Venkat Rangan
| P. Venkat Rangan | |
|---|---|
| Born | Mysore |
| Residence | India  |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Amrita University University of California, San Diego |
| Alma mater | Indian Institute of Technology Madras (1980-1984) Cornell University (1984-1985) University of California, Berkeley (1985-1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Domenico Ferrari |
P. Venkat Rangan is an academician and entrepreneur. He is the current vice chancellor of Amrita University. A pioneer of research in Multimedia Systems, he was the founder and director of the Multimedia Laboratory at the University of California, San Diego, where he served as a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering.[1][2] By the age of 33 he was one of the youngest full professors at University of California, San Diego. Dr. Rangan also founded Yodlee Inc. and served as its CEO,[3] for which in 2000, he was selected as one of the 25 best entrepreneurs by the President of the US and featured on the July 2000 cover of Internet World Magazine[4].
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[edit] Education
Venkat Rangan has been the recipient of President of India’s gold medal from Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1984. As a Ph.D. student in Computer Science he spent a year at Cornell University, before moving to University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley he secured the top-most rank in the qualifying exams for graduate studies. In 1988, his Ph.D. thesis at University of California, Berkeley was judged as the outstanding Ph.D of the year by IBM.
[edit] Contributions
Venkat Rangan has been identified by the ACM as a pioneer of research in Multimedia Systems, and for "founding one of the foremost centers for research in multimedia, in which area he is an inventor of fundamental techniques with global impact".[5]
With over 100 research papers and 30 patents to his credit, Venkat Rangan has been the driving force behind the setting up of a large number of inter-disciplinary research centers within Amrita University. He has extensively collaborated with international and Indian Govt partners on research projects.[6][7] As Vice-Chancellor of Amrita University, Dr. Rangan is often invited to deliver keynote addresses at conferences around the world.
[edit] Awards
In his career, Dr. Rangan has won several prestigious awards. Some of them are:
- Fellow of Association for Computing Machinery (1998)
- NSF National Young Investigator Award (1993)
- The NCR Corporation Research Innovation Award (1991)
- The President of India Gold Medal (1984)
[edit] Research interests
- Digital Video and Audio on the Internet: Video Distribution and Delivery, Multimedia on-demand Servers, Media Synchronization, Plug and Play Multimedia Devices
- High Bandwidth Wireless Local Area Networks
- Active Gateways for Home Wireless Networks
- Location Detection in Mobile Networks
- Content aggregation on the Internet, and Personal Transaction Agents
- Technology Entrepreneurship
[edit] References
- ^ "ACM Fellows Citation" (Press release). http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=3841665&srt=all.
- ^ "Prof. Venkat Rangan's UCSD homepage" (Press release). http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/~venkat/.
- ^ "Yodleeing Their Way to the Top" (Press release). http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/oct/30us2.htm.
- ^ "Into a Million Pieces. Editorial Piece in the Internet World Magazine of July 2000" (Press release).
- ^ "ACM Fellows Citation" (Press release). http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=3841665&srt=all.
- ^ "U.S. Universities, Industry in Win-Win Agreement with India to Improve Engineering Education" (Press release). http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=410.
- ^ "Amrita University signs MoU with NAL" (Press release). http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/10/stories/2007121059110300.htm.
[edit] External links
- Yodleeing Their Way to the Top
- Dr. Venkat Rangan at the 7th Indian Science Congress in Kerala
- Success stories of first generation entrepreneurs released
- Amrita Technologies - Board of Directors
- Amrita becoming a leading knowledge hub in higher education
- Amrita University signs MoU with NAL
- U.S. Universities, Industry in Win-Win Agreement with India to Improve Engineering Education
- Delivering Tech-based Content is the Challenge in Multi-campus Network
- Prof.P.Venkat Rangan,Vice Chancellor of Amrita Vishwavidyapeedham University,takes over a Board of Director at SETS
