Alumni at IIT Madras 2026 — CollegeAndFees

IIT Madras alumni include some of India and the world's most influential engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs and policy figures. Notable alumni include Sundar Pichai (CEO, Alphabet/Google — IIT Madras dropout, transferred to Stanford), Krishna Bharat (Google News founder), Ashish Goel (Stanford computer science professor), Venkatesan Guruswami (Berkeley CS professor), Pradeep Sindhu (Juniper Networks co-founder), Padmasree Warrior (former Cisco CTO and Motorola CTO), Murali Doraiswamy (Duke psychiatry chair), Raghuram Rajan (former RBI Governor — IITD economics undergrad but did MBA at IIM Ahmedabad and PhD at MIT) and many founders of Indian unicorn startups. The IITM Alumni Association runs strong chapters across India and globally, with annual Alumni Reunions, Sangam (the Tamil Nadu chapter event), and the IITM Alumni Charitable Trust supporting research, scholarships and student initiatives. The IIT Madras Research Park's startup incubation has generated several venture-backed deep-tech and SaaS startups, with alumni mentoring and funding many.

Alumni Network & Career Mobility — IIT Madras