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“I taught as a soldier and a singer,” notes Aneal Krishnan ’02
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Aneal says that inspired him to make a gift that supports Undergraduate Research Opportunities for ROTC students at the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies and names the dressing rooms in the new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building.
Key facts
- Aneal says that inspired him to make a gift that supports Undergraduate Research Opportunities for ROTC students at the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies and names the dressing rooms
- Currently, he is founder and CEO of Prosper Northeastern Pennsylvania, a nonprofit organization that promotes regional economic growth
- Says Aneal: “MIT changed the arc of their entire life
- The son of immigrants from India, Aneal attended MIT on an Army ROTC scholarship, graduating with degrees in management and in electrical engineering and computer science
Summary
“I trained as a soldier and a singer,” says Aneal Krishnan ’02, whose MIT experiences as a cadet in the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) and as a performer in the Chorallaries a cappella group each, in its own way, shaped his path in life. The son of immigrants from India, Aneal attended MIT on an Army ROTC scholarship, graduating with degrees in management and in electrical engineering and computer science. Currently, he is founder and CEO of Prosper Northeastern Pennsylvania, a nonprofit organization that promotes regional economic growth. How his MIT ROTC training prepared him for Iraq: “This was the first conflict where technology placed real-time satellite, drone, and sensor data in the hands of individual soldiers.