Anant Agarwal
| Anant Agarwal | |
|---|---|
| Agarwal in 2015 | |
| Born | 8 June 1959 | 
| Occupation(s) | Professor, researcher | 
| Known for | MOOC edX MITx | 
| Honours | Padma Shri (2017) | 
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer architecture | 
| Thesis | Analysis of Cache Performance for Operating Systems and Multiprogramming | 
| Doctoral advisor | John L. Hennessy | 
| Doctoral students | Frederic T. Chong | 
| Website | people | 
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.