67 Notable alumni of
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
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Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur is 815th in the world, 168th in Asia, and 15th in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 67 notable alumni from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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N. R. Narayana Murthy
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- businesspersonentrepreneur
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Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy is an Indian billionaire businessman. He is one of the seven co-founders of Infosys, and has previously served as the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president, and chief mentor of the company before retiring and taking the title chairman emeritus. As of April 2023, his net worth was estimated to be $4.1 billion, making him the 711th richest person in the world according to Forbes.
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Ashwini Vaishnaw
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- international forum participant
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Ashwini Vaishnaw is an Indian politician and former IAS officer who is currently serving as the 39th Minister of Railways, 55th Communications Minister and 2nd Electronics & Information Technology Minister in Government of India since 2021 and a member of the Rajya Sabha representing Odisha since 2019. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Earlier in 1994, Vaishnaw joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in the Odisha cadre, and has worked in Odisha.
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Arvind Krishna
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
- 1980-1985 graduated with Bachelor of Technology in electrical engineering
- Occupations
- international forum participantchief executive officer
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Arvind Krishna is an Indian-American business executive, and the chairman and CEO of IBM. He has been CEO of IBM since April 2020 and chairman since January 2021. Krishna began his career at IBM in 1990, at its Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and was promoted to senior vice president in 2015, managing IBM Cloud & Cognitive Software and IBM Research divisions. He was a principal architect of the acquisition of Red Hat, the largest acquisition in the company’s history.
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Duvvuri Subbarao
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- economist
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Duvvuri Subbarao is an Indian economist, Central Banker, and retired IAS officer. He was the 22nd Governor of Reserve Bank of India, served under Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh. After stepping down from RBI, he was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow first at the National University of Singapore and later at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Ashoke Sen
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- university teacherphysicist
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Ashoke Sen FRS is an Indian theoretical physicist and distinguished professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore. A former distinguished professor at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, He is also an honorary fellow in National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, India he is also a Morningstar Visiting professor at MIT and a distinguished professor at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study. His main area of work is string theory. He was among the first recipients of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics "for opening the path to the realization that all string theories are different limits of the same underlying theory".
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Rajeev Motwani
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
- In 1983 studied computer science
- Occupations
- computer scientistuniversity teachermathematician
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Rajeev Motwani was an Indian American professor of Computer Science at Stanford University whose research focused on theoretical computer science. He was a special advisor to Sequoia Capital. He was a winner of the Gödel Prize in 2001.
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Amitabh Thakur
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India - Occupations
- police officer
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Amitabh Thakur is an ex-Indian Police Service officer and a political activist. He was given compulsory retirement in March 2023. He was working as IG Civil Defence at that time. During service Amitabh was known for his strict adherence to rules and regulations as also for his work in the field of administrative accountability.
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Rahul Ram
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- composer
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Rahul Ram is an Indian bass guitarist, social activist and music composer. He plays bass guitar for musical band Indian Ocean, which he joined in 1991. He is also one of the three members of 'Aisi Taisi Democracy,' along with Varun Grover and Sanjay Rajoura.
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Ajay Kumar
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- civil servant
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Dr. Ajay Kumar is the former Defence Secretary of India and currently an advisor for electronics development projects. He is an Indian Administrative Service officer from the 1985 batch. Dr. Ajay Kumar is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and the University of Minnesota.
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Sudha Bharadwaj
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- activistpolitician
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Sudha Bharadwaj is a trade-unionist, activist and lawyer who has lived and worked in Chhattisgarh for over three decades. She is an active member of the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha (Mazdoor Karyakrta Committee).
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Pawan Kumar Goenka
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- international forum participant
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Pawan Kumar Goenka is an Indian businessman, and the retired Managing Director of Mahindra & Mahindra, an Indian multinational automobile manufacturing corporation headquartered in Mumbai, and the chairman of SsangYong Motor Company in Korea. He is currently the Chairman of INSPACE, a part of India's Space Program. He is also the present Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIT Madras.
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Manindra Agrawal
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- computer scientistuniversity teachermathematician
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Manindra Agrawal is an Indian computer scientist and professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He was the recipient of the first Infosys Prize for Mathematics, the Godel Prize in 2006; and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Sciences in 2003. He has been honoured with Padma Shri, India's 4th highest civilian award, in 2013.
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Durga Shanker Mishra
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- civil servant
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Durga Shanker Mishra is a 1984 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre. He is the current Chief Secretary to Government of Uttar Pradesh. He was Housing and Urban Affairs Secretary and Chairman of the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.
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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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K. VijayRaghavan
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- 1954-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- biologistgeneticist
- Biography
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Dr. Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan is an emeritus professor and former director of the National Centre for Biological Sciences. On 26 March 2018, the Government of India appointed him as the principal scientific adviser to succeed Dr. R Chidamabaram. His term as Principal Scientific Adviser ended on April 2, 2022. In 2012, he was elected a fellow of The Royal Society and in April 2014 he was elected as a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. He was conferred the Padma Shri on 26 January 2013 and is also a recipient of the Infosys Prize in the life sciences category in 2009.
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B. V. R. Mohan Reddy
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- businessperson
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B. V. R. Mohan Reddy is an Indian business executive and engineering manager who founded and served as Executive Chairman of Cyient. He joined the DCM Group in 1974, and has subsequently worked with MICO Bosch, HCL, and OMC Computers Limited. He was the Chairman of NASSCOM from 2014–2015, and is a prolific business analyst.
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Arvind Gupta
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- 1953-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- scientistchildren's writer
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Arvind Gupta is an Indian toy inventor, author, translator and scientist. He got the civilian award "Padma Shree" on the eve of Republic Day, 2018.
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Pradeep Sindhu
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- businessperson
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Pradeep Sindhu is an Indian-American business executive. He is the chairman, chief development officer and co-founder of data center technology company Fungible. Previously, he co-founded Juniper Networks, where he was the chief scientist and served as CEO until 1996.
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Sanjay Sarma
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- 1968-.. (age 56)
- Occupations
- mechanical engineer
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Sanjay E. Sarma an Indian mechanical engineer who is the Fred Fort Flowers (1941) and Daniel Fort Flowers (1941) professor of mechanical engineering and the Vice President for Open Learning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is credited with developing many standards and technologies in the commercial RFID industry. Sarma is co-author of The Inversion Factor: How to Thrive in the IOT Economy (MIT Press, 2017), along with Linda Bernardi and the late Kenneth Traub. Sarma also serves on the board of the MOOC provider edX as a representative of MIT.
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Mahan Mj
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 56)
- Occupations
- mathematician
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Mahan Maharaj, also known as Mahan Mj and Swami Vidyanathananda, is an Indian mathematician and monk of the Ramakrishna Order. He is currently Professor of Mathematics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai. He is a recipient of the 2011 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in mathematical sciences and the Infosys Prize 2015 for Mathematical Sciences. He is best known for his work in hyperbolic geometry, geometric group theory, low-dimensional topology and complex geometry.
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Manu Prakash
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- 20th Century
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- biophysicistuniversity teacherbioengineerinventordesigner
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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 are also working on a water droplet based computer in Stanford University. His work focuses on frugal innovation that makes medicine, computing and microscopy accessible to more people across the world.
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Muralee Thummarukudy
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Muralee Thummarukudy is the Director of the G20 Global Land Initiative Coordination Office of UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). Prior to UNCCD Muralee was the Chief of Disaster Risk Reduction in the UN Environment Programme. An internationally renowned expert in disaster response, Muralee has been involved in post-disaster response and follow-up of almost all major disasters of the twenty-first century, including the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, Cyclone Nargis (Myanmar, 2008), Sichuan Earthquake (China, 2008), Haiti Earthquake (2010), Tohoku tsunami (2011) and floods in Thailand (2011). He has completed assignments in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza Strip, Liberia, Sudan and Rwanda dealing with the environmental impacts of conflicts. Also deployed to China, Japan, Myanmar, Ukraine, Haiti, and Thailand to deal with Disasters. He is a native of Vengola in Ernakulam district of the Kerala State in India.
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Ram Sewak Sharma
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- 1955-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Ram Sewak Sharma is an Indian bureaucrat and former civil servant. From February 2021, he is serving as the Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Authority, an Indian governmental organisation tasked with managing public health insurance till February 2023. Previously, he has headed the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, and the Unique Identification Authority of India.
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Shiraz Minwalla
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- university teacherphysicist
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Shiraz Naval Minwalla is an Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist. He is a faculty member in the Department of Theoretical Physics at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. Prior to his present position, Minwalla was a Harvard Junior Fellow and subsequently an assistant professor at Harvard University.
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Nitin Saxena
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- mathematiciancomputer scientist
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Nitin Saxena is an Indian scientist in mathematics and theoretical computer science. His research focuses on computational complexity.
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Padmanabhan Balaram
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- 1949-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- biochemist
- Biography
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Padmanabhan Balaram is an Indian biochemist and a former director of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. He is a recipient of the third highest Indian civilian honour of Padma Bhushan as well as the TWAS Prize (1994). He has been conferred the 2021 R. Bruce Merrifield Award by the American Peptide Society.
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Umang Gupta
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Umang Gupta was an Indian-American entrepreneur and Silicon Valley, California, executive credited with writing the first business plan for Oracle Corporation. He was also the founder of enterprise software company Gupta Technologies and was later the CEO of Keynote Systems.
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Mukul Sinha
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- physicistlawyerhuman rights activist
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Mukul Sinha was an Indian human rights activist and a lawyer at the Gujarat High Court in Ahemdabad. He was an active trade union leader and a trained physicist. He legally represented the families of the individuals who were killed in Gujarat following the 2002 riots and in Manipur, in which he secured convictions of the politicians and police officers involved. Along with his wife Nirjhari Sinha, he founded and served as the president of Jan Sangharsh Manch (trans. People's Struggle Forum), an independent civil rights organization with the aim of addressing issues of labour and workers rights. He was also a vocal critic of erstwhile Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
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Jitendra Malik
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- electrotechnicianengineercomputer scientistuniversity teacher
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Jitendra Malik is an Indian-American academic who is the Arthur J. Chick Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his research in computer vision.
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Anil K. Jain
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- engineercomputer scientist
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Anil Kumar Jain is an Indian-American computer scientist and University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Michigan State University, known for his contributions in the fields of pattern recognition, computer vision and biometric recognition. He is among the top few most highly cited researchers in computer science and has received various high honors and recognitions from institutions such as ACM, IEEE, AAAS, IAPR, SPIE, the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the Indian National Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Shahid Jameel
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- virologist
- Biography
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Shahid Jameel is an Indian virologist and academic. Dr. Jameel is the Sultan Qaboos bin Said Fellow at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and Research Fellow, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. He serves as the Principal Investigator for the Centre's project on Public Health, Science and Technology in Muslim societies. Previously he was the director of the Trivedi School of Biosciences since its inception in the year 2020 at Ashoka University. He was formerly head of the scientific advisory group to the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortia (INSACOG) established in December 2020, and the chief executive officer of Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance. Known for his research in hepatitis E virus, Jameel is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. National Academy of Sciences, India, Indian Academy of Sciences, and Indian National Science Academy. 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 Medical Sciences in 2000.
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Veena Sahajwalla
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
- In 1986 graduated with Bachelor of Technology in materials science and metallurgy
- Occupations
- scientistinventor
- Biography
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Veena Sahajwalla is an inventor and Professor of Materials Science in the Faculty of Science at UNSW Australia. She is the Director of the UNSW SM@RT Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology and an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow.
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Atish Dabholkar
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
- 1980-1985 graduated with Master of Science in physics
- Occupations
- theoretical physicist
- Biography
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Atish Dabholkar is an Indian theoretical physicist. He is currently the Director of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) with the rank of Assistant Director-General, UNESCO. Prior to that, he was head of ICTP's High Energy, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics section, and also Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) at Sorbonne University in the "Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Énergies" (LPTHE).
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Bhaskar Pramanik
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Bhaskar Pramanik was the former Chairman of Microsoft India. He looked after the company's overall sales, marketing and all other transactions across India. He retired from Microsoft in September 2017.
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Prem Das Rai
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- politician
- Biography
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Prem Das Rai is an Indian politician from the Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) party. Rai was a Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) from the Sikkim constituency of Sikkim, India, first elected in 2009 election and re-elected in 2014 after serving his first term in 2009-2014. In 2019 Lok Sabha election he did not get the ticket from SDF.
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Amar Gupta
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- 1953-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- university teachercomputer scientist
- 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. He has surmounted several strategic, business, technical, economic, legal, and public policy barriers related to several innovative products and services.
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Ashok Gadgil
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- university teacherinventor
- Biography
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Ashok Gadgil Is the Andrew and Virginia Rudd Family Foundation Distinguished Chair and Professor of Safe Water and Sanitation at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Faculty Senior Scientist and has served as director of the Energy and Environmental Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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Sartaj Sahni
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- computer scientistuniversity teacherengineer
- Biography
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Professor Sartaj Kumar Sahni is a computer scientist based in the United States, and is one of the pioneers in the field of data structures. He is a distinguished professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida.
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U. B. Desai
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- university teacherelectrical engineerdeaninventorscientist
- Biography
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Uday B. Desai is an Indian academician and the founding director of Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. He is a Professor Emeritus in Electrical engineering Chancellor ICFAI Dehradun, Chancellor Anurag University, Hyderabad Honorary Distinguished Professor Plaksha University and a Strategic Consultant for TSDSI. He served as the director of IIT Hyderabad from June 2009 to July 2019, and is credited for taking it to rank among the top 10 engineering colleges in India in the NIRF engineering ranking. He was mentor director of IIT Bhilai from May 2016 to February 2017 and mentor director for IIIT Chittoor 2013–2018.
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Nagarjuna Gadiraju
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- teacherprogrammerphilosopher of sciencefree software activisteducational theorist
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Nagarjuna G. works in the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India. His major research interests include Science Education, Cognitive Science, History and Philosophy of Science and Structure and Dynamics of Knowledge. As an activist he focuses on promoting free knowledge and free software and serves as the chairperson of Free Software Foundation of India.
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Rajendra Srivastava
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- 1951-.. (age 73)
- Biography
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Rajendra K. Srivastava is Novartis Professor of Marketing Strategy and Innovation at the Indian School of Business. He has been a tenured professor and an academic administrator and has worked in the United States, Singapore, and India. He has been listed in the Forbes's Tycoons of Tomorrow 2018. He is also a member of the board of directors of Happiest Minds, a publicly listed company in India.
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Kapil Hari Paranjape
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- mathematician
- Biography
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Kapil Hari Paranjape is an Indian mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry. He is a Professor of Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali.
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Anil K. Rajvanshi
- Occupations
- autobiographerblogger
- Biography
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Anil K. Rajvanshi is an academic from India, and is the current director of the Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute.
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Dipendra Prasad
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Dipendra Prasad is an Indian mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He is a number theorist known for his work in the areas of automorphic representations and the Gan–Gross–Prasad conjecture. He is currently the president of Commission for Developing Countries (CDC) of International Mathematical Union (2018–2022) and of Indian Math Society (2021–2022).
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Rakesh Agrawal
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Rakesh Agrawal is a chemical engineer known for contributions to separations, cryogenic gas separation and liquefaction, and for contributions to renewable energy including the conversion of biomass to chemicals and fuels, inorganic solar cell fabrication, and the synergistic use of solar energy. He is the Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
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Pushpak Bhattacharyya
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- computer scientistuniversity teacherartificial 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 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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Saurabh Kumar
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Saurabh Kumar is an Indian diplomat currently serving as Ambassador of India to European Union.He was previously the Indian Ambassador of India to Myanmar and to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Ravindra K. Ahuja
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Ravindra K. Ahuja is an Indian-born American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is currently Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, and CEO of the automation and optimization solutions provider Optym, which he founded in 2000 as Innovative Scheduling, Inc.
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Samir D. Mathur
- Born in
- India
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Samir Dayal Mathur is a theoretical physicist who specializes in string theory and black hole physics.
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Jayathi Murthy
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
- Graduated with Bachelor of Technology
- Occupations
- engineeracademicmechanical engineeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Jayathi Y. Murthy is an Indian-American mechanical engineer who is the current President of Oregon State University. Previously, she was the Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of California, Los Angeles where she was also a distinguished professor. Her research interests include macroelectronics, computational fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and phase-change materials. Murthy has served on the Engineering and Computer Science jury for the Infosys Prize since 2018.
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Vasu Chanchlani
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Vasu Chanchlani was an Indian-Canadian serial entrepreneur, philanthropist and trans-nations builder. He is co-founder of the Sigma Group of Companies and a founding member of the Canada India Foundation. He is also an investor in dozens of companies globally consisting of start-ups and turn-arounds. He is best known for his efforts towards improving Canada-India relations through his philanthropic activities and engagement with Indian Diaspora to serve bilateral interests of both Canada and India. Most recently, Vasu was awarded the Top 25 Canadian Immigrants award by the Canadian Immigrant magazine (a Toronto Star Publication). On January 9, 2014, his excellency shri Pranab Mukherjee, President of the Republic of India, conferred the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award (PBSA), the highest honour bestowed on non-resident Indians, by the Government of India.
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Swaminathan Sivaram
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Swaminathan Sivaram is an Indian polymer chemist, inventor, institution builder and a former director of the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune. He is known for his pioneering work on alkylation of tertiary alkyl halides with trialkylaluminum and olefin polymerization and holds the highest number of US patents by an Indian working outside the US. He is a fellow of several significant professional organizations. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2006, for his contributions to Indian science.
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Upinder Singh Bhalla
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- neuroscientist
- Biography
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Upinder Singh Bhalla is an Indian computational neuroscientist, academic and a professor at National Centre for Biological Sciences of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He is known for his studies on neuronal and synaptic signalling in memory and olfactory coding using computational and experimental methods and is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy. 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, in 2007, for his contributions to biological sciences. The Infosys Science Foundation awarded him the Infosys Prize 2017 in Life Sciences for his pioneering contributions to the understanding of the brain's computational machinery.
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Prakash Panangaden
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Prakash Panangaden is an American/Canadian computer scientist noted for his research in programming language theory, concurrency theory, Markov processes and duality theory. Earlier he worked on quantum field theory in curved space-time and radiation from black holes. He is the founding Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation.
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Bhrigu Nath Singh
- Occupations
- aerospace engineer
- Biography
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Bhrigu Nath Singh, also known as B.N. Singh, is an Indian engineering scientist and the director general at the IITRAM. He is a distinguished professor, former HAL chair professor and Institute's first Dean of Human Resources, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Chair of the ICTACEM and former Head of Department Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kharagpur.
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Shridhar Ramachandra Gadre
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Shridhar Ramachandra Gadre is an Indian scientist working in computational quantum and theoretical chemistry.
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Rajeev Alur
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- computer scientistuniversity teacherengineer
- Biography
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Rajeev Alur is an American professor of computer science at the University of Pennsylvania who has made contributions to formal methods, programming languages, and automata theory, including notably the introduction of timed automata and nested words (Alur and Madhusudan, 2004).
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Vijay Vaishnavi
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- computer scientistuniversity teacherinformation scientist
- Biography
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Vijay Kumar Vaishnavi is a noted researcher and scholar in the computer information systems field with contributions mainly in the areas of design science, software engineering, and data structures & algorithms, authoring over 150 publications including seven books in these and related areas, and co-owning a patent. He is currently Professor Emeritus at the Department of Computer Information Systems, Georgia State University. He is Senior Editor Emeritus of MIS Quarterly and is on the editorial boards of a number of other major journals. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation as well as by the industry.
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Ashutosh Sharma
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
- 1977-1982 studied chemical engineering
- Occupations
- chemical engineer
- Biography
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Ashutosh Sharma is an Institute Chair Professor and C V Seshadri Chair Professor at the Department of chemical engineering of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He is the founding Coordinator of DST Thematic Unit of Excellence on Soft Nanofabrication and Chairman of Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur. He is best known for his pioneering research work in the areas of colloids, thin film, interfaces, adhesion, patterning and in the fabrication and application of self-assembled nano-structures.
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Amit Kumar
- Occupations
- academiccomputer scientist
- Biography
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Amit Kumar is Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He received his B.Tech. degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1997, and Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2002. He worked as Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey, U.S. during 2002–2003. He joined IIT Delhi as faculty member in 2003. He works in the area of combinatorial optimization, approximation algorithms and online algorithms. He is working extensively on problems arising in scheduling theory, clustering, and graph theoretic algorithmic problems.
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Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri
- Years
- 1950-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- artificial intelligence researchercomputer scientist
- Biography
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Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri is a senior computer scientist and the pro-vice-chancellor (academic) of Techno India University in West Bengal, India. He is also adjuncted to Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), where he was a professor for about three decades. He was the founding Head of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit (which was established in 1994) of ISI. Moreover, he was a J.C. Bose Fellow and INAE Distinguished Professor at ISI.
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Nikhil Mohan Pattnaik
- Occupations
- science fiction writerwriter
- Biography
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Nikhil Mohan Pattnaik is an Indian scholar, scientist, and science author. He obtained a PhD from the University of Chicago in Biochemistry.
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Jagdish Narayan
- Born in
- India
- Occupations
- researchermaterials scientist
- Biography
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Jagdish Narayan is an Indian-born American engineer. Since 2001, he has been the John C. C. Fan Family Distinguished Chair Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at North Carolina State University. He is also the distinguished visiting scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Narayan has published above 500 high-impact journal articles, with his discoveries covered in over 40 US and international patents. His body of work can be segregated into highly non-equilibrium laser processing of novel nanomaterials, including Q-carbon, Q-BN, diamond and c-BN related materials. These research articles have received over 31,000 Google citations with h-index >85. Narayan and his students discovered Q-carbon asa new allotrope, thereby finding a new route to fabricate diamond and related materials in ambient conditions, resulting in properties and applications ranging from high-temperature superconductivity in boron-doped Q-carbon to hardness than diamond in Q-carbon to enhanced field-emission in Q-carbon to nitrogen-doped nanodiamonds for quantum computing, nanosensing and solid-state devices.
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Rajendra Rathore
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Rajendra Rathore was an organic chemist and professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as Pfletschinger-Habermann professor of organic chemistry. He made important contributions in the area of supramolecular chemistry, synthesis of novel electro-active molecules, and drug discovery. Rathore died on 16 February 2018, after complications from chronic pulmonary sarcoidosis.
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Gautam Das
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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Gautam Das is a computer scientist in the field of databases research. He is an ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow (since 2020).
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Vikas Gupta
- Born in
- India
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
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Vikas Gupta is an Indian American internet entrepreneur. He is known for having founded Jambool, an online company that was acquiredby Google in August 2010. Gupta has also joined Google as the Head of Consumer Payments after the acquisition. Prior to founding Jambool, Gupta worked at Amazon.com, where he led the payments and web services groups. His newest venture is Play-i,which he started in November 2012.
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Ashish Bhatia
- Occupations
- programmerengineer
- Biography
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Ashish Bhatia is a US-based Indian engineer with specializations in mobile security and social media, who developed Google's predictive response generation system. He is also an angel investor, public speaker and advocate for startups