Pradeep Khosla
Pradeep Khosla’s work connects robot design, advanced engineering research, and university leadership. Khosla received an electrical and computer engineering doctorate from Carnegie Mellon in 1986 and became an assistant professor there that year. His academic appointments included electrical engineering and robotics. Khosla and Chris Paredis co-authored Kinematic Design of Serial Link Manipulators from Task Specifications in June 1993. Their study maps task requirements into robot configurations, with analytical methods for two-degree-of-freedom robots and numerical methods for six-degree-of-freedom manipulators.
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- Citations
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Timeline
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1986
Doctorate and faculty appointment
Khosla received an electrical and computer engineering doctorate from Carnegie Mellon in 1986 and became an assistant professor there that year. His academic appointments included electrical engineering and robotics.
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1993
Designing robots for specified tasks
Khosla and Chris Paredis co-authored Kinematic Design of Serial Link Manipulators from Task Specifications in June 1993. Their study maps task requirements into robot configurations, with analytical methods for two-degree-of-freedom robots and numerical methods for six-degree-of-freedom manipulators.
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1994–1996
Advanced research program management
Khosla served as a DARPA program manager from 1994 to 1996. He worked in the Software and Intelligent Systems Technology Office and other research offices, where he managed advanced research programs.
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2003
Research recognition
AAAI elected Pradeep Khosla as a Fellow in 2003.
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2004–2012
Engineering dean at Carnegie Mellon
Khosla served as Carnegie Mellon’s engineering dean from 2004 to 2012. This leadership role followed his earlier engineering and robotics research career.
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2012
UC San Diego appointment
Khosla became UC San Diego’s eighth chancellor on August 1, 2012.
Sources and credits
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