Dr. Raj Rajkumar

Biography

Raj Rajkumar is the George Westinghouse Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He serves as the director of the Metro21: Smart Cities Institute and the USDOT Mobility21 National University Transportation Center. He is also the co-director of the General Motors-Carnegie Mellon Connected Autonomous Driving Collaborative Research Lab. His research interests focus on embedded real-time systems and wireless/sensor networks, encompassing areas such as limited operating systems, scheduling theory, and resource management. He has received multiple accolades for his contributions, including the Carnegie Science Award for Information Technology and the Steven J. Fenves Award for Systems Research. As a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a Distinguished Engineer by the Association for Computing Machinery, Rajkumar has published numerous papers and served on editorial boards, including Real-Time Systems Journal and IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. He remains active in consultations with industry partners and participates in various professional committees.

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