List of IIT Bombay people

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This is a list of notable faculty and alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

Notable Faculty[edit]

Name Affiliation Notability References
Amit Agrawal Institute chair professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
C. V. Seshadri Chemical engineer
Dipan Ghosh Deputy Director from 2005 to 2006 Theoretical physicist, originator of the Majumdar–Ghosh model. [1]
Deepak B. Phatak Computer scientist, Padma Shri award winner
Hemchandra Kekre Head of Computer Science Department, 1978 to 1984 Computer scientist
G. Naresh Patwari Chemist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [2]
Manohar Vartak Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Statistics Mathematician
N. K. Naik Professor Aerospace engineer
Pramod P. Wangikar Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering Bioinformatician, N-Bios laureate[3]
Ram Puniyani Biomedical engineer
Ranjith Padinhateeri [4]
Ravi Poovaiah Professor at IDC School of Design Co-designed the Indian EVM[5]
Tathagat Avatar Tulsi Assistant Professor on contract from 2010 to 2019 Physicist
Kannan Moudgalya Professor Chemical Engineering at IITB

Notable Alumni[edit]

Arts[edit]

Name Class

Year

Degree Notability References
Jag Mundhra 1968 B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) Film director [6]
Mansoor Khan Film director [7][8]
Nitesh Tiwari 1996 B.Tech. (Metallurgical Engineering) Film director and screenwriter [9][10]
Rajnesh Domalpalli 1984 B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) Film director [11]
Satyendra Pakhale 1991 M.Des. Industrial Designer
Udaya Kumar 2003; 2010 M.Des., Ph.D. Head of the Department of Design, IIT Guwahati [12]
Vipul Goyal 2008 B.Tech., M.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) Stand-up comedian [13]
Sameer Saxena 2006 B.Tech. Actor, Director and Producer. Former CCO at TVF [14]

Business[edit]

Name Class

Year

Degree Notability References
Anil Kumar B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, later convicted of insider trading [15]
Ashish Chauhan 1989 B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Bombay Stock Exchange [16]
Bhavish Aggarwal 2008 B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering) Co-founder of Ola Cabs [17]
Bharat Desai 1975 B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) Founder of Syntel [18]
Kanwal Rekhi 1967 B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) Venture capitalist; Co-founder of Excelan [19]
Nandan Nilekani 1978 B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) Co-founder of Infosys [20]
Parag Saxena 1977 B.Tech. (Chemical Engineering) Co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer of New Silk Route [21]
Rahul Yadav Joined with B.Tech. (Metallurgical Engineering)

Later dropped out.[22]

Co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer of Housing.com [23][24]
Rajiv L. Gupta 1967 Chairman of Aptiv [25]
Ramani Ayer 1969 B.Tech. (Chemical Engineering) Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Hartford [26]
Romesh Wadhwani 1969 B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) Founder of Symphony Technology Group [27]
Salil Parekh B.Tech. (Aeronautical Engineering) Chief Executive Officer of Infosys
Subrah Iyar 1981 Co-founder of WebEx [28]
Victor Menezes Corporate Banker; Senior Vice Chairman of Citigroup [29][30]

Humanities and Social Sciences[edit]

Name Class

Year

Degree Notability References
Sharada Srinivasan 1987 Archaeologist

Politics, Law, and Civil Services[edit]

Name Class

Year

Degree Notability References
Colin Gonsalves 1975 B.Tech. (Civil Engineering) Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India [31]
Jairaj Phatak Former Municipal Commissioner of Mumbai
Jairam Ramesh 1975 B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) Former Minister of Rural Development and Member of Parliament
Jay Narayan Vyas Former Member of the Legislative Assembly
Manohar Parrikar 1978 B.Tech. (Metallurgical Engineering) Former Chief Minister of Goa and Minister of Defence [32][33]
Sanjiv Bhatt 1985 Former Indian Police Service officer [34]
Sharjeel Imam 2010 B.Tech., M.Tech. (Computer Science & Engineering) Activist
Sheel Kant Sharma 1971; 1974 M.Sc. (Physics); Ph.D. (Physics) Former Secretary General of SAARC

Science and Technology[edit]

Name Class

Year

Degree Notability References
Apoorva D. Patel M.Sc. (Physics) Physicist
Hemchandra Kekre M.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) Head of Department of Computer Science, IIT Bombay
K. S. Dasgupta Ph.D. former Director of the IISST [35]
Pranav Mistry 2005 M. Sc. Computer Scientist and Inventor
Narendra Karmarkar 1978 B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) Mathematician [36]
Pratim Biswas 1980 Chair of the Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis [37]
Ramakrishna V. Hosur 1973 M.Sc. (Chemistry) [38]
Ravindran Kannan 1974 B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) Mathematician; Recipient of the Fulkerson Prize and Knuth prize [39]
Sarita Adve 1987 B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) Professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [40]
Subhash Khot 1999 Computer scientist [41]
Suhas Patankar 1965 M.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) Mechanical Engineer
T. V. Raman 1989 M.Sc. (Mathematics) Computer scientist [42]

Others[edit]

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