Anantha Chandrakasan

Anantha Chandrakasan is MIT’s Provost and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He served as Dean of MIT’s School of Engineering from July 2017 to June 2025 and as the Institute’s inaugural Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer from January 2024 to June 2025.

Reporting to MIT’s President, Provost Chandrakasan is the Institute’s chief academic and budget officer. As a senior officer of the Institute, he serves on the following boards and committees: Academic Council, MIT Budget and Finance Steering Group, MIT Building Committee (co-chair), MIT Enrollment Management Group, MIT Financial Scenarios Working Group (co-chair), MIT Gift Acceptance Committee (chair), MIT Gift Policy Committee, MIT International Corporation Board (co-chair), Ragon Institute Board, Schwarzman College of Computing External Advisory Council (ex officio), and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Board (co-chair).

In his role as provost, he also oversees the MIT Office of Innovation and Strategy (OIS) which includes the following initiatives: the MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative (MIT HEALS), the MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium (MGAIC), the MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC), and the MIT Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM). He currently serves as head of MIT HEALS and MGAIC and co-chair of MITHIC. MIT OIS also includes the MIT-GE Vernova Energy and Climate Alliance for which he serves as co-chair.

Provost Chandrakasan is also the Senior Executive Advisor to the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium (MCSC) and serves as co-chair of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and the Tata-MIT Alliance, both of which he founded.