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Anant Agarwal
President edX

a worldwide, online learning initiative of MIT and Harvard University, and a professor in MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department. Anant Agarwal is a computer architecture researcher. He is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He also serves as the president of edX, a joint partnership between MIT and Harvard University that offers free online learning. Agarwal holds a Ph.D. from Stanford and a bachelor's from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He led the development of Raw - an early tiled multicore processor, Sparcle - an early multithreaded microprocessor, and Alewife - a scalable multiprocessor. He also led the VirtualWires project at MIT and was the founder of Virtual Machine Works, which took the VirtualWires technology to market. He is an author of the textbook "Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits."

AWARDS

	Scientific American: 10 World Changing Ideas (2011)
	MIT EECS: Jamieson teaching prize (2010)
	International Conference on Autonomic Computing: Best student paper (2010)
	ACM: Fellow (2007)
	MIT: Smullin Prize for teaching (2005)
	Guinness World Records: Largest beamforming acoustic microphone array (LOUD) based on the Raw parallel processor (2004)
	ACM: Maurice Wilkes Award (2001)
	International Conference on Supercomputing: Best Paper (1993)
	International Conference on Parallel Processing: Most Original Paper (1993)
	NSF: Presidential Young Investigator Award (1991)