The IIT Act and Statutes declare the Senate of an IIT as an authority of the Institute and describe the composition and the functions of the Senate. The act says that the Director will be the ex-officio Chairman of the Senate, which will also include members on an ex-officio basis. The other members of the Senate include the Deputy Director, the Professors appointed or recognized as such by the Institute, 3 persons who are not employees of the Institute nominated by the Chairman of the Board, the Heads of Departments, the Librarian, the Wardens of the hostels by the way of rotation, the Workshop Superintendent and six members of the staff (appointed by the Chairman).
The Senate of the Institute has control and general regulation, and is responsible for the maintenance of standards of instruction, education and examination in the Institute. The Senate periodically reviews the academic activities of each Department in depth and takes a view on the efficacy of the Department. The successes and failures of each Department, its strengths and weaknesses are discussed in the Senate and their findings and specific suggestions are made available to both the Board of Governors and the Advisory Committee of the Council. A list of Senate members is given below.
Secretary
- Jane Prasad
Member
- Abdus Samad
- Abhijit P Deshpande
- Alagusundaramoorthy P
- Amal Kanti Bera
- Amit Kumar
- Amitava Ghosh
- Amlan Kumar Sengupta
- Ananth krishnan
- Andrew Edwin Raj T
- Anil Prabhakar
- Anjan Chakravorty
- Anuradha Banerjee
- Anurag Mittal
- Appa Rao G
- Aravind G
- Arindama Singh
- Arockiarajan A
- Arshinder Kaur
- Arti Dua
- Arul Prakash K
- Arun K Tangirala
- Arun Kumar G
- Arun Kumar Thittai
- Arunkumar D Mahindrakar
- Arunn Narasimhan
- Arya Kumar Bedabrata Chand
- Ashwin Mahalingam
- Asokan Thondiyath
- Babu V
- Baburaj A P
- Balaji C
- Balaji Narasimhan
- Balaji Srinivasan
- Balasubramanian M
- Baskar R
- Baskaran S
- Benny Raphael
- Bhaskar K
- Bhyrappa P
- Bijoy Krishna Das
- Boby George
- Chakravarthy S R
- Chandramouli P
- Chandraraj K
- Chidella Srinivasa Rao
- Debashis Chakraborty
- Deepa Venkitesh
- Dhamodharan R
- Dhiman Chatterjee
- Dillip Kumar Chand
- Edamana Prasad
- Gandham Phanikumar
- Ganesan A R
- Ganesh Sundara Raman S
- Giridhar K
- Gnanamoorthy R
- Goudappa Dodagoudar R
- Guhan Jayaraman
- Harish Kumar N
- Indumathi Manivannan Nambi
- James Frederick Libby
- Jayanthan A V
- Jitendra Shital Sangwai
- Jyotirmaya Tripathy
- Kalyan Kumar B
- Kamaraj M
- Kannan A
- Karmalkar S
- Karthik K Srinivasan
- Karunagaran D
- Kesavan V
- Koshy Varghese
- Krishna Kannan
- Krishna Vasudevan
- Krishnan Balasubramaniam
- Ligy Philip
- Luoyi Tao
- Madhu Mutyam
- Madhulika Dixit
- Madhumathi R
- Mahalingam S
- Mahesh Kumar
- Mallikarjuna J M
- Manivannan M
- Manoj Gopalakrishnan
- Manu Santhanam
- Meher Prasad A
- Michael Gromiha M
- Muraleedharan K M
- Murali K
- Murali Krishnan J
- Murthy Haradanahalli S N
- Murty B S
- Muruganandam T M
- Murugavel P
- Nagendra Krishnapura
- Nallayarasu S
- Nandan Kumar Sinha
- Nandita Dasgupta
- Nandivada Venkata Krishna
- Narayanaswamy N S
- Nilanjan Saha
- Nilesh Jayantilal Vasa
- Nirmala R
- Panner Selvam R
- Prabhu Rajagopal
- Pradeep Thalappil
- Prafulla Kumar Behera
- Prakash Sai L
- Prasad Patnaik B S V
- Prasanta Kumar Tripathy
- Prathap Haridoss
- Preeti Aghalayam
- Prem B Bisht
- Pushpavanam S
- Radha R
- Raghavan V
- Raghu Prakash V
- Raghukanth S T G
- Raghunathan Rengasamy
- Raghuram Chetty
- Rahul Ratnakar Marathe
- Rajagopalan A N
- Rajagopalan Srinivasan
- Rajakumar B
- Rajesh Kumar
- Rajesh Narayanan
- Rajiv Sharma
- Raju Sethuraman
- Rama R
- Ramakrishna P A
- Ramakrishnan S
- Ramanathan M
- Ramanathan S
- Ramesh L Gardas
- Ranjit Bauri
- Ravi Krishna R
- Ravi R
- Ravikumar N V
- Ravinder David Koilpillai
- Ravindra Gettu
- Ravindran B
- Rayala Suresh Kumar
- Rengaswamy Jayaganthan
- Robinson R G
- Saji K Mathew
- Sameen A
- Samuel G L
- Sanjay Kumar
- Sanjib Senapati
- Sankaran Shanmugam
- Sannasiraj S A
- Santhosh P N
- Sanyasiraju Y V S S
- Sarathi R
- Saravana Kumar G
- Saravanan U
- Sarith P Sathian
- Sathyanarayana Naidu G
- Satyajit Roy
- Satyanarayana K N
- Sayan Gupta
- Senkamalam Periyasamy Dhanavel
- Seshadri Sekhar A
- Sethupathi K
- Shaiju A J
- Shaligram Tiwari
- Shamit Bakshi
- Shankar Krishnapillai
- Shankar Ram C S
- Shanmugam P
- Shanthi Pavan Y
- Shanthi Swarup K
- Shanti Bhattacharya
- Shiva Nagendra S M
- Sivakumar K C
- Sivakumar M S
- Sivasambu Mahesh
- Somnath Bhattacharyya
- Somnath Chanda Roy
- Sreekumar N
- Sreenivas Jayanti
- Sridharakumar N
- Sridharan K
- Srikanth Vedantam
- Srinivasa Chakravarthy V
- Srinivasa Rao Manam
- Srinivasa Reddy K
- Srinivasan Chandrasekaran
- Srinivasan G
- Srinivasan K
- Srinivasan Umesh
- Srirama Srinivas
- Sriramkumar L
- Subramaniam K
- Subramanian V
- Subramanya Sarma V
- Sudheer K P
- Sudhir Chella Rajan
- Sujatha Srinivasan
- Sujith R I
- Sukhendu Das
- Sundar S
- Sundararajan Natarajan
- Sundargopal Ghosh
- Sunetra Sarkar
- Sunil Kumar P B
- Suraish kumar G K
- Suresh Babu M
- Suresh Govindarajan
- Suresh Kumar G
- Susy Varughese
- Swarnalatha R
- Tanmay Basak
- Thenmozhi M
- Thillai Rajan A
- Thyagaraj T
- Umakant Dash
- Upendra Natarajan
- Usha Mohan
- Velmurugan R
- Vengadesan S
- Vetrivel V
- Vinita Vasudevan
Chairperson
- Kamakoti V