Pradeep Khosla | |
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8th Chancellor of University of California, San Diego | |
Assumed office August 1, 2012 | |
Preceded by | Marye Anne Fox |
Personal details | |
Born | Pradeep Kumar Khosla March 13, 1957 Bombay, India |
Residence(s) | Audrey Geisel University House La Jolla (San Diego, CA) |
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]
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]
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]
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]