List of BITS Pilani alumni

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

Corporate and Entrepreneurs
Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITS
Anant Maheshwari President of Microsoft India 1991–1996
Poonam Boparai Principal at Ascent Environmental, Inc. 2000-2004
Anil Goel CTO and Chief Product Officer at Oyo Rooms 1991–1995
Sanjay Mehrotra President and co-founder of Sandisk
Ishan Bansal Co-founder of Groww
Baba Kalyani[2] Billionaire, Chairman of Bharat Forge 1965–1970
Hari Menon CEO and co-founder of Bigbasket 1976-1979
Sabeer Bhatia Founder of Hotmail (sold to Microsoft for $400 million); joined Caltech after two years of study in BITS Pilani
Amitabh Chaudhry[3] MD and CEO of Axis Bank 1981-1985
Manu Sawhney CEO of International Cricket Council (ICC), Former CEO of ESPN Star Sports, Director of Manchester United F.C. 1984-1988
Rakesh Verma Co-founder and CEO of MapmyIndia
Phanindra Sama Co-founder and CEO of Redbus.in, online bus-ticketing company 1998–2002
Sanjay Jalona CEO and MD of L&T Infotech 1986-1990
Gulu L. Mirchandani Founder and CEO of Onida Electronics 1965–1970
Rakesh Kapoor CEO of Reckitt Benckiser 1975-1980
Sunil Duggal CEO of Dabur 1974-1979
Rajesh Hukku Chairman and CEO of i-flex Solutions; named Star of Asia by Businessweek in 2003
Vivek Paul Consulting Professor at Stanford; founder of KineticGlue; partner at TPG; Vice Chairman of Wipro Ltd.; CEO of Wipro Technologies; named one of the world's ten best managers by Businessweek (2003), Top 30 Global CEOs by Barrons in 2005, and "2004 Business influentials" by Time
Saket Agarwal CEO of Spice Digital 1988-93
Vinod Agarwal Founder and chairman of SEMINDIA, India's first semiconductor fab; founder and former Chairman of LogicVision ($100 million NASDAQ traded company: LGVN) 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
Rahul Chandra Co-founder and MD of Helion Venture Partners 1990-1993
Tulsi Mirchandaney MD of Blue_Dart_Aviation 1967-1970
Gaurav Chaudhary World's 2nd most subscribed Tech YouTuber (Technical Guruji), India's most subscribed Vlogger
SK Roongta Chairman of Steel Authority of India Ltd.

Academia
Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITS
Prof. S. P. Kothari Padma Shree Awardee, Deputy Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management 1974-1979
Autar Kaw 2012 U.S. Professor of the Year; Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Florida
Prof. Krishna Saraswat Stanford University 1963-1968
Suvrit Sra Researcher at MIT. Former Senior Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Former Visiting Faculty Member at the University of California at Berkeley (EECS Department) and Carnegie Mellon University (Machine Learning Department).
Dr. Sanjay Putrevu Dean of College of Business, Cleveland State University
G. Ravindra Kumar[4][5] Senior professor - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research 1977-1983
Prof. Ravi Gomatam Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute[6] and Institute of Semantic Information Sciences and Technology,[7] Berkeley and Mumbai
Narendra Ahuja Computer Scientist at UIUC in the field of computer vision and pattern recognition. Founding Director of IIIT (1999-2002). 1979-Present

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; honoured with the Padma Vibhushan in 1999, and posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna.
Deendayal Upadhyaya RSS thinker and former leader of the political party Bharatiya Jana Sangh.
Prithviraj Chavan[8] Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra; former Union Minister for Science and Technology, Govt. of India 1963-1967

Arts
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
Anu Haasan Actress, Tamil/Telugu movies, TV show host
Kanika Actress, Tamil/Telugu/Kannada/Malayalam movies, TV show host
Mani Shankar Director, Indian movies
Padmini Chettur Dancer 1987-1991
Dushyanth Sridhar Noted scholar in Sanskrit and Tamil on ancient Hindu scriptures 2004-2009
Sandeep A. Varma film director and writer

References
  1. "List of Notable BITS Alumni - BITSAA International". bitsaa.org. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  2. ":: Chairman ::". kalyanigroup.com. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  3. Amitabh Chaudhry
  4. "Indian fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2017-10-21. Retrieved 2017-10-21.
  5. "Professor G. Ravindra Kumar on ISF". Infosys Science Foundation. 2017-10-21. Retrieved 2017-10-21.
  6. "Bhaktivedanta Institute". bvinst.edu. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  7. "Institute of Semantic Information Sciences and Technology". insist.ac.in. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  8. http://parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/lok11/biodata/11mh18.htm
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