JEE Toppers of last 15 years: Where are they?
IIT-JEE being one of the toughest exams in the world, more than a million students appear every year and it is a dream of several aspirants to be on the list of toppers. And, as soon as the results are out the toppers are no way less than a celebrity, thanks to the print and social media!We did quite a research to find what these toppers are doing presently who were once in the JEE topper list.
| Year | Topper | Joining Course/Institute | Present Status |
| 2014 | Chitrang Murdia | IIT Bombay | Topping the JEE this year, Chitrang wishes to get into research in the field of electronics or computer science. He feels to have an inclination for research and would prefer it over a corporate job, let us hope best for him!Update:After spending a year at IIT Bombay pursuing B.Tech in Computer Science, he is now keen to quit IIT and pursue Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he has got admission with scholarship. |
| 2013 | Pallerla Saisandeep Reddy | IIT Bombay | The topper of the year 2013 is willing to join Robotics post completing the B.Tech |
| 2012 | Arpit Agrawal | IIT Delhi | Working with Google India after scoring rank 122 in the Google APAC |
| 2011 | Immadi Prudhvi Tej | IIT Bombay | He not only topped IIT JEE in 2011, but was also 7th rank holder in AIEEE, presently staying at Hyderabad. |
| 2010 | Anumula Jithendar Reddy | IIT Bombay | As per his LinkedIn profile, he has completed his internship from QEA Eduventures. |
| 2009 | Nitin Jain | IIT Delhi | As per his Facebook profile, he is presently residing at Dublin, Ireland. He did his internship from Zomato |
| 2008 | Shitikanth | IIT Kanpur | Born at Patna, Bihar and presently residing at Waterloo, Ontario, Shitikant is working for Laboratoire d’Informatique Algorithmique Fondements et Applications as Research Assistant |
| 2007 | Achin Bansal | IIT Bombay | Presently working for Morgan Stanley, residing at Mumbai. |
| 2006 | Raghu Mahajan | IIT Delhi | As per his Twitter account he is presently doing PhD in Theoretical Physics |
| 2005 | Piyush Srivastava | IIT Kanpur | Piyush is presently a Postdoctoral Scholar at Caltech. Befor that he completed his PG from UC Berkeley. |
| 2004 | Sushant Sachdeva | IIT Bombay | Presently he is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Department of Computer Science at Yale University. Prior he did research internships at Toyota, Microsoft and ETH Zurich. Also he has published several research papers in prestigious conferences across the world. |
| 2003 | Shashank S. Dwivedi | IIT Bombay | (We tried enough to reach out Shashank’s present status bit failed as he is unavailable on internet and social media) |
| 2002 | Dungra Ram Chowdhary | IIT Kanpur | Earlierd words for AirTight Networks, presently working at Oracle as a Principal Member of Technical Staff. |
| 2001 | Arvind Thiagarajan | IIT Madras | Completed internships from Google and Yahoo along with PhD from MIT.Arvind also has 42 patents in his name registered and has founded a company in 2011 for mobile computing. He is presently working as a research scientist for Amazon |
| 2000 | Nitin Gupta | IIT Kanpur | Nitin joined the IIT Kanpur in 2014 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences. He also wishes to have a set up in cognitive neuroscience lab at IITK. |
NOTE: If you have any suggestions or points to improve the article and add information related to the JEE toppers mentioned, feel free to post your comments below.
No one became an entrepreneur ?
IMO, toppers in IIT really LOVE their field & they are also pretty skilled at it. That is why they tend to go into research or professorship most of the time.
Arpit Agrawal is in the third year, not yet placed! Please correct your facts!
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NO Body is working in INDIA
Why is it that most of them want to go abroad??
Why cant they work in INDIA??
because the last won wishing to setup lab will spend his whole life to get funds and setup that..and will only take attendance i think here…
Shashank s dwivedi has done phd in maths to know more details about him contact Amresh Sharma Classes Bhilai Chhattisgarh