IITian is dean of Carnegie Mellon

[quote:79a63c2695]IITian is dean of Carnegie Mellon
Friday, 11 June , 2004, 16:23

Pradeep K Khosla, an IIT-Kharagpur alumni, has been named the new dean of the college of engineering at the Carnegie Mellon University. Khosla, 47, is an expert on robotics and intelligent systems, embedded software and cybersecurity.

Currently the Philip and Marsha Dowd Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Robotics, Khosla has been a member of the Carnegie faculty since 1986 and is a Carnegie alumnus. Khosla also heads the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE) and is co-director of CyLab, a university-wide initiative.

“Pradeep Khosla’s wide-ranging experience in research, teaching and creating meaningful partnerships with business and industry make him an excellent choice to lead our College of Engineering. Based on our past experience with his work, we expect great things of Pradeep,” said Jared L. Cohon, president of Carnegie Mellon.

"It is a great honor for me to be named head of Carnegie Mellon’s Engineering College because it is a very strong college with a long tradition of leadership in research and education. I am also very honored that I am following in the footsteps of several excellent deans whose leadership has made a difference,” Khosla said.

Khosla said he is extremely proud of his work on the “Wipe the Slate Clean” committee, which basically redefined the engineering degree at Carnegie Mellon. He developed the introductory freshman course that encourages hands-on engineering activity.

Khosla lives with his wife Thespine and his two sons Nathan and Alexander in a Pittsburgh suburb. Khosla has won many awards, including the Siliconindia 2000 Leadership award for Excellence in academics, Inlaks Foundation Fellowship, the Carnegie Institute of Technology Ladd Award for Excellence in Research, two NASA Tech Brief awards, the ASEE George Westinghouse Award for Education, the SiliconIndia Leadership Award for Excellence in Academics and Technology and the W. Wallace McDowell Award from the IEEE Computer Society.[/quote:79a63c2695]
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