Meet Abhijit Pandit, CIO

Vice President and Chief Information Officer

Executive support: Kristin Smith

Abhijit Pandit leads the University of Oregon’s strategic vision for information technology. As CIO, he is responsible for driving IT innovation, optimizing technology infrastructure, and ensuring the seamless delivery of IT systems and services to support the university’s mission of teaching, learning, and research.

Since joining the UO in 2022, Pandit has overseen strategic improvements to cybersecurity and infrastructure, the culmination of UO’s email consolidation, the modernization of phone service, and the launch of a comprehensive digital storage initiative.

He chairs the board of Link Oregon, the state's research and education network, and serves on the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium (NWACC) board. He contributes to industry thought leadership on the Microsoft Higher Education Customer Advisory Board and previously served on the AWS Higher Education Enterprise CIO Council.

Pandit has over 15 years of executive leadership experience, including as chief technology officer and chief data officer at Oregon Health & Science University. He currently serves as a graduate faculty member at OHSU, and previously held faculty positions at the UO, Oregon Institute of Technology, and University of Phoenix.

He holds a bachelor’s in computer engineering from Savitribai Phule Pune University in India, a master’s in computer science from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the University of Washington.