List of IIT Kanpur people

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

Notable faculty +NameAffliliationNotabilityReferencesH. C. VermaFormer professor, Nuclear physicsAuthored 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 recipientManindra AgrawalDirector of IIT Kanpur, Professor of Computer Science and EngineeringRecipient of the first Infosys Prize for Mathematics, Gödel Prize, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Sciences and Padma Shri recipientDebabrata GoswamiProfessor of ChemistryFellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Institute of Physics, Optical Society of America (OSA) Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation EngineersArun Kumar BiswasFormer Professor, Department of Metallurgical EngineeringFounder 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 ScienceSubramania RanganathanFormer Professor and Head of the Department of ChemistryShanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology recipientYogesh M. JoshiProfessor of Department of Chemical EngineeringElected fellow of the Indian National Academy of EngineeringAvinash Kumar AgarwalProfessor of Department of Mechanical EngineeringElected 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 BiswasProfessor of mechanical engineeringFellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and Institution of Engineers (IEI)Ashutosh SharmaChemical EngineeringFormer Secretary Department of Science and Technology, Padma Shri recipient

Notable alumni

Business +NameClass YearNotabilityReferencesArvind Krishna1985CEO of IBM; Director of IBM ResearchBhaskar Pramanik1972Former CEO of Microsoft IndiaMukesh Bansal1997Founder of Myntra; CEO and Founder of Cure.fitSom MittalFormer President of NASSCOMN.R. Narayana Murthy1969Founder & Chairman Emeritus of Infosys, Padma Shri and Padma VibhushanJagjeet (Jeet) S. Bindra1969Director at Edison InternationalMuktesh Pant1976Former CEO of Yum ChinaSangeet Paul ChoudaryCEO & Founder of Platformation Labs and Young Global Leader at the World Economic ForumUmang Gupta1971chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Keynote SystemsLalit Jalan1979CEO of Reliance InfrastructurePrashant PathakChairman of Investment Committee of Business Development Bank of Canada, CEO of Ekagrata Inc.Pradeep Sindhu1974Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer/Vice chairman of the board of directors of Juniper Networks Inc.Rakesh Gangwal1975Co-founder of IndiGo airlineV. K MatthewsFounder chairman IBS software servicesPrakash BareActor, producer, Technologist

Politics and civil services +NameClass YearNotabilityReferencesAbhay Karandikar1988, 1994Secretary Department of Science and Technology Former Director, IIT KanpurRahul Navin 1990, 1993Director of Enforcement DirectorateGyanesh Kumar198726th Chief Election Commissioner of India, Former Election Commissioner of India, Indian Administrative Service(retd.) Officer of 1988 Batch Kerala CadreSanjay Malhotra26th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Indian Administrative Service Officer of 1990 Batch Rajasthan CadreAshwini Vaishnaw1994Former Indian Administrative Service officerMinister of RailwaysMinister of Electronics and Information TechnologyMinister of CommunicationsAmitabh Thakur1989Indian Police Service officer known for his anti-corruption advocacy, now active for ensuring accountability and transparency in public life through political party Adhikar SenaPrem Das Rai1976former Member of ParliamentSaurabh Kumar1986former Ambassador of India to IranSudhir Vyas1975former Ambassador of India to GermanySatyendra Dubey1994Project Director in National Highways Authority of India assassinated for exposing corruption in the Golden Quadrilateral highway project.Ram Sewak Sharma1978Chairman, Telecom Regulatory Authority of IndiaDuvvuri Subbarao196922nd Governor of Reserve Bank of IndiaKrishnamurthy Subramanian199417th Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of IndiaMuralee ThummarukudyChief Disaster Risk Reduction at United Nations Environment ProgrammeAbhishek Singh1992Indian Administrative Service officer who headed the IndiaAI mission, oversaw National Informatics Center, the government's technology programme focusing on digital infrastructure and e-governance

Science and technology NameClass YearNotabilityReferencesAbhay Bhushan1965Author of the File Transfer ProtocolKare Narain Pathak1967Condensed matter physicist, Former Vice-Chancellor & Professor Emeritus at Panjab University.Atish Dabholkar1985String theorist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureateAvinash Deshpande 1980Astrophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureateMahan Mj1992Mathematician and a recipient of the 2011 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar AwardRakesh Jain1972Distinguished Tumor researcher at Harvard Medical School and recent winner of National Medal of Science.Bhrigu Nath Singh1998Director General of IITRAM. Professor and former HAL chair professor, Indian Institute of Technology KharagpurSirshendu De1998Recipient of 2011 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award and professor of chemical engineering department, IIT KharagpurShahid Jameel1979Virologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureateAshok Jhunjhunwala1970Padma Shri and professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT MadrasDeepak Dhar1972Theoretical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureateKapil Hari Paranjape1982Mathematician, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureateDebasisa Mohanty1988Computational biologist, N-Bios laureatePramod Sadasheo Moharir1971Geophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureateRajeev Motwani1983Computer scientist, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, Gödel Prize recipientYashavant Kanetkar1987Computer science author, known for his books on Programming languagesG. Ravindra Kumar1990Laser physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureateJainendra K. JainCondensed matter theoristJitendra Malik1980Arthur J. Chick Professor of EECS at University of California at BerkeleyRanjan Mallik1987Communications engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureat Uday Maitra 1981 Organic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate Shiraz Minwalla1995String theorist at TIFR who was awarded ICTP Prize for his contribution to theoretical physicsPadmanabhan BalramDirector of IISC Bangalore and winner of Padma BhushanUpinder Singh Bhalla1982Neuroscientist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureateSuresh Kumar BhatiaChemical engineer, academic, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureateNarayanan Chandrakumar1979Chemical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureateTushar Kanti Chakraborty1979Organic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureateSandip Trivedi1985Theoretical physicist working at TIFR, recipient of the Infosys Prize 2010 in the category of Physical SciencesVijay Vaishnavi1971Researcher and scholar in the computer information systems fieldAnil K. Rajvanshi1972Director, 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.Raghavan Varadarajan1982Biophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureateAnuradha Misra1983PhysicistNeeraj Kayal2002Computer scientist and mathematician noted for development of AKS primality test"Bangalore: IIT-Kanpur professor bags first Infosys Mathematics Prize", 16 September. 2008Nitin Saxena2002Computer scientist and mathematician noted for development of AKS primality testPradyut Ghosh1998Inorganic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureateManu PrakashPhysical Biologist and Inventor, Best known for his Foldscope and PaperfugeArup Kumar Raychaudhuri1975Condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureateAyyalusamy Ramamoorthy1990Scientist in the area of NMR and biological membranesSuryanarayanasastry Ramasesha1977Quantum chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureateGopal Prasad1966MathematicianH. R. Krishnamurthy1972Theoretical PhysicistRajesh Gopakumar1992Theoretical physicist director of International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore and winner of Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award in 2009.Shridhar Ramachandra Gadre1978Computational Chemist and winner of Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award in 1994.

Teaching +NameClass YearInstitute and PositionNotabilityReferencesRakesh Agrawal1975Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue UniversityNational Medal of Technology and Innovation LaureateRajit GadhProfessor of Engineering, Director of UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research CenterPioneer of Smart gridsBalasubramanian GopalProfessor of Molecular Biophysics Unit of Indian Institute of ScienceMolecular biophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureateChandra KintalaProfessor and Director of Software Engineering, New Jersey Institute of TechnologyFormer Director, Bell Labs, USASubodha Kumar1997Paul R. Anderson Distinguished Chair Professor and Founding Director, Center for Business Analytics and Disruptive Technologies, Fox School of Business, Temple UniversityProduction and Operations Management Society (POMS) Fellow; Co-Editor-in-Chief, Production and Operations Management journal; Co-Editor-in-Chief and Founding Member, Management and Business Review journalRanjan RoyProfessor emeritus and Chairman of Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Beloit CollegeRecipient of the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.Sanjay SarmaProfessor and Director of Digital Learning at MITCredited with developing standards and technologies in the commercial RFID industryAshoke Sen1976Distinguished professor at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, AllahabadFRS, Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan, string theoristSanjib SenapatiProfessor at the Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, Department of Biotechnology of the Indian Institute of Technology MadrasN-Bios laureateMriganka Sur1974Newton Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Simons Center for the Social Brain at the Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyNeuroscientist, fellow of the Royal SocietyK. VijayRaghavan1977Former Director of National Centre for Biological Sciences, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India (2018-22)Fellow of the Royal Society, foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences, Padma Shri and Infosys Prize recipientSpenta R. WadiaProfessor at Tata Institute of Fundamental ResearchFounding Director of the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, TWAS Prize recipientSuresh VenkatasubramanianProfessor at the University of Utah Computer scientist and known for his contributions in computational geometry and differential privacySourav Pal1977Director of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, KolkataAnurag Kumar1977Director of Indian Institute of ScienceSuman Datta1995Semi-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.Sartaj Sahni1970Distinguished Professor at the University of FloridaSahni has published over 280 research papers and written 15 textbooks. His research publications are on the design and analysis of efficient algorithms, data structures, parallel computing, interconnection networks, design automation, and medical algorithms.He was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1988.

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