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 Department of Aerospace,  Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, where he worked on Load Balancing algorithms in Distributed Systems. 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 and as a Visiting Professor (2022-24) at Amrita School of Computing, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. 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).  He is also a Mentor for Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathiyamangalam for Innovations and Entrepreneurship.