P. Venkat Rangan

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Prof. P. Venkat Rangan
Born
Mysuru
NationalityIndia
Alma mater Indian Institute of Technology Madras (1980-1984)
Cornell University (1984-1985)
University of California, Berkeley (1985-1988)
OccupationVice Chancellor
Known forComputer Science, Multimedia
Scientific career
Fields Computer Science
Institutions Amrita University
University of California, San Diego
Doctoral advisor Domenico Ferrari
Website https://www.amrita.edu/faculty/venkat/
https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~venkat/

Prof. Dr. P. Venkat Rangan is an Indian computer scientist and vice chancellor of Amrita University. He was the founder and director of the Multimedia Laboratory and Internet at the University of California, San Diego, where he served as Professor of Computer Science. Dr. Rangan also founded Yodlee Inc. and served as its CEO, [1] for which in 2000, he was selected as one of the 25 best entrepreneurs by the President of the United States of America and featured on the July 2000 cover of Internet World Magazine. [2] [3]

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With over 100 research papers and 30 US 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. [4] [5]

Education

Venkat Rangan has been the recipient of President of India's gold medal from Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1984. [6] As a Ph.D. student in Computer Science he spent a year at Cornell University, before moving to University of California, Berkeley. At UC 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. [7]

Research and Academic career

He was the founder and director of the Multimedia Laboratory and Internet & Wireless Networks (WiFi) Research center at the University of California, San Diego, where was also Professor of Computer Science and Engineering for 16 years. [8] [9] [10] At age 33 he was one of the youngest full professors at University of California, San Diego.

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". [11]

Positions held

Prof. Rangan has served various positions:

Awards

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References

  1. ↑ "Yodleeing Their Way to the Top" (Press release).
  2. ↑ "Into a Million Pieces. Editorial Piece in the Internet World Magazine of July 2000" (Press release).
  3. 1 2 Gupta, Sahil (14 September 2022). "Dr. P. Venkat Rangan". Sawan Books. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  4. ↑ "U.S. Universities, Industry in Win-Win Agreement with India to Improve Engineering Education" (Press release).
  5. ↑ "Amrita University signs MoU with NAL". The Hindu (Press release). 10 December 2007. Archived from the original on 12 December 2007.
  6. ↑ Rangan, Venkat. "Venkat Rangan - author biography". ieeexplore.ieee.org. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  7. ↑ "Dr. P. Venkat Rangan". cseweb.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
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  12. ↑ Proceedings of the first ACM international conference on Multimedia - MULTIMEDIA '93. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press. 1993. doi:10.1145/166266. ISBN   0-89791-596-8.
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  14. ↑ "Multimedia Systems". SpringerLink. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
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