Pradeep Kumar Khosla (born March 13, 1957) is an Indian-American

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and university administrator. Khosla was elected a member of the

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in 2006 for contributions to design and sensor-based control in robotic systems for the assembly of high-precision electronics and for leadership in engineering education. He is the current

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of the

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. He was appointed to the position by the president of the

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, on May 3, 2012. His term began August 1, 2012, following the resignation of the previous chancellor Marye Anne Fox. A native of

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(then Bombay),

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, he was an electrical engineering professor and Dean of the

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. He was also the Philip and Marsha Dowd

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of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon. He is also the Jury Chair for the

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since 2011, for the discipline of

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and

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Career

Khosla received a

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degree with honors from

IIT Kharagpur Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) is a public institute of technology established by the Government of India in Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. Established in 1951, the institute is the first of the IITs to be established ...

in 1980. After graduating, he worked in the area of real-time control with Tata Consulting Engineers and

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until 1982. By 1986, he had received both an MS and PhD degree from

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, 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

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; 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

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, where he managed a $50M portfolio of programs in

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, internet-enabled software infrastructure,

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, and

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. Khosla also worked as a consultant to several companies and

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ists and has served on the technology advisory boards of many start-ups. Currently he serves on the advisory boards for iNetworks LLC, ITU Ventures, and Alcoa CIO. He is involved with iNetworks in raising a biotechnology fund called BioVentures, and is co-founder and a member of the

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of Quantapoint, BioMetricore, and No Fuss Inc. He also serves on the boards of HCL Infosystems, the Children’s Institute, the IIT Foundation, Mellon-Pitt (MPC) corporation, the Pittsburgh

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Initiative (PTEI), the Doyle Center, the Pittsburgh Technology Council, and

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. In addition, he serves on the advisory boards of several universities and

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. He is a member of the IT advisory committee,

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, Australia, ITU High Level Experts Group for the Global Cybersecurty Agenda (GCA), the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology for NIST, and the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Innovation. He has served on the Strategy Review Board of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan; Council of Deans of the Aeronautics Advisory Committee, NASA;

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Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design; eTreasury Pennsylvania Advisory Board (appointed by Pennsylvania Treasurer Robin Weissman), and Senior Advisory Group for the DARPA Program on

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.Professor Pradeep K. Khosla, CIT Dean Biography page
In 2012, Khosla was appointed the eighth chancellor of the

. He chaired the Engineering and Computer Science jury for the

from 2011 to 2018.

Research

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

Achievements

Khosla is a frequent

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at international conferences, and invited to participate in

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ship forums organized by

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, the Milken Institute, the

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, Techonomy, and the Blouin Foundation, amongst others. He has also served on editorial boards of journals and

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. He is the recipient of several awards including the ASEE George Westinghouse Award for Education in 1999, the Silicon-India Leadership award for Excellence in Academics and Technology (2000), the

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from

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(2001), the Cyber Education Champion Award from the

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(2007), Lifetime Achievement Award of the ''Computers and Information in Engineering Division'' of the

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(ASME) (2009), and the Pan IIT Academic Excellence Award (2009). For his contributions to technology and education, he has been elected as a Fellow of

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(1995), the

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(AAAI) (2003), the

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(AAAS) (2004), the

(ASME) (2010), and member of the

(NAE) (2006). Khosla was also selected to join the prestigious Council on Competitiveness' Technology Leadership Strategy Initiative (TLSI), a collaborative effort designed to chart the most promising frontiers of technology and competitive advantage arenas for the United States. Khosla was appointed as the chair of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities's Commission on Innovation, Competitiveness and Economic Prosperity which under his charged produced a landmark report on university innovation,
Technology Transfer Evolution: Driving Economic Prosperity
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References

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