Manish Gupta

Biography

I am the Infosys Foundation Chair Professor at IIIT Bangalore and co-founder and CEO of VideoKen, an educational technology startup. Served as Vice President and Director of Xerox Research Center India (XRCI)  from 2013-2016, helping build XRCI into a world class research center. Earlier helped take IBM Research - India to a high level of impact on IBM business (recognized internally through a record number of IBM Research Division Accomplishments) and significant external recognition (13 best paper awards at international conferences during my tenure of four years). Led research at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center on system software for the Blue Gene supercomputer, for which IBM received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2009 from the US President, and other Deep Computing platforms. Have received an Outstanding Innovation Award, two Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards, and the Lou Gerstner Award for Client Excellence at IBM. I have co-authored about 75 papers in the areas of parallel computing, high performance compilers, and Java Virtual Machine optimizations, with over 6,000 citations in Google Scholar and an h-index of 42, and have been granted 19 US patents. Have served on the US National Science Foundation Committee of Visitors and have been invited to give keynotes at several international conferences like ICSOC, IPDPS, DEBS and HiPC. Currently serving as Chair of IKDD, the ACM India Chapter for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.  I am an ACM Fellow, a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, and have received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Research Interest

Technologies for learning, machine learning, program analysis, high performance computing.