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] |
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] |