Engineer, cybersecurity pioneer, and leader of one of the largest research universities in the US.
Dr. Pradeep Khosla became the eighth Chancellor of UC San Diego in 2012, where he serves as CEO of a campus of roughly 46,000 students, 34,000 faculty and staff, and a $9.1B annual budget. He spent three decades at Carnegie Mellon University, rising to Dowd University Professor and Dean of the College of Engineering, where he founded CyLab and the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems. His research spans robotics and autonomous systems, cybersecurity, embedded software, and systems engineering.