Vijay Chandru is an Indian entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of Strand Life Sciences.
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Chandru received his bachelor degree from BITS Pilani[1] and PhD from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1982. He started his academic career in teaching and research in 1982. He served professor as Purdue University for 1982-1992. Later in 1992 he joined at the Indian Institute of Science. Since 2003 he served as Research Affiliate of the Lab for Information and Decision Systems at MIT.
He has co-authored the book Combinatorial Optimization: The Computer Science and Engineering Handbook. 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.
Chandru has received the Dewang Mehta Award. He is named a Technology Pioneer of the World Economic Forum in 2007 for his work with Strand Life Sciences and biotechnology.[2] He also received the Biospectrum Biotech Entrepreneur of 2007.[3]