Indian Americans are citizens or residents of the United States of America who trace their family descent to India. Notable Indian Americans include:
Academics
Nobel Prize recipients
Har Gobind Khorana (1922–2011), Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1968 Subramanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995), Nobel Prize for Physics, 1983 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (b. 1952), Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2009; Former President of the Royal Society, (2015–2020) Abhijit Banerjee (b. 1961), Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 2019; Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Deans and presidents
Rakesh Khurana (born 1967), former dean of Harvard College Neeli Bendapudi (born 1962), president of University of Louisville Jamshed Bharucha (born 1956), former president of Cooper Union, (2011–2015); former dean of arts & sciences at Dartmouth College and former provost at Tufts University Vijay K. Dhir (born 1943), former dean of the University of California, Los Angeles Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, (2003–2016) Ravi V. Bellamkonda (born 1968), Vinik Dean of Engineering at Duke University Edmund T. Pratt Jr. School of Engineering Dinesh D'Souza (born 1961), former president of The King's College, New York, (2010–2012) Anjli Jain (born 1981), executive director of Campus Consortium Dipak C. Jain (born 1957), former dean of INSEAD, (2011–2013); former dean of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, (2001–2009) Vistasp Karbhari, former president of the University of Texas at Arlington, (2013–2020) Pramod Khargonekar (born 1956), control theorist; vice chancellor of research at University of California, Irvine; former dean, College of Engineering at University of Florida, Gainesville, (2001–2009) Renu Khator (born 1958), chancellor of the University of Houston System and president of the University of Houston; former provost and senior vice president, University of South Florida Pradeep Khosla (born 1957), chancellor of the University of California, San Diego Sanjeev Kulkarni (born 1963), former Dean of the Graduate School (2014-2017) and Dean of the Faculty (2017-2021) of Princeton University Sunil Kumar (academic administrator), president of Tufts University, Vijay Kumar (born 1962), dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania Saira Rao, former Colorado congressional candidate and activist Geeta Menon, dean emeritus of the undergraduate college at New York University Stern School of Business Nitin Nohria (born 1962), former dean of Harvard Business School, (2010–2020) Sethuraman Panchanathan, director of National Science Foundation and former executive vice president and chief research and innovation officer at Arizona State University Michael Rao, president of Virginia Commonwealth University S. Narasinga Rao, former dean of Jackson College of Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Central Oklahoma Beheruz Sethna, president of the University of West Georgia Paul Shrivastava, chief sustainability officer and director, Sustainability Institute, Pennsylvania State University Molly Easo Smith, former president of Manhattanville College Kumble R. Subbaswamy, former chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Subra Suresh, president of Carnegie Mellon University Satish K. Tripathi, president of University at Buffalo Sundaraja Sitharama Iyengar, Ryder Professor of Computer Science and director of the School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University, Miami S. Shankar Sastry, former dean of the UC Berkeley College of Engineering Bala V. Balachandran (born 1937), professor emeritus at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University; founder, dean and chairman of Great Lakes Institute of Management and executive professor & strategy adviser to the dean of the Bauer College of Business at University of Houstonhttps://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/directory/balachandran_bala.aspx Northwestern University's Kellog School of Management's Faculty. Retrieved 19 June 2021https://www.greatlakes.edu.in/chennai/faculty/dr-bala-v-balachandran Great Lakes Institute of Management's Faculty. Retrieved 19 June 2021 Nagi Naganathan, president of Oregon Institute of Technology and former president and dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Toledo, (2001–2016) Sri Zaheer, former dean of Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota Vallabh Sambamurthy, Dean of the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Naureen Hassan, American finance executive who serves as the president of UBS Americas; previously served as the first vice president and chief operating officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Mathematicians Raj Chandra Bose (1901–1987), mathematician Shamit Kachru (b. 1970), Mathematical Physicist, professor at Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics Akshay Venkatesh (b. 1981), Fields Medal laureate, mathematician Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (1930–2012), mathematician, singularity theory and Abhyankar's conjecture of finite group theory Raghu Raj Bahadur (1924–1997), statistician Manjul Bhargava (b. 1974), professor of mathematics at Princeton University and winner of Fields Medal, 2014 Rahul Pandharipande (b. 1969), joined as Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University in 2002, he accepted a Professorship at ETH Zürich Sarvadaman Chowla (1907–1995), mathematician specializing in number theory Harish-Chandra (1923–1983), mathematician, IBM Von Neumann Professor at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Narendra Karmarkar (b. 1955), mathematician, inventor of Karmarkar algorithm Chandrashekhar Khare (b. 1968), professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles G. S. Maddala (1933–1999), mathematician and economist best known for work in the field of econometrics Anil Nerode (b. 1932), mathematician, proved the Myhill-Nerode Theorem Ria Persad (b. 1974), mathematician, classical musician, and model K. C. Sreedharan Pillai (1920–1985), mathematician Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (1920–2023), professor at Penn State University and research professor at the University at Buffalo Radha Laha (1930–1999), probabilist, statistician, and mathematician S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (b. 1940), New York University mathematician who specialised in probability; winner of the Abel Prize and Steele Prize DJ Patil (b. 1974), mathematician & Data scientist Sucharit Sarkar (b. 1983), mathematician and topologist Sourav Chatterjee (b. 1979), statistician, mathematician and professor at Stanford Kannan Soundararajan (b. 1973), mathematician, professor at Stanford and IMO medalist. Subhash Khot (b. 1978), mathematician, theoretical computer scientist famous for Unique games conjecture. Sanjeev Arora (b. 1968), mathematician, theoretical computer scientist and Gödel Prize winner. Kiran Kedlaya (b. 1974), mathematician Davender Singh Malik (1958–2025), mathematician N. U. Prabhu, mathematician
Economists
Abhijit Banerjee (b. 1961), Ford Foundation international professor of economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences 2019. Pranab Bardhan (b. 1939), professor emeritus of Economics University of California, Berkeley Kaushik Basu (b. 1952), C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics Cornell University Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati (b. 1934), professor of economics at Columbia University Alok Bhargava (b. 1954), professor of economics at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy V. V. Chari (b. 1952), professor of economics at the University of Minnesota Raj Chetty (b. 1979), professor of economics at Harvard University Srikant Datar, The 11th Dean of Harvard Business School, took charge from January 1, 2021 Avinash Kamalakar Dixit (b. 1944), professor of economics at Princeton University Gita Gopinath (b. 1971), chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and Economic Adviser to the Chief Minister of Kerala Reema Harrysingh-Carmona (b. 1970), economist and the 5th First Lady of Trinidad and Tobago Sendhil Mullainathan (b. 1973), professor of economics, Harvard University Arvind Panagariya (b. 1952), professor of economics at Columbia University Debraj Ray (b. 1957), Silver Professor of Economics, New York University Ruchir Sharma, chief global strategist of asset management and emerging markets equity, Morgan Stanley Investment Management Arvind Subramanian (b. 1959), Chief Economic Advisor Government of India and formerly an economist at the International Monetary Fund
Professors and scholars in computer science or engineering and electrical engineering
Amit Sahai (b.1974), professor of computer science at University of California, Los Angeles, fellow of Association for Computing Machinery, Amit Sheth, computer scientist at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio Anant Agarwal, professor of electrical engineering and director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Aravind Joshi (1929–2017), professor of computer and cognitive science at the University of Pennsylvania Arvind, Johnson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Arogyaswami Paulraj (b. 1944), professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University Ashwin Ram (b. 1960), head of artificial intelligence Amazon Alexa Avinash Kak (b. 1944), professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University B. Jayant Baliga (b. 1948), inventor of the Insulated-gate bipolar transistor Bhubaneswar Mishra (b. 1961), professor of computer science, engineering & mathematics at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University and visiting scholar at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Chandra Kintala (1948–2009), former Vice President Bell Labs Gopal H. Gaonkar (b. 1936), a professor of engineering at Florida Atlantic University Hari Balakrishnan, Fujitsu Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology K. Mani Chandy, professor of computer science at the California Institute of Technology Krishna Saraswat, professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University Madhu Sudan, professor of computer science at Harvard University Prabhat Mishra, professor of computer science and engineering at University of Florida Raj Jain, professor of computer science and engineering at Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science Rangasami L. Kashyap (b. 1938), professor of electrical engineering at Purdue University Ricky J. Sethi, professor of computer science at Fitchburg State University; director of Research at The Madsci Network Sanjeev R. Kulkarni, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University Saraju Mohanty, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of North Texas Shree K. Nayar, professor of computer science at Columbia University Shrikanth Narayanan, award-winning researcher, inventor and educator at University of Southern California Shwetak Patel, professor of computer science and electrical engineering at the University of Washington Supriyo Datta, Thomas Duncan Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Purdue University Thomas Kailath, professor of engineering at Stanford University Vijay Vazirani (b. 1957), professor of computer science at University of California, Irvine Unnikrishna Pillai, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University Suman Datta (b. 1973), professor of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Stinson Professor of Nanotechnology at the University of Notre Dame
Professors and scholars in other disciplines