47 Notable alumni of
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
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Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur is 1033rd in the world, 217th in Asia, and 23rd in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 47 notable alumni from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Arvind Kejriwal
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- politicianbureaucrat
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Arvind Kejriwal is an Indian politician, activist and former bureaucrat, who is serving as the 7th and current Chief Minister of Delhi since 2015, after his first term in the post from 2013 to 2014. He is also the national convener of the Aam Aadmi Party since 2012. He has represented the New Delhi constituency in the Delhi Legislative Assembly since 2015 and from 2013 to 2014.
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Jitendra Kumar
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- actor
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Jitendra Kumar is an Indian actor. He is best known for his role of Jitu in TVF Pitchers, Jeetu Bhaiya in the series Kota Factory, and for his roles in Amazon Prime's comedy series Panchayat and in the film Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan. He has received several awards including two Filmfare OTT Awards.
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Biswa Kalyan Rath
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- comedian
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Biswa Kalyan Rath is an Indian stand-up comedian, writer and YouTuber. He came into prominence through the YouTube comedy series, Pretentious Movie Reviews with fellow comedian Kanan Gill. He played a supporting role in the 2016 Netflix sex comedy film Brahman Naman. He created the 2017 Amazon Prime Video's series Laakhon Mein Ek. On 9 December 2020, Rath married actress Sulagna Panigrahi.
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Ajit Singh
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- politician
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Chaudhary Ajit Singh was an Indian farmer leader and politician. He was the founder and chief of the Rashtriya Lok Dal, a political party recognised in the state of Uttar Pradesh. He was son of the former Prime Minister of India Chaudhary Charan Singh. He tested positive for COVID-19 and was subsequently admitted to a hospital in Gurugram. He died on 6 May 2021 after his condition deteriorated.
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Ashok Khemka
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- civil servant
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Ashok Khemka is an Indian civil service bureaucrat. He is an Indian Administrative Service officer of 1991 batch. He is best known for cancelling the mutation of Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra's illegal land deal in Gurgaon. As of January 2023, he has been transferred 55 times in 30 years by state governments after he exposed corruption in the departments he was posted in. He is a whistleblower of several scams that took place under Bhupinder Hooda's regime, including the Robert Vadra DLF land grab scam, Sonepat-Kharkhoda IMT land scam case, and Garhi Sampla Uddar Gagan land scam. Ashok Khemka is Haryana's second-most transferred bureaucrat after another retired IAS officer, Pradeep Kasni, who was transferred 71 times in 35 years.
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Koppillil Radhakrishnan
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- aerospace engineer
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Koppillil Radhakrishnan is an Indian space scientist who headed the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) between November 2009 and December 2014 as Chairman of Space Commission, Secretary of the Department of Space and Chairman of ISRO. Prior to this, he was the Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (2007-2009) and Director of National Remote Sensing Agency (2005-2008) of the Department of Space. He had a brief stint of five years (2000-2005) in the Ministry of Earth Sciences as Director of Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS). Under his leadership of ISRO, India became the first country to reach Mars in its first attempt.
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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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Ramajogayya Sastry
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
- Graduated with Master of Technology
- Occupations
- authorsongwriterlyricistscreenwriter
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Ramajogayya Sastry is an Indian film lyricist, known for his works in Telugu cinema and music.
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Mani Lal Bhaumik
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- autobiographerphysicist
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Mani Lal Bhaumik is an Indian American physicist and an internationally bestselling author, celebrated lecturer, entrepreneur and philanthropist.
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Vinod Gupta
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Vinod Gupta is an Indian-American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the former chief executive officer (CEO) and chairman of infoGROUP (previously known as infoUSA). Gupta served as CEO of infoGROUP from the time of its incorporation in 1972 until September 1997, and again from August 1998 to August 2008. Gupta has donated over $50 million to numerous philanthropic endeavors in the United States and India.
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Bedabrata Pain
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- film producerfilm directorscreenwriter
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Bedabrata Pain is an Indian scientist turned film director, producer and screenwriter. Bedabrata Pain was also a member of the team that invented the CMOS image sensor. Bedabrata Pain has also won National Film Award for Best Debut Film of a Director for Chittagong.
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Malli Mastan Babu
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- mountaineer
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Mastan Babu Malli was an Indian mountaineer. He is best known for his 2006 world record of climbing the Seven Summits in the shortest span of time at that point - a total of 172 days with the first climb on 19 January 2006 and the seventh on 10 July 2006. This feat made him the first Indian and South Asian to climb all seven summits, the first Indian to climb Vinson Massif and the first Indian to climb Carstensz Pyramid. While his record for climbing the seven summits has since been improved upon, his record of attaining each summit on a different day of the week still stands today.
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Mr. Rono Dutta
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- businessperson
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Ronojoy "Rono" Dutta was an Indian aviation executive. He was the CEO of InterGlobe Aviation Limited which operates IndiGo until he retired in June 2022 and Pieter Elbers took over. He previously served as the President of United Airlines from 1999 to 2002.
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Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya
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- politicianengineer
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Sushanta Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya, CBE, FRS, FREng, FIMechE, was a British-Indian engineer, educator and government advisor. In 1980, he became Professor of Manufacturing Systems at the University of Warwick and founded the Warwick Manufacturing Group. In 2004, he was made a life peer and became a member of the House of Lords.
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Pradeep Khosla
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
- Graduated with Bachelor of Technology
- Occupations
- computer scientistuniversity teacherengineer
- Biography
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Pradeep Kumar Khosla is an Indian-American computer scientist and university administrator. He is the current chancellor of the University of California, San Diego.
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Partha Pratim Chakraborty
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- academic
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Partha Pratim Chakrabarti is an Indian computer scientist. He is a distinguished professor and the former director of IIT Kharagpur. Dr. Chakrabarti has made pioneering research contributions and has solved a number of open problems. His work has been incorporated in standard text books as well as industry level tools of major international companies. He has published more than 200 papers in international journals and conferences and supervised two dozen PhD students. He is also an honorary awardee of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, for the engineering category in 2000.
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Harish Hande
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- entrepreneur
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Harish Hande is an Indian social entrepreneur, who co-founded SELCO India in 1995. He was awarded with the Ramon Magsaysay Award for 2011 for "his pragmatic efforts to put solar power technology in the hands of the poor, through his social enterprise SELCO India".
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Subhasis Chaudhuri
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- computer scientistuniversity teacherelectrical engineer
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Subhasis Chaudhuri is an Indian electrical engineer and the director at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT Bombay). He is a former K. N. Bajaj Chair Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering of IIT Bombay. He is known for his pioneering studies on computer vision and is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. the National Academy of Sciences, India, Indian Academy of Sciences, and Indian National Science Academy. He is also a fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 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, in 2004 for his contributions to Engineering Sciences.
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Supriyo Datta
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
- In 1975 graduated with Bachelor of Technology
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Supriyo Datta is an Indian–American researcher and author. A leading figure in the modeling and understanding of nano-scale electronic conduction, he has been called "one of the most original thinkers in the field of nanoscale electronics."
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Srikumar Banerjee
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- 1946-2021 (aged 75)
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- physicistengineermetallurgist
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Srikumar Banerjee was an Indian metallurgical engineer. He retired as the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India (AECI) and the secretary of Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) on 30 April 2012. Prior to his stint as DAE chairman, he was the director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) from 30 April 2004 to 19 May 2010. He had also served as a DAE Homi Bhabha Chair Professor at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai. He was known as a great physical metallurgist.
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Amit Ray
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- writer
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Amit Ray is an Indian author and "spiritual master". He is known for his teachings on meditation, yoga, peace and compassion. He is best known for his 114 chakra system, Om meditation, and integrated yoga and vipassana meditation techniques. He is author of several books on meditation and other spiritual topics. He was one of the pioneers in proposing compassionate artificial intelligence.
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Kiran Seth
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- 1949-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- mechanical engineer
- Biography
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Prof. Kiran Seth is an Indian academician, professor emeritus in the department of mechanical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He is most known as the founder of SPIC MACAY (1977), a non-profit organisation which promotes Indian classical music, Indian classical dance, and other aspects Indian culture, amongst youth the world over; through its about 500 chapters and through conventions, baithaks, lectures and musical fests.
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Prem Chand Pandey
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- physicistmeteorologistoceanographer
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Prem Chand Pandey is an Indian space scientist, planetary scientist, and academic in the fields of satellite oceanography, remote sensing, atmospheric science, the Antarctic and climate change, and also he is the founding director of the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research.
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Anuradha Acharya
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- engineer
- Biography
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Anuradha Acharya is an Indian entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Ocimum Bio Solutions and Mapmygenome. She was awarded Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2011.
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Surajit Kar Purkayastha
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- 1957-.. (age 67)
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Surajit Kar Purkayastha is a retired senior Indian Police Service officer of 1985 West Bengal cadre who served as the State Security Advisor of West Bengal from 1 June 2018 to 31 May 2021. Prior to that, he served as Director General of Police of West Bengal and was the 36th Police Commissioner of Kolkata.
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Subir Chowdhury
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- 1967-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Subir Chowdhury is a Bangladeshi-American author of 15 books and noted for his work in quality and management. He is currently the chairman and CEO of ASI Consulting Group, LLC, in Bingham Farms, Michigan.
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Suresh Vaswani
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- 1960-.. (age 64)
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Suresh C. Vaswani is a Senior Director and Operating Partner of the Everstone Group. He is on the board of group companies including i.e. Innoveo AG, Servion Global Solutions and Omega Healthcare.
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Prith Banerjee
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- 1960-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- engineercomputer scientist
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Prithviraj "Prith" Banerjee is an Indian American academic and computer scientist and is currently the Chief Technology Officer at ANSYS and board member at Cray and CUBIC. Previously, he was a Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry where he was responsible for IOT and Digital Transformation Advisory Services within the Global Industrial Practice. Before that he was the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Schneider Electric. He was formerly a senior vice president of research at Hewlett Packard and director of HP Labs. Previously he was the Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of ABB Group. He was also the Managing Director of Global Technology R&D at Accenture.. Prith started his early career in academia as a Professor at the University of Illinois and Northwestern University.
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Amit Goyal
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India - Occupations
- physicistinventorengineer
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Amit Goyal is a SUNY Distinguished Professor and a SUNY Empire Innovation Professor at SUNY-Buffalo. He leads the Laboratory for Heteroepitaxial Growth of Functional Materials & Devices. He is also Director of the New York State Center of Excellence in Plastics Recycling Research & Innovation, an externally funded center with initial funding of $4.5M for three years at SUNY-Buffalo. He is the founding director of the multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary RENEW Institute at SUNY-Buffalo in Buffalo, New York and served as director from 2015-2021. RENEW is an internally funded research institute at SUNY-Buffalo. For his contributions to UB, in 2019, he was awarded the University at Buffalo or SUNY-Buffalo President's Medal, which recognizes “outstanding scholarly or artistic achievements, humanitarian acts, contributions of time or treasure, exemplary leadership or any other major contribution to the development of the University at Buffalo and the quality of life in the UB community.” This is one of the highest recognitions given at the university.
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Sabu Thomas
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- 1960-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- researcherengineer
- Biography
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Sabu Thomas is an Indian professor who is serving as the vice-chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala. He is also a full professor (25 March 1998 onwards) of Polymer Science and Engineering at the School of Chemical Sciences. He was the Pro-Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala during the period of 31 August 2017 to 31 August 2018, Director of School of Chemical Science during the period of 1 November 2010 to 31 December 2013. Hon. Director of International & Inter-University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology during the period of 28 March 2009 to 11 September 2015, 2 February 2016 to 11 October 2017.
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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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Anuradha Bhattacharyya
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- novelistwriterpoet
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Anuradha Bhattacharyya is an Indian writer of poetry and fiction in English. Her novel One Word was awarded Best Book of the Year 2016 by the Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi. She is Associate Professor of English in Post Graduate Government College, Sector-11, Chandigarh.
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Anurag Acharya
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
- In 1987 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- engineercomputer scientist
- Biography
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Anurag Acharya is an Indian-American engineer known for co-founding Google Scholar, of which he has been described as the "key inventor". As of 2023, Acharya held the title of Distinguished Engineer at Google. He and his Google colleague Alex Verstak co-founded Google Scholar in 2004. Acharya got the idea for the project years earlier when he was an undergraduate at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and had difficulty quickly accessing scholarly literature. He received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2016.
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Swapan Chattopadhyay
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- physicist
- Biography
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Swapan Chattopadhyay CorrFRSE is an Indian American physicist. Chattopadhyay completed his PhD from the University of California (Berkeley) in 1982.
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R. Gopalakrishnan
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- business executive
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Ramabadran Gopalakrishnan is an Indian businessman and author. Until his retirement he was an executive director of Tata Sons Ltd and served on the boards of Tata Power, Tata Technologies, AkzoNobel India, Castrol India and ABP Pvt. Ltd. Before joining Tata he was Vice Chairman of Hindustan Lever, the Indian subsidiary of Unilever plc.
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Subhasish Dey
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
- 1989-1991 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacherhydraulic engineerengineer
- Biography
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Subhasish Dey is a hydraulician and educator. He is known for his research on the hydrodynamics and acclaimed for his contributions in developing theories and solution methodologies of various problems on hydrodynamics, turbulence, boundary layer, sediment transport and open channel flow. He is currently a distinguished professor of Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur (2023–). Before, he worked as a professor of the department of civil engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (1998–2023), where he served as the head of the department during 2013–15 and held the position of Brahmaputra Chair Professor during 2009–14 and 2015. He also held the adjunct professor position in the Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit at Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata during 2014–19. Besides he has been named a distinguished visiting professor at the Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
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Ratnam V. Raja Kumar
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Ratnam V. Raja Kumar is an Indian academic who served as the director of the Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar. He has served as the first vice-chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies.
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Sudipto Das
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- 1973-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Sudipto Das is an Indian author, social worker and musician. He is also a columnist, a speaker at TED events and a veteran in the semiconductor industry, having co-chaired the Industry Forum at the VLSID 2020. He has been the co-founder of two startups. In 2020 he spearheaded a country wide initiative to deliver daily groceries to people stranded due to lockdowns in the wake of the breakout of COVID-19.
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Venugopal Govindaraju
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- academiccomputer scientist
- Biography
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Venu Govindaraju is an Indian-American whose research interests are in the fields of document image analysis and biometrics. He presently serves as the Vice President for Research and Economic Development. He is a SUNY Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA.
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Chandralekha Singh
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Chandralekha Singh is an Indian-American physicist who is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh and the Founding Director of the Discipline-Based Science Education Research Center.
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Ratneshwar Lal Kayastha
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- politicianengineercivil servant
- Biography
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Ratneshwar Lal Kayastha is a Nepalese politician and former Governor of Province No. 2. He was appointed as a governor of Province No. 2 by the Government of Nepal on 17 January 2018. He served as a Governor of Province No. 2 from 19 January 2018 to 03 November 2019.
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Ranjit Makkuni
- Occupations
- multimedia artist
- Biography
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Ranjit Makkuni is an international multimedia artist and designer, the honorary director of the design think tank, the Sacred World Research Laboratory, as well as a musician, sitar player, songwriter, and author.
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Biswanath Mukherjee
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Biswanath Mukherjee is an Indian-American Distinguished Professor of computer science at University of California, Davis. He is also a fellow of IEEE for contributions to architectures, algorithms, and protocols for optical networks.
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Varun Shrivastava
- Years
- 1986-.. (age 38)
- Biography
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Varun Shrivastava is an Indian social reformer focused on education. He is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur. Shrivastava has received several awards including the "Young Alumni Achiever Award" conferred upon him by his alma mater.
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Lallit Anand
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 76)
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
- In 1970 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- mechanical engineeracademicuniversity teacherscientist
- Biography
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Lallit Anand is the Warren and Towneley Rohsenow Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on solid mechanics and large deformation plasticity theory. He has received numerous awards and accolades for his significant contributions to the field of applied mechanics and mechanical engineering.
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Padma Raghavan
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- 20th Century
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Padma Raghavan is a computer scientist who works as vice provost for research at Vanderbilt University.
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Neelam Pol
- Years
- 1981-.. (age 43)
- Biography
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Neelam Pol is an entrepreneur and founder of Khel Planet Foundation. She is a Harvard University alumna and lives in Mumbai.
