Rakesh Thapar

Dr. Rakesh Thapar, is Engineering Advisor for Timesys. His career spans over 35 years of industry experience working in software and hardware product development intertwined with teaching and academia.

Rakesh’s career spanned Timesys, where he was CTO, Embedded Applications; Honeywell, where he was the Senior Director & Global Head of R&D for Workflow Solutions Software in the S&PS SBU; Vocollect (acquired by Honeywell via Intermec) where he was VP of Engineering; Network Appliance Inc. and FORE Systems (acquired by Marconi / Ericsson), where he held senior management and leadership roles; Padcom Inc. and Haley Systems, where he was VP of Engineering, and Pradeep Digitek, India, where he was CEO.

Augmenting his industry career, Rakesh has been an adjunct faculty member with Heinz College (MISM) at Carnegie Mellon University where he also served as Assistant Dean in 2004. He helped establish ATM Interoperability Lab (IOL) at University of New Hampshire, was an Associate Professor for Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Roorkee (IIT‐Roorkee), India and was an adjunct faculty member with both Boston and Northeastern Universities.

Rakesh holds a PhD in computer engineering from Boston University, a MS in electrical engineering from Colorado State University, and a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Roorkee.