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This is a list of notable alumni of BITS Pilani and its predecessors Birla College of Engineering etc.[1]
Entrepreneurs[edit]
Name
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Achievement
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Year of Attendance at BITS
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Campus
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Sanjay Mehrotra
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Co-founder of SanDisk, CEO of Micron Technology
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1974-1976
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Pilani
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Preetish Nijhawan
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Co-founder of Akamai Technologies
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1985–1989
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Pilani
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Baba Kalyani[2]
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Billionaire, Chairman of Bharat Forge
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1965–1970
|
Pilani
|
Sabeer Bhatia
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Founder of Hotmail
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1986–1988
|
Pilani
|
Gulu Mirchandani
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Founder and Chairman of Onida Group
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|
Pilani
|
Alagu Periyannan
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Co-founder of BlueJeans
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1985–1989
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Pilani
|
Bill Malhotra
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Founder of Claridge Homes
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1966-1971
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Pilani
|
Vinod Agarwal
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Founder and chairman of SemIndia; founder and former Chairman of LogicVision
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1968–1973
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Pilani
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Vijay Chandru
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Co-founder and CEO, Strand Life Sciences; Inventor of Simputer
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1971–1975[3]
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Pilani
|
Rajiv Bapna
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Founder and Director of Amkette, a storage media company
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1969–1974
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Pilani
|
Surendra Kumar Surana
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Founder and Managing Director of Compucom Software Ltd and Editor in Chief at Jan TV
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1981–1985
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Pilani
|
Sriharsha Majety
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Co-founder and CEO of Swiggy
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2003–2008
|
Pilani
|
Nandan Reddy
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Co-founder of Swiggy
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2005–2010
|
Pilani
|
Abhinav Asthana
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Co-founder of Postman API
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2006–2010
|
Goa
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Abhijit Kane
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Co-founder of Postman API
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2008–2013
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Hyderabad
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Kaushik Mukherjee
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Co-founder of Sugar Cosmetics
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2000–2004
|
Pilani
|
Hari Menon
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Co-founder, CEO of BigBasket
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1979–1983
|
Pilani
|
Richa Kar
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Co-founder of Zivame
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2002–2007
|
Pilani
|
Ishan Bansal
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Co-founder of Groww
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2005–2009
|
|
Shubh Malhotra
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Co-founder of Mobile Premier League
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2005–2009
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Goa
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Narendra Khatri
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Co-founder of Insubuy
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1991-1995
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Pilani
|
Bhuvan Gupta
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Co-founder of OfBusiness
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1996–2000
|
Pilani
|
Phanindra Sama
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Co-founder of RedBus
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1998–2002
|
Pilani
|
Shivkumar Ganesan
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Co-founder of Exotel
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2000–2004
|
Pilani
|
Abhishek Nayak
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Co-founder of Appsmith
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2005–2010
|
|
Srivatsan Chari
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Co-founder of ClearTax
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2004–2008
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Dubai
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Abhinay Peddisetty
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Co-founder of BukuWarang
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|
Pilani
|
Corporate leaders[edit]
Academia[edit]
Name
|
Achievement
|
Year of Attendance at BITS
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Goverdhan Mehta
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Padma Shri Awardee, Fellow of the Royal Society, ex-Director of IISc Bangalore, ex-Vice Chancellor of University of Hyderabad
|
–1963[4]
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Dorairajan Balasubramanian
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Former President of Indian Academy of Sciences and Director of Research at L. V. Prasad Eye Institute; recipient of the National Order of Merit (France) and Padma Shri.
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1957–1959[5]
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S. P. Kothari
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Padma Shri Awardee, Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management
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1974–1979
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Krishna Saraswat
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Electrical Engineering Professor at Stanford University
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1963–1968
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Milind Tambe
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Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University
|
–1986
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Autar Kaw
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Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Florida
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1976–1981
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Arun Sharma
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Distinguished emeritus professor, Queensland University of Technology
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2008
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G. Ravindra Kumar[6][7]
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Senior professor - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
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1977–1983
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Ravi Gomatam
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Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute (Berkeley and Mumbai)[8]
|
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Narendra Ahuja
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Founding Director of IIIT Hyderabad (1999–2002)
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1968–1972
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Arun K. Somani
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Department Chair, Senior Associate Dean in Engineering, Iowa State University
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2003–2010, 2013–present (as of 2023[update])
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Govindan Rangarajan
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Director & Professor Dept. of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
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1980–1985
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Seshadri Vasan
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First Rhodes Scholar alumnus, COVID-19 scientist, Honorary Professor, University of York
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1991–1996
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T. N. Vijaykumar
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Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
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1990
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Ravindra Dastikop
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Educator and speaker on Cloud Computing
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Social activists, politics, and government[edit]
References[edit]