Category: Alumni in News

Dr. P. Pandurang Nayak is a Google Fellow and Vice President of Search at Google. Dr. Nayak earned his Tech. degree (awarded President of India Gold Medal) in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1985 and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1992. His Ph.D. dissertation was an ACM Distinguished Dissertation.nn nn 

Mr. Subramanian Sarma is the full-time Director (Energy) at Larsen & Toubro Limited. He is also the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director (MD) of L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro. He obtained his M.Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1981.nnMr. Sarma started his career as a process engineer and assumed the role of ‘Shift-in-Charge’ for operations of a large petrochemical plant at Patalganga (in Raigarh, Maharashtra)  at the young age of 26. Thereafter, while working for a renowned international design and consultancy firm, he grew from the rank of Senior Process Engineer to be the Deputy Chief of Process Engineering Department in less than three years. He became the first Asian to be put on par with Western nationals in terms of designations and remunerations at yet another EPC firm.nn nn 

Mr. Sunil Shenoy is Senior Vice President at the Design Engineering Group of Intel Corporation, United States. He earned his B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1980, Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University in 1981 and MBA degree from the University of Oregon in 1995.nnMr. Shenoy worked on the world’s first superscalar microprocessor and first out of order microprocessor on a single chip – the P6 or Pentium Pro processor which came to the market in 1995. This breakthrough cemented the rise of Intel’s microprocessors in servers and consolidated their position in personal computers. It led to the era of market horizontalization, where chip vendors like Intel specialized in building advanced microprocessor components for all system vendors. Mr. Shenoy supervised the design of many generations of Intel’s microprocessors and SOCs and led teams across the world. He also led the development of graphics and high-performance computing processors. After leaving Intel, he worked on the open architecture RISC-V microprocessors. Mr. Shenoy was instrumental in developing broad and deep-design capability for Intel in Bangaluru, which is now a major design site for advanced microprocessors, SOC and IP.nnEarlier, Mr. Shenoy worked as Senior Vice President of SiFive (2017-20) and as Corporate Vice President at Intel Corporation (1981-14). He has 16 patents in the field of computer hardware to his credit.nn 

Prof. Yashodhan  Kanoria is the Sidney Taurel Associate Professor of Business  in  the  Decision,  Risk   and   Operations    division at Columbia  Business  School.  He received his B. Tech. degree (President of India Gold  Medal) in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 2007 and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2012.nnAfter completing his Ph.D., Prof. Kanoria spent a year at Microsoft Research New England during 2012-13 as a Schramm Postdoctoral Fellow. Later, he joined the University of Columbia in 2013 as an Assistant Professor.nnProf.  Kanoria  has  worked  on  the design and optimization of marketplaces, especially matching markets. He has worked extensively on centralized college and school admissions, the design of search and matching platforms for labor, dating, accommodation, etc., foundational questions regarding the nature of equilibria in matching markets, and algorithms for dynamic matching and resource allocation. Prof. Kanoria has designed and helped implement a centralized seat allocation process for all centrally-funded engineering colleges in India, which has been running successfully since 2015, administered by the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA), preventing the wastage of hundreds of IIT seats each year.nn 

Mr.  Mohit  Soni  is   the   Diretor of Soni Hospitals. He is the Co- Founder and current President of IIT  Bombay  Alumni  Association – Jaipur Chapter. He received his dual degree (B.Tech.+ M.Tech.) in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 2005, M.B.A. (exchange) from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management in 2011 and M.B.A. from the Indian School of Business (ISB)-Hyderabad in 2011.nnImmediately after completing MBA, Mr. Soni joined nVidia Inc. in 2005 as ASIC Hardware Design Engineer and worked on NVIDIA MCP chipset division. He was involved in writing test cases in Verilog HDL with little bit of Perl development. Later, he joined as Director at the  Soni  Hospitals Pvt. Ltd. in 2006. Mr. Soni is involved in the Hospital’s group business development, strategy, financing and operations.nn nn 

Mr. Gaurav Porwal is the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO), Global Mobility – Ola, Bengaluru. He received his dual degree (B. Tech.+ M. Tech.) in Chemical Engineering  from  IIT Bombay in 2005 and MBA from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad in 2010.nnPrior  to  joining  Ola  in  2019, Mr. Porwal was the Director of Fresenius Medical Care in Gurgaon during  2016-19.  He  worked  as   a  Program  Manager  at  Procter  & Gamble in  Bengaluru  and  as  a Scientist at Procter & Gamble, Kobe, Japan.nn 

Prof. Ramakrishna Vijayacharya Hosur is a Senior Professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai. He is also the Director of the University of Mumbai – Department of Atomic Energy Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences (UM-DAE CBS), which is envisaged to be a role model for Universities to follow for improving higher education in the country.nn 

Prof. Ketan Mulmuley is a Professor at the Computer Science Department in the University of Chicago. His work on ‘geometric complexity theory’, an approach to the P versus NP problem through the techniques of algebraic geometry has been widely recognized.nn 

Prof. George Varghese is a Principal Engineer and Partner at Microsoft Research. He earlier taught at the Washington University from 1993-1999, followed by a stint at the University of California, San Diego from 1999 to 2013. He was moreover, a Distinguished Visitor in the Computer Science Department of Stanford University in 2010-2011. He has also worked for DEC, Yahoo, Cisco and Microsoft.  In 2004, he founded NetSift which was acquired by Cisco in 2005.  His contributions in developing various network algorithms has fetched him 22 patents in the general field of Network Algorithmics. Several algorithms which he has helped develop over the years, appear in commercial systems including Linux (timing wheels), the Cisco GSR (DRR), and Microsoft Windows (IP lookups).  He helped in designing the hardware lookup engine for Procket’s 40 Gbps router. He has been on the advisory boards of Memoir, Jibe, Sanera and SwitchOn, and provided consultancy to ST MicroElectronics, AOL and Fujitsu.nn 

Mr.  Akhil  Gupta   is   Founder and Chief Technology  and  Product Officer  at  NoBroker. com. He received his dual degree (B.Tech.+M.Tech.) in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 2000.nnPrior to founding NoBroker, Mr. Gupta worked with Oracle. During his stint at Oracle, he led the Oracle Sales Cloud product from India and filed a patent and received several awards.nnMr. Gupta co-founded  NoBroker in 2014. In last 6 years, this disruptive platform is continuously innovating and spearheading industry’s multiple first innovations that have been showcased as global case studies by Google, Facebook and WhatsApp.nnMr. Gupta single-handedly coded and managed the NoBroker platform during bootstrapping days for 11 months in 2014 and   it was NoBroker’s first ML/ AI technology – led approach that today NoBroker.com is India’s largest real estate platform and  the choice of over 10 million customers for property search and home services (painting, cleaning, packers and movers). It enables transactions worth $2B annually and saves upwards of $200M of brokerage for its customers every year. NoBroker concept is a best example of ‘Make In India’  for (India) Indians as no platform like this existed anywhere in the world and many of the venture capitalists even rejected the idea as something like this didn’t exists in the West.nn