Moshe Kam

Moshe Kam is an Israeli American engineering educator presently serving as the Dean of the Newark College of Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Until August 2014 he served as the Robert G. Quinn Professor and Department Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University. In 2011, he served concurrently as the 49th President and CEO of IEEE. Earlier he was IEEE’s Vice President for Educational Activities (2005–2007) and IEEE’s Representative Director to the accreditation body ABET. Dr. Kam’s research interests include detection and estimation; data, decision and sensor fusion; robotics and navigation; and engineering education. He has published extensively in these areas in periodicals that include the Proceedings of IEEE, the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Automatica, and Information Fusion. He served as General Chair and Program Chair of several technical conferences, including the International Summit on Meeting the Growing Demand for Engineers and Their Educators 2010-2020; the First IEEE International Symposium on Cost-Effective Museum Exhibits in Engineering and Applied Science; and the IEEE Secure Agents Workshop.