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Prof. Rajesh Kumar Gupta

(BT/EE/1984)

Rajesh K. Gupta is Dean of the School of Computing, Information and Data Science at UC San Diego.He served as the founding director of the Halicioglu Data Science Institute (HDSI) and Chair of the Computer Science and Engineering department, where he is currently a distinguished Professor.

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Prof. Gupta did his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1984. He did his MS from University of California, Berkeley in 1986 and obtained his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1993. Professor Gupta's research focuses on embedded and cyber-physical systems, with a particular emphasis on sensor data organization and its applications in optimization and analytics.

His publications and patents span various aspects of systems design, design automation, clock design, data-path synthesis, system-on-chip modeling, and dynamic power management. He is a Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) in the DARPA/SRC JUMP ACE Center on Evolvable Computing and the NSF-sponsored DERConnect for Distributed Energy Resources.

A distinguished alumnus of IIT Kanpur,Prof. Gupta holds the Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Embedded Microsystems at UC San Diego and 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).He is the recipient of the prestigious IITK Distinguished Alumnus Award, 2021.

Achievements and Honors


  • Distinguished Alumnus Award, IITK, 2021.
  • IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award
  • IEEE TCCPS Distinguished Leadership Award.
  • National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
  • Components Research Team Award at Intel.
  • ACM Build Sys'16, best paper award at IEEE/ACM DCOSS'08.
  • Best demonstration award at IEEE/ACM IPSN/SPOTS'05.
  • Fellow , The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
  • Fellow, The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).
  • Fellow, The American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Last updated Aug 19, 2025