Rajesh Gupta serves as the Interim Dean, School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences, founding director of the  Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego, 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. His past contributions include SystemC modeling and SPARK parallelizing high-level synthesis, both of which have been incorporated into industrial practice. He has led multiple Center-scale efforts on Microelectronics and system design sponsored by NSF and DARPA. He is currently a co-PI on DARPA/SRC Center on Evolvable Computing with the goal to build new generation of distributed accelerated computing systems.

Dr. Gupta is a recipient of Excellence in Stewardship Award from UC San Diego Foundation, IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award, Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Kanpur, IEEE TCCPS Distinguished Leadership Award, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, two Departmental Achievement Awards, and a Components Research Team Award at Intel. Gupta and his students have received Best Paper Award at PervasiveHealth’20, 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.