MIT World Speakers

Anant Agarwal

Anant Agarwal is also the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Tilera Corporation. His research and teaching work focus on computer architecture, VLSI, compilation, and software systems. Agarwal is a co-leader of the Oxygen Project. He led a group that developed Sparcle (1992), an early multithreaded microprocessor based on the SPARC architecture, and the Alewife machine, a scalable shared-memory multiprocessor (1993). At MIT's CSAIL laboratory, Agarwal led the Raw project which developed a tiled multicore microprocessor for instruction level parallelism (ILP) and streams (2002). Agarwal also led the VirtualWires project at MIT. He has launched several startups, including Virtual Machine Works, Inc., and InCert Software Corporation.

Agarwal won the Maurice Wilkes prize for computer architecture in 2001, the Presidential Young Investigator award in 1991, and the Louis D. Smullin Award for teaching excellence at MIT in 2005. He holds a Bachelor's Degree from IIT Madras and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.