SESSION CHAIR: PRADEEP KHOSLA

Session 7: Robotics


SPEAKER BIO:
Professor Khosla received both the MS and PhD degrees from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Khosla is currently the director of the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Robotics. Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon, he worked with Tata Consulting Engineers and Siemens in the area of real-time control.

Professor Khosla's research interests are in the areas of collaborating agent-based autonomous systems; software architectures for real-time control; reconfigurable and modular robots; software assembly; collaborative design; and gesture-based programming.

He is involved in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Robotics education both at the graduate and the undergraduate level. He was a member of the committee that formulated a curriculum for the PhD program in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. He was also a member of the Wipe the Slate Clean Committee that created a new 4 year undergraduate ECE degree curriculum at CMU. He is the Chairman of the Education Committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.

He has served as the Director of the Robotics and Expert Systems Division of the Instrument Society of America; a member of the AdCom of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society; a Technical Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation; and PACE chairman of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. Dr. Khosla is the co-founder and Chairman of the Board of K2T Inc. and serves as a Technical Advisor to several companies.

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