Anant Agarwal is an influencer

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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Experience

  • 2U

    2U

    4 years 6 months

    • 2U Graphic

      Chief Academic Officer

      2U

      - Present 2 years 4 months

      Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    • 2U Graphic

      Chief Platform Officer

      2U

      - 1 year 7 months

      Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    • 2U Graphic

      Chief Open Education Officer

      2U

      - 9 months

  • edX

    edX

    14 years

    • edX Graphic

      Founder and CEO

      edX

      - Present 12 years

      Cambridge, MA

      Founder of edX, a not-for-profit venture created by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology focused on transforming online and on-campus learning through groundbreaking methodologies, game-like experiences and cutting-edge research. EdX provides inspirational and transformative knowledge to students of all ages, social status, and income who form worldwide communities of learners. EdX uses its open source technology to transcend physical and social borders.

    • edX Graphic

      Founder and President

      edX

      - 2 years

      Cambridge, MA

      Founder of edX, a not-for-profit venture created by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology focused on transforming online and on-campus learning through groundbreaking methodologies, game-like experiences and cutting-edge research. EdX provides inspirational and transformative knowledge to students of all ages, social status, and income who form worldwide communities of learners. EdX uses its open source technology to transcend physical and social borders.

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    Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

    MIT

    - Present 38 years

    Cambridge, MA

    Has served as the director of CSAIL, MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Graphic

    Member of the Board of Directors

    Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

    - Present 12 years

    Greater Boston Area

  • Commission member

    The Education Commission, the International Commission on Global Education Financing

    - Present 10 years 11 months

    http://educationcommission.org/about/commission-leadership/

  • Tilera Corporation Graphic

    Founder, CTO and Board Member

    Tilera Corporation

    - 10 years

    San Jose, CA

    He is also a founder of Tilera Corporation which created the Tile multicore processor.

  • MIT CSAIL Graphic

    Director

    MIT CSAIL

    - 1 year

    Cambridge, MA

    CSAIL is MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. It was formed as a merger of MIT's AI Lab and the Lab for Computer Science.

  • Co-founder, Chairman

    Determina, Inc.

    - 2 years 1 month

    Silicon Valley, California

    Acquired by VMWare. Determina created a new software security technology for 0-day protection
    of Windows-based and other applications against viruses and worms.

  • InCert Software Graphic

    Founder, CTO, Chairman

    InCert Software

    - 5 years 1 month

    Cambridge, MA, USA

    Enterprise-wide application availability management software. Acquired by Geodesic, Veritas, Symantec.

  • Founder, CTO, Board Member

    Virtual Machine Works, Inc.

    - 2 years 1 month

    Cambridge, MA

    Now part of Mentor Graphics. Virtual Machine Works was a logic emulation company
    developing FPGA-based CAD systems for the verification and prototyping
    of CPUs and ASICs based on a new technology from MIT called Virtual
    Wires.

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Honors & Awards

  • Yidan Prize for Education Development

    -

  • Padma Shri

    President of India

  • Harold W. McGraw Prize for Education

    -

  • Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

    AAAS

  • Member, National Academy of Engineering

    NAE

  • Boston Globe's 100 Innovators of 2013

    Boston Globe

  • Distinguished Alumnus, IIT Madras

    IIT Madras, India

  • 12 Bostonians changing the world

    Boston Globe Magazine

  • Forbes, Top 15 education innovators

    Forbes

  • 10 World Changing Ideas

    Scientific American

    Organic computing

  • Jamieson Prize for teaching

    MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  • Fellow, ACM

    ACM

  • Distinguished Alumnus

    St. Aloysius High School, Mangalore, India

  • Smullin Prize for teaching

    MIT

  • Guinness World Record

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    World's largest microphone array, based on the Raw parallel processor chip

  • Maurice Wilkes Award for Computer Architecture

    -

  • Presidential Young Investigator Award

    -

Languages

  • English

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  • Hindi

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Kannada

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Tulu

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Konkani

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Sanskrit

    Limited working proficiency

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