SANJAY SARMA, PHD Chair

Dr. Sanjay Sarma is the Fred Fort Flowers (1941) and Daniel Fort Flowers (1941) Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He was President, CEO, and Dean of the Asia School of Business. Previously he was VP for Open Learning at MIT. He co-founded the Auto-ID Center at MIT and developed many of the key technologies behind the EPC suite of RFID standards now used worldwide. He was also the founder and CTO of OATSystems, which was acquired by Checkpoint Systems (NYSE: CKP) in 2008.

Dr. Sarma received his Bachelors from the Indian Institute of Technology, his Masters from Carnegie Mellon University, and his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. He also worked at Schlumberger Oilfield Services in Aberdeen, UK, and at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories in Berkeley, California. Dr. Sarma has authored over 100 academic papers in computational geometry, sensing, RFID, automation, and CAD, and is the recipient of numerous awards for teaching and research including the MacVicar Fellowship, the Business Week eBiz Award, and Informationweek's Innovators and Influencers Award. He advises several national governments and global companies.

Dr. Sarma co-authored Workforce Education: A New Roadmap; Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn; The Inversion Factor: How to Thrive in the IoT Economy. His leadership in applied learning & teaching helped to shape the AI and Member 1st (AIM1) approach of the Fellowship going back to the late 1990s when he began collaborating with Peake’s development team.