List of IIT Bombay people

This is a list of notable faculty and alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

Academics

Name	Affiliation	Notability	References
Amit Agrawal	Institute chair professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Ashwin Gumaste	Institute Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science	Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awardee and largest technology transfer between IIT and industry (Carrier Ethernet Switch Router)
C. V. Seshadri		Chemical engineer
Dipan Ghosh	Deputy Director from 2005 to 2006	Theoretical physicist, originator of the Majumdar–Ghosh model.	[1]
Deepak B. Phatak		Computer scientist, Padma Shri award winner
Hemchandra Kekre	Head of Computer Science Department, 1978 to 1984	Computer scientist
G. Naresh Patwari		Chemist and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate	[2]
Manohar Vartak	Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Statistics	Mathematician
N. K. Naik	Professor	Aerospace engineer
Narayan R. Kamath	Professor and Head of Chemical Engineering	Chemical Engineer	[3]
Pramod P. Wangikar	Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering	Bioinformatician, N-Bios laureate[4]
Ram Puniyani		Biomedical engineer
Ranjith Padinhateeri			[5]
Ravi Poovaiah	Professor at IDC School of Design	Co-designed the Indian EVM[6]
Tathagat Avatar Tulsi	Assistant Professor on contract from 2010 to 2019	Physicist
Devang Vipin Khakhar	Professor Chemical Engineering at IITB

Arts

Name	Class Year	Degree	Notability	References
Jag Mundhra	1968	B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering)	Film director	[7]
Mansoor ali Khan			Film director	[8][9]
Nitesh Tiwari	1996	B.Tech. (Metallurgical Engineering)	Film director and screenwriter	[10][11]
Rajnesh Domalpalli	1984	B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering)	Film director	[12]
Satyendra Pakhale	1991	M.Des.	Industrial Designer, Architect
Udaya Kumar	2003; 2010	M.Des., Ph.D.	Head of the Department of Design, IIT Guwahati	[13]
Vipul Goyal	2008	B.Tech., M.Tech. (Electrical Engineering)	Stand-up comedian	[14]
Sridhar Rangayan	1986	M.Des, IDC	Director and Producer	[15]
Sameer Saxena	2006	B.Tech.	Actor, Director and Producer. Former CCO at TVF	[16]

Business

Name	Class Year	Degree	Notability	References
Anil Kumar		B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering)	Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, later convicted of insider trading	[17]
Ashish Chauhan	1989	B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering)	Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the National Stock Exchange of India	[18]
Bhavish Aggarwal	2008	B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering)	Co-founder of Ola Cabs	[19]
Bharat Desai	1975	B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering)	Founder of Syntel	[20]
Kanwal Rekhi	1967	B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering)	Venture capitalist; Co-founder of Excelan	[21]
Nandan Nilekani	1978	B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering)	Co-founder of Infosys	[22]
Parag Agrawal	2005	B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering)	Chief Executive Officer of Twitter	[23]
Parag Saxena	1977	B.Tech. (Chemical Engineering)	Co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer of New Silk Route	[24]
Rahul Yadav		Joined with B.Tech. (Metallurgical Engineering) Later dropped out.[25]	Co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer of Housing.com	[26][27]
Rajiv L. Gupta	1967		Chairman of Aptiv	[28]
Ramani Ayer	1969	B.Tech. (Chemical Engineering)	Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Hartford	[29]
Romesh Wadhwani	1969	B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering)	Founder of Symphony Technology Group	[30]
Salil Parekh		B.Tech. (Aeronautical Engineering)	Chief Executive Officer of Infosys
Subrah Iyar	1981		Co-founder of WebEx	[31]
Victor Menezes			Corporate Banker; Senior Vice Chairman of Citigroup	[32][33]

Humanities and Social Sciences

Name	Class Year	Degree	Notability	References
Sharada Srinivasan	1987		Archaeologist

Politics, Law, and Civil Services

Name	Class Year	Degree	Notability	References
Colin Gonsalves	1975	B.Tech. (Civil Engineering)	Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India	[34]
Jairaj Phatak			Former Municipal Commissioner of Mumbai
Jairam Ramesh	1975	B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering)	Former Minister of Rural Development and Member of Parliament
Jay Narayan Vyas			Former Member of the Legislative Assembly
Manohar Parrikar	1978	B.Tech. (Metallurgical Engineering)	Former Chief Minister of Goa and Minister of Defence	[35][36]
Sanjiv Bhatt	1985		Former Indian Police Service officer	[37]
Sharjeel Imam	2010	B.Tech., M.Tech. (Computer Science & Engineering)	Activist
Sheel Kant Sharma	1971; 1974	M.Sc. (Physics); Ph.D. (Physics)	Former Secretary General of SAARC

Science and technology

Name	Class Year	Degree	Notability	References
Apoorva D. Patel		M.Sc. (Physics)	Physicist
Hemchandra Kekre		M.Tech. (Electrical Engineering)	Head of Department of Computer Science, IIT Bombay
K. S. Dasgupta		Ph.D.	former Director of the IIST	[38]
Pranav Mistry	2005	M. Sc.	Computer Scientist and Inventor
Narendra Karmarkar	1978	B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering)	Mathematician	[39]
Pratim Biswas	1980		Chair of the Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis	[40]
Ramakrishna V. Hosur	1973	M.Sc. (Chemistry)		[41]
Ravindran Kannan	1974	B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering)	Mathematician; Recipient of the Fulkerson Prize and Knuth prize	[42]
Sarita Adve	1987	B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering)	Professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	[43]
Subhash Khot	1999		Computer scientist	[44]
Suhas Patankar	1965	M.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering)	Mechanical Engineer
T. V. Raman	1989	M.Sc. (Mathematics)	Computer scientist	[45]

Sports

Name	Class Year	Degree	Notability	References
Ajay Khare			Bridge player	[46]

Others

• Achyut Godbole, businessman and writer
• Ajit Ranade, economist and vice chancellor of Gokhale Institute Of Politics & Economics, Pune
• Anil Kamath, Indian-American computer scientist
• Anil Kumar, Indian-American businessman
• Arun Netravali, Indian-American computer engineer and former president of Bell Laboratories
• Atul Tandon, management academic and former director of Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad
• Avinash Deshpande, astrophysicist and professor of physics at Raman Research Institute
• Beheruz Sethna, Indian-American business academic
• Dharmendra Modha, Indian-American computer scientist
• Dinesh Mohan, honorary professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
• Dulal Panda, cell biologist and chair professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
• Gauranga Das, monk and spiritual leader at ISKCON and author
• George Varghese, Indian-American computer scientist
• Lalit Surajmal Kanodia, entrepreneur and chairman of Datamatics
• Madan Rao, condensed matter and biophysicist at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore
• Madhavan Mukund, director and professor at the Chennai Mathematical Institute
• Manas Kumar Santra, cell biologist and biochemist at the National Centre for Cell Science, Pune
• Narendra Kumar, theoretical physicist
• Nitin Nohria, Indian-American academic and former dean of Harvard Business School
• N. K. Naik, aerospace engineer and professor emeritus at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
• Parag Agrawal, Indian-American software engineer and CEO of Twitter
• P. P. Parikh, Indian engineer
• Prashant Ranade, Indian-American business executive and former co-chair of Syntel
• Pravin Krishna, Indian-American economist
• Rajive Bagrodia, Indian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur
• Ranjan Raj, actor^[47]
• Sadanand Joshi, Indian-American petroleum engineer and president of Joshi Technologies International, Inc
• S. Shankar Sastry, Indian-American electrical engineer and professor at University of California, Berkeley
• Sudheendra Kulkarni, politician and columnist
• Suresh P. Sethi, Indian-American engineer and academic
• Umesh Waghmare, theoretical physicist and professor at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore
• Vikas Joshi, founder of Harbinger group
• Vinay K. Nandicoor, immunologist and the director of Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad
• Viral Acharya, economist and former deputy governor of Reserve Bank of India
• Virendra Gupta, founder at VerSe Innovation^[48]
• V. V. Chari, Indian-American economist and professor at University of Minnesota

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