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Pradeep K. Khosla is an academic computer scientist and university administrator. He is the current chancellor of the University of California, San Diego.〔(UC San Diego Office of the Chancellor )〕 He was appointed to the position by the president of the University of California, Mark Yudof, on May 3, 2012.〔(IIT alumnus named the next UC San Diego chancellor )〕〔()〕 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.〔(US colleges learn business mantra from Indian gurus like Soumitra Dutta, Pradeep K Khosla and Dipak C Jain )〕 He was also the Philip and Marsha Dowd University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon.〔(Academic Excellence - Carnegie Mellon University )〕 He is also the Jury Chair for the Infosys Prize 2013 for the discipline of Engineering and Computer Science. ==Career== 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.〔(Carnegie Mellon Press Releases, Carnegie Mellon Reappoints Pradeep Khosla Dean of College of Engineering )〕 From January 1994 to August 1996, Khosla was on leave from CMU and served as Program Manager at DARPA, where he managed a $50M portfolio of programs in real-time systems, internet-enabled software infrastructure, intelligent systems, and distributed systems. Khosla also worked as a consultant to several companies and venture capitalists 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 board of directors 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 Tissue Engineering Initiative (PTEI), the Doyle Center, and the Pittsburgh Technology Council. In addition, he serves on the advisory boards of several universities and government organizations. He is a member of the IT advisory committee, CSIRO, 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; National Research Council 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 Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems.〔(Professor Pradeep K. Khosla, CIT Dean Biography page )〕 In 2012, Khosla was appointed the eighth chancellor of the University of California, San Diego. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pradeep Khosla」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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