List of IIT Delhi people

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

Contents

Notable alumni

Business

NameClass

Year

DegreeNotabilityReferences
Anirudh Devgan 1990B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering)president and CEO of Cadence Design Systems [1]
Anurag Dikshit 1994B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering)co-founder of Partygaming [2]
Binny Bansal 2005B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering)co-founder of Flipkart [3]
Jyoti Bansal 1999B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering)founder of AppDynamics [4]
Manvinder Singh Banga 1975B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering)former chairman, Unilever [5]
Mohit Aron 1995B.Tech. (Computer Science)founder and CEO of Cohesity and co-founder and former CTO of Nutanix [3]
Padmasree Warrior 1982B.Tech. (Chemical Engineering)chief technology and strategy officer Cisco Systems; former chief technology officer of Motorola, Inc. [6]
Patu Keswani 1981B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering)founder of Lemon Tree Hotels [7]
Sachin Bansal 2005B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering)co-founder of Flipkart [8]
Sameer Gehlaut 1995B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering)co-founder of Indiabulls [9]
Vikrant Bhargava 1994B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering)co-founder of Partygaming [10]
Vinod Khosla 1976B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering)co-founder of Sun Microsystems [11] [12]
Yogesh Chander Deveshwar 1968B.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 1971B.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 1972B.Tech (Electrical Engineering)co-founder, NIIT [12]
Vijay Thadani 1972B.Tech (Electrical Engineering)co-founder, NIIT [12]
Nitin Seth 1993B.Tech (Textile Technology)Co-Founder and CEO of Incedo Inc.

Politics and law

NameClass

Year

DegreeNotabilityReferences
Jayant Sinha 1985former 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 [16] [17]
Kiran Bedi 1993Ph.D.former Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry [18]
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 [19] [20]
Somnath Bharti lawyer and politician [21]
Sunjay Sudhir 1988B. Techdiplomat [22]

Science and technology

NameClass

Year

DegreeNotabilityReferences
Anupam Garg 1977M.S. PhysicsProfessor, Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, co-discoverer Leggett-Garg inequality [ citation needed ]
Madhu Sudan 1987B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering)professor of computer science at Harvard University, ACM Fellow and 2002 Nevanlinna Prize winner [23]
Shrinivas Kulkarni 1978M.Sc. (Physics)McArthur Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science, Caltech [ citation needed ]
Soumitro Banerjee 1983, 1988Ph.D.electrical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [24]
Subir Sachdev Did not graduateB.Tech.professor of physics at Harvard University [25]
Siddhartha Paul Tiwari Did not graduateDoctorateTechnologist, India Science Award laureate, Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland [26]
Venkata Padmanabhan 1993B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering)computer engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate, ACM Fellow [27]
Vipin Kumar Tripathi 1967, 1971Doctoratenotable Indian Plasma physicist. Former Physics professor of IIT, Delhi. Founder of Sadbhav Mission. [28]
Sanket Goel 1998M.S. PhysicsDean and Professor, BITS Pilani. Fulbright and JSPS Fellow [29]
Naveen Garg theoretical computer scientist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[ citation needed ]
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 1981B.Tech (Chemical Engineering)chemical engineer, academic, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [30]
Sudhanshu Vrati vaccinologist, N-BIOS laureate [31]
Narinder Kumar Gupta honorary member in the area of impact mechanics of the International Society of Impact Engineering. [32]
Predhiman Krishan Kaw 1966Ph.DFounding Director of Institute for Plasma Research, first PhD graduate of IITD. [12]
Avinash Kumar Agarwal 1996, 1999M.Tech (Energy), Ph.D (Mech. Eng.)mechanical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [33]
Mohit Randeria 1980B.A. in Electrical Engineeringcondensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [34]
Anurag Sharma optical physicist, academic, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [35]
Arogyaswami Paulraj 1973Ph.D (Elect. Engineering)pioneer in MIMO, professor emeritus in the Dept. of Elect. Engineering at Stanford University [12]
Surendra Prasad Ph. Dcommunications engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [36]
Sanjay Puri 1982MS (Physics)statistical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [37]
Rahul Pandit MS (Physics)condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [38]

Arts and entertainment

NameClass

Year

DegreeNotabilityReferences
Amol Parashar B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineeringactor [39]
Chetan Bhagat 1995B.Tech. in Mechanical EngineeringIndian novelist [40]
Swami Mukundananda 1982B.Tech. in mechanical engineeringspiritual leader; bestselling author; founder of JKYog and Radha Krishna Temple of Dallas [41]
Tushar Raheja 2006B.Tech in industrial engineering, PhD in applied probabilityIndian novelist [42] [43] [44]

Others

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