# Venkat Rangan

> Dr. P. Venkat Rangan is an Indian computer scientist, Yodlee co-founder and founding CEO, and founding vice chancellor of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. His career spans multimedia systems research at UC San Diego, Internet account aggregation and university leadership in India.

- **Role:** Vice Chancellor at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
- **Organizations:** Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Yodlee, University of California, San Diego, Amrita Technology Business Incubator
- **Nationality:** Indian
- **Education:** B.Tech. in Electronics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
- **Known for:** President of India's Gold Medal, IIT Madras, 1984, NCR Research Innovation Award, 1991, NSF National Young Investigator Award, 1993

## Career timeline

- **1984** — Graduated from IIT Madras; received the President of India's Gold Medal.
- **1989-2005** — Faculty member at UC San Diego; founded its Multimedia Laboratory.
- **1991** — Co-authored Designing File Systems for Digital Video and Audio with Harrick M. Vin.
- **1993** — Program chairman of the first ACM Multimedia conference; received the NSF National Young Investigator Award.
- **1996** — Became a full professor at UC San Diego.
- **1998** — Named an ACM Fellow.
- **1999** — Co-founded Yodlee and served as founding CEO.
- **2000** — Moved to CTO as Anil Arora became CEO in February.
- **2003** — Appointed vice chancellor of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
- **2009** — Led an Amrita student team developing a wireless landslide-detection system operational in Munnar.

## Achievements

- President of India's Gold Medal, IIT Madras, 1984
- NCR Research Innovation Award, 1991
- NSF National Young Investigator Award, 1993
- ACM Fellow, 1998
- Program chairman, ACM Multimedia 1993
- Founding editor-in-chief of Multimedia Systems
- Co-founder and founding CEO of Yodlee
- Founding vice chancellor of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Discussed research exposure, employability, entrepreneurship, global mobility and social impact in students’ changing expectations of higher education.

## Links

- Website: https://www.amrita.edu/faculty/venkat/
- LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/venkat-rangan-9719613
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/ammasvcoffice
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Ammasvcoffice

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