Sanjay Sarma

Sanjay E. Sarma (born May 1968) is a professor of mechanical engineering and the Vice President for Open Learning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is credited with developing many standards and technologies in the commercial RFID industry.[1] At MIT, he is also the director of Digital Learning.[2] Sarma also serves on the board of the MOOC provider edX as a representative of MIT.

Early life

Sarma earned his B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1989, his ME from Carnegie Mellon University in 1992 and his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley in 1995.[3]

Personal life

Sarma is the son of the former Secretary, Government of India, Dr. E. A. S. Sarma.[4] He is married to Dr. Gitanjali Swamy, daughter of Dr. Subramanian Swamy, an Indian politician. They have one daughter.

Career

Sarma began his career at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, after working for Schlumberger, Inc. and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories.[5]

Sarma and Dr. David Brock began work on RFID in 1998. In 1999, he co-founded the Auto-ID center at MIT together with Prof. Sunny Siu and Dr. David Brock of MIT, and Kevin Ashton of P&G in order to make the vision of standards based RFID a commercial reality.[6] The center opened in 1999 as an industry sponsored, MIT research project with the express goal of creating a global open standard system to put RFID everywhere Auto-ID Center. When Siu departed, Sarma served as the research director and then the chairman of research. Under Sarma's leadership with Kevin Ashton,[7] the number of sponsors grew to 103, and additional labs were funded at other major universities around the world. Once the EPC System was developed, MIT licensed it to non-profit standards body GS1 to create EPCglobal, and the Auto-ID Center project reached a successful conclusion.[8] The center was renamed Auto-ID Labs and continue their research.

Prof. Sarma is a frequent industry speaker and serves on the Board of Governors of EPCglobal and GS1 US,[9] and as a permanent guest of GS1. From 2012 to 2014 he served as the Chairman of the Board of EPCglobal.[10] He also served as CTO and Director (Board Member) of OATSystems, a leader in the RFID market. OATSystems was acquired in 2008 by Checkpoint Systems.[11]

Sarma is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award,[12] the Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Chair at MIT, the Den Hartog Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Keenan Award for Innovations in Undergraduate Education, the MacVicar Fellowship[13] and the New England Business and Technology Award. He was named as Business Week's 'e.biz 25 Innovators' list and Information Week's "Innovators and Influencers".[14] In 2010 he received the inaugural RFID Journal Special Achievement Award.[15] He has over 50 publications in computational geometry, virtual reality, manufacturing, CAD, RFID, security and embedded computing.[16][17]

In his lectures on Dynamics (MIT Course 2.003) Sarma often refers to the "Magic Formula" and the "Super Magic Formula." Many of his lectures are available online.[18] Sarma also teaches manufacturing. Sarma was also a member of the Production in an Innovation Economy Commission formed by MIT in 2011.[19] The commission released two books.[20][21]

In November 2012, Professor Sarma was appointed Director of Digital Learning at MIT with a mandate to assess how initiatives such as MITx and EdX are affecting instruction on campus.[22] The MIT Office of Digital Learning, which he leads, now includes MITx and MIT's historic OpenCourseWare project. In April 2013, Professor Sarma was appointed as a co-chair of the Task Force for the Future of Education at MIT.[23] The Task Force published its final report in August 2014.[24]

Sarma is also on the Board of Advisors for the global news platform, Fair Observer, focusing on national governments and global companies.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2003-09-28/sanjay-sarma-mits-autoid-center
  2. ↑ http://edtechtimes.com/2012/11/28/mit-appoints-first-director-of-digital-learning-sanjay-sharma/
  3. ↑ http://meche.mit.edu/people/faculty/index.html?id=74
  4. ↑ "Retired Bureaucrats and Their Causes". India Today. Retrieved 2014-08-13.
  5. ↑ http://web.mit.edu/lmp/people/sarma.html
  6. ↑ Press, Gil (2014-06-18). "A Very Short History of the Internet of Things". Forbes. Retrieved 2014-08-13.
  7. ↑ http://kevinjashton.com/
  8. ↑ "GS1 Timeline". GS1. GS1.
  9. ↑ http://www.gs1us.org/about-gs1-us/corporate/board-of-governors
  10. ↑ http://www.gs1us.org/Portals/0/gs1%20us%20library/news/EPC_ChairAnnouncement_PressRelease.pdf
  11. ↑ http://www.checkpointsystems.com/en/About/press-releases/2008/Checkpoint-Systems-Inc-to-Acquire-OATSystems-Inc.aspx
  12. ↑ "NSF CAREER AWARDS, 1997". Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards (FY 1997). National Science Foundation. Retrieved 2014-08-13.
  13. ↑ "MacVicar Fellows". Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program. MIT. Retrieved 2014-08-13.
  14. ↑ "Businessweek's eBiz Innovator and Influencer". Bloomberg Businessweek. Bloomberg. Retrieved 2014-08-13.
  15. ↑ http://www.rfidjournal.com/videos/view?436
  16. ↑ http://meche.mit.edu/documents/sesarma_CV.pdf
  17. ↑ "Sanjay Sarma Google Scholar Page". Google Scholar. Retrieved 2014-08-12.
  18. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ905OQGsBA
  19. ↑ http://mit.edu/pie/news/index.html
  20. ↑ economy, Suzanne Berger with MIT Task Force on Production in the Innovation (2013). Making in America : from innovation to market. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262019910.
  21. ↑ Locke, edited by Richard M.; Wellhausen, Rachel L. (2014). Production in the innovation economy. Cambridge: The MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262019927.
  22. ↑ http://web.mit.edu/press/2012/sanjay-sarma-director-of-digital-learning.html
  23. ↑ http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2013/institute-wide-task-force-future-of-education-0206
  24. ↑ http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/letter-final-report-institute-wide-task-force-future-mit-education

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