50 Notable alumni of
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
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Indian Institute of Technology Delhi is 987th in the world, 208th in Asia, and 21st in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 50 notable alumni from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Raghuram Rajan
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- university teachereconomistbankerprofessor
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Raghuram Govind Rajan is an Indian economist and the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. Between 2003 and 2006 he was Chief Economist and director of research at the International Monetary Fund. From September 2013 through September 2016 he was the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. In 2015, during his tenure at the RBI, he became the Vice-Chairman of the Bank for International Settlements.
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Kiran Bedi
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- tennis playerpoliticianwriterpolice officer
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Kiran Bedi PPMG PNBB is a former tennis player who became the first woman in India to join the officer ranks of the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972 and was the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry from 28 May 2016 to 16 February 2021. She remained in service for 35 years before taking voluntary retirement in 2007 as Director General, Bureau of Police Research and Development.
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Chetan Bhagat
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
- Studied in 1995
- Occupations
- film screenwriterscreenwriteropinion journalistwriterjournalist
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Chetan Prakash Bhagat is an Indian author, columnist, screenwriter, and YouTuber. He was listed in Time magazine's list of the World's 100 Most Influential People in 2010. Bhagat has written many novels, two of them were adapted into movies -- One Night @ the Call Center and Half Girlfriend.
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Sachin Bansal
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- entrepreneurcomputer scientistengineer
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Sachin Bansal is an Indian entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder of Flipkart During his over 11 year career at Flipkart, Bansal was CEO and chairman. In 2018, Bansal exited Flipkart following the Walmart deal.
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Vinod Khosla
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- businessperson
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Vinod Khosla is an Indian-American billionaire businessman and venture capitalist. He is a co-founder of Sun Microsystems and the founder of Khosla Ventures. Khosla made his wealth from early venture capital investments in areas such as networking, software, and alternative energy technologies. He is considered one of the most successful and influential venture capitalists. As of January 2025, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$9.2 billion.
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Jayant Sinha
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- politician
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Jayant Sinha is an Indian businessman and former politician who served as Member of Parliament in Lok Sabha for Hazaribagh from 2014 to 2024 and of Minister of State for Finance and Minister of State for Civil Aviation in the Government of India. He is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) and a Senior Advisor at the Indian Venture Capital Association. Sinha formerly served as the chairperson of the Standing Committee on Finance (India) and a member of the Public Accounts Committee for 2019–24. He has also been an investment fund manager and management consultant. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors of India's International Movement to Unite Nations.
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Sameer Gehlaut
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- businessperson
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Sameer Gehlaut is an Indian businessman. He is the founder and chairman of the Indiabulls Group, a diversified financial services group with businesses in housing and consumer finance through independent and listed companies in the Indian stock exchanges.
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Padmasree Warrior
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering
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- businesspersonchemical engineer
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Padmasree Warrior is an Indian-American businesswoman and technology executive. She is known for her leadership roles in technology firms like Cisco where she was the CTO for seven years, and at Motorola where she was the CTO for five years. She also was the CEO of Nio USA, an electric car maker. Currently, she is the founder and CEO of Fable, a curated reading platform focused on mental wellness. She is on the board of directors of Microsoft and Spotify.
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Sugata Mitra
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- writercomputer scientistphysicistprofessor
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Sugata Mitra is an Indian computer scientist and educational theorist. He is best known for his "Hole in the Wall" experiment, and widely cited in works on literacy and education. He is Professor Emeritus at NIIT University, Rajasthan, India. A Ph.D. in theoretical physics, he retired in 2019 as Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University in England, after 13 years there including a year in 2012 as visiting professor at MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He won the TED Prize 2013.
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Yogesh Chander Deveshwar
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- businessperson
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Yogesh Chander Deveshwar was an Indian businessman. He was the chairman of ITC Limited. He was the longest-serving CEO of any Indian company.
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Shrinivas Kulkarni
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- astronomerphysicistteacher
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Shrinivas Ramchandra Kulkarni is a US-based astronomer born and raised in India. He is a professor of astronomy and planetary science at California Institute of Technology, and was director of Caltech Optical Observatory (COO) at California Institute of Technology, overseeing the Palomar and Keck among other telescopes. He is the recipient of a number of awards and honours.
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Somnath Bharti
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- politician
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Somnath Bharti is an Indian politician and lawyer.
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Subhash Kak
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- philosopherphysicistcryptographeruniversity teachermathematician
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Subhash Kak is an Indian-American computer scientist and historical revisionist. He is the Regents Professor of Computer Science Department at Oklahoma State University–Stillwater, an honorary visiting professor of engineering at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and a member of the Indian Prime Minister's Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council.
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R.K. Mathur
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- civil servant
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Radha Krishna Mathur is a retired Indian IAS officer and Indian bureaucrat, who served as the 1st Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh from 2019 to 2023. He retired as the Chief Information Commissioner of India (CIC) in November 2018. Mathur had retired as the India's Defence Secretary, two years after being appointed to the post on 25 May 2013. He was also the Defence Production Secretary of India, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Secretary of India and the Chief Secretary of Tripura.
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Shammi Narang
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- actor
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Shammi Narang is an Indian media personality, voice-over artist, ex news anchor and entrepreneur based in Delhi. Graduating with an engineering degree, Narang first got into the voice-over profession by working in the Hindi division of Voice of America. Later he was selected from among 10,000 candidates into Doordarshan, which was then the only channel in India, and became the 'face of Doordarshan news reading' and Indian Television in general during the 1970s – 80s. His rendering of Sarab Sanjhi Gurbani has become the voice of Sikhs globally as well.
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Manu Prakash
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- 20th Century
- Occupations
- inventorbioengineeruniversity teacherbiophysicistdesigner
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Manu Prakash is an Indian scientist who is a professor of bioengineering at Stanford University. Manu was born in Meerut, India. He is best known for his contributions to the Foldscope and Paperfuge. Prakash received the MacArthur Fellowship in September 2016. He and his team at Stanford University have developed a synchronous computer that operates using the physics of moving water droplets. His work focuses on frugal innovation that makes medicine, computing and microscopy accessible to more people across the world.
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Divya Dwivedi
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacherontologistwriterphilosopherresearcher
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Divya Dwivedi is an Indian philosopher and author. She is an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Her work includes a focus on philosophy of literature, aesthetics, philosophy of psychoanalysis, narratology, revolutionary theory, critical philosophy of caste and race, and the political thought of Gandhi. She is the co-author of Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-politics and Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics.
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Arogyaswami Paulraj
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- electrical engineeruniversity teacheracademic
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Arogyaswami J. Paulraj is an Indian-American electrical engineer, academic. He is a Professor Emeritus (Research) in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.
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Madhu Sudan
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
- Studied in 1987
- Occupations
- computer scientistuniversity teacher
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Madhu Sudan is an Indian-American computer scientist. He has been a Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences since 2015.
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Subir Sachdev
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- physicistuniversity teacherscientist
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Subir Sachdev is Herchel Smith Professor of Physics at Harvard University specializing in condensed matter. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2014, received the Lars Onsager Prize from the American Physical Society and the Dirac Medal from the ICTP in 2018, and was elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society ForMemRS in 2023. He was a co-editor of the Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics 2017–2019, and is Editor-in-Chief of Reports on Progress in Physics 2022-.
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Bharat Ratra
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- university teacher
- Biography
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Bharat Vishnu Ratra is an Indian-American physicist, theoretical cosmologist and astroparticle physicist who is currently a university distinguished professor of physics at Kansas State University.
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Sulkhan Singh
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- police officer
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Sulkhan Singh is a retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer belonging to Uttar Pradesh cadre. He was the Director General of Uttar Pradesh Police.
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Gauhar Raza
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- writerfilm directorscientist
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Gauhar Raza is an Indian scientist by profession, and a leading Urdu poet, social activist and documentary filmmaker working to popularize the understanding of science among general public, known for his films like Jung-e-Azadi, on the India's First War of Independence, and Inqilab (2008) on Bhagat Singh. He was also the honorary director of Jahangirabad Media Institute.
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Ashish Nanda
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- academic
- Biography
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Ashish Nanda is a business economist and professor who is the former Director of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.
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Rajendra Singh Pawar
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- writer
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Rajendra Singh Pawar is an Indian entrepreneur, chairman and co-founder of NIIT Limited, established in 1981. He also founded NIIT University, a not-for-profit university in Neemrana, Rajasthan, in 2009.
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Avinash Kak
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- university teacherartificial intelligence researchercomputer scientistengineer
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Avinash C. Kak is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University who has conducted pioneering research in several areas of information processing. His most noteworthy contributions deal with algorithms, languages, and systems related to networks (including sensor networks), robotics, and computer vision. Born in Srinagar, Kashmir, he did his Bachelors in BE at University of Madras and Phd in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He joined the faculty of Purdue University in 1971.
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Soumitro Banerjee
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- electrical engineer
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Soumitro Banerjee is an Indian electrical engineer and former director of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata. He is known for his studies on bifurcation phenomena in power electronic circuits and is an elected fellow of all three major Indian science academies: the National Academy of Sciences, India, Indian Academy of Sciences, and Indian National Science Academy. He is also a fellow of The World Academy of Sciences, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, West Bengal Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Academy of Engineering. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Engineering Sciences in 2003.
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Sashi Reddi
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- entrepreneur
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Sashi Parvatha Reddi is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and a philanthropist. Sashi Reddi was the CEO and founder of AppLabs. Sashi Reddi was born in Madras, India and later migrated to the US. He grew up in Guntur but attended boarding school at Lawrence School, Lovedale. He is a recipient of the Louis Braille Award from the Pennsylvania Council for the Blind, for the year 2017. He currently sits on the advisory board of the Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs and the advisory board of IIT Hyderabad.
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Amar Gupta
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- 1953-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- computer scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Amar Gupta is an Indian computer scientist based in the United States. Gupta has worked in academics, private companies, and international organizations in positions that involved analysis and leveraging of opportunities at the intersection of technology and business, as well as the design, development, and implementation of prototype systems that led to widespread adoption of new techniques and technologies.
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Anwesh Sahoo
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- beauty pageant contestant
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Anwesh Kumar Sahoo is an Indian artist, blogger, writer, model, actor and a TEDx speaker. He was crowned Mr. Gay World India 2016, becoming the youngest winner of the crown at the age of 20. He represented India at the Mr. Gay World 2016 pageant held in Malta, Europe and made it to the Top 12. He is a recipient of the Troy Perry Award for compassionate activism, making him the first Indian to be honored with the award. He's a graduate in Electronics and Communication Engineering from IIIT Delhi, and secured a Master of Design degree from NIFT, New Delhi in 2020. Anwesh went on to work for Aristocrat Gaming (an Australian MNC) as a Technical Artist, and is now pursuing a Master of Science at University College Cork.
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Amardeo Sarma
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
- Studied in 1977
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Amardeo Sarma is a qualified engineer for electrical and telecommunications engineering, chair of the Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften (GWUP) and former chair of the European Council of Skeptical Organisations. Professionally, he works for NEC Laboratories Europe.
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Tushar Raheja
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- 1984-.. (age 41)
- Occupations
- film director
- Biography
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Tushar Raheja is an Indian storyteller and mathematics researcher based in Cambridge, UK. His first book Anything for you, Ma'am, a comedy, was published in 2006 while he was an undergraduate student in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. His first feature film The Bizarre Murder of Mr Tusker, a sci-fi, noir, starring BAFTA nominee Victor Banerjee, is due for release. His writing has been compared to that of P. G. Wodehouse by The Hindu and The Times of India and his books have been on the national best-selling charts. Raheja avoided formulaic books and instead devoted himself to mathematical research and the study of narration. Romi and Gang (published July 2013 by Pirates), previously titled Run Romi Run is only his second book in the market. The book about the unalloyed dreams of the young in the Indian hinterland revolves around cricket. It has been praised by The Hindu, Hindustan Times, The Daily Telegraph among other publications. Raheja is one of the few authors in India to combine widespread popularity with critical acclaim. In 2015, he obtained his PhD from IIT Delhi in the field of applied probability.
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Narinder Kumar Gupta
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- 1942-.. (age 83)
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Narinder Kumar Gupta is a research scientist, educator, and engineer. Born 22 August 1942 in Mirpur, Jammu and Kashmir, India, is Professor of Mechanics at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. Gupta works in the area of large deformations of metals and composites at low, medium and high rates of loading. His research stimulates the development of constitutive behaviour of materials, understanding of the basic mechanics of large deformation, design for crashworthiness of road and air vehicles, design for safety in defence applications and in design of metal forming processes.
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Harsh Chitale
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Harsh Chitale was the previous CEO of HCL Infosystems.
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B. S. Sahay
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Prof. B. S. Sahay is the Founder Director, Indian Institute of Management Jammu. He was the Founder Director of Indian Institute of Management Raipur, Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon and Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad. Sahay completed his BTech from BIT Sindri and received his MTech and PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.
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Srinivasan Keshav
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- 1965-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- computer scientistengineer
- Biography
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Srinivasan Keshav FRSC is a computer scientist who is currently the Robert Sansom Professor of Computer Science at the University of Cambridge.
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Anurag Sharma
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- physicist
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Anurag Sharma is an Indian physicist and a professor at the department of physics of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He is known for his pioneering researches on optoelectronics and optical communications and is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy and National Academy of Sciences, India as well as Indian National Academy of Engineering. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Engineering Sciences in 1998.
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Vasant Dhar
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- teacher
- Biography
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Vasant Dhar is a professor at the Stern School of Business and the Center for Data Science at New York University, former editor-in-chief of the journal Big Data and the founder of SCT Capital, one of the first machine-learning-based hedge funds in New York City in the 1990s. His research focuses on building scalable decision-making systems from large sources of data using techniques and principles from the disciplines of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
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Jaideep Prabhu
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- academicuniversity teacher
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Jaideep Prabhu FBA is the Jawaharlal Nehru professor of business and enterprise at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, England. The Professorship was established by the Government of India with an endowment of £3.2 million. Prabhu is also the director of the Centre for India & Global Business (CIGB). He is the co-author of Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth, described by The Economist as "the most comprehensive book" on the subject of frugal innovation.
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Ambuj Sagar
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India - Occupations
- policy analystresearcheracademic
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Ambuj D. Sagar is the Vipula and Mahesh Chaturvedi Professor of Policy Studies at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. As of October 2022, he has been appointed as the deputy director at IIT Delhi. His interests broadly lie in science and technology policy, environmental policy, and development policy, with a particular focus on the interactions between technology and society. While his current research focuses mainly on energy innovation and climate policy, he also studies, more broadly, various facets of technology innovation, environmental policy politics and processes, and engineering education and research.
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Aditya Julka
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- 1981-.. (age 44)
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Aditya Julka is the co-founder and former CEO of Paddle8, an online auction house for fine art and collectibles. In July 2016, Paddle8 announced a merger with Auctionata, with Julka serving as the chief strategy officer for the joint company. Julka previously founded InBioPro (a biochemical company based in Bangalore, India) and BioAtlantis (a biotechnology company based in Ireland).
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Ashok Kumar
- Occupations
- police officer
- Biography
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Ashok Kumar is a retired 1989 batch Indian Police Service officer of the Uttarakhand cadre, who served as the 11th Director General of Uttarakhand Police. He was appointed as Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the Sports University of Haryana on 28 February 2024 and served there till 1 March 2027.
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Ravi Rishi
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Ravi Rishi was a non-resident Indian businessman, chair of the board of Vectra Group of companies and was based out of Richmond in the United Kingdom. Rishi also served as non executive director of Global Vectra Helicorp.
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Shuchi Chawla
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Shuchi Chawla is an Indian computer scientist who works in the design and analysis of algorithms, and is known for her research on correlation clustering, information privacy, mechanism design, approximation algorithms, hardness of approximation, and algorithmic bias. She works as a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Rajpal Singh Sirohi
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- 1943-.. (age 82)
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Rajpal Singh Sirohi is an Indian optics physicist, academic administrator, educator, and researcher in optical metrology. He is the former Director of IIT Delhi and Vice Chancellor of several universities. He is the Fellow of INAE, NASI, OSA, SPIE, OSI and ISoI. He has received numerous awards including Gabor Award of SPIE, Galileo Award of ICO. He is also the recipient of Padma Shri by Govt. of India. He is the author of about 430 papers and several books.
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Nemkumar Banthia
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
- In 1982 graduated with Master of Technology in structural engineering
- Occupations
- civil engineeruniversity teacherchief executive officer
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Nemkumar Banthia FRSC, is an Indian-born Canadian engineer and professor of civil engineering at the University of British Columbia and the CEO of IC-IMPACTS. He is best known for his research in the fields of cement-based and polymer-based fiber reinforced composites, particularly on testing and standardization, fracture behavior, strain-rate effects, durability and development of sustainable materials.
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Vivek Gupta (businessman)
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- 1960s
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Vivek Gupta is an Indian-born American business leader. He is presently president and CEO (chief executive officer), and director on the board of Mastech Digital.
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Sumit Jamuar
- Biography
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Sumit S. Jamuar is an accomplished post-exit entrepreneur, inventor, and leader with extensive experience in technology, life sciences, financial services, and intellectual property. He has held significant roles such as Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO of Global Gene Corp, where he pioneered efforts in genomics and biotechnology, and CEO & Board Member of SBICAP, a subsidiary of the State Bank of India, and Managing Director at Lloyds Bank. He serves on various boards and advisory councils, including as the Chairman of Rainforest Partnership (US 501.c.3 non-profit), XPRIZE Global Visioneering Brain Trust, and École des Ponts Business School, Paris. Sumit is also an advisor to technology start-ups and investors in AI and technology.
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Navdeep Asija
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- scientist
- Biography
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Navdeep Asija is the founder of dial-a-cycle rickshaw concept known as Ecocabs and won the 2011 National Award of Excellence by Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India.
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Amitabh Varshney
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- 1966-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Amitabh Varshney is an Indian-born American computer scientist. He is an IEEE fellow, and serves as Dean of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. Before being named Dean, Varshney was the director of the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies from 2010 to 2018.
