DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

S.No.	Name, Graduated year	Award year	Current affiliation	Photo	Remarks
1	Mr. Srikanth Velamakanni B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1996	2025	Co-founder and Group CEO of Fractal, a Global AI Firm		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of his outstanding achievements in Entrepreneurship.
2	Dr. Ashutosh Garg B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1997	2024	CEO and Co-Founder of Eightfold.ai, a groundbreaking unicorn startup		DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD in recognition of his outstanding achievements in Entrepreneurship
3	Dr Nalin Shinghal B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1985	2023	Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), a Govt of India CPSE		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of his outstanding achievements in Corporate Leadership and Government & Public Service Sector
4	Dr Gurtej Singh Sandhu M.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1990	2023	Senior Fellow and Vice President of Technology Development at Micron Technology, Inc.		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of his outstanding achievements in Research and Corporate Leadership
5	Prof. Aarti Gupta B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1985	2023	Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University.		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of her outstanding achievements in Teaching and Research
6	Prof. Ashutosh Sabharwal B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1993	2023	Chaired Professor of Engineering and the Department Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University.		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of his outstanding achievements in Teaching and Research
7	Dr. Amit Sinha B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1998	2022	CEO, DigiCert, Inc		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of his Corporate Leadership
8	Dr. Anirudh Devgan B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1990	2022	President and CEO of Cadence Design Systems, Inc., and is a member of the Board of Directors		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by him to the field of Corporate Leadership.
9	Prof. Somesh Jha B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1985	2021	Lubar Professor in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin (Madison).		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by him in Teaching and Research.
10	Dr. Lov K. Grover B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1981	2021	Independent Researcher after his retirement in 20018 from Bell Labs		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by him in Teaching and Research.
11	Prof. H. V. Jagadish B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1981	2020	Editor of the Morgan & Claypool “Synthesis” Lecture Series on Data Management.		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by him in Teaching and Research.
12	Prof. Soumitra Dutta B.Tech in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, IIT Delhi in 1985	2017	Founding Dean of Cornell SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University, New York.		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by him in Teaching and Research.
13	Mr. Saurabh Mittal B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1995	2017	Founder and Chairman of Mission Holdings		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contribution made by him in Corporate Business Development & Entrepreneurship.
14	Prof. Chandrajit Bajaj B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1980	2016	Director of the Computational Visualization Center, at the University of Texas at Austin.		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by him in Teaching and Research.
15	Mr. Pradeep Kumar B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1970	2016	Chairing the ‘Expert Committee for Environment Appraisal of Nuclear, Defence and related projects’ under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India.		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by him in Public Service and Policy.
16	Prof. Ashish Nanda B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1981	2015	Director of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA).		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by him in Teaching & Research.
17	Dr. Avinash Chander B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1972	2014	Scientific Adviser to the Raksha Mantri & Secretary, Department of  Defence R&D, and Director General, DRDO.		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by him as a Researcher.
18	Prof. Varun Grover B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1982	2013	William S. Lee (Duke Energy) Distinguished Professor of Information Systems at Clemson University		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by him as a Researcher and Educator.
19	Prof. Trilochan Sastry B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1981	2012	Professor of Quantitative Methods & Information Systems at IIM Bangalore.		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by him in Public Policy and Service.
20	Mr. Ashok Belani B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1980	2011	Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President at Schlumberger Limited		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by him as a Corporate Leader and Researcher.
21	Mr. Patanjali Keswani B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1981	2011	Chairman and Managing Director of Lemon Tree Hotels and Red Fox Hotels.		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by him as an Entrepreneur.
22	Dr. Anant Jhingram B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1985	2011	IBM Fellow, Vice President, and Chief-Technical-Officer (CTO) for Information Management, which is a large part of IBM’s $22B/yr Software Group.		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by him as a Corporate Leader and Researcher.
23	Prof. Harbir Singh B.Tech in Electrical Engnieering, IIT Delhi in 1975	2010	Vice Dean for Global Initiatives at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of contributions made by him as a Researcher and Educator.
24	Prof. Sharad Malik B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1985	2009	George Van Ness Lothrop Professor of Engineering and the Director for the Center for Innovation in Engineering Education at Princeton University.		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by him as a Researcher, Engineer and Educator.
25	Dr. Alok Aggarwal B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1980	2008	Founder and Chairman of Evalueserve		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by him as an Entrepreneur and Researcher.
26	Mr. Sanjay Khosla B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1973	2007	President, Kraft International of Kraft Foods, Inc., based in Chicago.		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by him as a Corporate Leader.
27	Prof. Mohit Randeria B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1980	2007	Professor of Physics at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by him as a Researcher and Scientist.
28	Dr. Rajiv Laroia B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1985	2007	Senior Vice President of Technology at Qualcomm, USA.		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by him as an Entrepreneur and Technologist.
29	Mr. Asim Ghosh B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1969	2006	Managing Director of Hutchison Essar, branded as Hutch.		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by him as a Corporate Leader in the telecom technology sector.
30	Mr. Navin Chaddha B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1992	2006	Managing Director at Gabriel Venture Partners, where he leads investment efforts in India and US.		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by him as an Entrepreneur and Technologist.
31	Dr. Krishan Sabnani B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1975	2005	Senior Vice President (Networking Research) at Bell Labs, USA.		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of contributions made by him as a Researcher and Technologist.
32	Dr. Raghuram G. Rajan B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1985	2005	Economic Counselor and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund, USA.		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by him as a Researcher, Educator, and Financial Economist.
33	Mr. Vijay Mahajan B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1975	2003	He has been an advisor to the Planning Commission, Government of India, the state governments of Andhra Pradesh,		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by him as a social entrepreneur.
34	Dr. Anoop Gupta B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1980	2003	Corporate Vice President of the Real-Time Collaboration business unit		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by him as a researcher and technologist.
35	Prof. Subhash Kak PhD in Information Theory and Comm. Engg, IIT Delhi, 1979	2002	Professor Louisiana State University		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by him as a scientist, technologist, and a historian.
36	Mr. Pradeep Gupta B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1975	2001	Mr. Gupta has propelled the organization into other areas. These include IDC India Ltd. – a market research organization, Cyber India Online Ltd		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by him as an entrepreneur of repute
37	Mr. Vijay Kumar Tadani B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1972	1999	Shri Thadani has been leading NIITs globalization since 1991.		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by an alumnus
38	Prof. Arogyaswami Paulraj Ph.D in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1973	1998	Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi as an Electronics Engineer, and as an Institution Builder
39	Mr. Vinod Mahendroo B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1974	1998	President of Applied Materials Installed Base Support Services (IBSS)		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made by an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in his managerial assignments in the fast-growing electronics industry
40	Mr. Rajendra Singh Pawar B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1972	1995	Mr. Pawar founded the National Institute of Information Technology (NIIT) Limited in the year 1981 and currently is its Managing Director.		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of conspicuous contributions made by an alumnus of IIT Delhi as an outstanding entrepreneur and a corporate leader
41	Dr. Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1972	1994	He is now leading a mission to build the tera-flop architecture of massively parallel supercomputers.		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of conspicuous contributions made by an alumnus of IIT Delhi as an outstanding technologist and able administrator who has earned recognition in India and abroad
42	Mr. Vinod Khosla B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1976	1993	He is on the Board of Trustees at Carnegie Mellon University and has served, for several years, on the Board at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of conspicuous contributions made by him as an outstanding technologist, an entrepreneur, and a corporate leader, who has earned recognition in the international community
43	Dr. Jai N. Gupta B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi in 1967	1992	After gaining valuable R & D experience, he founded in 1979 a company in the USA. Known as EER Systems by bringing together a unique team of system engineers.		Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of conspicuous contributions made by an alumnus of I.I.T. Delhi as an outstanding technologist, an able administrator, and above all, a humanist who has earned a name for himself in the international community.