Raj Rajkumar

Biography

Raj Rajkumar is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is the director of Metro21, Carnegie Mellon University's campus-wide initiative on Smart Cities, and the US Department of Transportation's Mobility21 National University Transportation Center. Rajkumar is thinking of ways to safely bring your vehicle to life with information technology — giving you a car that will know and help you, inform and entertain you, and even take care of itself like a proper traveling companion. That includes connected and autonomous driving, cyber-physical systems, embedded and real-time systems and wired/wireless networking. Rajkumar is exploring the many intricate engineering domains of vehicle operation in a quest for some answers to what's possible in the cars of tomorrow.

Areas of Expertise (1)

Robotics/Autonomous Vehicles

Education (2)

Carnegie Mellon University: Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University: M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering

Media Appearances (1)

The White House is lobbying hard for chip funding that experts say would help Pittsburgh tech firms

90.5 WESA  

2022-04-18

“They cannot actually buy the high-performance computers that they need to basically utilize to train the artificial intelligence to make these products work. So that has clearly hampered the development side of these technologies.” Carnegie Mellon electrical and computer engineering professor Raj Rajkumar said.

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