Home People Anant Agarwal People FacultyFaculty AI+DFaculty CSFaculty EEFaculty EmeritusLecturers Leadership Staff CEO, edX; Professor of EECS; [CS and EE] agarwal@mit.edu (617) 253-1448 Office: NE55-900 Website Research Areas Computer ArchitectureMulticore Processors & Cloud ComputingProgramming Languages and Software EngineeringSystems and Networking Latest News More News May 20, 2019 CSAIL unseals time capsule with internet and computing artifacts Researchers opened the capsule after a self-taught Belgian programmer solved a 20-year-old cryptographic puzzle devised by EECS faculty member Ron Rivest. September 24, 2018 Anant Agarwal, Professor of EECS and CEO of edX, wins Yidan Prize The EECS faculty member is being recognized for making education more accessible to people around the world via the edX open-source online platform.