CHENNAI: Top Google executive Sridhar Ramaswamy on Friday said he wants to “give back” to his alma mater, the Indian Institute of Technology , Madras, joining a growing list of alumni who are keen on helping the institute achieve its goal of becoming one of the world’s top 50 universities by 2020.“I’m trying to figure out how best to contribute to IIT Madras or to Brown (University) where I went to graduate school,” Ramaswamy, senior vice-president of ads & commerce at the $60-billion search giant said. The executive, who is visiting the institute on the 25th year reunion of his batch (1989), said consulting with the Centre for Innovation at IIT-M could be one of the ways in which he could contribute. “There are many ways to give back. Helping them think about their facilities, cloud computing could be another,” said Ramaswamy, one of the three Indians who report to Larry Page , the cofounder & CEO of Google. Page’s team, famously known as the L-team, has two other Indians — Sundar Pichai , who heads products, and Amit Singhal, who heads search.Ramaswamy has been discussing with the institute on how to bring in more top-quality professors. “It’s difficult to bring top computer science professors to an institute focused solely on undergraduates,” said Ramaswamy. IIT-Madras, founded in 1959, is also seeking to increase the intake of postgraduate students while trying to improve its global ranking among universities. Infosys cofounder Kris Gopalakrishnan, another IIT-M alumnus, recently donated Rs 10 crore to the institution to set up the ‘Prof. Mahabala Distinguished Chair in Computational Brain Research’. This year, the institution has nearly doubled the amount of private funding it has raised to Rs 25 crore.R Nagarajan, dean for international & alumni relations at IIT-M, said, “Government funding is generous and it is enough for us to run operations.But for aspirational things, we need help from the outside as well.” Ramaswamy termed the Indian ecommerce industry’s growth as “incredibly exciting” but did not say if Google wanted to enter the space in India, like it did in the US. Comparing with China, he said India is a much more “open market”.“There’s lot of structural difficulties in China for a lot of companies, including Google and Facebook . In that sense, India is a lot more open market and a lot of us can relate to because of our Indian origin,” he said. Google recently announced major initiatives focused on emerging markets like India. Its ambitious Android One program, which supplied a reference design to hardware manufacturers, was launched in India first. The company announced offline YouTube to improve video consumption and set up a coalition to promote Indic content on the web.