Dr. Pradeep Kumar Khosla

Dr. Pradeep Kumar Khosla became UC San Diego’s eighth chancellor on August 1, 2012. As UC San Diego’s chief executive officer, he leads a campus with more than 45,000 students within 11 academic, professional and graduate schools and eight undergraduate residential colleges. UC San Diego is also home to the prestigious Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the UC San Diego Health System that includes 3 hospitals. UC San Diego is recognized as one of the top 5 public research universities in the world and is the largest civilian employer based in San Diego County.

He has significantly expanded college access and affordability for underserved populations, initiated interdisciplinary research initiatives to foster collaboration and solve societal challenges, and strengthened university and community relationships and partnerships. As an internationally renowned researcher, educator, and higher education leader and visionary, he previously served as Dean of the College of Engineering and Philip and Marsha Dowd University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

He initiated and led UC San Diego’s first-ever Strategic Plan and the ambitious 10-year, $2 billion campaign, the youngest institution ever to complete a multi-billion-dollar fundraising campaign.

He began his teaching career at Carnegie Mellon in 1986 as Assistant Professor, got appointed as Dean in 2004 and was elected as the University Professor in 2008. From 1994 to 1996, he also served as a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Program Manager in the Software and Intelligent Systems Technology Office, Defense Sciences Office and Tactical Technology Office, where he managed advanced research and development programs.

He serves on advisory boards for several non-profit and government organizations, venture capital firms, and high-tech start-up companies. He has served as a member of Strategy Review Board for the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan; the Council of Deans of the Aeronautics Advisory Committee, NASA; the National Research Council Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design; the Pennsylvania Treasury Advisory Board; and the Senior Advisory Group for the DARPA Program on Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems.

He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Engineering and the American Society for Engineering Education. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Association for Advancement of Science, the American Association of Artificial Intelligence, the Indian Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Inventors, and the Indian National Science Academy. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Indian Academy of Science.

Dr. Khosla is also the recipient of numerous awards for his leadership, teaching, and research, including the 2012 Light of India Award, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the George Westinghouse Award for contributions to improve engineering teaching. In 2012, he was named one of the 50 most influential Indian Americans by Silicon India.

He received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology - Kharagpur in 1980, and his MS and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering in 1984 and 1986 at Carnegie Mellon. In 2014, he received an honorary doctorate of science from the Indian Institute of Technology - Kharagpur.

He is a Director on the Board of Reliance Foundation Institution of Education and Research (Section 8 Company) and Biometricore Inc.

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