Students

Ph.D. Students

Current

Riyansha Singh (co-advised with Vipul Arora)
Shivam Pal
Saqib Sarwar
Aishwarya Gupta (co-advised with Indranil Saha)
Amit Chandak (part-time, co-advised with Purushottam Kar)

Past

Avideep Mukherjee (graduated: 2025, co-advised with Vinay Namboodiri)
Soumya Banerjee (graduated: 2024, co-advised with Vinay Namboodiri
Dhanajit Brahma (graduated: 2024)
Pratik Mazumder (graduated: 2022, co-advised with Vinay Namboodiri)
Vinay Kumar Verma (graduated: 2020)

MTech/MS/BT-MT Dual-Degree Thesis Students

Current

Shubham Devang Patel
Aryan Agarwal
Indranil Paul
Vishnucharan Enugula

Past

Malay Pandey (graduated: 2024). Now at Typeface
Kushagra Pandey (graduated: 2022). Now PhD student at UCI
Yatin Dandi (graduated: 2022). Now PhD student at EPFL
Shilpa Chatterjee (graduated: 2022). Now at Microsoft
Shrey Bhatt (graduated: 2022). Now at Eightfold
Hemant Sadana (graduated: 2021). Now at VMware
Niravkumar Panchal (graduated: 2021, co-advised with Indranil Saha). Now at Intel
Abhishek Kumar (graduated: 2020). Now at Microsoft
Niharika Ahuja (graduated: 2020). Now at Google
Karthikeyan K (graduated: 2020, co-advised with Dan Roth at UPenn). Now a PhD student at Duke University
Shubhanshu Khandelwal (graduated: 2020, co-advised with Ketan Rajawat). Now at Microsoft
Somesh Kumar Jaiswal (expected graduation: 2020, co-advised with Nisheeth Srivastava). First employment: Couture AI
Manish Kumar Bera (expected graduation: 2020). Now at Google
Sunabha Chatterjee (graduated: 2019). Now at Intel
Paramkusam Niranjan (graduated: 2019). Now at Microsoft
Kawal Preet (graduated: 2019). Now at Flipkart
Prerit Garg (graduated: 2019). Now at Info Edge
Gopichand Kotana (graduated: 2019). Now at Goldman Sachs
Ameya Loya (graduated: 2019). Now at Moveworks
Gundeep Arora (graduated: 2018). Now at Amazon
Nitish Joshi (graduated: 2018). Now at Flipkart
Smrithi Prabhu (graduated: 2018). Now at Microsoft
Arindam Sarkar (graduated: 2018). Now at Amazon
Sandipan Mandal (graduated: 2018). Now at Microsoft
Abhilash Gaure (graduated: 2017). Now at Sharechat
Aishwarya Gupta (graduated: 2017). Now a PhD student at Kanpur (first employment after Masters: Conduent Labs)
Rajat Kumar Panda (graduated: 2017). Now at Goldman Sachs
Vijay Pal Jat (graduated: 2017). Now at Nutanix
Rakshit Sharma (graduated: 2017, co-advised with Purushottam Kar). Now at FashionDx, Inc (co-founder)

Undergraduate and Other Students (with close research collaboration during their time at IITK; sorry, it's very likely I have forgotten some names)

Vansh Bansal (graduated: 2022). Now a PhD student at UT Austin
Asad Karim (graduated: 2020). Now a Masters student at CMU
Homanga Bharadhwaj (graduated: 2019). Now a PhD student at CMU
Siddhartha Saxena (graduated: 2019). Now co-founder of Foyer
Gurpreet Singh (graduated: 2019). Now at Google
Shubham Kumar Bharti (graduated: 2019). Now a graduate student at University of Wisconsin, Madison
Varun Kumar Khare (graduated: 2019). Currently at OpenMind
Divyat Mahajan (graduated: 2019). Now a PhD student at MILA and University of Montreal
Anupreet Porwal (graduated: 2018). Now a PhD student at University of Washington
Archit Sharma (graduated: 2018). Now a PhD student at Stanford
Kanupriya Agarwal (graduated: 2018). Now at Flipkart
Nikhil Mehta (research associate: 2017-2018). Now a PhD student at Duke
Avani Samdariya (graduated: 2017). Now at Adobe
Vikas Jain (graduated: 2017). Now at Rubrik, Inc
Nirbhay Modhe (graduated: 2017). Now a PhD student at Georgia Tech
Rishika Agarwal (graduated: 2017). Now at Apple
Ankit Pensia (graduated: 2017). Now a PhD student at University of Wisconsin, Madison
Vivek Gupta (graduated: 2016). Now a PhD student at University of Utah

Piyush Rai