Pradeep Khosla
From IRF 2008
Prof. Pradeep Khosla
Pradeep Khosla is currently Dean of the College of Engineering, Philip and Marsha Dowd University Professor in the College of Engineering and School of Computer Science, and Founding Director of CyLab at Carnegie Mellon.
His previous positions include: Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Director, Information Networking Institute; Founding Director of Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES); and Program Manager at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), where he managed a $50M portfolio of programs in real-time systems, internet enabled software infrastructure, intelligent systems, and distributed systems.
Pradeep is a recipient of several awards including the ASEE 1999 George Westinghouse Award for Education, Siliconindia Leadership Award for Excellence in Academics and Technology in 2000, the W. Wallace McDowell Award from IEEE Computer Society in 2001, and Cyber Education Award from the Business Software Alliance in 2007. For his contributions to technology and education he has been elected Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), and member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
Pradeep’s research has resulted in three books and more than 350 articles in journals, conferences, and book contributions. He currently serves on several editorial boards for journals and book series. He is a frequent keynote speaker at international conferences and invited to participate at thought leadership forums organized by Fortune Magazine, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Milken Institute, World Economic Forum, and Blouin Foundation, for example.
Pradeep is a consultant to several companies and venture capitalists and has served on the technology advisory boards of many start-ups and currently serves on several advisory boards including Iron Leaf Capital Corporation, iNetworks LLC, ITU Ventures, and Alcoa CIO’s Advisory Board. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Quantapoint Inc., BitAromor Inc., the Children’s Institute, the IIT Foundation, Mellon-Pitt (MPC) Corporation, the Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative (PTEI), Doyle Center, and Pittsburgh Technology Council. He also serves on the advisory boards of several universities in the U.S. He is a member of the IT advisory committee, CSIRO, Australia, and a member of ITU High Level Experts Group for the Global Cybersecurty Agenda (GCA). He has served as member of the Strategy Review Board for Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan; Council of Deans of the Aeronautics Advisory Committee, NASA; National Research Council Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design; and Senior Advisory Group for the DARPA Program on Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems. He is a co-founder of Quantapoint Inc., and BiometriCore Inc.
He received B. Tech (Hons) from IIT (Kharagpur, India) in 1980, and both Master of Science (1984) and PhD (1986) degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University.
Contact: pkhosla@cmu.edu /// +1 412 2685090
