This is a list of notable alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras .
Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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Timothy A. Gonsalves | BTech 1976 | 1st director of Indian Institute of Technology Mandi | [1] |
Ramayya Krishna | Dean of the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University | [2] | |
Shashi Nambisan | BTech 1984 | Professor of Civil Engineering at University of Tennessee Knoxville; ex-Director of the Center for Transportation Research and Education at Iowa State University) | [3] [4] |
Gangan Pratap | BTech 1974; PhD 1978 | Former director National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources; honorary professor, APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award—1999 | [5] [6] |
Bhaskar Ramamurthi | BTech 1980 | Professor of Electrical Engineering; Director of the Institute at IIT Madras; Doyens of Madras | [7] [8] |
Govindan Sundararajan | BTech 1976 | Former director, International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI); Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology—1994; Padma Shri | [9] [10] [11] |
B. N. Suresh | MTech 1969 | Founder Director (2007–2010) Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology; Padma Bhushan—2013; Padma Shri—2002; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award—2004 | [12] [13] |
Subra Suresh | BTech 1977 | President of Carnegie Mellon University; former director of the National Science Foundation; former Dean of Engineering at MIT | [14] |
Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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Arumugam Manthiram | PhD 1980 | Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Texas at Austin; Inventor of polyanion cathodes for lithium ion batteries; Delivered the 2019 Nobel Prize Lecture in Chemistry; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award - 2015 | [15] [16] [17] [18] |
Anant Agarwal | BTech 1982 | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT; CEO of EdX; holds a Guinness World Record for the largest microphone array; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award – 2014 | [19] [20] [21] [22] |
Animashree Anandkumar | BTech 2004 | Bren Professor of Computing at California Institute of Technology; director of machine learning research at NVIDIA | [23] [24] |
G. K. Ananthasuresh | BTech 1989 | Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru; Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology | [25] |
Hari Balakrishnan | BTech 1993 | Fujitsu Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT; ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award—2011; ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time Award—2017, 2018; ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award—2015; ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Award—2017; 2020 Infosys Prize; 2021 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award for Computers and Communications; Member of the National Academy of Engineering; Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences | [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] |
Dipankar Banerjee | BTech 1974 | Professor in the Department of Materials Engineering Engineering of the Indian Institute of Science | [31] |
Narayanan Chandrakumar | MSc 1972 | Chemical Physicist; Professor of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras; Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology—1996; J. C. Bose National Fellowship—2009 | [32] [33] |
K. Mani Chandy | BTech 1965 | Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology; A. A. Michelson Award of CMG (the Computer Measurement Group); Sherman Fairchild Fellowship; IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award for Computers and Communications; Fellow of the IEEE; Member of the National Academy of Engineering; 2014 Dijkstra Prize | [34] [35] [36] [37] |
Atul Chokshi | BTech 1980 | Professor, Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore; Swarnajayanti Presidential Young Investigator Award; MRSI Medal; Metallurgist of the Year Award (Ministry of Steel & Mines); Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, G.D. Birla Gold Medal (IIM); IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award | [38] |
S. A. Choudum | PhD 1974 | Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras | [39] [40] |
Premkumar Devanbu | B.Tech 1977 | Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of California, Davis; ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award; Alexander von Humboldt Research Award; IEEE Computer Society Harlan Mills Award | |
Venkatesan Guruswami | BTech 1997 | Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University; ex-faculty at University of Washington | [41] [42] [43] |
Viswanathan Kumaran | BTech 1987 | Professor, Indian Institute of Science | [44] |
L. Mahadevan | BTech 1986 | de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, Physics and Biology, Harvard University; MacArthur Fellow 2009; F.R.S. 2016 | [45] [46] |
Pinaki Majumdar | MTech 1990 | Professor at Harish-Chandra Research Institute; Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology—2007 | [47] [48] |
Pranawachandra Deshmukh | PhD 1979 | Adjunct professor of physics at Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati; mentor and convener, CAMOST, a joint initiative of Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati and Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati (since 2020) | [49] [50] |
C. G. Krishnadas Nair | BTech 1964 | Author; Metallurgist; Padma Shri Laureate; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award—1996 | [51] |
Ramarathnam Narasimhan | BTech 1982 | Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumni Award – 2016 | [52] |
Arvind Narayanan | BTech 2004 | Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University; PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technology—2014 | [53] [54] [55] [56] |
Sethuraman Panchanathan | MTech 1986 | Executive Vice President at ASU Knowledge Enterprise Development; Chief Research and Innovation Officer at Arizona State University (ASU) | [57] |
Shanthi Pavan | BTech 1995 | Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras | [58] |
A. G. Ramakrishnan | MTech 1982; PhD 1989 | Professor at Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru; Member, Karnataka Knowledge Commission, Senate Member, IIIT Allahabad; Manthan Awards 2014 and 2015; Founder-director of RaGaVeRa Indic Technologies Pvt Ltd. | [59] [60] [61] [62] [63] |
B.S. Sathyaprakash | MSc Phys. 1981 | Bert Elsbach Professor of Physics The Pennsylvania State University; Professor of Gravitational Physics Cardiff University; Associate, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore, India; [65] Sathyaprakash Research Group [66] | [67] [68] |
Mahadev Satyanarayanan | Carnegie Group Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University; Principal architect and implementor of the Andrew File System (AFS) | [69] | |
V. Srinivasan | BTech 1966 | The Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus, Stanford University; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award—2001 | [70] [71] |
Marti G. Subrahmanyam | Charles E. Merrill Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University | [72] [73] | |
Arun Sundararajan | Professor at Stern School of Business, New York University | [74] [75] [76] | |
Rusi Taleyarkhan | BTech 1977 | Professor, Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana | [77] [78] |
Sridhar Tayur | Ford Distinguished Research Chair and Professor of Operations Management at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University; founder, SmartOps and OrganJet | [79] [80] | |
Jayant B. Udgaonkar | MSc 1981 | Senior Professor, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research; J. C. Bose National fellow; Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Biological Sciences – 2000; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award – 2011; G. N. Ramachandran Gold Medal – 2011 | [81] |
Karthik Sarma | BTech 1996 | Founder and Managing Partner, SRS Investment Management, USA | [82] |
Vidhya Srinivasan | BTech 2000 | Vice President and General Manager, Google Search Advertising and Experiences Google USA | [83] |
Shuba Kumar | BTech 1994 | Managing Director, Natesan Synchrones Pvt. Ltd. INDIA | [84] |
Nagaraja Rao Harshadeep | BTech 1988 | Global Lead, World Bank USA | [85] |
Jayarao ‘Bob’ Balaram | BTech 1980 | Chief Engineer, Mars Helicopter Project, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA USA | [86] |
Chakrapani. R. V | BTech 1984 | Managing Director, Aarvee Associates INDIA | [87] |
Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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R. Prasanna | Guitarist; Life Time Achievement Award, 2003 from Shankaracharya Shri. Jayendra Saraswathi swamigal of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham | [88] [89] [90] | |
S. Sowmya | MSc 1992 | Carnatic music singer; Sangita Kalanidhi Award—2019 | [91] [92] [93] [94] |
Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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Nirmalananda Swamiji | MTech 1996 | Head of Adichunchanagiri Hills Math | [95] [96] [97] |
Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj | BTech 1967 | Spiritual leader at Science of Spirituality; retired from Bell Labs in 1989 | [98] |
Balaji Sampath | BTech 1994 | Founder and Secretary of NGO Association for India's Development India Chapter | [99] |
Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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T. K. Alex | MTech 1971 | Director at ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore, 2008–2012 | [100] [101] |
B. Jayant Baliga | BTech 1969; DSc (Honoris Causea) 2016 | Inventor of the Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor; National Medal of Technology and Innovation Award—2010; IEEE Medal of Honor—2014; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award—1999 | [102] [103] [5] |
Krishna Bharat | Creator of Google News; principal scientist, Google | [104] [105] | |
Gururaj Deshpande | BTech 1973 | Founder of Sycamore Networks; chairman at Tejas Networks; Distinguished Alumnus Awardee from IIT Madras in 1998 | [106] [107] [108] [109] |
Kris Gopalakrishnan | MSc 1977; MTech 1979 | Padma Bhushan Laureate; co-founder of Infosys; President of Confederation of Indian Industry; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award—1998 | [110] [111] [112] |
Ramanathan V. Guha | Inventor of RSS feed technology; computer scientist at Google; won the Distinguished Alumnus award from IIT Madras in 2013 | [113] [114] | |
Vic Gundotra | Ex-Senior Vice President, Social for Google; widely believed to be the mastermind behind Google Plus; previously worked at Microsoft | [115] [116] | |
Venky Harinarayan | BTech 1988 | Kosmix co-founder; won the Distinguished Alumnus award from IIT Madras in 2013 | [117] |
Jai Menon | IBM Fellow; CTO and VP, Technical Strategy, IBM Systems and Technology Group; significant contributor to RAID technology; awarded Distinguished Alumnus award by IIT Madras in 2006 | [118] | |
C. Mohan | BTech 1977 | IBM Fellow at IBM Almaden Research Center and Former IBM India Chief Scientist; famous for his work on Database systems and in particular the ARIES technology; awarded Distinguished Alumnus award by IIT Madras in 2003 | [119] |
B Muthuraman | BTech 1966 | Managing Director of Tata Steel; Padma Bhushan Laureate; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award—1997 | [120] [121] [122] |
Prabhakar Raghavan | Vice President of Engineering at Google; former head of Yahoo! Labs | [123] [124] | |
Anand Rajaraman | Founder of Junglee and Kosmix.com with Venky Harinarayan; won the Distinguished Alumnus award from IIT Madras in 2013 | [125] [126] | |
Raghu Ramakrishnan | Technical Fellow at Microsoft; former vice-president and research fellow at Yahoo! Research; professor of computer science at the University of Wisconsin Madison; won the Distinguished Alumnus award from IIT Madras in 2007 | [127] [128] | |
Venkat Rangan | BTech 1981 | Co-founder and CTO at Clearwell Systems; served as Professor of Computer Science at University of California, San Diego | [129] [130] [131] |
P. S. Veeraraghavan | MTech 1971 | Director at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Trivandrum, 2008–2012; distinguished scientist at ISRO and Director, ISRO Inertial Systems Unit | [132] [133] [134] |
Prem Watsa | BTech 1971 | Founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Fairfax Financial Holdings, Toronto, Canada; Member of the Order of Canada; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award—1999 | [135] [136] [5] [137] |
Umesh Subramanian | BTech 1993 | CTO of Citadel Securities (2018-Present); CTO of Goldman Sachs (2014-2018) | [138] |
Sridhar Ramaswamy | BTech 1989 | CEO of Snowflake (2024 - Present) | [139] |
Aravind Srinivas | BTech 2017 | CEO of Perplexity AI (2022 - Present) | [140] |
Vineeta Singh | BTech 2005 | CEO of Sugar Cosmetics (2015 - Present) | [141] |
Sridhar Vembu | BTech 1989 | Co-Founder and former CEO of Zoho Corporation | [142] [143] |
Krishna Bharat | BTech 1991 | Distinguished Research Scientist at Google. | [144] |
Dr. S. Somanath | Ph. D 2024 | Chairman, Indian Space Research Organization. | [145] [146] |
Jaishree Deshpande | MS 1975 | Trustee and Founder of Deshpande Foundation. | [147] [148] |
Ramesh Srinivasan | BTech 1992 | Senior Partner, Mckinsey & Co, USA. | [149] [150] |
Kamesh Rao | BTech 1979 | CEO, GMR Airports Developers Ltd, India | [151] [152] |
Vellayan Subbiah | BTech 1990 | Chairman, Cholamandalam. Investment and Finance, India | [153] |
Venkat Rangan | BTech 1981 | CTO, Clari Inc | [154] [155] |
GDS Ramkumar | BTech 1990 | Head of Engineering, Apple Info Apps | [156] |
Sankaran Naren | BTech 1987 | CIO, ICICI Prudential AMC | [157] |
Mili Majumdar | MTech 1992 | Managing Director, Green Building Council of India and Senior Vice President U.S. Green Building Council | [158] |
Palanivel Veeramuthuvel | Ph.D 2016 | Project Director Chandrayaan 3, ISRO | [159] |
Unnikrishnan Nair | Ph.D 2011 | Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), India | [160] |
Vijay Ullal | BTech 1980 | Founder and CEO Seabed VC | [161] |
M. P. Paranthaman | Ph.D 1988 | Distinguished Corporate Fellow, Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory USA | [162] |
Ram Sundaram | BTech 1988 | Former Partner, Goldman Sachs USA | [163] |
Azeez Mohammed | BTech 1993 | President and Chief Executive Officer, Covanta Holding Corporation | [164] |
Durga Malladi | BTech 1993 | Senior Vice President and General Manager, Qualcomm USA | [165] [166] |
Naveen Tahilyani | BTech 1995 | CEO and MD, TATA AIA India | [167] |
Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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Raju Narayana Swamy | IAS Officer; Secretary to Government, General Administration, Sainik Welfare, Kerala; former Commissioner of the Civil Supplies Department of Kerala | [168] [169] [170] [171] |
Dedipya Agarwal (department of Rajasthan) polticial department
Name | Class year | Notability | References |
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S. Christopher | PhD 1987 | Secretary, Department of Defence R & D and DG @ DRDO; Defence Research and Development Organisation – Outstanding Scientist for 2012; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award—2016 | [172] [173] |
Sudhir Kumar Mishra | MTech 1987 | Distinguished Scientist & Director General @ DRDO; CEO of BrahMos Aerospace; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award—2018 | [174] [175] |
Name | Affiliation | Notability | References |
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Thalappil Pradeep | |||
M. Thenmozhi | |||
Ashok Jhunjhunwala |
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