Charles and Jennifer Johnson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and CS Faculty Head, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Arvind is the Head of Computer Science Faculty and the Charles and Jennifer Johnson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT. He did his BTech in EE from IIT, Kanpur in 1969 and MS and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota in 1972 and 1973, respectively. He taught at the University of California, Irvine before joining MIT in 1978. Arvind’s group, in collaboration with Motorola, built the Monsoon dataflow machines and its associated software in the late eighties. Monsoon was stalled in Los Alamos National Labs and several Universities before being retired to the Computer Museum in California. In 2000, Arvind started Sandburst which was sold to Broadcom in 2006. In 2003, Arvind co-founded Bluespec Inc., an EDA company to produce a set of tools for high-level synthesis based on Guarded Atomic Actions. Arvind’s current research focus is to enable rapid development of embedded systems and computing near storage. Arvind has been awarded the Charles Babbage and Harry Goode awards and he is a Fellow of IEEE and ACM, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.