50 Notable alumni of Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Updated: June 22, 2026 EliteDegrees
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi is ranked #554 in the world and #6 in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 50 notable alumni from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi 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 Delhi won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Sumit Jamuar
Sumit Jamuar is the chairman, co-founder and CEO of Global Gene Corp, a genomics data platform and applications company that is collecting and analysing diverse genomic and medical datasets to deliver precision healthcare to a global market. Sumit is responsible for the company's long-term strategy and partnerships.
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2. Amitabh Varshney
1966-. (aged 60)
computer scientist
Amitabh Varshney is an Indian-born American computer scientist. He is an IEEE fellow, and serves as Dean of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. Before being named Dean, Varshney was the director of the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies from 2010 to 2018.
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3. Ravi Rishi
1955-2016 (aged 61)
businessperson
Ravi Rishi was a non-resident Indian businessman, chair of the board of Vectra Group of companies and was based out of Richmond in the United Kingdom. Rishi also served as non executive director of Global Vectra Helicorp.
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4. Shuchi Chawla
computer scientist
Shuchi Chawla is an Indian computer scientist who works in the design and analysis of algorithms, and is known for her research on correlation clustering, information privacy, mechanism design, approximation algorithms, hardness of approximation, and algorithmic bias. She works as a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin.
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5. Rajpal Singh Sirohi
1943-. (aged 83)
physicist
Rajpal Singh Sirohi is an Indian optics physicist, academic administrator, educator, and researcher in optical metrology. He is the former Director of IIT Delhi and Vice Chancellor of several universities. He is the Fellow of INAE, NASI, OSA, SPIE, OSI and ISoI. He has received numerous awards including Gabor Award of SPIE, Galileo Award of ICO. He is also the...
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6. Vivek Gupta (businessman)
businessperson
Vivek Gupta is an Indian-born American business leader. He was the president and CEO, and director on the board of Mastech Digital for nine years. He currently advises and mentors companies and corporate leaders on growth and transformation.
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7. Nemkumar Banthia
1959-. (aged 67)
university teacher
chief executive officer
civil engineer
Nemkumar Banthia FRSC, is an Indian-born Canadian engineer and professor of civil engineering at the University of British Columbia and the CEO of IC-IMPACTS. He is best known for his research in the fields of cement-based and polymer-based fiber reinforced composites, particularly on testing and standardization, fracture behavior, strain-rate effects, durability and development of sustainable materials.
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8. Navdeep Asija
1977-. (aged 49)
scientist
Navdeep Asija is the founder of dial-a-cycle rickshaw concept known as Ecocabs and won the 2011 National Award of Excellence by Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India.
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9. B. S. Sahay
Prof. B. S. Sahay is the Founder Director, Indian Institute of Management Jammu. He was the Founder Director of Indian Institute of Management Raipur, Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon and Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad. Sahay completed his BTech from BIT Sindri and received his MTech and PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.
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10. Srinivasan Keshav
1965-. (aged 61)
computer scientist
engineer
Srinivasan Keshav FRSC is a computer scientist who is currently the Robert Sansom Professor of Computer Science at the University of Cambridge.
11. Vasant Dhar
teacher
Vasant Dhar is a professor at the Stern School of Business and the Center for Data Science at New York University, former editor-in-chief of the journal Big Data and the founder of SCT Capital, one of the first machine-learning-based hedge funds in New York City in the 1990s. His research focuses on building scalable decision-making systems from large sources of...
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12. Jaideep Prabhu
1967-. (aged 59)
university teacher
Jaideep Prabhu FBA is the Jawaharlal Nehru professor of business and enterprise at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, England. The Professorship was established by the Government of India with an endowment of £3.2 million. Prabhu is also the director of the Centre for India & Global Business (CIGB). He is the co-author of Jugaad Innovation: Think...
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13. Ambuj Sagar
researcher
academic
policy analyst
Ambuj D. Sagar is the Vipula and Mahesh Chaturvedi Professor of Policy Studies at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. As of October 2022, he has been appointed as the deputy director at IIT Delhi. His interests broadly lie in science and technology policy, environmental policy, and development policy, with a particular focus on the interactions between technology and society....
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14. Aditya Julka
1981-. (aged 45)
entrepreneur
Aditya Julka is the co-founder and former CEO of Paddle8, an online auction house for fine art and collectibles. In July 2016, Paddle8 announced a merger with Auctionata, with Julka serving as the chief strategy officer for the joint company. Julka previously founded InBioPro (a biochemical company based in Bangalore, India) and BioAtlantis (a biotechnology company based in Ireland).
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15. Narinder Kumar Gupta
1942-. (aged 84)
academic
Narinder Kumar Gupta is a research scientist, educator, and engineer. Born 22 August 1942 in Mirpur, Jammu and Kashmir, India, he is a Professor of Mechanics at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. Gupta works in the area of large deformations of metals and composites at low, medium and high rates of loading. His research stimulates the development of...
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16. Soumitro Banerjee
1960-. (aged 66)
electrical engineer
Soumitro Banerjee is an Indian electrical engineer and physicist and former acting Director of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata. He is known for his studies on border collision bifurcations and nonlinear phenomena in power electronic circuits and is an elected fellow of all three major Indian science academies: the National Academy of Sciences, India, Indian Academy...
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17. Sashi Reddi
1965-. (aged 61)
entrepreneur
Sashi Parvatha Reddi is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and a philanthropist. Sashi Reddi was the CEO and founder of AppLabs. Sashi Reddi was born in Madras, India and later migrated to the US. He grew up in Guntur but attended boarding school at Lawrence School, Lovedale. He is a recipient of the Louis Braille Award from the Pennsylvania Council for...
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18. Anwesh Sahoo
1995-. (aged 31)
beauty pageant contestant
Anwesh Kumar Sahoo is an Indian artist, blogger, writer, model, actor and a TEDx speaker. He was crowned Mr. Gay World India 2016, becoming the youngest winner of the crown at the age of 20. He represented India at the Mr. Gay World 2016 pageant held in Malta, Europe and made it to the Top 12. He is a recipient...
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19. Tushar Raheja
1984-. (aged 42)
film director
Tushar Raheja is an Indian storyteller and mathematics researcher based in Cambridge, UK. His first book Anything for you, Ma'am, a comedy, was published in 2006 while he was an undergraduate student in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. His first feature film The Bizarre Murder of Mr Tusker, a sci-fi, noir, starring BAFTA nominee Victor Banerjee, is due for release....
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20. Harsh Chitale
businessperson
Harsh Chitale was the previous CEO of HCL Infosystems.
21. Subir Sachdev
1961-. (aged 65)
university teacher
scientist
physicist
Subir Sachdev is Herchel Smith professor of physics at Harvard University specializing in condensed matter. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2014, received the Lars Onsager Prize from the American Physical Society and the Dirac Medal from the ICTP in 2018, and was elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society ForMemRS in 2023. He was...
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22. Bharat Ratra
1960-. (aged 66)
university teacher
Bharat Vishnu Ratra is an Indian-American physicist, physical cosmologist and astroparticle physicist who is currently a university distinguished professor of physics at Kansas State University.
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23. Rajendra Singh Pawar
1951-. (aged 75)
writer
Rajendra Singh Pawar is an Indian entrepreneur, chairman and co-founder of NIIT Limited, established in 1981. He also founded NIIT University, a not-for-profit university in Neemrana, Rajasthan, in 2009.
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24. Ashish Nanda
academic
economist
Ashish Nanda is a business economist and professor who is the former Director of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.
25. Avinash Kak
1944-. (aged 82)
computer scientist
engineer
university teacher
artificial intelligence researcher
Avinash C. Kak is an Indian-American computer scientist and professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University who has conducted pioneering research in several areas of information processing. His most noteworthy contributions deal with algorithms, languages, and systems related to networks (including sensor networks), robotics, and computer vision. Born in Srinagar, Kashmir he did his bachelor's degree at University...
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26. Yogesh Chander Deveshwar
1947-2019 (aged 72)
businessperson
Yogesh Chander Deveshwar was an Indian businessman. He was the chairman of ITC Limited. He was the longest-serving CEO of any Indian company.
27. Somnath Bharti
1974-. (aged 52)
politician
Somnath Bharti is an Indian politician and lawyer.
28. Arogyaswami Paulraj
1944-. (aged 82)
university teacher
academic
electrical engineer
Arogyaswami J. Paulraj is an Indian electrical engineer who is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He is best known for his work in MIMO (Multiple Input, Multiple Output) wireless technology.
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29. Divya Dwivedi
university teacher
ontologist
writer
philosopher
researcher
Divya Dwivedi is an Indian philosopher and author. She is a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Her work includes a focus on philosophy of literature, aesthetics, philosophy of psychoanalysis, narratology, revolutionary theory, critical philosophy of caste and race, and the political thought of Gandhi. She is the co-author of Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-politics and Indian...
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30. Madhu Sudan
1966-. (aged 60)
computer scientist
university teacher
Madhu Sudan is an Indian-American computer scientist. He has been a Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences since 2015.
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31. Shrinivas Kulkarni
1956-. (aged 70)
teacher
astronomer
physicist
Shrinivas Ramchandra Kulkarni is an Indian American astronomer. He is a professor of astronomy and planetary science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and was the director of the Caltech Optical Observatory (COO), overseeing the Palomar and Keck among other telescopes.
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32. Vinod Khosla
1955-. (aged 71)
businessperson
Vinod Khosla is an Indian-American billionaire businessman and venture capitalist, though he rejects that title and calls himself a venture assistant used on helping entrepreneurs. He is a co-founder of Sun Microsystems and the founder of Khosla Ventures. Khosla made his wealth from early venture capital investments in areas such as networking, software, and alternative energy technologies. He is considered...
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33. Jayant Sinha
1963-. (aged 63)
politician
Jayant Sinha is an Indian politician and a former Union Minister of State for Finance and Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation in the Government of India, and served as the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Finance and as a member of the Public Accounts Committee from 2019 to 2024. He served as the Member of Parliament (Lok...
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34. Sameer Gehlaut
1974-. (aged 52)
businessperson
Sameer Gehlaut is an Indian businessman. He is the founder and chairman of the Indiabulls Group, a financial services conglomerate.
35. Padmasree Warrior
1961-. (aged 65)
businessperson
chemical engineer
Padmasree Warrior is an Indian-American businesswoman and technology executive. She is known for her leadership roles in technology firms like Cisco where she was the CTO for seven years, and at Motorola where she was the CTO for five years. She also was the CEO of Nio USA, an electric car maker. Currently, she is the founder and CEO of...
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36. Sugata Mitra
1952-. (aged 74)
computer scientist
physicist
professor
writer
Sugata Mitra is an Indian computer scientist and educational theorist. He is best known for his "Hole in the Wall" experiment, and widely cited in works on literacy and education. He is Professor Emeritus at NIIT University, Rajasthan, India. A Ph.D. in theoretical physics, he retired in 2019 as Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University in England, after 13...
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37. Raghuram Rajan
1963-. (aged 63)
university teacher
economist
banker
Raghuram Govind Rajan is an Indian economist and the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He served as the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund from 2003 to 2006 and the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 2013 to 2016. In 2015, during his tenure...
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38. Chetan Bhagat
1974-. (aged 52)
screenwriter
opinion journalist
writer
journalist
film screenwriter
Chetan Prakash Bhagat is an Indian author, columnist, screenwriter, and YouTuber. He was included in Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2010. Several of his novels have been adapted into films, including One Night at the Call Center and Half Girlfriend.
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39. Sachin Bansal
1981-. (aged 45)
computer scientist
engineer
entrepreneur
Sachin Bansal is an Indian entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder of Flipkart During his over 11 year career at Flipkart, Bansal was CEO and chairman. In 2018, Bansal exited Flipkart following the Walmart deal.
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40. Shammi Narang
1956-. (aged 70)
actor
Shammi Narang is an Indian media personality, voice-over artist, ex news anchor and entrepreneur based in Delhi. Graduating with an engineering degree, Narang first got into the voice-over profession by working in the Hindi division of Voice of America. Later he was selected from among 10,000 candidates into Doordarshan, which was then the only channel in India, and became the...
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41. Subhash Kak
1947-. (aged 79)
philosopher
physicist
cryptographer
university teacher
mathematician
Subhash Kak is an Indian-American computer scientist and historical revisionist. He is the Regents Professor of the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Oklahoma State University–Stillwater, an honorary visiting professor of engineering at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and a member of the Indian Prime Minister's Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council.
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42. Kiran Bedi
1949-. (aged 77)
writer
police officer
tennis player
politician
Kiran Bedi PPMG PNBB is a former tennis player who became the first Indian woman to join the officer ranks of the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972 and was the 24th lieutenant governor of Puducherry from 28 May 2016 to 16 February 2021. She remained in service for 35 years before taking voluntary retirement in 2007 as Director General,...
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43. Amar Gupta
1953-. (aged 73)
computer scientist
university teacher
Amar Gupta is an Indian computer scientist based in the United States. Gupta has worked in academics, private companies, and international organizations in positions that involved analysis and leveraging of opportunities at the intersection of technology and business, as well as the design, development, and implementation of prototype systems that led to widespread adoption of new techniques and technologies.
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44. Radha Krishna Mathur
1953-. (aged 73)
civil servant
Radha Krishna Mathur is a retired Indian IAS officer and Indian bureaucrat, who served as the 1st Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh from 2019 to 2023. He retired as the Chief Information Commissioner of India (CIC) in November 2018. Mathur had retired as the India's Defence Secretary, two years after being appointed to the post on 25 May 2013. He was...
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45. Manu Prakash
bioengineer
university teacher
biophysicist
designer
inventor
Manu Prakash is an Indian scientist who is a professor of bioengineering at Stanford University. Manu was born in Meerut, India. He is best known for his contributions to the Foldscope and Paperfuge. Prakash received the MacArthur Fellowship in September 2016. He and his team at Stanford University have developed a synchronous computer that operates using the physics of moving...
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46. Gauhar Raza
1956-. (aged 70)
writer
film director
social activist
scientist
Gauhar Raza is an Indian engineer, science communicator, Urdu poet, social activist and documentary filmmaker. He is known for his films like Jung-e-Azadi, on India's First War of Independence, and Inqilab (2008) on Bhagat Singh. He was also the honorary director of Jahangirabad Media Institute.
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47. Sulkhan Singh
1957-. (aged 69)
police officer
Sulkhan Singh is a retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer belonging to Uttar Pradesh cadre. He was the Director General of Uttar Pradesh Police.
48. Ashok Kumar
1963-. (aged 63)
police officer
Ashok Kumar was an Indian actor who worked in Hindi cinema. He is regarded as one of the greatest actors of Indian cinema. He is considered to be the first superstar of Indian cinema as well as the first lead actor to play an anti-hero. He also became the first star to reinvent himself, enjoying a long and hugely successful...
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49. Amardeo Sarma
1955-. (aged 71)
engineer
writer
journalist
Amardeo Sarma is a qualified engineer for electrical and telecommunications engineering, chair of the Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften (GWUP) and former chair of the European Council of Skeptical Organisations. Professionally, he works for NEC Laboratories Europe. Sarma is a CSI Fellow and sits on the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry's Executive Council.
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50. Anurag Sharma
1955-. (aged 71)
physicist
Anurag Sharma is an Indian physicist and a professor at the department of physics of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He is known for his pioneering researches on optoelectronics and optical communications and is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy and National Academy of Sciences,...
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