List of BITS Pilani alumni
Appearance
This is a list of notable BITS Pilani alumni.[1]
Name | Category | Achievement | Year |
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Baba Kalyani[2] | Corporate | Chairman of Bharat Forge | 1965–1970 |
Sanjay Mehrotra | Corporate | President and co-founder of SanDisk | |
Autar Kaw | Professor | 2012 U.S. Professor of Year, Professor of Mechanical Engineering University of South Florida | |
Vijay Chandru | Corporate | Cofounder and CEO, Strand Life Sciences; Inventor of Simputer | 1975 |
Prithviraj Chavan[3] | Polity | Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra; former Union Minister for Science and Technology, Govt. of India | 1963-1967 |
Gulu L. Mirchandani | Corporate | Founder and CEO of Onida Electronics | 1965–1970 |
Rakesh Kapoor | Corporate | CEO of Reckitt Benckiser | 1975-1980 |
Sunil Duggal | Corporate | CEO of Dabur | 1974-1979 |
G. Ravindra Kumar[4][5] | Educators-researchers | Senior professor - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | 1977-1983 |
Suvrit Sra | Educators-researchers | Researcher at MIT. Former Senior Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Former Visiting Faculty Member at the University of California at Berkeley (EECS Department) and Carnegie Mellon University (Machine Learning Department). | |
Manu Sawhney | Corporate | CEO of ESPN Star Sports, Director of Manchester United F.C. | 1984-1988 |
B. Sandhya | Government institutions | Police officer and author | |
Rajesh Hukku | Corporate | Chairman and CEO of i-flex Solutions; named Star of Asia by Businessweek in 2003 | |
Vivek Paul | Corporate | Consulting Professor at Stanford; founder of KineticGlue; partner at TPG; Vice Chairman of Wipro Ltd.; CEO of Wipro Technologies; named one of the world's ten best managers by Businessweek (2003), Top 30 Global CEOs by Barrons in 2005, and "2004 Business influentials" by Time | |
SK Roongta | Corporate | Chairman of Steel Authority of India Ltd. | |
Saket Agarwal | Corporate | CEO of Spice Digital | 1988-93 |
Vinod Agarwal | Entrepreneurs | Founder and chairman of SEMINDIA, India's first semiconductor fab; founder and former Chairman of LogicVision ($100 million NASDAQ traded company: LGVN) | 1968-73 |
Rajiv Bapna | Entrepreneurs | Founder and Director of AMKETTE, a storage media company | 1969-1974 |
Sabeer Bhatia | Entrepreneurs | Founder of Hotmail (sold to Microsoft for $400 million); joined Caltech after two years of study in BITS Pilani | |
Phanindra Sama | Entrepreneurs | Co-founder and CEO of Redbus.in, online bus-ticketing company | 1998–2002 |
Prof. S. P. Kothari | Educators-researchers | Deputy Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management | 1974-1979 |
Prof. Krishna Saraswat | Educators-researchers | Stanford University | 1963-1968 |
Prof. Ravi Gomatam | Educators-researchers | Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute[6] and Institute of Semantic Information Sciences and Technology,[7] Berkeley and Mumbai | |
Dilip D'Souza | Writers | Writer of social causes | 1976–1981 |
Shashi Warrier | Artists/entertainers | Writer of fiction | |
Anu Haasan | Artists/entertainers | Actress, Tamil/Telugu movies, TV show host | |
Kanika | Artists/entertainers | Actress, Tamil/Telugu/Kannada/Malayalam movies, TV show host | |
Mani Shankar | Artists/entertainers | Director, Indian movies | |
Padmini Chettur | Artists/entertainers | Dancer | 1987-1991 |
Dushyanth Sridhar | Speaker/writer | Noted scholar in Sanskrit and Tamil on ancient Hindu scriptures | 2004-2009 |
Deendayal Upadhyaya | Politicians | President of Bharatiya Jana Sangh | |
Nanaji Deshmukh | RSS functionary | ||
Sanjay Jalona | Corporate | CEO and MD of L&T Infotech | 1986-1990 |
Rahul Chandra | Corporate | Co-founder and MD of Helion Venture Partners | 1990-1993 |
Sanjay V. Padode | Entrepreneur | Secretary of Center for Developmental Education, Bengaluru | 1984-89 |
Tulsi Mirchandaney | Corporate | MD of Blue_Dart_Aviation | 1967-1970 |
Sharat Dhall | Corporate | President of Yatra.com | 1987-1991 |
Ravi Garikipati | Corporate | Entrepreneur in Residence, Flipkart | |
Dr. Sanjay Putrevu | Educators-researchers | Dean of College of Business, Cleveland State University | |
Amitabh Chaudhry[8] | Corporate | MD and CEO of HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Ltd | 2010-present |
Rakesh Verma | Corporate | Co-founder and CEO of MapmyIndia | |
Richa Kar | Corporate | Co-founder and CEO of Zivame.com | |
Gaurav Chaudhary | YouTuber and Engineer | YouTuber (Technical Guruji) , Dubai police certified Security Systems engineer | |
G.S.K. Velu | Corporate | Indian Businessman, Co-founder and CEO of Trivitron Healthcare Group |
References
- ^ "List of Notable BITS Alumni - BITSAA International". bitsaa.org. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
- ^ ":: Chairman ::". kalyanigroup.com. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
- ^ http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok11/biodata/11mh18.htm
- ^ "Indian fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2017-10-21. Retrieved 2017-10-21.
- ^ "Professor G. Ravindra Kumar on ISF". Infosys Science Foundation. 2017-10-21. Retrieved 2017-10-21.
- ^ "Bhaktivedanta Institute". bvinst.edu. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
- ^ "Institute of Semantic Information Sciences and Technology". insist.ac.in. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
- ^ Amitabh Chaudhry