Anant Agarwal
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| birth_place = Mangalore, India
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| occupation = Professor, researcher
| honours = Padma Shri (2017)
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| website = {{URL|http://people.csail.mit.edu/agarwal/}}
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| doctoral_advisor = John L. Hennessy
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| thesis_title = Analysis of Cache Performance for Operating Systems and Multiprogramming
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Anant Agarwal is an Indian computer architecture researcher.[http://www.csail.mit.edu/user/723 MIT directory] He is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he led the development of Alewife, an early cache coherent multiprocessor, and has been director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is the founder and CTO of Tilera, a fabless semiconductor company focusing on scalable multicore embedded processor design.{{cite web|url=http://www.tilera.com/about_tilera/board_of_directors |title=Board of Directors | Tilera Corporation |work=tilera.com |access-date=27 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214070709/http://www.tilera.com/about_tilera/board_of_directors |archive-date=14 February 2012 }} He is the CEO of edX, a joint partnership between MIT and Harvard University that offers free online learning.{{cite web |url= https://www.edx.org/about |title=edX – About edX |work=edxonline.org |access-date=7 May 2012}}
Education
Agarwal was born in Mangalore and did his schooling in St. Aloysius Mangalore. He holds a bachelor's degree (1982) in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras.{{cite web |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/agarwaledu |title=Anant Agarwal |website=LinkedIn}} For postgraduate study, he attended Stanford University, where he received an MS (1984) and a PhD (1987), both in electrical engineering.{{cite web |last1=Liu |first1=Ariel |title=Q&A with Anant Agarwal, speaker at ignitED conference and CEO of edX |url=https://stanforddaily.com/2016/02/22/qa-with-anant-agarwal-speaker-at-ignited-conference-and-ceo-of-edx/ |website=The Stanford Daily |access-date=26 October 2022 |date=22 February 2016}}{{cite web |last1=Agarwal |first1=Anant |title=Keynote II - Tiled Multicore Processors: The Four Stages of Reality |url=https://www.microarch.org/micro40/agarwal.html |website=MICRO-40 |publisher=MICRO |access-date=26 October 2022}}{{cite web |title=Keypanel Session |url=https://www.ele.uri.edu/barc2006/keypanel.htm |website=BARC 2006 |access-date=26 October 2022}} His PhD thesis, Analysis of Cache Performance for Operating Systems and Multiprogramming, was written under John L. Hennessy.{{cite web |title=Anant Agarwal |url=https://www.mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=71812 |website=Mathematics Genealogy Project |access-date=26 October 2022}}
Career
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.{{cite magazine |title=MIT Genius Stuffs 100 Processors Into Single Chip |first=Eric |last=Smalley |magazine=Wired |date=23 January 2012 |url=https://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/01/mit-genius-stu/ |access-date=14 November 2018}} 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.
In 2013, he was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to shared-memory and multicore computer architectures.
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 beamforming microphone array, Oxygen, a pervasive human-centered computing project, and Fugu, a protected, multiuser multiprocessor.
Awards
Agarwal received the 2001 Maurice Wilkes Award for computer architecture.[http://www.sigarch.org/wilkes/wilkes.html The Maurice Wilkes Award.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080917015949/http://www.sigarch.org/wilkes/wilkes.html |date=17 September 2008 }}
In 2007 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.{{cite web|url=http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=3320751&srt=year&year=2007|title=About ACM Fellows}} In 2011 he was appointed Director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 2013, he became a member of the National Academy of Engineering and was appointed the CEO of EdX.{{cite web|url=http://people.csail.mit.edu/agarwal/|title=Anant Agarwal's Home Page}} In March 2016, he was awarded the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education in higher education{{cite web|url=http://www.mcgrawprize.com/press/2016/03/2016-winners-announced/|title=2016 Winners announced for The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education – McGraw Prize|website=www.mcgrawprize.com|access-date=2016-03-15}} as an outstanding leader of the development of the Massive Open Online Course movement. In addition to that, he is also a Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Madras.{{cite web | url=http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/2015/02/prof-anant-agarwal-of-mit-is-awarded-the-iitm-distinguished-alumnus-award/ | title=Prof. Anant Agarwal of MIT is awarded the IITM Distinguished Alumnus Award | date=10 February 2015 | publisher=Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Department of Electrical Engineering | access-date=17 January 2019 }} He received Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India in 2017.{{cite web|url=http://www.oneindia.com/india/padma-shri-awards-meet-the-unsung-heroes-part-ii-2327551.html|title = Padma Shri Awards: Meet the unsung heroes, Part II|date = 25 January 2017}} In 2018, he received the Yidan Prize for Education Research, the world's largest education award, i.e. USD four million.{{cite web|url=https://yidanprize.org |title=The official website of the Yidan Prize and Yidan Prize Foundation |publisher=Yidanprize.org |date= |accessdate=2023-04-20}}
Publications
- {{cite book|author=Anant Agarwal and Jeffrey Lang|title=Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits|publisher=Morgan Kaufmann|year=2005|isbn=1-55860-735-8}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://people.csail.mit.edu/agarwal/}}
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- [http://www.ted.com/talks/anant_agarwal_why_massively_open_online_courses_still_matter "Why massive open online courses (still) matter" (TED2013)]
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Category:MIT School of Engineering faculty
Category:2007 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Category:Indian Institutes of Technology alumni
Category:Scientists from Mangalore