List of IIT Kanpur people explained

This is a list of people affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

Notable faculty

!Name!Affliliation!Notability!References

H. C. Verma	Former professor, Nuclear physics	Authored several school, undergraduate and graduate textbooks, the most popular being the two-volume Concepts of Physics, co-founded Shiksha Sopan, a social upliftment organization for economically weaker children living near the campus of IIT Kanpur, Padma Shri recipient
Manindra Agrawal	Department of Computer Science and Engineering	Recipient of the first Infosys Prize for Mathematics, Gödel Prize, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Mathematical Sciences and Padma Shri recipient	^[1] ^[2]
Debabrata Goswami	Professor of Chemistry	Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Institute of Physics, Optical Society of America (OSA) Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers	https://spie.org/profile/Debabrata.Goswami-84490?SSO=1https://spie.org/profile/Debabrata.Goswami-84490?SSO=1http://www.e-ico.org/activities/awards
Arun Kumar Biswas	Former Professor, Department of Metallurgical Engineering	Founder president of Indian Language Society, member of the INSA National Commission for History of Science, editorial board member of the Indian Journal of the History of Science	^[3] ^[4]
Subramania Ranganathan	Former Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry	Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology recipient
Yogesh M. Joshi	Professor of Department of Chemical Engineering	Elected fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering
Avinash Kumar Agarwal	Professor of Department of Mechanical Engineering	Elected fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (2013), Society of Automotive Engineers, US (2012), National Academy of Science, Allahabad (2018), Royal Society of Chemistry, UK (2018), International Society for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (2016), and Indian National Academy of Engineering (2015)
Gautam Biswas	Professor of mechanical engineering	Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and Institution of Engineers (IEI)
Debabrata Goswami	Department of Chemistry	FRSC, FInstP, Fellow (OSA), Fellow (SPIE), associate editor, Science Advances	https://spie.org/profile/Debabrata.Goswami-84490?SSO=1https://www.osa.org/en-us/awards_and_grants/fellow_members/recent_fellows/2017_fellows/https://www.science.org/content/page/science-advances-editorial-board

Notable alumni

Business

!Name!Class Year!Notability!References

Arvind Krishna	1985	CEO of IBM; Director of IBM Research	^[5]
Bhaskar Pramanik	1972	Former CEO of Microsoft India	^[6]
Mukesh Bansal	1997	Founder of Myntra; CEO and Founder of Cure.fit	^[7]
Som Mittal		Former President of NASSCOM	^[8]
N.R. Narayana Murthy	1969	Founder & Chairman Emeritus of Infosys, Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan	^[9]
Jagjeet (Jeet) S. Bindra	1969	Director at Edison International
Muktesh Pant	1976	Former CEO of Yum China	^[10]
Sangeet Paul Choudary		CEO & Founder of Platformation Labs and Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum
Umang Gupta	1971	chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Keynote Systems	^[11]
Lalit Jalan	1979	CEO of Reliance Infrastructure
Prashant Pathak		Chairman of Investment Committee of Business Development Bank of Canada, CEO of Ekagrata Inc.
Pradeep Sindhu	1974	Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer/Vice chairman of the board of directors of Juniper Networks Inc.
Rakesh Gangwal	1975	Co-founder of IndiGo airline	^[12]
V. K Matthews		Founder chairman IBS software services
Prakash Bare		Actor, producer, Technologist

Politics and civil services

!Name!ClassYear!Notability!References

Abhay Karandikar	1988, 1994	Secretary Department of Science and Technology Former Director, IIT Kanpur	^[13]
Ashwini Vaishnaw	1994	Former Indian Administrative Service officer Minister of Railways Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Minister of Communications	^[14]
Amitabh Thakur	1989	Indian Police Service officer known for his anti-corruption advocacy, now active for ensuring accountability and transparency in public life through political party Adhikar Sena
Prem Das Rai	1976	former Member of Parliament
Saurabh Kumar	1986	former Ambassador of India to Iran	^[15]
Sudhir Vyas	1975	former Ambassador of India to Germany	^[16]
Satyendra Dubey	1994	Project Director in National Highways Authority of India assassinated for exposing corruption in the Golden Quadrilateral highway project.	^[17]
Ashutosh Sharma	1982	Secretary Department of Science and Technology
Ram Sewak Sharma	1978	Chairman, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
Duvvuri Subbarao	1969	22nd Governor of Reserve Bank of India	^[18]
Krishnamurthy Subramanian	1994	17th Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India	^[19]
Muralee Thummarukudy		Chief Disaster Risk Reduction at United Nations Environment Programme

Science and technology

Name	ClassYear	Notability	References
Abhay Bhushan	1965	Author of the File Transfer Protocol
Kare Narain Pathak	1967	Condensed matter physicist, Former Vice-Chancellor & Professor Emeritus at Panjab University.	^[20] ^[21]
Atish Dabholkar	1985	String theorist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	^[22]
	1980	Astrophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	^[23]
Mahan Mj	1992	Mathematician and a recipient of the 2011 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award
Rakesh Jain	1972	Distinguished Tumor researcher at Harvard Medical School and recent winner of National Medal of Science.
Bhrigu Nath Singh	1998	Director General of IITRAM. Professor and former HAL chair professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	^[24]
Sirshendu De	1998	Recipient of 2011 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award and professor of chemical engineering department, IIT Kharagpur
Shahid Jameel	1979	Virologist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	^[25]
Ashok Jhunjhunwala	1970	Padma Shri and professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras
Deepak Dhar	1972	Theoretical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	^[26]
Kapil Hari Paranjape	1982	Mathematician, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
Debasisa Mohanty	1988	Computational biologist, N-Bios laureate	^[27]
Pramod Sadasheo Moharir	1971	Geophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	^[28]
Rajeev Motwani	1983	Computer scientist, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, Gödel Prize recipient
Yashavant Kanetkar		Computer science author, known for his books on Programming languages
G. Ravindra Kumar	1990	Laser physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	^[29]
Jainendra K. Jain		Condensed matter theorist	^[30]
Jitendra Malik	1980	Arthur J. Chick Professor of EECS at University of California at Berkeley
Ranjan Mallik	1987	Communications engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureat	^[31]
Shiraz Minwalla	1995	String theorist at TIFR who was awarded ICTP Prize for his contribution to theoretical physics
Padmanabhan Balram		Director of IISC Bangalore and winner of Padma Bhushan	^[32]
Upinder Singh Bhalla	1982	Neuroscientist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	^[33]
Suresh Kumar Bhatia		Chemical engineer, academic, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	^[34]
Narayanan Chandrakumar	1979	Chemical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	^[35]
Tushar Kanti Chakraborty	1979	Organic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	^[36]
Sandip Trivedi	1985	Theoretical physicist working at TIFR, recipient of the Infosys Prize 2010 in the category of Physical Sciences	^[37]
Vijay Vaishnavi	1971	Researcher and scholar in the computer information systems field	^[38]
Anil K. Rajvanshi	1972	Director, Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute. Winner of Jamnalal Bajaj Award 2001, FICCI award 2002, Globe Award 2009, University of Florida Distinguished Alumnus Award 2014, Padma Shri Award 2022, IIT Kanpur Distinguished Alumnus Award 2022.	^[39] ^[40] ^[41] ^[42] ^[43]
Raghavan Varadarajan	1982	Biophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	^[44]
Anuradha Misra	1983	Physicist	^[45]
Neeraj Kayal	2002	Computer scientist and mathematician noted for development of AKS primality test	^[46] ^[47] ^[48]
Nitin Saxena	2002	Computer scientist and mathematician noted for development of AKS primality test
Pradyut Ghosh	1998	Inorganic chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	^[49]
Manu Prakash		Physical Biologist and Inventor, Best known for his Foldscope and Paperfuge
Arup Kumar Raychaudhuri	1975	Condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	^[50]
Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy	1990	Scientist in the area of NMR and biological membranes
Suryanarayanasastry Ramasesha	1977	Quantum chemist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	^[51]
Gopal Prasad	1966	Mathematician
H. R. Krishnamurthy	1972	Theoretical Physicist
Rajesh Gopakumar	1992	Theoretical physicist director of International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore and winner of Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award in 2009.	^[52]
Shridhar Ramachandra Gadre	1978	Computational Chemist and winner of Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar Award in 1994.	^[53]

Teaching

!Name!Class Year!Institute and Position!Notability!References

Rakesh Agrawal	1975	Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University	National Medal of Technology and Innovation Laureate	^[54]
Rajit Gadh		Professor of Engineering, Director of UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center	Pioneer of Smart grids
Balasubramanian Gopal		Professor of Molecular Biophysics Unit of Indian Institute of Science	Molecular biophysicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	^[55]
Chandra Kintala		Professor and Director of Software Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology	Former Director, Bell Labs, USA
Subodha Kumar	1997	Paul R. Anderson Distinguished Chair Professor and Founding Director, Center for Business Analytics and Disruptive Technologies, Fox School of Business, Temple University	Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Fellow; Deputy Editor, Production and Operations Management journal; Founding Executive Editor, Management and Business Review journal	^[56] ^[57] ^[58]
Ranjan Roy		Professor emeritus and Chairman of Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Beloit College	Recipient of the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.	^[59]
Sanjay Sarma		Professor and Director of Digital Learning at MIT	Credited with developing standards and technologies in the commercial RFID industry
Ashoke Sen	1976	Distinguished professor at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad	FRS, Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan, string theorist
Sanjib Senapati		Professor at the Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, Department of Biotechnology of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras	N-Bios laureate	^[60]
Mriganka Sur	1974	Newton Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Simons Center for the Social Brain at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Neuroscientist, fellow of the Royal Society
K. VijayRaghavan	1977	Former Director of National Centre for Biological Sciences,Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India (2018-)	Fellow of the Royal Society, foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences, Padma Shri and Infosys Prize recipient
Spenta R. Wadia		Professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research	Founding Director of the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, TWAS Prize recipient	^[61] ^[62]
Suresh Venkatasubramanian			Computer scientist and known for his contributions in computational geometry and differential privacy
Sourav Pal	1977	Director of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata
Anurag Kumar	1977	Director of Indian Institute of Science
Suman Datta	1995	Semi-conductor researcher at Notre Dame University, USA	In 2013, he was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and in 2016, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.

Notes and References

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3. Web site: Mei. 3 December 2015. Prof. A.K. Biswas, 1934–2015. 17 September 2021. MEI's Barry Wills.
4. Web site: Arun Kumar Biswas. 17 September 2021. iitk.ac.in.
5. Web site: Dr Arvind Krishna . https://web.archive.org/web/20231002081601/https://iitk.ac.in/dora/profile/Dr-Arvind-Krishna . 2023-10-02 . 2024-04-14 . IIT Kanpur.
6. Web site: Bhaskar Pramanik . https://web.archive.org/web/20220126125308/https://www.iitk.ac.in/dora/profile/bhaskar-pramanik . 2022-01-26 . 2024-04-14 . IIT Kanpur.
7. Web site: Mukesh Bansal . 2024-04-20 . IIT Kanpur.
8. Web site: Mr Som Mittal . https://web.archive.org/web/20220520004938/https://www.iitk.ac.in/dora/profile/Mr-Som-Mittal . 2022-05-20 . 2024-04-14 . IIT Kanpur.
9. Web site: Sri Narayan Murthy . 2024-08-13 . IIT Kanpur.
10. Web site: Mr Muktesh Pant . 2024-04-20 . IIT Kanpur.
11. Web site: Umang Gupta Profile - Forbes.com. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110521090257/http://people.forbes.com/profile/umang-gupta/47239. 21 May 2011. 7 June 2011. people.forbes.com.
12. Web site: Mr Rakesh Gangwal . 2024-04-20 . IIT Kanpur.
13. Web site: Prof. Abhay Karandikar . 2024-08-13 . IIT Kanpur.
14. Web site: Mr Ashwini Vaishnaw . 2024-04-20 . IIT Kanpur.
15. Web site: Saurabh Kumar . 2023-08-13 . IIT Kanpur.
16. Web site: Sudhir Vyas . https://web.archive.org/web/20180814151425/http://dora.iitk.ac.in:80/dora/sudhir-vyas-profile . 2018-08-14 . IIT Kanpur.
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32. Web site: 30 October 2017. Indian Fellow. 30 October 2017. INSA.
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34. Web site: 2017. Suresh Kumar Bhatia-Faculty profile. 22 October 2017. University of Queensland.
35. Web site: 2016. Narayanan Chandrakumar-Indian fellow. 22 October 2017. Indian National Science Academy.
36. Web site: 2016. Tushar Kanti Chakraborty-Indian fellow. 22 October 2017. Indian National Science Academy.
37. Web site: Infosys Prize - Laureates 2010 - Prof. Sandip Trivedi. https://web.archive.org/web/20120515102858/http://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/prize/laureates/2010/sandip-trivedi.asp. 15 May 2012.
38. Web site: Batch of 1974. www.iitk.ac.in. Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
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45. Web site: Dr. (Mrs.) Mishra Anuradha. 3 August 2019. University of Mumbai.
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49. Web site: 2016. Pradyut Ghosh-Faculty profile. 22 October 2017. Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science.
50. Web site: Arup Kumar Raychaudhuri Senior Professor & Director. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20180131231044/http://www.bose.res.in/faculty/fac_new/arupkumarraychaudhuri.html.201304100915. 31 January 2018. 15 February 2018. www.bose.res.in.
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