Ikhlaq Sidhu
Dean And Professor, School Of Science And Technology, IE University, Madrid Spain at UC Berkeley
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolIkhlaq Sidhu is an innovation-focused academic and technology leader with over two decades of experience bridging engineering, entrepreneurship and education; he currently serves as Dean and Professor at IE University’s School of Science and Technology after a long tenure as founding faculty director of UC Berkeley’s Sutardja Center. He blends deep technical pedigree—61 patents in Internet communications and early engineering roles at HP and 3Com—with curriculum and program design, having created Berkeley’s Data‑X course and the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship. A recipient of major awards including the IEEE Major Education Innovation Award, he has also built leadership programs like the Fung Institute’s T-shaped engineering curriculum and authored the book Innovation Engineering. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and recently honored with an Honorary PhD from Lund University, he is equally at home translating research into commercial impact and mentoring the next generation of tech founders and leaders.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MSEE and Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, MSEE and Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern UniversityHonorary Ph.D. Engineering, Honorary Ph.D. Engineering at Lund UniversityBSEE Electrical Engineering, BSEE Electrical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (2)
python8
data-science6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
syjkim35/data-x-1
Mar 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:68 commits in 7 months
pythonproject-xmaterials-projectdata-science
ikhlaqsidhu/scratchpad
Mar 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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