List of IIT Bombay people
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This is a list of notable faculty and alumni of the IIT Bombay.
Notable faculty
| Name | Affiliation | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amit Agrawal | Institute chair professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering | ||
| Ashwin Gumaste | Institute Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science | Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awardee and largest technology transfer between IIT and industry (Carrier Ethernet Switch Router) | |
| Dipan Ghosh | Deputy Director from 2005 to 2006 | Theoretical physicist, originator of the Majumdar–Ghosh model. | [1] |
| Deepak B. Phatak | Computer scientist, Padma Shri award winner | ||
| Hemchandra Kekre | Head of Computer Science Department, 1978 to 1984 | Computer scientist | |
| G. Naresh Patwari | Chemist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [2] | |
| Manohar Vartak | Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Statistics | Mathematician | |
| N. K. Naik | Professor | Aerospace engineer | |
| Narayan R. Kamath | Professor and Head of Chemical Engineering | Chemical Engineer | [3] |
| Pramod P. Wangikar | Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering | Bioinformatician, N-Bios laureate[4] | |
| Ram Puniyani | Former Professor, Biosciences and Bioengineering | Biomedical engineer | |
| Ranjith Padinhateeri | Dr. PV Sukhatme Chair Professor, Biosciences and Bioengineering | The National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences, in 2017–18 | [5] |
| Ravi Poovaiah | Professor at IDC School of Design | Co-designed the Indian EVM[6] | |
| Tathagat Avatar Tulsi | Assistant Professor on contract from 2010 to 2019 | Physicist | |
| Devang Vipin Khakhar | Professor Chemical Engineering at IITB | Former director of IIT Bombay |
Notable alumni
Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jag Mundhra | 1968 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Film director | [7] |
| Mansoor Khan | Film director | [8][9] | ||
| Nitesh Tiwari | 1996 | B.Tech. (Metallurgical Engineering) | Film director and screenwriter | [10][11] |
| Sharada Srinivasan | 1987 | B.Tech. Engineering Physics | Archaeologist | |
| Rajnesh Domalpalli | 1984 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Film director | [12] |
| Satyendra Pakhalé | 1991 | M.Des. | Industrial Designer, Architect | |
| D. Udaya Kumar | 2003; 2010 | M.Des., Ph.D. | Head of the Department of Design, IIT Guwahati | [13] |
| Vipul Goyal | 2008 | B.Tech., M.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Stand-up comedian | [14] |
| Sridhar Rangayan | 1986 | M.Des, IDC | Director and Producer | [15] |
| Sameer Saxena | 2006 | B.Tech. | Actor, Director and Producer. Former CCO at TVF | [16] |
Business
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anil Kumar | B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) | Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, later convicted of insider trading | [17] | |
| Ashish Chauhan | 1989 | B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) | Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the National Stock Exchange of India | [18] |
| Bhavish Aggarwal | 2008 | B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering) | Co-founder of Ola Cabs | [19] |
| Bharat Desai | 1975 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Founder of Syntel | [20] |
| Kanwal Rekhi | 1967 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Venture capitalist; Co-founder of Excelan | [21] |
| Nandan Nilekani | 1978 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Co-founder of Infosys | [22] |
| Parag Agrawal | 2005 | B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering) | Chief Executive Officer of X (social network) | [23] |
| Parag Saxena | 1977 | B.Tech. (Chemical Engineering) | Co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer of New Silk Route | [24] |
| Rahul Yadav | Joined with B.Tech. (Metallurgical Engineering)
Later dropped out.[25] |
Co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer of Housing.com | [26][27] | |
| Rajiv L. Gupta | 1967 | B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) | Chairman of Aptiv | [28] |
| Ramani Ayer | 1969 | B.Tech. (Chemical Engineering) | Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Hartford | [29] |
| Romesh Wadhwani | 1969 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Founder of Symphony Technology Group | [30] |
| Salil Parekh | 1986 | B.Tech. (Aeronautical Engineering) | Chief Executive Officer of Infosys | |
| Subrah Iyar | 1981 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Co-founder of Webex | [31] |
| Victor Menezes | 1970 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Corporate Banker; Senior Vice Chairman of Citigroup | [32][33] |
| Abhijeet Gholap | 1994 | M.Tech. (Biomedical Engineering) | Co-founder of BioImagene (acquired by Roche for ~US$100 million); founder of OptraSCAN | [34][35] |
Politics, Law, and Civil Services
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colin Gonsalves | 1975 | B.Tech. (Civil Engineering) | Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India | [36] |
| Jairaj Phatak | Former Municipal Commissioner of Mumbai | |||
| Jairam Ramesh | 1975 | B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) | Former Minister of Rural Development and Member of Parliament | |
| Jay Narayan Vyas | Former Member of the Legislative Assembly | |||
| Manohar Parrikar | 1978 | B.Tech. (Metallurgical Engineering) | Former Chief Minister of Goa and Minister of Defence | [37][38] |
| Sanjiv Bhatt | 1985 | Former Indian Police Service officer | [39] | |
| Sharjeel Imam | 2010 | B.Tech., M.Tech. (Computer Science & Engineering) | Activist | |
| Sheel Kant Sharma | 1971; 1974 | M.Sc. (Physics); Ph.D. (Physics) | Former Secretary General of SAARC | |
Science and technology
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apoorva D. Patel | M.Sc. (Physics) | Physicist | ||
| Hemchandra Kekre | M.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Head of Department of Computer Science, IIT Bombay | ||
| C. V. Seshadri | B.Tech. (Chemical Engineering) | Former chair of chemical engineering at IIT Kanpur | ||
| Shankar Sastry | 1977 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Founding chancellor of the Plaksha University, Mohali and a former Dean of Engineering at University of California, Berkeley | [40][41] |
| K. S. Dasgupta | Ph.D. | former Director of the IIST | [42] | |
| Pranav Mistry | 2005 | M. Sc. | Computer Scientist and Inventor | |
| Narendra Karmarkar | 1978 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Mathematician | [43] |
| Pratim Biswas | 1980 | Chair of the Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis | [44] | |
| Ramakrishna V. Hosur | 1973 | M.Sc. (Chemistry) | [45] | |
| Ravindran Kannan | 1974 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Mathematician; Recipient of the Fulkerson Prize and Knuth Prize | [46] |
| Sarita Adve | 1987 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | Professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | [47] |
| Subhash Khot | 1999 | Computer scientist | [48] | |
| Suhas Patankar | 1965 | M.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) | Mechanical Engineer | |
| T. V. Raman | 1989 | M.Sc. (Mathematics) | Computer scientist | [49] |
| Gaurav Bubna | 2009 | Computer Science | Computer scientist | [50] |
Sports
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ajay Khare | M.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) | Silver Medal for India at Bridge Asian Games, 2022. | [51] |
Others
- Achyut Godbole, businessman and writer
- Ajit Ranade, economist and vice chancellor of Gokhale Institute Of Politics & Economics, Pune
- Anil Kamath, Indian-American computer scientist
- Anil Kumar, Indian-American businessman
- Arun Netravali, Indian-American computer engineer and former president of Bell Labs
- Atul Tandon, management academic and former director of MICA (institute)
- Avinash Deshpande, astrophysicist and professor of physics at Raman Research Institute
- Beheruz Sethna, Indian-American business academic
- Dharmendra Modha, Indian-American computer scientist
- Dinesh Mohan, honorary professor at the IIT Delhi
- Dulal Panda, cell biologist and chair professor at the IIT Bombay
- Gauranga Das, monk and spiritual leader at ISKCON and author
- George Varghese, Indian-American computer scientist
- Lalit Surajmal Kanodia, entrepreneur and chairman of Datamatics
- Madan Rao, condensed matter and biophysicist at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore
- Madhavan Mukund, director and professor at the Chennai Mathematical Institute
- Manas Kumar Santra, cell biologist and biochemist at the National Centre for Cell Science, Pune
- Narendra Kumar, theoretical physicist
- Nitin Nohria, Indian-American academic and former dean of Harvard Business School
- N. K. Naik, aerospace engineer and professor emeritus at the IIT Bombay
- P. P. Parikh, Indian engineer
- Prashant Ranade, Indian-American business executive and former co-chair of Syntel, Inc.
- Pravin Krishna, Indian-American economist
- Rajive Bagrodia, Indian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur
- Sadanand Joshi, Indian-American petroleum engineer and president of Joshi Technologies International, Inc
- Sudheendra Kulkarni, politician and columnist
- Suresh P. Sethi, Indian-American engineer and academic
- Umesh Waghmare, theoretical physicist and professor at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore
- Vikas Joshi, founder of Harbinger group
- Vinay K. Nandicoori, immunologist and the director of Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad
- Viral Acharya, economist and former deputy governor of Reserve Bank of India
- V. V. Chari, Indian-American economist and professor at University of Minnesota