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List of BITS Pilani alumni

This is a list of notable alumni of BITS Pilani and its predecessors Birla College of Engineering etc.[1]

Entrepreneurs edit

Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITS
Sanjay Mehrotra Co-founder of SanDisk, CEO of Micron Technology 1974-1976
Preetish Nijhawan Co-founder of Akamai Technologies 1985–1989
Baba Kalyani[2] Billionaire, Chairman of Bharat Forge 1965–1970
Sabeer Bhatia Founder of Hotmail 1986–1988
Gulu Mirchandani Founder and Chairman of Onida Group
Alagu Periyannan Co-founder of BlueJeans 1985–1989
Bill Malhotra Founder of Claridge Homes 1966-1971
Vinod Agarwal Founder and chairman of SemIndia; founder and former Chairman of LogicVision 1968–1973
Vijay Chandru Co-founder and CEO, Strand Life Sciences; Inventor of Simputer 1971–1975[3]
Rajiv Bapna Founder and Director of Amkette, a storage media company 1969–1974
Surendra Kumar Surana Founder and Managing Director of Compucom Software Ltd and Editor in Chief at Jan TV 1981–1985
Sriharsha Majety Co-founder and CEO of Swiggy 2003–2008
Nandan Reddy Co-founder of Swiggy 2005–2010
Abhinav Asthana Co-founder of Postman API 2006–2010
Abhijit Kane Co-founder of Postman API 2008–2013
Kaushik Mukherjee Co-founder of Sugar Cosmetics 2000–2004
Hari Menon Co-founder, CEO of BigBasket 1979–1983
Richa Kar Co-founder of Zivame 2002–2007
Ishan Bansal Co-founder of Groww 2005–2009
Shubh Malhotra Co-founder of Mobile Premier League 2005–2009
Narendra Khatri Co-founder of Insubuy 1991-1995
Bhuvan Gupta Co-founder of OfBusiness 1996–2000
Phanindra Sama Co-founder of RedBus 1998–2002
Shivkumar Ganesan Co-founder of Exotel 2000–2004
Abhishek Nayak Co-founder of Appsmith 2005–2010
Srivatsan Chari Co-founder of ClearTax 2004–2008
Abhinay Peddisetty Co-founder of BukuWarang

Corporate leaders edit

Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITS
Revathi Advaithi CEO of Flex 1986–1990
Amitabh Chaudhry CEO of Axis Bank 1981-1985
Rakesh Kapoor ex-CEO of Reckitt Benckiser 1975–1980
Sunil Duggal ex-CEO of Dabur 1974–1979
Vivek Paul ex-CEO of Wipro Technologies; Consulting Professor at Stanford University
SK Roongta ex-Chairman of Steel Authority of India 1966–1971
Kiran Deshpande ex-CEO of Tech Mahindra
Sampath Manickam CTO - Technology Infrastructure of National Stock Exchange of India 1999-2002

Academia edit

Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITS
Goverdhan Mehta Padma Shri Awardee, Fellow of the Royal Society, ex-Director of IISc Bangalore, ex-Vice Chancellor of University of Hyderabad –1963[4]
Dorairajan Balasubramanian Former President of Indian Academy of Sciences and Director of Research at L. V. Prasad Eye Institute; recipient of the National Order of Merit (France) and Padma Shri. 1957–1959[5]
S. P. Kothari Padma Shri Awardee, Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management 1974–1979
Krishna Saraswat Electrical Engineering Professor at Stanford University 1963–1968
Milind Tambe Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University –1986
Autar Kaw Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Florida 1976–1981
Arun Sharma Distinguished emeritus professor, Queensland University of Technology 2008
G. Ravindra Kumar[6][7] Senior professor - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research 1977–1983
Ravi Gomatam Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute (Berkeley and Mumbai)[8]
Narendra Ahuja Founding Director of IIIT Hyderabad (1999–2002) 1968–1972
Arun K. Somani Department Chair, Senior Associate Dean in Engineering, Iowa State University 2003–2010, 2013–present (as of 2023)
Govindan Rangarajan Director & Professor Dept. of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 1980–1985
Seshadri Vasan First Rhodes Scholar alumnus, COVID-19 scientist, Honorary Professor, University of York 1991–1996
T. N. Vijaykumar Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University 1990
Ravindra Dastikop Educator and speaker on Cloud Computing

Social activists, politics, and government edit

Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITS
Prithviraj Chavan[9] Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra; former Union Minister for Science and Technology, Govt. of India 1963–1967
Ramesh Ramanathan[10] Social entrepreneur; co-founder of Janaagraha

Film edit

Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITS
Mani Shankar Film director –1978[11][12]
Anu Hasan Actress, Tamil/Telugu movies, TV show host 1988–1993[13][11]
Baradwaj Rangan Film critic and writer 1988–1992[13]
Kanika Former Actress, Malayalam/Tamil/Kannada/Telugu films, TV show host 1999-2003
Sandeep A. Varma Award-winning Film Director and Writer
Idlebrain Jeevi Film critic and entrepreneur 1991-1995
Siva Ananth Film writer, producer, lyricist, director and actor 1991-1995[14]

Arts edit

Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITS
B. Sandhya Police officer and author
Dilip D'Souza Writer of social causes 1976–1981
Shashi Warrier Writer of fiction
Vikram Sampath Writer of historical non-fiction
Umesh Prasad Journalist and Editor
Hartosh Singh Bal Journalist and Editor
Padmini Chettur Dancer 1987–1991
Dushyanth Sridhar Noted scholar in Sanskrit and Tamil on ancient Hindu scriptures 2004–2009
Gaurav Chaudhary Tech Vlogger
Harish Sivaramakrishnan Lead vocalist of Carnatic progressive rock band Agam 1998–2002
Adarsh Iyengar Indian Singer and Musician

References edit

  1. ^ "List of Notable BITS Alumni - BITSAA International". bitsaa.org. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  2. ^ ":: Chairman ::". kalyanigroup.com. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  3. ^ "BITS Pilani Distinguished Alumni Award 2013". BITS Pilani Alumni Association. Retrieved 1 May 2024.
  4. ^ "Prof. Goverdhan Mehta - About the Alumnus". BITS Pilani.
  5. ^ "TPB". TPB. 2015. Archived from the original on 28 January 2015. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
  6. ^ "Indian fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 21 October 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  7. ^ "Professor G. Ravindra Kumar on ISF". Infosys Science Foundation. 21 October 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  8. ^ "Bhaktivedanta Institute". bvinst.edu. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  9. ^ "Biographical Sketch". parliamentofindia.nic.in. Archived from the original on 21 August 2004.
  10. ^ "Ramesh Ramanathan | Center for Contemporary South Asia". Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Retrieved 1 May 2024.
  11. ^ a b "Masala & Spice". Sandpaper - BITSAA. Retrieved 1 May 2024.
  12. ^ "Interview with Mani Shankar by Jeevi". Idlebrain. 22 March 2002. Retrieved 1 May 2024.
  13. ^ a b "BITS Pilani Batch of 1988 ClassNotes". Sandpaper. 2004. Retrieved 1 May 2024.
  14. ^ "Interview with Siva Kumar by Jeevi". Idlebrain.com. 9 January 2006. Retrieved 8 May 2024.
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