Anant Agarwal

Anant Agarwal is the CEO of edX, an online learning destination founded by Harvard and MIT. He taught the first edX course on circuits and electronics at MIT, which drew 155,000 students from 162 countries. At MIT, he is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and has served as the director of CSAIL, the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Awarded MIT’s Smullin and Jamieson prizes for teaching as well as the Maurice Wilkes prize for computer architecture, Agarwal was named in Forbes’ list of the top 15 education innovators in 2012, and his work on organic computing was selected by Scientific American as one of 10 world-changing ideas in 2011. He is also the author of the textbook “Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits.” 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 Association for Computing Machinery.