PRINCETON, NJ - Sanjeev Kulkarni, professor of electrical engineering at Princeton, has been appointed Dean of the Princeton University Graduate School effective March 31. The Graduate School enrolls about 2,600 students pursuing masters and doctoral degrees in 42 departments and programs. Princeton’s President Christopher L. Eisgruber said Kulkarni would make a “spectacular dean” taking over from...
William Russel, the dean since 2002, a Jan. 27 release from Princeton said. Despite being on the Princeton faculty since 1991, and holding some administrative positions, he said none had been equal to the level he was now going to occupy. Asked what his biggest challenge was, Kulkarni said, it was “just trying to get my head around everything. I will spend the first several months listening to folks around the campus; to understand the scope of things.”
In his initial interactions, it has been “Academics, campus life, diversity and professional development that have come up quite a bit in conversations – there’s always room to do better,” he said. He has served as associate dean for academic affairs in the School of Engineering and Applied Science from 2003 to 2005; was the master of Butler College, an undergraduate residential college, from 2004 to 2012; and since 2011 has been the director of the Keller Center, which aims to “educate students to be leaders in a technology-driven society.” His research covers areas related to understanding fundamental limits and developing methods for processing data and information, with a focus on information theory, machine learning, statistical pattern recognition, and signal and image processing. He has advised dozens of undergraduate and graduate students and taught a variety of courses, winning several teaching awards along the way. Kulkarni holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics, all from Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y. He also got a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was born in Mumbai.
In his initial interactions, it has been “Academics, campus life, diversity and professional development that have come up quite a bit in conversations – there’s always room to do better,” he said. He has served as associate dean for academic affairs in the School of Engineering and Applied Science from 2003 to 2005; was the master of Butler College, an undergraduate residential college, from 2004 to 2012; and since 2011 has been the director of the Keller Center, which aims to “educate students to be leaders in a technology-driven society.” His research covers areas related to understanding fundamental limits and developing methods for processing data and information, with a focus on information theory, machine learning, statistical pattern recognition, and signal and image processing. He has advised dozens of undergraduate and graduate students and taught a variety of courses, winning several teaching awards along the way. Kulkarni holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics, all from Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y. He also got a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was born in Mumbai.
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