Dr Raj Reddy is the Mozah Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He has been a member of the Carnegie Mellon faculty for more than forty years, serving as the founding Director of the Robotics Institute and the Dean of the School of Computer Science during that time.

Dr Reddy is an expert in artificial intelligence, robotics and human-computer interaction, His current research projects include Million Book Digital Library Project; PCtvt: an Information Appliance for rural environments for use by illiterate people; FTTV: Fiber To The Village Project; Mobile Autonomous Robots; and Learning by Doing.

He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served as president of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and co-chair of the President's (USA) Information Technology Committee. Dr Reddy has received numerous awards, including the ACM Turing Award, the Okawa Prize and the Honda Prize.

Dr Reddy holds a Bachelor of Science from the College of Engineering, Guindy, a Masters of Civil Engineering from the University of New South Wales, and a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University.