No Indian institute can be compared to IISc in terms of research in Physics, Mathematics, Aerospace, Materials Science, and Biological and Chemical Sciences. It has, as a result, produced a number of notable alumni. Some of the most famous include:
- Sunil Kumar, the Dean of The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- Umeshwar Dayal, the director of the HP Labs Information Analytics Lab
- Shamkant Navathe, the co-author of the famous Elmasri-Navathe book on databases.
- C Pandu Rangan well-known for Cryptography
- Sargur N. Srihari well-recognized for pattern recognition
- Narendra Ahuja Computer Vision and Robotics Laboratory, Beckman Institute, UIUC
- Ram Akella, known for Data Mining, and e-commerce
- B.L.Deekshatulu, famous for his work in neural nets and AI
- Professor Raj Jain, the author of the famous book ''' Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis''
It’s important to note that this list is not exhaustive and these are just a few examples of the many accomplished alumni from IISc Bangalore.