About Sanjay
Sanjay Sarma is an Indian mechanical engineer and professor at MIT, currently holding the Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professorship in Mechanical Engineering. Until May 2025, he served as CEO, President and Dean of the Asia School of Business, and since 2025 sits on its Board of Governors. He is vice president for Open Learning at MIT, overseeing digital learning initiatives including MITx and MIT OpenCourseWare. Sarma co-founded the Auto-ID Center at MIT in 1999, which developed foundational RFID standards and technologies now used globally.
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Expert / AcademicConsultant / AdvisorAutomotive SystemsDigital LearningEducational TechnologyEPC StandardsInternet Of ThingsManufacturingOpen LearningRFID
Known for
- co-founding the Auto-ID Center at MIT
- developing RFID standards and technologies
- digital learning and open learning initiatives at MIT
- internet of things research
- authoring works on IoT economy
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