This is a list of people affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi , one of the Indian Institutes of Technology in India.
Name | Class Year | Degree | Notability | References |
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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] |
Name | Class Year | Degree | Notability | References |
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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] |
Name | Class Year | Degree | Notability | References |
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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 | [24] |
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 | [25] |
Subir Sachdev | Did not graduate | B.Tech. | professor of physics at Harvard University | [26] |
Siddhartha Paul Tiwari | Did not graduate | Doctorate | Technologist, India Science Award laureate, Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland | [27] |
Venkata Padmanabhan | 1993 | B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering) | computer engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate, ACM Fellow | [28] |
Vipin Kumar Tripathi | 1967, 1971 | Doctorate | notable Indian Plasma physicist. Former Physics professor of IIT, Delhi. Founder of Sadbhav Mission. | [29] |
Ajaib Singh Brar | 1977 | Doctorate | Professor of chemistry at IIT Delhi, Saraswati Samman laureate, NASI Fellow | [30] |
Sanket Goel | 1998 | M.S. Physics | Dean and Professor, BITS Pilani. Fulbright and JSPS Fellow | [31] |
Naveen Garg | 1991 (BTech), 1994 (PhD) | BTech + PhD (Computer Science and Engineering) | theoretical computer scientist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [32] |
Amitabha Bagchi | 1996 | BTech, Computer Science and Engineering | Theoretical Computer Scientist, Novelist | [33] |
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 | [34] |
Sudhanshu Vrati | vaccinologist, N-BIOS laureate | [35] | ||
Narinder Kumar Gupta | honorary member in the area of impact mechanics of the International Society of Impact Engineering. | [36] | ||
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 | [37] |
Mohit Randeria | 1980 | B.A. in Electrical Engineering | condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [38] |
Anurag Sharma | optical physicist, academic, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [39] | ||
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 | [40] | |
Sanjay Puri | 1982 | MS (Physics) | statistical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [41] |
Rahul Pandit | MS (Physics) | condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [42] | |
Name | Class Year | Degree | Notability | References |
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Amol Parashar | B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering | actor | [43] | |
Chetan Bhagat | 1995 | B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering | Indian novelist | [44] |
Swami Mukundananda | 1982 | B.Tech. in mechanical engineering | spiritual leader; bestselling author; founder of JKYog and Radha Krishna Temple of Dallas | [45] |
Tushar Raheja | 2006 | B.Tech in industrial engineering, PhD in applied probability | Indian novelist | [46] [47] [48] |
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