Teresa Abi-Nader Dahlberg

Teresa Abi-Nader Dahlberg
11th President of the University of Tampa
Incoming
Assumed office June 1, 2024
Preceded by	Ronald L. Vaughn
Personal details
Born	Teresa Abi-Nader 1961 (age 62–63)
Education	University of Pittsburgh North Carolina State University

Teresa Abi-Nader Dahlberg (born 1961) is an American academic administrator and engineering professor who is the incoming eleventh president of the University of Tampa. She has worked as the provost of Texas Christian University since 2019.

Life

Abi-Nader was born in 1961 and raised near Uniontown, Pennsylvania in a Lebanese American family of six children. She earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. She completed a master's degree and Ph.D. in computer engineering from North Carolina State University. Her 1993 dissertation was titled, Dependability Evaluation of Large Systems with Dependent Failures Using a Hierarchical Network Model.

Dahlberg worked at IBM for ten years. From 1995 to 2013, she was the associate dean of the college of computing and informatics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She was a principal investigator who researched computer education, computing, and wireless networking. She worked as the chief academic officer and dean of the Albert Nerken School of Engineering at Cooper Union from 2013 to 2015. From 2015 to 2019, Dahlberg worked as the dean of the college of engineering and computer science at Syracuse University. She was also a professor of electrical engineering and computer science while at Syracuse. On March 1, 2019, Dahlberg became the provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs of Texas Christian University. In December 2023, she was named as the incoming eleventh president of the University of Tampa. She succeeds Ronald L. Vaughn on June 1, 2024.