List of IIT Madras people explained

This is a list of notable alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

Academia

Deans, directors, and presidents

NameClass yearNotabilityReferences
Timothy A. GonsalvesBTech 19761st Director of Indian Institute of Technology Mandi[1]
Ramayya KrishnaDean of the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University[2]
Shashi NambisanBTech 1984Professor 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 PratapBTech 1974; PhD 1978Former 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 RamamurthiBTech 1980Professor of Electrical Engineering; Director of the Institute at IIT Madras; Doyens of Madras[7] [8]
Govindan SundararajanBTech 1976Former 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. SureshMTech 1969Founder 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 SureshBTech 1977President of Carnegie Mellon University; former Director of the National Science Foundation; former Dean of Engineering at MIT[14]

Professors and scholars

!Name!Class year!Notability!References
Arumugam ManthiramPhD 1980Professor 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 AgarwalBTech 1982Professor 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 AnandkumarBTech 2004Bren Professor of Computing at California Institute of Technology; Director of Machine Learning research at NVIDIA[23] [24]
G. K. AnanthasureshBTech 1989Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru; Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology[25]
Hari BalakrishnanBTech 1993Fujitsu 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 BanerjeeBTech 1974Professor in the Department of Materials Engineering Engineering of the Indian Institute of Science[31]
Narayanan ChandrakumarMSc 1972Chemical 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 ChandyBTech 1965Simon 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 ChokshiBTech 1980Professor, 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. ChoudumPhD 1974Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras[39] [40]
PremkumarDevanbuB.Tech 1977Distinguished 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 GuruswamiBTech 1997Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University; ex-faculty at University of Washington[41] [42] [43]
Viswanathan KumaranBTech 1987Professor, Indian Institute of Science[44]
L. MahadevanBTech 1986de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, Physics and Biology, Harvard University; MacArthur Fellow 2009; F.R.S. 2016[45] [46]
Pinaki MajumdarMTech 1990Professor at Harish-Chandra Research Institute; Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology—2007[47] [48]
Pranawachandra DeshmukhPhD 1979Adjunct 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 NairBTech 1964Author; Metallurgist; Padma Shri Laureate; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award—1996[51]
Ramarathnam NarasimhanBTech 1982Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumni Award – 2016[52]
Arvind NarayananBTech 2004Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University; PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technology—2014[53] [54] [55] [56]
Sethuraman PanchanathanMTech 1986Executive Vice President at ASU Knowledge Enterprise Development; Chief Research and Innovation Officer at Arizona State University (ASU)[57]
Shanthi PavanBTech 1995Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras[58]
A. G. RamakrishnanMTech 1982; PhD 1989Professor 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]

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B.S. SathyaprakashMSc Phys. 1981Bert 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 SatyanarayananCarnegie Group Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University; Principal architect and implementor of the Andrew File System (AFS)[69]
V. SrinivasanBTech 1966The Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus, Stanford University; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award—2001[70] [71]
Marti G. SubrahmanyamCharles E. Merrill Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University[72] [73]
Arun SundararajanProfessor at Stern School of Business, New York University[74] [75] [76]
Rusi TaleyarkhanBTech 1977Professor, Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana[77] [78]
Sridhar TayurFord 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. UdgaonkarMSc 1981Senior 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]

Arts and entertainment

!Name!Class year!Notability!References
R. PrasannaGuitarist; Life Time Achievement Award, 2003 from Shankaracharya Shri. Jayendra Saraswathi swamigal of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham[82] [83] [84]
S. SowmyaMSc 1992Carnatic music singer; Sangita Kalanidhi Award—2019[85] [86] [87] [88]

Humanities and social sciences

NameClass yearNotabilityReferences
Nirmalananda SwamijiMTech 1996Head of Adichunchanagiri Hills Math[89] [90] [91]
Sant Rajinder Singh Ji MaharajBTech 1967Spiritual leader at Science of Spirituality; retired from Bell Labs in 1989[92]
Balaji SampathBTech 1994Founder and Secretary of NGO Association for India's Development India Chapter [93]

Industry

!Name!Class year!Notability!References
T. K. AlexMTech 1971Director at ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore, 2008–2012[94] [95]
B. Jayant BaligaBTech 1969;DSc (Honoris Causea) 2016Inventor 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[96] [97]
Krishna BharatCreator of Google News; Principal Scientist, Google[98] [99]
Gururaj DeshpandeBTech 1973Founder of Sycamore Networks; Chairman at Tejas Networks; Distinguished Alumnus Awardee from IIT Madras in 1998[100] [101] [102] [103]
Kris GopalakrishnanMSc 1977; MTech 1979Padma Bhushan Laureate; co-founder of Infosys; President of Confederation of Indian Industry; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award—1998[104] [105] [106]
Ramanathan V. GuhaInventor of RSS feed technology; computer scientist at Google; won the Distinguished Alumnus award from IIT Madras in 2013[107] [108]
Vic GundotraEx-Senior Vice President, Social for Google; widely believed to be the mastermind behind Google Plus; previously worked at Microsoft[109] [110]
Venky HarinarayanBTech 1988Kosmix co-founder; won the Distinguished Alumnus award from IIT Madras in 2013[111]
Jai MenonIBM 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[112]
C. MohanBTech 1977IBM 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[113]
B MuthuramanBTech 1966Managing Director of Tata Steel; Padma Bhushan Laureate; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award—1997[114] [115] [116]
Prabhakar RaghavanVice President of Engineering at Google; former head of Yahoo! Labs[117] [118]
Anand RajaramanFounder of Junglee and Kosmix.com with Venky Harinarayan; won the Distinguished Alumnus award from IIT Madras in 2013[119] [120]
Raghu RamakrishnanTechnical 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[121] [122]
Venkat RanganBTech 1981Co-founder and CTO at Clearwell Systems; served as Professor of Computer Science at University of California, San Diego[123] [124] [125]
P. S. VeeraraghavanMTech 1971Director at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Trivandrum, 2008–2012; distinguished scientist at ISRO and Director, ISRO Inertial Systems Unit[126] [127] [128]
Prem WatsaBTech 1971Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Fairfax Financial Holdings, Toronto, Canada; Member of the Order of Canada; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award—1999[129] [130] [131]

Government and politics

!Name!Class year!Notability!References
Raju Narayana SwamyIAS Officer; Secretary to Government, General Administration, Sainik Welfare, Kerala; former Commissioner of the Civil Supplies Department of Kerala[132] [133] [134] [135]
Dedipya Agarwal (department of Rajasthan) polticial department

Military and defense

NameClass yearNotabilityReferences
S. ChristopherPhD 1987Secretary, Department of Defence R & D and DG @ DRDO; Defence Research and Development Organisation – Outstanding Scientist for 2012; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award—2016[136] [137]
Sudhir Kumar MishraMTech 1987Distinguished Scientist & Director General @ DRDO; CEO of BrahMos Aerospace; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award—2018[138] [139]

Notable faculty

!Name!Affiliation!Notability!References
Thalappil Pradeep
M. Thenmozhi
Ashok Jhunjhunwala

External links

Notes and References

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  60. Web site: RaGaVeRa Indic Technologies. sites.google.com.
  61. News: Member, Karnataka Knowledge Commission, Karnataka Jnana Aayoga, 2017.
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  65. Web site: Associate, ICTS, Bangalore.
  66. Web site: Sathyaprakash Research Group.
  67. Web site: Bert Elsbach Professor of Physics.
  68. Web site: Gravity Exploration Institute.
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