Anant Agarwal

Anant Agarwal
Agarwal in 2015
Born (1959-06-08) 8 June 1959
Occupation(s)Professor, researcher
Known forMOOC
edX
MITx
HonoursPadma Shri (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer architecture
Thesis Analysis of Cache Performance for Operating Systems and Multiprogramming
Doctoral advisorJohn L. Hennessy
Doctoral studentsFrederic T. Chong
Websitepeople.csail.mit.edu/agarwal/

Anant Agarwal is an Indian computer architecture researcher. 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. He is the CEO of edX, a joint partnership between MIT and Harvard University that offers free online learning.