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Professor Pramod Khargonekar

Fellow, Visiting Fellow

Visiting Faculty Member

Department of Engineering Science

B Tech Bombay India, MS, PhD Florida

Pramod Khargonekar was Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from 1997 to 2001 and held the position of Claude E. Shannon Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Michigan.  From 2001 to 2009, he was Dean of the College of Engineering and Eckis Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida till 2016. After serving briefly as Deputy Director of Technology at ARPA-E in 2012-13, he served the head of the Directorate of Engineering at the National Science Foundation from 2013 till June 2016. He was Vice Chancellor for Research and Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, from 2016 to 2025, where is currently Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Khargonekar’s research has spanned fundamental control theory and applications to manufacturing, energy systems, climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience. He is currently working on the integration of AI and ML into cyber-physical-human systems. In his leadership roles, he has enabled science and engineering research communities to pursue important, multidisciplinary research aimed at major societal problems. He has also supported career growth of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students. He has also worked diligently in connecting academic research with technological innovation and industrial adoption.

Khargonekar has received numerous honors and awards including IEEE Control Systems Award, IEEE Baker Prize, IEEE Control Systems Society Bode Lecture Prize, IEEE Control Systems Society Axelby Award, NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, AACC Eckman Award, Distinguished Alumni and Distinguished Service Awards from IIT Bombay, and Inaugural Hall-of-Fame Inductee, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Florida. He is a Fellow of IEEE, IFAC, and AAAS.