Pradeep Khosla
Pradeep Kumar Khosla (born March 13, 1957) is an Indian-American computer scientist and university administrator. He is the current chancellor of the University of California, San Diego. He is also a former electrical engineering professor and dean at the Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering. Career A native of Mumbai, India, Khosla received a Bachelor of Technology degree with honors from IIT Kharagpur in 1980. 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. He serves and has served on the advisory boards of several universities, committees, corporations and government organizations.These include DARPA, CSIRO, World Economic Forum, National Research Council, NASA etc. In 2012, Khosla was appointed the eighth chancellor of the University of California, San Diego. He was appointed to the position by the president of the University of California. 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,