Anantha P. Chandrakasan

Anantha P. Chandrakasan
Anantha P. Chandrakasan
14th Provost of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Preceded by	Cynthia Barnhart
Personal details
Born	Chennai, India
Education	University of California, Berkeley (BS, MS, PhD);
Website	mtlsites.mit.edu/users/anantha/
Awards	Semiconductor Industry Association University Researcher Award (2009); IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits (2013); Honorary doctorate from KU Leuven (2016);
	Scientific career
Fields	Electrical engineering; Computer science
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis	Low Power Digital CMOS Digital Design (1994)
Doctoral advisor	Robert W. Brodersen

Anantha P. Chandrakasan is the Provost, the Chief Innovation, Strategy Officer, and Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is chair of the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium and MIT AI Hardware Program, and co-chair the MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab, the MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology, and the Tata-MIT Alliance. He also serves as head of the MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative (MIT HEALS) and the MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium (MGAIC), and co-chair of the MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC) and MIT-GE Vernova Energy and Climate Alliance.