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List of IIT Delhi people 
Summary
This is a list of people affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, one of the Indian Institutes of Technology in India.
Notable alumni edit
Business edit
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anirudh Devgan | 1990 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | president and CEO of Cadence Design Systems | [1] |
| Anurag Dikshit | 1994 | B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering) | co-founder of Partygaming | [2] |
| Binny Bansal | 2005 | B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering) | co-founder of Flipkart | [3] |
| Jyoti Bansal | 1999 | B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering) | founder of AppDynamics | [4] |
| Manvinder Singh Banga | 1975 | B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) | former chairman, Unilever | [5] |
| Mohit Aron | 1995 | B.Tech. (Computer Science) | founder and CEO of Cohesity and co-founder and former CTO of Nutanix | [3] |
| Padmasree Warrior | 1982 | B.Tech. (Chemical Engineering) | chief technology and strategy officer Cisco Systems; former chief technology officer of Motorola, Inc. | [6] |
| Patu Keswani | 1981 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | founder of Lemon Tree Hotels | [7] |
| Sachin Bansal | 2005 | B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering) | co-founder of Flipkart | [8] |
| Sameer Gehlaut | 1995 | B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) | co-founder of Indiabulls | [9] |
| Vikrant Bhargava | 1994 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | co-founder of Partygaming | [10] |
| Vinod Khosla | 1976 | B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) | co-founder of Sun Microsystems | [11][12] |
| Yogesh Chander Deveshwar | 1968 | B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) | chairman at ITC | [13] |
| Rajdeep Grewal | distinguished professor of marketing at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | [citation needed] | ||
| Rajat Gupta | 1971 | B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering) | managing director of McKinsey & Company, convicted of insider trading | [12][14] |
| Pramod Maheshwari | chief executive officer, Career Point Ltd | [citation needed] | ||
| Sashi Reddi | CEO and founder of AppLabs | [15] | ||
| Krishan Sabnani | Research VP at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, responsible for research on NFV and web communications | [citation needed] | ||
| Nandu Nandkishore | former executive vice president and head of Asia Oceania, Africa of Nestlé S.A, Switzerland | [citation needed] | ||
| Vivek Gupta | president and CEO of Mastech Digital | [citation needed] | ||
| Ashish Nanda | former director of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad & Robert Braucher Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School | [citation needed] | ||
| Rajendra Pawar | 1972 | B.Tech (Electrical Engineering) | co-founder, NIIT | [12] |
| Vijay Thadani | 1972 | B.Tech (Electrical Engineering) | co-founder, NIIT | [12] |
| Nitin Seth | 1993 | B.Tech (Textile Technology) | Co-Founder and CEO of Incedo Inc. | [16] |
Politics and law edit
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jayant Sinha | 1985 | former Union Minister of State for Finance, Government of India, former managing director at Omidyar Network and partner at McKinsey & Company, Member of Parliament in the Indian Lok Sabha | [17][18] | |
| Kiran Bedi | 1993 | Ph.D. | former Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry | [19] |
| Raghuram Rajan | former chief economist of IMF, former chief economic adviser to the Prime Minister of India; 23rd governor of the Reserve Bank of India joined on 5 Sep 2013, Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business | [20][21] | ||
| Somnath Bharti | lawyer and politician | [22] | ||
| Sunjay Sudhir | 1988 | B. Tech | diplomat | [23] |
Science and technology edit
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anupam Garg | 1977 | M.S. Physics | Professor, Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, co-discoverer Leggett-Garg inequality | [citation needed] |
| Madhu Sudan | 1987 | B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering) | professor of computer science at Harvard University, ACM Fellow and 2002 Nevanlinna Prize winner | [24] |
| Shrinivas Kulkarni | 1978 | M.Sc. (Physics) | McArthur Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science, Caltech | [citation needed] |
| Soumitro Banerjee | 1983, 1988 | Ph.D. | electrical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [25] |
| Subir Sachdev | Did not graduate | B.Tech. | professor of physics at Harvard University | [26] |
| Siddhartha Paul Tiwari | Did not graduate | Doctorate | Technologist, India Science Award laureate, Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland | [27] |
| Venkata Padmanabhan | 1993 | B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering) | computer engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate, ACM Fellow | [28] |
| Vipin Kumar Tripathi | 1967, 1971 | Doctorate | notable Indian Plasma physicist. Former Physics professor of IIT, Delhi. Founder of Sadbhav Mission. | [29] |
| Sanket Goel | 1998 | M.S. Physics | Dean and Professor, BITS Pilani. Fulbright and JSPS Fellow | [30] |
| Naveen Garg | theoretical computer scientist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [citation needed] | ||
| Avinash Kak | professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University | [citation needed] | ||
| Subhash Kak | professor of electrical and computer engineering at Oklahoma State University | [citation needed] | ||
| Devang Vipin Khakhar | 1981 | B.Tech (Chemical Engineering) | chemical engineer, academic, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [31] |
| Sudhanshu Vrati | vaccinologist, N-BIOS laureate | [32] | ||
| Narinder Kumar Gupta | honorary member in the area of impact mechanics of the International Society of Impact Engineering. | [33] | ||
| Predhiman Krishan Kaw | 1966 | Ph.D | Founding Director of Institute for Plasma Research, first PhD graduate of IITD. | [12] |
| Avinash Kumar Agarwal | 1996, 1999 | M.Tech (Energy), Ph.D (Mech. Eng.) | mechanical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [34] |
| Mohit Randeria | 1980 | B.A. in Electrical Engineering | condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [35] |
| Anurag Sharma | optical physicist, academic, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [36] | ||
| Arogyaswami Paulraj | 1973 | Ph.D (Elect. Engineering) | pioneer in MIMO, professor emeritus in the Dept. of Elect. Engineering at Stanford University | [12] |
| Surendra Prasad | Ph. D | communications engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [37] | |
| Sanjay Puri | 1982 | MS (Physics) | statistical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [38] |
| Rahul Pandit | MS (Physics) | condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate | [39] |
Arts and entertainment edit
| Name | Class
Year |
Degree | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amol Parashar | B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering | actor | [40] | |
| Chetan Bhagat | 1995 | B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering | Indian novelist | [41] |
| Swami Mukundananda | 1982 | B.Tech. in mechanical engineering | spiritual leader; bestselling author; founder of JKYog and Radha Krishna Temple of Dallas | [42] |
| Tushar Raheja | 2006 | B.Tech in industrial engineering, PhD in applied probability | Indian novelist | [43][44][45] |
Others edit
- Acharya Prashant, author and Advaita teacher[46][47]
- Amardeo Sarma, president German Sckeptics Society
- N. S. Satya Murthy, physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate, not an IIT Delhi graduate[49]
Notable faculty edit
- Durai Sundar, computational biologist, N-Bios laureate[50]
- Munish Chander Puri, professor emeritus of mathematics
- Vipin Kumar Tripathi, notable Indian Plasma physicist and professor emeritus of Physics[29]
- Prof. Rajat K. Baisya, founder, Project and Technology Management Foundation (PTMF)[51]
- Kiran Seth, founder of SPIC MACAY[52]
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