List of Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda people

This is a list of alumni and faculty at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.

Alumni

Arts +NameClass YearDegreeNotabilityReferencesRobert mongare1993MFAArtistDadasaheb PhalkeFilm director, producer, and screenwriter. Father of Indian Cinema. Dhruva MistrySculptorElisha KriisBBAActressGulam Mohammed Sheikhpainter and writer.Haku ShahIndian painterJay Pinak OzaBFA (Art History & Aesthetics)Indian cinematographerJayant Parikh1959; 1961BA in Fine Art; MAIndian painter, printmaker and mural artistJyoti BhattIndian painter, photographerJyotsna Bhatt1958Indian ceramist and potterMitali MukherjeesingerMrinalini Mukherjeesculptor and textile artistN. N. RimzonartistNilima SheikhartistRatan ParimooPainter and art historianSurendran NairartistTanvi Vyasactress and modelVivan Sundaramartist

Social Sciences and Law NameClass YearDegreeNotabilityReferencesBela TrivediJudge, Supreme Court of IndiaAkshay H. MehtaFormer Judge of the Gujarat High CourtChimanbhai PatelFormer Chief Minister of Gujarat and Member of ParliamentMohit Shantilal Shah1976LLBFormer Chief Justice of the Bombay High CourtRanjitsinh Pratapsinh GaekwadFormer Maharaja of Baroda and Member of Parliament.Arvind ShahSociologistSujan R. ChinoyBA (Hons.) in English Literature and PsychologyFormer Ambassador of India to Japan and the Marshall IslandsPartha Pratim Shil 2003BA in Political Science Professor at Stanford University Department of History

Science NameClass YearDegree NotabilityReferencesJ.S. BandukwalaPhD in PhysicsProminent human rights activist and associate professor. Sandip Pakvasa 1957 BSc and MSc in Physics Physicist. Awarded the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, as a member of the Kamioka Liquid Scintillator Antineutrino Detector Collaboration. American Physical Society Fellow, Humboldt Prize Fellow. Sam Pitroda 1964 BSc and Msc in Physics Telecom engineer, entrepreneur and politician. Father of Telecommunications revolution in India.

He served as advisor to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovation and as a Cabinet Minister under Rajiv Gandhi and as the Chairman of the National Knowledge Commission under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh from 2005 to 2009.Venkatraman Ramakrishnan1971BSc in Physics Biologist. Awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine for his research in ribosome. President of the Royal Society since November 2015 to November 2020 Arup Kumar Raychaudhuri1973 BSc in Physics Physicist. Awarded Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 1994 for doing "pioneering experimental work in the field of low temperature quantum transport in oxides near metal-insulator transition elucidating the interplay of disorder and interaction." Humboldt Prize Fellow. Karan Jani Physicist. He is a part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration which detected GW14092015, first such observation of gravitational waves from binary black hole merger. For this pathbreaking discovery, the pioneers of the very collaboration were awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. Kanury Venkata Subba Rao Immunologist. Awarded Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar in 1997 in the field of Biological Sciences for "outstanding contribution in the design of synthetic peptide vaccines based on the regeneration of conformational epitopes and self association of such peptides to give high immunogenicity in humans." Chintan Shah2011BSc and MSc in PhysicsPhysicist. He currently works at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and is part of the X-ray instrumentation and calibration working groups for future X-ray space observatories such as XRISM, Athena, and LEM.

Technology NameClass YearDegree NotabilityReferencesAjay BhattComputer Architect. Co-invented Universal Serial BusParitosh PandyaComputer scientist. Former Dean, School of Technology and Computer Science at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He is known for his research in Logics, Automata, Concurrency, Formal Methods, Embedded Systems and Software Engineering.Vijay P. BhatkarComputer Scientist. Chancellor of Nalanda University. He is primarily known as the Inventor of PARAM Super computer. Vishal Sikka Former CEO of Infosys; CTO and Executive Board member of SAP AG Shankar Subbanarasayya Mantha Indian Academician and Administrator. Former Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and currently Adjunct Professor of National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore. He is known for reforms in AICTE that brought transparency and accountability.

Others

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Asha Puthli, producer, recording artist, composer, publisher. Ankur Vikal, Indian film and theatre actor. Arup Kumar Raychaudhuri, condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate

B Bakul Harshadrai Dholakia, former director of IIM Ahmedabad, a Padma Shri awardee Bharati Mukherjee, Bharati Mukherjee, the writer of Immigrant Life. Bela Trivedi, Judge, Supreme Court of India.

C Chintan Upadhyay, an Indian contemporary artist.

D Deepak Shimkhada, a Nepali American educator, artist, art historian.

E Esther David is an Indian Jewish author.

G Geetanjali Shree, a novelist, short story writer and winner of 2022 International Booker Prize. Gunvant Shah, a noted thinker, writer and columnist.

H Hasmukh Patel architect credited with making significant contributions . Hemlata Talesra, educationalist and activist

K K. Chidananda Gowda, former Vice-Chancellor of Kuvempu University. Kavitha Balakrishnan, an art critic.

L Laxma Goud, painter, printmaker and draughtsman. Latika Katt, an Indian sculptor.

M Mrunalini Devi Puar, the Chancellor of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.

P Pramod Kale, a scientist and former director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre. Pankaj Advani (director), film-director, film-editor, screenplay-writer, photographer, theater director, and painter. Pan Nalin, director, screenwriter and documentary-maker.

R Robert mongare (author)|Rajendra Shah]], lyrical Gujarati poet and philosopher. Reetika Khera, economist and teacher.

S S. L. Bhyrappa, Kannada novelist and philosopher. Shanti Dave, painter and sculptor. Srilamanthula Chandramohan, an artist. Sosa Joseph, an Indian contemporary artist. Salma Arastu, an Indian artist.

T Thota Vaikuntam, an Indian painter.

V Vinoba Bhave, Indian advocate of nonviolence and human rights; "National Teacher of India", spiritual successor of Mahatma Gandhi Vihang A. Naik, (b.1969) Indian poet . Vivan Sundaram, an Indian contemporary artist.

Notable faculty +NameAffiliationNotabilityGeoffrey WainwrightProfessor of environmental archaeology between 1961 and 1963archaeologistGunvant ShahLecturer between 1961 and 1972WriterK. G. SubramanyanLecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts between 1951 and 1956ArtistNasreen MohamediLecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts between 1972 and 1990artist Rajni KothariLecturer (joined the university in 1958)Political Scientist M. N. SrinivasLecturer (established the Department of Sociology)Sociologist Arvind ShahLecturer Sociologist

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