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Career
Puri is Senior Vice President of Research & Innovation at University of Southern California, where he oversees the USC Office of Research. He has oversight over protection of human subject research, animal care and use for research, research integrity, research contracts and grants, research advancement, initiatives and facilities, research strategy, and technology, and intellectual property commercialization.Puri is also Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering with an appointment in the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science.Before his arrival at USC, Puri served as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Upon his departure from McMaster, the university credited him with developing innovative approaches to engineering education and experiential learning, and furthering research.Prior to McMaster, Puri served as N. Waldo Harrison Professor and Department Head of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech from 2004-13. He arrived there from the University of Illinois at Chicago after 15 years of service at various ranks, leaving as Professor and Executive Associate Dean of Engineering.
His department at Virginia Tech was housed in Norris Hall, the site of the shooting in 2007, which he experienced. Puri played a role in the reoccupation of that space.He has served as the elected chair of Engineering Deans Canada (formerly National Council of Deans of Engineering and Applied Science). In 2019, he was appointed as a member of the Council of Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
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