Anantha Chandrakasan

Background and Education

Anantha P. Chandrakasan is dean of MIT’s School of Engineering, MIT’s Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer, and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He serves as chair of the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium and the MIT AI Hardware Program, and co-chair of the MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab, the MIT-Takeda Program, and the MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology.

He earned his bachelor’s (1989), master’s (1990), and doctoral (1994) degrees in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the MIT faculty in 1994 and was the director of the MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories from 2006 to 2011. From July 2011 through June 2017, he served as head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), a position that concluded with his appointment as dean in July 2017.

Awards and Honors

• IBM Faculty Development Award | 1995
• NSF Career Development Award | 1995
• National Semiconductor Faculty Development Awards | 1996, 1997
• IEEE Electron Devices Society’s Paul Rappaport Award | 1997
• Elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 2004
• ISSCC Beatrice Winner Award for Editorial Excellence | 2007
• ISSCC Jack Kilby Award for Outstanding Student Paper | 2007/2008/2009
• Semiconductor Industry Association University Researcher Award | 2009
• IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits | 2013
• Member of the National Academy of Engineering | 2015
• Honorary Doctorate from KU Leuven | 2016
• UC Berkeley EE Distinguished Alumni Award | 2017
• IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Distinguished Service Award | 2019
• Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences | 2019
• Association for Computing Machinery Fellow | 2020
• IEEE Mildred Dresselhaus Medal | 2022