List of BITS Pilani alumni

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This is a list of notable alumni of BITS Pilani . [1]

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Entrepreneurs

NameAchievementYear of Attendance at BITS
Sanjay Mehrotra Co-founder of SanDisk, CEO of Micron Technology1974-1976
Preetish Nijhawan Co-founder of Akamai Technologies 1985–1989
Baba Kalyani [2] Billionaire, Chairman of Bharat Forge 1965–1970
Sabeer Bhatia Founder of Hotmail 1986–1988
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 [3]
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 TV 1981–1985

Corporate leaders

NameAchievementYear of Attendance at BITS
Revathi Advaithi CEO of Flex 1986–1990
Rakesh Kapoor ex-CEO of Reckitt Benckiser 1975–1980
Sunil Duggal ex-CEO of Dabur 1974–1979
Vivek Paul ex-CEO of Wipro Technologies; Consulting Professor at Stanford University
SK Roongta ex-Chairman of Steel Authority of India 1966–1971

Academia

NameAchievementYear 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 –1963 [4]
Dorairajan Balasubramanian Former 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 [5]
S. P. Kothari Padma Shri Awardee, Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management 1974–1979
Krishna Saraswat Electrical Engineering Professor at Stanford University 1963–1968
Milind Tambe Gordon 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 Technology 2008
G. Ravindra Kumar [6] [7] Senior professor - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research 1977–1983
Ravi Gomatam Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute (Berkeley and Mumbai) [8]
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 1980–1985
Ravindra Dastikop Educator and speaker on Cloud Computing

Social activists, politics, and government

NameAchievementYear of Attendance at BITS
Prithviraj Chavan [9] Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra; former Union Minister for Science and Technology, Govt. of India1963–1967
Dr. C. V. Ananda Bose 22nd Governor of West Bengal

Film

NameAchievementYear of Attendance at BITS
Mani Shankar Film director–1978 [10] [11]
Anu Hasan Actress, Tamil/Telugu movies, TV show host1988–1993 [12] [10]
Baradwaj Rangan Film critic and writer1988–1992 [12]
Kanika Former Actress, Malayalam/Tamil/Kannada/Telugu films, TV show host1999-2003
Anu Menon Film director and screenwriter [13]
Sandeep A. Varma Award-winning Film Director and Writer
Idlebrain Jeevi Film critic and entrepreneur1991-1995
Siva Ananth Film writer, producer, lyricist, director and actor1991-1995 [14]

Arts

NameAchievementYear of Attendance at BITS
B. Sandhya Police officer and author
Dilip D'Souza Writer of social causes1976–1981
Shashi Warrier Writer of fiction
Vikram Sampath Writer of historical non-fiction
Hartosh Singh Bal Journalist and Editor
Padmini Chettur Dancer1987–1991
Dushyanth Sridhar Noted scholar in Sanskrit and Tamil on ancient Hindu scriptures2004–2009
Gaurav Chaudhary Tech Vlogger
Harish Sivaramakrishnan Lead vocalist of Carnatic progressive rock band Agam 1998–2002
Adarsh Iyengar Indian Singer and Musician

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