Pradeep Khosla General Information

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Dr. Pradeep Khosla serves as Chancellor at UC San Diego Foundation. He served as Managing Director at iNetworks Advisors. He is an Angel Investor. He is currently the Dean of the College of Engineering (2004 - ) and the Philip and Marsha Dowd Professor in the College of Engineering and School of Computer Science (1998 - ). His interests include interdisciplinary projects cutting across a variety of healthcare/life science areas relevant to the iNetworks BioOpportunity Fund, including tissue engineering, medical robotics, medical devices, bioinformatics, biometrics and healthcare information systems. His previous positions include Assistant Professor of ECE and Robotics (1986-90), Associate Professor (1990 - 94), and Professor (1994 - ), Founding Director (1/97 - 6/99) of Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES), Founding co-Director of CyLab, and Department Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering (1999 - 2004). Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon, he worked with Tata Consulting Engineers and Siemens (1980 - 82) in the area of real-time control. He received B. Tech (Hons) from IIT (Kharagpur, India) in 1980, and both MS (1984) and Ph.D. (1986) degrees from Carnegie Mellon University.