List of BITS Pilani alumni

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

Entrepreneurs
Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITS
Sanjay Mehrotra President and co-founder of Sandisk, CEO Micron Technology
Preetish Nijhawan Co-founder of Akamai Technologies 1985-1989
Baba Kalyani[2] Billionaire, Chairman of Bharat Forge 1965–1970
Sabeer Bhatia Founder of Hotmail
Vinod Agarwal Founder and chairman of SemIndia; founder and former Chairman of LogicVision 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
Surendra Kumar Surana Founder and Managing Director of Compucom Software Ltd and Editor in Chief at Jan TV 1981-1985
Nandan Reddy Co-founder of Swiggy

Corporate Leaders
Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITS
Revathi Advaithi CEO of Flex 1986-1990
Rakesh Kapoor CEO of Reckitt Benckiser 1975-1980
Sunil Duggal CEO of Dabur 1974-1979
Vivek Paul Consulting Professor at Stanford University; founder of KineticGlue; CEO of Wipro Technologies
SK Roongta Chairman of Isro 1966-1971

Academia
Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITS
Goverdhan Mehta Padma Shri Awardee, Fellow of the Royal Society, ex Director of IISc Bangalore, ex Vice Chancellor of University of Hyderabad
S. P. Kothari Padma Shri Awardee, Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management 1974-1979
Milind Tambe Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University
Autar Kaw Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Florida 1976-81
Arun Sharma Distinguished emeritus professor, Queensland University of Technology 2008
Krishna Saraswat Stanford University 1963-1968
G. Ravindra Kumar[3][4] Senior professor - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research 1977-1983
Ravi Gomatam Director of Bhaktivedanta Institute (Berkeley and Mumbai)[5]
Narendra Ahuja Founding Director of IIIT Hyderabad (1999-2002). 1968-1972
Arun K. Somani Department Chair, Senior Associate Dean in Engineering, Iowa State University. 2003-2010, 2013-Contd
Govindan Rangarajan Director & Professor Dept. of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. 1980-85
Seshadri Vasan First Rhodes Scholar alumnus, COVID-19 scientist, Honorary Professor, University of York 1991-96
T. N. Vijaykumar Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University. 1990

Social Activists, Politics and Government
Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITS
Nanaji Deshmukh Social Activism in the fields of education, health, and rural self-reliance and posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna.
Prithviraj Chavan[6] Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra; former Union Minister for Science and Technology, Govt. of India 1963-1967

Film
Name Achievement Year of Attendance at BITS
Mani Shankar Legendary, Award-winning Director, Indian movies
Anu Haasan Actress, Tamil/Telugu movies, TV show host
Kanika Former Actress, Tamil/Telugu/Kannada/Malayalam movies, TV show host
Sandeep A. Varma Award-winning Film Director and Writer
AK Srikanth Award-winning Short Film Maker and Writer

Art, Music, Writers & Dance
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
Vikram Sampath Writer of historical non-fiction
Hartosh Singh Bal Journalist and Editor
Padmini Chettur Dancer 1987-1991
Dushyanth Sridhar Noted scholar in Sanskrit and Tamil on ancient Hindu scriptures 2004-2009
Praveen Kumar
Gaurav Chaudhary Tech Vlogger
Harish Sivaramakrishnan Playback Singer
Anantharaman Ajay Youtuber and Actor

References
  1. "List of Notable BITS Alumni - BITSAA International". bitsaa.org. Retrieved 8 August 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ":: Chairman ::". kalyanigroup.com. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  3. "Indian fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 21 October 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  4. "Professor G. Ravindra Kumar on ISF". Infosys Science Foundation. 21 October 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  5. "Bhaktivedanta Institute". bvinst.edu. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  6. "Biographical Sketch". parliamentofindia.nic.in. Archived from the original on 21 August 2004.
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