49 Notable alumni of
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
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Indian Institute of Technology Bombay is 831st in the world, 173rd in Asia, and 16th in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 49 notable alumni from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Parag Agrawal
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- chief technology officercomputer scientistbusiness executivechief executive officer
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Parag Agrawal is an Indian-born American software engineer and businessman who was the CEO of Twitter, Inc. from November 2021 to October 2022.
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Manohar Parrikar
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- politician
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Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar was an Indian politician and leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party who served as Chief Minister of Goa from 14 March 2017 until his death. Previously, he was Chief Minister of Goa from 2000 to 2005 and from 2012 to 2014 and from 2017 to 2019. He also served as the Minister of Defence from October 2014 to March 2017. In January 2020, he was posthumously awarded Padma Bhushan.
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Nitesh Tiwari
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
- Studied in 1996
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
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Nitesh Tiwari is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and lyricist known for his works in Bollywood. He debuted as a co-director in Chillar Party (2011) which won the National Film Award for Best Children's Film. He also directed the supernatural political drama Bhoothnath Returns (2014).
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Nandan Nilekani
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- entrepreneurpolitician
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Nandan Mohanrao Nilekani is an Indian entrepreneur. He co-founded Infosys and is the non-executive chairman of Infosys replacing R Seshasayee and Ravi Venkatesan, who were the co-chairs of the board, on 24 August 2017. After the exit of Vishal Sikka, Nilekani was appointed as non-executive chairman of the board effective 24 August 2017. He was the chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India. After a successful career at Infosys, he headed the Government of India's technology committee, TAGUP. He is a member of Indian National Congress but not active in politics as of 2019.
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Sivan Kailasavadivoo
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
- In 2007 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in aerospace engineering
- Occupations
- military flight engineeraerospace engineerscientist
- Biography
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Sivan Kailasavadivu is an Indian aerospace engineer who served as the Secretary of the Department of Space and Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) and Space Commission. He has previously served as the Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Center and the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre.
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Mansoor Khan
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm producer
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Mansoor Hussain Khan is an Indian film director and producer known for his works in Hindi cinema.
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Bhavish Aggarwal
- Occupations
- chief executive officer
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Bhavish Aggarwal is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Ola Consumer, founder of Ola Electric and founder of Ola Krutrim, a large language model artificial intelligence (AI) company which became India’s first AI unicorn in 2024 an estimated valuation of $1 billion.
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Pranav Mistry
- Occupations
- computer scientist
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Pranav Mistry is an Indian computer scientist and inventor. He is the former President and CEO of STAR Labs (Samsung Technology & Advanced Research Labs). He is currently the founder and CEO of TWO, an Artificial Reality startup. He is best known for his work on SixthSense, Samsung Galaxy Gear and Project Beyond.
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Jairam Ramesh
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- politicianeconomist
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Jairam Ramesh is an Indian politician belonging to INC. He is a Member of Parliament representing Karnataka state in the Rajya Sabha. In July 2011, Jairam was elevated to the Union Council of Ministers of India and appointed Minister of Rural Development and Minister (additional charge) of the new Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. However, in the cabinet reshuffle in October 2012, he was divested of the portfolio of Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. He was previously the Indian Minister of State (Independent Charge) at the Ministry of Environment and Forests from May 2009 to July 2011.
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Salil Parekh
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- 1964-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- businesspersonchief executive officer
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Salil Parekh is the current chief executive officer and managing director of Infosys. Parekh took over from interim CEO U B Pravin Rao on 2 January 2018.
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Vic Gundotra
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- businessperson
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Vivek Paul "Vic" Gundotra is an Indian-born American businessman who served as the Senior Vice President, Social for Google until 24 April 2014. Prior to joining Google, he was a general manager at Microsoft.
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Viral Acharya
- Years
- 1974-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- bankereconomistacademic
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Viral V. Acharya is an Indian economist who was appointed as Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI). He also served as a member of the advisory council of the RBI Academy and was a member of the Academic Council of the National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM), Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) since 2014. As of 23 January 2017, he was appointed to serve a three-year term as a Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. He resigned from the post in July 2019 with 6 months left for his completion of term.
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Ashish Chauhan
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India - Occupations
- businessperson
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Ashishkumar Chauhan is an Indian business executive and administrator who is currently the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE). A technocrat from IIT Bombay and IIM Calcutta, Ashish was a founding member of NSE. Prior to joining NSE back in 2022, he was the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) for 10 years. Ashish is a member of the University Grants Commission and is the Chancellor of University of Allahabad. He also serves as a member of Governing Council of one of the premier B-Schools in India - IIM Calcutta. Ashish is best known as the father of modern financial derivatives in India, and is considered one of the foremost experts in financial market policies, Information technology, organized retail, telecommunications, cricket and Indian social issues. Ashish has been awarded Lifetime Achievement Award by Global Custodian
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Sudheendra Kulkarni
- Born in
- India
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
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Sudheendra Kulkarni is an Indian politician and columnist.
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Udaya Kumar
- Occupations
- designer
- Biography
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Udaya Kumar Dharmalingam is an Indian academic and designer noted for his design of the Indian rupee sign. His design was selected from among five short listed symbols. According to Kumar, the design is based on the Indian tricolour.
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Ramesh Chandra Agarwal
- Occupations
- media proprietor
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Ramesh Chandra Agarwal was an Indian media proprietor and founder-chairman of the Dainik Bhaskar group of newspapers that has a presence in 14 states of India with 62 editions and has an estimated readership of over 15 million. He started Dainik Bhaskar newspaper at Bhopal in 1958. In 1983 he launched the Indore edition and in 1996 it was produced in Rajasthan. He was on the board of D.B. Corp Limited from its inception.
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Victor Menezes
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
- In 1970 graduated with Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering
- Occupations
- banker
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Victor Joseph Menezes was an Indian-American banker. He began his career in 1972 by joining the American financial services company Citicorp (now Citigroup) in corporate banking and went on to serve as the Senior Vice Chairman of Citigroup, working for the company for 32 years until his retirement.
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Rohini Godbole
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- physicistuniversity teacher
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Rohini Godbole was an Indian physicist and academic specializing in elementary particle physics: field theory and phenomenology. She was professor at the Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. She worked extensively on different aspects of particle phenomenology over three decades, in particular on exploring different aspects of the Standard Model of Particle Physics (SM) and the physics beyond it (BSM). Her work regarding hadronic structure of high-energy photons outlined a variety of ways in which to study it and has had implications for the design of next generation electron positron colliders. She was an elected fellow of all the three academies of Science of India and also the Science Academy of the Developing World (TWAS).
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Dinesh Mohan
- Occupations
- engineer
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Dinesh Mohan was honorary professor at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi since 2017. He was distinguished professor at Shiv Nadar University, Gautam Buddha Nagar (India) from 2016 to 2018. From 2010 to 2015 he was Emeritus Volvo Chair Professor for Transportation Planning & Safety at IITD. He was head of Centre for Biomedical Engineering (1991–1996), Coordinator of the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme (1998–2010) and head, W.H.O. Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Safety Technology at IIT Delhi (1991–2010). He was also Director, Independent Council for Road Safety International (www.icorsi.org).
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Raj Gupta
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- businessperson
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Rajiv L. Gupta is an Indian-American businessman, the current chairman of Aptiv, an auto parts company, and a former executive with Rohm and Haas, a manufacturer of specialty chemicals.
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Madhu Pandit Dasa
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- civil engineer
- Biography
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Madhu Pandit Dasa is a spiritual leader, the President of ISKCON Bangalore. As a humanitarian, he has been actively involved in programs like Akshaya Patra that provides mid-day meals to children studying in Government schools. He is the Founder and Chairman of The Akshaya Patra Foundation, guiding the organisation to realise the vision - "No child in India shall be deprived of education because of hunger”. The Government of India has conferred upon him the prestigious Padma Shri Award in recognition of the distinguished service rendered by Akshaya Patra Foundation for the children of India. He is also the Chairman of Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir, the upcoming iconic cultural and heritage complex in Vrindavan.
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Colin Gonsalves
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- lawyerhuman rights activist
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Colin Gonsalves is a designated Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India and the founder of Human Rights Law Network. He specializes in human rights protection, labour law and public interest law. He has been awarded Right Livelihood Award for the year 2017 for "his tireless and innovative use of public interest litigation over three decades to secure fundamental human rights for India’s most marginalised and vulnerable citizens." Considered a pioneer in the field of public interest litigation in India, he has brought several cases dealing with economic, social and cultural rights. Most of these cases, decided by the Supreme Court, have been set as precedents.
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Kanwal Rekhi
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Kanwal Singh Rekhi is an Indian-American businessman. He was the first Indian-American founder and CEO to take a venture-backed company public on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
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Arun Majumdar
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- 1945-.. (age 80)
- Occupations
- mechanical engineerphoton scientistacademicuniversity teachermaterials scientist
- Biography
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Arunava Majumdar is a materials scientist, engineer, and the inaugural dean of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. He was nominated for the position of Under Secretary of Energy in the United States between November 30, 2011, and May 15, 2012.
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Sridhar Rangayan
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- screenwriterfilm directorfilm producer
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Sridhar Rangayan is an Indian filmmaker who has made films with special focus on queer subjects. His queer films, The Pink Mirror, Yours Emotionally, 68 Pages, Purple Skies, Breaking Free & Evening Shadows have been considered groundbreaking because of their realistic and sympathetic portrayal of the largely closeted Indian gay community. His film The Pink Mirror remains banned in India by the Indian Censor Board because of its homosexual content.
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Deepak B. Phatak
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- academic
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Deepak B. Phatak is an Indian computer scientist and academic, and a recipient of the Padma Shri Award for his contribution in science and technology in 2013. He is known for his notable work for upgrading Aakash, advertised by its manufacturer as the 'world's cheapest tablet'. In 2009, he was ranked one of the 50 most powerful people in India.
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Ravindran Kannan
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- university teachercomputer scientistmathematician
- Biography
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Ravindran Kannan is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India, where he leads the algorithms research group. He is also the first adjunct faculty of Computer Science and Automation Department of Indian Institute of Science.
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T. V. Raman
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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T. V. Raman is a computer scientist who specializes in accessibility research. His research interests are primarily in the areas of auditory user interfaces and structured electronic documents. He has worked on speech interaction and markup technologies in the context of the World Wide Web at Digital's Cambridge Research Lab (CRL), Adobe Systems and IBM Research. He currently works at Google Research. Raman has himself been partially sighted since birth, and blind since the age of 14.
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Lalit Surajmal Kanodia
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Lalit Surajmal Kanodia is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the chairman of Datamatics Group of Companies, which he founded in 1975 as the national president of the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce and vice president of the Indian Merchants Chamber, which are both organizations of the Indian business community. He also served as president of the Management Consultants Association of India.
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Satyendra Pakhale
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- industrial designerarchitect
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Satyendra Pakhalé is an international designer, artist, industrial designer, and architect.
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S. Shankar Sastry
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- 1956-.. (age 69)
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
- In 1977 graduated with Bachelor of Technology
- Occupations
- academicprofessor
- Biography
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S. Shankar Sastry is the founding chancellor of the Plaksha University, Mohali and a former Dean of Engineering at University of California, Berkeley.
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Dharmendra Modha
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- 1969-.. (age 56)
- Occupations
- computer scientist
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Dharmendra S. Modha is an Indian American manager and lead researcher of the Cognitive Computing group at IBM Almaden Research Center. He is known for his pioneering works in Artificial Intelligence and Mind Simulation. In November 2009, Modha announced at a supercomputing conference that his team had written a program that simulated a cat brain. He is the recipient of multiple honors, including the Gordon Bell Prize, given each year to recognize outstanding achievement in high-performance computing applications. In November 2012, Modha announced on his blog that using 96 Blue Gene/Q racks of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Sequoia supercomputer, a combined IBM and LBNL team achieved an unprecedented scale of 2.084 billion neurosynaptic cores containing 530 billion neurons and 137 trillion synapses running only 1542× slower than real time. In August 2014 a paper describing the TrueNorth Architecture, "the first-ever production-scale 'neuromorphic' computer chip designed to work more like a mammalian brain than" a processor was published in the journal Science. TrueNorth project culminated in a 64 million neuron system for running deep neural network applications.
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Prashant Ranade
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Prashant Ranade was with Atos Syntel from 2007 till his retirement from the company in May 2020. He was the co-chairman of Syntel, Inc., a position to which he was appointed on 3 November 2016. He was formerly executive vice chairman of syntel's board of directors and also served as the company's chief executive officer and president from February 2010.
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Pushpak Bhattacharyya
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- university teachercomputer scientistartificial intelligence researcher
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Pushpak Bhattacharyya is a computer scientist and a professor at Computer Science and Engineering Department, IIT Bombay. He served as the director of Indian Institute of Technology Patna from 2015 to 2021. He is regarded as the Godfather of NLP in India, mentioned by Nandan Nilekani, Co-founder and non-executive chairman of Infosys at the Inaugural event of Nilekani Centre at AI4Bharat, IIT Madras. He is a past president of Association for Computational Linguistics, and Ex-Vijay and Sita Vashee Chair Professor He currently heads the Natural language processing research group Center For Indian Language Technology (CFILT) lab at IIT Bombay.
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Girish Sant
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- social worker
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Girish Sant was a noted energy analyst held in high esteem as an energy policy commentator from India. He co-founded the non-governmental organisation Prayas in Pune, India. His analytical inputs helped shape India's energy policy over the decades of the 1990s and 2000s. He was considered an effective team builder and mentored several energy researchers and activists.
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Shobhana Narasimhan
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- 1963-.. (age 62)
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Shobhana Narasimhan is an Indian academic who is Professor of Theoretical Sciences at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, India. Her main area of interest is computational nanoscience. Her research examines how the lowering of dimensionality and reduction of size affect material properties. She is an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences the National Academy of Sciences, India and the American Physical Society.
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N. K. Naik
- Years
- 1944-.. (age 81)
- Occupations
- engineermilitary flight engineer
- Biography
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Niranjan Krishna Nayak is an Indian aerospace engineer and Professor Emeritus at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He is known for his research work on thermomechanical behavior of textile composites and ballistic impact, low velocity impact, fatigue and fracture of composites. His special interest is also on science and technology of aircraft production. Major awards and recognitions conferred to him are: Fellowship of the National Academy of Sciences, India (2004); Fellowship of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (2005); Professor H. H. Mathur Award for "Excellence in Research in Applied Sciences 2006" by IIT Bombay; "Excellence in Aerospace Education Award 2008" by the Aeronautical Society of India; Aerospace Engineering Division Gold Medal of the Institution of Engineers (India) for the year 1992-93 for his research on polymer matrix composites and "Shri Hotchand M. Lala and Shrimati Jamuna H. Lala Excellence in Teaching Award, 2013" by IIT Bombay.
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Kavita Ramanan
- Occupations
- probability theorist
- Biography
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Kavita Ramanan is a probability theorist who works as a professor of applied mathematics at Brown University.
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Nanda Khare
- Occupations
- writernovelist
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Anant Yashwant Khare was an Indian writer and a civil engineer. He wrote on scientific, sociological and economic subjects in the Marathi language. He published around twenty-five books, including a novel titled Udya (Marathi for 'Tomorrow'), published in 2014 which is recognised one of the prominent writings in Marathi literature.
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Akhilesh K. Gaharwar
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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Akhilesh K. Gaharwar is an Indian academic and a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He is known for his biomaterials engineering work that has resulted in the use of nanosilicate based materials for regenerative medicine.
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Ramakrishna V. Hosur
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- biophysicistphysicist
- Biography
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Professor Ramakrishna Vijayacharya Hosur is an Indian biophysical scientist, known for his expertise in the areas of nuclear magnetic resonance and molecular biophysics. The Government of India honoured him, in 2014, by awarding him the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, for his contributions to the fields of science and technology.
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Imran Siddiqi
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- 1957-.. (age 68)
- Occupations
- botanist
- Biography
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Imran Siddiqi is an Indian geneticist. Currently, he is a group leader at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) and heads a research group.
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Suresh P. Sethi
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- 1945-.. (age 80)
- Occupations
- mathematicianeconomist
- Biography
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Suresh P. Sethi is an American mathematician who is the Eugene McDermott Chair of Operations Management and Director of the Center for Intelligent Supply Networks at the University of Texas at Dallas.
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Yogesh Moreshwar Joshi
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- chemical engineer
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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.
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Hemchandra Kekre
- Occupations
- teacher
- Biography
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Hemchandra Baburao Kekre was a professor, author, and head of the Computer Science Department at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Kekre was among the initial professors who started the computer science department at IIT Mumbai.
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Vikas Joshi
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Vikas Joshi is an Indian businessman, who founded the technology company Harbinger Group in 1990.
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Pramod Khargonekar
- Occupations
- university teachercomputer scientistacademicelectrotechnician
- Biography
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Pramod P. Khargonekar is the Vice Chancellor for Research and Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. An expert in control systems engineering, Dr. Khargonekar has served in a variety of administrative roles in academia and federal funding agencies. Most recently, he served as assistant director for Engineering at the National Science Foundation, and as deputy director for Technology at the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA–E, 2012–13). From 2001 through 2009 he was the Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Florida.
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Amiya Pujari
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Amiya Kumar Pujari was an Indian computer scientist and information technology pioneer and leader.
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Tarun Kant
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Tarun Kant, an institute chair professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in Mumbai since December 2009, was born on 1 July 1946 in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh, India. He received a BSc degree from Allahabad University in 1962, a B.Tech (Hons.) degree in civil engineering from IIT Bombay in 1967 and an M.Tech in civil engineering, specializing in structural engineering, from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) in 1969. Kant spent about 18 months at a consulting engineering firm in Mumbai before becoming a lecturer at IIT Bombay in January 1971. He received a PhD degree in 1977. Kant became an assistant professor in 1978 and a professor in 1986. At IIT Bombay, he has been a department head (2000–2002), dean of planning (2001–2003) and chair of the Joint Entrance Examination (1998) and the Central Library (1995–1999).
