Pradeep Khosla 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 PhD (1986) degrees from Carnegie Mellon University.

During his tenure as Founding Director (1997 – 1999), ICES grew to a total budget of more than $8M per year through strategic positioning to pursue interdisciplinary projects that involved faculty from six different colleges at Carnegie Mellon in the areas of Embedded Systems, Tissue Engineering, Design and Manufacturing, and Networking. During his tenure as department head of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the department grew more than 80% in research volume, added 23 new faculty (tenure track and research), defined several strategic multidiscipinary initiatives, and the Computer Engineering graduate program was ranked number one for the first time, and the undergraduate program ranked 3rd by US News and World Report in their 2002 rankings. Under his leadership the Information Networking Institute (INI) increased its enrollment severalfold, created the Master of Science in Information Security Technology and Management degree program, and defined international collaborations with the Athens Information Technology (AIT) Institute in Athens, Greece and in Kobe, Japan.

From January 1994 to August 1996 he was on leave from Carnegie Mellon and served as a DARPA Program Manager in the Software and Intelligent Systems Technology Office (SISTO), Defense Sciences Office (DSO) and Tactical Technology Office (TTO) where he managed advanced research and development programs, with a total budget exceeding $50M in FY96, in the areas of Information based Design and Manufacturing, Web based Information Technology Infrastructure, Real-Time Planning, and Distributed AI and Intelligent Systems, Real-Time Embedded Software, Sensor-based Control, and Collaborative Robotics.

Pradeep Khosla's research interests include the areas of internet-enabled distributed and composable simulations, collaborating autonomous systems, agent-based architectures for embedded systems, software composition and reconfigurable software for real-time embedded systems, distributed robotic systems, distributed information systems, and intelligent instruments for biomedical applications. His research is multidisciplinary and has focused on the theme of "creating complex embedded systems and information systems through composition of and collaboration amongst building blocks."

He is involved in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Design, and Robotics education both at the graduate and the undergraduate level. He was a member of the committee that formulated a curriculum for the multidisciplinary PhD program in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon. He was also a member of the Wipe the Slate Clean Committee that created a new four-year undergraduate ECE degree curriculum at Carnegie Mellon. In support of the new curriculum he proposed the notion of teaching Engineering to freshmen and developed the Introductory Freshman level course "Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering" that emphasizes the notion of "teaching in context." He is the co-author of a textbook and a laboratory manual for this freshman course.

Professor Khosla is a recipient of the Inlaks Foundation Fellowship in 1982, the Carnegie Institute of Technology Ladd award for excellence in research in 1989, 2 NASA Tech Brief awards (1992, 1993), the ASEE 1999 George Westinghouse Award for Education, Siliconindia Leadership award for Excellence in Academics and Technology in 2000, and the W. Wallace McDowell award from IEEE Computer Society in 2001. He was elected Fellow of IEEE in January 1995, and Fellow of AAAI in 2003. He was appointed a Distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society for 1998-03. Professor Khosla's research has resulted in 3 books and more than 300 articles in journals, conferences, and book contributions. He has been a keynote and plenary speaker at several international conferences and workshops.

He has served as member of the AdCom of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, Chairman of the Education Committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, Professional Activities (PACE) Chair of the Robotics and Automation Society, member of Robotics and Intelligent Machines Coordinating Council (RIMCC), member of the Long Range Planning Committee of the Robotics and Automation Society, member of the Board of Directors of The Robotics Industries Association (RIA) from 1998 - 2002, and member of the Board of Directors of Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative (PTEI) during 2000-2001. He served as Technical Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation and Associate Editor for ASME Journal of Computers and Information Science in Engineering (JCISE). He currently serves on editorial boards of IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Security and Privacy, and Oxford University Press series in Electrical and Computer Engineering. In December 2002, he was appointed a member of the IT transition team of Pennsylvania Governor-elect Ed Rendell and in February 2003 he was appointed to the National Research Council Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design for a three-year term.

In addition to his roles at iNetworks and the iNetworks BioOpportunity Fund, he is a consultant to one software/IT/communications venture group, ITU Ventures, based in Los Angeles. He has served on the technology advisory boards of many start-ups and currently serves on several advisory boards including iPolicy, and Alcoa CIO’s Advisory Board. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Quantapoint Inc., the Children’s Institute, IIT Foundation, and MPC corporation. He also serves on the advisory boards of several universities and international agencies. He is a member of the Strategy Review Board for Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan; the IT advisory committee, CSIRO, Australia; Council of Deans of the Aeronautics Advisory Committtee, NASA; and Senior Advisory Group, DARPA Program on Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems. He is a co-founder of Quantapoint inc., a high tech company based in Pittsburgh. Quantapoint specializes in high precision laser scanners that are used for creating high fidelity 3D models.