Interim Director of CMU-Africa and Associate Dean for International Affairs-Africa
Professor, CMU-Africa, Mechanical Engineering
Courtesy Appointments, Biomedical Engineering, Machine Learning, Robotics Institute
Conrad Tucker is a professor of mechanical engineering and holds courtesy faculty appointments in machine learning, robotics, and biomedical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on the design and optimization of systems through the acquisition, integration, and mining of large scale, disparate data.
Tucker has served as PI/Co-PI on federally/non-federally funded grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Army Research Laboratory (ARL), the Office of Naval Research (ONR) via the NSF Center for eDesign, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). In February 2016, he was invited by National Academy of Engineering (NAE) President Dr. Dan Mote, to serve as a member of the Advisory Committee for the NAE Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) Symposium. He received his Ph.D., M.S. (industrial engineering), and MBA degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
2011 Ph.D. in Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2009 MBA in Business Administration, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2007 M.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2004 B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Carnegie Mellon University Africa
Higher education leaders from across the continent recently convened at the University of Nairobi for the 2023 Afretec Conference.
Middle East Broadcasting Network
MechE’s Conrad Tucker spoke about AI on the Middle East Broadcasting Network.
CMU Engineering
Conrad Tucker served as a commissioner on the US Chamber AI Commission aimed to position the US as a leader in responsible AI development and deployment. The commission’s final report has been released.
CMU-Africa
The African Engineering and Technology Network, led by CMU-Africa, awarded six planning grants to research collaborations that will lead to socio-economic impact and focus on driving inclusive digital growth on the continent.
CMU Engineering
Conrad Tucker and Assane Gueye organized the first-ever West Africa Conference on Digital Public Goods and Cybersecurity, held in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
MechE’s Conrad Tucker has been invited to serve as co-chair for “Artificial Intelligence and Justified Confidence: A Workshop” by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
CMU Engineering
Conrad Tucker will serve on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s newly-launched Commission on Artificial Intelligence Competition, Inclusion, and Innovation.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
MechE’s Conrad Tucker has joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Commission on Artificial Intelligence Competition, Inclusion, and Innovation to advance U.S. leadership in the use and regulation of AI technology.
CMU Engineering
Artificial intelligence (AI) has penetrated the job landscape and is of great interest to educators. As we develop methods for integrating AI and STEM education to transform the U.S. workforce, we also need to broaden the public’s awareness of what AI can do now.
MechE’s Burak Kara and Conrad Tucker have been recognized as Impact Scholars and awarded $10,000 as part of Google’s AI for Social Good program. Their proposal aims to use machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve screening for oral cancers.
Carnegie Bosch Institute
CEE’s Burcu Akinci and Gerald Wang; CyLab’s Eunsuk Kang; ECE’s Gauri Joshi; EPP’s Alex Davis; and MechE’s Satbir Singh, and Conrad Tucker, and Ding Zhao were awarded funding from the Carnegie Bosch Institute.
CMU Engineering
A new study by Conrad Tucker shows that patterns in which information is shared online may indicate the information’s authenticity.