List of NIT alumni

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This lists some of the prominent Alumni of the National Institutes of Technology in India

NIT Campus
Symbol Campus

AGA Agartala
ALL Allahabad
BHO Bhopal
CAL Calicut
DUR Durgapur
HAM Hamirpur
JAI Jaipur
NAG Nagpur
JAL Jalandhar
JAM Jamshedpur
KUR Kurukshetra
PAT Patna
RAI Raipur
ROU Rourkela
SIL Silchar
SRI Srinagar
SUR Surat
KAR Surathkal
TRI Trichy
WAR Warangal

Contents

[edit] Alumni

[edit] Business/Industry

  • Indranil Sen (NAG: BTech), Managing Director(Marketing) for Middle East, Indian Sub continent and Africa in FedEx
  • Pravir Krishak(BHO: MTech 1993), Co-Founder and CEO of scratchmysoul.com[1] - World's Authentic Profiler of People
  • Satya Prabhakar(TRI: BTech 1985), Founder and CEO of Sulekha[2]
  • Nilotpal Roy, (DUR: MTech), Ex-MD, IISCO
  • P K Mohapatra, (ROU: BTech 1972), President and CEO(Technology), RPG Enterprises
  • Shirish B Purohit, (NAG: BTech), Founder and CEO, MIDAS communications
  • Alok Rastogi, (BHO: BTech), Founder of L&T Infotech, US Operations
  • Duvvuri Srinivas, (ROU: BTech 1981), Vice President and Country Head, Bombardier
  • P K Munjal, (KUR: BTech), CEO and MD, Hero Honda
  • Sameer Khera, (SRI: BTech), Sr. Director IT, Cisco Systems, San Jose California
  • Sanjay Dhawan, (KUR: BTech), Executive VP and CSO, Aricent Technologies
  • Shanthi Padmanabhan, (CAL: BTech), Vice-President(Worldwide), Philips Corp.
  • Rajesh Vashist, (ROU: BTech 1980), Founder Chairman of Ikanos Corp.
  • Sudhir Chandrasekhar,(KAR: BTech), Director, Hilton Hotels Corporation
  • Sandip Das, (ROU: BTech), CEO, Hutch India
  • Adesh Gupta, (KUR: BTech), Chairman, Liberty Shoes
  • S R Bala, (KAR:BTech), Vice President, Reliance Industries Ltd.
  • N Chandrasekaran,(TRI:BTech), COO and Executive Director, TCS
  • R Chandrasekaran,(TRI:BTech), President and Managing Director , Cognizant Technology Solutions.
  • Vineet Vohra, (ROU: BTech 1985), Regional Director, Citibank, Singapore
  • Dinesh Keskar, (NAG: BTech 1975), Senior VP, Boeing Aviation.
  • Joseph Abraham ,(BHO: Btech), Vice President(R&D), Bajaj Auto Limited
  • Manish Sinha, (ALL: BTech), GM,Asia-Pacific, Microsoft Corp.
  • Srini Raju, (KUR: BTech), Chairman, I-LAbs
  • S P Rao, (ROU: BTech), Ex-Chairman , ONGC
  • Nitin Bhatt, (ALL:BTech), Vice President, ICT Practice at Frost & Sullivan
  • Mahesh Bulchandani, (ROU: BTech 1989), MD Asia, JP-Morgan
  • Mouli Raman, (ALL: BTech), Founder and CTO, On-Mobile Systems
  • Pradeep Kar, (NAG: BTech), A Serial entrepreneur, Founder of Microland Technologies,and also the founder of the portal Indya.com
  • Rakesh Bakshi, (KUR: BTech), PadmaShree Awardee
  • Rajiv Dubey, (ALL: BTech), Head, Tata Motors(Passenger Car Division)
  • N R Mohanty, (ROU: BTech 1969), Ex-Chairman HAL, and Padma-Bhushan Awardee
  • Firoz Ahmed, (SIL: BTech), CEO, Ericsson Asia
  • Paritosh Malviya, (ALL: BTech), CEO, finEye Corporation and Co-founder Yatra.com
  • Narendar G. Reddy, (WAR: MTech),Vice President, Life Sciences & Healthcare Practice, Syntel, Inc
  • Suneel Ravi, (WAR: MTech), Director, Ajel Technologies
  • Munwar Shariff, (KAR: BTech) CTO and VP of CIGNEX
  • Vivek Mansingh, (ALL: BTech), Site Director, Asia Pacific Operations, Dell Inc
  • P M Pai, (KAR: BTech), COO of SunPower Corp. Former president of Moser Baer
  • Tarun Amla, (CAL: BTech), Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Isola Global
  • Manoj Agarwala, (CAL: BTech), Founder and Vice President, Business Development ,GlobalLogic
  • Vinod Kathail, (BHO: BTech), Founder and CTO of Synfora
  • Jacob Kurien, (TRI: MTech), Former COO Senior VP, Titan Industries, Jewellery Business Unit
  • M.K. Arora, (BHO: BTech), President, Accenture Consulting
  • K G Vijay , (ALL: BTech), Chief Technology Officer, IMG Inc
  • Vineet Vohra, (ROU: BTech), Regional Director, Asia Pacific Region, Citibank Singapore
  • Hari Murthy, (BHO: BTech 1986), He is the head of Hexaware Technologies's North American Operations[3]
  • Krishan Batta, (PAT: BTech), Chief Operating Officer at Celetronix
  • T.Sankaralingam, (TRI: BTech), CMD, NTPC
  • Ramna Sharma, (HAM: BTech), Co-founder and President, Avake Technology. She was also the founder member of Ignite logic Inc. which was later acquired by Google
  • Jose Jacob, (KAR: BTech 1980), Chief Manager, Manufacturing, BPCL
  • Mahesh Krishna, (TRI: BTech ), Vice president WhirlpoolIndia Limited

[edit] Public Service

  • Air Marshal Jayant S Apte, (NAG: BE), C-I-C of the Maintenance Command of the Indian Air Force.
  • Rakesh Bakshi, (KUR: BTech), PadmaShree Awardee
  • Dawood Danesh Jafari, (SRI: BTech), Minister of Finance & Economic Affairs, Iran
  • Tenneti Krishna Prasad, (WAR :B Tech),IPS, Author of 'Trafficking in Persons - Tip of the Iceberg' and Director,APSRTC.
  • V K Kala, (JAI: BTech), He is currently the Vice President,of ,IDeas "Technology Center of Excellence" in Pune, India and a former officer in the Indian Air Force, where he was awarded the prestigious Vice Chief of Air Staff Commendation for services at Air Headquarters
  • K Sambhasiv Rao, (WAR: BTech), Member of Parliament
  • Savita Wakhlu, (SRI: BTech), Board Member of The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation and the managing director of Jagriti Communications
  • R V Shahi, (JAM: BTech), Secretary, Ministry of Power, GOI and Ex-MD NTPC
  • Arun Gauba, (JAM: MTech), Additional Director, Ministry of Defence, GOI
  • S Madhav rao,(WAR:B.Tech),General Manager Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran (P) Ltd.
  • Ajit Jogi, (BHO: BTech), First Chief Minister of Chattisgarh


[edit] Academia/Technology and Research

  • Nambi Sheshadri, (TRI: BTech),Inventor of Space time Trellis Codes at AT&T Bell Labs. Currently serving as Chief Technology Officer at Broadcom Corporation
  • Prashanta Mohapatra, (ROU: BTech 1987), Professor of Computer Engineering, University of California Davis
  • Pramod Viswanath, (KAR: BTech),Professor, UIUC, Renowned Professor of Electrical Engineering in (Information theory and Wireless Communication).
  • Srinidhi Varadarajan, (WAR: BTech 1994), Creator of SystemX - the third fastest supercomputer in the world. Currently, he is the Director of Terascale Computing Facility and Associate Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech.
  • Thomas Zacharia, (KAR: BTech 1980), Director of ORNL Computer Science and Mathematics Division
  • K R Sridhar, (TRI:BTech), Former advisor to NASA on Mars missions and nanotechnology.Fortune Magazine ecognized him as "One of the Top Five Futurists that are inventing tomorrow, today".
  • Barada Mishra, (ROU: BTech 1981), Director, RRL, Bhubaneswar
  • Devadas D. Pillai, (CAL: BTech), Intel Fellow, Director, Enabling Technologies & Solutions Group,Intel Corporation
  • Chittaranjan Sahay, (JAM: BTech), Chairman, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hartford, USA
  • T K Ramasubramanian, (KUR: MTech), Physics genius and famous writer
  • Zia Saquib, (ROU: BTech 1985), ED, CDAC
  • Vishwadeep Khatri, (CAL: BTech), He is the founder and lead facilitator of Benchmark Six Sigma, the leading Six Sigma training and certification organisation in India. He alo heads India operations of Benchmark Certification Australia
  • Sunil Kumar, (KAR: BTech 1990), Associate Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology at the prestigious Stanford Graduate School of Business
  • A K Lahiri, (JAM: BTech), Head, Dept. of Metallurgical Engg. , IISc
  • Tomy Sebastian, (CAL: BTech), Chief Scientist at Delphi corporation.
  • Vishwanath Prasad, (PAT: BTech), Vice-President(Research), University of North Texas
  • K K Agarwala, (KUR: BTech), Vice-Chancellor, GGS Indraprastha University
  • Baldev Raj Agrawal, (RAI: BTech), Director, Indira Gandhi Atomic Research Centre and Padmashree Awardee
  • Rao Remala, (WAR: BTech), Microsoft Director, First employee in India
  • Ram Krishnamurthy,(TRI: BTech), MIT Technology Review magazine 2006, top 35 innovators list
  • Vishwanath Prasad, (PAT: B.Tech), Executive Dean, College of Engineering and Computing,,Florida International University
  • Anil Sinha, (PAT: B.Tech), Professor of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering and Electronics, University of Edinburgh
  • Sandeep Pradhan , Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ,University of Michigan ,Ann Arbor

[edit] Others

  • Mastan Malli, (JAM: BTech 1996), First Indian to have climbed the 7 tallest summits in 7 continents and also created speed record in the process
  • Aakash Khurana, (ROU: BTech), Noted theatre, film personality and Filmfare award winner.
  • Jishnu, (CAL: BTech 2001). Malayalam film actor.
  • Vanitha Rangaraju-Ramanan, (TRI:BArch ) Technical Lighting Director of Oscar winning team of Shrek.