Full Name
Santanu Bhattacharya
Job Title
Research Affiliate
Company
MIT Media Lab
Brief Biography
Santanu Bhattacharya, scientist and innovator, leads Decentralized AI and Agentic Web research at MIT Media Lab. With a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from NASA, he founded multiple startups with successful exits, led Emerging Market Products at Facebook, and, as Airtel’s Chief Scientist and NatWest’s Chief Technologist, contributed to $10 billion impact. A World Economic Forum speaker, his work is featured in The Economist, Forbes, TechCrunch, Le Monde, and The Economic Times.
Santanu Bhattacharya