48 Notable alumni of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Updated: June 22, 2026 EliteDegrees
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay is ranked #497 in the world and #4 in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 48 notable alumni from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Indian Institute of Technology Bombay won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Tarun Kant
1946-. (aged 80)
scientist
Tarun Kant, an institute chair professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in Mumbai since December 2009, was born on 1 July 1946 in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh, India. He received a BSc degree from Allahabad University in 1962, a B.Tech (Hons.) degree in civil engineering from IIT Bombay in 1967 and an M.Tech in civil engineering, specializing in structural...
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2. Imran Siddiqi
1957-. (aged 69)
botanist
Imran Siddiqi is an Indian geneticist. Currently, he is a group leader at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) and heads a research group.
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3. Suresh P. Sethi
1945-. (aged 81)
mathematician
economist
Suresh P. Sethi is an Indian-American mathematician who is the Eugene McDermott Chair of Operations Management and Director of the Center for Intelligent Supply Networks at the University of Texas at Dallas.
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4. Pramod Khargonekar
1956-. (aged 70)
computer scientist
university teacher
electrotechnician
Pramod P. Khargonekar is the Vice Chancellor for Research and Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. An expert in control systems engineering, Dr. Khargonekar has served in a variety of administrative roles in academia and federal funding agencies. Most recently, he served as assistant director for Engineering at the National Science Foundation,...
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5. Hemchandra Kekre
1935-2014 (aged 79)
teacher
Hemchandra Baburao Kekre was a professor, author, and head of the Computer Science Department at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Kekre was among the initial professors who started the computer science department at IIT Mumbai.
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6. Vikas Joshi
businessperson
Vikas Joshi is an Indian businessman, who founded the technology company Harbinger Group in 1990.
7. Amiya Pujari
1948-2003 (aged 55)
computer scientist
Amiya Kumar Pujari was an Indian computer scientist and information technology pioneer and leader.
8. Akhilesh K. Gaharwar
1982-. (aged 44)
researcher
Akhilesh K. Gaharwar is an Indian academic and a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University.
9. Kavita Ramanan
probability theorist
Kavita Ramanan is a probability theorist who works as a professor of applied mathematics at Brown University.
10. Girish Sant
1966-2012 (aged 46)
social worker
Girish Sant was a noted Indian energy analyst held in high esteem as an energy policy commentator from India. He co-founded the non-governmental organisation Prayas in Pune, India. His analytical inputs helped shape India's energy policy over the decades of the 1990s and 2000s. He was considered an effective team builder and mentored several energy researchers and activists.
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11. N. K. Naik
1944-. (aged 82)
engineer
military flight engineer
Niranjan Krishna Naik is an Indian aerospace engineer and Professor Emeritus at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He is known for his research work on thermomechanical behavior of textile composites and ballistic impact, low velocity impact, fatigue and fracture of composites. His special interest is also on science and technology of aircraft production. Major awards and recognitions conferred to him...
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12. Ramakrishna V. Hosur
1953-. (aged 73)
biophysicist
physicist
Professor Ramakrishna Vijayacharya Hosur is an Indian biophysical scientist, known for his expertise in the areas of nuclear magnetic resonance and molecular biophysics. The Government of India honoured him, in 2014, by awarding him the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, for his contributions to the fields of science and technology.
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13. Nanda Khare
1946-2022 (aged 76)
writer
novelist
Anant Yashwant Khare was an Indian writer and a civil engineer. He wrote on scientific, sociological and economic subjects in the Marathi language. He published around twenty-five books, including a novel titled Udya (Marathi for 'Tomorrow'), published in 2014 which is recognised one of the prominent writings in Marathi literature.
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14. T. V. Raman
1965-. (aged 61)
computer scientist
T. V. Raman is an Indian American computer scientist who specializes in accessibility research. His research interests are primarily in the areas of auditory user interfaces and structured electronic documents. He has worked on speech interaction and markup technologies in the context of the World Wide Web at Digital's Cambridge Research Lab (CRL), Adobe Systems and IBM Research. He currently...
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15. S. Shankar Sastry
1956-. (aged 70)
academic
professor
S. Shankar Sastry is the founding chancellor of the Plaksha University, Mohali and a former Dean of Engineering at University of California, Berkeley.
16. Prashant Ranade
engineer
Prashant Ranade was with Atos Syntel from 2007 till his retirement from the company in May 2020. He was the co-chairman of Syntel, Inc., a position to which he was appointed on 3 November 2016. He was formerly executive vice chairman of syntel's board of directors and also served as the company's chief executive officer and president from February 2010.
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17. Dharmendra Modha
1969-. (aged 57)
computer scientist
Dharmendra S. Modha is an Indian American manager and lead researcher of the Cognitive Computing group at IBM Almaden Research Center. He is known for his pioneering works in Artificial Intelligence and Mind Simulation. In November 2009, Modha announced at a supercomputing conference that his team had written a program that simulated a cat brain. He is the recipient of...
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18. Shobhana Narasimhan
1963-. (aged 63)
physicist
Shobhana Narasimhan is an Indian academic who is Professor of Theoretical Sciences at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, India. Her main area of interest is computational nanoscience. Her research examines how the lowering of dimensionality and reduction of size affect material properties. She is an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and...
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19. Arun Majumdar
1945-. (aged 81)
academic
university teacher
materials scientist
mechanical engineer
photon scientist
Arunava Majumdar is a materials scientist, engineer, and the inaugural dean of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. He was nominated for the position of Under Secretary of Energy in the United States between November 30, 2011, and May 15, 2012.
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20. Sridhar Rangayan
1962-. (aged 64)
film producer
screenwriter
film director
Sridhar Rangayan is an Indian filmmaker who has made films with special focus on queer subjects. His queer films, The Pink Mirror, Yours Emotionally, 68 Pages, Purple Skies, Breaking Free & Evening Shadows have been considered groundbreaking because of their realistic and sympathetic portrayal of the largely closeted Indian gay community. His film The Pink Mirror remains banned in India...
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21. Deepak B. Phatak
1948-. (aged 78)
academic
Deepak B. Phatak is an Indian computer scientist and academic, and a recipient of the Padma Shri Award for his contribution in science and technology in 2013. He is known for his notable work for upgrading Aakash, advertised by its manufacturer as the 'world's cheapest tablet'. In 2009, he was ranked one of the 50 most powerful people in India.
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22. Ravindran Kannan
1953-. (aged 73)
computer scientist
mathematician
university teacher
Ravindran Kannan (Tamil: ரவீந்திரன் கண்ணன்); born 12 March 1953, is a theoretical computer scientist. His work has mainly focused on efficient algorithms for problems of a mathematical (often geometric) flavor that arise in Computer Science, Machine Learning and Optimization.
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23. Lalit Surajmal Kanodia
1941-. (aged 85)
businessperson
Lalit Surajmal Kanodia is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of the Datamatics Group. He has held positions in business organisations such as the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce, the Indian Merchants Chamber, and served as president of the Management Consultants Association of India.
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24. Kanwal Rekhi
1945-. (aged 81)
businessperson
Kanwal Singh Rekhi is an Indian-American businessman. He was the first Indian-American founder and CEO to take a venture-backed company public on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
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25. Dinesh Mohan
1945-2021 (aged 76)
engineer
Dinesh Mohan was honorary professor at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi since 2017. He was distinguished professor at Shiv Nadar University, Gautam Buddha Nagar (India) from 2016 to 2018. From 2010 to 2015 he was Emeritus Volvo Chair Professor for Transportation Planning & Safety at IITD. He was head of Centre for Biomedical Engineering (1991–1996), Coordinator of the Transportation Research...
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26. Raj Gupta
1945-. (aged 81)
businessperson
Rajiv L. Gupta is an American businessman, the current chairman of Aptiv, an auto parts company, and a former executive with Rohm and Haas, a manufacturer of specialty chemicals.
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27. Madhu Pandit Dasa
1956-. (aged 70)
civil engineer
Madhu Pandit Dasa is a spiritual leader, the President of ISKCON Bangalore. As a humanitarian, he has been actively involved in programs like Akshaya Patra that provides mid-day meals to children studying in Government schools. He is the Founder and Chairman of The Akshaya Patra Foundation, guiding the organisation to realise the vision - "No child in India shall be...
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28. Colin Gonsalves
1952-. (aged 74)
lawyer
human rights defender
Colin Gonsalves is a designated Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India and the founder of Human Rights Law Network. He specializes in human rights protection, labour law and public interest law. He has been awarded Right Livelihood Award for the year 2017 for "his tireless and innovative use of public interest litigation over three decades to secure fundamental...
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29. Ashish Chauhan
businessperson
Ashishkumar Chauhan is an Indian business executive and administrator, who is currently the managing director and chief executive officer (CEO) of the National Stock Exchange (NSE).
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30. Udaya Kumar Dharmalingam
1978-. (aged 48)
designer
Udaya Kumar Dharmalingam is an Indian academic and designer noted for his design of the Indian rupee sign. His design was selected from among five short listed symbols. According to Kumar, the design is based on the Indian tricolour.
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31. Ramesh Chandra Agarwal
1944-2017 (aged 73)
media proprietor
Ramesh Chandra Agarwal was an Indian media proprietor and founder-chairman of the Dainik Bhaskar group of newspapers that has a presence in 14 states of India with 62 editions and has an estimated readership of over 15 million. He started Dainik Bhaskar newspaper at Bhopal in 1958. In 1983 he launched the Indore edition and in 1996 it was produced...
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32. Victor Menezes
1947-2025 (aged 78)
banker
Victor Joseph Menezes was an Indian-American banker. He began his career in 1972 by joining the American financial services company Citicorp (now Citigroup) in corporate banking and went on to serve as the Senior Vice Chairman of Citigroup, working for the company for 32 years until his retirement.
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33. Sudheendra Kulkarni
journalist
politician
Sudheendra Kulkarni is an Indian politician and columnist.
34. Rohini Godbole
1952-2024 (aged 72)
physicist
university teacher
Rohini Godbole was an Indian physicist and academic specializing in elementary particle physics: field theory and phenomenology. She was professor at the Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. She worked extensively on different aspects of particle phenomenology over three decades, in particular on exploring different aspects of the Standard Model of Particle Physics (SM) and the...
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35. Nandan Nilekani
1955-. (aged 71)
entrepreneur
politician
Nandan Mohanrao Nilekani is an Indian entrepreneur. He co-founded Infosys and is the non-executive chairman of Infosys replacing R Seshasayee and Ravi Venkatesan, who were the co-chairs of the board, on 24 August 2017. After the exit of Vishal Sikka, Nilekani was appointed non-executive chairman of the board effective 24 August 2017. He was the chairman of the Unique Identification...
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36. Mansoor Khan
film producer
screenwriter
film director
Mohammed Mansoor Hussain Khan is an Indian film director and producer known for his works in Hindi cinema.
37. Bhavish Aggarwal
1985-. (aged 41)
chief executive officer
Bhavish Aggarwal is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Ola Consumer, founder of Ola Electric and founder of Ola Krutrim, a large language model artificial intelligence (AI) company which became India's first AI unicorn in 2024 an estimated valuation of $1 billion.
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38. Jairam Ramesh
1954-. (aged 72)
politician
economist
Jairam Ramesh is a senior Indian politician to the Indian National Congress. He is a Member of Parliament representing Karnataka state in the Rajya Sabha. In July 2011, Jairam was elevated to the Union Council of Ministers of India and appointed Minister of Rural Development and Minister (additional charge) of the new Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. However, in...
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39. Pranav Mistry
1981-. (aged 45)
computer scientist
Pranav Mistry is an Indian computer scientist and inventor. He is the former President and CEO of STAR Labs (Samsung Technology & Advanced Research Labs). He is currently the founder and CEO of TWO, an Artificial Reality startup. He is best known for his work on SixthSense, Samsung Galaxy Gear and Project Beyond.
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40. Viral Acharya
1974-. (aged 52)
banker
economist
academic
Viral V. Acharya is an Indian economist who served as Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) from 2017 to 2019. He is currently serving as the C.V. Starr Professor of Economics at New York University Stern School of Business. Previously he was also a member of the advisory council of the RBI Academy and was a member of...
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41. Parag Agrawal
1984-. (aged 42)
computer scientist
business executive
chief executive officer
chief technology officer
Parag Agrawal is an Indian-American software engineer and businessman who was the CEO of Twitter, Inc. from November 2021 to October 2022.
42. Manohar Parrikar
1955-2019 (aged 64)
politician
Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar was an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party who served as the eighth Chief Minister of Goa, going on to serve a total of four times between 2000 and 2019. He also served as the Union Minister of Defence from 2014 to 2017. In 2020, he was posthumously awarded the Padma Bhushan.
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43. Nitesh Tiwari
film director
screenwriter
Nitesh Tiwari is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and lyricist known for his works in Hindi films. He debuted as a co-director in Chillar Party (2011) which won the National Film Award for Best Children's Film. He also directed the supernatural political drama Bhoothnath Returns (2014).
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44. Satyendra Pakhale
1967-. (aged 59)
architect
industrial designer
ceramics designer
Satyendra Pakhalé is a mulifaceted designer. His work spans design, architecture, art, technology, healthcare and mobility. His projects combine technological development with cultural references and experimentation with materials.
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45. Yogesh Moreshwar Joshi
1974-. (aged 52)
chemical engineer
Yogesh Moreshwar Joshi is an Indian chemical engineer, rheologist and the Mr. & Mrs. Gian Singh Bindra Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He is known for his studies on metastable soft matter and is an elected fellow of the Society of Rheology, Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, The National Academy of Sciences, India,...
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46. Vic Gundotra
1968-. (aged 58)
businessperson
Vivek Paul "Vic" Gundotra is an Indian-born American businessman who served as the Senior Vice President, Social for Google until 24 April 2014. Prior to joining Google, he was a general manager at Microsoft.
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47. Sivan Kailasavadivoo
1957-. (aged 69)
aerospace engineer
scientist
military flight engineer
Kailasavadivu Sivan is an Indian aerospace engineer who served as the secretary of the Department of Space and chairman of ISRO and Space Commission. He has previously served as the director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Center and the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre.
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48. Pushpak Bhattacharyya
1962-2025 (aged 63)
computer scientist
artificial intelligence researcher
university teacher
Pushpak Bhattacharyya was an Indian computer scientist and professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the IIT Bombay. He served as the Director of the IIT Patna from 2015 to 2021.
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