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IIT JEE AIR 1 Rankers And Where Are They
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November 5, 2014

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Rohan Khadatkar

Every year only one person gets the coveted title of being the topper of one of toughest exams
in the world. For the next few months after the results, all cameras chase them and their story is
told repeatedly to every aspirant so much so that it becomes a story of legends. Achieving this is
usually just the first step towards a successful career. We will walk you through the journeys of
some toppers and what they have achieved so far in their lives, ever since they came into the
limelight for being the special ones.
2000 IIT JEE AIR 1 Nitin Gupta
Nitin joined IIT Kanpur in July 2014 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological
Sciences and Bio-engineering. He graduated from the Department of CSE, IIT Kanpur and
eventually went on to study biology at University of California, San Diego. He plans to set up a
cognitive neuroscience lab here at IITK. He is an inspiration to many who want to contribute
back to the educational system in India.
2001 IIT JEE AIR 1 - Arvind Thiagarajan
After completing his graduation from IIT Madras in Computer Science, Arvind went to MIT for his
PhD. He has written numerous research papers in the area of mobile computing. During his PhD,
he interned with Yahoo and Google which are the best companies in Silicon Valley for any
computer science researcher. With 42 patents to his credit, he founded a company in 2011 in
mobile computing. He is currently working with Amazon as a research scientist.
2002 IIT JEE AIR 1 - Dungara Choudhary
Dungara, who is currently in San Francisco, joined IIT Kanpur in Computer Science with a thesis
in distributed parallel architecture. He did an internship at Honeywell and upon graduating
joined AirTight Networks where he quickly rose to become a Team Lead in a brief span. He is
currently working in Oracle as a Principal Member of Technical Staff.
2003 IIT JEE AIR 1 - Shashank Dwivedi
Shashank is from Bhilai and has been a role model for IIT JEE aspirants from the city, which has
since then produced number of top rankers. He completed his B.Tech in computer science from
IIT Bombay and has completed his masters from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
2004 IIT JEE AIR 1 - Sushant Sachdeva
Sushant is currently a Postdoctoral Associate at the Department of Computer Science at Yale
University. Prior to joining Yale, Sushant graduated from Princeton University in 2013. He has
done multiple research internships at Toyota, Microsoft and ETH Zurich. He has published
numerous research papers in prestigious conferences throughout the world. He has competed
his B.Tech from IIT Bombay and his research interest lies in algorithms.
2005 IIT JEE AIR 1 Piyush Srivastava
Piyush is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar at Caltech. Prior to joining Caltech, he did his post
graduation from UC Berkeley. He has had 3 stints as a research intern at Microsoft in 2009, 2011

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and 2013. He is a graduate of computer science from IIT Kanpur and is currently working
in theoretical computer science.
If you find their journeys inspirational and aspire to achieve the same, then its time to take your
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who you want to emulate and approach your studies with a renewed zeal. With hard work and
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51 comments

Aditya Prakash

Follow National Institute of Open Schooling 196 followers

no persn with a sucesfl self made compny just workng fr sm1

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43 Follow Post Edited November 5 at 10:36pm

Raj Shekhar

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most of them went to research field.

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13 November 6 at 2:23pm

Jani Pasha

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why is it necessary to make a success full self made company ??

Money is not the only thing everyone aspires , there are other things too!
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27 November 8 at 1:16pm

Aditya Prakash

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Jani Pasha ya sure but iam talking about inovatrs n dreamrs who can do and obvsly the persns who can bring change by doing really smthng for the society i mean the r genius 1 of the finest
down in histry as no one peple wont rembr them?? just a few patents n what?? iam talkin abt the league of steve jobs bill gates. warren buffet, mark and u can thnk abt indian names too
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4 November 8 at 3:02pm

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Shah SA Head, Department of Chemistry at NIT,Srinagar-6,India
Yes, Only the first one Nitin Gupta has opted to work at his home land and contribute back to education system...all praise for him....he is the legitimate son of his land.
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21 Follow Post November 7 at 10:07pm

Sheetal Gangula Governors State University

I would say there are many people who have achieved tha same without studying in
I IT'S . India should stop pressuring kids to get into I IT and instead let them follow their dream, then see what Indians can achive :)
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15 Follow Post November 8 at 5:10pm

Chetan Sharma Assistant Manager at Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd.
Gr8 words...
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Harshvardhan Singh Chauhan
They all have "Ghulaam maansikta" b'coz if they were really so intelligent the would hav opened a company and tok it to an international level but they worked for some bloody ass less Americans......
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7 Follow Post November 7 at 11:55am

Thakur Amresh Singh MANIT, Bhopal

right man...they r American ass licker....
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Karl Arensdorf

6 November 7 at 6:37pm
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May I Know your list of great contributions to India ?

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45 November 8 at 1:27pm

Hermes Joel D'Souza London, United Kingdom

Your being too harsh Harshvardhan! Science has nothing to do with nationalism as such. Not for scientists really. Because Science is a study of life for the good of mankind. You could be bas
As long as you collectively strive for betterment of mankind, that's all that matters. In some lines of work like mine we can open companies and be more effective but if i were in biomedical or g
other like minded scientists and work with them.

There are so many of my friends including me who have deployed transferrable technologies in India because of the funds we have raised from being abroad. They don't just provide employ

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There are so many of my friends including me who have deployed transferrable technologies in India because of the funds we have raised from being abroad. They don't just provide employ
solutions to India. But as a scientist, their aim is not just India but global. Countries like US have a nice established route of taking products/systems to market and so many new engineers/sci
so that they can focus on real work rather than all the useless rubbish. Nationalism is all good but a smart person can change any situation to his/her advantage.
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11 November 8 at 4:31pm

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Sahil Saini

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The mindset with which people enter IIT is never the same as that of when they leave IIT.
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Rahul Kumar

4 Follow Post November 6 at 10:14pm

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evry one is following their interest

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4 Follow Post November 7 at 9:22am

Shah SA Head, Department of Chemistry at NIT,Srinagar-6,India

Yes, Only the first one Nitin Gupta has opted to work at his home land and contribute back to education system...all praise for him....he is the legitimate son of his land.
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2 Edited November 7 at 8:23pm

Nitin Agrawal Chicago, Illinois

Shah SA I might disagree a little. Do you really think working "in India" is the only way to contribute to its growth and payback?
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5 23 hours ago

Thakur Amresh Singh MANIT, Bhopal

Rahul kumar Not everybody....most of them r following money.
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Abhik Datta

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None of them has gone on to do an MBA!!!Proves that they are committed to excellence in the technical field..
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2 Follow Post 18 hours ago

Arjun Sharma
These are the employees but the owners of the company where they working is not JEE topper
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1 Follow Post November 8 at 4:13pm

Aravind Venugopalan Works at ICICI Prudential

You think these people topped JEE because of their business skills?
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12 November 8 at 4:47pm

Rahul Patnaik Works at Pennsylvania State University

US has something that attracts the best minds of the world ! - Student, Pennsylvania State Univeristy.
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1 Follow Post November 8 at 1:24am

Pranay Ranjan

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The time dollar will go down, it will no longer be a paradise!

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7 November 8 at 11:18am

Hermes Joel D'Souza London, United Kingdom

True Rahul, it' s called giving the right value/importance to skilled/intelligent people. @Pranay, USD won't go down easily and that's not how economics works. The world economies are inter
reserves are in USD including India. So, if USD depreciates, so does India's wealth.
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Arun Gupta

4 November 8 at 4:33pm

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Toppers wasting time and not doing fruitful things

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