Shiya Ayyadurai Biography

Dr. V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai, the creator of email and a polymath, holds four degrees from MIT, is a world-renowned systems scientist, and a motivational speaker whose words motivate his audiences to explore their endless creative and innovative possibilities. He is a Fulbright Scholar, a Nominnee for the U.S. Presidential the National Medal for Technology and Innovation, Lemelson-MIT Awards Finalist, First Outstanding Scientist and Technologist of Indian Origin (STIO), and a Westinghouse Science Talent Honors Award recipient. He was accepted to a special program in computer science at New York University as a 14-year-old boy in 1978, after which he was recruited by the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) as a Research Fellow, where he invented the first email system, when he created an electronic system to replicate the entire interoffice mail system (Inbox, Outbox, Folders, Address Book, Memo, etc.), which he named email, defining the email we all know and love. At a period when Copyright was the sole option to protect software creations, the US government acknowledged Ayyadurai as the inventor of email by granted him the first Copyright for Email in 1982. His interest in human health began as a kid, when he watched his grandmother, a local farmer and healer, perform Siddha, India's oldest school of traditional medicine. This inspired his subsequent study and research in systems biology at MIT, which led to the creation of Systems Health, a key breakthrough that provides an integrated framework connecting eastern and western medicine. His most recent innovation, CytoSolve, is the result of his PhD study at MIT and provides a novel platform for modeling complicated biological events to aid in the creation of multi-combination therapies without the use of animals.

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