Department of Electrical Engineering :: IIT Delhi

Distinguished Alumni Awardees

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.