Pradeep khosla
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Pradeep K. Khosla is an Indian American
computer scientist
and Dean of the College of Engineering
, Carnegie Mellon University
's College of Engineering. He is also the Philip and Marsha Dowd University Professor
of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon.
(Hons) from the Indian Institute of Technology, 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 received both an MS and PhD degree from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) where he joined as an assistant professor. He rose through the ranks and was appointed University Professor in 2008, which is the highest rank attianable by a Professor. In addition to being an excellent teacher, Khosla has been an exemplary leader and visionary. He has 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 that was renewed in July 2009.
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 capital
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’s Advisory Board. 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
Inc., BioMetricore Inc., and No Fuss Inc. He also serves on the board of Directors 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), a member of the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT) for NIST, and a member of 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; member of eTreasury Pennsylvania Advisory Board (Appointed by Pennsylvania Treasurer Robin Weissman), and Senior Advisory Group for the DARPA Program on Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems
.
at international conferences, and invited to participate in thought leader
ship forums organized by Fortune Magazine
, AMD
, the Milken Institute, the World Economic Forum
, Techonomy, and the Blouin Foundation, amongst others. He has also served on editorial boards of journals and book series
.
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 W. Wallace McDowell Award from IEEE Computer Society
(2001), the Cyber Education Award from the Business Software Alliance (2007), a lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (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 IEEE
, the AAAS
, the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), and member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). 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.
Indian American
Indian Americans are Americans whose ancestral roots lie in India. The U.S. Census Bureau popularized the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with Indigenous peoples of the Americas who are commonly referred to as American Indians.-The term: Indian:...
computer scientist
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
and Dean of the College of Engineering
Carnegie Institute of Technology
The Carnegie Institute of Technology , is the name for Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering. It was first called the Carnegie Technical Schools, or Carnegie Tech, when it was founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie who intended to build a “first class technical school” in Pittsburgh,...
, Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....
's College of Engineering. He is also the Philip and Marsha Dowd University Professor
Professor
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of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon.
Work
Khosla received a B.TechBachelor of Technology
The Bachelor of Technology is an undergraduate academic degree conferred after completion of a three or four year program of studies at an accredited university or accredited university-level institution...
(Hons) from the Indian Institute of Technology, 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 received both an MS and PhD degree from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) where he joined as an assistant professor. He rose through the ranks and was appointed University Professor in 2008, which is the highest rank attianable by a Professor. In addition to being an excellent teacher, Khosla has been an exemplary leader and visionary. He has held several administrative and leadership positions at CMU including: Founding Director, Carnegie Mellon CyLab; Head, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...
; 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 that was renewed in July 2009.
From January 1994 to August 1996 Khosla was on leave from CMU and served as Program Manager
Program Manager
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at DARPA
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military...
, where he managed a $50M portfolio of programs in real-time systems
Real-time computing
In computer science, real-time computing , or reactive computing, is the study of hardware and software systems that are subject to a "real-time constraint"— e.g. operational deadlines from event to system response. Real-time programs must guarantee response within strict time constraints...
, internet-enabled software infrastructure, intelligent systems
Hybrid intelligent system
Hybrid intelligent system denotes a software system which employs, in parallel, a combination of methods and techniques from artificial intelligence subfields as:* Neuro-fuzzy systems* hybrid connectionist-symbolic models* Fuzzy expert systems...
, and distributed systems
Distributed computing
Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network. The computers interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal...
.
Khosla also worked as a consultant to several companies and venture capital
Venture capital
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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’s Advisory Board. He is involved with iNetworks in raising a biotechnology fund called BioVentures, and is co-founder and a member of the Board of Directors
Board of directors
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of Quantapoint
Quantapoint
Quantapoint, Inc. is a technology and services company that develops and uses patented 3D laser scanning hardware and software. Quantapoint creates a Digital Facility using 3D laser scanning and then provides visualization, analysis, quality control, decision support and documentation services for...
Inc., BioMetricore Inc., and No Fuss Inc. He also serves on the board of Directors of HCL Infosystems, the Children’s Institute, the IIT Foundation, Mellon-Pitt (MPC) corporation, the Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering
Tissue engineering
Tissue engineering is the use of a combination of cells, engineering and materials methods, and suitable biochemical and physio-chemical factors to improve or replace biological functions...
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
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is the national government body for scientific research in Australia...
, Australia, ITU High Level Experts Group for the Global Cybersecurty Agenda (GCA), a member of the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT) for NIST, and a member of 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
United States National Research Council
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Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design; member of eTreasury Pennsylvania Advisory Board (Appointed by Pennsylvania Treasurer Robin Weissman), and Senior Advisory Group for the DARPA Program on Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems
Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems
Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems, or J-UCAS, was the name for the joint U.S. Navy/U.S. Air Force unmanned combat air vehicle procurement project. The two vehicles involved in the project were the Boeing X-45 and Northrop Grumman X-47. J-UCAS was managed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects...
.
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 keynote speakerKeynote
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at international conferences, and invited to participate in thought leader
Thought leader
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ship forums organized by Fortune Magazine
Fortune (magazine)
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, AMD
Advanced Micro Devices
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. or AMD is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Sunnyvale, California, that develops computer processors and related technologies for commercial and consumer markets...
, the Milken Institute, the World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum
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, Techonomy, and the Blouin Foundation, amongst others. He has also served on editorial boards of journals and book series
Book series
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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 W. Wallace McDowell Award from IEEE Computer Society
IEEE Computer Society
The IEEE Computer Society is a professional society of IEEE. Its purpose and scope is “to advance the theory, practice, and application of computer and information processing science and technology” and the “professional standing of its members.” The CS is the largest of 38 technical societies...
(2001), the Cyber Education Award from the Business Software Alliance (2007), a lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (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 IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is a non-profit professional association headquartered in New York City that is dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence...
, the AAAS
American Association for the Advancement of Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science is an international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the...
, the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), and member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). 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.