31 Notable alumni of
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
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Indian Institute of Technology Madras is 1084th in the world, 227th in Asia, and 24th in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 31 notable alumni from Indian Institute of Technology Madras sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Prem Watsa
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Madras
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering
- Occupations
- financierinvestorbusinesspersonchief executive officer
- Biography
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Prem Watsa CM is an Indian-Canadian billionaire businessman who is the founder, chairman, and chief executive of Fairfax Financial Holdings, based in Toronto. He has been called the "Canadian Warren Buffett." He was awarded the fourth highest civilian award of India, Padma Shri, in January 2020.
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Kris Gopalakrishnan
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Senapathy “Kris” Gopalakrishnan is an Indian businessman and the chairman of Axilor Ventures, a startup accelerator. He is one of the co-founders of Infosys, having served as its CEO and managing director from 2007 to 2011 and vice chairman from 2011 to 2014.
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Subra Suresh
- Occupations
- academicuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Subra Suresh is an Indian-born American engineer, materials scientist, and academic leader. He is currently Professor at Large at Brown University and Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and board member at the Villars Institute. He was Dean of the School of Engineering at MIT from 2007 to 2010 before being appointed as Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) by Barack Obama, where he served from 2010 to 2013. He was the president of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) from 2013 to 2017. Between 2018 and 2022, he was the fourth President of Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU), where he was also the inaugural Distinguished University Professor.
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Prabhakar Raghavan
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Prabhakar Raghavan is a business executive and former researcher of web information retrieval. He currently holds the role of Chief Technologist at Google. His research spans algorithms, web search and databases. He is the co-author of the textbooks Randomized Algorithms with Rajeev Motwani and Introduction to Information Retrieval.
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Gururaj Deshpande
- Born in
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India - Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Gururaj Deshpande is an Indian American venture capitalist and entrepreneur, who is best known for co-founding the Chelmsford, MA-based internet equipment manufacturer Sycamore Networks, the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT and the Deshpande Foundation.
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Vic Gundotra
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Vivek Paul "Vic" Gundotra is an Indian-born American businessman who served as the Senior Vice President, Social for Google until 24 April 2014. Prior to joining Google, he was a general manager at Microsoft.
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Anant Agarwal
- Occupations
- engineeruniversity teachercomputer scientist
- Biography
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Anant Agarwal is an Indian computer architecture researcher. He is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he led the development of Alewife, an early cache coherent multiprocessor, and also has served as director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is the founder and CTO of Tilera, a fabless semiconductor company focusing on scalable multicore embedded processor design. He also serves as the CEO of edX, a joint partnership between MIT and Harvard University that offers free online learning.
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S. Sowmya
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 56)
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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S. Sowmya is a Carnatic music vocalist. She learnt music initially from her father Srinivasan, and later from S. Ramanathan and Smt.T. Muktha. She received the Sangeetha Kalanidhi title by Madras Music Academy in 2019 and the Isai Perarignar by the Tamil Isai Sangam in 2022. She was appointed by the Govt of Tamil Nadu as Vice Chancellor of the Tamil Nadu Dr J Jayalalithaa Music & Fine Arts University on April 8, 2022, for a period of three years.
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Ramamurti Shankar
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Ramamurti Shankar is the Josiah Willard Gibbs professor of Physics at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut.
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R. Prasanna
- Occupations
- jazz guitaristjazz musiciancomposer
- Biography
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Prasanna Ramaswamy, is a known for performing Carnatic music on the guitar. He also plays jazz, progressive rock, and world fusion.
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Rajinder Singh
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Rajinder Singh is the head of the international, non-profit organization Science of Spirituality (SOS), also known in India as the Sawan Kirpal Ruhani Mission. To his disciples he is known as Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj. Singh is known for his work toward promoting inner and outer peace through spirituality and meditation on the inner Light and Sound.
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Sethuraman Panchanathan
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Madras
- 1984-1986 studied electrical engineering
- Occupations
- university teachercivil servantcomputer scientistacademic administrator
- Biography
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Sethuraman Panchanathan is an Indian–American computer scientist and academic administrator, and, since June 2020, the 15th Director of the U.S. National Science Foundation.
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M Jagadesh Kumar
- Born in
- India
- Occupations
- university teacheracademic administratoracademic
- Biography
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Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar is an Indian academic, electrical engineer and education administrator. He is the chairman of University Grants Commission, since February 2022. He is a professor in the Department of electrical engineering at IIT Delhi. Kumar was the Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University from January 2016 till 2022.
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Ramanathan V. Guha
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Ramanathan V. Guha is the creator of widely used web standards such as RSS, RDF and Schema.org. He is also responsible for products such as Google Custom Search. He was a co-founder of Epinions and Alpiri. He worked at Google for nearly two decades, most recently as a Google Fellow, before announcing his departure from the company in August 2024.
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Venky Harinarayan
- Born in
- India
- Occupations
- entrepreneurcomputer scientistbusinessperson
- Biography
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Venkatesh "Venky" Harinarayan is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Cambrian Ventures and Kosmix. Harinarayan also co-founded Junglee Corp. and played a significant role at Amazon.com in the late 1990s. Originally from Bombay, India, Harinarayan has a PhD in computer science from Stanford University and a masters from UCLA. Bachelor of Technology He completed his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from IIT Madras (Class of 1988). While at Stanford, Harinarayan co-wrote a paper on implementing data cubes with Anand Rajaraman and Jeff Ullman, which is among the top 600 most cited computer science articles over the last 20 years.
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B. Jayant Baliga
- Occupations
- scientistelectrical engineer
- Biography
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Bantval Jayant Baliga is an Indian electrical engineer best known for his work in power semiconductor devices, and particularly the invention of the insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT).
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Arvind Narayanan
- Occupations
- university teachercomputer scientistacademic
- Biography
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Arvind Narayanan is a computer scientist and a professor at Princeton University. Narayanan is recognized for his research in the de-anonymization of data. He is currently the director of Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy.
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Rahul Panicker
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Rahul Alex Panicker is a technology leader and entrepreneur, formerly Chief Innovation Officer at the Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and best known as the President and Co-founder of Embrace Innovations and Embrace, a social enterprise startup that aims to help premature and low-birth-weight babies, through a low-cost infant warmer.
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Arun Sundararajan
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- university teachereconomistacademic
- Biography
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Arun Sundararajan is the Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Technology, Operations, and Statistics at the Stern School of Business, New York University. For 2010–12, he is the Distinguished Academic Fellow at the Center for IT and the Networked Economy, Indian School of Business. Sundararajan is an expert on the economics of digital goods and network effects. He also conducts research about network science and the socioeconomic transformation of India.
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Sridhar Tayur
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Sridhar R. Tayur is an American business professor, entrepreneur, and management thinker. He is university professor of operations management and Ford Distinguished Research Chair at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, and the founder of SmartOps Corporation and OrganJet Corporation.
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A. Parasuraman
- Occupations
- business theorist
- Biography
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A. "Parsu" Parasuraman is an Indian-American marketing professor and author. He is the Professor and the James W. McLamore Chair in Marketing at the University of Miami.
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Mas Subramanian
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Madras
- 1977-1981 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- researcherchemist
- Biography
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Mas Subramanian,, is a solid-state materials scientist at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. He is a University Distinguished Professor and the Milton Harris Chair of Materials Science in the university's Department of Chemistry. His work in solid-state chemistry on structure-property relationships of inorganic compounds has led to several new functional materials, many of which have found usage in various applications. Subramanian has authored 400+ research publications and holds 84 patents. His publications have received more than 35,000 citations (h-index: 80).
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Suresh Garimella
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Madras
- In 1985 graduated with Bachelor of Technology
- Occupations
- university presidentmechanical engineer
- Biography
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Suresh Garimella is an Indian American mechanical engineer and university administrator serving as the 23rd president of University of Arizona since 2024. Previously, Garimella was the 27th president of the University of Vermont. Before assuming the presidency in 2019, Garimella was executive vice president for research and partnerships at Purdue University.
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J A Chowdary
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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J A Chowdary is the founding director of Software Technology Parks of India at Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai. He is the current chairman of the Indian BlockChain Standards Committee, the General Partner-Succeed Innovation Fund and a former IT advisor and special chief secretary to the Chief Minister, Government of Andhra Pradesh.
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Jayant B. Udgaonkar
- Occupations
- biochemist
- Biography
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Jayant Bhalchandra Udgaonkar is a molecular biologist studying the processes by which a random chain of amino acids stabilises into a functional structure during or after translation.
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Pinaki Majumdar
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Pinaki Majumdar is an Indian condensed matter physicist and the director of the Harish-Chandra Research Institute. Known for his research on correlated quantum systems, Majumdar is a recipient of the Global Indus Technovator Award of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to physical sciences in 2007.
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Bob Balaram
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Madras
- 1975-1980 graduated with Bachelor of Technology in mechanical engineering
- Occupations
- engineerscientist
- Biography
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J. "Bob" Balaram is an Indian-American scientist and engineer currently working for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He is the chief engineer and designer of Ingenuity (project name: Mars 2020 helicopter), the first extraterrestrial aircraft, that was attached underside of car-sized Perseverance rover that successfully landed on the Mars in February 2021.
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Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 60)
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Madras
- In 1986 graduated with Bachelor of Technology
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan FRS is an Indian-American scientist. He is currently the Lola England de Valpine Professor of Applied Mathematics, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Physics at Harvard University. His work centers around understanding the organization of matter in space and time. Mahadevan is a 2009 MacArthur Fellow.
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A G Ramakrishnan
- Occupations
- computer scientistelectrical engineer
- Biography
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Angarai Ganesan Ramakrishnan currently holds an adjunct faculty position in the Department of Heritage Science and Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. He is also a Visiting faculty and Member, Board of Studies of the School of Psychology & Education, Rishihood University. He is also the Organizational Development Consultant of IIIT Dharwad. In July 2023, he retired as a senior professor of Dept of Electrical Engineering and an associate faculty of Centre for Neuroscience, both at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Before retirement, he headed the Medical intelligence and language engineering lab.
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Aditya Akella
- Born in
- India
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Srinivasa Aditya Akella is a computer scientist, professor and Regents Chair Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is notable for research in software-defined networking, big data systems, low latency networking, content distribution and network function virtualization.
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Promode R. Bandyopadhyay
- Born in
- India
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Promode R. Bandyopadhyay is an Indian born American inventor, research scientist and Technical Program Manager at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, Rhode Island, USA. He was a Program Officer at the Cognitive, Neural and Biomolecular Science and Technology Division of the Human Systems Science and Technology Department of the Office of Naval Research. He was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Cambridge University Engineering Department and University of Houston.