Anant Agarwal — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to shared-memory and multicore computer architectures (2013)
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT since 1988
Founder of edX, a worldwide online learning initiative of MIT and Harvard University
Founder and CTO of Tilera, a fabless semiconductor company focused on scalable multicore embedded processor design
Led the development of Alewife, an early cache coherent multiprocessor at MIT
Led the Raw Project at CSAIL, developing an early tiled multicore processor with 16 cores
Member of the Board of Directors at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute since 2014

Biography

Anant Agarwal is a distinguished Indian computer architecture researcher and educator. He serves as a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a position he has held since 1988. Agarwal is widely recognized as the founder of edX, a joint online learning initiative established by MIT and Harvard University, where he also served as CEO.