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{{Infobox scientist
| name = P. Venkat Rangan
| image = Dr P Venkat-Rangan Vice Chancellor Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham-2020.jpg
| caption = Vice Chancellor [[Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham]]
| occupation =
| birth_place =
| nationality = Indian
| field = [[Computer Science]]
| work_institution = [[Amrita University]]<br>[[University of California, San Diego]]
| alma_mater = [[Indian Institute of Technology Madras]] (1980-1984)<br>[[Cornell University]] (1984-1985)<br>[[University of California, Berkeley]] (1985-1988)
| doctoral_advisor = Domenico Ferrari
| doctoral_students =
| known_for = Multimedia
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}}
'''P. Venkat Rangan''' is an Indian [[computer scientist]]. He is the current vice chancellor of [[Amrita University]]. A pioneer of research in Multimedia Systems, he was the founder and director of the Multimedia Laboratory at the [[University of California, San Diego]], where he served as a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering.<ref>{{cite press release| title=ACM Fellows Citation| url=http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=3841665&srt=all}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release| title=Prof. Venkat Rangan's UCSD homepage| url=http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/~venkat/}}</ref> By the age of 33 he was one of the youngest full professors at [[University of California, San Diego]]. Dr. Rangan also founded [[Yodlee]] Inc. and served as its CEO,<ref>{{cite press release| title=Yodleeing Their Way to the Top| url=http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/oct/30us2.htm}}</ref> for which in 2000, he was selected as one of the 25 best entrepreneurs by the President of the [[United States of America]] and featured on the July 2000 cover of Internet World Magazine.<ref>{{cite press release| title=Into a Million Pieces. Editorial Piece in the Internet World Magazine of July 2000}}</ref>

Venkat Rangan has been the recipient of President of India's gold medal from [[Indian Institute of Technology Madras]] in 1984. As a Ph.D. student in Computer Science he spent a year at [[Cornell University]], before moving to [[University of California, Berkeley]]. At 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]].

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".<ref>{{cite press release| title=ACM Fellows Citation| url=http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=3841665&srt=all}}</ref> With over 100 research papers and 30 [[patents]] to his credit, Venkat Rangan has been the driving force behind the setting up of a large number of [[inter-disciplinary]] research centers within Amrita University. He has extensively collaborated with international and Indian Govt partners on research projects.<ref>{{cite press release| title=U.S. Universities, Industry in Win-Win Agreement with India to Improve Engineering Education| url=http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=410}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release| title=Amrita University signs MoU with NAL| url=http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/10/stories/2007121059110300.htm| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071212192806/http://www.hindu.com/2007/12/10/stories/2007121059110300.htm| url-status=dead| work=[[The Hindu]]| date=2007-12-10| archive-date=2007-12-12}}</ref>

==Awards==
In his career, Dr. Rangan has won several prestigious awards. Some of them are:
* Fellow of [[Association for Computing Machinery]] (1998)
* [[National Science Foundation|NSF]] National Young Investigator Award (1993)
* The NCR Corporation Research Innovation Award (1991)
* The President of India Gold Medal (1984)

==References==

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==External links==
* [https://www.amrita.edu/faculty/venkat Profile]
* [http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~venkat/ Bio]

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