Anantha P. Chandrakasan Elected Fellow Of AAAS

Anantha P. Chandrakasan Elected Fellow Of AAAS

Press Release
04/25/2019

Anantha P. Chandrakasan was elected as a 2019 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Anantha P. Chandrakasan is dean of MITâ€™s School of Engineering, and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

From July 2011 - June 2017, Chandrakasan was head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). During his six-year tenure as head of MITâ€™s largest academic department, Chandrakasan spearheaded a number of initiatives that opened opportunities for students, postdocs, and faculty to conduct research, explore entrepreneurial projects, and engage with EECS.

Chandrakasan received the B.S, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989, 1990, and 1994, respectively. Since September 1994, he has been with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, where he is currently the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Chandrakasan is a recipient of awards including the 2009 Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) University Researcher Award, the 2013 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits, an honorary doctorate from KU Leuven in 2016, and the UC Berkeley EE Distinguished Alumni Award. He was also recognized as the author with the highest number of publications in the 60-year history of the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the foremost global forum for presentation of advances in solid-state circuits and systems-on-a-chip. A fellow of IEEE, in 2015 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

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