"We Want to Be Recognized as the Leading ... School in the World" - Pradeep Khosla, Carnegie Mellon University

Published: July 28, 2009, 3:43 p.m.

Cybersecurity is the buzzword these days, and in terms of education ... Carnegie Mellon University is all over it, and has been for nearly a decade.\n\n

In an exclusive interview, Pradeep Khosla, dean of the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon, discusses:\n\nThe school's current cybersecurity programs;\nHot career opportunities for graduates;\nAdvice for those looking to start or jump-start a cybersecurity career.\n\n

Khosla is currently Dean of the College of Engineering and the Philip and Marsha Dowd University Professor at Carnegie Mellon. His previous positions include: Founding Director, Carnegie Mellon CyLab; Head, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Director, Information Networking Institute; Founding Director, Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES); and Program Manager, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), where he managed a $50M portfolio of programs in real-time systems, internet enabled software infrastructure, intelligent systems, and distributed systems.