13 Facts About Pradeep Khosla

Pradeep Kumar Khosla was born on March 13,1957 and is an Indian-American computer scientist, currently serving as the eighth chancellor of the University of California, San Diego since August 2012.

Pradeep Khosla is a former electrical engineering professor and dean at the Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering.

Pradeep Khosla 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.

Pradeep Khosla serves and has served on the advisory boards of several universities, committees, corporations and government organizations.

In 2012, Pradeep Khosla was appointed the eighth chancellor of the University of California, San Diego.

Pradeep Khosla was appointed to the position by the president of the University of California.

Pradeep Khosla's term began August 1,2012, following the resignation of the previous chancellor, Marye Anne Fox.

Pradeep 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.

Pradeep Khosla chaired the Engineering and Computer Science jury for the Infosys Prize from 2011 to 2018.

Pradeep Khosla's research has resulted in three books and more than 350 journal articles and conference and book contributions.

Pradeep Khosla's 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.

Pradeep Khosla was sued in June 2019 by former UC San Diego associate vice chancellor of Health Sciences Jean Ford.

Ford's lawsuit alleged that Chancellor Pradeep Khosla verbally harassed and discriminated against female employees during her time at UC San Diego.