Prof. Rajit Gadh is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and the founding director of the UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center, the UCLA Wireless Internet for Mobile Enterprise Consortium, and the Connected and Autonomous Electric Vehicles Consortium. Prof.Gadh has over 25 years of experience in research and development, leading technology teams to investigate and develop advanced technologies and products. His work focuses on researching and developing innovative technologies for the next generation electric utility grid.
Prof. Gadh did his bachelor's at IIT Kanpur and M.S. degree at Cornell University in Mechanical Engineering. He went on to earn his doctorate at Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on CAD/CAM, Feature Recognition, Computational Geometry, Artificial Intelligence/Robotics, and Visualization.
Prior to UCLA, Prof. Gadh taught for seven years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an assistant, associate and full professor. He has also been a visiting researcher at Stanford University where he did his sabbatical from 1999 to 2000, and at the University of California, Berkeley where he served for a year after completing his doctorate degree.
