Anil Pahwa has been a faculty member in electrical and computer engineering department at Kansas State University since 1983. He served as the graduate program coordinator from 2000 to 2004 and department head from 2004 to 2007. He spent a year on sabbatical from 1999 to 2000 at ABB in Raleigh, NC. He was selected by the National Academies for the Jefferson Science Fellowship in 2014 to serve as a senior scientific advisor in Economic Policy Office of East Asian and Pacific Affairs Bureau of the U.S. Department of State.