras | ||
Deepak Dhar | 1972 | Theoretical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [26] | |
Kapil Hari Paranjape | 1982 | Mathematician, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | ||
Debasisa Mohanty | 1988 | Computational biologist, N-Bios laureate | [27] | |
Pramod Sadasheo Moharir | 1971 | Geophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [28] | |
Rajeev Motwani | 1983 | Computer scientist, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, Gödel Prize recipient | ||
Yashavant Kanetkar | Computer science author, known for his books on Programming languages | |||
G. Ravindra Kumar | 1990 | Laser physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [29] | |
Jainendra K. Jain | Condensed matter theorist | [30] | ||
Jitendra Malik | 1980 | Arthur J. Chick Professor of EECS at University of California at Berkeley | ||
Ranjan Mallik | 1987 | Communications engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureat | [31] | |
Shiraz Minwalla | 1995 | String theorist at TIFR who was awarded ICTP Prize for his contribution to theoretical physics | ||
Padmanabhan Balram | Director of IISC Bangalore and winner of Padma Bhushan | [32] | ||
Upinder Singh Bhalla | 1982 | Neuroscientist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [33] | |
Suresh Kumar Bhatia | Chemical engineer, academic, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [34] | ||
Narayanan Chandrakumar | 1979 | Chemical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [35] | |
Tushar Kanti Chakraborty | 1979 | Organic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [36] | |
Sandip Trivedi | 1985 | Theoretical physicist working at TIFR, recipient of the Infosys Prize 2010 in the category of Physical Sciences | [37] | |
Vijay Vaishnavi | 1971 | Researcher and scholar in the computer information systems field | [38] | |
Anil K. Rajvanshi | 1972 | Director, Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute. Winner of Jamnalal Bajaj Award 2001, FICCI award 2002, Globe Award 2009, University of Florida Distinguished Alumnus Award 2014, Padma Shri Award 2022, IIT Kanpur Distinguished Alumnus Award 2022. | [39][40][41][42][43] | |
Raghavan Varadarajan | 1982 | Biophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [44] | |
Anuradha Misra | 1983 | Physicist | [45] | |
Neeraj Kayal | 2002 | Computer scientist and mathematician noted for development of AKS primality test | [46][47][48] | |
Nitin Saxena | 2002 | Computer scientist and mathematician noted for development of AKS primality test | [46][47][48] | |
Pradyut Ghosh | 1998 | Inorganic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [49] | |
Manu Prakash | Physical Biologist and Inventor, Best known for his Foldscope and Paperfuge | |||
Arup Kumar Raychaudhuri | 1975 | Condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [50] | |
Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy | 1990 | Scientist in the area of NMR and biological membranes | ||
Suryanarayanasastry Ramasesha | 1977 | Quantum chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [51] | |
Gopal Prasad | 1966 | Mathematician | ||
H. R. Krishnamurthy | 1972 | Theoretical Physicist | ||
Rajesh Gopakumar | 1992 | Theoretical physicist director of International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore and winner of Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award in 2009. | [52] | |
Shridhar Ramachandra Gadre | 1978 | Computational Chemist and winner of Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award in 1994. | [53] |
Teaching
Name | Class Year | Institute and Position | Notability | References | |
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Rakesh Agrawal | 1975 | Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University | National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureate | [54] | |
Rajit Gadh | Professor of Engineering, Director of UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center | Pioneer of Smart grids | |||
Balasubramanian Gopal | Professor of Molecular Biophysics Unit of Indian Institute of Science | Molecular biophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [55] | ||
Chandra Kintala | Professor and Director of Software Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology | Former Director, Bell Labs, USA | |||
Subodha Kumar | 1997 | Paul R. Anderson Distinguished Chair Professor and Founding Director, Center for Business Analytics and Disruptive Technologies, Fox School of Business, Temple University | Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Fellow; Deputy Editor, Production and Operations Management journal; Founding Executive Editor, Management and Business Review journal | [56][57][58] | |
Ranjan Roy | Professor emeritus and Chairman of Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Beloit College | Recipient of the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics. | [59] | ||
Sanjay Sarma | Professor and Director of Digital Learning at MIT | Credited with developing standards and technologies in the commercial RFID industry | |||
Ashoke Sen | 1976 | Distinguished professor at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad | FRS, Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan, string theorist | ||
Sanjib Senapati | Professor at the Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, Department of Biotechnology of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras | N-Bios laureate | [60] | ||
Mriganka Sur | 1974 | Newton Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Simons Center for the Social Brain at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Neuroscientist, fellow of the Royal Society | ||
K. VijayRaghavan | 1977 | Former Director of National Centre for Biological Sciences, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India (2018-) | Fellow of the Royal Society, foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences, Padma Shri and Infosys Prize recipient | ||
Spenta R. Wadia | Professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | Founding Director of the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, TWAS Prize recipient | [61][62] | ||
Suresh Venkatasubramanian | Professor at the University of Utah | Computer scientist and known for his contributions in computational geometry and differential privacy | |||
Sourav Pal | 1977 | Director of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata | |||
Anurag Kumar | 1977 | Director of Indian Institute of Science | |||
Suman Datta | 1995 | Semi-conductor researcher at Notre Dame University, USA | In 2013, he was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and in 2016, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. |
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