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Anant Agarwal

Professor, Chief platform officer of 2U and founder of edX

Anant Agarwal is chief platform officer of 2U, founder of edX, and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Anant Agarwal is chief platform officer of 2U, founder of edX, and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Since launching edX in 2012, Agarwal works to expand access to high-quality education everywhere. Today, he leverages his expertise to build powerful online learning platforms, driving edX’s growth as one of the world’s most comprehensive free-to-degree online learning marketplaces under parent company 2U.

Agarwal drew 155,000 students from 162 countries as MIT's first edX educator teaching a course on circuits and electronics. He remains a professor at MIT. Previously, he was director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Agarwal has co-founded several companies, including Tilera Corporation, which created the Tile multicore processor, and Virtual Machine Works.

He has received multiple accolades for educational innovation, including the Maurice Wilkes prize for computer architecture and MIT's Smullin and Jamieson prizes for teaching. He received the 2016 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize for Higher Education, and the Padma Shri Award from the president of India. He received the Yidan Prize in 2018.

A pioneer in computer architecture, Agarwal is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the ACM. Scientific American selected his work on organic computing as one of 10 World-Changing Ideas in 2011, and he was on Forbes' list of top 15 education innovators in 2012.

Agarwal held a Guinness World Record for the largest microphone array and is an author of the textbook, "Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits." He has a PhD from Stanford and a bachelor's from IIT Madras.