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* Currently locted in [[Dubai Knowledge Village]].
* Currently locted in [[Dubai Knowledge Village]].
* The largest IEEE, Students Section in the U.A.E
* The largest IEEE Student Branch in the U.A.E
* Offers Bachelor of Engineering in :
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**B.E.(Hons.) Mechanical Engineering
**B.E.(Hons.) Mechanical Engineering

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Birla Institute of Technology & Science
File:BITS-Pilani-Logo.jpg
Mottognanam paramam balam
"Knowledge is Power Supreme"
(or "Where the Journey Begins")
TypePrivate
Established1929
ChancellorK K Birla (Pro Chancellor: Kumarmangalam Birla)
Vice-ChancellorL K Maheshwari
Undergraduates1365 annual intake
Postgraduates185 annual intake
Location
Pilani, India
Goa, India
Dubai, UAE
AlumniBITSAA
AffiliationsACU, WACE
WebsiteBITS-Pilani,
BITS-Goa Campus
BITS-Dubai Campus
File:Molecule (Sciences), Lotus (Humanities), Rocket (Technology)

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India (popularly known as 'BITS Pilani') is one of the oldest and leading technology schools (along with IITs) of India. In addition to Pilani, BITS has campuses in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Goa, India, an extension centre in Bangalore, India, and a fourth campus under construction in Hyderabad. The institute is privately supported, fully residential, and admits both male and female students.

Brief history

It was founded by Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla in 1929 as an intermediate college.

During World War II, the Government of India established a technical training centre at Pilani for the supply of technicians for defense services and industry. At the end of the war, in 1946, it was converted it into the Birla Engineering College with degree programmes in electrical and mechanical engineering.

In 1964, the Birla Colleges of Arts, Commerce, Engineering, Pharmacy and Science were merged to form the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS). In this period of inception (especially during 1964-1970), BITS Pilani received support from the Ford Foundation and benefited from an alliance with the MIT.

BITS Pilani started to expand in India and abroad since 2000. New campuses were established in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (2000) and Goa, India (2004), and a fourth campus is to be opened in 2007 at Jawaharnagar (near Hakimpet Air Force station), Hyderabad. BITS also runs a virtual university and an extension centre in Bangalore.

Reputation and rankings

Many reputed sources, including the UNESCO Science Report 2005 (ISBN 92-3-103967-9) make use of Asiaweek magazine's latest rankings of science and technology schools in the Asia-Pacific region, 2000. According to this ranking, BITS Pilani was ranked in the Top 20 in Asia (overall), and in the Top 5 in Asia in terms of 'Student Selectivity'.

The management programmes offered by BITS Pilani have also been ranked by Asiaweek (Top 30 Best Full-Time MBA, Top 30 By Reputation, Top 5 Distance MBA). These programmes have also been profiled by Business Week Online (The Best B Schools).

Annual rankings of engineering colleges in India have been published by the magazine India Today since 1997. BITS Pilani was ranked in the Top 5 consistently (1997-2004) and ranked higher than a few IITs, but opted out of the survey since 2005. However, the institute participates in the Dataquest-IDC Survey as well as in the Outlook-Cfore Survey, and was ranked in the Top 5 T-Schools of India 2006 by both these surveys.

"BITS Pilani" was also the only Indian university to be ranked in the Top 20 Wired organisations of Asia by Business Today (January 18, 2004 issue).

The institute is accredited (with a five-star rating) by the Government of India's National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) for the period ending February 7, 2007.

BITS Pilani is also the institute of choice for toppers of the school leaving examinations in India. For instance, toppers of 21 educational boards including the CBSE and the ICSE chose to join the Institute in 2006. BITS Pilani is also reputed for an array of work integrated learning programmes for HRD of a vast spectrum of Indian corporates.

The Institute has strong alliances with various Indian/foreign universities/industries for exchange of students/faculty, Distance Learning Programs, etc. A small list of colleges is given below:

1.MIT, Boston,
2.University of Maryland,
3.University of Otago,
4.University of Southern California,
5.Kathmandu university
6.University of Oklahoma,
7.Victoria University,
8.Kansas State University,
9.Arizona State University,
10.University of New South Wales,
11.Purdue University,
and many more.

Undergraduate admission procedure

BITS admits students through revised admission procedure since 2005 via National Entrance Examination (BITSAT). BITSAT is Computer Based Test held between May 1 and June 10 in many cities all over India. The exam tests subject-content in English, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Logical reasoning, and is focused on higher secondary curriculum in India. Prospective students are required to obtain minimum 80% marks in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics in their higher secondary examinations to be eligible for admission.

Toppers of higher secondary examinations are exempted from taking BITSAT test and are considered admitted. This exemption helps ensure that BITS retain the significant number (about 20) of first rank holders from across the country who join BITS every year.

Acceptance rate in BITS is very low (Selectivty -> 2.6% in 2006) making it one the toughest schools in India and the world to get admission into. For more information, see BITS Admission.

Pilani Campus

Highlights

  • 328 acre (1.3 km²)[ This is the area under BITS. The total area of the Vidya Vihar campus , which houses several other smaller facilities - some of them under the Birla Education Trust- encompasses an area of over 1000 acres )
  • Museum - This is a Science Museum of its kind in India. Having various Science experiments and live demonstration of that.
  • Clock Tower
  • Saraswati Mandir
  • An excellent library
  • Shiv Ganga
  • Sky Lawns
  • BITSConnect
  • Gliding Club (now defunct)
  • Students Activity Centre.
  • Information Processing Centre (IPC)
  • C'not Shopping Area

Hostels

There are 12 student hostels or 'Bhawans' on campus named after historical or mythological characters of India (such as Ashok, Bhagirath, Budh, Gandhi, Krishna, Malviya, Meera, Ram, Rana Pratap, Shankar, Viswakarma and Vyas). Over the years, Meera Bhawan has remained exclusively for girls. Malviya Bhawan was also converted into a girls hostel for a short span of time but the recent introduction of BITSAT has caused decrease in the no. of girls which has resulted in Malviya bhawan becoming a boys' hostel and the rest are exclusively for men. There are 7 dining halls or 'messes' associated with these 12 hostels.

Current initiatives

BITS Pilani is the pioneer of university-industry linkage program in India. It is also setting new standards in distance learning programs with its virtual university going online. BITSConnect, an alumni initiative, has commissioned a $50 million VLSI Lab initiative which aims to conduct semiconductor research and development, now called as the "O-Lab". BITS Pilani is a key partner in several international initiatives like the development of JournalServer open-access digital library, the Project IPV6, MIT iCampus initiative, etc.

While countless seminars, workshops, conferences and symposia for years have paid lip service to fostering university - industry linkages, BITS Pilani has gone way ahead of others in successfully implementing the same in India Today.

BITS Pilani since 1973 has made a pioneering contribution for the development of institutionalized linkages between university and industry. The early start evidently helped, for the Institute today, has tie-ups with a staggering number of corporates across the globe.

The Practice School Program of BITS takes all its students to the industry for seven and half months as an integral component of the academic curriculum like the medical internship. In terms of Practice School - I Programme, which is presently implemented for two months at the end of second year for all its campus programmes, the number of industries has grown from 14 stations and 244 students in 1975 to 129 stations and 1376 students in 2006. In terms of Practice School - II programme which is implemented for five and half months in the final year for all its campus programme students, the number of industries has grown from 1 station and 24 students in 1973 to 135 stations & 1092 students in 2005.

The off campus work integrated learning programmes of BITS addresses the Human Resource Development needs of the industry. In terms of off-campus degree programmes, the enrollment has grown from 30 students in 1979 to over 10,000 students in 2005. The off campus doctoral program of BITS allows industry professionals to pursue PhD from their employing organizations.

Since 1979, the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani has been participating in the human resources development activities of the industries through several degree programmes by integrating the working environment of the employees with the learning environment required by the Institute.

Considering that present day information technologies can allow a rich interactive learning experience that may surpass the interactivity of a traditional classroom, the BITS model of off-campus education emphasizes on acquisition of knowledge and skills through mediated information and deploys synchronous instruction through Internet based desktop video conferencing as well as asynchronous instruction through on-demand lectures.

Presently, BITS Pilani has dedicated memorandum of understanding with a vast spectrum of national and international organizations which include Ashok Leyland, Bharat Forge, Bharat Dynamics, GRASIM, Chambal Fertilizers, Hindustan Zinc, NTPC, Sankara Nethralaya, Madras Medical Mission, Frontier Lifeline, LV Prasad Eye Institute, CMC Vellore, Bombay Hospital, Dr Reddy's, IPCA Labs, ITRC Lucknow, Strides Arcolabs, TIFR, CDC Delhi, IIQM Jaipur, Cognizant, GEITC,i2 Technologies, Honeywell, HCL, HP Labs, IBM, Intel, Microsoft Research, Motorola, Nokia, Patni, Philips Software, Qualcomm, Satyam, Tech Mahindra, Texas Instruments, Wipro, Convergent Technologies etc.

BITS Pilani has indeed set the Benchmark for Industry University Collaborations.

Goa campus

Highlights

  • Located on the banks of Zuari river, about 5 km from the airport.
  • Spread over 188 acres of land owned by the Zuari industries.
  • Newly constructed hostels for students.
  • An air conditioned auditorium with seating capacity of 2200.
  • Air-conditioned classrooms and lecture halls.
  • An excellent library.
  • Student activity centre.
  • Shopping complex including a cafeteria.

Hostels

Well furnished hostels with single room accommodation is provided to all the students. Presently, there are 11 hostels, 8 hostels for boys and 3 hostels for girls, all with a 100mbps LAN connection in every room. Few more hostels are also being built for the next coming batch. Apart from this all the hostels are well connected to the main building through ingeniously designed walkways that protect the students from rain and the sun, with the exception of BH6, BH7 and BH8. Also every hostel has a common room with a tv and a phone with intercom facility.

Latest news

  • Scream 2006 successfully completed on.
  • The campus successfully organized an International Workshop On Biosensors(February 21-23 2006)
  • Formally inaugurated on 5 may, 2006 by the honourable prime minister of India,Dr.Manmohan Singh.
  • CSD(Centre for Software Development) launched an unofficial student forum @ www.bitszone.tk.
  • Abhigyaan-Literacy Mission to teach the underprivileged was started under the able guidance of Dr. T.C.Goel, the Director of Goa campus.
  • PS1(Practice School-1) which is on the lines of Pilani Campus was successfully completed for the 1st batch of students.Over 200 reputed companies participated in the process.
  • The 3rd batch of the new campus joined on 1 august, 2006.

Dubai campus

BITS, Pilani-Dubai Campus (BPDC) was established in September 2000. Over a period of 7 years, BPDC's student strength has grown close to 1200.

BPDC which commenced its Engineering Programs in just two disciplines has added on new specializations gradually and now offers 5 different programmes. All the programmes are the same as BITS, Pilani - India and are of 4 years duration and an Internship of 7½ months in reputed industries is included within these 4 years.

The process and progress of programmes at Dubai Campus are very closely monitored by BITS, Pilani-India since students of BPDC get their degree from BITS, Pilani-India on their successful completion of the programme.

Highlights

  • Currently locted in Dubai Knowledge Village.
  • The largest IEEE Student Branch in the U.A.E
  • Offers Bachelor of Engineering in :
    • B.E.(Hons.) Mechanical Engineering
    • B.E.(Hons.) Computer Science Engineering
    • B.E.(Hons.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering
    • B.E.(Hons.) Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering
    • B.E.(Hons.) Chemical Engineering
BITS, Pilani - Dubai Campus

The Dubai Campus has academic relations with the following American Universities:

    • University of Maryland, College Park
    • Purdue University, West Lafayette
    • Iowa State University
    • Kansas State University
    • Buffalo State University

Future plans

  • Shifting to Dubai Academic City by the 2007 end.
  • Introduction of new programmes and faculty base expansion.
  • Commencement of Post Graduate and Management Courses.

Annual festivals

SANGAMAM

If you have heard of Vienna's Donauinselfast, UK's Glastonbury, USA's Woodstock as well as Coachella valley Music and Arts Festival but not the music festivals of India, then its high time you know about them. Among the Music Festivals of India much is known about the Chembai Music Festival, Dover Lane Music Festival, Gunidas Sangit Sammelan, ITC Sangeet Sammelan, Saptak Music Festival, Sawai Gandharva Sangeet Mahotsav, Tansen Music Festival, Thyagaraja Music Festival but not about BITS Pilani's Sangamam.

The annual classical music and dance festival conducted by Ragamalika. Ragamalika, the classical dance and music club of BITS, Pilani was established in 1990 by a group of enthusiasts with the purpose of nurturing our rich heritage and carrying forward the Indian tradition by advocating the opulence of India's fine arts. Ragamalika is extremely dedicated to the cause of promotion of classical music and dance amongst the BITSian public and has earned widespread reputation from the BITSians through a myriad number of concerts set to professional standards .

The most important programme organized by Ragamalika is SANGAMAM, a three day cultural festival held in the last weekend of February. It features eminent artistes from all over the country performing for a cosmopolitan audience of over 2000. Sangamam also features a scintillating inaugural performance by the hosts before the artistes take their bow on the center stage. Being personally involved in all stages of its planning, organization, finances and sponsorship, Sangamam is an event that every member of Ragamalika looks forward to and is widely popular among the BITSian fraternity.

Scheduled from 23rd to 25th February 2007, this year's Sangamam featured Carnatic Muisc Maestro Dr T V Sankaranarayanan on the first day, Sitar- Flute Jugalbandhi by Shri Ravi Kiran and Shri Pravin Godkhindi on the seond day and Ballet by Smt Ananda Shankar and Group on the last day.

While on Day 1, Maestro Sankaranarayanan's voice drowned BITSians in an ocean of mixed emotions, the second day lifted them to level with the haunting Flute Sitar jugalbandhi and the third day Kuchipudi and Bharathanatyam carried them floating in the sky.

Sangamam 2007 indeed has surpassed the previous ten years in terms of brilliance and grandeur.


Visit Ragamalika's website Ragamalika-Sangamam

Conquest - The International Business Challenge

The Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) has been set up “to create business leaders in all spheres of life with an entrepreneurial thinking.” It is one of the top five Entrepreneurship Centers amongst Indian universities and is a Co-founder of the National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN).

Unprecedented in its reach and a well-etched out stratagem, Conquest - The Business Challenge has trailed off a success story that’s for real. Conquest is a unique business event conducted by CEL which helps to transform ideas into reality. This business-plan competition includes intensive mentoring by industry champions and a rigorous simulation involving real-life start up conditions.

The Winners share a prize money of INR 2 lakh and they are offered free incubation in the Technology Business Incubator at BITS Pilani. They are also given an opportunity to pitch their business ideas to some of the best VC forums in the country.

APOGEE

A Professions Oriented Gathering Over Educational Experience (APOGEE) -- it is the annual Technical Festival of BITS, Pilani with projects ranging from Generational Garbage Collector for .NET, MaveRak AV Player, Hide n Seek.jpg, Via Voice, Highway Traffic Control Systems to Natural language Parsers to Optical Character Recognition Tools. The highlights of this 5 day festival are the many projects on display by the students, technical paper presentations, numerous contests (both fun science and hard-core tech) , Cyberfiesta (software design contest)and the two quizzes: Brain of BITS (BOB), which have teams of one, and Over Head Transmission (OHT), a team quiz. Also, the Computer Science Association conducts an event called Gamophilic for all the gaming freaks, wherein famous multiplayer games like Quake and CounterStrike are organised. For more information on the fest, please click on APOGEE

INTERFACE

Interface is an event linking Engineering, Science and Management disciplines so characteristic of the broad based educational system of BITS Pilani Rajasthan India.

Interface, the annual All India Management convention organized by the Management Association of BITS, Pilani encompasses a wide spectrum of activities. During the three days through which the convention spans, the organizing and the innovative skills of the students are tapped to the maximum.

The Management curriculum at BITS Pilani emphasizes on the theory and practice of Technology, Innovation and Engineering Management with focus on planning, development and implementation of technological capabilities to shape and accomplish the strategic and operational objectives of any organization.

BITS Pilani campus has over 4000 students who have varied interests and hail from different parts of the country. In addition, girls constitute roughly 40% of the total enrollment. The girls enrollment for the management curriculum alone at BITS Pilani was an astonishing 67.50% in the year 2004 which must be shocking to MS Julia Tyler, Associate Dean for the London Business School MBA programme who has been wondering why the number of women studying MBA worldwide flatlined at about 27 percent. The enrollment of girls for the Management curriculum at BITS Pilani is one factor which none of the 100 B Schools in the latest Financial Times Global MBA Rankings 2006 can match.

The dynamic and versatile nature of the 4000 students at Pilani represents the most aggressive consumer age group of 18-25 years. Further, the high percentage of girls enrolled here with educational empowerment are powerful agents of social change. Interface is one occasion at BITS Pilani when publicity can flex its arms to the maximum and derive maximum mileage.

Over the past 27 years, Interface has metamorphosed into one of India’s foremost management conventions. Management students and professionals from all corners of the country meet for a three-day showdown, to exchange ideas and to update themselves on the latest developments in the world of management. To this is added a splash of entertainment in the form of Management games, Business quiz and Workshops, conducted on an all India basis.

BOSM

The BITS Open Sports Meet (BOSM) is the annual All India sports festival held in the month of September organised entirely by the students of BITS, Pilani. It attracts as many as 1000 participants from all over India.

OASIS

Oasis is an All India cultural festival organised entirely by the students of BITS, Pilani. Oasis is organised in the month of October. Around 1200 Participants from colleges all over India participate in Oasis.

The Budget of the fest is around 26 lakhs (i.e., Rs 2.6 million). For the past 35 years, Oasis has been providing a platform to students from all over the country to showcase their talent and is a highly coveted event.

For BITSians, OASIS is a passionate exercise for perfection to make something in an inward condition of the mind and spirit rather than having something in an outward set of circumstances.

For BITSians OASIS is the widening of the mind and of the spirit and epitomizes the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

For BITSians OASIS with a budget of 26 Lakhs is all about Passion driven by Passion and that is why it continues to remain as the jewel in the crown among college festivals in India name it Pulse, Mood Indigo, Spring Fest, Saarang, Antaragni, Alcheringa, Rendezvous, Thomso and what not.

October each year is the time of metamorphosis of BITS-Pilani. The quaint town in the middle of a desert turns into a pulsating amalgam of youth. A dollop of dance, a sprinkle of drama, a dash of quizzing with a delectable garnish of music sets up a recipe of fun for nonstop 96 hours that none would like to miss.

For a BITSian, every OASIS is a passionate Project which is non routine, non repetitive, one time undertaking, with time, cost and performance goals. If you have doubts about this, ask any of our headline hogging BITS Alums i-flex Rajesh Hukku, Texas Pacific Vivek Paul, ATA Airlines Subodh Karnik, Cisco Amit Sinha Roy, Reflexis Palakurthi, Bharat Forge Baba Kalyani, PMO office MOS Prithivi Raj Chauhan, Harvard Professor SP Kothari, Film Maker Mani Shankar, Music Maker Vivek Philip, Film Star Anu Hassan, Fiction writer for Penguin Shashi Warrier, Picador award winner for nonfiction Dilip D'Souza, Bridle Ramki and a galaxy of others shining in every profession one can think of to vouch for it.

OASIS indeed is a once in a lifetime experience that no one even remotely connected with it once, would even dream of missing ever again.

In fact the Passion is so much that the OASIS 2006 Alumni edition is scheduled on October 28 this year at New York.

For a BITSian, OASIS indeed is much more than an isolated area of vegetation in a desert.

Visit the page OASIS for further details

WAVES

The BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus annual culfest|cultural festival. It is organized entirely by the students of BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus.It is the only institute in the country where the event was taken to inter-collegiate level within 1 year of its inception. For more information, visit Waves

ZEPHYR BITS-Pilani,Goa campus annual interhostel festival.It is organized by the students association in BITS-Pilani,Goa campus and invokes strong inter hostel rivalry.There are a total of 12 hostels with the numbers expected to increase next year.Zephyr06 was just completed with Bh-8 emerging winners followed closely by Bh-2.Bh-1 finished third.

SCREAM

The BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus annual Dance Night.

QUARK

The annual Tech-Fest of BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus. For more information, visit Quark

Centers at BITS-Pilani

  • Software Development & Educational Technology Unit - SDET
  • Technology Business Incubator - TBI
  • Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership - CEL
  • Centre for Robotics and Intelligent Systems - CRIS
  • Centre for Desert Development Technologies - C-DDT
  • Centre for Women Studies - Centre for Women Studies
  • Rain Water Harvesting - BITS-RANA
  • Professional Development Center - BITS-RIT APEX CENTRE
  • Center for Software Development, BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus - CSD
  • Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, BITS-Pilani, Goa Campus - CEL

R&D Centers at BITS-Pilani

BITSAA (BITS Alumni Association)

  • BITSAA International Inc. is a not-for-profit company registered in New Jersey, (Federal EIN# 22-3835037) and has been granted tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)3 of the IRS tax code as of October 12, 2001. Click here for a copy of the IRS ruling.

The primary purpose of BITSAA International is to engage in charitable and educational activities by raising funds for setting up endowments, creating scholarships, rewarding teaching and research and generally promoting the development of resources at Birla Institute of Technology & Science at Pilani. BITSAA International also aims to strengthen the ties, friendship and communications amongst former students, current students, faculty and friends of the Institute. BITSAA International provides a number of channels for people to stay connected with each other and the Birla Institute of Technology & Science.

Chapters

  • North America : Arizona , Atlanta/Georgia, East Coast (NY, NJ, CT, DE), Midwest, Boston/New England, North West, Pittsburgh, Research Triangle Park, Silicon Valley, South/Texas, Southern California, Vancouver/Canada, Washington DC.
  • India : Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhopal*, Calcutta/Kolkota, Chandigarh*, Chennai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Goa, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Pune, Vizag.
  • Asia & Middle East : Bangkok/Thailand, Dubai/UAE, Hong Kong*, Middle East/GCC, Kuala Lumpur/Malaysia, Shanghai/China, Singapore, Tokyo.
  • Europe : London/UK, Paris/France, Amsterdam/Benelux, Munich/Germany, Moscow/Russia.
  • Australia : Sydney/Australia, Wellington, New Zealand.

BITSians of note

Award winners

  • Dr. D. Balasubramanian - Director, LV Eye Institute - Padma Shri and Order of Merit by the President of France

Winners of the Dewang Mehta Award for Innovation, India's Highest Award for Technology

  • Dr. Vijay Chandru - Inventor of the Simputer, Founder of Strand Genomics, Professor of IISc Bangalore
  • Rajesh Hukku, Chairman & CEO, I-Flex Solutions

Indian Government & Government Institutions

  • RK Arora - Former Executive Director / Head of CDAC, Inventors of the PARAM Supercomputer.
  • Prithviraj Chavan - Minister of State, Prime Ministers Office, Government of India (2004 onwards).
  • B. Sandhya - Police Officer and Author.
  • TN Sheshan - Head, Election Commission of India.
  • SN Zindal - Chairman, Software Technology Parks of India.

Corporate Leaders

  • Sunil Duggal, CEO of Dabur Group
  • Rajesh Hukku, Chairman & CEO, I-Flex Solutions - Named Star of Asia, Businessweek 2003
  • Prem Jain, Former Senior Vice President, Cisco Systems, founder of Crescendo, sold to Cisco for $90 million
  • Rakesh Kalra, CEO of Eicher Motors
  • Baba Kalyani, CEO of Bharat Forge
  • Gunendar Kapoor, Board of Directors & Head of Foods Division, Hindustan Lever Ltd.
  • Balaji Krishnamurthy, CEO of Planar Systems - Named as 2004 Business influentials by Time in 2004 (one of two Indians - Vivek, Balaji both happen to be BITSians)
  • Gulu Mirchandani, Chairman & Managing Director of Mirc Electronics, Co-Founder of Onida India
  • Manoranjan Mohapatra, COO of Aricent - As a founding member of the Hughes Software Systems (HSS) organization in 1992, Manoranjan is considered a pioneer in the offshore software services world. He has been President and Chief Operating Officer of Aricent Software since August 2006. Previously, Manoranjan was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Flextronics Software Systems following the acquisition of HSS by Flextronics in 2004. He holds a B.S.E.E. from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (India).
  • Vivek Paul, Partner in the Texas Pacific Group, Ex-Vice Chairman of Wipro Ltd. & CEO, Wipro Technologies - Named one of the world's 10 best managers by Businessweek in 2003 and one of two Indians (Vivek, Balaji both happen to be BITSians) as 2004 Business influentials by Time in 2004
  • Pratap G. Pawar, Managing Director - Sakal Papers Ltd., Chairman - Ajay Metachem group of Industries, Pune.
  • SK Roongta, Chairman, Steel Authority of India Ltd., India's largest public sector steel company with $6.5 billion in revenues.
  • Anil Sethi - Executive Vice President Sony of Canada, Former Managing Director Sony Direct Marketing Europe, Managing Director Sony Robotics Europe and Managing Director Sony Saudi Arabia
  • Shivan Subramanian, Chairman & CEO of FM Global, $3 billion commercial and property insurance company in the US

Well known entrepreneurs

  • Vinod Agarwal - Founder & Chairman of SEMINDIA, India's first semiconductor fab, and Founder & Former Chairman, LogicVision ($100 million NASDAQ traded company: LGVN)
  • Sabeer Bhatia - Founder of Hotmail (sold to Microsoft for $400 million), left for Caltech after two years.
  • Sriram Chandrasekaran - Founder & CEO, Logical Digital Corp, an international OpenSource technology developer.
  • Mukesh Chatter - Founder of Axiowave (now defunct) and Nexabit (sold to Lucent for $900 million).
  • Ajay Chopra - Founder & Chairman of Pinnacle Systems, a $300 million company (NASDAQ: PCLE) sold to Lifeline Systems (NASDAQ: LIFE).
  • Ramakrishna Gaddipati - Founder & CEO, BridleIT Solutions. Also nominated as Asia's Best Entrepreneur Under 25.
  • Diaz Nesamoney - Co-Founder, Informatica ($500 million NASDAQ traded company) and Founder, Celequest.
  • Chinmoy Panda - Founder & CEO, Mindfire Solutions - One of the fastest growing Indian IT companies.
  • Jayan Ramankutty - Co-founder of Lara Systems (sold to Cypress Semiconductor for $250 million).
  • Manoj Saxena - Founder, Chairman and CEO, Webify Solutions Inc. (sold to IBM reportedly for ~$100m in 2006); Founder & CEO, Exterprise (sold to CommerceOne for $78 million in 2001).
  • Dr K R V Subramanian - Founder & CEO, Ascendum Systems Pvt Ltd., a global technology service provider.

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Professors/Educators

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Movie stars & directors

Upcoming entrepreneurs

  • Manohar Chapalamadugu - CEO, MantraGroup Inc..
  • Sasi Kanth Chemalamudi - CEO, Habits - Chosen as one of Asia's 20 Best Entrepreneurs under 25 by BusinessWeek. Sasi Kanth graduated from Pilani 2004 with a BE(Hons)EE degree. He keeps asserting always that he owes a lot to the senior alumni and faculty. His interview in 'The Hindu' - He has what it takes.
  • Anand Morzaria - CEO, Pennywise Solutions.
  • Kavikrut - COO, Mobile Medics.He graduated in 2006 in M.Sc(Tech) Finance. After winning many Business plan contests in India and abroad. He is a outgoing person and believes that nothing is impossible. His arduous hard work and dedication led to the successful venture in the field of social entrepreneurship. Case study on Mobile Medics -

[discovery.bits-pilani.ac.in/cel/EWeek/default.aspx].

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