Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman (born 1933) is an Indian engineer, academic and writer,[citation needed] known for his pioneering efforts in the field of Computer Science Education in India.

[1][2] He is credited with the establishment of the first academic program in computer science in India, which he helped initiate at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1965.

[4] Born on 8 September 1933 to Ramaswami Vaidyeswaran and Sarada at Erode in a part of Madras Presidency that is now south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Rajamaran married Dharma in 1964.

Rajaraman was awarded a scholarship by Delhi University after passing the All India Entrance Scholarship Examination and graduated with BSc (Hon) in Physics from St. Stephen's College of University of Delhi in 1952 and continued his higher studies at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (IISc) to obtain a Diploma of IISc (Electrical Communication Engineering) in 1955.

He was awarded an overseas scholarship by the government of India and joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge from which he obtained his MSc degree in Electrical Engineering in 1959.

He went as a visiting Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley during period 1965–66.It was during this time that he shifted his focus to then nascent discipline of computer science.

[3] In early 1965, with encouragement by H. K. Kesavan, Head of Electrical Engineering Dep't at IIT Kanpur, Rajaraman and his colleagues initiated a new MTech program with Computer Science as an option, the first time the subject was offered as an academic discipline in India.

Rajaraman, besides developing parallel computers, contributed in the development of real-time control system for Bhilai Steel Plant, designed the training modules for Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and designed computer science curriculum for All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), the national council for technical education in India.

During his tenure in the Electronics Commission he chaired a committee which recommended the introduction of a new academic programme called Master of Computer Applications(MCA)[29] for BSc and BCom students foreseeing the impending human resource shortage for the IT industry.