Vijay Chandru Reddy is an Indian entrepreneur. He is a co-founder and chairman of
Strand Life Sciences
Strand Life Sciences, formerly Strand Genomics, is an Indian ''in silico'' technology company, based in Bangalore. Strand focuses in data mining, predictive modeling, computational chemistry, software engineering, bioinformatics, and research ...
.
Biography
Chandru received his bachelor's degree from
BITS Pilani in Electrical Engineering, a Master of Science from UCLA in Engineering Systems and a PhD from the MIT Operations Research Center in 1982. He started his academic career in teaching and research in 1982. He served professor as Purdue University for 1982-1992. Later in 1992 he joined at the
Indian Institute of Science
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a public, deemed, research university for higher education and research in science, engineering, design, and management. It is located in Bengaluru, in the Indian state of Karnataka. The institute was ...
. From 2003 to 2013 he served as Research Affiliate of the Lab for Information and Decision Systems at
MIT
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.
He has co-authored the book ''Optimization Methods for Logical Inference'', published by Wiley Interscience in 1999.
He is also a founder of the Association of Biotech led Enterprises (ABLE) and continues to serve as an executive council member. He is one of the inventors of the
Simputer
The Simputer was a self-contained, open hardware Linux-based handheld computer, first released in 2002. Developed in, and primarily distributed within India, the product was envisioned as a low-cost alternative to personal computers. With initial ...
.
Awards
Professor Chandru was elected as a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1996 and of the Indian National Academy of Engineers in 2010. Chandru has received the Dewang Mehta Award for innovation in information technology for the development of the ''Simputer'' in 2001. In 2006, Chandru received the President's Medal of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences). Reddy was named a Technology Pioneer of the World Economic Forum in 2006 for his work with Strand Life Sciences and biotechnology. He received the Biospectrum Biotech Entrepreneur of 2007.
See also
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Bharat Desai
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Early life
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Gunjan Bagla
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List of Indian entrepreneurs
This is a list of notable Indian entrepreneurs.
References
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Businesspeople from Bangalore
Living people
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani alumni
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Purdue University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)