Abhay Bhushan is one of the early pioneers of the internet. He's the inventor of the File Transfer Protocol (FTP);  an application layer protocol of the Internet protocol suite, and is responsible for transferring computer files between Internet hosts. He has been a major contributor to the development of the Internet TCP/IP architecture, the early versions of email protocols. He is currently chairman of Asquare Inc. and President of the IIT-Kanpur Foundation.