A Brief Biography

M. S. Vijay Kumar is Senior Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education and Director of the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology, DUE at MIT. In this and capacity he provides leadership for sustainable technology-enabled educational innovation at MIT In his prior roles at MIT as Assistant Provost and Director of Academic Computing, as well at other institutions, Vijay provided leadership for units engaged in delivering infrastructure and services for the effective integration of information technology and media services in education.

Vijay was the Principal Investigator of O.K.I (Open Knowledge Initiative), an MIT-led collaborative project to develop an open architecture for enterprise educational applications.

Vijay is a member of the Advisory Committee of MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) and a member of the steering committee for I-Campus, the MIT-Microsoft Alliance initiative for educational technology. He is the Executive officer for MIT's Council on Educational Technology. Vijay also served on the Applications Strategy Council for Interne2 and as trustee of the Corporation for Research and Education.

He is an honorary advisor to India's National Knowledge Commission and advisor to the Open University of Catalonia.

Vijay's research, as well as his extensive engagement as advisor and consultant with academic and professional institutions is directed toward strategy, planning and implementing innovations for education.

Vijay's doctorate in Education (Future Studies, focusing on educational computing and planning for technological innovations in education) from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst is preceded by a MS in Industrial Management and a B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering, both from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras.


			M.S. Vijay Kumar Senior Associate Dean and Director, Office of Educational Innovation and Technology, Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology 211 Massachusetts Avenue, Room N42-253 Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 253-8004 (voice) / (617) 258-6875 (facsimile) email: vkumar@mit.edu



			A Brief Biography M. S. Vijay Kumar is Senior Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education and Director of the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology, DUE at MIT. In this and capacity he provides leadership for sustainable technology-enabled educational innovation at MIT In his prior roles at MIT as Assistant Provost and Director of Academic Computing, as well at other institutions, Vijay provided leadership for units engaged in delivering infrastructure and services for the effective integration of information technology and media services in education. Vijay was the Principal Investigator of O.K.I (Open Knowledge Initiative), an MIT-led collaborative project to develop an open architecture for enterprise educational applications. Vijay is a member of the Advisory Committee of MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) and a member of the steering committee for I-Campus, the MIT-Microsoft Alliance initiative for educational technology. He is the Executive officer for MIT's Council on Educational Technology. Vijay also served on the Applications Strategy Council for Interne2 and as trustee of the Corporation for Research and Education. He is an honorary advisor to India's National Knowledge Commission and advisor to the Open University of Catalonia. Vijay's research, as well as his extensive engagement as advisor and consultant with academic and professional institutions is directed toward strategy, planning and implementing innovations for education. Vijay's doctorate in Education (Future Studies, focusing on educational computing and planning for technological innovations in education) from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst is preceded by a MS in Industrial Management and a B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering, both from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras.