Pradeep Khosla

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]

Pradeep Khosla
8th Chancellor of University of California, San Diego
Assumed office
August 1, 2012
Preceded byMarye Anne Fox
Personal details
Born
Pradeep Kumar Khosla

(1957-03-13) March 13, 1957
Bombay, India
Residence(s)Audrey Geisel University House
La Jolla (San Diego, CA)
Alma materIndian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (BTech)
Carnegie Mellon University (MS, PhD)
ProfessionEngineer, Administrator
WebsiteOffice of the Chancellor
Scientific career
InstitutionsUC San Diego
Carnegie Mellon University
DARPA
ThesisReal-time control and identification of direct-drive manipulators (1986)
Doctoral advisorTakeo Kanade

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. 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
  1. "Dr. Pradeep P. [sic] Khosla's VIP Report". Texas A&M University. Archived from the original on October 12, 2014. Retrieved April 21, 2018.
  2. UC San Diego Office of the Chancellor
  3. US colleges learn business mantra from Indian gurus like Soumitra Dutta, Pradeep K Khosla and Dipak C Jain
  4. Curran, Ann (Fall 2001), The seats of wisdom, vol. 20, Carnegie Mellon University, retrieved April 21, 2018
  5. "Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Kharagpur - Dr. Pradeep K. Khosla". Alumni Network. Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. 2006. Archived from the original on 2012-08-26. Retrieved February 14, 2013.
  6. The America Times (June 6, 2012). "INTERVIEW – PART TWO – Pradeep Khosla on His IIT Days and Vision for Future". The America Times. Retrieved July 29, 2022.
  7. Carnegie Mellon Press Releases, Carnegie Mellon Reappoints Pradeep Khosla Dean of College of Engineering(link is dead)
  8. "Avigilon Welcomes Pradeep Khosla to Board of Directors". Yahoo Finance. Retrieved 2016-01-22.
  9. Professor Pradeep K. Khosla, CIT Dean Biography page Archived 2012-07-23 at archive.today
  10. Ishani, Duttagupta (May 18, 2012). "Pradeep K Khosla, an IITian, appointed chancellor of University of California". Economic Times. Indian American Pradeep K. Khosla, currently the dean of Carnegie Mellon University's engineering college, has been named as the 8th chancellor of University of California San Diego by UC president Mark G. Yudof.
  11. IIT alumnus named the next UC San Diego chancellor
  12. "UC President Mark G. Yudof announces his selection for UC San Diego Chancellor".
  13. Robbins, Gary (11 April 2023). "UC San Diego chancellor given $500,000 pay raise to prevent him from taking presidency at private school". San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
  14. Foundation, Infosys Science. "Infosys Prize - Jury 2018".
  15. Professor Pradeep K. Khosla, Computer Science Biography page
  16. "Past National Award Winners (page 1), section George Westinghouse Award". American Society for Engineering Education. Retrieved February 9, 2013.
  17. "Past recipients for W. Wallace McDowell Award". IEEE Computer Society. Archived from the original on 2011-10-02. Retrieved February 9, 2013.
  18. "Carnegie Mellon Dean Awarded Cyber Education Champion Award". Business Software Alliance. March 7, 2007. Retrieved February 9, 2013.
  19. "Division Awards". Computers and Information in Engineering Division. American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Retrieved February 9, 2013.
  20. "Fellow Class of 1995". IEEE. Retrieved February 9, 2013.
  21. "Elected AAAI Fellows". Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Retrieved February 9, 2013.
  22. "Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Archived from the original on 2014-07-27. Retrieved February 9, 2013.
  23. "List of all ASME Fellows" (PDF). American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-10-21. Retrieved February 9, 2013.
  24. "2009 - 2010 ASME Fellows" (PDF). American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-14. Retrieved February 9, 2013.
  25. "NAE Members Directory - Dr. Pradeep K. Khosla". NAE. Retrieved February 9, 2013.
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