List of IIT Kharagpur alumni
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The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur has had numerous notable alumni.
Academics[]
Name | Class Year | Notability | References |
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Subhasis Chaudhuri | B.Tech. 1985 | Director of IIT Bombay | [1] |
Pushpak Bhattacharyya | Director of IIT Patna | [2] | |
Partha Pratim Chakraborty | B.Tech. 1985; Ph.D. 1988 | Director of IIT Kharagpur | [3] |
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay | Director of ISI | [4] | |
Supriyo Datta | Thomas Duncan Distinguished professor at the School of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University | [5][6] | |
S. Rao Kosaraju | Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and division director at the National Science Foundation | [7][8] | |
Pradeep Khosla | Computer scientist and eighth Chancellor of University of California, San Diego | [9] | |
Gopal Krishna Nayak | Director of IIIT Bhubaneswar | [10] | |
Mani Lal Bhaumik | Ph. D. 1958 | first PhD student at IIT Kharagpur, physicist, and Padma Shri awardee | [11] |
Satya Prasad Majumder | Ph.D. 1993 | Vice-Chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology | [12] |
Science and engineering[]
Name | Class Year | Notability | References |
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Kalyan Banerjee | 1964 | Former President of Rotary International | [13] |
Monisha Ghosh | First woman Chief Technology Officer at the US government's Federal Communications Commission. | [14] | |
Srikumar Banerjee | Indian metallurgical engineer. Former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India and the secretary of Department of Atomic Energy | [15] | |
Kumar Bhattacharyya | B. Tech. 1960 | manager of google India peer | [16] |
Harish Hande | co-founder of social enterprise SELCO India and winner of Ramon Magsaysay Award | [17] | |
V. C. Kulandaiswamy | hydrologist, second vice-chancellor of Anna University, awarded Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan | [18] | |
Kirit Parikh | civil engineer; professor emeritus and founder director of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) | [19] | |
K. Radhakrishnan | Ph.D. 2000 | Indian space scientist who headed the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) | [20] |
Kamal Sagar | B. Arch. 1992 | architect; chairman and founder of Total Environment | [21] |
Politics[]
Name | Class Year | Notability | References |
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Arvind Kejriwal | Chief Minister of Delhi | [22] | |
Ashok Khemka | Senior Bureaucrat in the Indian state of Haryana | [23] | |
Chaudhary Ajit Singh | cabinet minister | [24] | |
Duvvuri Subbarao | B. Sc. 1969 | economist and 22nd Governor of Reserve Bank of India | [25] |
Surajit Kar Purkayastha | former Director General of Police of West Bengal and Police Commissioner of Kolkata |
Business[]
Name | Class Year | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|
Anuradha Acharya | 1995 | co-founder and CEO of , a molecular diagnostics company; previously CEO of | [26] |
Prith Banerjee | former director of HP Labs, the research wing of Hewlett-Packard | [27] | |
Ramesh Chandra | founder of real estate company Unitech Group | [28] | |
Rono Dutta | CEO of InterGlobe Aviation Limited which operates IndiGo Airlines. He served as the President of the United Airlines from 1999 to 2002. | [29] | |
R Gopalakrishnan | former executive director of Tata Sons | [30] | |
Vinod Gupta | founder of InfoUSA, CEO of Infofree and DatabaseUSA | [31] | |
Ajit Jain | B.Tech. 1972 | President of Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group | [32] |
Ravi Kant | former vice chairman of Tata Motors | [33] | |
Arjun Malhotra | co-founder, HCL Technologies | ||
Suhas Patil | founder of Cirrus Logic | [34] | |
Sundar Pichai | CEO of Google and Alphabet inc. | [35] | |
Arun Sarin | former CEO of Vodafone | [36] | |
B.K. Syngal | former chairman and Managing Director of VSNL | ||
Suresh Vaswani | President of Dell Services | [37] |
Arts and Entertainment[]
Name | Class Year | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|
Rajkumar Barjatya | 1962 | Film producer | [38] |
Sandipan Deb | founder editor of Outlook | [39] | |
Raj Kamal Jha | Chief Editor of Indian Express | [40] | |
Arunabh Kumar | co-founder of The Viral Fever (TVF) Media Labs | [41] | |
Jitendra Kumar | an Indian actor famous for his role in comedy sketch The Viral Fever | ||
Bedabrata Pain | film director | [42] | |
Biswapati Sarkar | Indian writer and director, former Creative Director at The Viral Fever, currently working at Pushpam Pa Pictures. | [43] | |
Kiran Seth | founder of Indian culture non-profit SPIC MACAY; Padma Shri awardee | [44] | |
Biswa Kalyan Rath | an Indian stand-up comedian and writer |
Activists[]
Name | Class Year | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|
Vinayak Lohani | |||
Varun Shrivastava | 2009 | Founder of UPAY NGO (NGO working for the education and skill development of underprivileged children) |
Sports[]
Name | Class Year | Notability | References |
---|---|---|---|
Malli Mastan Babu | M. Tech. 1998 | mountaineer |
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