This is a list of people affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
Name | Affliliation | Notability | References |
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H. C. Verma | Former professor, Nuclear physics | Authored several school, undergraduate and graduate textbooks, the most popular being the two-volume Concepts of Physics, co-founded Shiksha Sopan, a social upliftment organization for economically weaker children living near the campus of IIT Kanpur, Padma Shri recipient | |
Manindra Agrawal | Department of Computer Science and Engineering | Recipient of the first Infosys Prize for Mathematics, Gödel Prize, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Sciences and Padma Shri recipient | [1] [2] |
Debabrata Goswami | Professor of Chemistry | Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Institute of Physics, Optical Society of America (OSA) Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers | |
Arun Kumar Biswas | Former Professor, Department of Metallurgical Engineering | Founder president of Indian Language Society, member of the INSA National Commission for History of Science, editorial board member of the Indian Journal of the History of Science | [3] [4] |
Subramania Ranganathan | Former Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry | Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology recipient | |
Yogesh M. Joshi | Professor of Department of Chemical Engineering | Elected fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering | |
Avinash Kumar Agarwal | Professor of Department of Mechanical Engineering | Elected fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (2013), Society of Automotive Engineers, US (2012), National Academy of Science, Allahabad (2018), Royal Society of Chemistry, UK (2018), International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (2016), and Indian National Academy of Engineering (2015) | |
Gautam Biswas | Professor of mechanical engineering | Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and Institution of Engineers (IEI) | |
Debabrata Goswami | Department of Chemistry | FRSC, FInstP, Fellow (OSA), Fellow (SPIE), associate editor, Science Advances |
Name | Class Year | Notability | References |
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Arvind Krishna | 1985 | CEO of IBM; Director of IBM Research | [5] |
Bhaskar Pramanik | 1972 | Former CEO of Microsoft India | [6] |
Mukesh Bansal | 1997 | Founder of Myntra; CEO and Founder of Cure.fit | [7] |
Som Mittal | Former President of NASSCOM | [8] | |
N.R. Narayana Murthy | 1969 | Founder & Chairman Emeritus of Infosys, Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan | [9] |
Jagjeet (Jeet) S. Bindra | 1969 | Director at Edison International | |
Muktesh Pant | 1976 | Former CEO of Yum China | [10] |
Sangeet Paul Choudary | CEO & Founder of Platformation Labs and Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum | ||
Umang Gupta | 1971 | chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Keynote Systems | [11] |
Lalit Jalan | 1979 | CEO of Reliance Infrastructure | |
Prashant Pathak | Chairman of Investment Committee of Business Development Bank of Canada, CEO of Ekagrata Inc. | ||
Pradeep Sindhu | 1974 | Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer/Vice chairman of the board of directors of Juniper Networks Inc. | |
Rakesh Gangwal | 1975 | Co-founder of IndiGo airline | [12] |
V. K Matthews | Founder chairman IBS software services | ||
Prakash Bare | Actor, producer, Technologist |
Name | Class Year | Institute and Position | Notability | References | |
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Rakesh Agrawal | 1975 | Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University | National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureate | [54] | |
Rajit Gadh | Professor of Engineering, Director of UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center | Pioneer of Smart grids | |||
Balasubramanian Gopal | Professor of Molecular Biophysics Unit of Indian Institute of Science | Molecular biophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [55] | ||
Chandra Kintala | Professor and Director of Software Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology | Former Director, Bell Labs, USA | |||
Subodha Kumar | 1997 | Paul R. Anderson Distinguished Chair Professor and Founding Director, Center for Business Analytics and Disruptive Technologies, Fox School of Business, Temple University | Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Fellow; Deputy Editor, Production and Operations Management journal; Founding Executive Editor, Management and Business Review journal | [56] [57] [58] | |
Ranjan Roy | Professor emeritus and Chairman of Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Beloit College | Recipient of the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics. | [59] | ||
Sanjay Sarma | Professor and Director of Digital Learning at MIT | Credited with developing standards and technologies in the commercial RFID industry | |||
Ashoke Sen | 1976 | Distinguished professor at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad | FRS, Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan, string theorist | ||
Sanjib Senapati | Professor at the Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, Department of Biotechnology of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras | N-Bios laureate | [60] | ||
Mriganka Sur | 1974 | Newton Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Simons Center for the Social Brain at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Neuroscientist, fellow of the Royal Society | ||
K. VijayRaghavan | 1977 | Former Director of National Centre for Biological Sciences, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India (2018-) | Fellow of the Royal Society, foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences, Padma Shri and Infosys Prize recipient | ||
Spenta R. Wadia | Professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | Founding Director of the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, TWAS Prize recipient | [61] [62] | ||
Suresh Venkatasubramanian | Professor at the University of Utah | Computer scientist and known for his contributions in computational geometry and differential privacy | |||
Sourav Pal | 1977 | Director of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata | |||
Anurag Kumar | 1977 | Director of Indian Institute of Science | |||
Suman Datta | 1995 | Semi-conductor researcher at Notre Dame University, USA | In 2013, he was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and in 2016, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. | ||
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur is a public institute of technology located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. As an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), it was declared an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India under the Institutes of Technology Act.
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a public, deemed, research university for higher education and research in science, engineering, design, and management. It is located in the southern Indian city of Bangalore, Karnataka. The institute was established in 1909 with active support from Jamsetji Tata and thus is also locally known as the Tata Institute. It was granted a deemed university status in 1958 and recognized as an Institute of Eminence in 2018.
Manindra Agrawal is an Indian computer scientist and director of Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. also professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He was the recipient of the first Infosys Prize for Mathematics, the Godel Prize in 2006; and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Sciences in 2003. He has been honoured with Padma Shri, India's 4th highest civilian award, in 2013.
Neeraj Kayal is an Indian computer scientist and mathematician noted for development of the AKS primality test, along with Manindra Agrawal and Nitin Saxena. Kayal was born and raised in Guwahati, India.
Anil K. Rajvanshi is an academic from India, and is the current director of the Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI).
Krishnaswamy Vijay Raghavan is an emeritus professor and former director of the National Centre for Biological Sciences. On 26 March 2018, the Government of India appointed him as the principal scientific adviser to succeed Dr. R Chidamabaram. His term as Principal Scientific Adviser ended on 2 April 2022. In 2012, he was elected a fellow of The Royal Society and in April 2014 he was elected as a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. He was conferred the Padma Shri on 26 January 2013 and is also a recipient of the Infosys Prize in the life sciences category in 2009.
Ashutosh Sharma is an Institute Chair Professor and C V Seshadri Chair Professor at the Department of chemical engineering of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He is the founding Coordinator of DST Thematic Unit of Excellence on Soft Nanofabrication and Chairman of Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur. He is best known for his pioneering research work in the areas of colloids, thin film, interfaces, adhesion, patterning and in the fabrication and application of self-assembled nano-structures.
Sachchida Nand Tripathi is an Indian scientist who works in the field of Atmospheric Sciences. He is the Dean of Kotak School of Sustainability and Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and the Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
Palliakaranai Thirumalai Narasimhan (1928–2013), popularly known as PTN or Jim, was an Indian theoretical chemist, one of the pioneers of computational chemistry in India and a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He was known for his studies on quantum-mechanical interpretation of magnetic resonance data and his contributions in developing IIT Kanpur into a Centre of Excellence in academic research in the basic sciences. He was an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, India. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1970, for his contributions to chemical sciences.
Jarugu Narasimha Moorthy is an Indian organic photochemist and the Director of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram. He was a Dr. Jag Mohan Garg Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He is known for his studies on organic photochemistry and supramolecular chemistry. He is an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Indian Academy of Sciences. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2008, for his contributions to chemical sciences.
Sandeep Verma is an Indian bioorganic chemist and chemical biologist, and a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK). At IITK, he heads Sandeep Verma's Research Group in the areas of ordered peptide assemblies, metal-mediated nanoscale systems, programmable soft matter for neuronal regeneration, novel antimicrobials, and small molecule-stem cell modulation. He is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), the Indian Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, India, and the Indian National Academy of Engineering. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 2010, for his contributions to Chemical Sciences.
Yogesh Moreshwar Joshi is an Indian chemical engineer, rheologist and the Mr. & Mrs. Gian Singh Bindra Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He is known for his studies on metastable soft matter and is an elected fellow of the Society of Rheology, Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences,The National Academy of Sciences, India, and Indian National Academy of Engineering. In 2015, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded Joshi the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for his contributions to Engineering Sciences. In 2023, he received prestigious J C Bose fellowship constituted by the Science and Engineering Research Board, Government of India.
Gattamraju Ravindra Kumar is an Indian laser physicist and a senior professor of Nuclear and Atomic Physics at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Known for his research on Ultrashort pulse and Warm dense matter, Kumar is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 2003. He is also a recipient of the B. M. Birla Science Prize and Infosys Prize.
Ramasubbu Sankararamakrishnan is an Indian computational biologist, bioinformatician and a professor at the Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He is known for his computational studies on membrane protein function. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences in 2008.
Subramaniam Ganesh is an Indian geneticist, molecular biologist and a professor at the department of biological sciences and bio-engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Known for his pioneering studies on Lafora progressive myoclonic epilepsy and other neurodegenerative disorders, Ganesh is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, India. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences in 2008.
Arun Kumar Shukla is an Indian structural biologist and the Joy-Gill Chair professor at the department of biological sciences and bioengineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Known for his studies on G protein-coupled receptor, Shukla is a Wellcome Trust-DBT Intermediate Fellow and a recipient of the SwarnaJayanti Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences, in 2017/18. He received the 2021 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Biological Science. He was awarded the Infosys Prize 2023 in Life Sciences his outstanding contributions to the biology of G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs).
Sudhir Kumar Jain is the incumbent and 28th Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University. He is a civil engineer by education and has formerly served three terms as the founding director of the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. He has carried out intensive research and development in the fields of seismic design codes, dynamic of buildings, and post-earthquake studies. Beside these, Jain has actively participated in teaching, research activities and development in earthquake engineering focused on developing countries. He is an elected fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering. He was also elected a member of U.S. National Academy of Engineering (2021) for leadership in earthquake engineering in developing countries.
Rajat Moona is the Director of Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar from October 2022 onwards. He has also served as Director of Indian Institute of Information Technology, Vadodara on additional Charge Basis from 2023 till 2024. He has served as director at Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai from March 2017 to September 2022. He is also a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur from April 1991 and was Director General of Centre for Development of Advanced Computing from May 2011 to March 2017.
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