P. Venkat Rangan


P. Venkat Rangan is an Indian computer scientist and vice chancellor of Amrita University.
He is a former professor at the University of California, San Diego, where he founded the Multimedia Laboratory & Research Center. He is the founder & former CEO of the Yodlee, Inc an online account aggregation Tech company for which he was named one of the top entrepreneurs in the U.S. in 2000.
He is an ACM Fellow and is recognized as a pioneer in the field of multimedia systems. He has over 100 research papers and 30 US patents and the driving force behind the setting up of a large number of inter-disciplinary research centers in Amrita University. He has extensively collaborated with international and Indian Govt partners on research projects.

Education

Venkat Rangan has been the recipient of President of India's gold medal from Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1984 during his UG. As a Ph.D. student in computer science, he spent a year at Cornell University, before moving to University of California, Berkeley. At UC Berkeley he secured the top-most rank in the qualifying exams for graduate studies. In 1988, his Ph.D. thesis at University of California, Berkeley was judged as the outstanding Ph.D. of the year by IBM.

Research and academic career

He was the founder and director of the Multimedia Laboratory and Internet & Wireless Networks Research center at the University of California, San Diego, where was also professor of computer science and engineering for 16 years. At age 33 he was one of the youngest full professors at University of California, San Diego.
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".

Entrepreneurship

He is known for founding & serving as CEO of Yodlee, Inc., an American personal finance software company pioneering in online account aggregation service. For his work, he was selected as one of the 25 best entrepreneurs by the president of the United States of America in 2000 and featured on the July 2000 cover of Internet World Magazine.

Positions held

Venkat Rangan has served various positions:

Awards

  • NSF National Young Investigator Award
  • Fellow of Association for Computing Machinery : youngest to achieve this international distinction
  • named under top 25 Stars of Internet Technologies, featured on its cover page of Internet World
  • Best Computer Science Scientists in India award
  • Stanford top scientists 2% award