List of BITS Pilani alumni

This is a list of notable BITS Pilani alumni.[1]

Entrepreneurs
Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITS
Sanjay Mehrotra President and co-founder of Sandisk
Preetish Nijhawan Co-founder of Akamai Technologies 1985-1989
Baba Kalyani[2] Billionaire, Chairman of Bharat Forge 1965–1970
Sabeer Bhatia Founder of Hotmail
Vinod Agarwal Founder and chairman of SemIndia; founder and former Chairman of LogicVision 1968-73
Vijay Chandru Cofounder and CEO, Strand Life Sciences; Inventor of Simputer 1975
Rajiv Bapna Founder and Director of Amkette, a storage media company 1969-1974

Corporate Leaders
Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITS
Rakesh Kapoor CEO of Reckitt Benckiser 1975-1980
Sunil Duggal CEO of Dabur 1974-1979
Vivek Paul Consulting Professor at Stanford University; founder of KineticGlue; CEO of Wipro Technologies
SK Roongta Chairman of Steel Authority of India Ltd. 1966-1971
Sanjay Jalona CEO of Larsen & Toubro Infotech 1990

Academia
Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITS
Goverdhan Mehta Padma Shri Awardee, Fellow of the Royal Society, ex Director of IISc Bangalore, ex Vice Chancellor of University of Hyderabad
S. P. Kothari Padma Shri Awardee, Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management 1974-1979
Milind Tambe Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University
Autar Kaw Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Florida
Arun Sharma Distinguished emeritus professor, Queensland University of Technology 2008
Krishna Saraswat Stanford University 1963-1968
G. Ravindra Kumar[3][4] Senior professor - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research 1977-1983
Ravi Gomatam Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute (Berkeley and Mumbai)[5]
Narendra Ahuja Founding Director of IIIT Hyderabad (1999-2002). 1968-1972
Arun K. Somani Department Chair, Senior Associate Dean in Engineering, Iowa State University. 2003-2010, 2013-Contd
Govindan Rangarajan Director & Professor Dept. of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. 1980-85
Madan Pillutla Dean, Indian School of Business.

Social Activists and Politics
Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITS
Nanaji Deshmukh Social Activism in the fields of education, health, and rural self-reliance and posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna.
Prithviraj Chavan[6] Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra; former Union Minister for Science and Technology, Govt. of India 1963-1967

Film
Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITS
Mani Shankar Legendary, Award-winning Director, Indian movies
Anu Haasan Actress, Tamil/Telugu movies, TV show host
Kanika Former Actress, Tamil/Telugu/Kannada/Malayalam movies, TV show host
Sandeep A. Varma Award-winning Film Director and Writer

Art, Music, Writers & Dance
Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITS
B. Sandhya Police officer and author
Dilip D'Souza Writer of social causes 1976–1981
Shashi Warrier Writer of fiction
Vikram Sampath Writer of historical non-fiction
Hartosh Singh Bal Journalist and Editor
Padmini Chettur Dancer 1987-1991
Dushyanth Sridhar Noted scholar in Sanskrit and Tamil on ancient Hindu scriptures 2004-2009
Praveen Kumar
Gaurav Chaudhary Indian tech Vlogger

Harish Sivaramakrishnan

Indian playback singer,lead vocalist of the Banglore based popular Carnatic progressive rock band Agam and Chief design officer at CRED

References
  1. "List of Notable BITS Alumni - BITSAA International". bitsaa.org. Retrieved 8 August 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ":: Chairman ::". kalyanigroup.com. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  3. "Indian fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2017-10-21. Retrieved 2017-10-21.
  4. "Professor G. Ravindra Kumar on ISF". Infosys Science Foundation. 2017-10-21. Retrieved 2017-10-21.
  5. "Bhaktivedanta Institute". bvinst.edu. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  6. "Biographical Sketch". parliamentofindia.nic.in. Archived from the original on 2004-08-21.
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