Birth: 1959 (Delhi).
Education: Anant Agarwal did his schooling in St. Aloysius Mangalore. Agarwal holds a bachelor’s degree from Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Career:
Mr. Agarwal is the CEO of edX, a worldwide, online learning initiative of MIT and Harvard. He is a leader of the Carbon Project, which is developing new scalable multicore architectures, a new operating system for multicore and clouds called fos, and a distributed, parallel simulator for multicore and clouds called Graphite.
He is a leader of the Angstrom Project, which is creating fundamental technologies for exascale computing. He contributes to WebSim, a web-based electronic circuits’ laboratory. He led the Raw Project at CSAIL, and is a founder of Tilera Corporation. Raw was an early tiled multicore processor with 16 cores.
He also teaches the edX offering of MIT’s 6.002 Circuits and Electronics.
His previous projects include Sparcle, a coarse-grain multithreaded (CGMT or switch-on-event SOE) microprocessor, Alewife, a scalable distributed shared memory multiprocessor, Virtual Wires, a scalable FPGA-based logic emulation system, LOUD, a beam forming microphone array, Oxygen, a pervasive human-centred computing project, and Fugu, a protected, multiuser multiprocessor.
Awards and Recognition:
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