Dr. Andrew Thangaraj
Professor & Program Coordinator
Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras
Andrew Thangaraj, Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, has been with the institute since June 2004. His bachelors was from IIT Madras and PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. His research interests are in the areas of information theory and error-control coding.
From Nov 2011, he has been one of the Coordinators of the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), a multi-institutional project funded by the Ministry of Education and managed by IIT Madras. At NPTEL, he played a key role in the starting of online courses and certification on a massive scale through the SWAYAM portal. He is currently the Principal Investigator for SWAYAM.
At IIT Madras, he led a team of faculty that started the Bachelor of Science Degree in Data Science & Applications, launched in June 2020, with online course content delivery and in-person exams.