Dr Anand Lakshmanan (Senior Member IEEE, Fellow IETE) is a Strategic Leader with technical and management
expertise in the areas of Telecommunications, Computing and related technologies
Dr Anand has a Doctorate in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and later, he got his
MBA (Finance) and a Post-Graduate Certification from IIM-Ahmedabad in Leadership Excellence.
Dr Anand has travelled and collaborated with teams in the United States, Europe, and the APAC regions on
engineering of innovative product lines to market-specific goals and being a part of the customer success
stories across geographies and adaptation to multisite cultures.
Since 2016, Dr Anand has been involved in designing and delivering courses as an Adjunct Professor at the
Indian Institute of Information Technology – Design and Manufacturing (IIIT-DM), Kanchipuram, as a Visiting
Professor (2022-24) at Amrita School of Computing, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and more recently, as a Mentor
for Innovations and Entrepreneurship at Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam. He was
associated with L&T EdTech in designing and creating technical content for online learning from 2020 to
2022.
He is currently a Senior Project Advisor at the Centre of Excellence for Advanced Automotive Research at
IIT-Madras, a position he has held since August 2024, where he leads research initiatives in Internet of
Things (IoT) and Software-Defined Vehicles (SDV).
