List of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur people

This is a list of people affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

Notable alumni

Business

• Sumit Chowdhury, CEO & Founder at Gaia Smart Cities,[1] Ex President at Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd.
• Arvind Krishna, CEO of IBM; Director of IBM Research; PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Politics and Civil Services

Name	Class Year	Notability	References
Amitabh Thakur		Indian Police Service officer known for his anti-corruption advocacy
Prem Das Rai	1976	Member of Parliament
Saurabh Kumar		former Ambassador of India to Iran	[2]
Sudhir Vyas	1975	former Ambassador of India to Germany	[3]

Science and Technology

Name	Class Year	Notability	References
Atish Dabholkar	1985	String theorist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	[4]
Avinash Deshpande	1980	Astrophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	[5]
Mahan Mj	1992	Mathematician and a recipient of the 2011 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award
Rakesh Jain	1972	Distinguished Tumor researcher at Harvard Medical School and recent winner of National Medal of Science.
Sirshendu De		Recipient of 2011 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award and professor of chemical engineering department, IIT Kharagpur

• Shahid Jameel - virologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[6]
• Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Padma Shri and Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras
• Deepak Dhar - theoretical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[7]
• Kapil Hari Paranjape, mathematician, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
• Debasisa Mohanty, computational biologist, N-Bios laureate[8]
• Pramod Sadasheo Moharir, geophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[9]
• Rajeev Motwani, computer scientist, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University
• Yashavant Kanetkar, an Indian computer science author, known for his books on programming languages
• G. Ravindra Kumar - laser physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[10]
• Jainendra K. Jain, condensed matter theorist[11]
• Jitendra Malik, Arthur J. Chick Professor of EECS at University of California at Berkeley
• Ranjan Mallik - communications engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[12]
• Shiraz Minwalla, a string theorist at TIFR who was awarded ICTP Prize for his contribution to theoretical physics
• P. Balram, Director of IISC Bangalore and winner of Padma Bhushan[13]
• Upinder Singh Bhalla, Neuroscientist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[14]
• Suresh Kumar Bhatia - chemical engineer, academic, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[15]
• Abhay Bhisikar, Scientific Officer at Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology and alumni of Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology[16]
• Narayanan Chandrakumar, chemical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[17]
• Tushar Kanti Chakraborty, organic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[18]
• Sandip Trivedi, theoretical physicist working at Tata Institute for Fundamental Research TIFR, recipient of the Infosys Prize 2010 in the category of Physical Sciences [19]
• Vijay Vaishnavi, researcher and scholar in the computer information systems field[20]
• Raghavan Varadarajan, Biophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[21]
• Anuradha Misra, physicist[22]

Others

• Manindra Agrawal, Nitin Saxena, and Neeraj Kayal (proved with their AKS primality test that primality testing has a polynomial time algorithm.) Clay Research Award, 2002, Godel Prize, 2006[23][24][25]
• Rakesh Agrawal, National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureate and Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University[26]
• Jagjeet (Jeet) S. Bindra, director at Edison International
• Anand Kumar Bachhawat, biochemist, N-Bios laureate[27]
• Sangeet Paul Choudary, CEO & Founder of Platformation Labs and Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum
• Satyendra Dubey, a Project Director in National Highways Authority of India who was assassinated for exposing corruption in the Golden Quadrilateral highway project.
• Rajit Gadh, Professor of Engineering, Director of UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center, and a pioneer of Smart Grids
• Pradyut Ghosh, inorganic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[28]
• Balasubramanian Gopal, Molecular biophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[29]
• Umang Gupta, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Keynote Systems, Inc.[30]
• Lalit Jalan, CEO of Reliance Infrastructure Limited is a winner of Directors Honours and Deans List at Wharton. He was also showcased as one of the 15 achievers from the IIT system at the 1st PAN IIT meeting in California in January 2003.
• Chandra Kintala, Professor and Director of Software Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology; Director(Retd.), Bell Labs, USA
• Som Mittal, President of NASSCOM
• N.R. Narayana Murthy, the Founder & Chairman Emeritus of Infosys
• Muktesh Pant, CEO of KFC.
• Prashant Pathak, Canada-based entrepreneur and investor, Chairman of Investment Committee of Business Development Bank of Canada, CEO of Ekagrata Inc.
• Manu Prakash- Physical Biologist and Inventor, Best known for his Foldscope and Paperfuge
• Arup Kumar Raychaudhuri, condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[31]
• Anil K. Rajvanshi,[32] Director, Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute and winner of Jamnalal Bajaj Award 2001,[33] FICCI award 2002,[34] Globe Award 2009,[35] 2014 University of Florida Distinguished Alumnus Award winner.[36]
• Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, scientist in the area of NMR and biological membranes
• Suryanarayanasastry Ramasesha, quantum chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate[37]
• Sanjay Sarma, professor at MIT, credited with developing standards and technologies in the commercial RFID industry and Director of Digital Learning at MIT.
• Ashoke Sen, FRS, Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan, string theorist
• Sanjib Senapati, N-Bios laureate[38]
• Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary Department of Science and Technology (DST).
• Ram Sewak Sharma, Chairman, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)
• Pradeep Sindhu, co-founder and Chief Technical Officer/Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Juniper Networks Inc.
• B. N. Singh, Chairman of ICTACEM, Professor & Dean HR(Human Resource), IIT Kharagpur
• Duvvuri Subbarao, 22nd Governor of Reserve Bank of India[39]
• Krishnamurthy Subramanian, the 17th Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India
• Mriganka Sur, neuroscientist, Sherman Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience, Head, Dept of Brain and Cognitive Science MIT, Fellow of Royal Society
• Muralee Thummarukudy- Chief Disaster Risk Reduction at United Nations Environment Programme
• Rakesh Gangwal, co-founder of Indigo airline
• K. VijayRaghavan (Director of National Centre for Biological Sciences), Padma Shri - 2003 IITK Distinguished Alumnus Award Winner
• Spenta R. Wadia, theoretical physicist working in string theory and quantum field theory
• V. K Matthews, Founder chairman IBS software services
• Suresh Venkatasubramanian, computer scientist and professor at the University of Utah known for his contributions in computational geometry and differential privacy
• Sourav Pal, Director of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata
• Gopal Prasad, mathematician
• Anurag Kumar, director of Indian Institute of Science
• H. R. Krishnamurthy, theoretical physicist
• Debabrata Goswami FRSc FInstP, Prof. S. Sampath Chair Professor of Chemistry at IIT Kanpur, also Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Institute of Physics, Optical Society of America (OSA) and Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) and 2018 ICO Galileo Galilei Medal awardee

Notable faculty

Name	Affiliation	Notability	References
Arun Kumar Biswas
Subramania Ranganathan	former Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry
Yogesh M. Joshi
Avinash Kumar Agarwal	held various posts at the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering since 2001
Gautam Biswas
H. C. Verma
Debabrata Goswami	Department of Chemistry	FRSC, FInstP, Fellow (OSA), Fellow (SPIE), Associate Editor, Science Advances

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