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.

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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)Bestselling author; Co-Founder and CEO of Incedo Inc. [16]

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 [17] [18]
Kiran Bedi 1993Ph.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 1988B. Techdiplomat [23]

Philosophy and Spirituality

NameClass

Year

DegreeNotabilityReferences
Acharya Prashant 1999B.TechIndian Author, Philosopher and Advaita Vedanta Teacher, Founder of PrashantAdvait Foundation and Advait Life Education [24]

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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 [27]
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 [28]
Subir Sachdev Did not graduateB.Tech.professor of physics at Harvard University [29]
Siddhartha Paul Tiwari Did not graduateDoctorateTechnologist, India Science Award laureate, Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland [30]
Venkata Padmanabhan 1993B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering)computer engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate, ACM Fellow [31]
Vipin Kumar Tripathi 1967, 1971Doctoratenotable Indian Plasma physicist. Former Physics professor of IIT, Delhi. Founder of Sadbhav Mission. [32]
Ajaib Singh Brar 1977DoctorateProfessor of chemistry at IIT Delhi, Saraswati Samman laureate, NASI Fellow [33]
Sanket Goel 1998M.S. PhysicsDean 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 1996BTech, Computer Science and EngineeringTheoretical 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 1981B.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 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 [40]
Mohit Randeria 1980B.A. in Electrical Engineeringcondensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [41]
Anurag Sharma optical physicist, academic, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [42]
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 [43]
Sanjay Puri 1982MS (Physics)statistical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [44]
Rahul Pandit MS (Physics)condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [45]

Arts and entertainment

NameClass

Year

DegreeNotabilityReferences
Amol Parashar B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineeringactor [46]
Chetan Bhagat 1995B.Tech. in Mechanical EngineeringIndian novelist [47]
Swami Mukundananda 1982B.Tech. in mechanical engineeringspiritual leader; bestselling author; founder of JKYog and Radha Krishna Temple of Dallas [48]
Tushar Raheja 2006B.Tech in industrial engineering, PhD in applied probabilityIndian novelist [49] [50] [51]

Others

Notable faculty

References

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