Dr. Sanjeev Ranganathan deeply cares about self-awareness and personal growth. He works on his own personal growth and in creating an environment for others to grow. He did his B.Tech (1996) and M.S.by research (1999) at IITM and Ph.D from Columbia University. He has received the Lewis Winner Award for the best paper at ISSCC. He has created products used by over a billion people working with Silicon Labs, ST Ericsson, Aura Semiconductor Pvt. Ltd.

While doing his PhD he volunteered with Asha for Education through which he interacted with over 85 alternative schools over 13 years. He then moved to Auroville to work on integral education with children and youth.
He is the founder of C3STREAM land Designs a commercial unit that supports rural youth learn, grow, work, and teach. Youth learn and consult in Programming, and VLSI Design and simultaneously volunteer to facilitate STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Arts Mathematics) education and leadership for children in schools. STEM Land runs Becoming and Being a Shifu (Master) a one-year residential program to develop skills, competencies, and inner capacities in youth.

The progress of children and facilitators through Radical Transformational Leadership tools and this collaborative learning environment is documented in research papers at international conferences.

He is the principal of the AIAT (Auroville Institute of Applied Technology) where developing the inner capacity in youth has been incorporated in creating an undergraduate B.Voc program. He is an executive of the Isai Ambalam School a research school for children from the villages around Auroville that integrates values, culture, STEAM around the development of the integral personality.

As an executive of Sri Aurobindo Institute of International Educational Research (SAIIER), he looks to support over 50 Auroville educational initiatives to move beyond silos and actively engage and interact with each other to deepen and enrich the experience of children and Integral Educational practitioners. He is a Radical Transformational Leadership practitioner coach and a Vipassana meditation practitioner.