IITM Alumni

Anand Kannan

Ph.D
 • 
Wireless Communications and Signal Processing
 • 
1999
Chennai, Tamil Nadu

About Us

Anand Kannan serves as the Managing Director and Co-founder of Valued Epistemics Pvt. Ltd, the organization behind AdmitEDGE. He brings exceptional academic credentials and extensive industry experience to his leadership role.

His professional journey includes significant tenure at Nokia's Research Center in Irving, Texas, where he contributed to groundbreaking projects in wireless LAN research, GSM and CDMA radio technology, entry-level mobile application development, and business model development for low-income markets. He also gained valuable startup experience working at Arraycomm Inc in San Jose, California during its early growth phase.

His diverse interests span economics, entrepreneurship, management, cognition, computing, communication technology, system development, digital signal processing, and algorithm and architecture development. This unique combination of technical expertise, research experience, and business acumen positions him ideally to lead AdmitEDGE's mission of providing personalized, technology-driven guidance for students pursuing higher education opportunities globally.

Through his leadership, Anand has helped establish AdmitEDGE as a trusted platform that has trained over 100,000 students, facilitated 18,000+ top admits for MS programs, and produced 2,500+ high scorers achieving 320+ on standardized tests.

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Anand Kannan

Ph.D
 • 
Wireless Communications and Signal Processing
 • 
1999
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
About Anand Kannan

Anand Kannan serves as the Managing Director and Co-founder of Valued Epistemics Pvt. Ltd, the organization behind AdmitEDGE. He brings exceptional academic credentials and extensive industry experience to his leadership role.

His professional journey includes significant tenure at Nokia's Research Center in Irving, Texas, where he contributed to groundbreaking projects in wireless LAN research, GSM and CDMA radio technology, entry-level mobile application development, and business model development for low-income markets. He also gained valuable startup experience working at Arraycomm Inc in San Jose, California during its early growth phase.

His diverse interests span economics, entrepreneurship, management, cognition, computing, communication technology, system development, digital signal processing, and algorithm and architecture development. This unique combination of technical expertise, research experience, and business acumen positions him ideally to lead AdmitEDGE's mission of providing personalized, technology-driven guidance for students pursuing higher education opportunities globally.

Through his leadership, Anand has helped establish AdmitEDGE as a trusted platform that has trained over 100,000 students, facilitated 18,000+ top admits for MS programs, and produced 2,500+ high scorers achieving 320+ on standardized tests.