This is a list of notable alumni of BITS Pilani.
Mathew Cherian is currently the Global Ambassador of Ageing and was the former CEO of Helpage India for two decades and a Trustee of Helpage international.
from the BITS 1975 batch of Pilani an engineer by training who moved in to the social sector . Has been involved with the High level Committee of forming the CSR policy in India and on the CSR committee of CII.
Is involved as chair of SAGE a social venture fund of The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. And with the Department of Science and Technology for technology interventions with the disabled and elderly.
Was awarded the Outstanding Alumni award of BITS Pilani for Social innovation and leadership at the convocation in 2016 . Recipient of the Vayoshreshta Samman for life time work with the elderly from Govt of India .
Entrepreneurs Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITS Sanjay Mehrotra Co-founder of SanDisk, CEO of Micron Technology1974-1976Preetish NijhawanCo-founder of Akamai Technologies1985–1989 Baba Kalyani Billionaire, Chairman of Bharat Forge 1965–1970 Sabeer Bhatia Founder of Hotmail1986–1988 Vinod Agarwal Founder and chairman of SemIndia; founder and former Chairman of LogicVision 1968–1973 Vijay Chandru Co-founder and CEO, Strand Life Sciences; Inventor of Simputer 1971–1975 Rajiv Bapna Founder and Director of Amkette, a storage media company1969–1974 Surendra Kumar Surana Founder and Managing Director of Compucom Software Ltd and Editor in Chief at Jan TV1981–1985
Corporate leaders Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITSAmitabh ChaudhryMD & CEO of Axis Bank1981–1985 Revathi Advaithi CEO of Flex1986–1990 Rakesh Kapoor ex-CEO of Reckitt Benckiser1975–1980 Sunil Duggal ex-CEO of Dabur1974–1979 Vivek Paul ex-CEO of Wipro Technologies; Consulting Professor at Stanford University SK Roongta ex-Chairman of Steel Authority of India1966–1971
Academia Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITS Goverdhan Mehta Padma Shri Awardee, Fellow of the Royal Society, ex-Director of IISc Bangalore, ex-Vice Chancellor of University of Hyderabad –1963Dorairajan BalasubramanianFormer President of Indian Academy of Sciences and Director of Research at L. V. Prasad Eye Institute; recipient of the National Order of Merit (France) and Padma Shri.1957–1959 S. P. Kothari Padma Shri Awardee, Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management1974–1979 Krishna Saraswat Electrical Engineering Professor at Stanford University1963–1968 Milind TambeGordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University–1986 Autar Kaw Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Florida 1976–1981 Arun Sharma Distinguished emeritus professor, Queensland University of Technology2008 G. Ravindra Kumar Senior professor - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research1977–1983 Ravi Gomatam Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute (Berkeley and Mumbai) Narendra Ahuja Founding Director of IIIT Hyderabad (1999–2002) 1968–1972 Arun K. Somani Department Chair, Senior Associate Dean in Engineering, Iowa State University –1973 Govindan Rangarajan Director & Professor Dept. of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 1980–1985Ravindra DastikopEducator and speaker on Cloud Computing
Social activists, politics, and government Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITS Prithviraj Chavan Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra; former Union Minister for Science and Technology, Govt. of India1963–1967 C. V. Ananda Bose 22nd Governor of West Bengal
Film Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITS Mani Shankar Film director–1978 Anu Hasan Actress, Tamil/Telugu movies, TV show host1988–1993 Baradwaj Rangan Film critic and writer 1988–1992 Kaniha Former Actress, Malayalam/Tamil/Kannada/Telugu films, TV show host 1999-2003 Anu Menon Film director and screenwriter Sandeep A. Varma Award-winning Film Director and Writer Idlebrain Jeevi Film critic and entrepreneur 1991-1995 Siva Ananth Film writer, producer, lyricist, director and actor 1991-1995
Arts Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITS B. Sandhya Police officer and author Dilip D'Souza Writer of social causes 1976–1981 Shashi Warrier Writer of fiction Vikram Sampath Writer of historical non-fictionHartosh Singh BalJournalist and Editor AK Srikanth Writer of fiction, screenplay writer, film-maker 1986 - 1991 Padmini Chettur Dancer 1987–1991 Dushyanth Sridhar Noted scholar in Sanskrit and Tamil on ancient Hindu scriptures 2004–2009Gaurav ChaudharyTech VloggerHarish SivaramakrishnanLead vocalist of Carnatic progressive rock band Agam1998–2002
References
BITSAA (Birla Institute of Technology & Science Alumni Association