Education
Born in Mangalore, he did his schooling in Saint Aloysius Mangalore. Agarwal holds a bachelor"s degree from Indian Institute of Technology Madras and a Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
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He is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), where he led the development of Alewife, an early cache coherent multiprocessor, and also has served as director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He also serves as the Chief Executive Officer of edX, a joint partnership between Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University that offers free online learning. Agarwal is the Chief Executive Officer of edX, a worldwide, online learning initiative of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard.
He is a leader of the Carbon Project, which is developing new scalable multicore architectures, a new operating system for multicore and clouds called fos, and a distributed, parallel simulator for multicore and clouds called Graphite.
He is a leader of the Angstrom Project, which is creating fundamental technologies for exascale computing. He contributes to WebSim, a web-based electronic circuits laboratory.
Raw was an early tiled multicore processor with 16 cores. He also teaches the edX offering of Massachusetts Institute of Technology"s 6.002 Circuits and Electronics.
His previous projects include Sparcle, a coarse-grain multithreaded (CGMT or switch-on-event SOE) microprocessor, Alewife, a scalable distributed shared memory multiprocessor, Virtual Wires, a scalable Field-Programmable Gate Array-based logic emulation system, LOUD, a beamforming microphone array, Oxygen, a pervasive human-centered computing project, and Fugu, a protected, multiuser multiprocessor.
Achievements
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Agarwal received the 2001 Maurice Wilkes Award for computer architecture. In 2007 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. In 2011 he was appointed Director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology"s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In March 2016, he was awarded the McGraw Hill United States. Higher prize as an outstanding leader of the development of the Massive Open Online Course movement. In addition to that, he is also a Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Madras.
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Higher prize; Maurice Wilkes Award Agarwal received the 2001 Maurice Wilkes Award for computer architecture. In 2007 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. In 2011 he was appointed Director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In March 2016, he was awarded the McGraw Hill U.S. Higher prize as an outstanding leader of the development of the Massive Open Online Course movement. In addition to that, he is also a Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Madras.Higher prize; Maurice Wilkes Award Agarwal received the 2001 Maurice Wilkes Award for computer architecture. In 2007 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. In 2011 he was appointed Director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In March 2016, he was awarded the McGraw Hill U.S. Higher prize as an outstanding leader of the development of the Massive Open Online Course movement. In addition to that, he is also a Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Madras.