IIT Delhi recognizes the outstanding achievements made by its Alumni in various areas by conferring the Distinguished Alumni Awards each year. These awards are the highest honour conferred by the Institute on its Alumni.

The following alumni have received this award since its inception in 1992 :

Dr. Pradhiman K. Kaw was born on January 15, 1948. He had a brilliant academic record securing first position in his Master’s degree. He completed his Ph.D. degree at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1966 in a span of 2 years and had the distinction of being the first student to be conferred a doctoral degree by the Institute.

Dr. Gupta joined MITRE Corporation in 1974. After gaining valuable R & D experience, he founded in 1979 a company in U.S.A. Known as EER Systems by bringing together a unique team of system engineers. Today he directs 800 people of this company, which has played a very important role in supporting and implementing major programmes of NASA, the Department of Defence, and Federal Aviation Administration. These programmes include: the Cosmic Background Explorer, the Broadband X-ray Telescope Experiment and the Gamma Ray Observatory.

Under his leadership, EER Systems has become one of the most successful small businesses in America. Clients from throughout U.S.A. and abroad turn to EER Systems for total life support in the areas of transportation, environment, energy and overall program management. EER Systems has a brilliant record of achievements and amongst its recent successes is the award of a contract to provide the launch vehicle and services for the United Nations first orbital space launch and recovery system. The firm's Conestoge Rocket will be used for the NASA sponsord Commercial Experiment Transporter (COMET) Program. During a distinguished career, Dr. Gupta has published a large number of research papers and technical reports related to energy and aerospace technologies. He has served as a refree for several professional journals of repute. Dr. Gupta was the President of the International Society of Productivity enhancement for over a year.

The human qualities in Dr. Gupta and his concern for social values have motivated him to take up a leadership position in the building of a new Cultural Centre in Northern Virginia which aims to foster the development of arts, drama and religious activities. Dr. Gupta has also sponsored scholarships for deserving Indian students in U.S.A.

In honouring Dr. Jai N. Gupta, we recognize the conspicuous contributions made by an alumnus of I.I.T. Delhi as an outstandingtechnologist, an able administrator and above all, a humanist who has earned a name for himself in the international community.

Sir, I pray that Dr. Gupta be conferred the Distinguished Alumni Award of I.I.T. Delhi for the year 1992.

Mr. Vinod Khosla was born on January 28, 1955 at Poona. He received his Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1976. He obtained a Master's degree in Biomedical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

He exhibited innovative abilities, deep insight into Computer Technology and rare enterpreneurial talent and vision during his stay at Stanford and won the outstanding student recommendation of the Dean of the Graduate School of Business. He started his professional career with Daisy, a pioneer in the field of Computer aided Engineering. Three years later, Mr. Khosla developed the concept of 'creation of general purpose desktop computers based on "open" technologies' which proved to be a major breakthrough, and thus seeds of Sun Microsystems were sown. He developed the business plans of Sun Microsystems and assembled its founding team.

As the Chief Executive Officer, he guided the growth of Sun Microsystems into one of the world's most successful computer companies of 1980's, with 12,000 employees and 4 billion dollar sales. Its work-station systems and other computer products, are used world-wide in universities, R & D laboratories and industry today.

In 1987, Mr. Khosla decided to turn into a venture capitalist. He has helped to start over 20 technology companies since then. Mr. Khosla is one of the nine General Partners of Kleiner Perkins, USA who make investments in high technology companies.

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. In recognition of his outstanding achievement he has been invited to be the member on the Boards of several companies including G.D. Corp., The 3DO Company, Spectrum Holobyte, Nexgen Microsystems, and Picture Tel.

In honouring Mr. Vinod Khosla, we recognise the conspicuous contributions made by him as an outstanding technologist, an enterpreneur and a corporate leader, who has earned recognition in the international community, and through achievement brought glory to the name of the Institute.

Prof. Yogesh Jaluria was born on 8th September 1949 at Nabha, Punjab. He received Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1970 standing first in the graduating class. He obtained M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University in 1972 and 1974 respectively. Professor Jaluria currently occupies the position of Distinguished Professor at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA, a rare distinction. Before joining Rutgers, he worked at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (1976-80) and AT & T Bell Laboratories, Princeton (1974-76).

His work has been extensively supported by Federal agencies, such as national Science foundation and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, by the State of New Jersey and by industry. He has also interacted with several industries and research centers in these research areas.

Prof. Jaluria has written over 125 resaerch papers including 84 in archival journals and 10 chapters in books. He has about 70 other publications, presentations and technical reports. He has two patents in materials processing. He is the author of three graduate level books and an undergraduate text book. all these books have received outstanding reviews. He is also co-editor of four conference proceedings.

Prof. Jaluria has received several honours and awards including a Young Scientist Medal from the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) and a certificate of recognition from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA. He has been invited as a Distinguished Lecturer to NATO Advanced Study Institutes and as Research Leader to NSF Workshop. He was invited as a Keynote Speaker to international conferences and as seminar speaker to many universities and research laboratories. He is an associate editor of the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer. He is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board on number of international journals such as Numerical Heat Transfer, Sadhana etc.

He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and a Member of the American Physical Society and the Combustion Institute.

In honouring Prof. Yogesh Jaluria, we recognise his excellent research, scholarship, teaching and professional leadership which has earned him recognition in the world wide scientific community and through exceptional record of achievements brought glory to the name of the Institute.

He has pioneered the national initiative in parallel supercomputing and was instrumental in developing the PARAM. He is now leading the mission to build the terra-flop architecture of massively parallel super computers. His contributions rank amongst those rare achievements whereby indigenous efforts have helped to build state-of-art technologies of extreme national importance, which has an impact on both the engineering and social planes in India. His dedication in building C-DAC to its current level of self reliance is noteworthy. His contributions to this national endeavour have been widely acknowledged not only by co-professionals but also by the print and visual media. He has significantly contributed in the electronic analog control system and absorption and upgradation of the control Bailey Technology of France and also played an active part in the evolution into Digital Distributed Control System.

He held the position of an Advisor in the Department of Electronics, Government of India from 1987 to 1989. During this period he was the National Project Director of the four UNDP Director of the Electronics Research and Development Centre, Trivandrum and Executive Director, KELTRON. He is a member of the State Electronics Development Commission of the State of Kerala.

During his distinguished carrer as a technologist, Dr. Bhatkar has authored over 70 research publications in parallel computing, artificial intelligence, distributed computer control and optimal control theory. He is on the Editorial Committee of Prallel Processing Letters, Member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) and Project Coordinator Indo-Russian ILTP Programme on Parallel Modelling and Visualization.

He is the recepient of several national awards, prominent amongst them being 'Electronics Man of the Year 1992' Award by Electronics Component Industries Association (ELCINA), the 'Ramlal Wadhwa Gold Medal Award 1992' by the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunicaion Engineers (IETE), National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) Merit Certificate Awards (1984-1985), Electronics Component Industries Association Award to ER & DC for the best research and development contribution in electronics (1983-84), FICCI Award for excellence in Research and Development in Electronics (1983) and Gold - Medal Award of the Indian Geo Technical Society (1976). Dr. Bhatkar is a member of several leading national and international professional societies and task forces, holding active positions in many of them.

In honouring Dr. Vijay P. Bhatkar, we recognise the conspicuous contributions made by an alumnus of IIT Delhi as and outstanding technologist and able administrator who has erned recognition in India and abroad, and through achivement brought glory to the name of the Institute.

Sir, I pray that Dr. Bhatkar be conferred the Distinguished Alumni Award of IIT Delhi for the year 1994.

Mr. Pawar has exhibited innovative abilities and deep insight into computer education. He has participated in major task forces and workgroups set up by the government of India in the areas of technical Manpower Development and Technology Development, playing a key role as industry spokesman. He is a top management consultant to organisations for architecting their automation strategies. Mr. Pawar is a member of several leading national professional societies of computer software education, holding active positions in many of them.

In honouring Mr. Rajendra Singh Pawar, we recognise the conspicuous contributions made by and alumnus of IIT Delhi as an outstanding entrepreneur and a corporate leader who has earned recognition and through achievement brough glory to to the name of the Institute.

In November 1991 he headed Air India on lien from ITC Ltd. As Chairman and Managing Director. In 1994 Mr. Deveshwar rejoined ITC and was appointed whole time Director and Vice Chairman of the Company. He took over as Chairman of ITC in January 1996. He received the Marketing Man of the Year Award in 1994.

Mr. Deveshwar is the Chairman of some of the ITC Group Companies – ITC Hotels Ltd., Bhadrachalam Paperboards Ltd. and ITC Agro-Tech Ltd. He is a Director on the Board of a number of Companies. He is also a member of the National Council of Confederation of Indian Industry and a member of the Board of Governors, IIT Kharagpur and was the Vice President of the Indian Chamber of Commerce.

In honouring Mr. Deveshwar, we recognise the outstanding contributions made by an alumnus of IIT Delhi as a corporate leader who has earned recognition and through achievement brought glory to the name of the Institute.

Professor Shrinivas R. Kulkarni was born on 4th October 1956. He received the M.S. (Physics) in 1978 from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He obtained Ph.D. (Astronomy) in 1983 from University of California, Berkeley, USA. Professor Kulkarni was a Post-Doctoral Fellow during 1983-85 in Radio Astronomy Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley. He was a Robert A. Millikan Fellow from 1985 to 1987 in Radio Astronomy Laboratory, Caltech, Pasadena, USA and became Professor in 1992. During 1992-95, he was on Visiting Positions for short durations to various Universities.

Prof. Kulkarni has made many pioneering contributions in the field of Astronomy. Prof. Kulkarni shot into prominence in the early 1980s with his discovery (as part of a team) of millisecond pulsars, which are collapsed neutron stars. This has revolutionized the field of pulsars since such short period pulsars provide an extremely accurate clock in the Universe. He is currently working Optical Interferometry. One of his recent results is the discovery of brown dwarfs, which are “stars” that do not have enough mass to have sufficiently high temperature at the centre in order to produce nuclear energy.

During a distinguished career, Prof. Kulkarni has published a large number of research papers, reviews, books and popular articles related to Astronomy, Neutron stars-Pulsars, X-Ray Binaries, High Resolution Imaging at Optical and IT wavelengths, Instrumentation-Signal Processing, Pulsar Timing and Interstellar Medium-Galactic and Extragalactic.

He has received numerous honours and awards. The list includes NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, Vaina Bappu Memorial Award, Helen B. Warner Prize, Alan T. Waterman Award and many others. He has been a member of various Professional Services such as R-Ray Timing Explorer Science Working Group, NASA; Arecibo Scientific Advisory Committee, NAIC; Hubble Space Telescope Strategy Panel STScl; VLTI Tiger Team, ESC; and NRAO Users Group.

In honouring Prof. Kulkarni, we recognise the outstanding contributions made by an alumnus of IIT Delhi as an Astronomer and Scientist who has earned a name in the international community and through achievement, brought glory to the name of the Institute.

Shri Sood joined the World Bank as part of its prestigious "Young Professionals Program" in 1975 and worked on managing a wide range of industrial projects in different developing countries worldwide. In the early 1980s, he contributed to the Bank's first projects in support of technology development and the buildup of the electronics industry infrastructure in the Republic of Korea. In the mid 1980s, he led the creation and the development of the Bank's methodology and capacity in the areas of restructuring of industry, public sector reform and privatization. From 1987-1992, Shri Sood helped to manage the World Bank's policy and reform dialogue and support to countries in Central and Eastern Europe and, subsequently, the Republics of the former Soviet Union, in their transition toward a market economy. His experience included management positions in Industry and Energy, Finance, Private Sector Development and Economic Management.

In the mid 1990s, he helped to manage the Bank's regional operations (loans, policy, reform, capacity building and advice) across all countries and sectors in Europe and Central Asia. At the same time, Shri Sood was called upon to manage the design and startup of networks of staff (and ultimately, client country counterparts and development partners) in the areas of Human Development, Finance and Private Sector Development, Environment and Social Development, and Poverty Reduction with a focus on strengthening strategy, quality, skills building and knowledge creation and management. He was also responsible for implementing a renewal program in a major part of the Bank.

In 1999, Shri Sood was appointed to his current position as Vice President, Strategy and Resource Management, and carries the responsibility for helping to formulate and support the implementation of the World Bank's worldwide strategy, to allocate and monitor the use of the Bank's resources in support of its worldwide operations, and to build its capability to deliver on its mission to reduce poverty worldwide.

In honouring Shri Anil Sood, we recognize the outstanding contributions made by him in various sectors of World Bank's worldwide operations, earning recognition in the international community, and also bringing glory to the name of this Institute.

After holding various R&D positions at the Ecole Polytechnique (France), the City University of New York, and the Laser Company, Quantel, France, Prof. Agrawal joined the technical staff of AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA in 1981 where he worked on problems related to the development of semiconductor lasers and fiber-optic communication systems. In 1989, he joined the faculty of the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester where he is currently a Professor of Optics. His research interests focus on quantum electronics, nonlinear optics and laser physics. In particular, he has made outstanding contributions to the fields of semiconductor lasers, nonlinear fiber- optics, and optical communications. Among Prof. Agrawal's numerous contributions to the field of semiconductor lasers, the most outstanding contribution is his prediction in 1987 of highly nondegenerate four-wave mixing in semiconductor lasers and amplifiers. In 1988 he developed a complete theory of both nearly degenerate and highly nondegenerate four-wave mixing. His work has led to a new method of wavelength conversion with potential applications in multichannel optical communication systems. The technique of wavelength conversion is of tremendous importance in the context of today's very hot topic of dense wavelength division multiplexed optical fiber transmission, which appears to be the only solution available today to fulfil the demand for huge bandwidth posed by the internet revolution and convergence of voice, video and data.

Prof. Agrawal is an author or co-author of extensively cited more than 250 research papers, several book chapters and review articles, and three books entitled "Semiconductor Lasers", "Nonlinear Fiber- optics" and "Fiber-optics Communication Systems". He has also edited the books "Contemporary Nonlinear Optics" and "Semiconductor Lasers: Past, Present and Future".

The three monumental text books authored by Prof. Agrawal have influenced an entire generation of researchers and students in Photonics. The book on "Semiconductor Lasers", first published in 1986, has helped graduate students and engineers in learning the field of laser diodes. The book entitled "Nonlinear Fiber-optics" is the often-cited text covering the entire field of nonlinear fiber optics. It is used widely and has been translated in Chinese, Japanese, and Russian languages. The book on "Fiber-optics Communication Systems" deals with the design of lightwave transmission systems and is used worldwide as the main textbook for courses dealing with optical communications.

Prof. Agrawal has received many honours for his outstanding accomplishments in Science and Technology. He is a Fellow of both the Optical Society of America (OSA) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has been andcontinues to be on the editorial board of several leading international journals and is serving as one of the Editors for the Academic Press Book Series on "Optics and Photonics" since 1998. He has served on the prestigious Townes and Holonyak Award Committees of the Optical Society of America.

In honouring Prof. Govind P Agrawal, we recognise the outstanding contributions made by him as a Scientist & Technologist who has earned recognition in the international scientific and engineering community, and through achievements brought glory to the name of this Institute.

He has geared his group into an internationalizing mode by achieving strategic alliances and affiliations with some of the leading corporate business houses of the world in the area of Oil & Gas, Aerospace, Trade, Financial Services, Project Engineering and Construction etc. Within a short span of 4 years, Shri Bhartia has established Dominos Pizza India Ltd. as the largest fast food chain in the country. Having steered these businesses through their development, he remains at the helm of their successful running. Through his sustained efforts, Vam Bhartia Group presently has an annual turnover of more than Rs. 1000 crores.

Other than the Corporate Sector, he is also credited with active contribution to a wider environment, particularly through initiatives and personal work dedicated to institutionalization of key developmental processes. He is the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and is leading its thrust into more relevant and progressive relationships with the worlds of Business and Government. He has also contributed actively through deep involvement and lead roles in the Young Presidents Organization Inc. (YPO), a 'non-profit' organization of more than 8000 Presidents and Chief Executive Officers worldwide. He has been Area Vice President (on the Board) as well as Chairman of several roles in its Delhi Chapter.

Shri Bhartia has been Chairman of the Expert Group to Develop Policy initiatives for Technicians' Education through the National Project Implementation Unit, a World Bank assisted project (1998) and Chairman, National Committee on Technical Education & Training for the year 1998-99 of Confederation of Indian Industry. He has been a member of National Technology Council of CII in 1998. He has also been a Chairman, National Committee on Chemicals and Petrochemicals for the year 1999-2000 and Dy. Chairman, Confederation of Indian Industry, Northern Region for the year 2000-2001.

In honouring Shri Hari S. Bhartia, we recognise the conspicuous contributions made by him as an outstanding Corporate Leader who has earned recognition in the international community, and through achievements brought glory to the name of this Institute.

A change in direction was to follow with a stint at the Deptt. of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University in New Jersey where he did a postdoctoral fellowship and also taught some courses,. In 1974, he was tapped by the Stanford Research Institute in California (at the time a part of Stanford University) and for a decade he was Director of the Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratory there. In the late 1980's, NASA was successful in convincing him to join the nearby Ames Research Laboratory and lead an effort in studying the changing global atmospheric system with resources that only NASA could provide. Dr. Singh is an acknowledged leader in the area of atmospheric composition and chemistry, and has contributed major theoretical and experimental ideas to advance the scientific understanding in this field.

His professional life has been highly rewarding and the opportunity to collaborate with some of the best minds from several different countries has been a great privilege. His efforts are chronicled in over 150 scientific publications. A textbook he edited is widely used in many universities. Many honours and awards have followed. He became the recipient of the Frank A Chambers Award for "outstanding achievements in the arts and sciences", the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievements Medal, the H.J. Allen Prize (shared with Nobel Laureate P Crutzen) and was elected to be a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, and certain United Nations Commissions. In 1993, he agreed to take over the Executive Editorship of the international journal of Atmospheric Environment published by Elsevier from U.K. This role allows him unique window into the world of international science. He has travelled extensively but his wanderlust is alive and well.

In honouring Dr. Hanwant B Singh, we recognize the outstanding contributions made by him as a Scientist and Technologist who has earned recognition in the international scientific and engineering community, and through his achievements brought glory to the name of this Institute.

The company is guided by the philosophy of remaining far ahead of the times. This has helped CMIL achieve revenues of Rs.700 million through its dedicated 350 people. Its products in the field of publishing are Dataquest, PC Quest, Voice & Data, Computers @ Home, DQ Channels India and DQ Weeks. With changing time and needs Mr. Gupta has propelled the organization into other areas. These include IDC India Ltd. - a market research organization, Cyber India Online Ltd. - which started the era of infotech web publishing as early as 1996, Cyber Multimedia Ltd. which develops multimedia software and was started in 1996, and Cyberexpo Limited - a company which organises computer expos in more than 50 cities across the country. He has now launched the School of Convergence at International Management Institute to train content creators and managers for the emerging convergence economy. He is one of the founders of SQL Star International Ltd. a company engaged in software exports. He has set up an angel fund in partnership with others to provide venture capital to start - ups.

Mr. Gupta was the driver of a strategic consultancy, funded by World Bank, to formulate India's software exports strategy. He was a member of the "Study Team on Microelectronics" for Deptt. of Electronics, Govt. of India to recommend Microelectronic strategies for India. He is also a member of the Working Group on IT for the Government of NCT of Delhi. Soft-spoken and down-to-earth he works and carries forward an approach based on consensus and involvement of all concerned. This has helped in increasing the effectiveness of all the institutions and organizations that he has worked with.

Mr. Gupta has been honoured with many recognitions which include the Hellen Keller Award by National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People, Award for Outstanding Contribution towards National Development by IIT Delhi Alumni Association, Bharat Vikas Award by International Business Council and the Award of Excellence by IEC Software Ltd. Other positions that he contributes to include Chairman - e-gurucool.com; Member - IT Vision Group, Govt. of Punjab, Investment Management Committee, Punjab Venture Capital Ltd.; Board of Governors - Maharshi Institute of Management, Xansa Ltd., Institute of Management Studies; Board of Advisors - Amity IT Vision Board, Aiesec - Delhi University, Aravali Institute of Management; President - IIM Calcutta Alumni Association, Delhi; Ex-President, IIT Delhi Alumni Association.

In honouring Mr. Pradeep Gupta, we recognize the outstanding contributions made by him as an entrepreneur of repute and through his achievements brought glory to the name of this Institute.

He turned the division around from a highly unprofitable state to a highly profitable one, increasing its revenues seventeen times within 5 years, and thereby gave Agere a 30% share in the worldwide DSP market. This division was the one that enabled Europe to implement GSM cellular telephony, as well as the one to provide multimedia technology for use in Apple Computers. After AT&T, Dr. Dubey sought new challenges in the emerging data networks industry by joining MMC Networks as its CEO in 1994. Under his leadership, MMC became a leader by creating the world’s first “network processor”. These processors are used by network equipment manufactures, including, Cisco Systems, in their high speed data switches and routers. Riding on this success, he took MMC Networks public on the NASDAQ in 1997. MMC Networks was later bought by AMCC for $ 4.5 Billion in 2000. Dr. Dubey left MMC Networks in 1998 and started working with the venture capital industry. In 1999, he co-founded Force10 Networks, an emerging networking startup in Silicon Valley. Under his leadership, Force10 Networks has launched the world’s fastest data switch.

Dr. Dubey has excelled in building high technology businesses and in corporate leadership. Through his technological acumen, business skills, entrepreneurship, management skills and innovative thinking, Dr. Dubey has made significant contributions In honouring Dr. Dubey, we recognize the outstanding contributions made by him as an entrepreneur and business leader. Through his achievements, Dr. Dubey has brought glory to the name of this Institute.

Prof. Subhash Kak was born on March 26, 1947 in Srinagar. After studying in schools in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh, he attended Jammu & Kashmir University, from where he obtained Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering in 1967. Thereupon, he joined IIT Delhi, and completed his Ph.D. in 1970.

For most of 1970s he taught at IIT Delhi, with short stints at Imperial College, Bell Labs, and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He moved to Louisiana State University as a Professor in 1979.

In 1989 Prof. Vikram joined University of Alabama in Huntsville as Senior Research Scientist and in 1993 became Research Professor of Optical Science and Engineering. During his current tenure he discovered critical limiting needs of two-color holography for heat and mass transfer studies. He also pioneered the use of Spacelab-III reconstructed wavefronts for multiple unconventional applications. In a parallel development, he established a new method of residual stress measurement by laser heating and speckle correlation interferometry. In addition to advanced academic research, Prof. Vikram is also known for solving contemporary industrial problems. One of his algorithms has recently been adopted in PhaseCam, a commercial interferometric system that is faster and less noisy.

Prof. Vikram has authored the book Particle Field Holography published by Cambridge University Press, and has edited SPIE Milestone Series on Selected Papers on Holographic Particle Diagnostics . He has also contributed six book chapters and authored or co-authored more than 140 research papers.

Prof. Vikram has received Certificate of Recognition from NASA for his work done under its Advanced Technology Programme. He was also awarded the Distinguished Research and Creative Achievement Award by the University of Alabama in Huntsville Foundation. He is a Fellow of Optical Society of America and of International Society for Optical Engineering. He is also a Life Member of Optical Society of India.

In honouring Prof. Vikram, we recognize the outstanding contributions made by him as a scientist. Through his achievements, Prof. Vikram has brought glory to the name of this Institute

Dr. Gobi R. Padmanabhan was born in Tiruppur, Tamilnadu in October, 1945. He received B.Sc. degree from Madras University and M.Sc. degree from IIT Madras in 1966. Subsequently, he studied at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, where he completed M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics in 1971.

Soon after graduating from IIT Delhi, he joined Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), as a Senior Executive responsible for bringing up India’s first Mask-making Fab. At BEL, he also managed the design, fabrication and testing of India’s first set of CMOS devices.

From 1992 to 1997, Madhu Sudan worked at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Centre in New York in the Mathematical Sciences Department. In 1997, Dr. Madhu Sudan joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA and is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the same institute.

Madhu Sudan works in computational complexity and coding theory. He has made fundamental contributions in these two research areas and has established new connections between the two. In coding theory, his work shows how the codes commonly used on CDs and DVDs can correct more errors than previously thought as possible. In computational complexity, his work focuses on the ``approximability of optimization problems'' and explains why a wide variety of optimization problems are as hard to solve approximately as they are to solve exactly. Incidentally, his interest in theoretical computer science and computational complexity dates back to his IIT Delhi days.

He is a leading researcher in the field of theoretical computer science. His achievements have been recognized in both coding theory and computer science communities. He received the Information Theory Society Paper Prize in 2000 and Godel Prize in 2001 for his contributions to coding theory and computer science respectively. In 2002, he was awarded the highly prestigious Nevanlinna Prize by the International Mathematical Union, for his outstanding work in mathematical aspects of information and computation. He is the Distinguished Alumnus of the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also served on numerous program committees for conferences in this area and was the program committee chair of the IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity 2001, and the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science 2003. He is on the Editorial Boards of several journals such as, Journal of the ACM, SIAM Journal on Computing, and Information and Computation.

In honouring Dr. Madhu Sudan, we recognize the outstanding contributions made by him as a Scientist. Through his achievements, Dr. Madhu Sudan has brought glory to the name of this Institute.

Ms. Padmasree Warrior received her Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Delhi in 1982 and went on to obtain her MS degree in Chemical Engineering from the Cornell University, USA in 1984.

Ms. Padmasree joined Motorola in 1984 and since then has been with the same company. In a short period of time, she became the Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Motorola’s Semiconductor Products Sector. In that role, she was responsible for the Sector’s technology strategy and embedded systems solutions.

Later she was given the charge as the Corporate Vice President and General Manager for Motorola’s Energy Systems Group (ESG), as well as the General Manager for Thoughtbeam, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Motorola. At ESG, she was responsible for all aspects of the business, while as General Manager for Thoughtbeam Inc., she evaluated the research efforts relating to compound semiconductor materials for their commercial potential.

Since January 1, 2003, Ms. Padmasree has assumed the office of Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Motorola, Inc. In this role, she is responsible for leading the Motorola Laboratories – the applied research arm for Motorola, the Global Software Group, and the Emerging Early Stage Businesses for this corporation. Her operational responsibilities encompass, leadership of a global team of 4600 technologists, technology program prioritization, intellectual property monetarism, early stage acceleration from innovation to commercialization, influencing standards and roadmaps. She also acts as a technology advisor to the Office of CEO/COO and Chairman of Board, Motorola Inc.

Ms. Padmasree was one of the six women selected nationwide in the USA to receive the prestigious “Women Elevating Science and Technology (WEST) Award” from Working Woman magazine in June 2001. She has also been recognized for her contributions to technology by the ‘Women In Technology International (WITI)’ organization and received a “Lifetime Honorary Member Award”. In March 2003, she received an “Immigrant Achievement Award” from the American Immigration Law Foundation for her outstanding contributions. As a community leader, she has served on the Texas Governor’s Council for Digital Economy, and is a member of the Texas Higher Education Board review panel. She also was on the selection board for White House Fellows in 2001. Ms. Padmasree is also an outside Director on the Board of Ferro Corporation.

In honouring Ms. Padmasree Warrior, we recognize the outstanding contributions made by her as a Corporate Technologist and Manager. Through her achievements, Ms. Padmasree Warrior has brought glory to the name of this Institute.

Mr. K. Venkataramanan received his Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Delhi in 1966. He joined Larsen & Toubro from campus as Graduate Engineer Management Trainee.

Mr. Venkataramanan is currently Member of the Board & President (Operations), Larsen & Toubro Limited, Mumbai. He is incharge of the company’s Engineering & Construction Division which caters to turnkey projects in the sectors of Oil & Gas, Chemical Plant & Systems, Hydrocarbons, Fertilizers, Petrochemicals, Power and Cement & Minerals.

Dr. Krishan Sabnani received his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi in 1975 and went on to obtain a Ph.D. from Columbia University in New York in 1981, also in Electrical Engineering.

Dr. Krishan Sabnani is currently Senior Vice President (Networking Research) at Bell Labs, USA. He joined Bell Labs in 1981. He worked as an individual researcher until 1993. During this time he made significant contributions to conformance test generation, protocol validation, automated converter generation, and reverse engineering.

Dr. Raghuram G. Rajan received his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi in 1985 along with the Director’s Gold Medal for all round performance. He graduated from I.I.M. Ahmedabad in 1987, where he received a gold medal for academic performance.

He joined the Graduate School of Business (GSB), University of Chicago in 1991 after obtaining a Ph.D. from MIT. In 1994, Dr. Rajan received tenure and appointment as Professor of Finance and is now the Joseph L. Gidwitz Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the GSB. He has held a visiting chair at Northwestern (1996-97) and the Fischer Black visiting chair at M.I.T. (2000-2001).

Dr. Rajan is currently the Economic Counselor and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund, USA. He has been on this position since 2003.

Dr. Rajan’s research interests focus primarily on economic institutions ranging from banks to property rights. He teaches courses on Corporate Finance and Banking at the GSB. His papers have been published in all the top economics and finance journals. He has also written a book with Luigi Zingales entitled Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists, which was published by Random House in February 2003.

Dr. Raghuram Rajan is one of the top researchers of the world in areas of economics and finance. He has won an array of prestigious awards including three consecutive Brattle prizes for distinguished papers in the Journal of Finance. In January 2003, the American Finance Association awarded Dr. Rajan the inaugural Fischer Black Prize. The prize will henceforth be given every two years to the financial economist under age 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the theory and practice of finance.

Dr. Rajan is a Director of the American Finance Association and the Program Director for the Corporate Finance Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has served as a consultant to a number of organizations including the World Bank, the Federal Reserve Board, the Reserve Bank of India, the Swedish Parliament, finance companies and banks.

In honouring Dr. Raghuram Rajan, IIT Delhi recognizes the outstanding contributions made by him as a Researcher, Educator and Financial Economist. Through his achievements, Dr. Raghuram G. Rajan has brought glory to the name of this Institute.

Mr. Asim Ghosh received his Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi in 1969 and proceeded to obtain an MBA from the Wharton School,University of Pennsylvania in 1970. Mr. Ghosh is presently Managing Director of Hutchison Essar, branded as Hutch.

Mr. Ghosh started his career in marketing with Procter and Gamble in North America, probably as the first Indian ever to join that company in marketing. In 1980, he joined Rothmans International in Canada where he was eventually Senior Vice President of business development and Board Director in one of Canada's largest breweries.

He started his entrepreneurial career while working on his Ph.D. at Stanford by co-founding VXtreme in 1995, a streaming media software company and served as Chief Technical Officer and Vice President Business Development before its acquisition by Microsoft in 1997 to become Windows Media®. He then worked at Microsoft in various management roles.

Mr. Navin also co-founded iBeam Broadcasting in 1997, a content delivery network that went public on NASDAQ in 2000. He then co-founded Rivio in 1999, a small business Application Service Provider and served as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Rivio was acquired by CPA2Biz in 2001, the leading on line portal for CPAs where he served as President and Vice Chairman.

Mr. Chaddha started his venture capital career in 2003. He has been investor in over 25 companies including the following Indian companies: Allsec, IL & FS Investsmart, Makemytrip, Persistent Systems, Provogue and Tejas Networks. He has served on the Board of Directors of over 10 companies. Mr. Chaddha has been recognized globally as an industry thought leader including "100 Global Leadersfor Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum in 2002, "Next Generation 25 Global Leaders" by Fortune Magazine in 2001, "The Magnetic 40" by Forbes Magazine in 2001, "9 Faces of a New Generation" by the Wall Street Journal in 2000.

He is Charter Member of TiE and AAMA and is also the Chairman of IBF VC Investing in India Conference. He holds 35 patents and has authored 35 papers in technical journals and conferences.

In honouring Mr. Navin Chaddha, IIT Delhi recognizes the outstanding contributions made by him as an Entrepreneur and Technologist. Through his achievements, Mr. Navin Chaddha has brought glory to the name of this Institute.

Prof. Mohit Randeria received his Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi in 1980. He obtained M.S. Degree from the California Institute of Technology, USA in 1982 and Ph.D. Degree from Cornell University, USA in 1987.

Prof. Mohit Randeria is presently Professor of Physics at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.

Dr. Rajiv Laroia received his Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi in 1985. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Maryland, College Park in 1992.

Dr. Laroia is presently Senior Vice President of Technology at Qualcomm, USA.

Dr. Alok Aggarwal joined IBM Research Division in Yorktown Heights New York in 1984. During the fall of 1987 and 1989, he was on sabbatical from IBM and taught two courses (in two terms) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and also supervised two Ph.D. students. During 1991 and 1996, along with other colleagues from IBM, he created and sold a "Supply Chain Management Solution" for paper mills, steel mills and other related industries. In July 1997, Dr. Aggarwal "Founded" the IBM India Research Laboratory that he set-up inside the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Dr. Aggarwal started this Laboratory from "ground zero" and by July 2000, he had built it into a 60-member team (with 30 PhDs and 30 Masters in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and in Business Administration). In August 2000, Dr. Aggarwal became the Director of Emerging Business Opportunities for IBM Research Division worldwide.

Dr. Alok Aggarwal has published 86 Research papers and he has also been granted 8 patents from the US Patents and Trademark Office. Along with his colleagues at Evalueserve, in 2003, he has pioneered the concept of “Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO)” and wrote the first article in this regard. Dr. Aggarwal has served as a Chairperson of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing and has been on the editorial boards of SIAM Journal of Computing, Algorithmica, and Journal of Symbolic Computation. During 1998-2000, Dr. Aggarwal was a member of Executive Committee on Information Technology of the Confederation of the Indian Industry (CII) and also of the Telecom Committee of Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). He is currently a Chartered Member of The Indus Entrepreneur (TiE) organization.

In honouring Dr. Alok Aggarwal, IIT Delhi recognizes the outstanding contributions made by him as an Entrepreneur and Researcher. Through his achievements, Dr. Alok Aggarwal has brought glory to the name of the Institute.

Prof. Devang Khakhar received his Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Delhi in 1981. He subsequently received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1986.

Prof. Khakhar is presently Professor of Chemical Engineering and Dean of Faculty at IIT Bombay.

After spending one semester at IIT Kanpur as a Visiting Faculty Member, Prof. Khakhar joined IIT Bombay in January 1987 as a Lecturer. He became a Professor at IIT Bombay in 1996. He was also a Visiting Faculty Member at Northwestern University in 1996. Prof. Khakhar served as the Head of Chemical Engineering from 2002 to 2004 and became Dean of Faculty in 2005.

Prof. Khakhar has made pioneering research contributions in a number of areas of Chemical Engineering including polymers, granular mechanics and mixing. The work has been published in top international journals such as Nature and Science. Some of the work has had a direct impact on industrial practice. Prof. Khakhar teaches courses related to fluid mechanics, granular mechanics and polymers.

Prof. Khakhar has received several awards and recognitions for his work. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academic of Science, Bangalore, the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi and the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He is a recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, the Swarnajayanti Fellowship and the Excellence in Teaching Award of IIT Bombay.

Prof. Khakhar is currently a member of the governing council of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and a member of the Science and Engineering Research Council of the Department of Science and Technology, India.

In honouring Prof. Devang Khakhar, IIT Delhi recognizes the outstanding contributions made by him as a Researcher, Scientist and Educator. Through his achievements, Prof. Devang Khakhar has brought glory to the name of the Institute.

Mr. Vineet Agrawal received his Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering with Distinction from IIT Delhi in 1983. He obtained his MBA degree from Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai in 1985.

Mr. Vineet Agrawal is presently the President of the Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting business since 2002.

Mr. Vineet Agrawal joined Wipro as a Management Trainee in 1985. He was rotated through various positions before being appointed as the Chief Executive of Wipro Peripherals Business in 1999. Subsequently, he was appointed as the Corporate Executive Vice President handling the Six Sigma Quality function, Innovation foray and the CSR initiative for the Wipro Corporation in 2000. He has been a member of the Chief Executive Council member of Wipro since 2000.

Mr. Vineet Agrawal has led the business of Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting from 300 Cr to 2000 Cr in 6 years. In 2007, in a bold move, his business acquired the 700 Cr Unza – a South Asian Co. – this being the largest overseas personal care acquisition by an Indian Co. Mr. Agrawal’s responsibility includes running the FMCG Indian business of Wipro, both in India and abroad. He also handles the Office Interior business which includes the Office Modular furniture business and the Lighting business.

Mr. Vineet Agrawal pioneered Wipro’s Social Responsibility with Wipro Applying Thought in Schools program. This was an initiative that he conceptualized and initiated in 2001 with a belief that this was something Wipro needs to get into. This initiative has grown to impact 800 schools and 700,000 children. The program encourages creativity in children by improving the teaching method in schools.
Mr. Vineet Agrawal’s strength lies in Strategy development and executing it on ground. He was chosen to lead the complex Wipro Repositioning exercise during 1996-99. This brought in the Customer focus within Wipro, created a visual identity for Wipro and defined the values which Wipro stood for. This was a huge success internally within Wipro employees and also externally and made Wipro more visible and a talked about organisation.

In honouring Mr. Vineet Agrawal, IIT Delhi recognizes the outstanding contributions made by him as a Corporate Leader. Through his achievements, Mr. Vineet Agrawal has brought glory to the name of the Institute.