Alumni
- N.R. Narayana Murthy, founded the software corporation Infosys
- Pradeep Sindhu, founder - Juniper Networks
- Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Padma Shri and Professor, Dept of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras)
- Abhay Bhushan, author of File Transfer Protocol
- Amitabh Thakur, an officer of the Indian Police Service, social activist, writer
- Anil K. Rajvanshi, Director, Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute and winner of Jamnalal Bajaj Award 2001, FICCI award 2002, Globe Award 2009.
- Ashoke Sen, FRS and Padma Shri, string theorist
- Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, scientist in the area of NMR and biological membranes
- Chandra Kintala, Professor and Director of Software Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology; Director(Retd.), Bell Labs, USA
- Debabrata Goswami, scientist, famous for his "Adiabatic Quantum Computing" Work with Lasers; Wellcome Trust International Senior Research Fellow
- Duvvuri Subbarao, 22nd Governor of Reserve Bank of India
- Jainendra K. Jain, condensed matter theorist
- K. VijayRaghavan (Director of National Centre for Biological Sciences) - 2003 Distinguished Alumnus Award Winner
- Manindra Agrawal, Nitin Saxena, and Neeraj Kayal (proved with their AKS primality test that primality testing has a polynomial time algorithm, a major result in theoretical computer science). Clay Research Award, 2002, Godel Prize, 2006
- Mriganka Sur, neuroscientist), Sherman Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience, Head, Dept of Brain and Cognitive Science MIT, Fellow of Royal Society
- Rahul Ram, Indian bass guitarist, social activist and music composer, Indian Ocean (band)
- Rajeev Motwani, computer scientist), Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Helped back companies such as PayPal and Google
- Rajesh Gopakumar, physicist and string theorist at HCRI, Allahabad
- Rajiv Dixit, social activist
- Satyendra Dubey, whistle-blower whose murder shocked the nation
- Shiraz Minwalla, a string theorist at TIFR who was awarded ICTP Prize for his contribution to theoretical physics
- Utpal Bhattacharya, expert on financial ethics
- Umang Gupta, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Keynote Systems, Inc.
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