Pradeep Khosla, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Pradeep Khosla

Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego

Date of Birth: 13-Mar-1957

Place of Birth: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Profession: engineer, computer scientist, university teacher

Nationality: United States, India

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Pradeep Kumar Khosla (born March 13, 1957) is an academic computer scientist and university administrator.
He is the current chancellor of the University of California, San Diego.
He was appointed to the position by the president of the University of California, Mark Yudof, on May 3, 2012.
His term began August 1, 2012, following the resignation of the previous chancellor Marye Anne Fox. A native of Mumbai (then Bombay), India, he was an electrical engineering professor and Dean of the Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering.
He was also the Philip and Marsha Dowd University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon.
He is also the Jury Chair for the Infosys Prize since 2011, for the discipline of Engineering and Computer Science.