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IIT JEE AIR 1 Rankers And Where Are TheyNow [2000-2005]November 5, 2014 Exam Prep tips Rohan Khadatkar

Every year only one person gets the coveted title of being the topper of one of toughest examsin the world. For the next few months after the results, all cameras chase them and their story istold repeatedly to every aspirant so much so that it becomes a story of legends. Achieving this isusually just the first step towards a successful career. We will walk you through the journeys ofsome toppers and what they have achieved so far in their lives, ever since they came into thelimelight 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 BiologicalSciences and Bio-engineering. He graduated from the Department of CSE, IIT Kanpur andeventually went on to study biology at University of California, San Diego. He plans to set up acognitive neuroscience lab here at IITK. He is an inspiration to many who want to contributeback 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 hisPhD. 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 anycomputer science researcher. With 42 patents to his credit, he founded a company in 2011 inmobile 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 thesisin distributed parallel architecture. He did an internship at Honeywell and upon graduatingjoined AirTight Networks where he quickly rose to become a Team Lead in a brief span. He iscurrently 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 hassince then produced number of top rankers. He completed his B.Tech in computer science fromIIT 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 YaleUniversity. Prior to joining Yale, Sushant graduated from Princeton University in 2013. He hasdone multiple research internships at Toyota, Microsoft and ETH Zurich. He has publishednumerous research papers in prestigious conferences throughout the world. He has competedhis 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 postgraduation 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 workingin theoretical computer science.

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Aditya Prakash · · National Institute of Open Schooling · 196 followers

no persn with a sucesfl self made compny just workng fr sm1Reply · Like · · Follow Post · Edited · November 5 at 10:36pm

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Raj Shekhar · · IIT Guwahati

most of them went to research field.Reply · Like · · November 6 at 2:23pm

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Jani Pasha · · IIT Kharagpur · 108 followers

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!Reply · Like · · November 8 at 1:16pm

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Aditya Prakash · · National Institute of Open Schooling · 196 followers

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 in d worlds bt still dey will godown 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 tooReply · Like · · 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.Reply · Like · · Follow Post · November 7 at 10:07pm21

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 :)Reply · Like · · Follow Post · November 8 at 5:10pm15

Chetan Sharma · Assistant Manager at Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd.

Gr8 words...Reply · Like · 10 hours ago

Harshvardhan Singh ChauhanThey 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......Reply · Like · · Follow Post · November 7 at 11:55am7

Thakur Amresh Singh · MANIT, Bhopal

right man...they r American ass licker....Reply · Like · · November 7 at 6:37pm6

Karl Arensdorf · · IIT Kharagpur

May I Know your list of great contributions to India ?Reply · Like · · November 8 at 1:27pm

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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 based in US or any other country.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 genetic research i'll group withother 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 employment but also bring new

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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 employment but also bring newsolutions 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/scientists like to be based thereso 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.Reply · Like · · November 8 at 4:31pm11

Sahil Saini · · Indian Institute of Management Lucknow

The mindset with which people enter IIT is never the same as that of when they leave IIT.Reply · Like · · Follow Post · November 6 at 10:14pm

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Rahul Kumar · · IIT Kanpur

evry one is following their interestReply · Like · · Follow Post · November 7 at 9:22am

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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.Reply · Like · · Edited · November 7 at 8:23pm2

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?Reply · Like · · 23 hours ago5

Thakur Amresh Singh · MANIT, Bhopal

Rahul kumar Not everybody....most of them r following money.Reply · Like · Edited · 15 hours ago

Abhik Datta · · Management Trainee at Mother Dairy

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

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Arjun SharmaThese are the employees but the owners of the company where they working is not JEE topperReply · Like · · Follow Post · November 8 at 4:13pm1

Aravind Venugopalan · Works at ICICI Prudential

You think these people topped JEE because of their business skills?Reply · Like · · November 8 at 4:47pm12

Rahul Patnaik · Works at Pennsylvania State University

US has something that attracts the best minds of the world ! - Student, Pennsylvania State Univeristy.Reply · Like · · Follow Post · November 8 at 1:24am1

Pranay Ranjan · · GVIT, KGF

The time dollar will go down, it will no longer be a paradise!Reply · Like · · November 8 at 11:18am

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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-dependent, most of their forexreserves are in USD including India. So, if USD depreciates, so does India's wealth.Reply · Like · · November 8 at 4:33pm4

Arun Gupta · · Assistant Professor at Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar

Toppers wasting time and not doing fruitful thingsReply · Like · · Follow Post · November 8 at 4:44pm

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