Awards

Young Alumni Awardees 2025

Shri Abhinav Jain (BT–MT/CSE/2009)
Founder & CEO, Shop101 (now part of Glance InMobi)
Prof. Dinesh Bharadia (BT/EE/2010)
Associate Professor and Inaugural Klein Gilhousen Chancellor's Endowed Faculty, University of California, San Diego
Dr. Eshan Chattopadhyay (BT/CSE/2011)
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University
Shri Bhavesh Mittal (BT/CHE/2013)
Partner, McKinsey & Company


Past Young Alumnus Awardees 2024

Prof. Aparna Singh (BT/MME/2007)
Associate Professor, IIT Bombay
Dr. Abhishek Bhowmick (BT/CSE/2010)
Founder of Samooha
Prof. Pulkit Agrawal (BT/EE/2011)
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA


Past Young Alumnus Awardees 2023

Prof. Mohit Bansal (BT/CSE/2008)
(John R. & Louise S. Parker Professor, University of North Carolina)
Dr. Pravesh K Kothari (BT/EE/2010)
(Assistant Professor Of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University)


Young Alumnus Award

ABOUT THE AWARD

Started in the year 2019, the Young Alumnus Awards, is conferred to those Alumni who are less then 40 years of age and have contributed significantly and achieved outstanding recognition in their career.

EVALUATION COMMITTEE

The evaluation committee for the award, as approved by the Board of Governors of IIT Kanpur, comprises of:

  • Director, IIT Kanpur as Chairman.
  • Dean of Resource and Alumni, IIT Kanpur as Convener.
  • Two young Alumni (less than 40 years), nominated the Director of IITK as Members.
  • Young IITK Faculty (less than 40 years, non-alumnus) as Member.
  • Young IITK Faculty (less than 40 years, alumnus) as Member.
  • President Alumni Association as Member.
  • Dean of Faculty Affairs, IIT Kanpur.


Past Young Alumnus Awardees 2022

Prof. Deepak Pathak (BT/CSE/2004)
(Senior Research Staff Google AI, Bengaluru, India.)
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Dr. Mohit Kumar Jolly (BT/MT/BSBE/2010/2012)
(Assistant Professor Center for Biosystems Science and Engineering IISc Bengaluru, India.)
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Past Young Alumnus Awardees 2021

Dr. Prateek Jain (BT/CSE/2004)
(Senior Research Staff Google AI, Bengaluru, India.)
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Mr. Varun Khaitan (BT/EE/2009)
(COO & Co-founder Urban Company.)
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Past Young Alumnus Awardees 2020

Mr. Abhiraj Singh Bhal (BT/EE/2009)
(Co-Founder and CEO of Urban Company)
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Dr. Barna Saha (MT/CSE/2006)
(Assistant Professor, Department of IEOR University of California, Berkley)
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Past Young Alumnus Awardees 2019

Mr. Deepak Garg (BT/ME/2003)
(Founder of Rivigo)
Dr. Manu Prakash (BT/CSE/2002)
(Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University)
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