# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/subra-suresh
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:22:04.977Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/subra-suresh"
name: "Subra Suresh"
slug: "subra-suresh"
description: "Subra Suresh is an Indian-born American engineer, materials scientist, and academic leader. He is currently Professor at Large at Brown University and Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and board member at the Villars Institute. He was Dean of the School of Engineering at MIT from 2007 to 2010 before being appointed as Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) by Barack Obama, where he served from 2010 to 2013. He was the president of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) from 2013 to 2017. Between 2018 and 2022, he was the fourth President of Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU), where he was also the inaugural Distinguished University Professor."
tagline: "Indian-American engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Subra_Suresh%2C_Director_of_the_National_Science_Foundation.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1956-05-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.84
  momentum:             0.2459016393442623
  historical:           7.040068
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "سوبرا سوريش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Subra Suresh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subra_Suresh"
    title: "Subra Suresh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ਸੁਬਰਾ ਸੁਰੇਸ਼"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subra_Suresh"
    title: "Subra Suresh"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump