- Kanwal Rekhi
Kanwal Rekhi (born 1945) is an Indian-American engineer, businessman and millionaire philanthropist. Kanwal was born in Rawalpindi (then in British India, now in Pakistan). After the partition of India, his family settled in Kanpur, India. In 1967 Rekhi graduated as an electrical engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, India and in 1969 he received a Master of Science degree from Michigan Technological University.
- Vinod Gupta
Vinod Gupta is the chairman and CEO of infoUSA (previously known as American Business Information, Inc.). He did his graduation (BTech) from IIT Kharagpur in 1967, and MS in Agricultural Engineering and MBA from the University of Nebraska in 1972. Before starting American Business Information Inc., he worked as Marketing Research Manager in Commodore Corporation. His company aimed to provide information services to American businessmen.
- Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla (born January 28, 1955 in Poona) is an Indian-American venture capitalist. He is an influential personality in Silicon Valley. He was one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems and became a general partner of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in 1986.
- Arun Sarin
Arun Sarin spent almost his entire working life in the telecommunications industry. He built an enviable professional record by combining various talents and skills: his technical knowledge, his business strategy, and his financial acumen were all legendary. He held several senior-executive-level positions in major U.S. companies in the telecommunications industry. At times, his ascension into top-management positions appeared almost meteoric.
- Anil Ambani
Anil Ambani (born June 4, 1959) is an Indian businessman. As of March 2007, he has a net-worth of US$ 18.2 billion, making him the 18th richest person in the world. His was the world's fastest-growing multi-billion-dollar fortune in percentage terms as his wealth tripled in 1 year. Ambani is chairman of Reliance Capital, Reliance Communications and Chairman & Managing Director, Reliance Energy, …
- N. R. Narayana Murthy
N.R. Narayana Murthy is an Indian industrialist, software engineer and one of the 7 founders of Infosys Technologies, a global consulting and IT services company based in India.
- Rajat Gupta
Rajat Kumar Gupta is the current special advisor on management reforms to the Secretary-General of the United Nation. He is also an independent director at Goldman Sachs and is a member of the board of trustees of the University of Chicago.
- Nandan Nilekani
Nandan Nilekani is an Indian software entrepreneur. He is currently the Co-Chairman of Infosys Technologies Ltd, of which he is also a co-founder, along with N. R. Narayana Murthy and others.
- Manindra Agrawal
Manindra Agrawal (मणीन्द्र अग्रवाल) is a Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He obtained a B.Tech and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. His advisor was Dr. Somenath Biswas. He co-created the AKS primality test with Neeraj Kayal and Nitin Saxena, and won the 2002 Clay Research Award, …
- Jairam Ramesh
Jairam Ramesh is presently a Member of the Parliament of India representing Andhra Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He is also the Minister of State for Commerce in the current Congress Party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.
- Victor Menezes
Victor J. Menezes (May 14, 1949 -) is an engineer and banker, who acts as a top official in international financial organizations. He is originally from India and received his degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1970. He received a Master's degree in Management (M.B.A.) from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1972. In the same year, he joined Citicorp in Corporate Banking.
- Nitin Saxena
Nitin Saxena obtained his Ph.D. at the Computer Science Department of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. He also graduated with his B.Tech from the same institute in 2002. He, along with Manindra Agrawal and Neeraj Kayal proposed the AKS Primality Test in 2002, for which the trio received the Gödel Prize in 2006. This research remarkably came out as a part of his undergraduate study.
- Rajesh Jain
Rajesh Jain is Managing Director of Mumbai-based Netcore Solutions Pvt Ltd, conceptualized in 1998 with the aim of offering affordable software solutions to Indian companies. Rajesh launched IndiaWorld, the largest collection of India-centric websites in 1995 (Samachar.com, Khel.com, Khoj.com etc), which he sold to Satyam Infoway, in November 1999, in one of Asia's biggest Internet acquisitions. Rajesh Jain attended St. Xavier's College from 1982 to 1984.
- Neeraj Kayal
Neeraj Kayal is an Indian computer scientist. Kayal graduated with a B.Tech from the Computer Science Department of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK), India in 2002. In that year, he, Manindra Agrawal and Nitin Saxena proposed the AKS Primality Test, which attracted worldwide attention, including an article in the New York Times. This research remarkably came out as a part of undergraduate study. He was given the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the IITK, …
- Madhu Sudan
Madhu Sudan is an Indian computer scientist, professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He was awarded the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize at the 24th International Congress of Mathematicians in 2002. The prize recognizes outstanding work in the mathematical aspects of computer science.
- Anurag Dikshit
Anurag Dikshit, pronounced as), is a billionaire Indian businessman, the richest man in Gibraltar and the 207th richest man in the world. As a co-founder of PartyGaming, parent company of the world's leading online poker site PartyPoker.com, he is one of the youngest billionaires in the world. The largest individual shareholder, he owns approximately 30% of PartyGaming after selling 23% of his stake in the company's Initial Public Offering.
- Bharat Desai
Bharat Desai is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the Chairman and CEO of Syntel (NASDAQ: SYNT), a global provider of Information Technology and Business Process Outsourcing services. Bharat co-founded Syntel in 1980 and today, it is the “Partner of Choice” for many of the best known brands in the Global 2000. As of March 2007, Syntel employs over 8,600 people globally and has a market capitalization in excess of $1 billion.
- Sartaj Sahni
Sartaj Sahni is a computer scientist and is one of the pioneers in the field of data structures. He is currently distinguished professor and chairman of the CISE department at the University of Florida. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Minnesota Supercomputer Institute, …
- Arjun Malhotra
Arjun Malhotra is an Indian businessman who co-founded HCL Technologies Ltd. He is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology.
- Suhas Patil
Dr. Suhas S. Patil, born 1944 in Jamshedpur,Jharkhand, India, is a Silicon Valley tycoon, venture capitalist and philanthropist. He founded the company Cirrus Logic which is recognized for creating the fabless business model of semiconductor companies. Cirrus Logic brought to fruition VLSI design methodology work Dr. Patil did at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the University of Utah.
- Satyendra Dubey
Satyendra Kumar Dubey (1973 - 2003) was project director at the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). He was assassinated in Gaya, Bihar for fighting corruption in the Golden Quadrilateral highway construction project.
- Arun Netravali
Arun N. Netravali (b. May 26, 1946 in Bombay) is an Indian-American engineer and businessman who is a pioneer of digital technology including HDTV. He conducted seminal research in digital compression, signal processing and other fields, including important collaborative work with Thomas S. Huang. Netravali has been President of Bell Laboratories and Chief Scientist for Lucent Technologies. He received his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, …
- G. V. Loganathan
Gobichettypalayam Vasudevan Loganathan, known as Prof. G. V. Loganathan was an Indian-born American professor, whose most recent position was a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, part of the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, United States. He was a victim of the Virginia Tech massacre.
- Raghuram Rajan
Raghuram G. Rajan is the Economic Counselor and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund, or more simply, its Chief Economist. He replaced Ken Rogoff at the IMF in September 2003. He is the youngest individual to hold the position (beginning at the age of 40). In 2003, he was the inaugural winner of the Fischer Black Prize awarded by the American Finance Association for outstanding original research in finance.
- Sukumar Nandi
Professor Sukumar Nandi is senior member of IEEE and presently head Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. Prof. Nandi did his phd from IIT Kharagpur under Prof P.Pal Chaudhri. Being a firm believer in philosophy of learning through interaction he joined IIT Guwahati and has been teaching here since 1995. Prof Nandi is at present member Board of Governor, IIT Guwahati.
- Sanjay Mittal
Sanjay Mittal is a professor of computational fluid dynamics in the department of aerospace engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur, India). After doing his B.Tech from IIT Kanpur in 1988, he got enrolled at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities for M.S program. Afterwards he did his Ph.D. and postdocterate under Prof. Tezduyar.
- Arvind Kejriwal
Arvind Kejriwal is an Indian social activist and crusader for greater transparency in Government. He was awarded Ramon Magsaysay Emergent Leadership award in 2006 for activating India's Right to Information movement at grassroots and social activities to empower the poorest citizens to fight corruption by holding the government answerable to the people. After graduating as a mechanical engineer from IIT Kharagpur in 1989, …
- Vikrant Bhargava
Vikrant Bhargava is a billionaire of Indian origin, the second richest man in Gibraltar and the Group Marketing Director of online casino operator PartyGaming. Bhargava's experience prior to joining the group included positions as a credit officer at the Bank of America, where he was responsible for managing credit exposure and revenue for a portfolio of corporate clients, and a business analyst in the business development division of British Gas.
- Pradeep Sindhu
Pradeep Sindhu is the serving Chief Technical Officer of Juniper Networks Inc. Sindhu founded Juniper Networks along with Dennis Ferguson, and Bjorn Liencres in February 1996 in California. The company was subsequently reincorporated in Delaware on March 1998 in and went public on the 25th of June, 1999. Sindhu was instrumental in the architecture, design, and development of the Juniper M40 while running the company. Whilst at the Computer Science Lab of Xerox PARC, …
- Somenath Biswas
Somenath Biswas is a professor of computer science at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He did his B.Tech and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. His areas of specialisation include computational complexity, computational biology and randomized algorithms. One of his famous students is Manindra Agarwal, inventor of the polynomial primality testing algorithm. He has also held lot of administrative positions at IIT Kanpur, …
- Manohar Parrikar
Manohar Parrikar (born December 13, 1955, Mapusa, Goa) is an Indian politician and the Chief Minister of Goa from 2000 to 2005. He is a graduate from IIT Bombay, the first IIT graduate to become the Chief Minister of any Indian state ever. He is from the Bharatiya Janata Party, the first from his party to become the Chief Minister. He was first elected to the Second Legislative Assembly of the State of Goa in 1994.
- Kirit Parikh
Dr. Kirit S. Parikh is Emeritus Professor (on retirement as Director) and Founder Director of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, India. He has also served as Senior Economic Advisor to United Nations Development Programme from October 1997 to September 1998. He has been a member of the Economic Advisory Council(EAC) of the Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and had been a member of EAC of Prime Ministers Rajiv Gandhi, V.P.Singh, …
- Ajit Jain
Ajit Jain is a businessman who currently heads several reinsurance business for Berkshire Hathaway and has been touted as a possible successor to Warren Buffett. Jain's potential rivals to head up Berkshire when Buffett departs are Joseph Brandon, who heads up Berkshire Hathaway's General Re Corp., whose offices in Stamford, Connecticut are about a mile away from Jain's; Richard Santulli, who runs NetJets Inc., an operator of private jets; and Tony Nicely, …
- Subhash Kak
Subhash Kak (born March 26, 1947 in Srinagar, Kashmir) is an Indian American computer scientist. He has published material related to cryptography and quantum information. He is notable for publications outside of his field, from an India-centric "Indigenous Aryans" ideology, including history and philosophy of science, ancient astronomy, and history of mathematics.
- Kris Gopalakrishnan
Kris Gopalakrishnan is an Indian industrialist, software engineer and one of the 7 founders of Infosys Technologies, a global consulting and IT services company based in India.
- Ashok Soota
Ashok Soota was the President of Wipro from 1984 to 1999. He co-founded MindTree Consulting in 1999, which is currently a leading name in IT consulting.He has played a major role in the development of the IT industry in India. Chairman and managing director of MindTree Consulting, Ashok Soota co-founded the company in August 1999 along with nine other industry professionals. Prior to co-founding MindTree, Soota was president of Wipro Infotech from 1984 to 1999.
- Narendra Karmarkar
Narendra K. Karmarkar (b. 1957) is an Indian mathematician, renowned for developing Karmarkar's algorithm. Dr. Karmarkar received his B.Tech at the IIT Bombay in 1978. Later, he received his M.S. at the California Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. at the Institute of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He published his famous result in 1984 while he was working for Bell Laboratories in New Jersey. Dr.
- Jairaj Phatak
Jairaj Moreshwar Phatak is the 25th municipal commissioner of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), India. Jairaj Phatak did his M.Sc. (Physics) from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1975. He belongs to the 1978 batch of IAS officers. He served as the Principal Secretary in Urban Development department of Maharashtra Government. His tenure as school education department secretary was lauded for the efforts he undertook to improve the lot of students.
- Subramanian Swamy
Dr. Subramanian Swamy (b. 15 September, 1939 at Madras, sometimes spelt as Subramaniam Swamy) is a politician from India. He is also a trained economist.
- V C Kulandaiswamy
V C Kulandaiswamy, (born:1929-07-14) is an Indian academician and renowned author. He is currently the Chairman of Tamil Virtual University. He has received the Sahitya Akademi Award for a Tamil literary work, Padma Shri (1992) and Padma Bhushan (2002) for distinguished service in the fields of education and science. He has also received an honorary doctorate from Jaffna University (Sri Lanka) in 1980 in recognition of his contributions to Tamil literature.