List of Indian Institute of Technology Madras alumni

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

Academia

Name	Class Year	Notability	References
Anant Agarwal		Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT; CEO of EdX; holds a Guinness World Record for the largest microphone array	[1][2][3]
G. K. Ananthasuresh	BTech 1989	Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru; Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology	[4]
Hari Balakrishnan		Fujitsu Professor in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT	[5]
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	[6][7][8][9]
Timothy A. Gonsalves	BTech 1976	1st Director of IIT Mandi	[10]
Indranil Gupta	BTech 1998	Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	[11]
Venkatesan Guruswami		Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University; ex-faculty at University of Washington	[12][13][14]
Jayant Haritsa		Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru; Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology; Infosys Prize; Sir C V Raman Young Scientist Award	[15]
Prahladh Harsha	BTech 1998	Member of the faculty of the School of Technology and Computer Science at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research; NASI-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award 2011 for Mathematics	[16][17]
Prasad Jayanti	BTech 1984	James Frank Family Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College; Dartmouth Distinguished Teacher Award	[18][19][20][21]
Shreepad Karmalkar	BTech 1983; PhD 1989	Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras; 2007 IBM Faculty Award for Modeling and Technology of Semicondcutor Devices; 2005 Vikram Sarabhai Research Award	[22]
Ramayya Krishnan		Dean of the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University	[23]
K Ravi Kumar		Dean, College of Business, Nanyang Technological University	[24]
L. Mahadevan		de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, Physics and Biology, Harvard University; MacArthur Fellow 2009	[25][26]
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)	[27][28]
Anand Raghunathan		Professor at School of ECE, Purdue University	[29][30]
Bhaskar Ramamurthi	BTech 1980	Professor of Electrical Engineering; Director of the Institute at IIT Madras; Doyens of Madras	[31][32]
Marti G. Subrahmanyam		Charles E. Merrill Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University	[33][34]
Arun Sundararajan		Professor at Stern School of Business, New York University	[35][36][37]
Subra Suresh		President of Carnegie Mellon University; former Director of the National Science Foundation; former Dean of Engineering at MIT	[38]
Sridhar Tayur		Ford Distinguished Research Chair and Professor of Operations Management at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University; founder, SmartOps and OrganJet	[39][40]
Mahadev Satyanarayanan		Carnegie Group Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University; Principal architect and implementor of the Andrew File System (AFS)	[41]

Industry

Name	Class Year	Notability	Reference
T. K. Alex	MTech 1971	Director at ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore, 2008–2012	[42][43]
Krishna Bharat		creator of Google News; Principal Scientist, Google	[44][45]
Jayas Damodaran	BTech 1985	CEO, Boston Technology Corporation	[46]
Gururaj Deshpande	BTech 1973	Founder of Sycamore Networks; Chairman at Tejas Networks; Distinguished Alumnus Awardee from IIT Madras in 1998	[47][48][49][50]
Kris Gopalakrishnan	MTech 1979	Co-Founder of Infosys; President of Confederation of Indian Industry	[51][52]
Ramanathan V. Guha		inventor of RSS feed technology; computer scientist at Google; won the Distinguished Alumnus award from IIT Madras in 2013	[53][54]
Vic Gundotra		ex-Senior Vice President, Social for Google; widely believed to be the mastermind behind Google Plus; previously worked at Microsoft	[55][56]
Yogesh Gupta		President and CEO, Kaseya	[57]
J P Haran		Managing Director, Tata Consulting Engineers Ltd.	[58]
Venky Harinarayan	BTech 1988	Kosmix cofounder; won the Distinguished Alumnus award from IIT Madras in 2013	[59]
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	[60]
Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj	BTech 1967	Spiritual leader at Science of Spirituality; Retired from Bell Labs in 1989	[61]
M G Venkatesh Mannar		President of the Micronutrient Initiative; received the Order of Canada	[62]
B Muthuraman	BTech 1966	Managing Director of Tata Steel; won the Distinguished Alumnus award from IIT Madras in 1997	[63][64]
Prabhakar Raghavan		Vice President of Engineering at Google; former head of Yahoo! Labs	[65][66]
Arvind Raghunathan		ex-Managing Director at Deutsche Bank; founder and CEO of Roc Capital Management LP, the largest hedge fund launch of 2009	[67]
Anand Rajaraman		Founder of Junglee and Kosmix.com with Venky Harinarayan; won the Distinguished Alumnus award from IIT Madras in 2013	[68][69]
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	[70][71]
Venkat Rangan	BTech 1981	Co-Founder and CTO at Clearwell Systems; served as Professor of Computer Science at University of California, San Diego	[72][73][74]
Venkataraman Sadanand		Neurosurgeon at Loma Linda Medical Centre; won the Distinguished Alumnus award from IIT Madras in 2014; performs free surgeries all over the world	[75][76]
S. Sowmya		Carnatic Music Singer	[77][78]
V Sumantran	BTech 1981	Former Executive Vice Chairman, Hinduja Automotive Ltd.; Former Vice Chairman, Ashok Leyland Ltd.; Former Executive Director of Passenger Car Business and Engineering Research Centre at Tata Motors Limited	[79][80]
Ramesh Sundaram	BTech 1984	Vice President, Manufacturing Services, Finisar Corporation, USA	[81]
B. N. Suresh	MTech 1969	Director of Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram	[82][83]
Raju Narayana Swamy		IAS Officer; Secretary to Government, General Administration, Sainik Welfare, Kerala; former Commissioner of the Civil Supplies Department of Kerala, from which he was allegedly shifted out for taking on corruption	[84][85][86][87]
Chandu Thekkath	BTech 1982	Managing Director, Microsoft Research India	[88]
P. S. Veeraraghavan	MTech 1971	Director at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Trivandrum, 2008–2012; distinguished scientist at ISRO and Director, ISRO Inertial Systems Unit	[89][90][91]
Prem Watsa		Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Fairfax Financial Holdings, Toronto, Canada; Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Madras in 1999	[92][93]
B. Jayant Baliga	BTech 1969	Inventor of the Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor; 2010 National Medal of Technology and Innovation award	[94]

References

1. "Anant Agarwal | CSAIL". csail.mit.edu. Retrieved 5 October 2011. Anant Agarwal's profile at Massachusetts
2. Anant Agarwal's profile at EdX
3. A TED talk given by Anant Agarwal
4. "G. K. Ananthasuresh - Department of Mechanical Engineering".
5. "Hari Balakrishnan". Retrieved 26 February 2014.Hari's profile at MIT
6. "Keynote 2: Prof. Chandy | IEEE 20th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems". Retrieved April 17, 2016.
7. "Kanianthra M. (Mani) Chandy | Caltech Directory". directory.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
8. "ACM PODC 2014". www.podc.org. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
9. "The Lee Center". leecenter.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
10. Mandi, Web Development Team, IIT. "Indian Institute of Technology Mandi Director". www.iitmandi.ac.in. Retrieved 2016-04-27.
11. "Indranil Gupta : UIUC Home Page". indy.cs.illinois.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-17.
12. Guruswami's profile at CMU.
13. Guruswami's CV at CMU
14. Article announcing Ramayya as Dean
15. "Jayant Haritsa Home Page". dsl.serc.iisc.ernet.in. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
16. "Prahladh Harsha". www.tcs.tifr.res.in. Retrieved 2016-04-19.
17. Prahladh Harsha's CV. http://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/~prahladh/docs/prahladh-resume.pdf.
18. Prasad Jayanti's Webpage at Dartmouth College.
19. "Jayanti receives new professorship".
20. Prasad Jayanti's CV. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~prasad/vita.pdf.
21. "New Endowed Chairs Honor Four Faculty Members | Dartmouth Now". now.dartmouth.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-02.
22. "Shreepad Karmalkar's Webpage".
23. Ramayya's profile at CMU.
24. Ravi Kumar's profile at NTU
25. L. Mahadevan at Harvard Mahadevan's profile at Harvard
26. L. Mahadevan, McArthur Fellow
27. His page on University of Tennessee
28. His profile at Iowa
29. Anand Raghunathan's profile at Purdue
30. Anand Raghunathan's profile in the 2006 MIT TR35
31. "Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi".
32. "‘Doyens of Madras’ honoured".
33. Personal home page Marti's profile at Stern.
34. Curriculum Vitae Marti's CV at Stern
35. When an Internet Company Goes Public, Will Its Stock Price Dictate Strategy? An article written by Arun Sundararajan
36. Stern's profile of Arun
37. Arun's publications
38. Subra Suresh's Bio at CMU.
39. Sridhar's profile at CMU.
40. Sridhar's profile at OrganJet
41. Satya's profile at CMU
42. An ISRO press release on Alex
43. An Aeuronatical Society of India award to Alex.
44. Krishna Bharat's profile on Google.
45. An Interview with Krishna Bharat
46. "Jayas Damodaran | LinkedIn". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2016-04-01.
47. http://www.deshpandefoundation.org/about-us/founders/desh-deshpande/
48. Gururaj's profile on Forbes Magazine.
49. Gururaj's profile on Tejas Networks
50. Some articles on Gururaj.
51. Kris' profile at Insfosys.
52. An article in Forbes Magazine about Kris.
53. http://www.guha.com/cv.html
54. Another profile on Guha.
55. An article on Vic Gundotra leaving Google
56. Larry Page personally thanks Vic Gundotra for building Google+ from nothing.
57. Yogesh Gupta Yogesh's profile at Kaseya
58. Haran's profile at Bloomberg
59. An article in Forbes on Venky
60. IEEE piece on Jaishankar Menon
61. http://www.sos.org/page/global-leader.html Sant Rajinder's profile at SOS
62. Article about Venkatesh Mannar when he received the Order of Canada
63. Muthuraman's Profile at Tata Steel
64. Muthuraman's profile at Bloomberg
65. Prabhakar's profile at Google
66. An article about Prabhakar's switch from Yahoo! to Google.
67. Arvind's profile.
68. Anand's profile at Datawocky.
69. An article in Forbes on Anand
70. His profile at the University of Wisconsin
71. An article on Raghu
72. Venkat Rangan at Clearwell Systems
73. Venkat's profile at Amrita University
74. Venkat's profile at UCSD
75. An article on the IIT Madras Alumni Association about Sadanand.
76. Sadanand's profile at Loma Linda
77. S.Soumya's detailed biography and pictures
78. Sowmya's profile at kutcheris.com
79. The Hindu article on Sumantran quitting as Vice-Chairman
80. Bloomberg piece on Sumantran
81. "Ramesh Sundaram | LinkedIn". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2016-04-01.
82. B.N. Suresh's profile at IIST
83. An article about B.N. Suresh
84. Fellowship award for Raju
85. The Government of Kerala website where Raju's name is mentioned.
86. An article in The Indian Express on Raju.
87. Another article about Raju's cleaning up act in the IAS.
88. "Chandu Thekkath - Microsoft Research". research.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
89. An ISRO Press release on Veeraraghavan.
90. A Hindu article on Veeraraghavan
91. Astronautical Society of India
92. Attempt by the Prem Watsa owned Fairfax to buy out Blackberry
93. Prem Watsa's profile on Forbes
94. "Dr. Jayant Baliga - Primary Faculty - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering". www.ece.ncsu.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-01.

External links

• Official website
• Office of Alumni Affairs, IIT Madras