The Academy honours Indian and Foreign nationals who are elected by “peer” committees in recognition of their personal achievements in “Engineering” which are of exceptional merit and demonstrated distinctive eminence in the new and developing fields of technology.

The election to the Academy is by invitation only. Upto 50 Fellows from Academia, R&D and Industry may be elected from the nominations made by Fellows of INAE affiliated to the following Engineering Sections. Under the Rules & Regulations of the Academy, the total number of Fellows at any one time may not exceed 1200. For Frequently Asked Questions on Nomination and Selection Process for Election of Fellows Please click here…

Presently INAE has 996 Fellows from India and 107 Foreign Fellows on its rolls divided into ten Engineering Sections. Read More

The last date of receipt of nominations for Indian and Foreign Fellows is March 31 of each year.

1. Engineering Section-I (Civil Engineering)
2. Prof. Sivakumar Babu Gandluri L, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
3. Prof Suresh Bhalla, Civil Engineering Department, IIT Delhi.
4. Prof. Subhankar Karmakar, Professor, Environmental Science and Engineering Department, IIT Bombay.
5. Prof. Arvind Kumar Nema, Professor and Head, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi.
6. Engineering Section-II (Computer Engineering and Information Technology)
7. Prof. Venkatesh Babu Radhakrishnan, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Computational & Data Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
8. Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Professor, IIIT Hyderabad.
9. Dr. Animesh Mukherjee, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur.
10. Dr. Arpan Pal, Distinguished Chief Scientist, TCS Research/ TATA Consultancy Services, Kolkata.
11. Ms. Charumathy Srinivasan, Corporate Vice President, Engineering / Microsoft, Hyderabad.
12. Dr Salil Parekh, CEO & MD, Infosys.
13. Dr Sethuraman Panchanathan, Former Director, US National Science Foundation.
14. Dr. Rohini Srivathsa, CTO, Microsoft India and South Asia.
15. Engineering Section-III (Mechanical Engineering)
16. Prof. Amaresh Chakrabarti, Senior Professor and Chair, Department of Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru
17. Prof Prabhu Rajagopal, Professor and Head, School of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, IIT Madras.
18. Dr. Bhupendra Kumar Gandhi, Professor (HAG), Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, IIT Roorkee.
19. Engineering Section-IV (Chemical Engineering)
20. Dr Kirti Chandra Sahu, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad.
21. Prof. Narendra M Dixit, Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
22. Prof Rajnish Kumar, Professor, Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras.
23. Dr. Venkataramana Runkana, Chief Scientist, Tata Consultancy Services Limited.
24. Dr. Prasanta Kumar Mohapatra, Ex-Director, Radiochemistry & Isotope Group, BARC, Mumbai; Sr. Professor, HBNI, Mumbai.
25. Engineering Section-V (Electrical Engineering)
26. Prof Anup Kumar Panda, Professor HAG, NIT Rourkela.
27. Prof Nilanjan Senroy, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi.
28. Dr. Jayeshkumar Jayanarayan Barve, Principal Engineer – Controls & Optimization, GE Vernova-Advanced Research Center, Bangalore.
29. Engineering Section-VI (Electronics & Communication Engineering)
30. Prof Kiran Kumar Kuchi, Professor, IIT Hyderabad.
31. Prof Ram Bilas Pachori, Professor (HAG), Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Indore
32. Prof. Saif Khan Mohammed, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi.
33. Prof Boby George, Professor and Head, Department of Medical Sciences and Technology; Joint Appointment with the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras.
34. Dr Subrata Kumar Datta, Outstanding Scientist & Centre Head, Microwave Tube Research & Development Centre (MTRDC), DRDO, Bangalore.
35. Mr. Manoj Jain, CMD, BEL.
36. Engineering Section-VII (Aerospace Engineering)
37. Prof PA Ramakrishna, Professor (HAG), Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras.
38. Prof. Ashoke De, Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur.
39. Dr. Manickavasagam Marudhanayagam, Outstanding Scientist & Director, SPIC DRDO.
40. Dr Vijay V Patel, Outstanding Scientist, Technology Director (CLAW), Aeronautical Development Agency, Bengaluru.
41. Dr DK Sunil, CMD, HAL, Bangalore.
42. Engineering Section-VIII (Mining, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
43. Prof. Gour Gopal Roy, Professor (HAG), Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Kharagpur.
44. Prof VMSR Murthy, Director IIEST, Shibpur and formerly Professor (HAG), Department of Mining Engineering, IIT (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad.
45. Dr. Vilas Tathavadkar, Chief Technology Officer, Hindalco Industries, Mumbai.
46. Prof SM Yusuf, Director, Physics Group, BARC, Mumbai.
47. Engineering Section-IX (Energy Engineering)
48. Prof. Muthukumar Palanisamy, Professor (HAG), IIT Tirupati.
49. Mr Vinod V, Scientific officer- H, Head, Experimental Thermal Hydraulics Division, Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam.
50. Mr. Subramanian Sarma, Deputy Managing Director & President L&T Group
51. Engineering Section -X (Interdisciplinary and Special Engineering Fields and Leadership in Academia, R&D and Industry)
52. Prof Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras.
53. Prof. Uttama Lahiri, HoD and Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Gandhinagar., Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology, Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), Mumbai.
54. Dr. Upadhyayula Suryanarayana Murty, Director, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Guwahati.
55. Prof. Abhay Karandikar, Secretary DST.
56. Mr Vipin Sondhi, Former MD & CEO of Ashok Leyland, JCB India and Tecumseh India.

1. Prof Vikram Sudhir Deshpande,Professor of Materials Engineering, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University, United Kingdom. (ES-III – Mechanical Engineering)
2. Prof Gareth H. McKinley, School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. (ES-IV – Chemical Engineering)
3. Prof Bikash Chandra Pal, Professor, Imperial College London, UK. (ES-V- Electrical Engineering).
4. Prof. Ross D. Murch, Chair Professor, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. (ES-VI – Electronics and Communication Engineering)
5. Dr Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge, Life Peer, The House of Lords, UK Chair of the Carbon Trust, The House of Lords, UK., (ES -VIII – Mining, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering).