Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series: Finding Academic, Professional, and Personal Success

DEAN’S DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES

Finding Academic, Professional, and Personal Success

Ravi Bellamkonda
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Emory University

Dr. Bellamkonda has had a rapid ascent in academia. But as most of us would agree, professional success means little without being connected to personal meaning. In this talk, Dr. Bellamkonda will talk about his personal journey and what lessons he would share with engineers at every career stage, from first-year undergrads to seasoned academics.

Reception to follow.
Thursday, October 27
3:00 – 4:30 P.M.
108 Snell Engineering

The Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series brings inspirational guest speakers to Northeastern.

Ravi V. Bellamkonda serves as Emory’s provost and executive vice president for academic affairs. Prior to becoming provost at Emory, Bellamkonda served as dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. Previously, he was Wallace H. Coulter professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. From 2014 to 2016, Bellamkonda served as president of the American Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering.

A trained bioengineer and neuroscientist, Bellamkonda holds an undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering. His graduate training at Brown University was in biomaterials and medical science, and his postdoctoral training at MIT focused on the molecular mechanisms of axon guidance and neural development.

Bellamkonda is committed to fostering transformative research and pedagogical innovation as well as programs that create an entrepreneurial mindset among faculty and students. His current research explores the interplay of biomaterials and the nervous system for neural interfaces, nerve repair, and brain tumor therapy.