Carnegie Mellon's Pradeep K. Khosla To Receive Prestigious Academic Excellence Award at 2009 Pan IIT Conference

Carnegie Mellon's Pradeep K. Khosla To Receive Prestigious Academic Excellence
Award at 2009 Pan IIT Conference

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Carnegie Mellon University's Pradeep K.
Khosla will receive the prestigious 2009 Academic Excellence Award Oct. 11 at
the Pan IIT entrepreneurship conference in Chicago.

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Khosla is a University Professor, the highest distinction faculty can achieve
at Carnegie Mellon, dean of Carnegie Mellon's College of Engineering, the
Philip and Marsha Dowd Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and
founding director of Carnegie Mellon CyLab. He was unanimously selected from a
field of more than 200 nominees to receive the Academic Excellence Award from
Pan IIT, a global organization representing alumni from all Indian Institutes
of Technology campuses.

"The IITs are renowned for producing some of the country's best global
corporate leaders, academicians, technologists and entrepreneurs," said Jai
Rawat, vice president of marketing for Pan IIT, USA. "Pan IIT recognizes the
important contributions these alumni have made in American job creation,
education and philanthropic initiatives, and we want to honor these
individuals through the IIT American Leadership Awards."

Mark S. Kamlet, executive vice president and provost at Carnegie Mellon, said
Khosla is an outstanding dean who has worked tirelessly to advance the college
and the university in today's global competitive marketplace. "This latest
accolade from the prestigious Pan IIT only serves to show the exceptional
academic achievements and accomplishments Pradeep continues to make. A
distinguished member of the National Academy of Engineering, we celebrate his
successes and applaud his innovative leadership," Kamlet said.

"I am deeply honored by this award, and I will continue to work with my
academic colleagues and industry peers to make the American research
university a successful model that should be replicated around the world,"
said Khosla, who earlier this year received a Lifetime Achievement Award from
the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for his novel use of
computers in engineering education. "By sharing technology and our successful
academic research models, we can create more wealth and help more
underdeveloped countries grow and mature."

A Carnegie Mellon alumnus and member of the university's engineering faculty
since 1986, Khosla has invested enormous time and energy into the success of
Carnegie Mellon and its engineering college. He is an internationally
recognized authority on robotics, embedded systems, technology education,
innovation and cybersecurity. He has been the dean of the university's College
of Engineering since 2004.

Khosla's global reach has helped the university develop important academic
footholds in Europe, Asia and Africa. As a former director of Carnegie
Mellon's Information Networking Institute, Khosla doubled its enrollment,
created the Master of Science in Information Security Technology and
Management program and developed international graduate programs with the
Athens Information Technology Institute in Athens, Greece (CyLab Athens), and
CyLab Japan.

Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon, Khosla worked with Tata Consulting Engineers
and Siemens in the area of real-time control. He has received numerous awards
and fellowships, and serves on boards and companies, nonprofits and venture
capital firms. He is the author of three books and has contributed more than
350 articles to journals, conferences and books. Khosla is also co-founder of
Quantapoint Inc. and BiometricCore.

In 2008, Khosla was selected to join the Council on Competitiveness' newly
formed effort to improve America's leadership in innovative technology.

Khosla received his bachelor's degree in technology from IIT (Kharagpur,
India) in 1980 and his master's degree and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon in 1984
and 1986, respectively.

About Carnegie Mellon: Carnegie Mellon (http://www.cmu.edu) is a private,
internationally ranked research university with programs in areas ranging from
science, technology and business, to public policy, the humanities and the
fine arts. More than 11,000 students in the university's seven schools and
colleges benefit from a small student-to-faculty ratio and an education
characterized by its focus on creating and implementing solutions for real
problems, interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation. A global university,
Carnegie Mellon's main campus in the United States is in Pittsburgh, Pa. It
has campuses in California's Silicon Valley and Qatar, and programs in Asia,
Australia and Europe. The university is in the midst of a $1 billion
fundraising campaign, titled "Inspire Innovation: The Campaign for Carnegie
Mellon University," which aims to build its endowment, support faculty,
students and innovative research, and enhance the physical campus with
equipment and facility improvements.

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