Bio
Dr. Kamal Shahrabi is a former university President, provost-level chief academic officer, SUNY Dean, and tenured Full Professor with more than four decades of experience in STEM education and higher education leadership. As President of RIT Kosovo, he reversed enrollment decline, increasing enrollment by more than 65 percent and first-year retention to more than 90 percent, while strengthening research, student services, and financial sustainability. Earlier, as Dean of Farmingdale State College’s School of Engineering Technology, he nearly doubled enrollment and expanded research laboratories and partnerships with Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University. His career includes more than $38.8 million in quantified external and earned resources, extensive accreditation and shared-governance leadership, and development of graduate programs and interdisciplinary research capacity. Dr. Shahrabi holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the City University of New York.