Abhay Bhushan (Hindi pronunciation: [əbʰəj bʰuːʂəɳː]; born 23 November 1944)[1] is an Indian computer scientist.
Bhushan has been a major contributor to the development of the Internet TCP/IP architecture, and is the author of the File Transfer Protocol (which he started working on while he was a student at MIT) and the early versions of email standards.
He is currently chairman of Asquare Inc., Secretary of Indians for Collective Action[2] and the former President of the IIT-Kanpur Foundation.
At MIT, he drafted the now famous RFC 114 and worked on developing FTP and E-mail protocols for the ARPANet and subsequent Internet.
He also was a co-founder of both the YieldUP International which in 1995 went public on NASDAQ and Portola Communications, which was bought by Netscape in 1997.