Chief Academic Officer at 2U, Founder of edX, Professor at MIT
Weston, Massachusetts, United States
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My life’s work has been about changing the world - anything short of that is not good enough for me. As founder of edX and Chief Academic Officer at edX/2U, I am championing edX’s founding mission of reimagining, and increasing access to, life changing education.
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I'm looking forward to meeting old friends and making new ones at the ASU+GSV Summit!
I'm looking forward to meeting old friends and making new ones at the ASU+GSV Summit!
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Enjoyed our panel at University of Michigan's AI in Learning Summit along with James DeVaney, John Katzman, and Stephanie Khurana. My main points…
Enjoyed our panel at University of Michigan's AI in Learning Summit along with James DeVaney, John Katzman, and Stephanie Khurana. My main points…
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Excited to join James DeVaney, John Katzman, and Stephanie Khurana on a panel on the future of universities and learning at University of Michigan in…
Excited to join James DeVaney, John Katzman, and Stephanie Khurana on a panel on the future of universities and learning at University of Michigan in…
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Experience
Education
Skills
Honors & Awards
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Yidan Prize for Education Development
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Padma Shri
President of India
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Harold W. McGraw Prize for Education
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Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
AAAS
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Member, National Academy of Engineering
NAE
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Boston Globe's 100 Innovators of 2013
Boston Globe
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Distinguished Alumnus, IIT Madras
IIT Madras, India
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12 Bostonians changing the world
Boston Globe Magazine
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Forbes, Top 15 education innovators
Forbes
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10 World Changing Ideas
Scientific American
Organic computing
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Jamieson Prize for teaching
MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Fellow, ACM
ACM
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Distinguished Alumnus
St. Aloysius High School, Mangalore, India
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Smullin Prize for teaching
MIT
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Guinness World Record
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World's largest microphone array, based on the Raw parallel processor chip
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Maurice Wilkes Award for Computer Architecture
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Presidential Young Investigator Award
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Languages
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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Hindi
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Kannada
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Tulu
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Konkani
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Sanskrit
Limited working proficiency
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Honored to see our work on Xpert Learning Assistant recognized in 2U’s selection as Personalized Learning Company of the Year by the WorldWiDE EdTech…
Honored to see our work on Xpert Learning Assistant recognized in 2U’s selection as Personalized Learning Company of the Year by the WorldWiDE EdTech…
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Thanks to Fortune's Nick Lichtenberg for covering the launch of "Foundations of Generative AI" -- a new open course on edX from Georgia Institute of…
Thanks to Fortune's Nick Lichtenberg for covering the launch of "Foundations of Generative AI" -- a new open course on edX from Georgia Institute of…
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Can AI teach AI? 🤖 At edX, we’re exploring that question through a bold new pilot with Georgia Institute of Technology Professor David Joyner. The…
Can AI teach AI? 🤖 At edX, we’re exploring that question through a bold new pilot with Georgia Institute of Technology Professor David Joyner. The…
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The future of work is being rewritten by AI, and the pace of change is staggering. Recent research from PwC shows that skills in AI-affected roles…
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