Pradeep Khosla

Pradeep Khosla
8th Chancellor of University of California, San Diego
Incumbent
Assumed office August 1, 2012
Preceded by	Marye Anne Fox
Personal details
Born	Pradeep Kumar Khosla (1957-03-13) March 13, 1957 (age 67) Bombay, India
Residence	Audrey Geisel University House La Jolla (San Diego, California )
Alma mater	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (BTech) Carnegie Mellon University (MS, PhD)
Profession	Engineer, Administrator
Website	Office of the Chancellor
Scientific career
Institutions	UC San Diego Carnegie Mellon University DARPA
Thesis	Real-time control and identification of direct-drive manipulators (1986)
Doctoral advisor	Takeo Kanade

Pradeep Kumar Khosla (born March 13, 1957)^[1] is an Indian-American computer scientist and university administrator. He is the current chancellor of the University of California, San Diego.^[2]

He is also a former electrical engineering professor and dean at the Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering.^[3]

Career

A native of Mumbai , India ,^[4] Khosla received a Bachelor of Technology degree with honors from IIT Kharagpur in 1980.^[5][6]

He received his MS and PhD degree from Carnegie Mellon University and became an assistant professor in 1986 and a professor in 2008 at CMU where held several administrative and leadership positions. In 2004, he was appointed Dean at CMU and again in 2009.^[7]

He serves and has served on the advisory boards of several universities, committees, corporations^[8] and government organizations.These include DARPA, CSIRO, World Economic Forum, National Research Council, NASA etc.^[9]

In 2012, Khosla was appointed the eighth chancellor of the University of California, San Diego.^[10] He was appointed to the position by the president of the University of California.^[11][12] His term began August 1, 2012, following the resignation of the previous chancellor, Marye Anne Fox.

Khosla became the highest-paid Chancellor in the UC system after he received a $500,000 annual raise in April 2023, bringing his total salary to $1.14 million. The raise was funded entirely by private donations to a new endowed chair.^[13]

He chaired the Engineering and Computer Science jury for the Infosys Prize from 2011 to 2018.^[14]

Research

Khosla’s research has resulted in three books and more than 350 journal articles and conference and book contributions.^{[citation needed]} His interests are multidisciplinary encompassing the areas of internet-enabled collaborative design and distributed manufacturing, collaborating autonomous systems, agent-based architectures for distributed design and embedded control, software composition and reconfigurable software for real-time embedded systems, reconfigurable and distributed robotic systems, integrated design-assembly planning systems and distributed information systems.^[15]

Achievements

Khosla is the recipient of several awards including the ASEE George Westinghouse Award (1999),^[16] the Silicon-India Leadership award for Excellence in Academics and Technology (2000),{{Citation needed}} the W. Wallace McDowell Award from IEEE Computer Society (2001),^[17] the Cyber Education Champion Award from the Business Software Alliance (2007),^[18] Lifetime Achievement Award of the Computers and Information in Engineering Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) (2009),^[19] and the Pan IIT Academic Excellence Award (2009).

He has also been elected as a Fellow of IEEE (1995),^[20] the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (2003),^[21] the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2004),^[22] the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) (2010),^[23][24] and member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) (2006).^[25]

References

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