List of Indian Institute of Technology Madras alumni

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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]
Viveck Cadambe BTech-MTech 2006 Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Pennsylvania State University [6]
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 [7][8][9][10]
Timothy A. Gonsalves BTech 1976 1st Director of IIT Mandi [11]
Indranil Gupta BTech 1998 Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [12]
Venkatesan Guruswami Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University; ex-faculty at University of Washington [13][14][15]
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 [16]
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 [17][18]
Prasad Jayanti BTech 1984 James Frank Family Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College; Dartmouth Distinguished Teacher Award [19][20][21][22]
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 [23]
Ramayya Krishnan Dean of the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University [24]
K Ravi Kumar Dean, College of Business, Nanyang Technological University [25]
L. Mahadevan de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, Physics and Biology, Harvard University; MacArthur Fellow 2009 [26][27]
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) [28][29]
Anand Raghunathan Professor at School of ECE, Purdue University [30][31]
Bhaskar Ramamurthi BTech 1980 Professor of Electrical Engineering; Director of the Institute at IIT Madras; Doyens of Madras [32][33]
R Ravi BTech 1989 Andris A. Zoltners Professor of Business, Rohet Tolani Distinguished Professor, Professor of Operations Research and Computer Science at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University [34]
Marti G. Subrahmanyam Charles E. Merrill Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University [35][36]
Arun Sundararajan Professor at Stern School of Business, New York University [37][38][39]
Subra Suresh President of Carnegie Mellon University; former Director of the National Science Foundation; former Dean of Engineering at MIT [40]
Sridhar Tayur Ford Distinguished Research Chair and Professor of Operations Management at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University; founder, SmartOps and OrganJet [41][42]
Mahadev Satyanarayanan Carnegie Group Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University; Principal architect and implementor of the Andrew File System (AFS) [43]

Industry

Name Class Year Notability Reference
T. K. Alex MTech 1971 Director at ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore, 2008–2012 [44][45]
Krishna Bharat creator of Google News; Principal Scientist, Google [46][47]
Jayas Damodaran BTech 1985 CEO, Boston Technology Corporation [48]
Gururaj Deshpande BTech 1973 Founder of Sycamore Networks; Chairman at Tejas Networks; Distinguished Alumnus Awardee from IIT Madras in 1998 [49][50][51][52]
Kris Gopalakrishnan MTech 1979 Co-Founder of Infosys; President of Confederation of Indian Industry [53][54]
Ramanathan V. Guha inventor of RSS feed technology; computer scientist at Google; won the Distinguished Alumnus award from IIT Madras in 2013 [55][56]
Vic Gundotra ex-Senior Vice President, Social for Google; widely believed to be the mastermind behind Google Plus; previously worked at Microsoft [57][58]
Yogesh Gupta President and CEO, Kaseya [59]
J P Haran Managing Director, Tata Consulting Engineers Ltd. [60]
Venky Harinarayan BTech 1988 Kosmix cofounder; won the Distinguished Alumnus award from IIT Madras in 2013 [61]
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 [62]
Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj BTech 1967 Spiritual leader at Science of Spirituality; Retired from Bell Labs in 1989 [63]
M G Venkatesh Mannar President of the Micronutrient Initiative; received the Order of Canada [64]
B Muthuraman BTech 1966 Managing Director of Tata Steel; won the Distinguished Alumnus award from IIT Madras in 1997 [65][66]
Prabhakar Raghavan Vice President of Engineering at Google; former head of Yahoo! Labs [67][68]
Arvind Raghunathan ex-Managing Director at Deutsche Bank; founder and CEO of Roc Capital Management LP, the largest hedge fund launch of 2009 [69]
Anand Rajaraman Founder of Junglee and Kosmix.com with Venky Harinarayan; won the Distinguished Alumnus award from IIT Madras in 2013 [70][71]
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 [72][73]
Venkat Rangan BTech 1981 Co-Founder and CTO at Clearwell Systems; served as Professor of Computer Science at University of California, San Diego [74][75][76]
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 [77][78]
S. Sowmya Carnatic Music Singer [79][80]
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 [81][82]
Ramesh Sundaram BTech 1984 Vice President, Manufacturing Services, Finisar Corporation, USA [83]
B. N. Suresh MTech 1969 Director of Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram [84][85]
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 [86][87][88][89]
Chandu Thekkath BTech 1982 Managing Director, Microsoft Research India [90]
P. S. Veeraraghavan MTech 1971 Director at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Trivandrum, 2008–2012; distinguished scientist at ISRO and Director, ISRO Inertial Systems Unit [91][92][93]
Prem Watsa Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Fairfax Financial Holdings, Toronto, Canada; Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Madras in 1999 [94][95]
B. Jayant Baliga BTech 1969 Inventor of the Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor; 2010 National Medal of Technology and Innovation award [96]

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Anant Agarwal's profile at Massachusetts
  2. ↑ [1] Anant Agarwal's profile at EdX
  3. ↑ [2] A TED talk given by Anant Agarwal
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  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.Hari's profile at MIT
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  14. ↑ [4] Guruswami's CV at CMU
  15. ↑ [5] Article announcing Ramayya as Dean
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  24. ↑ [7] Ramayya's profile at CMU.
  25. ↑ [8] Ravi Kumar's profile at NTU
  26. ↑ L. Mahadevan at Harvard Mahadevan's profile at Harvard
  27. ↑ L. Mahadevan, McArthur Fellow
  28. ↑ [9] His page on University of Tennessee
  29. ↑ [10] His profile at Iowa
  30. ↑ Anand Raghunathan's profile at Purdue
  31. ↑ Anand Raghunathan's profile in the 2006 MIT TR35
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  33. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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  35. ↑ Personal home page Marti's profile at Stern.
  36. ↑ Curriculum Vitae Marti's CV at Stern
  37. ↑ When an Internet Company Goes Public, Will Its Stock Price Dictate Strategy? An article written by Arun Sundararajan
  38. ↑ [11] Stern's profile of Arun
  39. ↑ [12] Arun's publications
  40. ↑ [13] Subra Suresh's Bio at CMU.
  41. ↑ [14] Sridhar's profile at CMU.
  42. ↑ [15] Sridhar's profile at OrganJet
  43. ↑ [16] Satya's profile at CMU
  44. ↑ [17] An ISRO press release on Alex
  45. ↑ [18] An Aeuronatical Society of India award to Alex.
  46. ↑ [19] Krishna Bharat's profile on Google.
  47. ↑ [20] An Interview with Krishna Bharat
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  49. ↑ http://www.deshpandefoundation.org/about-us/founders/desh-deshpande/
  50. ↑ [21] Gururaj's profile on Forbes Magazine.
  51. ↑ [22] Gururaj's profile on Tejas Networks
  52. ↑ [23] Some articles on Gururaj.
  53. ↑ [24] Kris' profile at Insfosys.
  54. ↑ [25] An article in Forbes Magazine about Kris.
  55. ↑ http://www.guha.com/cv.html
  56. ↑ [26] Another profile on Guha.
  57. ↑ [27] An article on Vic Gundotra leaving Google
  58. ↑ [28] Larry Page personally thanks Vic Gundotra for building Google+ from nothing.
  59. ↑ Yogesh Gupta Yogesh's profile at Kaseya
  60. ↑ [29] Haran's profile at Bloomberg
  61. ↑ [30] An article in Forbes on Venky
  62. ↑ [31] IEEE piece on Jaishankar Menon
  63. ↑ http://www.sos.org/page/global-leader.html Sant Rajinder's profile at SOS
  64. ↑ [32] Article about Venkatesh Mannar when he received the Order of Canada
  65. ↑ [33] Muthuraman's Profile at Tata Steel
  66. ↑ [34] Muthuraman's profile at Bloomberg
  67. ↑ [35] Prabhakar's profile at Google
  68. ↑ [36] An article about Prabhakar's switch from Yahoo! to Google.
  69. ↑ [37] Arvind's profile.
  70. ↑ [38] Anand's profile at Datawocky.
  71. ↑ [39] An article in Forbes on Anand
  72. ↑ [40] His profile at the University of Wisconsin
  73. ↑ [41] An article on Raghu
  74. ↑ Venkat Rangan at Clearwell Systems
  75. ↑ [42] Venkat's profile at Amrita University
  76. ↑ [43] Venkat's profile at UCSD
  77. ↑ [44] An article on the IIT Madras Alumni Association about Sadanand.
  78. ↑ [45] Sadanand's profile at Loma Linda
  79. ↑ [46] S.Soumya's detailed biography and pictures
  80. ↑ [47] Sowmya's profile at kutcheris.com
  81. ↑ [48] The Hindu article on Sumantran quitting as Vice-Chairman
  82. ↑ [49] Bloomberg piece on Sumantran
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  84. ↑ [50] B.N. Suresh's profile at IIST
  85. ↑ [51] An article about B.N. Suresh
  86. ↑ [52] Fellowship award for Raju
  87. ↑ [53] The Government of Kerala website where Raju's name is mentioned.
  88. ↑ [54] An article in The Indian Express on Raju.
  89. ↑ [55] Another article about Raju's cleaning up act in the IAS.
  90. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  91. ↑ [56] An ISRO Press release on Veeraraghavan.
  92. ↑ [57] A Hindu article on Veeraraghavan
  93. ↑ [58] Astronautical Society of India
  94. ↑ [59] Attempt by the Prem Watsa owned Fairfax to buy out Blackberry
  95. ↑ [60] Prem Watsa's profile on Forbes
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