Vijay Chandru is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of Strand Life Sciences

Strand Life Sciences

Strand Life Sciences, formerly Strand Genomics, is a Bangalore, India-based in silico technology company. Strand focuses in data mining, predictive modeling, computational chemistry, software engineering, bioinformatics, and research biology to develop software and services for life sciences...

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Biography

Chandru received his bachelor degree from BITS Pilani and PhD from the MIT Sloan School of Management

MIT Sloan School of Management

The MIT Sloan School of Management is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts....

 in 1982. He started his academic career in teaching and research in 1982. He served professor as Purdue University for 1982-1992. Later in 1992 he joined at the Indian Institute of Science

Indian Institute of Science

Indian Institute of Science is a research institution of higher learning located in Bangalore, India. It was established in 1909.-History:After a chance meeting between Jamsetji N...

. Since 2003 he served as Research Affiliate of the Lab for Information and Decision Systems at MIT.

He has co-authored the book Combinatorial Optimization: The Computer Science and Engineering Handbook. He is also a founder of the Association of Biotech led Enterprises (ABLE) and continues to serve as an executive council member. He is one of the inventors of the Simputer

Simputer

The Simputer is a self-contained, open hardware Linux-based handheld computer, first released in 2002. Developed in, and primarily distributed within India, the product was envisioned as a low-cost alternative to personal computers...

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Awards

Chandru has received the Dewang Mehta Award. He is named a Technology Pioneer of the World Economic Forum in 2007 for his work with Strand Life Sciences and biotechnology. He also received the Biospectrum Biotech Entrepreneur of 2007.