List of IIT Delhi people

This is a list of people affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi , one of the Indian Institutes of Technology in India.

Notable alumni

See also: Category:IIT Delhi alumni

Business

Name	Class Year	Degree	Notability	References
Anirudh Devgan	1990	B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering)	president and CEO of Cadence Design Systems	[1]
Anurag Dikshit	1994	B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering)	co-founder of Partygaming	[2]
Binny Bansal	2005	B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering)	co-founder of Flipkart	[3]
Jyoti Bansal	1999	B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering)	founder of AppDynamics	[4]
Manvinder Singh Banga	1975	B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering)	former chairman, Unilever	[5]
Mohit Aron	1995	B.Tech. (Computer Science)	founder and CEO of Cohesity and co-founder and former CTO of Nutanix	[3]
Padmasree Warrior	1982	B.Tech. (Chemical Engineering)	chief technology and strategy officer Cisco Systems; former chief technology officer of Motorola, Inc.	[6]
Patu Keswani	1981	B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering)	founder of Lemon Tree Hotels	[7]
Sachin Bansal	2005	B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering)	co-founder of Flipkart	[8]
Sameer Gehlaut	1995	B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering)	co-founder of Indiabulls	[9]
Vikrant Bhargava	1994	B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering)	co-founder of Partygaming	[10]
Vinod Khosla	1976	B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering)	co-founder of Sun Microsystems	[11] [12]
Yogesh Chander Deveshwar	1968	B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering)	chairman at ITC	[13]
Rajdeep Grewal			distinguished professor of marketing at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	[ citation needed ]
Rajat Gupta	1971	B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering)	managing director of McKinsey & Company, convicted of insider trading	[12] [14]
Pramod Maheshwari			chief executive officer, Career Point Ltd	[ citation needed ]
Sashi Reddi			CEO and founder of AppLabs	[15]
Krishan Sabnani			Research VP at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, responsible for research on NFV and web communications	[ citation needed ]
Nandu Nandkishore			former executive vice president and head of Asia Oceania, Africa of Nestlé S.A, Switzerland	[ citation needed ]
Vivek Gupta			president and CEO of Mastech Digital	[ citation needed ]
Ashish Nanda			former director of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad & Robert Braucher Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School	[ citation needed ]
Rajendra Pawar	1972	B.Tech (Electrical Engineering)	co-founder, NIIT	[12]
Vijay Thadani	1972	B.Tech (Electrical Engineering)	co-founder, NIIT	[12]
Nitin Seth	1993	B.Tech (Textile Technology)	Bestselling author; Co-Founder and CEO of Incedo Inc.	[16]

Politics and law

Name	Class Year	Degree	Notability	References
Jayant Sinha	1985		former Union Minister of State for Finance, Government of India, former managing director at Omidyar Network and partner at McKinsey & Company, Member of Parliament in the Indian Lok Sabha	[17] [18]
Kiran Bedi	1993	Ph.D.	former Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry	[19]
Raghuram Rajan			former chief economist of IMF, former chief economic adviser to the Prime Minister of India; 23rd governor of the Reserve Bank of India joined on 5 Sep 2013, Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business	[20] [21]
Somnath Bharti			lawyer and politician	[22]
Sunjay Sudhir	1988	B. Tech	diplomat	[23]

Philosophy and Spirituality

Name	Class Year	Degree	Notability	References
Acharya Prashant	1999	B.Tech	Indian Author, Philosopher and Advaita Vedanta Teacher, Founder of PrashantAdvait Foundation and Advait Life Education	[24] [25] [26]

Science and technology

Name	Class Year	Degree	Notability	References
Anupam Garg	1977	M.S. Physics	Professor, Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, co-discoverer Leggett-Garg inequality	[ citation needed ]
Madhu Sudan	1987	B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering)	professor of computer science at Harvard University, ACM Fellow and 2002 Nevanlinna Prize winner	[27]
Shrinivas Kulkarni	1978	M.Sc. (Physics)	McArthur Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science, Caltech	[ citation needed ]
Soumitro Banerjee	1983, 1988	Ph.D.	electrical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	[28]
Subir Sachdev	Did not graduate	B.Tech.	professor of physics at Harvard University	[29]
Siddhartha Paul Tiwari	Did not graduate	Doctorate	Technologist, India Science Award laureate, Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland	[30]
Venkata Padmanabhan	1993	B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering)	computer engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate, ACM Fellow	[31]
Vipin Kumar Tripathi	1967, 1971	Doctorate	notable Indian Plasma physicist. Former Physics professor of IIT, Delhi. Founder of Sadbhav Mission.	[32]
Ajaib Singh Brar	1977	Doctorate	Professor of chemistry at IIT Delhi, Saraswati Samman laureate, NASI Fellow	[33]
Sanket Goel	1998	M.S. Physics	Dean and Professor, BITS Pilani. Fulbright and JSPS Fellow	[34]
Naveen Garg	1991 (BTech), 1994 (PhD)	BTech + PhD (Computer Science and Engineering)	theoretical computer scientist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	[35]
Amitabha Bagchi	1996	BTech, Computer Science and Engineering	Theoretical Computer Scientist, Novelist	[36]
Avinash Kak			professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University	[ citation needed ]
Subhash Kak			professor of electrical and computer engineering at Oklahoma State University	[ citation needed ]
Devang Vipin Khakhar	1981	B.Tech (Chemical Engineering)	chemical engineer, academic, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	[37]
Sudhanshu Vrati			vaccinologist, N-BIOS laureate	[38]
Narinder Kumar Gupta			honorary member in the area of impact mechanics of the International Society of Impact Engineering.	[39]
Predhiman Krishan Kaw	1966	Ph.D	Founding Director of Institute for Plasma Research, first PhD graduate of IITD.	[12]
Avinash Kumar Agarwal	1996, 1999	M.Tech (Energy), Ph.D. (Mech. Eng.)	mechanical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	[40]
Mohit Randeria	1980	B.A. in Electrical Engineering	condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	[41]
Anurag Sharma			optical physicist, academic, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	[42]
Arogyaswami Paulraj	1973	Ph.D (Elect. Engineering)	pioneer in MIMO, professor emeritus in the Dept. of Elect. Engineering at Stanford University	[12]
Surendra Prasad		Ph. D	communications engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	[43]
Sanjay Puri	1982	MS (Physics)	statistical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	[44]
Rahul Pandit		MS (Physics)	condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	[45]

Arts and entertainment

Name	Class Year	Degree	Notability	References
Amol Parashar		B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering	actor	[46]
Chetan Bhagat	1995	B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering	Indian novelist	[47]
Swami Mukundananda	1982	B.Tech. in mechanical engineering	spiritual leader; bestselling author; founder of JKYog and Radha Krishna Temple of Dallas	[48]
Tushar Raheja	2006	B.Tech in industrial engineering, PhD in applied probability	Indian novelist	[49] [50] [51]

Others

• Amardeo Sarma, president German Sckeptics Society

• Kaustubh Khade, kayaker ^[52]

Notable faculty

See also: Category:Academic staff of IIT Delhi

• Durai Sundar, computational biologist, N-Bios laureate ^[53]
• Munish Chander Puri, professor emeritus of mathematics
• Vipin Kumar Tripathi, notable Indian Plasma physicist and professor emeritus of Physics ^[32]
• Prof. Rajat K. Baisya, founder, Project and Technology Management Foundation (PTMF) ^[54]
• Kiran Seth, founder of SPIC MACAY ^[55]
• Siddharth Pandey (chemist) ^[56]

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