Distinguished Lecturer Series

Cybersecurity - Opportunities and Challenges

Pradeep Khosla

Carnegie Mellon University

Friday, December 1, 2006
10:30am - SENSQ 5317

Refreshments/meet the speaker at 10:00am

Hosted by Rami Melhem

Biography of Speaker

Pradeep Khosla is currently Dean of the College of Engineering, Philip and Marsha Dowd Professor of Engineering, and Founding Director of CyLab at Carnegie Mellon. His previous positions include -- Founding Director (1/97 - 6/99) of Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES) and Program Manager at DARPA (1/94 - 8/96) where he managed a $50M portoflio 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 election to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006. He is Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS). He currently serves on editorial boards of IEEE Spectrum, and IEEE Security and Privacy, Oxford University Press Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and was appointed in February 2003 to the National Research Council Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design for a 3 year term. Professor Khosla's research has resulted in 3 books and more than 300 articles in journals, conferences, and book contributions. 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 iNetworks, ITU Ventures, iPolicy Networks, and Alcoa CIO's Advisory Board. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Quantapoint Inc., the Children's Institute, IIT Foundation, the Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative (PTEI), and Mellon-Pitt (MPC) corporation. He also serves on the advisory boards of several universities and is a member of the Strategy Review Board for Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan; the IT advisory committee, CSIRO, Australia; Council of Deans of the Aeronautics Advisory Committtee, NASA; and Senior Advisory Group, DARPA Program on Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems. He is a co-founder of Quantapoint Inc. -- a high tech company based in Pittsburgh. Quantapoint specializes in high precision laser scanners that are used for creating high fidelity 3D models. He received B. Tech (Hons) from IIT (Kharagpur, India) in 1980, and both MS (1984) and PhD (1986) degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University.