Prof. Dr. P. Venkat Rangan is an Indian computer scientist and vice chancellor of Amrita University.
He was the founder and director of the Multimedia Laboratory and Internet at the University of California, San Diego, where he served as Professor of Computer Science.
Dr. Rangan also founded Yodlee Inc. and served as its CEO,[1] for which in 2000, he was selected as one of the 25 best entrepreneurs by the President of the United States of America and featured on the July 2000 cover of Internet World Magazine.
[4][5] Venkat Rangan has been the recipient of President of India's gold medal from Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1984.
[7] He was the founder and director of the Multimedia Laboratory and Internet & Wireless Networks (WiFi) Research center at the University of California, San Diego, where was also Professor of Computer Science and Engineering for 16 years.