List of IIT Kharagpur alumni

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The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur has had numerous notable alumni.

## Academics

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Subhasis Chaudhuri | B.Tech. 1985  | Director of IIT Bombay | [1]
Pushpak Bhattacharyya |  | Director of IIT Patna | [2]
Partha Pratim Chakraborty | B.Tech. 1985; Ph.D. 1988  | Director of IIT Kharagpur | [3]
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay |  | Director of ISI | [4]
Supriyo Datta |  | Thomas Duncan Distinguished professor at the School of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University | [5][6]
Mohan Dutta | B.Tech. 1995  | Dean's Chair Professor of Communication and Director, Center for Culture-centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE) at School of Communication, Journalism, and Marketing at Massey University | [7][8]
S. Rao Kosaraju |  | Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and division director at the National Science Foundation | [9][10]
Pradeep Khosla |  | Computer scientist and eighth Chancellor of University of California, San Diego | [11]
Gopal Krishna Nayak |  | Director of IIIT Bhubaneswar | [12]
Mani Lal Bhaumik | Ph. D. 1958  | First PhD student at IIT Kharagpur, physicist, and Padma Shri awardee  | [13]
Satya Prasad Majumder | Ph.D. 1993  | Vice-Chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology | [14]

## Science and engineering

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Kalyan Banerjee | 1964  | Former President of Rotary International | [15]
Monisha Ghosh |  | First woman Chief Technology Officer at the US government's Federal Communications Commission.  | [16]
Srikumar Banerjee |  | Indian metallurgical engineer. Former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India and the secretary of Department of Atomic Energy  | [17]
Kumar Bhattacharyya | B. Tech. 1960  | Manager of Google India peer  | [18]
Harish Hande |  | Co-founder of social enterprise SELCO India and winner of Ramon Magsaysay Award | [19]
V. C. Kulandaiswamy |  | Hydrologist, second vice-chancellor of Anna University, awarded Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan  | [20]
Kirit Parikh |  | Civil engineer; professor emeritus and founder director of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR)  | [21]
K. Radhakrishnan | Ph.D. 2000  | Indian space scientist who headed the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)  | [22]
Kamal Sagar | B. Arch. 1992  | An architect; chairman and founder of Total Environment  | [23]
V. Narayanan | M.Tech. Cryogenic Engineering 1989

PhD Aerospace Engineering 2001

| Aerospace Engineer and Rocket Technologist serving as 11th Chairman of ISRO | [24]

## Politics and Administration

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Arvind Kejriwal | B.Tech Mechanical Engineering 1989  | Former Chief Minister of Delhi | [25]
Ashok Khemka | B.Tech Computer Science Engineering

1988

| Senior Bureaucrat in the Indian state of Haryana | [26]
Chaudhary Ajit Singh |  | Former minister of Agriculture, Commerce and I dustry and Civil Aviation | [27][28]
Duvvuri Subbarao | BSc Physics

1969

| economist and 22nd Governor of Reserve Bank of India | [29]
Surajit Kar Purkayastha |  | Former DGP of West Bengal Police and Police Commissioner of Kolkata |
Anurag Jain | B.Tech Mechanical Engineering | Chief Secretary of Madhya Pradesh | [30]

## Business

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Ajit Jain | B.Tech. 1972  | President of Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group  | [31]
Anuradha Acharya | 1995  | Co-founder and CEO of Mapmygenome, a molecular diagnostics company; previously CEO of Ocimum Bio Solutions  | [32]
Arjun Malhotra |  | Co-founder, HCL Technologies |
Arun Sarin |  | Former CEO of Vodafone | [33]
B.K. Syngal |  | Former chairman and Managing Director of VSNL |
Gopalakrishnan R |  | Former executive director of Tata Sons | [34]
Prith Banerjee |  | Former director of HP Labs, the research wing of Hewlett-Packard  | [35]
Ramesh Chandra |  | Founder of real estate company Unitech Group | [36]
Ravi Kant |  | Former vice chairman of Tata Motors | [37]
Rono Dutta |  | CEO of InterGlobe Aviation Limited which operates IndiGo Airlines. Also President of United Airlines [1999 - 2002]  | [38]
Suhas Patil |  | Founder of Cirrus Logic | [39]
Sundar Pichai | 1993  | CEO of Google and Alphabet inc. | [40][41]
Suresh Vaswani |  | President of Dell Services  | [42]
Vinod Gupta |  | Founder of InfoUSA, CEO of Infofree and DatabaseUSA  | [43]

## Arts and Entertainment

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Rajkumar Barjatya | 1962  | Film producer  | [44]
Sandipan Deb |  | Founder editor of Outlook  | [45]
Raj Kamal Jha |  | Chief Editor of Indian Express, writer, novelist  | [46]
Arunabh Kumar |  | Co-founder of The Viral Fever (TVF) Media Labs  | [47]
Jitendra Kumar |  | Indian film actor famous for his roles in comedy sketches of The Viral Fever and Panchayat |
Bedabrata Pain |  | Former NASA senior researcher and film director  | [48]
Biswapati Sarkar |  | Indian writer and director, Former Creative Director at The Viral Fever, currently working at Pushpam Pa Pictures.  | [49]
Kiran Seth |  | Founder of Indian culture non-profit SPIC MACAY; Padma Shri awardee  | [50]
Biswa Kalyan Rath |  | An Indian stand-up comedian and writer  |

## Activists

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Vinayak Lohani |  |  |
Varun Shrivastava | 2009  | Founder of UPAY NGO (NGO working for the education and skill development of underprivileged children)  |
J. Sai Deepak | 2011  | Lawyer, political commentator, historian and activist  |

## Sports

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Malli Mastan Babu | M. Tech. 1998  | Mountaineer  |

## References

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4. ^ "12 IIT Kharagpur Alumni Get Distinguished Alumnus Award". NDTV.com. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
5. ^ Supriyo Datta at IEEE
6. ^ Biography at Sigma Xi
7. ^ "Prof Mohan. J. Dutta, Director of CARE".
8. ^ "Professor Mohan Dutta's academic-activism recognised with prestigious Presidential Citation".
9. ^ "S. Rao Kosaraju - Department of Computer Science". Department of Computer Science. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
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11. ^ "IIT Kharagpur alumnus is UCSD Chancellor". The Hindu. 10 May 2012. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
12. ^ "Governing Body". IIIT Bhubaneswar. Archived from the original on 18 July 2014. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
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14. ^ "Satya Prasad Majumdar Biography". Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. Archived from the original on 19 March 2021.
15. ^ "Indian technocrat Kalyan Banerjee to lead Rotary as its 101st president". Business Standard. 30 June 2011. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
16. ^ "Indian-American Dr Monisha Ghosh named 1st woman Chief Technology Officer of US' communications commission". The Economic Times. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
17. ^ "Brief Profile of the Awardee awardee Dr Srikumar Banerjee". CSIR Human Resource Development Group, New Delhi. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
18. ^ Morgan, Oliver (18 June 2005). "A Brahmin of business". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
19. ^ "Nileema Mishra, Harish Hande win Magsaysay award". The Times of India. Press Trust of India (PTI). 27 July 2011. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
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21. ^ "Distinguished Alumnus Awardee: Dr. Kirit Shantilal Parikh". IIT Kharagpur. Archived from the original on 17 December 2010. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
22. ^ "Isro, IISc men get top national honour". The Times of India. 26 January 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
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27. ^ Sharma, Surender (19 December 2011). "With Lucknow in mind, Congress gifts Ajit Singh civil aviation". MiD DAY. Mumbai, India. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
28. ^ "RLD Chief Ajit Singh: Political career, age, wife, son, health, daughter and native place". India Today. 6 May 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
29. ^ "Inflation? Splitting hair is more easy". The Telegraph. Calcutta, India. 18 July 2012. Archived from the original on 5 April 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
30. ^ "Anurag Jain (BTech/EE/1986) Appointed Chief Secretary of Madhya Pradesh". IIT Kharagpur Alumni Foundation. Retrieved 1 June 2025.
31. ^ Holm, Erik; Ng, Serena (5 May 2012). "In Ajit Jain, Some See Next Buffett". The Wall Street Journal. pp. B1 – B2. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
32. ^ Singh, Shreyasi (April 2013). "A Genealogy of Success". Inc. India. 4 (3). New Delhi: 23–26. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
33. ^ "Arun Sarin walks out of Vodafone rich". The Times Of India. Press Trust of India (PTI). 11 June 2008. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
34. ^ "Gopalakrishnan does not seek re-election on Tata Motors board". Business Standard. 3 August 2010. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
35. ^ "Exclusive: HP Labs Head Prith Banerjee Leaving". All Things Digital. 4 April 2012. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
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