Prof. P. Venkat Rangan is an Indian

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. He is the current vice chancellor of

Amrita University Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (or Amrita University) is a private deemed university based in Coimbatore, India. It currently has 7 campuses with 16 constituent schools across the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka ...

. A pioneer of research in Multimedia Systems, he was the founder and director of the Multimedia Laboratory at the

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, where he served as a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. By the age of 33 he was one of the youngest full professors at

. Dr. Rangan also founded

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Inc. and served as its CEO, for which in 2000, he was selected as one of the 25 best entrepreneurs by the President of the

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and featured on the July 2000 cover of Internet World Magazine. Venkat Rangan has been the recipient of President of India's gold medal from

Indian Institute of Technology Madras Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) is a public technical university located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. As one of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), it is recognized as an Institute of National Importance and has be ...

in 1984. As a Ph.D. student in Computer Science he spent a year at

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, before moving to

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. At Berkeley he secured the top-most rank in the qualifying exams for graduate studies. In 1988, his Ph.D. thesis at

was judged as the outstanding Ph.D of the year by IBM. Venkat Rangan has been identified by the ACM as a pioneer of research in Multimedia Systems, and for "founding one of the foremost centers for research in multimedia, in which area he is an inventor of fundamental techniques with global impact". With over 100 research papers and 30

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to his credit, Venkat Rangan has been the driving force behind the setting up of a large number of

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research centers within Amrita University. He has extensively collaborated with international and Indian Govt partners on research projects.

Awards

In his career, Dr. Rangan has won several prestigious awards. Some of them are: * Fellow of

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(1998) *

NSF NSF may stand for: Political organizations *National Socialist Front, a Swedish National Socialist party *NS-Frauenschaft, the women's wing of the former German Nazi party *National Students Federation, a leftist Pakistani students' political gr ...

National Young Investigator Award (1993) * The NCR Corporation Research Innovation Award (1991) * The President of India Gold Medal (1984)

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