List of NIT alumni

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

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Alumni

Business/Industry

*Vivek Shenoy (CAL:BTech) Chief Technology Officer, Elina Networks
*Praveen Vishakantaiah (TRI:BE) Head, Intel India
*Lilian Jessie Paul, (TRI: BE) Chief Marketing Officer, Wipro Technologies

*Subramaniam Vincent, (TRI: BE 1992) Editor/Publisher of India Together [http://www.indiatogether.org]

*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 [http://www.scratchmysoul.com/] - World's Authentic Profiler of People
*Satya Prabhakar(TRI: BTech 1985), Founder and CEO of Sulekha [http://www.sulekaha.com/]

*K. V. Kamath, (KAR: BTech 1969), CEO of ICICI Bank
*S. P. Rao, (ROU: BTech 1972), MD, ISP, SAIL

*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), Managing Director, Rolls-Royce India Limited

*P K Munjal, (KUR: BTech), CEO and MD, Hero Honda
*Sameer Khera, (SRI: BTech), Sr. Director IT, Cisco Systems, San Jose California

*C B K Rao, (JAM: MTech), MD, Delhi Metro Rail Corp.
*SS Raman, (CAL:BTech 1974), President, TVS Electronics & VP (MAIT)
*Sanjeev Srivastava, (CAL: BTech 1986), Founder and Chairman of realty firm [http://www.assotech.in/ Assotech]

*C P Gurnani, (ROU: BTech 1981), President, Tech-Mahindra
*Nelabhotla Venkateswarlu, (ALL: BTech), CEO, Emami Limited

*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 Aircraft Trading.
*Joseph Abraham, (BHO: Btech), Vice President (R&D), Bajaj Auto Limited

*RT Singh, (JAM: BTech ), GM, Tata Motors, Jamshedpur
*Baru Rao, (WAR: BTech), CEO, Capgemini Ernst and Young

*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

*Rajeev Madhavan, (KAR: BTech), He is the co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Magma Design Automation

*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

*Srinivasa Arikatla, (WAR: MTech), Chairman and CEO [http://www.ajel.com/management.html Ajel Technologies]

*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, [http://www.isola-group.com/ Isola Global]

*Manoj Agarwala, (CAL: BTech), Founder and Vice President, Business Development , [http://www.globallogic.com/ GlobalLogic]
*Hemant Jain, (BHO: BTech 1980), Founder and CTO of [http://www.intruguard.com/ IntruGuard]

*Vinod Kathail, (BHO: BTech), Founder and CTO of [http://www.synfora.com/ 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 [http://www.hexaware.com/]

*Krishan Batta, (PAT: BTech), Chief Operating Officer at [http://www.celetronix.com/ Celetronix]
*T.Sankaralingam, (TRI: BTech), CMD, NTPC
*Ramna Sharma, (HAM: BTech), Co-founder and President, [http://www.avake.com/ Avake Technology] . She was also the founder member of Ignite logic Inc. which was later acquired by Google

*Rajan Narayanan, (TRI: BTech 1979), Vice President MindTree Consulting
*Sandeep Chouhan, (ALL: BTech), CIO ,Barclays

*S. Janakiraman, (TRI: BTech), President and CEO, R&D Services MindTree Consulting

*Jose Jacob, (KAR: BTech 1980), Chief Manager, Manufacturing, BPCL

*Mahesh Krishna, (TRI: BTech ), Vice president Whirlpool India Limited

*Arun Jaura (SRI: BTech 1982) Chief Technology Officer, Mahindra and Mahindra

*M. V. Raja Rao (KAR: BTech) Former Vice-President, Manufacturing - Tata Motors Ltd

*Sunil Ji Garg (ALL: BTech 1983) Sr. General Manager, UPTEC

Public service

*Nitish Kumar, (PAT: BTech), Chief Minister of Bihar

*Air Marshal Jayant S Apte, (NAG: BE), C-I-C of the Maintenance Command of the Indian Air Force.

*Suresh Pachouri, (BHO: BTech), Member of Parliament

*Rakesh Bakshi, (KUR: BTech), PadmaShree Awardee
*Dawood Danesh Jafari, (SRI: BTech), Minister of Finance & Economic Affairs, Iran

*Tenneti Krishna Prasad, (WAR: BTech), 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

*Prabhakaran Paleri, (CAL: BTech), Former Director General, Indian Coast Guard

*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 [http://www.savitawakhlu.com/ Jagriti Communications]

*R V Shahi, (JAM: BTech), Secretary, Ministry of Power, GOI and Ex-MD NTPC

*Biraj Adhikari, (KUR: BTech), Deputy CM of Sikkim
*P S Nair, (CAL:BTech), Director(Satellites), Indian Space Research Organisation

*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

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).

*Samir Barua, (NAG: BTech 1972),Director, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
*I K Bhatt, (SRI: BTech ),Director, NIT Hamirpur

*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

*Guruswami Ravichandran, (TRI: BTech 1981), Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering at California Institute of Technology

*S.K.Bose, (PAT: BTech), Former Director of IIT Kharagpur

*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

*Laxmi Bhuyan, (ROU: BTech 1972), Professor of [http://www.cs.ucr.edu/index.php/main/main/ Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, Riverside.]

*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

*Anurag Agarwal, (ALL: BTech), Professor, IIM Ahmedabad

*Priya Prasad, (PAT: BTech), A world-renowned biomechanics expert at Ford Motor Company

*Damodar Acharya, (ROU: BTech 1971), Former Chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education and Currently director of IIT Kharagpur

*Anil Nair, (ALL: BTech 1985), Professor at Old Dominion University, USA

*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, (CAL: BTech)Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
*Sunil Chandran, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Others

*Dileep Premachandran, (CAL: BTech) Cricket writer and journalist, The Times, and Cricinfo
*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".