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Pradeep Khosla

Pradeep K. Khosla
Pradeep K. Khosla, Eighth chancellor of UC San Diego.jpg
8th Chancellor of University of California, San Diego
In office
August 1, 2012 – present
Preceded by Marye Anne Fox
Personal details
Residence Audrey Geisel University House
La Jolla (San Diego, CA)
Alma mater Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Carnegie Mellon University
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 Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University's 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 2013 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.


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