Anant Agarwal
Anant Agarwal Born India Occupation Professor Known for MOOC edX MITx Website people.csail.mit.edu/agarwal/ Anant Agarwal is a computer architecture researcher. He is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he led the development of Alewife, an early cache coherent multiprocessor, and also has served as director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is the founder and CTO of Tilera, a fabless semiconductor company focusing on scalable multicore embedded processor design. He also serves as the president of edX, a joint partnership between MIT and Harvard University that offers free online learning.