India-born professor named Dean of MIT School of Engineering
Anantha P Chandrakasan, an India-born professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has been named Dean of the University's School of Engineering. Chandrakasan, who was the HoD of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT's largest academic department, will start his tenure on July 1. Chandrakasan was born in Chennai and moved to the USA while he was in high school.