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Famous geeks of IIT-Kanpur
IIT-Kanpur has a lot famous alumni to flaunt as its own. Here's a list of just some of them.
1. Umang Gupta (CEO, Keynote Systems)
2. NR Narayana Murthy (Infosys)
3. Manindra Agarwal (Clay Research Award, 2002)
4. Rakesh Gangwal (CEO Worldspan, Ex-CEO US Airways Group)
5. Vyomesh 'VJ' Joshi (Executive VP, Imaging & Personal Systems Group Hewlett Packard)
6. Arvind Gupta (Toymaker; makes toys of discarded material)
7. Ashoke Sen (String theorist)
8. Raj Singh (Venture Capitalist, former billionaire, funded Teligent among others, married to Nita, also an alumnus of IIT Kanpur)
9. Ambuj Goyal (VP/GM of IBM's Lotus business)
10. Satish Kaura (Padma Shri and founder of Samtel Group)
11. Umesh Mishra (Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a leading expert on wide-band gap semiconductors)
12. Pradeep Sindhu (Founder - Juniper Networks)
13. Dr Ashok Jhunjhunwala (Padma Shri and Profesor, Dept of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras)
14. Dr S Sivaram (Director, NCL Pune)
15. Dr SP Mehrotra (Director, NML Jamshedpur)
16. Dr K Vijayraghvan ( Director, NBC Bangalore)
The Indian Institutes of Technology need no introduction either in India or abroad, for their alumni have already made their presence felt everywhere. The Institutes were set up by the Government of India as 'Institutions of National Importance' and almost all reputed international academic benchmarks have given them high rating. Sakshi Arora takes you through the corridors of IITs.
