Pradeep khosla biography of michael

Adjunct Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chancellor, University of California, San Diego

Bio

Pradeep K. Khosla became UC San Diego’s eighth Chancellor on August 1, 2012.

As UC San Diego’s chief executive officer, he leads a campus with more than 35,000 students, six undergraduate colleges, five academic divisions, and five graduate and professional schools. UC San Diego is also home to the prestigious Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the UC San Diego Health System.

With annual revenues of $4.3 billion in fiscal year 2015, UC San Diego is an academic and research powerhouse, with faculty, researchers and staff attracting more than $1 billion in research funding a year. The campus is the third largest employer in San Diego County and one of 10 campuses in the world-renowned University of California system.

Khosla initiated and led UC San Diego’s first-ever Strategic Plan, and recently launched the pub