List of Delhi Technological University alumni

Delhi Technological University is a state university situated in Delhi, India.[1]

Notable alumni

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Fields with a — have unknown values.

Architecture

Name	Class year	Discipline	Notability	Reference(s)
Aditya Prakash[upper-alpha 1]	1948	Architecture	Architect	[2]
Raj Rewal	1952	Architecture	Architect and member of the Indian Institute of Architects Hall of Fame.	[3][4]

Arts and entertainment

Sushant Singh Rajput

Dhiraj Choudhury

Name	Class year	Discipline	Notability	Reference(s)
Manjit Bawa	1963	Fine arts	Painter	[5]
Eric Bowen	1959	Art	Painter, received a grant from the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for his series "The Right to Life in Peace".	[6]
Avinash Chandra	1953	Painting	Painter	[7]
Jagmohan Chopra	1958	Fine arts	Former president and chairman of the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, and former principle of the Government College of Art, Chandigarh.	[8]
Dhiraj Choudhury	1967	Art	Painter	[9]
Gopi Gajwani	1962	Graphic Designing	Painter, designer and cartoonist	[10][11]
Mahirwan Mamtani	1962	Fine arts	Painter, graphic and multimedia artist	[12]
Meera Mukherjee	1950	Painting, graphics and sculpture	Sculptor, received the Padma Shri in 1992.	[13]
Sushant Singh Rajput[upper-alpha 2]	2008	Polymer Science and Chemical Technology Engineering	Film actor. Best remembered for the role of MS Dhoni in the biopic M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story, Sarfaraz in PK (film) and his debut film Kai Po Che! based on Chetan Bhagat's best seller The 3 Mistakes of My Life.	[14]
Om Prakash Sharma	1958	Fine arts	Painter and honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow. Received the National Art Award from the Lalit Kala Akademi.	[15]
Arpita Singh	1959	Fine arts	Painter, received India's third-highest civilian award, the Padma Bhushan in 2011.	[16]
Paramjit Singh	1958	Fine arts	Painter and former professor in the Faculty Of Fine Arts, Jamia Millia Islamia.	[17]
Jagdish Swaminathan[upper-alpha 3]		—	Painter and member of Group 1890.	[18]
Durjoy Datta	2008	Mechanical engineering	Author, screenwriter, and publisher	[19][20]
Sachin Garg	2008	Electronics and communication engineering	Author	[21][22]

Business

Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Name	Class year	Discipline	Notability	Reference(s)
Rohit Chadda	2005	Computer engineering	Co-founder of Foodpanda India	[23][24]
Sanjay Gupta	1981	Mechanical engineering	Country manager of Google India	[25]
Surya Kant	1976	Electrical engineering	President of North America, UK, and Europe operations of Tata Consultancy Services	[26]
Manish Khera	1991	Electrical engineering	Former CEO of Airtel Payments Bank	[27][28]
Vijay Shekhar Sharma	1998	Electronics and communication engineering	Founder of Paytm	[29][30]

Civil Services

Arvind Saxena

Name	Class year	Discipline	Notability	Reference(s)
Arvind Saxena	1976	Civil engineering	Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission and former Research and Analysis Wing officer.	[31]

Science and technology

Vinod Dham

Ravi Grover

Name	Class year	Discipline	Notability	Reference(s)
Vinod Dham	1971	Electrical engineering	Engineer and venture capitalist who is known as the "Father of the Pentium" for his work in the Microprocessor Products group at Intel.	[32][33]
Dharendra Yogi Goswami	1969	Mechanical engineering	Distinguished university professor in chemical engineering and director of the Clean Energy Research Center at the University of South Florida. Founder of the air purifier company Molekule.	[34][35]
Ravi Grover	1970	Mechanical engineering	Nuclear engineer, former vice-chancellor of the Homi Bhabha National Institute and member of the Atomic Energy Commission of India. Received the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award, in 2014. Responsible for the successful negotiations in the India–United States Civil Nuclear Agreement.	[36]
Emani Kumar	1991	Civil engineering	Deputy secretary general of ICLEI and founding executive director of its South Asian arm.	[37][38]
Ishwar Puri	1982	Mechanical engineering	Dean of the McMaster Faculty of Engineering and former N. Waldo Harrison Professor at Virginia Tech.	[39][40][41]
Subhav Sinha	2009	Electrical engineering	Inventor of Mitra, a personalized battery-operated vehicle. Chosen as one of the "International Climate Champions" for the year 2010 by the British Council.	[42][43]
Rajinder Kumar (chemical engineer)	1955	Masters in Chemical engineering	Chemical engineer and a former professor at the Indian Institute of Science. Known for his work of mass transfer in multiphase systems. Received the third highest Indian civilian award Padma Bhushan in 2003 and the Lifetime Achievement Award by Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2008.

Other

Raghbir Singh Bhola

Name	Class year	Discipline	Notability	Reference(s)
Subhash Chandra Agrawal	1971	Mechanical engineering	Right to Information activist	[44]
Raghbir Singh Bhola	1951	Electrical engineering	Hockey player, Olympic gold medalist, and Arjuna Awardee.	[45][46]
Niketan Madhok	1997	Mechanical engineering	Fashion Model and Producer.

Notes

1. Prakash did not complete his studies at Delhi Polytechnic. In the middle of his course, India's independence forced the English faculty leading the Polytechnic to return to England.
2. Sushant joined in 2004 and dropped out from DCE in his third year in 2007.
3. Swaminathan did not complete his studies at Delhi Polytechnic.

References

1. "Delhi govt launches fee-waiver scheme for undergraduate students". Hindustan Times. 18 July 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
2. Prakash, Aditya (2014). Garbage Dump Expertise: Tracing the ‘common man’ Project in the works of Aditya Prakash (PDF) (Thesis). University of Washington. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
3. "70 years after its creation, an institution remains at the forefront of nation building". The Indian Express. 3 February 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
4. "Hall of Fame, Architect Raj Rewal, Architect M R Agnihotri, Architect Ajoy Choudhury, Architect C N Raghvendran, Architect Ram Sharma". Indian Institute of Architects. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
5. "Manjit Bawa". Gallery7. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
6. "Eric Bowen". DAG. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
7. "Avinash Chandra". dagworld.com. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
8. "Jagmohan Chopra Memorial Meeting - Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademy". Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
9. "Dhiraj Choudhury". Birla Academy of Art & Culture. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
10. Gupta, Gargi (3 December 2017). "Sailoz Mookherjea: A forgotten genius". Daily News and Analysis. Retrieved 20 January 2020. Gopi Gajwani, senior Delhi-based artist who was a student of Mookherjea at Delhi Polytechnic between '54 and '59
11. "Gopi Gajwani : Artist Detail Information". www.dhoomimalgallery.com. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
12. Sudarsanan, Divya (8 June 2012). ""Art is the inner necessity for me to express my self – known and unknown"". Yahoo! News. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
13. "Meera Mukherjee". Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
14. "Did you know that Sushant Singh Rajput scored an All India Rank of 7 in DCE engineering exams in 2003? - Times of India". The Times of India. 23 January 2019. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
15. "Om Prakash Sharma - Indian Artist, Painter". Art Intaglio. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
16. "Arpita Singh". Talwar Gallery. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
17. "Paramjit Singh Biography". Artnet. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
18. "Jagdish Swaminathan". indianartideas.in. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
19. "Durjoy Datta". The Times of India. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
20. Sahu, Diana. "In constant tiff with professors". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 19 January 2020. This mechanical engineer from Delhi College of Engineering (2008)
21. "Sachin Garg". HuffPost India. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
22. "Sachin Garg". LinkedIn. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
23. "Foodpanda India co-founder Rohit Chadda steps down as MD". Business Line. Press Trust of India. 23 January 2018. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
24. "Know Your Alumni". DTU Times. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
25. "Google names Sanjay Gupta as country manager and VP for sales, operations in India". Business Standard. Press Trust of India. 8 November 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
26. "Surya Kant". U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. 25 April 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
27. Srivastava, Moulishree (2 June 2016). "Shashi Arora now CEO & MD, Airtel Payments Bank". Business Standard. Retrieved 23 January 2020. Airtel Payments Bank on Wednesday appointed Shashi Arora as chief executive and managing director, replacing Manish Khera, who has decided to pursue his entrepreneurial journey
28. "Manish Khera, Banker, Entrepreneur and now appointed as CEO of Airtel money". DCE-DTU Alumni Association. Retrieved 23 January 2020. Graduated in electrical engineering from Delhi College of Engineering 1991 batch.
29. "Now a millionaire, once Paytm founder walked 14km to save Rs 14: His journey in 10 points". India Today. 17 March 2017. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
30. "ET Awards for Corporate Excellence: Paytm's Vijay Shekhar Sharma chosen as Entrepreneur of the Year". The Economic Times. 3 October 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
31. "Distinguished Alumni - Arvind Saxena" (pdf). DCE-DTU Alumni Association. Retrieved 23 January 2020. Shri Arvind Saxena studied Civil Engineering at the Delhi College of Engineering between 1971 and 1976
32. "When Speed Was King: Vinod Dham and the Birth of the Pentium". Knowledge@Wharton. 20 March 2008. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
33. Takahashi, Dean (3 July 2008). "Interview with Vinod Dham, father of the Pentium, on a life in technology and venture investing". VentureBeat. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
34. "D. Yogi Goswami". Florida Inventors Hall of Fame. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
35. "Yogi Goswami". LinkedIn. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
36. "Ravi Bhushan Grover". expert.inae.in. Indian National Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
37. "Team | ICLEI South Asia". southasia.iclei.org. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
38. "Emani Kumar". LinkedIn. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
39. "Ishwar K. Puri". McMaster Faculty of Engineering. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
40. "Ishwar Puri named N. Waldo Harrison Professor". www.vtnews.vt.edu. 6 April 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
41. "Ishwar K. Puri". www.ikpuri.com. Retrieved 19 January 2020. after obtaining a B.Sc. (1982) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delhi (Delhi College of Engineering)
42. "International Climate Champions 2010". British Council. Archived from the original on 5 October 2012. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
43. "TEDxITMU". www.ted.com. Retrieved 19 January 2020. He graduated in Electrical Engineering in 2009 from Delhi Technological University, DTU
44. Pathak, Nilima (5 March 2011). "Harnessing the power of information". Gulf News. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
45. Sharma, Avinash (22 January 2019). "Two-time Olympic medallist and Hockey legend RS Bhola passes away". Yahoo! News. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
46. "Wall of Donors". Delhi Technological University. Retrieved 23 January 2020. Gp.Capt. Raghbir Singh Bhola (Retd.) Electrical Engineer, DTU (Alumni 1951)