# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anant-agarwal
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:01:57.596Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anant-agarwal"
name: "Anant Agarwal"
slug: "anant-agarwal"
description: "Anant Agarwal is an Indian computer architecture researcher. He is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he led the development of Alewife, an early cache coherent multiprocessor, and has been director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is the founder and CTO of Tilera, a fabless semiconductor company focusing on scalable multicore embedded processor design. He is the CEO of edX, a joint partnership between MIT and Harvard University that offers free online learning."
tagline: "Indian computer architecture researcher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anant_Agarwal_in_2015_New_America_panel.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
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birthDate: "1959"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           7.905510666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://people.csail.mit.edu/agarwal/"
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    title: "Anant Agarwal"
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    title: "Anant Agarwal"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump