Anant Agarwal is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and an associate director of the CSAIL Laboratory. He is also a founder and Chief Technology Officer of Tilera Corporation. Agarwal holds a Ph.D. (1987) in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and a bachelor's from IIT Madras (1982). His teaching and research interests include computer architecture, VLSI, compilation, and software systems. He served as Associate Director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) between 1998 and 2003, and was a co-leader of the Oxygen Project. He led a group that developed Sparcle (1992), an early multithreaded microprocessor based on the SPARC architecture, and the Alewife machine, a scalable shared-memory multiprocessor (1993). He led the Raw project at MIT's CSAIL laboratory, which developed an early tiled multicore microprocessor for distributed instruction level parallelism (DILP) and streams (2002). Agarwal also led the VirtualWires project at MIT and founded several start-ups, including Virtual Machine Works, Inc. (1993) and Tilera Corporation (2005). Agarwal won the Maurice Wilkes prize for computer architecture in 2001, the Presidential Young Investigator award in 1991, and the Louis D. Smullin Award for teaching excellence at MIT in 2005.