Rajesh K. Gupta

Rajesh K. Gupta (born 1961) is a computer scientist and engineer who holds the Qualcomm Professorship in Embedded Microsystems at the University of California, San Diego. His research addresses the design and optimization of cyber-physical systems, including contributions to SystemC and SPARK Parallelizing High-level Synthesis, and he earlier led an NSF Expeditions project on variability in microelectronic circuits. He was the inaugural co-director of UC San Diego's Halicioglu Data Science Institute, chaired its Computer Science and Engineering department until 2016, and holds an INRIA International Chair at the French research institute in Rennes. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Association for Computing Machinery and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and received the 2019 IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award for his contributions to the design and implementation of microelectronic systems-on-chip and cyberphysical systems.