Pradeep K. Khosla
| Pradeep K. Khosla | |
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| 8th Chancellor of University of California, San Diego | |
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In office August 1, 2012 – present |
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| Preceded by | Marye Anne Fox |
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| Residence |
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 |
| Institutions |
UC San Diego Carnegie Mellon University |
| Website | Office of the Chancellor |
Pradeep K. Khosla is an academic computer scientist and university administrator. He is the current chancellor of the University of California, San Diego. He was appointed to the position by the president of the University of California, Mark Yudof, on May 3, 2012. His term began August 1, 2012, following the resignation of the previous chancellor Marye Anne Fox.
Prior to this, he was a computer science professor and Dean of the Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering. He was also the Philip and Marsha Dowd University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon. He is also the Jury Chair for the Infosys Prize since 2011, for the discipline of Engineering and Computer Science.
Khosla received a Bachelor of Technology degree with honors from IIT Kharagpur in 1980. After graduating, he worked in the area of real-time control with Tata Consulting Engineers and Siemens until 1982.
By 1986, he had received both an MS and PhD degree from Carnegie Mellon University, where he then became an assistant professor. He rose through the ranks and was appointed University Professor in 2008, which is the highest rank attainable by a professor. He held several administrative and leadership positions at CMU including: Founding Director, Carnegie Mellon CyLab; Head, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Director, Information Networking Institute; and Founding Director, Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES). In 2004, Khosla was appointed Dean of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, a five-year term which was renewed in July 2009.
From January 1994 to August 1996, Khosla was on leave from CMU and served as Program Manager at DARPA, where he managed a $50M portfolio of programs in real-time systems, internet-enabled software infrastructure, intelligent systems, and distributed systems.
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