Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Alumni

N.R. Narayana Murthy, founded the software corporation Infosys
Pradeep Sindhu, founder - Juniper Networks
Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Padma Shri and Professor, Dept of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras)
Abhay Bhushan, author of File Transfer Protocol
Amitabh Thakur, an officer of the Indian Police Service, social activist, writer
Anil K. Rajvanshi, Director, Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute and winner of Jamnalal Bajaj Award 2001, FICCI award 2002, Globe Award 2009.
Ashoke Sen, FRS and Padma Shri, string theorist
Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, scientist in the area of NMR and biological membranes
Chandra Kintala, Professor and Director of Software Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology; Director(Retd.), Bell Labs, USA
Debabrata Goswami, scientist, famous for his "Adiabatic Quantum Computing" Work with Lasers; Wellcome Trust International Senior Research Fellow
Duvvuri Subbarao, 22nd Governor of Reserve Bank of India
Jainendra K. Jain, condensed matter theorist
K. VijayRaghavan (Director of National Centre for Biological Sciences) - 2003 Distinguished Alumnus Award Winner
Manindra Agrawal, Nitin Saxena, and Neeraj Kayal (proved with their AKS primality test that primality testing has a polynomial time algorithm, a major result in theoretical computer science). Clay Research Award, 2002, Godel Prize, 2006
Mriganka Sur, neuroscientist), Sherman Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience, Head, Dept of Brain and Cognitive Science MIT, Fellow of Royal Society
Rahul Ram, Indian bass guitarist, social activist and music composer, Indian Ocean (band)
Rajeev Motwani, computer scientist), Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Helped back companies such as PayPal and Google
Rajesh Gopakumar, physicist and string theorist at HCRI, Allahabad
Rajiv Dixit, social activist
Satyendra Dubey, whistle-blower whose murder shocked the nation
Shiraz Minwalla, a string theorist at TIFR who was awarded ICTP Prize for his contribution to theoretical physics
Utpal Bhattacharya, expert on financial ethics
Umang Gupta, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Keynote Systems, Inc.