Anantha Chandrakasan

Anantha P. Chandrakasan is the MIT chair of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, MIT provost, and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His research focuses on making electronic circuits more energy efficient. His early work on low-power chips for portable computers contributed to the development of today’s smartphones and other mobile devices. More recently, his research has addressed the challenge of powering even more energy-constrained technologies, such as the “internet of things” that would allow everyday devices to send and receive data via networked servers while using minimal power. Chandrakasan also leads the MIT Energy-Efficient Circuits and Systems Group, which focuses on energy harvesting, security hardware, and wireless charging for the internet of things; energy-efficient circuits and systems for multimedia processing; and platforms for ultra-low-power biomedical electronics.

Chandrakasan has served as conference chair of the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference and has received the Solid-State Circuit Society’s Distinguished Service Award, the IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits, and a University of California, Berkley, EE Distinguished Alumni Award. A fellow of IEEE, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He earned a BS, an MS, and a PhD in electrical engineering and computer sciences from UC Berkley.

Selected Publications

• Kochar, D. V., Ashok, M., & Chandrakasan, A. P. (2025). A 0.75 mm² 407 µW real-time speech audio denoiser with quantized cascaded redundant convolutional encoder-decoder for wearable IoT devices. Proceedings of the 2025 38th International Conference on VLSI Design and 2025 24th International Conference on Embedded Systems (VLSID) (pp. 180–185). IEEE.
• Lee, K., Ashok, M., Maji, S., Agrawal, R., Joshi, A., & Yan, M. (2025). Secure machine learning hardware: Challenges and progress. IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, 25(1), 8–34.
• Kochar, D. V., Ashok, M., Cohn, J., Chandrakasan, A. P., & Zhang, X. (2025). Efficient circuit performance prediction using machine learning: From schematic to layout and silicon measurement with minimal data input. In Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) (pp. 1–5).

Media

• June 30, 2025: MIT News, President Emeritus Reif reflects on successes as a technical leader
• June 16, 2025: MIT News, Anantha Chandrakasan named MIT provost
• February 15, 2024: MIT News, Anantha Chandrakasan named MIT’s inaugural chief innovation and strategy officer