Rohan Narayana Murty is a junior fellow at the

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, founder of the

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and founder and chief technical officer of the digital transformation company Soroco, which specialises in automation using

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sources.

Background and personal life

Murty is the son of N. R. Narayana Murthy, founder of

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, and his wife

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, an engineer and author.

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, a professor of astrophysics and planetary science at

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, is his maternal uncle, and is said to have been a major influence on Murty. He grew up with a deep passion for programming since his childhood. Murty studied at the

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. After completing his twelfth standard board exams, he moved to the US and took an undergraduate degree in

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from

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. This was followed by a PhD in computer engineering from

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, which he obtained in 2011. The subject of his doctoral thesis was opportunistic wireless networks, networks that work by continually seeking and using underused portions of the spectrum, and vacating them if any incumbent returns. His PhD was supported by a

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Fellowship and a

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Research Fellowship. Murty married

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, daughter of TVS Motors Chairman Venu Srinivasan, in June 2011, and the couple divorced in 2015. Murty then married Aparna Krishnan, the daughter of Kochi-based retired SBI employee Savithri Krishnan and former Indian Navy officer Commander KR Krishnan, in December 2019. Murty's elder sister, Akshata, is married to

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Corporate career

In June 2013, Murty was appointed as an executive assistant at the Chairman's Office reporting to Narayana Murthy at Infosys, when Narayana Murthy returned to the company. His appointment as Vice President at Infosys was subject to approval by the Indian

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. Murty left Infosys on 14 June 2014, when his father stepped down as Executive Chairman. As of 1 June 2013, Murty is said to have owned Infosys shares worth $347 million. Murty is on leave from being a junior fellow at the

. He previously had a "shadow role" with Catamaran Ventures, a $127-million venture capital fund headed by N.R.N. Murthy.

Murty Classical Library

Although he does not read Sanskrit, when Murty was a doctoral student of computer science at Harvard, he took a class focussing on Kumarila Bhatta's ''Shlokavartika'', which got him interested in ancient Indian philosophy and sciences. He is the founder of the

, a continuation of the

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Project headed by

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. In 2016, he rejected a petition asking that Pollock be removed from the position of chief editor of the Murty Classical Library.

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Rohan Narayana Murty
at Harvard University website {{DEFAULTSORT:Murty, Rohan 1980s births Living people Cornell University alumni Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences alumni Infosys people Businesspeople from Bangalore Harvard Fellows Year of birth missing (living people) Murthy family Sunak family