List of BITS Pilani alumni
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This is a list of notable alumni of BITS Pilani.[1]
Mathew Cherian is currently the Global Ambassador of Ageing and was the former CEO of Helpage India for two decades and a Trustee of Helpage international.
from the BITS 1975 batch of Pilani an engineer by training who moved in to the social sector . Has been involved with the High level Committee of forming the CSR policy in India and on the CSR committee of CII.
Is involved as chair of SAGE a social venture fund of The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. And with the Department of Science and Technology for technology interventions with the disabled and elderly.
Was awarded the Outstanding Alumni award of BITS Pilani for Social innovation and leadership at the convocation in 2016 . Recipient of the Vayoshreshta Samman for life time work with the elderly from Govt of India .
Entrepreneurs
| Name | Achievement | Year of Attendance at BITS |
|---|---|---|
| Sanjay Mehrotra | Co-founder of SanDisk, CEO of Micron Technology | 1974-1976 |
| Preetish Nijhawan | Co-founder of Akamai Technologies | 1985–1989 |
| Baba Kalyani[2] | Billionaire, Chairman of Bharat Forge | 1965–1970 |
| Sabeer Bhatia | Founder of Hotmail | 1986–1988 |
| Vinod Agarwal | Founder and chairman of SemIndia; founder and former Chairman of LogicVision | 1968–1973 |
| Vijay Chandru | Co-founder and CEO, Strand Life Sciences; Inventor of Simputer | 1971–1975[3] |
| Rajiv Bapna | Founder and Director of Amkette, a storage media company | 1969–1974 |
| Surendra Kumar Surana | Founder and Managing Director of Compucom Software Ltd and Editor in Chief at Jan TV | 1981–1985 |
Corporate leaders
| Name | Achievement | Year of Attendance at BITS |
|---|---|---|
| Amitabh Chaudhry | MD & CEO of Axis Bank | 1981–1985 |
| Revathi Advaithi | CEO of Flex | 1986–1990 |
| Rakesh Kapoor | ex-CEO of Reckitt Benckiser | 1975–1980 |
| Sunil Duggal | ex-CEO of Dabur | 1974–1979 |
| Vivek Paul | ex-CEO of Wipro Technologies; Consulting Professor at Stanford University | |
| SK Roongta | ex-Chairman of Steel Authority of India | 1966–1971 |
Academia
| Name | Achievement | Year of Attendance at BITS |
|---|---|---|
| Goverdhan Mehta | Padma Shri Awardee, Fellow of the Royal Society, ex-Director of IISc Bangalore, ex-Vice Chancellor of University of Hyderabad | –1963[4] |
| Dorairajan Balasubramanian | Former President of Indian Academy of Sciences and Director of Research at L. V. Prasad Eye Institute; recipient of the National Order of Merit (France) and Padma Shri. | 1957–1959[5] |
| S. P. Kothari | Padma Shri Awardee, Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management | 1974–1979 |
| Krishna Saraswat | Electrical Engineering Professor at Stanford University | 1963–1968 |
| Milind Tambe | Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University | –1986 |
| Autar Kaw | Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Florida | 1976–1981 |
| Arun Sharma | Distinguished emeritus professor, Queensland University of Technology | 2008 |
| G. Ravindra Kumar[6][7] | Senior professor - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | 1977–1983 |
| Ravi Gomatam | Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute (Berkeley and Mumbai)[8] | |
| Narendra Ahuja | Founding Director of IIIT Hyderabad (1999–2002) | 1968–1972 |
| Arun K. Somani | Department Chair, Senior Associate Dean in Engineering, Iowa State University | –1973 |
| Govindan Rangarajan | Director & Professor Dept. of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | 1980–1985 |
| Ravindra Dastikop | Educator and speaker on Cloud Computing |
Social activists, politics, and government
| Name | Achievement | Year of Attendance at BITS |
|---|---|---|
| Prithviraj Chavan[9] | Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra; former Union Minister for Science and Technology, Govt. of India | 1963–1967 |
| C. V. Ananda Bose | 22nd Governor of West Bengal |
Film
| Name | Achievement | Year of Attendance at BITS |
|---|---|---|
| Mani Shankar | Film director | –1978[10][11] |
| Anu Hasan | Actress, Tamil/Telugu movies, TV show host | 1988–1993[12][10] |
| Baradwaj Rangan | Film critic and writer | 1988–1992[12] |
| Kaniha | Former Actress, Malayalam/Tamil/Kannada/Telugu films, TV show host | 1999-2003 |
| Anu Menon | Film director and screenwriter | [13] |
| Sandeep A. Varma | Award-winning Film Director and Writer | |
| Idlebrain Jeevi | Film critic and entrepreneur | 1991-1995 |
| Siva Ananth | Film writer, producer, lyricist, director and actor | 1991-1995[14] |
Arts
| Name | Achievement | Year of Attendance at BITS |
|---|---|---|
| B. Sandhya | Police officer and author | |
| Dilip D'Souza | Writer of social causes | 1976–1981 |
| Shashi Warrier | Writer of fiction | |
| Vikram Sampath | Writer of historical non-fiction | |
| Hartosh Singh Bal | Journalist and Editor | |
| AK Srikanth | Writer of fiction, screenplay writer, film-maker | 1986 - 1991 |
| Padmini Chettur | Dancer | 1987–1991 |
| Dushyanth Sridhar | Noted scholar in Sanskrit and Tamil on ancient Hindu scriptures | 2004–2009 |
| Gaurav Chaudhary | Tech Vlogger | |
| Harish Sivaramakrishnan | Lead vocalist of Carnatic progressive rock band Agam | 1998–2002 |