30 Notable alumni of
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
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Indian Institute of Technology Madras is 1065th in the world, 228th in Asia, and 24th in India by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 30 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
- investorfinancierchief executive officerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Prem Watsa 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
- international forum participantcomputer scientist
- Biography
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Senapathy "Kris" Gopalakrishnan is an Indian businessman and the Chairman of Axilor Ventures, an accelerator that helps start-ups during the early stage of their business journey. Kris served as the vice chairman of Infosys from 2011 to 2014 and the chief executive officer and managing director of Infosys from 2007 to 2011. Kris is one of the co-founders of Infosys.
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Subra Suresh
- Occupations
- university teacherinternational forum participantacademic
- 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. 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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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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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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Anant Agarwal
- Occupations
- engineercomputer scientistinternational forum participantuniversity teacher
- 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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Prabhakar Raghavan
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Prabhakar Raghavan is a senior vice president at Google, where he is responsible for Google Search, Assistant, Geo, Ads, Commerce, and Payments products. His research spans algorithms, web search and databases and he is the co-author of the textbooks Randomized Algorithms with Rajeev Motwani and Introduction to Information Retrieval.
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S. Sowmya
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- singer
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S. Sowmya is a Carnatic music singer. She learnt music initially from her father Dr. Srinivasan, and later from Dr. 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 77)
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicist
- 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 musicianjazz guitaristcomposer
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R. Prasanna, is a pioneer in 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), 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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Ramanathan V. Guha
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 59)
- 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 currently works at Google as a Google Fellow.
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Sethuraman Panchanathan
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Madras
- 1984-1986 studied electrical engineering
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Sethuraman Panchanathan is an Indian–American computer scientist and academic administrator, and the 15th Director of National Science Foundation since June 2020.
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C. Mohan
- Occupations
- computer scientist
- Biography
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Chandrasekaran Mohan is an Indian-born American computer scientist. He was born on 3 August 1955 in Tamil Nadu, India. After growing up there and finishing his undergraduate studies in Chennai, he moved to the United States in 1977 for graduate studies, naturalizing in 2007. In June 2020, he retired from being an IBM Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center after working at IBM Research for 38.5 years. Currently, he is a visiting professor at China's Tsinghua University. He is also an Honorary Advisor at the Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency (TNeGA) in Chennai and an advisor at the Kerala Blockchain Academy in Kerala.
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M Jagadesh Kumar
- Born in
- India
- Occupations
- university teacheracademicacademic administrator
- Biography
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Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar is an Indian academician, electrical engineer and education administrator. He is currently the chairman of University Grants Commission, since February 2022. He is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi. Kumar also served as the VC of JNU from in January 2016 to 2022.
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Venky Harinarayan
- Born in
- India
- Occupations
- computer scientistentrepreneurbusinessperson
- Biography
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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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Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan
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- 1965-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan 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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Sujatha Gidla
- Years
- 1963-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- writertrain conductor
- Biography
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Sujatha Gidla is an Indian-American author. Gidla is known for her book Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India. She was born in Andhra Pradesh and moved to the United States in 1990, when she was 26 years old. She now lives in New York and works as a conductor on the New York City Subway.
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Arun Sundararajan
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- economistacademicinternational forum participantuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Arun Sundararajan is the NEC Faculty Fellow, Professor of Technology, Operations, and Statistics and a Doctoral Coordinator 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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Arvind Narayanan
- Occupations
- computer scientistuniversity teacheracademic
- 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.
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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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Sridhar Tayur
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 58)
- 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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Mas Subramanian
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Madras
- 1977-1981 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- chemistresearcher
- 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 breakthrough discoveries of novel functional materials, many of which have found usage in various applications. Subramanian has authored 400 research publications and holds 60 patents. His publications have received more than 30,000 citations (h-index: 75).
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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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Suresh Garimella
- Occupations
- mechanical engineer
- Biography
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Suresh Garimella is an Indian American mechanical engineer and university administrator. He is the current and 27th president of the University of Vermont. Before assuming the presidency in 2019, Garimella was executive vice president for research and partnerships at the Purdue University College of Engineering at Purdue University.
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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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A G Ramakrishnan
- Occupations
- electrical engineercomputer scientist
- Biography
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Angarai Ganesan Ramakrishnan is a senior professor of electrical engineering and an associate faculty of Centre for Neuroscience, both at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He also holds an adjunct faculty position in the Department of Heritage Science and Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. He heads the Medical intelligence and language engineering lab. He also won the Manthan Award 2015 for his project, “Madhura - the gift of voice”, under the category, e-education, learning, and employment. He is also one of the founder directors of RaGaVeRa Indic Technologies private limited recognized by the Karnataka Government as one of the Elevate 2019 Startup winners. He is one of the advisors of Bhashini AI Solutions private limited also recognized by the Karnataka Government as one of the Elevate 2019 Startup winners. From January 2017 to June 2020, he was a Member of the Karnataka Knowledge Commission. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) since November 2019. Since August 2022, he is also the Advisor - Neuroscience to Feedfront Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a startup based in Bangalore.
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Bob Balaram
- Enrolled in Indian Institute of Technology Madras
- 1975-1980 graduated with Bachelor of Technology in mechanical engineering
- Occupations
- scientistengineer
- 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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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.