The names of some of the notable Alumni of IITM (Indian Institute of Technology Madras) are as follows:

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
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
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
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
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