SESSION CHAIR: PRADEEP KHOSLA
Session 7: Robotics
SPEAKER BIO:
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.
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.