Alumni

The alumni of IIT Kanpur have undoubtedly made their mark on the Global professional fronts. Most of them occupy leading positions in corporate, academia & the government. Some of the most notable alumni that IIT Kanpur boasts of producing are :

• N.R Narayana Murthy - Founder of Infosys


• Pradeep S. Sindhu - Founder, Vice Chairman & CTO - Juniper Networks


• Dr Ashok Jhunjhunwala - Padma Shri & Professor of Electrical Engg at IIT Madras


• Dr Ashoke Sen - FRS & Padma Shri , Famous String Theorist


• Subir Bose - Managing Director - Berger Paints


• Mahesh Behari Lal - Chairman & MD, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd.


• Satish Kumar Kaura - Chairman - MD Samtel Colour Limited


• Vijay Mahajan - Former Dean of the Indian School of Business


• Duvvuri Subbarao - 22nd Governor of Reserve Bank of India


• Pawan Kumar Goenka - Chief Operating Officer(COO) of Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.


• Late Professor Rajiv Motwani (Stanford University) - Backed the founders of Google & Paypal


• Manindra Agarwal, Nitin Saxena & Neeraj Kayal - Gave the first deterministic primality-proving algorithm famously known as AKS Primality Test. Authors received the 2006 Godel Prize & the 2006 Fulkerson Prize for this result


• Prof. Arvind - JOHNSON Professor , MIT, USA


• Rajeev Chawla - Secretary of E-governance, Govt. of Karnataka