Pramod Khargonekar, the NSF Assistant Director for the Engineering Directorate, will give a seminar entitled "Opportunities and Challenges in Engineering Research, Education, and Innovation: A Perspective from NSF" on October 16 at 4 pm.

Speaker Bio:
Dr. Pramod P. Khargonekar currently serves as the assistant director for the Directorate of Engineering (ENG) at the National Science Foundation. In this position, Khargonekar leads the ENG Directorate with an annual budget of more than $800 million. The ENG Directorate invests in frontier engineering research and education, cultivates an innovation ecosystem, and develops the next-generation of engineers.

Khargonekar’s current research and teaching interests include systems and control theory, machine learning, and applications to smart electric grid and neural engineering. He has been recognized as a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher.

Reception to follow.