Rajiv Khosla

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Raj Khosla
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Dr. Raj Khosla is a Professor of Precision Agriculture at Colorado State University. In 2009, he was named the Colorado State University distinguished Monfort Professor.

In 2012, Dr. Khosla was selected as the Jefferson Science Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences and is currently working as the Senior Science Advisor in the Bureau East Asia Pacific, U.S. Department of State, Washington D.C. At the State Department, he is the lead U.S. government representative on the Policy Partnership on Food Security (PPFS) for the APEC region. In addition, Dr. Khosla is a visiting Professor at two institutions in China.

Dr. Khosla's main research focus has been on "Management of in-field soil and crop spatial variability in large and small scale agricultural production systems."

Prof. Khosla has been invited globally to over 25 countries and has trained scientists from numerous countries in his Precision Agriculture laboratory. He is a Fellow of American Society of Agronomy; Fellow of Soil Science Society of America; and Fellow of Soil and Water Conservation Society.

Prof. Khosla is the founder and Past President of the International Society of Precision Agriculture.