KHARAGPUR: Indian American scientist Pradeep K. Khosla, who heads one of the world's largest public research universities, plans to strengthen ties with India in the area of hospital management and hopes the Indian government will bring in policies to ease the commercialization of research.

"I want to first work with IIT-Kharagpur because this is an opportunity to influence a new medical hospital here and bring the best thinking in hospital management out here," Khosla, the eighth chancellor of the University of California, San Diego, told IANS.

Khosla has been named one of the 50 most influential Indian Americans by Silicon India, an international magazine focussing on business and technology developments in the U.S., India and Britain.

The internationally-renowned electrical and computer engineer explained that the collaboration between UCSD and IIT-Kharagpur - his alma mater - would be research-oriented as well as entrepreneurial but would not cramp the style of medical education here.

"We cannot impact the medical education here because it is different from the American pattern but we can share ideas on hospital management," he said. Citing an African example, he said the collaboration between UCSD and IIT-Kharagpur would be a win-win situation for both.

"I created a campus in Rwanda. This was way before UCSD, but now we (UCSD) have an interest in building stronger relations with Africa," Khosla said, adding that based on his experience here, he would work out a roadmap for other parts of the country.

Khosla, who graduated in 1980 from IIT-Kharagpur's electrical engineering stream, left India in 1982 for an MS and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and pursued a distinguished career in robotics and cyber security.

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Source: IANS