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.
Contents
Academia
Name | Class Year | Notability | References |
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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 |
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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] |
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- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Anant Agarwal's profile at Massachusetts
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- ↑ When an Internet Company Goes Public, Will Its Stock Price Dictate Strategy? An article written by Arun Sundararajan
- ↑ [11] Stern's profile of Arun
- ↑ [12] Arun's publications
- ↑ [13] Subra Suresh's Bio at CMU.
- ↑ [14] Sridhar's profile at CMU.
- ↑ [15] Sridhar's profile at OrganJet
- ↑ [16] Satya's profile at CMU
- ↑ [17] An ISRO press release on Alex
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- ↑ [19] Krishna Bharat's profile on Google.
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- ↑ [24] Kris' profile at Insfosys.
- ↑ [25] An article in Forbes Magazine about Kris.
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- ↑ [27] An article on Vic Gundotra leaving Google
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- ↑ Yogesh Gupta Yogesh's profile at Kaseya
- ↑ [29] Haran's profile at Bloomberg
- ↑ [30] An article in Forbes on Venky
- ↑ [31] IEEE piece on Jaishankar Menon
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- ↑ [33] Muthuraman's Profile at Tata Steel
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- ↑ [35] Prabhakar's profile at Google
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- ↑ [38] Anand's profile at Datawocky.
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- ↑ [41] An article on Raghu
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