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.
Chairman
- Kamakoti V
Secretary
- Jane Prasad
Member
- Abdus Samad
- Abhijit P Deshpande
- Alagusundaramoorthy P
- Amal Kanti Bera
- Amit Kumar
- Amitava Dasgupta
- Amlan Kumar Sengupta
- Amrendra Vijay
- Ananthakrishnan P
- Andrew Edwin Raj T
- Anil Prabhakar
- Anjan Chakravorty
- Anuradha Banerjee
- Anurag Mittal
- Appa Rao G
- Aravind R
- Archita Patnaik
- Arindama Singh
- Arockiarajan A
- Arshinder Kaur
- Arti Dua
- Arul Jayachandran Sanjeevi
- Arul Lakshminarayan L
- 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
- Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan
- Babu V
- Baburaj A P
- Balaji C
- Balaji Narasimhan
- Balaji Srinivasan
- Balasubramanian M
- Baskar R
- Baskaran S
- Benny Raphael
- Bhairavavajjula Nageswara Rao
- Bhaskar K
- Bhaskar Ramamurthi
- Bhattacharya S S
- Bhattacharyya S K
- Bhyrappa P
- Bijoy Krishna Das
- Boby George
- Boominathan A
- Chakravarthy S R
- Chakravarthy S R
- Chandramouli P
- Chandraraj K
- Chandrasekhar C
- Chidella Srinivasa Rao
- Christopher
- Debashis Chakraborty
- Deepa Venkitesh
- Deepak Khemani
- Devdas Menon
- Devendra Jalihal
- Dhamodharan R
- Dhiman Chatterjee
- Dillip Kumar Chand
- Dodagoudar G R
- Edamana Prasad
- Enakshi Bhattacharya
- Gabbita Durga Janaki Ram
- Gandham Phanikumar
- Gandhi S R
- Ganesan A R
- Ganesh L S
- Ganesh Sundara Raman S
- Giridhar K
- Gnanamoorthy R
- Gopala Krishna Aradhyam
- Govindasamy Sekar
- Guhan Jayaraman
- Harikumar K C
- Harish Kumar N
- Harishankar Ramachandran
- Hema A Murthy
- Indrapal Singh Aidhen
- Indumathi Manivannan Nambi
- Jagadeesh Kumar V
- James Frederick Libby
- Janakiram D
- Jatindra Kumar Rath
- Jayanthan A V
- Jhunjhunwala A
- Jitendra Shital Sangwai
- Jyotirmaya Tripathy
- Kalyan Kumar B
- Kamalanabhan T J
- Kamaraj M
- Kannan A
- Karmalkar S
- Karthik K Srinivasan
- Karunagaran D
- Kasiviswanathan S
- Kesavan V
- Koshy Varghese
- Krishna Kannan
- Krishna Moorthy Sivalingam
- Krishna Prasanna P
- Krishna Vasudevan
- Krishnakumar R
- Krishnan Balasubramaniam
- Krishnan Kutty P
- Lakshmana Rao C
- Lakshmi Bala S
- Lelitha Devi Vanajakshi
- Ligy Philip
- Luoyi Tao
- Madhu Mutyam
- Madhulika Dixit
- Madhumathi R
- Mahalingam S
- Mahesh Kumar
- Mahesh Panchagnula
- Malathy Duraisamy
- Mallikarjuna J M
- Mangala Sunder K
- Mani A
- Manivannan M
- Manoj Gopalakrishnan
- Manu Santhanam
- Markandeyulu G
- Meher Prasad A
- Michael Gromiha M
- Mishra A K
- Mohan S
- Muraleedharan K M
- Muraleedharan V R
- Murali K
- Murali Krishnan J
- Murthy B S
- Murthy Haradanahalli S N
- Murty B S
- Murty C V R
- Muruganandam T M
- Murugavel P
- Nagarajan R
- Nagendra Krishnapura
- Nallayarasu S
- Nandan Kumar Sinha
- Nandita Dasgupta
- Nandivada Venkata Krishna
- Narasimha Murthy N
- Narayanaswamy N S
- Neelima M Gupte
- Niket Satish Kaisare
- Nilanjan Saha
- Nilesh J Vasa
- Nirmala R
- Nitish R Mahapatra
- Pandurangan C
- Panner Selvam R
- Ponnusamy S
- Prabhu Rajagopal
- Pradeep T
- Prafulla Kumar Behera
- Prakash Maiya M
- Prakash Sai L
- Prasad B V S S S
- 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
- Raghuram Chetty
- Ragunathan Rengasamy
- Rahul Ratnakar Marathe
- Rajagopal K
- Rajagopalan A N
- Rajagopalan Srinivasan
- Rajakumar B
- Rajendran C
- Rajesh Kumar
- Rajesh Narayanan
- Rajiv Sharma
- Raju Sethuraman
- Rama R
- Rama Shankar Verma
- Ramachandra Rao M S
- Ramakrishna M
- Ramakrishnan Swaminathan
- Ramamurthy K
- Ramanathan M
- Ramanathan Srinivasan
- Ramasubba Reddy M
- Ramesh A
- Ramesh Babu N
- Ramesh K
- Ramesh L Gardas
- Ranga Rao G
- 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 Abdulvahab
- Sampath Kumar T S
- Sampath V
- Samuel G L
- Sangaranarayanan M V
- Sanjay Kumar
- Sanjib Senapati
- Sankaran Shanmugam
- Sankararaman S
- Sannasiraj S A
- Santhosh P N
- Sanyasiraju Y V S S
- Sarathi R
- Saravana Kumar G
- Saravanan U
- Sarit K Das
- Sarith P Sathian
- Sathish Kumar S R
- Sathyanarayana Naidu G
- Satyajit Roy
- Satyanarayana M V
- Satyanarayana K N
- Sayan Gupta
- Selvam P
- Senkamalam Periyasamy Dhanavel
- Seshadri Sekhar A
- Sethupathi K
- Shaiju A J
- Shaligram Tiwari
- Shamit Bakshi
- Shankar Krishnapillai
- Shankar Narasimhan S
- Shankar Ram C S
- Shanmugam P
- Shanthi Pavan Y
- Shanthi Swarup K
- Shanti Bhattacharya
- Shiva Nagendra S M
- Siva Ram Murthy C
- Sivakumar M S
- Sivakumar K C
- Sivanandan R
- Sivasambu Mahesh
- Somnath Bhattacharyya
- Somnath Chanda Roy
- Sreekumar N
- Sreenivas Jayanti
- Sreenivasa Kumar P
- Sridharakumar N
- Sridharan K
- Srikanth Vedantam
- Srikrishna Bhashyam
- Srilata K
- Srinivas V
- Srinivasa Chakravarthy V
- Srinivasa Rao Manam
- Srinivasa Reddy K
- Srinivasan Chandrasekaran
- Srinivasan G
- Srinivasan K
- Srinivasan K
- Srinivasan Umesh
- Sriram P
- Srirama Srinivas
- Sriramkumar L
- Subramaniam K
- Subramanian V
- Subramanya Sarma V
- Sudheer K P
- Sudhir Chella Rajan
- Sujatha C
- Sujatha Narayanan Unni
- Sujatha Srinivasan
- Sujith R I
- Sukhendu Das
- Sundar S
- Sundararajan T
- Sundargopal Ghosh
- Sundarraj R P
- Sunetra Sarkar
- Sunil Kumar P B
- Suraishkumar G K
- Surendran S
- Suresh Babu M
- Suresh Govindarajan
- Suresh Kumar G
- Susy Varughese
- Swarnalatha R
- Tanmay Basak
- Thamban Nair M
- Thenmozhi M
- Thillai Rajan A
- Thyagaraj T
- Udaychandran Chakkingal
- Umakant Dash
- Upendra Natarajan
- Usha Mohan
- Veeraragavan A
- Velmurugan R
- Vengadesan S
- Venkatarathnam G
- Venkatesh Balasubramanian
- Vetrivel V
- Vidyasagar K
- Vijayan C
- Vinita Vasudevan
Student Member
- Academic Affairs Secretary
- Research Affairs Secretary
- Students General Secretary