Director of CMU-Africa and Associate Dean for International Affairs-Africa
Trustee Professor, CMU-Africa, Mechanical Engineering
Courtesy Appointments, Biomedical Engineering, Machine Learning, Robotics Institute
Conrad Tucker is the director of CMU-Africa and associate dean for international affairs-Africa, as well as a professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He holds courtesy faculty appointments in machine learning, robotics, and biomedical engineering. His research focuses on the design and optimization of systems through the acquisition, integration, and mining of large scale, disparate data.
Tucker has served as PI/Co-PI on federally/non-federally funded grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Army Research Laboratory (ARL), the Office of Naval Research (ONR) via the NSF Center for eDesign, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). In February 2016, he was invited by National Academy of Engineering (NAE) President Dr. Dan Mote, to serve as a member of the Advisory Committee for the NAE Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) Symposium. He received his Ph.D., M.S. (industrial engineering), and MBA degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
2011 Ph.D. in Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2009 MBA in Business Administration, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2007 M.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2004 B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
CMU Engineering
The Upanzi Network will fund research projects in Morocco, Botswana, and South Africa, with plans for additional partnerships.
Carnegie Mellon University Africa
A delegation from CMU-Africa recently traveled to the United States, connecting with various organizations to strengthen global networks.
Carnegie Mellon University Africa
Barros will work in partnership with the leadership team to advance the mission of CMU-Africa.
Carnegie Mellon University Africa
CMU-Africa's Conrad Tucker is among eight faculty members to receive new endowed chairs in the College of Engineering.
CMU Engineering
The African Engineering and Technology Network, led by CMU-Africa, drives inclusive digital transformation on the continent through research, education, and entrepreneurship.
CMU College of Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University Africa announced that the African Engineering and Technology Network has signed its eighth university partner, Al Akhawayn University.
Medium
CMU-Africa Director Conrad Tucker spoke with Medium about his work and strategies for the public to protect themselves against deepfakes and disinformation. “Policies need to be established to protect users so that they can be confident that the content they are consuming can be trusted,” Tucker says.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
As the presence of mobile phones becomes increasingly widespread in Africa, digital services have allowed for more financial inclusion among low- and middle-income countries within the continent. A group of Carnegie Mellon University researchers led by Karen Sowon, a postdoctoral researcher at CMU’s CyLab Security and Privacy Institute, investigated these issues and recently published a paper on "The Role of User-Agent Interactions on Mobile Money Practices in Kenya and Tanzania."
Carnegie Mellon University Africa
CMU-Africa recently graduated the 11th cohort of students, which represented 16 nationalities.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab faculty members and students presented their research on topics ranging from mobile money practices in Africa to uncovering and identifying side-channel and evasion attacks at the 45th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Symposium on Security and Privacy.
Communications of the ACM
CMU-Africa Director Conrad Tucker speaks on Africa’s adoption of AI regulations with Communications of the ACM. He describes the current state of AI there as “quite fragmented,” varying in “different perspectives and policies across African countries.”
Carnegie Mellon University Africa
Recently, CMU-Africa and the NAE held a design science workshop that aimed to transcend the boundaries of traditional design thinking.