Carnegie Mellon University has appointed University Professor Pradeep K. Khosla, the Philip and Marsha Dowd Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and founding director of Carnegie Mellon CyLab, dean of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT) for a second five-year term, effective July 1.
A Carnegie Mellon alumnus and member of the CIT faculty since 1986, Khosla has invested enormous energy in the success of Carnegie Mellon and its engineering college and has demonstrated his leadership in research and education initiatives both within the university and internationally. Khosla has been CIT dean since 2004.
“Pradeep Khosla has been an outstanding dean who has worked tirelessly to advance the college and its units. During the past five years the number and quality of undergraduate applications has risen to record highs,” said Mark S. Kamlet, Carnegie Mellon provost. “There has also been a 25 percent increase in the number of Ph.D. students in CIT, and an increase of more than 50 percent in the number of women and underrepresented minorities among the graduate student population.”
Under his leadership, CIT was recently ranked sixth in the nation for graduate programs and three of the college’s departments were ranked in the top 10 by U.S. News & World Report. CIT was also ranked sixth in the world by the 2008 London Times Higher Education Supplement. He was instrumental in developing a novel fellowship program that pays for the tuition of first-year Ph.D. students and has reduced the cost for Ph.D. students by 20 percent. He also spearheaded the initiative that brought $29 million into renovating and creating state-of-the-art labs in the Chemical Engineering Department.
