AMMA appointed Dr.P.Venkat Rangan as Vice Chancellor of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in July, 2003. He was professor, Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego and founder and director of multimedia lab at the university. Dr. Rangan has been the recipient of President of India’s gold medal from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai in 1984. He ranked first again in his graduate studies in Computer Science at Cornell University. His Ph.D. research work at UC Berkeley, California was again judged as the outstanding Ph.D of the year by IBM.

He has also won several prestigious awards including the NCR Research Innovation Award in 1991 and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) National Young Investigator Award in 1993, and 25 best entrepreneurs of US Award by the President of America in 2000. Dr. P. Venkat Rangan, at the age of 33, was one of the youngest full professors at the University of California, San Diego.

He has also been Founder CEO of Yodlee Inc., which is a multi-national leader in online aggregation services. The company holds 99% of market share of the back engine for the world’s leading financial portals including leaders like Citi Bank, Bank of America etc. He has to his credit 30 patents and has published over 100 research papers.

Research Areas

Awards and Recognitions

In addition to serving on numerous program committees and editorial boards, Venkat has founded several "firsts":

Program Chairman of ACM Multimedia '93: First International Conference
on Multimedia,
and also
Editor-in-Chief of the ACM/Springer-Verlag journal: Multimedia Systems.

Venkat has also served as a member of multimedia expert panel of the US National Academy of Sciences/ROC Scientific Committee, a visiting scientist at Xerox Parc, Multimedia Technology Advisor to the Electronics Secretary of the Government of India; and Program Chairman, 1997 Indo-US Bilateral Conference on Multimedia.

Recent Visits& Talks

Foreign University visits of the Vice Chancellor

University of Mannheim, Germany
Date: Oct 21 and 22

University of Piacenza in Italy
Date: October 25

University of Milano and Pavia, Italy
Date: October 24-26, 2004.

Keynote Addresses/ Invited talks in Conferences/ Workshops by the Vice Chancellor :

Talk in the workshop "Effective Disaster Warning Systems & Risk Communication" at TIFAC on 2/17/05

Delivered a talk on “Emerging Technology Options” at Launch of Amrita SKYBUS Intelligent Interactive Wireless Telematics Systems on 3/17/05

Invited speaker on "Telemedicine and its applications" at ELITEX 2005 , India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi on 4/26/05

The first CS ITPAR Workshop on “Knowledge Oriented Software Engineering' at TIFR, Mumbai”
Topic: Wireless Sensor Networks and their Applications
Venue: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba,
Mumbai 400 005
Dates: 19-21 January 2005
http://sra.itc.it/events/itpar-ws05/pmwiki.php/Main/TalkAbstracts

Brainstorming Workshop on “Effective Disaster Warning Systems & Risk Communication”
Topic: "Emerging Technology Options"
Venue: TIFAC, Vishwakarma Bhavan, Shaheed Jeet Singh Marg, New Delhi-110 016
Dates: 17-18 February, 2005
http://www.tifac.org.in/news/evdisaster.htm

Special Lectures to Ph.D. students of IISc, Bangalore and IIT Delhi

Talk to SERC students at IISc, Bangalore
Topic: Transforming New Technologies into Business and Societal Ventures
Date: 10th February 2005

Talk to ECE students in IISc, Bangalore
Topic: Transforming New Technologies into Business and Societal Ventures
Date: 11th February 2005

Talk to CSE students of IIT, New Delhi
Topic: Transforming New Technologies into Business and Societal Ventures
Date: 18th February 2005