Gopal Gupta is an Erik Jonsson Professor and the head of the Department of

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at the

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Education

Gupta has received a B.Tech. degree in computer science from

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) Hindi: भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान कानपुर) is a public institute of technology located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was ...

, India in 1985. He received an M.S. degree in computer science from The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1987. He also has a Ph.D. degree in computer science from The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, which he received in 1991.

Career

Gupta is an Erik Jonsson Chaired Professor and the head of the Department of

The University of Texas at Dallas The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD or UT Dallas) is a public research university in Richardson, Texas. It is one of the largest public universities in the Dallas area and the northernmost institution of the University of Texas system. It wa ...

. He also serves as a director of

UT Dallas The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD or UT Dallas) is a public research university in Richardson, Texas. It is one of the largest public universities in the Dallas area and the northernmost institution of the University of Texas system. It wa ...

' Quality of Life Technology Labs along with Lakshman Tamil and Mehrdad Nourani. He is the chief technology officer and co-founder of Interoperate.biz, Inc. He is also the co-founder and co-coordinator of COMPULOG AMERICAS, a network of research groups in the Western Hemisphere engaged in research on computational logic. He has been active in research for over 25 years mainly in the field of programming languages, software engineering, parallel and distributed processing and assistive technology. His work has resulted in over 40 journal articles and 108 conference and workshop papers.

Awards and honors

* President,

Association for Logic Programming The Association for Logic Programming (ALP) was founded in 1986. Its mission is "to contribute to the development of Logic Programming, relate it to other formal and also to humanistic sciences, and to promote its uses in academia and industry al ...

, 2010–2014. * Computer science outstanding teacher of the year, University of Texas at Dallas, 2008. * Best paper award. European Conferences on Web Services 2005 *

References

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