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Encyclopedia > List of notable NIT alumni

This lists some of the prominent Alumni of the National Institutes of Technology in India Location of NITs in India National Institutes of Technology (NITs) are premier colleges of engineering and technology education in India. ...

NIT Campus
Symbol Campus

AGA Agartala
ALL Allahabad
BHO Bhopal
CAL Kozhikode
DUR Durgapur
HAM Hamirpur
JAI Jaipur
NAG Nagpur
JAL Jalandhar
JAM Jamshedpur
KUR Kurukshetra
PAT Patna
RAI Raipur
ROU Rourkela
SIL Silchar
SRI Srinagar
SUR Surat
KAR Surathkal
TRI Trichy
WAR Warangal

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NIT Agartala was previously Tripura Engineering College and has been upgraded to NIT in 2006. ... Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology (MNNIT) is one of the twenty National Institutes of Technologies in India, located in the city of Allahabad in the state of Uttar Pradesh. ... Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal is one of the first eight regional Regional Engineering College in India, located in Bhopal. ... National Institute of Technology Calicut (Hindi: राष्ट्रीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान कालिकट) or NITC or NIT Calicut in the city of Calicut (Kozhikode) in Kerala is one of the premier institutions for technical education in India. ... National Institute of Technology The National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India (formerly Regional Engineering College, Durgapur), was established under an Act of Parliament in 1960 as one of the eight such colleges aimed to function as a pace-setter for engineering education in the country and to foster national integration. ... National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur or NIT Hamirpur is a national level university, of India, imparting undergraduate and postgraduate level education in engineering and architecture. ... Malviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur is one of Indias National Institutes of Technology, located in Jaipur. ... The Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur (formerly known as Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering (VRCE), Nagpur) is one of the first six Regional Engineering Colleges established under the scheme sponsored by Government of India and the Maharshtra State Government. ... Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology also called NIT-Jalandhar or NITJ and formerly known as Regional Engineering College, Jalandhar is still the youngest and the fastest growing amongst the eighteen National Institutes of Technology of India. ... National Institute of Technology ,Jamshedpur, one of the few NITs in India, was formerly known as Regional Institute of Technology ,Jamshedpur. ... National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Haryana (founded a Regional Engineering College, Kurukshetra) is a premier Technical Institute of the region. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The National Institute of Technology, Raipur is a National Institute of Technology (NIT) established as Government College of Engineering and Technology in Raipur (Chhattisgarh) on 1956-09-14. ... // National Institute of Technology, Rourkela (NIT) (Hindi: राष्ट्रीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान, रौरकेला), formerly known as the Regional Engineering College, (REC) is one of the top premier national level institutions for technical education in India. ... NIT Silchar located in the verdant plains of Silchar in southern Assam in the North Eastern Corner of India. ... The National Institute of Technology, Srinagar is located on the western bank of the world famous Dal Lake near the famous Hazratbal Shrine, about 8 km from Tourist Reception Centre that is in fact the city center. ... Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat (NIT Surat) is one of the 20 National Institutes of Technology (NITs) established in India in June 1961. ... The National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, popularly known as KREC, is a premier autonomous university along the western shores of India. ... The National Institute of Technology at Tiruchirappalli, NIT Trichy, (formerly known as Regional Engineering College (REC), Trichy) is situated in the heart of Tamil Nadu on the banks of river Cauvery. ... The National Institute of Technology, Warangal (NITW), started off as the Regional Engineering College, Warangal (RECW), established in 1959, with the then Honourable Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru laying the foundation stone. ...

Alumni

Business/Industry

  • Satya Prabhakar(KAR: BTech 1985), Founder and CEO of Sulekha.com - the largest portal for the Indian community
  • Nilotpal Roy, (DUR: BTech), MD, IISCO, SAIL
  • John K, (BHO: BTech), MD, Johnson Lifts
  • P K Mohapatra, (ROU: BTech 1972), President and CEO(Technology), RPG Enterprises
  • Ramna Sharma, (HAM: BTech), Co-Founder and President, Avake Technologies
  • Alok Rastogi, (BHO: BTech), FOunder of L&T Infotech, US Operations
  • P K Munjal, (KUR: BTech), MD, Hero Honda
  • C B K Rao, (JAM: MTech), MD, DMRC
  • C P Gurnani, (ROU: BTech 1981), President, Tech-Mahindra
  • Sanjay Dhawan, (KUR: BTech), Executive VP and CSO, Aricent Technologies
  • Shanti Padmanabhan, (CAL: BTech), Vice-President(Worldwide), Philips Corp.
  • Rajesh Vashist, (ROU: BTech 1980), Founder Chairman of Ikanos Corp.
  • Sandip Das, (ROU: BTech), CEO, Hutch India
  • Adesh Gupta, (KUR: BTech), Chairman, Liberty Shoes
  • Vineet Vohra, (ROU: BTech 1985), Regional Director, Citibank, Singapore
  • Dr. Dinesh Keskar, (NAG: BTech 1975), Senior VP, Boeing Aviation
  • Manish Sinha, (ALL: BTech), GM,Asia-Pacific, Microsoft Corp.
  • Srini Raju, (KUR: BTech), Chairman, I-LAbs
  • Mahesh Bulchandani, (ROU: BTech 1989), MD Asia, JP-Morgan Stanley
  • Mouli Raman, (ALL: BTech), Founder and CTO, On-Mobile Systems
  • Pradeep Kar, (NAG: BTech), A Serial entrepreneur, Founder of Microland Technologies,and also the founder of the portal Indya.com
  • Rakesh Bakshi , (KUR: BTech), PadmaShree Awardee
  • Rajiv Dubey, (ALL: BTech), Head, Tata Motors(Passenger Car Division)
  • N R Mohanty, (ROU: BTech 1969), Ex-Chairman HAL, and Padma-Bhushan Awardee
  • Firoa Ahmed, (SIL: BTech), CEO, Ericsson Asia
  • Munwar Shariff, (KAR: BTech) CTO and VP of CIGNEX
  • Vivek ManSingh, (ALL: BTech), Site Director, Asia Pacific Operations, Dell Inc
  • P M Pai, (KAR: BTech), COO of SunPower Corp. Former president of Moser Baer
  • Tarun Amla, (CAL: BTech), Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Isola Global
  • Manoj Agarwala, (CAL: BTech), Founder and Vice President, Business Development ,GlobalLogic
  • Vinod Kathail, (BHO: BTech), Founder and CTO of Synfora
  • Vineet Vohra, (ROU: BTech), Regional Director, Asia Pacific Region, Citibank Singapore
  • Hari Murthy, (BHO: BTech 1986), He is the head of Hexaware Technologies's North American Operations[1]
  • Sanjay Dhawan, (KUR: BTech), Executive Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer of Aricent Technologies
  • Krishan Batta, (PAT: BTech), Chief Operating Officer at Celetronix
  • Ramna Sharma, (HAM: BTech), Co-founder and President, Avake Technology. She was also the founder member of Ignite logic Inc. which was later acquired by Google

K. V. Kamath (born December 2, 1947) is the Managing Director and CEO of ICICI Bank, the largest private bank in India. ... ICICI Bank (formerly Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India) is Indias largest private sector bank and second largest overall. ... John Kricfalusi (born Michael John Kricfalusi on September 9, 1955 in Chicoutimi, Quebec) is an Emmy-nominated Canadian animator, better known as John K. He is creator of The Ren & Stimpy Show and The Ripping Friends animated series, The Goddamn George Liquor Program, the first animated series made using Macromedia... Magma Design Automation, Inc (Nasdaq: LAVA) is an electronic design automation (EDA) software company, founded in 1997, located in Santa Clara, California. ... Pradeep Kar is an Indian businessman who is the founder, chairman and managing director of Microland [1]. Microland is one of India’s leading providers of outsourced IT infrastructure management and technical support services, employing more than 1,600 staff. ... Moser Baer, based in New Delhi, India, is a company involved in the development and manufacture of removable data storage media. ... Category: ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Category: ...

Public Service

  • Suresh Pachouri, (BHO: BTech), Member of Parliament
  • P Narayan, (JAM: BTech), GM, Indian Security Press, Ministry of Finance
  • V K Kala, (JAI: BTech), He is currently the Vice President,of ,IDeas "Technology Center of Excellence" in Pune, India and a former officer in the Indian Air Force, where he was awarded the prestigious Vice Chief of Air Staff Commendation for services at Air Headquarters
  • Savita Wakhlu, (SRI: BTech), Board Member of The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation and the managing director of Jagriti Communications
  • R V Shahi, (JAM: BTech), Secretary, Ministry of Power, GOI
  • Biraj Adhikari, (KUR: BTech), Deputy CM of Sikkim
  • Arun Gauba, (JAM: MTech), Additional Director, Ministry of Defence, GOI

Nitish Kumār (Hindi: ) (born 1 March 1951, Bakhtiarpur, Bihar, India) is the Chief Minister of the north Indian state of Bihar. ... , Bihar (Hindi: बिहार, Urdu: بہار, IPA: ,  ) is a state of the Indian union situated in north India. ... Shri Suresh Pachouri a politician from Indian National Congress party is a Member of the Parliament of India representing Madhya Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. ... Indian Coast Guards coat of Arms. ... Ajit Jogi (born 29 April 1946) is a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. ... Chhattisgarh (छत्तीसगढ़), a state in central India, formed when the sixteen southeastern districts of Madhya Pradesh gained statehood on November 1, 2000. ...

Academia/Technology and Research

  • Srinidhi Varadarajan, (WAR: BTech 1994), Creator of SystemX - the third fastest supercomputer in the world. Currently, he is the Director of Terascale Computing Facility and Associate Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech.
  • Thomas Zacharia, (KAR: BTech 1980), Director of ORNL Computer Science and Mathematics Division
  • Barada Mishra, (ROU: BTech 1981), Director, RRL, Bhubaneswar
  • Devadas D. Pillai, (CAL: BTech), Intel Fellow, Director, Enabling Technologies & Solutions Group,Intel Corporation
  • Chittaranjan Sahay, (JAM: BTech), Chairman, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hartford, USA
  • Zia Saquib, (ROU: BTech 1985), ED, CDAC
  • S.K.Bose, (PAT: BTech), Former Director of IIT-Kharagpur
  • Vishwadeep Khatri, (CAL: BTech), He is the founder and lead facilitator of Benchmark Six Sigma, the leading Six Sigma training and certification organisation in India. He alo heads India operations of Benchmark Certification Australia
  • Sunil Kumar, (KAR: BTech 1990), Associate Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology at the prestigious Stanford Graduate School of Business
  • Laxmi Bhuyan, (ROU: BTech 1972), Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, Riverside.
  • A K Lahiri, (JAM: BTech), Head, Dept. of Mettalurgical Engg. , IISc
  • Tomy Sebastian, (CAL: BTech), Chief Scientist at Delphi corporation.
  • Prof. Anurag Agarwal, (ALL: BTech), Professor, IIM Ahmedabad
  • Prof. Anil Nair, (ALL: BTech 1985), Professor at Old Dominion University, USA
  • K K Agarwala, (KUR: BTech), Vice-Chancellor, GGS Indraprastha University
  • Baldev Raj Agrawal, (RAI: BTech), Director, Indira Gandhi Atomic Research Centre
  • Rao Remala, (WAR: BTech), Microsoft Director, First employee in India
  • Ram Krishnamurthy,(TRI: BTech), MIT Technology Review magazine 2006, top 35 innovators list

Srinidhi Varadarajan is the director of Terrascale computing facility and an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. ... Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, better known as Virginia Tech, is a public land grant polytechnic university in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. Although it is a comprehensive university with many departments, the agriculture, engineering, architecture, forestry, and veterinary medicine programs from its historical polytechnic core are still considered to be... Thomas Zacharia, born 1957 in Kerala, India, is an Indian American computational scientist. ... Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a multiprogram science and technology national laboratory managed for the United States Department of Energy by UT-Battelle, LLC. ORNL is located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, near Knoxville. ... Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC; SEHK: 4335) is the worlds largest semiconductor company and the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in many personal computers. ... The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech)[1] is a private, coeducational university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ... Ford Motor Company is an American multinational corporation and the worlds third largest automaker based on worldwide vehicle sales. ... Seetharaman Narayanan (or Seetha Narayanan) is a programmer for Adobe Photoshop. ... Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems. ... The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), is the statutory body established for proper planning and co-ordinated development of the technical education system in India. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ...

Others

  • Mastan Malli, (JAM: BTech 1996), First Indian to have climbed the 7 tallest summits in 7 continents and also created speed record in the process
  • Aakash Khurana, (ROU: BTech), Noted theatre and film personality.


 

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