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

See also: Category:IIT Delhi alumni

Business

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) Co-Founder and CEO of Incedo Inc.

Politics and law

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 [16][17]
Kiran Bedi 1993 Ph.D. former Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry [18]
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 [19][20]
Somnath Bharti lawyer and politician [21]
Sunjay Sudhir 1988 B. Tech diplomat [22]

Science and technology

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 [23]
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 [24]
Subir Sachdev Did not graduate B.Tech. professor of physics at Harvard University [25]
Siddhartha Paul Tiwari Did not graduate Doctorate Technologist, India Science Award laureate, Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland [26]
Venkata Padmanabhan 1993 B.Tech. (Computer Science and Engineering) computer engineer, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate, ACM Fellow [27]
Vipin Kumar Tripathi 1967, 1971 Doctorate notable Indian Plasma physicist. Former Physics professor of IIT, Delhi. Founder of Sadbhav Mission. [28]
Sanket Goel 1998 M.S. Physics Dean and Professor, BITS Pilani. Fulbright and JSPS Fellow [29]
Naveen Garg theoretical computer scientist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [citation needed]
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 [30]
Sudhanshu Vrati vaccinologist, N-BIOS laureate [31]
Narinder Kumar Gupta honorary member in the area of impact mechanics of the International Society of Impact Engineering. [32]
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 [33]
Mohit Randeria 1980 B.A. in Electrical Engineering condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [34]
Anurag Sharma optical physicist, academic, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [35]
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 [36]
Sanjay Puri 1982 MS (Physics) statistical physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [37]
Rahul Pandit MS (Physics) condensed matter physicist, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate [38]

Arts and entertainment

Name Class

Year

Degree Notability References
Amol Parashar B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering actor [39]
Chetan Bhagat 1995 B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering Indian novelist [40]
Swami Mukundananda 1982 B.Tech. in mechanical engineering spiritual leader; bestselling author; founder of JKYog and Radha Krishna Temple of Dallas [41]
Tushar Raheja 2006 B.Tech in industrial engineering, PhD in applied probability Indian novelist [42][43][44]

Others

Notable faculty

See also: Category:Academic staff of IIT Delhi

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