Hridesh Rajan is the Dean of the School of Science and Engineering at Tulane University, a position he has held since 2024. From 2005-2024, he served as a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University (ISU). He led the ISU Department of Computer Science as the chair from 2019-2024, and led the ISU Data Science program as the founding Professor-in-charge from 2017-2019. At Tulane University School of Science and Engineering, he is focused on significantly growing research, education and outreach through his strategic vision Our 1,000 Days Plan. Professor Rajan earned his MS and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2004 and 2005 respectively. Professor Rajan’s research interests are in modularity and modular reasoning, and he applies these ideas to making Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled systems more reliable, easier to maintain, and more environmentally-friendly to update. His work on the Boa project is aimed at the invention and refinement of programming languages and cyberinfrastructures that democratize data-driven science & engineering, including software engineering. His work on the Midwest Big Data Summer School is experimenting with broadly accessible data science curricula. Professor Rajan was the founding general chair of the Midwest Big Data Summer School. Professor Rajan is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2009, a 2018-19 Fulbright U.S. Scholar, a AAAS fellow, and a distinguished member of the ACM. He was also the inaugural holder of the Kingland Professorship in the Department of Computer Science.