Lets look at this year by year. A quick Google search by our R&D team reveals the following.
| Year | Name | Undergrad | Postgrad |
| 1983 | Sundaresh RS | IITM | Yale |
| 1984 | Navin Budhiraja | IITK | Cornell |
| 1985 | Vineet Gupta | IITK | Stanford |
| 1986 | Sanjeev Arora | MIT | UC Berkeley |
| 1987 | Rajesh Gopakumar | IITK | Princeton |
| 1988 | A Raghava chari | Caltech | Princeton |
| 1989 | Vineet Buch | IITK | Cornell |
| 1990 | Ashish Goel | IITK | Stanford |
| 1991 | Rina Panigrahy | IITB | MIT Stanford |
| 1992 | Anil Kumar Ruia | IITB | Princeton Rutgers |
| 1993 | Prasoon Kumar | IITK | |
| 1994 | Kamesh Munagala | IITB | Stanford |
| 1995 | Subhash Ajit Khot | IITB | Princeton |
| 1996 | Prasanna Ganesan | IITM | Stanford |
| 1997 | Arvind Saraf | IITK | MIT |
| 1998 | Abhinav kumar | MIT | Harvard |
| 1999 | Vineet Goyal | IITD | CMU |
| 2000 | Nitin Gupta | IITK | UCSD |
| 2001 | Arvind Thiagarajan | IITM | MIT |
| 2002 | Dungara Ram Chowdhary | IITK | NA |
| 2003 | Shashank Shekhar Dwivedi | IITB | MIT |
| 2004 | Sushant Sachdeva | IITB | Princeton |
| 2005 | Piyush Srivastava | IITK | UC Berkeley |
| 2006 | Raghu Mahajan | IITD & MIT | Cambridge Stanford |
| 2007 | Achin Bansal | IITB | NA |
| 2008 | Shitikant | IITK | |
| 2009 | Nitin Jain | IITD |
