Rajesh K. Gupta

Prof Rajesh Gupta is a part of the Academic Advisory Board of Plaksha University. He is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at UC San Diego, California. He received his BTech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur, India, in 1984, an MS in EECS from UC Berkeley in 1986, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1994.

Earlier, he worked as a circuit designer at Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, California, as a member of three successful processor design teams, and on the Computer Science faculty at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and UC Irvine.

His research interests span topics that have recently come to be characterized under embedded, cyber-physical systems and, more recently, under the Internet of Things. Regardless of the title, the focus of the research has been on methods and tools to make things better (e.g., more energy efficient, reliable), or enable others (mostly designers, architects) to do things better. To the extent a problem area requires it, there is a focus on creating usable artifacts, or at least finding the limits on what is achievable in practice. His past contributions include SystemC modeling and SPARK parallelizing high-level synthesis, both of which have been incorporated into industrial practice. His publications and patents cover various aspects of embedded systems design, design automation, clock design, data-path synthesis, system-on-chip modeling and dynamic power management.

Earlier, Prof Gupta led or co-led DARPA-sponsored efforts under the Data Intensive Systems (DIS) and Power Aware Computing and Communications (PACC) programs on the role of adaptation in energy-efficient system architectures. His ongoing projects are focused on efficient compositional synthesis of system-chips, microelectronic variability, accurate timing and synchronization for integrated systems.

Prof Gupta is a recipient of the Chancellor's Fellow at UC Irvine, UCI Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, National Science Foundation CAREER Award, two Departmental Achievement Awards and a Components Research Team Award at Intel. Prof 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.

Prof Gupta served as an advisor to Tallwood Venture Capital, RealIntent, Calypto and Packet Digital Corporation. Prof Gupta served as founding Chair of the ACM/IEEE Conference on Models and Methods in Codesign (MEMOCODE) and founding Co-Chair of ACM/IEEE/IFIP Conference on Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS). Prof Gupta served as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Design & Test of Computers and founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Embedded Systems Letters.

Prof Gupta is a Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM. Prof Gupta serves as Associate Director of the Qualcomm Institute at UCSD. He holds the QUALCOMM Endowed Chair in Microelectronic Embedded Systems.