Ananth Dodabalapur

Ananth Dodabalapur is an American engineer, currently the Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor, and previously the Ashley H. Priddy Centennial Professor, at University of Texas at Austin and a published author. He was formerly with Bell Laboratories Research, Murray Hill, NJ for more than 10 years. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE. He was listed in Who's Who in America and Who's who in Science and Engineering. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Flexible and Printed Electronics. His research work as been cited more than 26,000 times. He holds 27 US patents and these have been cited more than 1700 times. He has co-founded two companies - Organicid and Sensorbit. He is a recipient of the 2002 National Award for Team Innovation from the American Chemical Society. His work on Organic Transistors has been listed in a compilation of key achievements in Electronics for the 20th century.

He is a descendent of Dewan Purniah, the First Dewan of Mysore and of Sir. P.N. Krishnamurthy, Dewan of Mysore.