University of New Mexico Narasimhiah Seshagiri Computer scientist, writer and a former director-general of the National Informatics Centre, an apex organization of the Government of India Mano Murthy, entrepreneur and composer Roddam Narasimha, eminent scientist Lakshmi Narayanan, Ex-CEO at Cognizant Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, Former chairman, Mechanical Engineering, Yale University H. G. Dattatreya, actor Ramesh Arvind, actor Vijaya Bhaskar, composer Arvind Bhat, badminton player Prakash Belawadi, actor Prahlada, missile scientist and former Vice Chancellor of DIAT G Guruswamy, Principal Aerospace Scientist who pioneered computational aeroelasticity in 1978. Rajkumar Buyya, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne V. K. Aatre IEEE UVCE Fellow awardees M A L Thathachar S. S. Iyengar Viktor Prasanna V. Prasad Kodali Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre Rajkumar Buyya Venugopal K R, Former Principal UVCE and Vice Chancellor Bangalore University, IEEE Fellow, ACM Distinguished Educator, for his contributions to "Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Education". N. Ahmed, 1985 "for his contributions to engineering education and digital signal processing." Alumni Associations Instead of typically one per institution there are three associations formed by different groups: VisionUVCE, UVCE Foundation, UVCE Centenary Foundation, UVCE Graduates Association, UVCE_ALUMNI. BOARD OF DIRECTORS UVCE became autonomous and board of directors were selected in adhoc. Most members are from either nonacademic field or academic field not related to UVCE as stated by eighty teaching staff members. “Looking at the members on the Board of Governors... we feel it will turn into a corporate world with less importance for academics,” The members background include 1) nonrelated organization (2) founder of private institute from where ""Very few students have gone for the research programmes to various reputed research institutions "; Lead by an expert in steel business not related to UVCE with no academic background ;An alumni from non academic field who founded a company that went bankrupt References External links Official website 1917 establishments in India Engineering universities and colleges in India