Dr. Vijay Chandru Reddy is an Indian entrepreneur. He is a co-founder and chairman of Strand Life Sciences. He is also the co-founder of CrisprBits Pvt. Ltd. An INAE Distinguished Technologist & Adjunct Faculty at the Indian Institute of Science, a visiting scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Honorary Visiting Professor at the National Centre of Biological Sciences in Bangalore, Chandru received his bachelor’s degree from BITS Pilani in Electrical Engineering, a Master of Science from UCLA in Engineering Systems and a PhD from the MIT Operations Research Center in 1982.
He started his academic career in teaching and research in 1982. He served as professor at Purdue University from 1982-1992. Later in 1992, he joined the Indian Institute of Science. From 2003 to 2013 he served as Research Affiliate of the Lab for Information and Decision Systems at MIT. He has co-authored the book Optimization Methods for Logical Inference, published by Wiley Interscience in 1999. 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.
