Dr. Stan Waddell

Stan Waddell serves as the vice president and chief information officer at Carnegie Mellon University. In his role, Stan provides vision, leadership, and management for Carnegie Mellon’s computing enterprise, including the development and implementation of a university-wide IT strategy.

Before joining Carnegie Mellon, Stan served as the associate vice president for Information Technology and CIO at the University of New Hampshire. He was the assistant vice chancellor and chief technology officer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and spent nine years at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Stan also served in the U.S. Navy as an aviation electronics technician for nine years.

Stan holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Old Dominion University, a master's degree in management and administration sciences from the University of Texas at Dallas, and a doctorate in information systems from Nova Southeastern University. He has a Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) credentials, and a graduate certificate in information assurance from Nova Southeastern University.