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 Dr. Pradeep Khosla
Dr. Pradeep Khosla, one of the most respected minds in the areas of advanced information systems technology and security, brings unique insight advising the management team of iPolicy Networks. Dr Khosla is currently Dean of the College of Engineering, Philip and Marsha Dowd Professor of Engineering, and the Founding Director of CyLab at Carnegie-Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, PA.
Dr. Khosla’s areas
of scientific interest include reconfigurable
and distributed collaborating autonomous
systems, agent-based architectures,
reconfigurable software and security
for embedded systems, and distributed
information systems. His contributions
in these fields have earned him many
prestigious awards including the
ASEE 1999 George Westinghouse Award
for Education, the Silicon India
Leadership award for Excellence in
Academics and Technology in 2000,
and the W. Wallace McDowell award
from IEEE Computer Society in 2001.
Professor Khosla's research has been
published in three books and more
than three hundred articles in journals,
conferences, and book contributions.
He serves on the editorial boards
of IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Security and
Privacy, Oxford University Press
Series in Electrical and Computer
Engineering. He is a Fellow of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE), the American Association
of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI),
and the American Association for
Advancement of Science (AAAS).
His credentials earned him positions on the advisory boards of several prestigious US government institutions, namely the Council of Deans of the Aeronautics Advisory Committee, NASA and the Senior Advisory Group, DARPA Program on Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems. Overseas, Dr. Khosla was welcomed as member of the Strategy Review Board for Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan and the IT advisory committee, CSIRO, Australia.
Dr Khosla is a brilliant
researcher who is not just
entrenched in academic pursuits.
He is very involved in helping industry
bring to market products based on
the latest advances in science and
technology. He co-founded Quantapoint,
Inc. a high tech company based in
Pittsburgh, PA. He advises Venture
Capitalists and several startups,
including iPolicy Networks, and he
is member of the board for Quantapoint
Inc., the Children’s
Institute, the IIT Foundation,
the Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering
Initiative (PTEI), and the Mellon-Pitt
(MPC) corporation.
Pradeep Khosla received his Bachelor in Technology from IIT Kharagpur, India. His Master of Science and PhD degrees are from Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
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