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To name a few, and in no particular order.Indrani Medhi (Indrani Medhi - Microsoft Research) (2002, Architecture)Researcher in the Technology for Emerging Markets Group at Microsoft Research India in BangaloreIn 2010, Indrani was listed in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Technology Review’s MIT TR35 2010 world’s top 35 innovators under the age of 35; featured in the list of "50 Smartest People in Technology" by Fortune magazine; and won the "Young Indian Leader" award from CNN IBN.Pradeep Kar (Pradeep Kar) (1981, Mechanical Engineering)Founder, Chairman and Managing Director of MicrolandFounded Indya.com, a portal in India, which was later sold to News Corporation.Dr. Vijay Bhatkar (Dr. Vijay Bhatkar) (1965, Electrical Engineering)Developed the first Indian supercomputer, the Param 8000, in 1991 and then later the Param 10000 in 1998Built the National Param Supercomputing Facility (NPSF) which has been now made available as a grid computing facility through Garuda grid on the National Knowledge Network (NKN) providing nationwide access to High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructureReceived the Padmashri Award in 2000 from the Government of IndiaHe is the Chairman of Board of Governors of IIT-Delhi, Chairman of ETH Research Lab, Founder Chancellor and Chief Mentor of Multiversity, Chancellor of D. Y. Patil University, and National President of Vijnana Bharati, a People's Science Movement of over 6,000 scientists across India.P.M. Telang (Mechanical Engineering)Managing Director (Retired) - India Operations at Tata Motors Ltd.Hemant Karkare (Hemant Karkare) (1975, Mechanical Engineering)Served seven years in Austria in the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).He was the chief of the Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS).He was killed in action during the 2008 Mumbai attacks after being shot three times in the chest.His bravery was honored with the Ashoka Chakra on 26 January 2009.Ramesh Jain (Ramesh Jain, Ramesh Jain)Scientist and entrepreneur in the field of information and computer science.Bren Professor in Information & Computer Sciences, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine.He has served as a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the University of California, San Diego.Founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE MultiMedia magazine and the Machine Vision and Applications journal.He has been elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and the Society for Optics and Photonics Technology (SPIE). He has published over 250 research papers in scientific journals and conferences.Professor Samir Barua (Samir Barua) (Mechanical Engineering)10th director of the Indian Institute of Management, AhmedabadDinesh Keskar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinesh_Keskar, Mechanical Engineering)President of Boeing India and VP of Boeing International Trading.Jayarama ChalasaniChief Executive at Reliance Power Limited since March 7, 2008.He was a Whole-time Director of Reliance Infrastructure Limited from January 18, 2003 to January 17, 2008M.S. Unnikrishnan (Mechanical Engineering)Managing Director of Thermax Ltd. since July 1, 2007 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer and Member of Executive Council.Dr. Nemkumar Banthia (Professor Nemkumar Banthia, UBC Civil Engineering)Professor of Civil Engineering, Distinguished University Scholar and a Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.He is credited for his contributions to the fundamental understanding of sprayed concrete including particle and fiber kinematics, rebound modeling, in-situ quality control and performance characterization.Shashikant Chaudhary (1983 batch) (GlobalLogic Appoints Shashikant Chaudhary as India Managing Director)India Managing Director at GlobalLogicCEO, President and Co-founder, Lambent Technologies Pvt. Ltd.Rajdeep Endow (Rajdeep Endow - Managing Director India - Bio - Leadership - Company) (1994, Computer Science Engineering)Managing Director, India and Global Delivery Lead, SapientNitro

For seven years (mid-1990’s to early 2000’s), I ran the International Program at the Columbia School of Journalism. This entailed reading all of the international applications — several hundred — each spring. It was grueling, but I loved it. The essays were a unique glimpse into a rapidly evolving world. Many of them were by young working journalists who were eager to improve their skills and working in a free press environment.I learned about their accomplishments, their families, their yearnings and their aspirations. So many Chinese applicants included the proverb, “The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.”Two decades later I can still remember passages that caught my eye: the mother who picked up your coffee up from the table while it was still warm. The crumbling country club in Cairo as a vestige of a colonial past. The stubborn bicycle in Hanoi repaired by a feisty young woman who read Orwell.They are prominent figures in their fields now. It was my great privilege to work with them and their classmates from application through graduation, then follow their careers and their families on Facebook. I used to groan under the weight of those teetering piles of manila application folders, which I read for hours on end on deadline — but they were pure gold.

"A Mathematical Model for the Determination of Total AreaUnder Glucose Tolerance and Other Metabolic Curves"http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/17/2/152.abstractIn 1993, a nutrition scientist at NYU claimed to have invented a novel and highly accurate method for determining the area under metabolic curves. She named the method after herself and dedicated it to her parents.Tai's model was developed to correct the deficiency of under- or overestimation of the total area under a metabolic curve. This formula also allows calculating the area under a curve with unequal units on the X-axis. The strategy of this mathematical model is to divide the total area under a curve into individual small segments such as squares, rectangles, and triangles, whose areas can be precisely determined according to existing geometric formulas. The area of the individual segments are then added to obtain the total area under the curve.The paper was published in the peer-reviewed journal Diabetes Care, which is run by the American Diabetes Association and has a very respectable impact factor of 8.087. The paper currently has 173 citations, mostly from the diabetes literature.Most people with high school math will realize that Tai is describing the trapezoidal rule, a classic method attributed to Newton, i.e. circa 1600s.A year later, in response to what must have been significant amounts of backlash, Tai wrote an emotional letter to the journal defending herself:While a doctoral candidate working on my dissertation at Columbia University in 1981, I needed to calculate total area under a curve. During a session with my statistical advisor, and after examining several alternative methods, I worked out the model in front of him. The concept behind it is obviously common sense, and one does not have to consult the trapezoid rule to figure it out. The trapezoid rule is really not Nobel Prize material, such as the double helix or jumping genes. I also used the formulas to calculate the areas of a square or a triangle without knowing whose rules were being followed. Fortunately, I do not have to answer that for you....I never thought of publishing the model as a great discovery or accomplishment; it was not published until 14 years later, in 1994. Because of its accuracy and easy application, many colleagues at the Obesity Research Center of St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center and Columbia University began using it and addressed it as "Tai's formula" to distinguish it from others. Later, because the investigators were unable to cite an unpublished work, I submitted it for publication at their requests. Therefore, my name was rubber-stamped on the model before its publication....My intention in publishing the model is therefore to share, rather than to gain honor or glory with its publication, because there is none. Many other investigators probably thought about the same thing, but maybe they did not bother to follow up or produce a model (or the same model). You indicated that I probably did work this out on my own and I am grateful for your "probability," because I did indeed do so with a witness present. Maybe I can address the model as my creation based on fact rather than your doubtful "probability." Besides, if I do not address the model as "Tai's," other investigators who wish to cite it will.http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/17/10/1225.2.full.pdf