Indian Institute of Technology Madras is is one of India's most prestigious universities. It is recognised as an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India.

The Office of Alumni Affairs, Indian Institute of Technology IIT Madras act as primary interface from Institute to alumni-at-large

IIT Madras Notable Alumni’s

Name Notability
Anant Agarwal 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
Aditya Akella Associate Professor in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; SIGCOMM Rising Star Award -- 2014
G. K. Ananthasuresh Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru; Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
Kartik B. Ariyur Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
V Balakrishnan The Michael and Katherine Birck Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana;
Hari Balakrishnan Fujitsu Professor in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT
Chandra Bhat Adnan Abou-Ayyash Centennial Professor and University Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumni Award - 2016
Viveck Cadambe Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Pennsylvania State University
C. Chandra Sekhar Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras; Srimathi Marti Annapurna Gurunath Award for Excellence in Teaching
Nitin Chandrachoodan Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras; 2016 IBM Faculty Award

Narayanan Chandrakumar 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
K. Mani Chandy 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

Chandra Chekuri Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Atul Chokshi 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
S. A. Choudum Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Ashish Choudhury Infosys Foundation Career Development Chair Professor, IIIT Bangalore
Siddharth Garg Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the New York University; Named one of Popular Science Brilliant Ten in 2016
Suresh Garimella R. Eugene & Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana;
Shyam Gollakota Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington; Named one of Popular Science Brilliant Ten in 2016
Timothy A. Gonsalves 1st Director of IIT Mandi
Indranil Gupta Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Venkatesan Guruswami Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University; ex-faculty at University of Washington
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; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award - 2012
Prahladh Harsha 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
Prasad Jayanti James Frank Family Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College; Dartmouth Distinguished Teacher Award
Subbarao Kambhampati Professor, Dept. of Computer Science & Engg., Fulton School of Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe Arizona
V Kamakoti Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras; 2016 IBM Faculty Award
Shreepad Karmalkar Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras; 2007 IBM Faculty Award for Modeling and Technology of Semicondcutor Devices; 2005 Vikram Sarabhai Research Award
Ramayya Krishnan Dean of the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University
K Ravi Kumar Dean, College of Business, Nanyang Technological University
Viswanathan Kumaran Professor, Indian Institute of Science
L. Mahadevan de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, Physics and Biology, Harvard University; MacArthur Fellow 2009; F.R.S. 2016
Meena Mahajan Professor at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India
Prabha Mandayam Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Rajsekar Manokaran Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Arumugam Manthiram Director, Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of Texas, Austin; Billy and Claude R. Hocott Distinguished Centennial Engineering Research Award, 2016; Fellow, Materials Research Society; Fellow, Royal Society of Chemistry; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumni Award - 2015
Raghu Meka Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of California Los Angeles
Shashi Nambisan Professor of Civil Engineering at University of Tennessee Knoxville; ex-Director of the Center for Transportation Research and Education at Iowa State University)
Ramarathnam Narasimhan Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumni Award - 2016
Vaidehi Narayan Professor of Immunology at Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, USA; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumni Award - 2016
Arvind Narayanan Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University; PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technology -- 2014
Gopal Pandurangan Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Houston
Arpita Patra Assistant Professor at Dept. of Computer Science & Automation, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
Shanthi Pavan Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras
Krishnan Raghavachari Professor of Chemistry at the Indiana University; Distinguished Researcher Award at Bell Laboratories - 1987; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award - 2014
Prasad Raghavendra Assistant Professor, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley
Anand Raghunathan Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Vijay Raghunathan Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Krithi Ramamritham Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engg.(CSE) & Head, Center for Urban Sc. and Engg. (C-USE) IIT Bombay (IITB)
Bhaskar Ramamurthi Professor of Electrical Engineering; Director of the Institute at IIT Madras; Doyens of Madras
Karthik Ramani Donald W. Feddersen Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Sanjay Rao Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
R Ravi 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
Mahadev Satyanarayanan Carnegie Group Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University; Principal architect and implementor of the Andrew File System (AFS)
Siddhartha Srinivasa Finmeccanica Associate Professor in Computer Science, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Aravind Srinivasan Professor, Computer Science, UMIACS, and AMSC, at the University of Maryland, College Park; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award - 2016
Marti G. Subrahmanyam Charles E. Merrill Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University
S Sudarshan Subrao M. Nilekani Chair Professor Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award - 2017
Arun Sundararajan Professor at Stern School of Business, New York University
Ravi Sundaram Professor, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University
Ganesh Subbarayan Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Subra Suresh President of Carnegie Mellon University; former Director of the National Science Foundation; former Dean of Engineering at MIT
Rusi Taleyarkhan Professor, Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Sridhar Tayur Ford Distinguished Research Chair and Professor of Operations Management at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University; founder, SmartOps and OrganJet
Kavitha Telikepalli Member of the faculty of the School of Technology and Computer Science at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Jayant B. Udgaonkar 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
Vinod Vaikunthanathan Associate Professor at MIT, EECS Sloan Faculty Fellow, Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow
Aravindan Vijayaraghavan Assistant Professor in the EECS department at Northwestern University
Sriram Vishwanath Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering department at The University of Texas, Austin

Arts and Entertainment

Name Notability
R. Prasanna Guitarist; Life Time Achievement Award, 2003 from Shankaracharya Shri. Jayendra Saraswathi swamigal of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham
S. Sowmya Carnatic Music Singer

Industry

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T. K. Alex Director at ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore, 2008–2012
Hemendra Aran CEO and Founder, Aranca
Krishna Bharat creator of Google News; Principal Scientist, Google
Bhaskar Bhat Managing Director, Titan Co. Ltd.
Jayas Damodaran CEO, Boston Technology Corporation
Gururaj Deshpande Founder of Sycamore Networks; Chairman at Tejas Networks; Distinguished Alumnus Awardee from IIT Madras in 1998
Kris Gopalakrishnan Co-Founder of Infosys; President of Confederation of Indian Industry
Ramanathan V. Guha inventor of RSS feed technology; computer scientist at Google; won the Distinguished Alumnus award from IIT Madras in 2013
Vic Gundotra ex-Senior Vice President, Social for Google; widely believed to be the mastermind behind Google Plus; previously worked at Microsoft
Yogesh Gupta President and CEO, Kaseya
J P Haran Managing Director, Tata Consulting Engineers Ltd.
Venky Harinarayan Kosmix cofounder; won the Distinguished Alumnus award from IIT Madras in 2013
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
Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj Spiritual leader at Science of Spirituality; Retired from Bell Labs in 1989
M G Venkatesh Mannar President of the Micronutrient Initiative; received the Order of Canada
C. Mohan 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
B Muthuraman Managing Director of Tata Steel; won the Distinguished Alumnus award from IIT Madras in 1997
Prabhakar Raghavan Vice President of Engineering at Google; former head of Yahoo! Labs
Arvind Raghunathan ex-Managing Director at Deutsche Bank; founder and CEO of Roc Capital Management LP, the largest hedge fund launch of 2009
Anand Rajaraman Founder of Junglee and Kosmix.com with Venky Harinarayan; won the Distinguished Alumnus award from IIT Madras in 2013
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
Venkat Rangan Co-Founder and CTO at Clearwell Systems; served as Professor of Computer Science at University of California, San Diego
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
V Sumantran 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
Ramesh Sundaram Vice President, Manufacturing Services, Finisar Corporation, USA
B. N. Suresh Director of Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram
Chandu Thekkath Managing Director, Microsoft Research India
P. S. Veeraraghavan Director at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Trivandrum, 2008–2012; distinguished scientist at ISRO and Director, ISRO Inertial Systems Unit
Prem Watsa Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Fairfax Financial Holdings, Toronto, Canada; Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Madras in 1999
B. Jayant Baliga Inventor of the Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor; 2010 National Medal of Technology and Innovation award

Law and Politics

Name Notability
Pradeep Chandra Special Chief Secretary, Telangana State
Pradeep Gupta Mayor, South San Francisco, California, USA
Raju Narayana Swamy IAS Officer; Secretary to Government, General Administration, Sainik Welfare, Kerala; former Commissioner of the Civil Supplies Department of Kerala

Military and Defense

Name Notability
Ajay Chaturvedi Indian Army Major General; Ati Vishisht Seva Medal -- 2013
S. Christopher Secretary, Department of Defence R & D and DG @ DRDO; Defence Research and Development Organisation - Outstanding Scientist for 2012; IIT Madras Distinguished Alumnus Award -- 2016
S G Vombatkere Indian Army Major General; Author

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