Dr. Raj Khosla is a Professor of Precision Agriculture at Colorado State University. He also shares administrative responsibilities with the College of Agricultural Sciences as the Assistant Dean of International Programs. In 2012, Dr. Khosla was named the Jefferson Science Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences and was appointed as the Senior Science Advisor on Food Security to the U.S. Department of State. In 2011, he earned NASA board membership to the US “Presidential Advisory Board on Positioning, Navigation and Timing” to work on the US space based GPS policy. Earlier in 2008, Dr. Khosla was named the CSU Monfort Professor.

Dr. Khosla’s main focus of research has been “Management of in-field soil and crop spatial variability using innovative technologies (such as GPS, GIS, and Remote-sensing) for precision management of crop inputs across large and small scale farming systems. He currently has projects in multiple countries and is championing efforts to enhance crop input use efficiency, productivity, profitability, and sustainability of large and small scale agricultural production systems. He has been invited globally to over 2 dozen countries and has trained scientists from numerous places in his Precision Agriculture laboratory.

Dr. Khosla is the Fellow of American Society of Agronomy; Fellow of Soil Science Society of America; Fellow of Soil and Water Conservation Society and Honorary Life Fellow of International Society of Precision Agriculture.

Dr. Khosla is the Founder and Founding-President of the International Society of Precision Agriculture.