Bhargavi Sunkara graduated from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in 1990 with a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronic engineering and a masters’ degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University in 1994. She played various technology roles at Satyam Computers, MCI, Texas Instruments, Microsoft, and American Express, before becoming the Head of Corporate Technology at BNY Mellon, Pune.

Dr. Jayathi Murthy, a distinguished alumna from IIT Kanpur graduated in 1979 with a degree in mechanical engineering. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Minnesota. She became the dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science in 2016. Her academic career started at Arizona State University as an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering. Other universities that shaped her career include Carnegie Mellon, Purdue, and The University of Texas at Austin. She also had industry experience at Fluent, Inc. There, she led the development of algorithms and software.

Many Indian female engineers who graduated in the 1980s have become globally successful. Padmasree Warrior is one of them. She received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, in 1982 and a master's degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University. She has won many awards for her leadership in the tech industry and has held many board positions. She is on the boards of Microsoft, Spotify and Thorn (formerly DNA Foundation).

Vinita Gupta, a distinguished alumnus of the University of Roorkee, (now Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee) 1973, also migrated to the USA and founded Digital Link Corp. (later named Quick Eagle Networks) and took it public, the first Indian-born American woman to do so. She sits on the boards of Palo Alto Medical Foundation in California, the Indian School of Business, and the Cancer Prevention Institute of California.