List of IIT Kharagpur alumni

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The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur has had numerous notable alumni.

Academics[edit]

Name Class Year Notability References
Subhasis Chaudhuri B.Tech. 1985 Director of IIT Bombay [1]
Pushpak Bhattacharyya Director of IIT Patna [2]
Partha Pratim Chakraborty B.Tech. 1985; Ph.D. 1988 Director of IIT Kharagpur [3]
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay Director of ISI [4]
Supriyo Datta Thomas Duncan Distinguished professor at the School of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University [5][6]
S. Rao Kosaraju Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and division director at the National Science Foundation [7][8]
Pradeep Khosla Computer scientist and eighth Chancellor of University of California, San Diego [9]
Gopal Krishna Nayak Director of IIIT Bhubaneswar [10]
Mani Lal Bhaumik Ph. D. 1958 first PhD student at IIT Kharagpur, physicist, and Padma Shri awardee [11]
Satya Prasad Majumder Ph.D. 1993 Vice-Chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology [12]

Science and engineering[edit]

Name Class Year Notability References
Kalyan Banerjee 1964 Former President of Rotary International [13]
Monisha Ghosh First woman Chief Technology Officer at the US government's Federal Communications Commission. [14]
Srikumar Banerjee Indian metallurgical engineer. Former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India and the secretary of Department of Atomic Energy [15]
Kumar Bhattacharyya B. Tech. 1960 manager of google India peer [16]
Harish Hande co-founder of social enterprise SELCO India and winner of Ramon Magsaysay Award [17]
V. C. Kulandaiswamy hydrologist, second vice-chancellor of Anna University, awarded Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan [18]
Kirit Parikh civil engineer; professor emeritus and founder director of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) [19]
K. Radhakrishnan Ph.D. 2000 Indian space scientist who headed the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) [20]
Kamal Sagar B. Arch. 1992 architect; chairman and founder of Total Environment [21]

Politics[edit]

Name Class Year Notability References
Arvind Kejriwal Chief Minister of Delhi [22]
Ashok Khemka Senior Bureaucrat in the Indian state of Haryana [23]
Chaudhary Ajit Singh cabinet minister [24]
Duvvuri Subbarao B. Sc. 1969 economist and 22nd Governor of Reserve Bank of India [25]
Surajit Kar Purkayastha former Director General of Police of West Bengal and Police Commissioner of Kolkata

Business[edit]

Name Class Year Notability References
Anuradha Acharya 1995 co-founder and CEO of Mapmygenome, a molecular diagnostics company; previously CEO of Ocimum Bio Solutions [26]
Prith Banerjee former director of HP Labs, the research wing of Hewlett-Packard [27]
Ramesh Chandra founder of real estate company Unitech Group [28]
Rono Dutta CEO of InterGlobe Aviation Limited which operates IndiGo Airlines. He served as the President of the United Airlines from 1999 to 2002. [29]
R Gopalakrishnan former executive director of Tata Sons [30]
Vinod Gupta founder of InfoUSA, CEO of Infofree and DatabaseUSA [31]
Ajit Jain B.Tech. 1972 President of Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group [32]
Ravi Kant former vice chairman of Tata Motors [33]
Arjun Malhotra co-founder, HCL Technologies
Suhas Patil founder of Cirrus Logic [34]
Sundar Pichai CEO of Google and Alphabet inc. [35]
Arun Sarin former CEO of Vodafone [36]
B.K. Syngal former chairman and Managing Director of VSNL
Suresh Vaswani President of Dell Services [37]

Arts and Entertainment[edit]

Name Class Year Notability References
Rajkumar Barjatya 1962 Film producer [38]
Sandipan Deb founder editor of Outlook [39]
Raj Kamal Jha Chief Editor of Indian Express [40]
Arunabh Kumar co-founder of The Viral Fever (TVF) Media Labs [41]
Jitendra Kumar an Indian actor famous for his role in comedy sketch The Viral Fever
Bedabrata Pain film director [42]
Biswapati Sarkar Indian writer and director, former Creative Director at The Viral Fever, currently working at Pushpam Pa Pictures. [43]
Kiran Seth founder of Indian culture non-profit SPIC MACAY; Padma Shri awardee [44]
Biswa Kalyan Rath an Indian stand-up comedian and writer

Activists[edit]

Name Class Year Notability References
Vinayak Lohani
Varun Shrivastava 2009 Founder of UPAY NGO (NGO working for the education and skill development of underprivileged children)

Sports[edit]

Name Class Year Notability References
Malli Mastan Babu M. Tech. 1998 mountaineer

References[edit]

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  2. ↑ "Governing Body". IIT Patna. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  3. ↑ Desk, India TV News (20 July 2013). "IIT-Kharagpur alumni protest in Bangalore". www.indiatvnews.com. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
  4. ↑ "12 IIT Kharagpur Alumni Get Distinguished Alumnus Award". NDTV.com. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
  5. ↑ Supriyo Datta at IEEE
  6. ↑ Biography at Sigma Xi
  7. ↑ "S. Rao Kosaraju - Department of Computer Science". Department of Computer Science. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  8. ↑ "S. Rao Kosaraju | NSF - National Science Foundation". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  9. ↑ "IIT Kharagpur alumnus is UCSD Chancellor". The Hindu. 10 May 2012. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
  10. ↑ "Governing Body". IIIT Bhubaneswar. Archived from the original on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  11. ↑ Singh, Shiv Sahay (25 August 2011). "From a village boy, $150 mn and example to follow". The Indian Express. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
  12. ↑ "Satya Prasad Majumdar Biography". Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. Archived from the original on 19 March 2021.
  13. ↑ "Indian technocrat Kalyan Banerjee to lead Rotary as its 101st president". Business Standard. 30 June 2011. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
  14. ↑ "Indian-American Dr Monisha Ghosh named 1st woman Chief Technology Officer of US' communications commission". The Economic Times. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
  15. ↑ "Brief Profile of the Awardee awardee Dr Srikumar Banerjee". CSIR Human Resource Development Group, New Delhi. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
  16. ↑ Morgan, Oliver (18 June 2005). "A Brahmin of business". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
  17. ↑ "Nileema Mishra, Harish Hande win Magsaysay award". The Times of India. Press Trust of India (PTI). 27 July 2011. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
  18. ↑ "Dr V.C. Kulandaiswamy" (PDF). Anna University. 28 March 2012. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
  19. ↑ "Distinguished Alumnus Awardee: Dr. Kirit Shantilal Parikh". IIT Kharagpur. Archived from the original on 17 December 2010. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
  20. ↑ "Isro, IISc men get top national honour". The Times of India. 26 January 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
  21. ↑ "Total Architecture: Different Kind of Builders". 29 April 2011.
  22. ↑ Pradhan, Kunal; Vij-Aurora, Bhavna (27 December 2013). "An Uncommon Life: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who led an uncommon life". India Today. Noida, India. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
  23. ↑ Siwach, Sukhbir (17 October 2012). "My conscience compelled me to speak up: Ashok Khemka". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 5 January 2014. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
  24. ↑ Sharma, Surender (19 December 2011). "With Lucknow in mind, Congress gifts Ajit Singh civil aviation". MiD DAY. Mumbai, India. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
  25. ↑ "Inflation? Splitting hair is more easy". The Telegraph. Calcutta, India. 18 July 2012. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
  26. ↑ Singh, Shreyasi (April 2013). "A Genealogy of Success". Inc. India. New Delhi. 4 (3): 23–26. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
  27. ↑ "Exclusive: HP Labs Head Prith Banerjee Leaving". All Things Digital. 4 April 2012. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
  28. ↑ Dewan, Neha; Mukherjee, Shubham (26 January 2008). "Unitech Supremo: A Reluctant Tycoon". The Economic Times. Retrieved 7 February 2012.
  29. ↑ "Rono Dutta". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
  30. ↑ "Gopalakrishnan does not seek re-election on Tata Motors board". Business Standard. 3 August 2010. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
  31. ↑ Rogers, Bruce (7 January 2014). "Vin Gupta's InfoFree.com Reinvents CRM and Lead Gen Tools For Small Business". Forbes. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
  32. ↑ Holm, Erik; Ng, Serena (5 May 2012). "In Ajit Jain, Some See Next Buffett". The Wall Street Journal. pp. B1–B2. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
  33. ↑ "Ravi Kant Profile". Forbes. Archived from the original on 20 April 2014. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
  34. ↑ "Suhas S. Patil: Executive Profile & Biography". Bloomberg Business. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
  35. ↑ G is for Google
  36. ↑ "Arun Sarin walks out of Vodafone rich". The Times Of India. Press Trust of India (PTI). 11 June 2008. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
  37. ↑ "Suresh C. Vaswani". Dell. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
  38. ↑ https://www.hindustantimes.com/bollywood/film-producer-rajkumar-barjatya-father-of-sooraj-barjatya-dies-in-mumbai/story-tGu59Mq8reSOnIJ3yaIRJN.html. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  39. ↑ "FE's Sandipan Deb to join RPG Group's publishing division". www.afaqs.com. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  40. ↑ Soofi, Mayank Austen (10 January 2015). "Raj Kamal Jha: 'We journalists are not the stories'". livemint.com/. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  41. ↑ Saxena, Aditi (6 February 2015). "This IIT Kharagpur alumnus is the brain behind The Viral Fever Media". The Economic Times. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
  42. ↑ Vats, Rohit (12 April 2012). "Chittagong has a sense of victory, says director Bedabrata Pain". IBN Live. Archived from the original on 13 April 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
  43. ↑ Moorjani, Manit (19 January 2013). "The unusual suspects". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
  44. ↑ Chaturvedi, Devika (25 February 2011). "Is the magic of classical music fading?". DNA. Mumbai, India: Diligent Media Corporation. Retrieved 5 April 2015.

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