Dr. Rajesh Gupta serves as the founding director of the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute and as a distinguished professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego. Professor Gupta’s research is in embedded and cyber-physical systems with a focus on sensor data organization and its use in optimization and analytics. He currently leads NSF project MetroInsight and a co-PI on DARPA/SRC Center on Computing on Network Infrastructure (CONIX) with the goal to build a new generation of distributed cyber-physical systems that use city-scale sensing data for improved services and autonomy.

Dr. Gupta is a recipient of IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award, IEEE TCCPS Distinguished Leadership Award, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, two Departmental Achievement Awards, and a Components Research Team Award at Intel. Dr. Gupta and his students have received a best demonstration paper award at ACM BuildSys’16, best paper award at IEEE/ACM DCOSS’08, and a best demonstration award at IEEE/ACM IPSN/SPOTS’05. He  served as an advisor to Tallwood Venture Capital, RealIntent, Calypto and Packet Digital Corporation.

He also served as editor-in-chief of IEEE Design & Test of Computers and founding editor- in-chief of IEEE Embedded Systems Letters. He currently serves as editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. Prof. Gupta holds the Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Embedded Microsystems at UC San Diego and the INRIA International Chair at the French International Research Institute in Rennes, Bretagne Atlantique. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the ACM, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Links:

Research Group: http://mesl.ucsd.edu/

HDSI: https://datascience.ucsd.edu/