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CyLab Founder Pradeep K. Khosla To Receive Prestigious Academic Excellence Award at 2009 Pan IIT Conference
CyLab founder Pradeep K. Khosla will receive the prestigious 2009 Academic Excellence Award Oct. 11 at the Pan IIT entrepreneurship conference in Chicago.
Khosla is a University Professor, the highest distinction faculty can achieve at Carnegie Mellon. He is also dean of Carnegie Mellon's College of Engineering, and and the Philip and Marsha Dowd Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. 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."
"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."