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Indian Americans bag IIT Madras 2025 Distinguished Alumnus Awards
Since 1996, the Distinguished Alumnus Awards have celebrated the achievements of 238 alumni, reflecting the institute’s legacy of excellence and global impact.
(L-R, top) Jaishree Deshpande and Ramesh Srinivasan. (L-R, bottom) Vijay Narayanan, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Ramesh K. Sitaraman / Image credit - IITM
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has announced the recipients of its 2025 Distinguished Alumnus Awards, recognizing 10 accomplished alumni for their contributions across various fields.
Among the honorees are Indian Americans—Jaishree Deshpande, Ramesh Sitaraman, Vijay Narayanan, Sandhya Dwarkadas, and Ramesh Srinivasan.
Jaishree Deshpande along with her husband founded the Deshpande foundation which strengthens ecosystems that create significant social and economic impact through entrepreneurship and innovation. The Foundation set up a Technological Innovation Center at MIT in 2002.
Jaishree received a Master of Science in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technologies (IIT), Madras, India. She also received a master's in computer science from Boston University.
Ramesh Sitaraman, a distinguished university professor and the associate dean for Educational Programs and Teaching in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, is known for his contributions to internet-scale distributed systems.
As a principal architect, he helped create the Akamai network, the world’s first major content delivery network (CDN) and edge computing service. He retains a part-time role as Akamai’s chief consulting scientist. He received a B.Tech. in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Princeton University.
Vijay Narayanan, a researcher in AI hardware and materials science is an IBM fellow and was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2011.
He has been an active organizer of symposia at the Electrochemical Society (ECS) spring meeting, and serves on the technical program committee of the VLSI Technology Symposium, and ECS Vittorio de Nora Award Selection Committee. He received his B.Tech. in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (1995), and his M.S. (1996) and Ph.D. (1999) in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
Sandhya Dwarkadas, Walter N. Munster Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, is a leader in computer hardware and software research.
She has made fundamental contributions to the design and implementation of shared memory both in hardware and software, and to hardware and software energy- and resource-aware configurability. She completed her B.Tech in electrical engineering from IIT Madras and her graduate studies at Rice University.
Ramesh Srinivasan, a senior partner at McKinsey and Company, has extensive experience in leadership development and organizational transformation. He is also the Dean of the Bower Forum, McKinsey’s program for CEO learning.
Srinivasan is actively involved in education: he is a trustee on the Board of Akanksha—a leading non-profit institution in India that helps provide funding for educational services to underprivileged children—and an advisor to Teach For India. He received his B.Tech in mechanical engineering from IIT Madras.
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