See the list of the notable alumni of IIT Kharagpur featuring eminent personalities like Sundar Pichai and more. Check the links to the IITK Alumni community.
IIT Kharagpur alumni association publishes the quarterly newsletter for the alumni. The objective of the alumni association is to raise the technology education, research, and innovation-related growth of the institute. The purpose of these alumni associations is to promote the general welfare of the organization. Know more about the IIT Kharagpur notable alumni in detail.
IIT Kharagpur Notable Alumni
IIT Kharagpur has an effective alumni relationship that provides a successful experience to the students. Alumni networks are created to support the institute's offer to strengthen domestic ranking. The US-based alumni of IIT Kharagpur have started the vision 2020 fundraiser to provide advanced infrastructures like labs and equipment to attract and retain faculty and students. Listed below are the notable alumni of IIT Kharagpur in detail.
Sundar Pichai
Pichai Sundararajan is commonly known as Sundar Pichai. He is an Indian American business executive and CEO, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google LLC. He started his career as a materials engineer, and in 2004, he joined Google as a management executive. Later, Sundar Pichai rose to become Google's product chief and then CEO of Google in 2015, part of the restructuring process that made Alphabet Inc. into Google's parent company. After which, he also became the CEO of Alphabet Inc. in December 2019.
Sundar Pichai completed his metallurgical engineering degree from IIT Kharagpur and is a distinguished alumnus from IIT Kharagpur. He also holds an MS material science and engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania named a Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar.
Profession: CEO of Alphabet, Businessperson
Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Bhattacharyya is a popular computer scientist and a professor at the Computer Science and Engineering Department, IIT Bombay. And currently, Pushpak is also the Director of the Indian Institute of Technology Patna.
Besides this, he was the President of the Computational Linguistics Association. Presently he heads the Research Group Center for Indian Language Technology (CFILT) lab at IIT Bombay for Natural language processing.
He has completed his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from IIT Kharagpur on bachelors and masters of technology. Later, he completed his PhD from IIT Bombay in 1994. Pusphak Bhattacharyya was awarded the "Patwardhan Award of IIT Bombay for Technology Development," "VNMM award of IIT Roorkee for Technology Development," "Fellow of National Academy of Engineering," and "Eminent Engineer Award of Institution of Engineers."
Profession: Computer Scientist / Professor
Duvvuri Subbarao
Duvvuri Subbarao is a Retired IAS Officer, Ex-Governor of RBI, and Indian Economist. Subbarao was the 22nd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India who served under Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh.
Dr D.Subbarao is an IAS officer of the Andhra Pradesh cadre 1972 batch. On 5th September 2008, he was appointed the 22nd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and served his duties until 2013.
Dr D. Subbarao received his M.Sc degree (Physics) from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur after relieving his administrative duties in 1978. Later, he did his master's degree in economics from the Ohio State University of the United States. Subbarao is also a fellow member of the Humphrey Fellowship during his Humphrey Fellowship program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for pursuing Quantitative Economic Modelling. Besides this, he received a PhD in Economics from Andhra University, where his doctoral thesis was titled "Fiscal reforms at the sub-national level."
Profession: Indian Economist
Arjun Malhotra
Arjun Malhotra is an Indian industrialist, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and co-founder of the HCL group in 1975, where he also served as vice-chairman. Besides this, he also founded TechSpan, and then he served as a chief executive officer of a US-based firm. Later, he joined hands with his college friend and co-founded SPIC MACAY to promote Indian music and culture amongst the youth.
In 1965, he joined IIT Kharagpur to pursue his degree in Electronics and Electrical Communications. Later, he came to the United States to do the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. Malhotra was awarded many prestigious awards, including Albert Einstein Technology Medal in 2001, Dataquest Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018, Dr B.C. Roy Gold Medal, Honorary Doctorate from Punjab Technical University in 2013. Also, in 2003, he was named a Life Fellow by IIT Kharagpur and later awarded the Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) by the university in 2012.
Profession: Entrepreneur
Malli Mastan Babu
Mastan Babu Malli was a famous Indian mountaineer and proud alumni of IIT Kharagpur. Malli is well known for his world record of creating the fear of climbing each continent's highest peak (the Seven Summits) in the shortest time at that point. Malli took 172 days, with the first climb on 19th January 2006 and the 7th on 10th July 2006. This feat made him one of the fastest seven summiteers in the world at that time.
The IIT Calcutta awarded Mastan Babu the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2011. Notably, Babu is the first Indian and South Asian to climb all seven summits, the first Indian to climb Carstensz Pyramid and Vinson Massif. On 24th March 2015, Babu passed away in the Andes mountains after a successful Tres Cruces Sur Summit.
Profession: Motivational Speaker, Mountaineer
IIT Kharagpur Alumni Community
IIT Kharagpur Alumni community strives to bridge the gap between IIT Kharagpur and its esteemed alumni community. They organize the Annual Alumni Meet, Regional Student Alumni Meet, regular guest lectures by distinguished alumni on the campus, publishing the annual literary magazine (Yearnings of Yore) & the annual yearbook and so on to keep the students and the alumni connected.
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IIT Kharagpur Alumni List
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur or IIT Kharagpur has many successful graduates in various fields, from academics to arts. The notable alumni of IIT Kharagpur from various fields include Academics, Science & Engineering, Politics, Business, and Arts.
| Name | Notability |
| Sandipan Deb | Founder Editor of Outlook |
| Ravi Kant | Former Vice-Chairman of Tata Motors |
| Ashok Khemka | Senior Bureaucrat in the Indian state of Haryana |
| Arvind Kejriwal | Chief Minister of Delhi |
| Vinod Gupta | Founder of Info USA, CEO of Infofree and Database USA |
| Arun Sarin | Former CEO of Vodafone |
| Suhas Patil | Founder of Cirrus Logic |
| Biswa Kalyan Rath | An Indian Stand-up Comedian and Writer |
