Anuradha Vaidyanathan, known as Anu Vaidyanathan, is an Indian triathlete who is the first and only Asian to compete in Ultraman

Ultraman (endurance challenge)

The Ultraman World Championship is a three-day, 320 mile annual endurance race held on the Big Island of Hawaii. The race is divided into three stages over three days: The first is a 6.2-mile ocean swim from Kailua Bay to Keauhou Bay, followed by a 90-mile cross-country bike ride, with vertical...

 and placed 6th. In three years, she competed all over the globe in Ironman distance events and long-course triathlons culminating in Ultraman Canada in 2009, followed by a finish at Ironman Canada three weeks after Ultraman. Vaidyanathan is the first Indian to train for long-course triathlons in India and qualified for the Half Ironman 70.3 Clearwater World Championship in 2008 (although she did not compete in this race).

Besides being an athlete, she runs a company, PatNMarks, that specializes in Intellectual Property

Intellectual property

Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...

 Consulting. Vaidyanathan also has a PhD in a record-setting time of 26 months from University of Canterbury

University of Canterbury

The University of Canterbury , New Zealand's second-oldest university, operates its main campus in the suburb of Ilam in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand...

 at Christchurch

Christchurch

Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...

, in Electrical Engineering

Electrical engineering

Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...

 and a Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Engineering

Computer engineering

Computer engineering, also called computer systems engineering, is a discipline that integrates several fields of electrical engineering and computer science required to develop computer systems. Computer engineers usually have training in electronic engineering, software design, and...

. She has served as a member of faculty at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar in the Department of Computer Science and Engineeringand is currently faculty at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad , better known as IIM Ahmedabad or simply IIM-A, is a business school located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. It is the second Indian Institute of Management to be established, in 1961.-History:...

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