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List of IIT Kanpur people

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This is a list of people affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

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Notable faculty

Name Affliliation Notability References
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, Godel 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
Arvind Krishna 1985 CEO of IBM; Director of IBM Research
Bhaskar Pramanik 1972 Former CEO of Microsoft India
Mukesh Bansal 1997 Founder of Myntra; CEO and Founder of Cure.fit
Som Mittal Former President of NASSCOM
N.R. Narayana Murthy 1969 Founder & Chairman Emeritus of Infosys
Jagjeet (Jeet) S. Bindra 1969 Director at Edison International
Muktesh Pant Former CEO of Yum China Vartika Shukla Chairperson EIL Dr. Madukar Garg Former Director Indian Institute of Petroleum Dehradun & Former Director General Councial of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi Prof. Kamal K. Pant Director IIT Roorkee
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 [5]
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
V. K Matthews Founder chairman IBS software services
Prakash Bare Actor, producer, Technologist

Politics and civil services

Name Class

Year

Notability References
Ashwini Vaishnaw 1994 Former Indian Administrative Service officer
Minister of Railways
Minister of Electronics and Information Technology
Minister of Communications
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
Ashok Kumar Singh 1999 Indian Administrative Service
Saurabh Kumar former Ambassador of India to Iran [6]
Sudhir Vyas 1975 former Ambassador of India to Germany [7]
Satyendra Dubey 1994 Project Director in National Highways Authority of India assassinated for exposing corruption in the Golden Quadrilateral highway project.
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 [8]
Krishnamurthy Subramanian 17th Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India
Muralee Thummarukudy Chief Disaster Risk Reduction at United Nations Environment Programme

Science and technology

Name Class

Year

Notability References
Abhay Bhushan 1965 Author of the File Transfer Protocol
Atish Dabholkar 1985 String theorist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [9]
Avinash Deshpande 1980 Astrophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [10]
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 [11]
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 [12]
Ashok Jhunjhunwala 1970 Padma Shri and professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras
Deepak Dhar 1972 Theoretical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [13]
Kapil Hari Paranjape 1982 Mathematician, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
Debasisa Mohanty 1988 Computational biologist, N-Bios laureate [14]
Pramod Sadasheo Moharir 1971 Geophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [15]
Rajeev Motwani 1983 Computer scientist, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University
Yashavant Kanetkar Computer science author, known for his books on Programming languages
G. Ravindra Kumar 1990 Laser physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [16]
Jainendra K. Jain Condensed matter theorist [17]
Jitendra Malik 1980 Arthur J. Chick Professor of EECS at University of California at Berkeley
Ranjan Mallik 1987 Communications engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureat [18]
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 [19]
Upinder Singh Bhalla 1982 Neuroscientist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [20]
Suresh Kumar Bhatia Chemical engineer, academic, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [21]
Narayanan Chandrakumar 1979 Chemical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [22]
Tushar Kanti Chakraborty 1979 Organic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [23]
Sandip Trivedi 1985 Theoretical physicist working at TIFR, recipient of the Infosys Prize 2010 in the category of Physical Sciences [24]
Vijay Vaishnavi 1971 Researcher and scholar in the computer information systems field [25]
Anil K. Rajvanshi 1972 Director, Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute. Winner of Jamnalal Bajaj Award 2001, FICCI award 2002, Globe Award 2009, 2014 University of Florida Distinguished Alumnus Award winner, Padma Shri Award 2022. [26][27][28][29][30]
Raghavan Varadarajan 1982 Biophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [31]
Anuradha Misra 1983 Physicist [32]
D Sangeeta 1984 CEO and founder of Gotara, awarded 26 patents related to jet engine technology and material science [33][34][35][36][37]
Neeraj Kayal 2002 Computer scientist and mathematician noted for development of AKS primality test [38][39][40]
Nitin Saxena 2002 Computer scientist and mathematician noted for development of AKS primality test [38][39][40]
Pradyut Ghosh 1998 Inorganic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [41]
Manu Prakash Physical Biologist and Inventor, Best known for his Foldscope and Paperfuge
Arup Kumar Raychaudhuri 1975 Condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [42]
Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy 1990 Scientist in the area of NMR and biological membranes
Suryanarayanasastry Ramasesha 1977 Quantum chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [43]
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. [44]
Shridhar Ramachandra Gadre 1978 Computational Chemist and winner of Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award in 1994. [45]

Teaching

Name Class Year Institute and Position Notability References
Rakesh Agrawal 1975 Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureate [46]
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 [47]
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 [48][49][50]
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. [51]
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 [52]
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 [53][54]
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.
Debdeep Jena 1998 Semiconducting Materials and Devices researcher at Cornell University, USA

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