Dr Raina holds a Phd in Mathematics (Srinivasa Ramanujan Scholar) from Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK. He is currently part of the faculty in Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras, and also a visiting research fellow in Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. His research interests span the design and control of large scale engineering systems like the Internet and intelligent transportation systems.

He has recently been appointed Chairman of the Mobile Payment Forum of India. His online course on modern application development, from IIT Madras, is currently India’s largest MOOC. Dr Raina also leads a venture focused on research-based online math education for school kids and teachers, and data science for industry.

Affiliations

• Communications Networks, Dynamics and Control Laboratory

Education

• PhD from Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK

Area of specialization

• Performance modeling of communication networks
• Control theory and non-linear systems
• Mobile payments