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This is a list of people affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, one of the Indian Institutes of Technology in India.

Notable alumni

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See also: Category:IIT Delhi alumni

Business

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Name Class

Year

Degree Notability References
Anirudh Devgan 1990 B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) president and CEO of Cadence Design Systems [1]
Anurag Dikshit 1994 B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering) co-founder of Partygaming [2]
Binny Bansal 2005 B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering) co-founder of Flipkart [3]
Jyoti Bansal 1999 B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering) founder of AppDynamics [4]
Manvinder Singh Banga 1975 B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) former chairman, Unilever [5]
Mohit Aron 1995 B.Tech. (Computer Science) founder and CEO of Cohesity and co-founder and former CTO of Nutanix [3]
Padmasree Warrior 1982 B.Tech. (Chemical Engineering) chief technology and strategy officer Cisco Systems; former chief technology officer of Motorola, Inc. [6]
Patu Keswani 1981 B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) founder of Lemon Tree Hotels [7]
Sachin Bansal 2005 B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering) co-founder of Flipkart [8]
Sameer Gehlaut 1995 B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) co-founder of Indiabulls [9]
Vikrant Bhargava 1994 B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) co-founder of Partygaming [10]
Vinod Khosla 1976 B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) co-founder of Sun Microsystems [11][12]
Yogesh Chander Deveshwar 1968 B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) chairman at ITC [13]
Rajdeep Grewal distinguished professor of marketing at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [citation needed]
Rajat Gupta 1971 B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering) managing director of McKinsey & Company, convicted of insider trading [12][14]
Pramod Maheshwari chief executive officer, Career Point Ltd [citation needed]
Sashi Reddi CEO and founder of AppLabs [15]
Krishan Sabnani Research VP at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, responsible for research on NFV and web communications [citation needed]
Nandu Nandkishore former executive vice president and head of Asia Oceania, Africa of Nestlé S.A, Switzerland [citation needed]
Vivek Gupta president and CEO of Mastech Digital [citation needed]
Ashish Nanda former director of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad & Robert Braucher Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School [citation needed]
Rajendra Pawar 1972 B.Tech (Electrical Engineering) co-founder, NIIT [12]
Vijay Thadani 1972 B.Tech (Electrical Engineering) co-founder, NIIT [12]
Nitin Seth 1993 B.Tech (Textile Technology) Bestselling author; Co-Founder and CEO of Incedo Inc. [16]

Politics and law

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Name Class

Year

Degree Notability References
Jayant Sinha 1985 former Union Minister of State for Finance, Government of India, former managing director at Omidyar Network and partner at McKinsey & Company, Member of Parliament in the Indian Lok Sabha [17][18]
Kiran Bedi 1993 Ph.D. former Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry [19]
Raghuram Rajan former chief economist of IMF, former chief economic adviser to the Prime Minister of India; 23rd governor of the Reserve Bank of India joined on 5 Sep 2013, Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business [20][21]
Somnath Bharti lawyer and politician [22]
Sunjay Sudhir 1988 B. Tech diplomat [23]

Science and technology

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Name Class

Year

Degree Notability References
Anupam Garg 1977 M.S. Physics Professor, Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University, co-discoverer Leggett-Garg inequality [citation needed]
Madhu Sudan 1987 B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering) professor of computer science at Harvard University, ACM Fellow and 2002 Nevanlinna Prize winner [24]
Shrinivas Kulkarni 1978 M.Sc. (Physics) McArthur Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science, Caltech [citation needed]
Soumitro Banerjee 1983, 1988 Ph.D. electrical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [25]
Subir Sachdev Did not graduate B.Tech. professor of physics at Harvard University [26]
Siddhartha Paul Tiwari Did not graduate Doctorate Technologist, India Science Award laureate, Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland [27]
Venkata Padmanabhan 1993 B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering) computer engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate, ACM Fellow [28]
Vipin Kumar Tripathi 1967, 1971 Doctorate notable Indian Plasma physicist. Former Physics professor of IIT, Delhi. Founder of Sadbhav Mission. [29]
Ajaib Singh Brar 1977 Doctorate Professor of chemistry at IIT Delhi, Saraswati Samman laureate, NASI Fellow [30]
Sanket Goel 1998 M.S. Physics Dean and Professor, BITS Pilani. Fulbright and JSPS Fellow [31]
Naveen Garg 1991 (BTech), 1994 (PhD) BTech + PhD (Computer Science and Engineering) theoretical computer scientist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [32]
Amitabha Bagchi 1996 BTech, Computer Science and Engineering Theoretical Computer Scientist, Novelist [33]
Avinash Kak professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University [citation needed]
Subhash Kak professor of electrical and computer engineering at Oklahoma State University [citation needed]
Devang Vipin Khakhar 1981 B.Tech (Chemical Engineering) chemical engineer, academic, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [34]
Sudhanshu Vrati vaccinologist, N-BIOS laureate [35]
Narinder Kumar Gupta honorary member in the area of impact mechanics of the International Society of Impact Engineering. [36]
Predhiman Krishan Kaw 1966 Ph.D Founding Director of Institute for Plasma Research, first PhD graduate of IITD. [12]
Avinash Kumar Agarwal 1996, 1999 M.Tech (Energy), Ph.D (Mech. Eng.) mechanical engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [37]
Mohit Randeria 1980 B.A. in Electrical Engineering condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [38]
Anurag Sharma optical physicist, academic, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [39]
Arogyaswami Paulraj 1973 Ph.D (Elect. Engineering) pioneer in MIMO, professor emeritus in the Dept. of Elect. Engineering at Stanford University [12]
Surendra Prasad Ph. D communications engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [40]
Sanjay Puri 1982 MS (Physics) statistical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [41]
Rahul Pandit MS (Physics) condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [42]

Arts and entertainment

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Name Class

Year

Degree Notability References
Amol Parashar B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering actor [43]
Chetan Bhagat 1995 B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering Indian novelist [44]
Swami Mukundananda 1982 B.Tech. in mechanical engineering spiritual leader; bestselling author; founder of JKYog and Radha Krishna Temple of Dallas [45]
Tushar Raheja 2006 B.Tech in industrial engineering, PhD in applied probability Indian novelist [46][47][48]

Others

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Notable faculty

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See also: Category:Academic staff of IIT Delhi

References

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