Shree K Nayar is an alumnus of the EEE-1984 batch at BIT Mesra Ranchi, he is known for his work in the fields of computer vision, computer graphics, and computational cameras.
Currently, he is working as a T.C. Chang Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, where he leads the Vision and Graphics Center and is the head of the Computer Vision Laboratory (CAVE), which develops advanced computer vision systems. He has won numerous awards, honors, and other grants for his work, which include NSF grants, a fellow of the 'David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Packard as in Hewlett Packard), many awards for teaching and scientific excellence.
Nayar has received several awards for his best paper for his scientific publications and other great achievements.
Other Alumnus of BIT MESRA are Deven Sharma (Former Executive Vice President of Global Strategy of McGraw-Hill Companies Inc), Anjan Lahiri (CEO and Managing Partner at Navikenz), Reshma Nilofer Naha (Indian maritime pilot), etc.