Formal inauguration with unveiling of plaque. From L to R Shweta Agrawal, Head ARC for Theoretical Computer Science, Arvind Raghunathan, Founder Roc360 and Donor Ashwin Mahalingam, Dean Alumni & Corporate Relations, IIT Madras. Kaviraj Nair, CEO, office of Institutional Advancement. IITM.

Indian Institute of Technology Madras has inaugurated its new Arvind Raghunathan Centre for Theoretical Computer Science (ARtCS).  

The centre is named after former IIT Alumni Arvind Raghunathan, founder of Roc360, an integrated financial services and investment platform focused on the residential real estate investor market.  

ARtCS will advance the mathematical foundation of computer science and promote foundational research in cryptography, computational complexity, algorithms, graph theory logic and databases, theoretical machine learning, quantum computing and privacy in AI. It will train students at the bachelors, masters, doctoral, and postdoctoral levels. 

The centre was inaugurated here on Saturday by V Kamakoti. It will be supported by a advisory board which will include Shafi Goldwasser, Prabhakar Raghavan Venkat Guruswamy, Ashwin Mahalingam and R Anand along with Raghunathan  

“The generosity of Raghunathan and his continued commitment to the students of IIT Madras through ARtCS will advance innovative research in the field of computational science at an exciting time in this field,” V. Kamakoti, Director of IIT Madra 

“My transformative five years at IIT Madras fostered an unrelenting curiosity in me, and I hope that ARtCS will provide future generations with access to world-class professors and research in their intellectual pursuits in theoretical subjects,” Arvind Raghunathan said. 

Published on March 28, 2026