Rajesh K. Gupta (born 1961) is a computer scientist and engineer, currently the Qualcomm Professor in Embedded Microsystems at

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. His research concerns design and optimization of

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s (CPS). He is a Principal Investigator in the NSF MetroInsight project and serves as Associate Director of the Qualcomm Institute (also known as

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). His research contributions include SystemC and SPARK Parallelizing High-level Synthesis. Earlier he led NSF Expeditions on Variability in Microelectronic circuits. He was the inaugural co-director of the UC San Diego Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute along with Cognitive Science professor

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. In addition, he chaired the Computer Science and Engineering department at UC San Diego until 2016, during a time of extraordinary growth in computer science nationwide. He holds INRIA International Chair at the French international research institute in Rennes, Bretagne Atlantique. He is a

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, a

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and a

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. In 2019 he received the IEEE

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for his "seminal contributions in design and implementation of Microelectronic Systems-on-Chip and Cyberphysical Systems." He also served on the Engineering and Computer Science jury for the

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, from 2014 to 2018.

Education

Gupta received a BTech (1984) in Electrical Engineering from

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, an MS (1986) in EECS from

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, and a PhD (1994) in Electrical Engineering from

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References

Books

SPARK: A Parallelizing Approach to the High-Level Synthesis of Digital Circuits
by Sumit Gupta, Rajesh K. Gupta, Nikil Dutt, Alex Nicolau, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004
High-Level Verification, Methods and Tools for Verification of System-Level Designs
by Sudipta Kundu, Sorin Lerner, Rajesh K. Gupta
Co-Synthesis of Hardware and Software for Digital Embedded Systems
by Rajesh Kumar Gupta * Formal Methods and Models for System Design by Rajesh Gupta, Paul Le Guernic, Sandeep Kumar Shukla, Jean-Pierre Talpin * From Variability Tolerance to Approximate Computing in Parallel Integrated Architectures and Accelerators by Abbas Rahimi, Luca Benini, Rajesh K. Gupta

External links

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Gupta's webpage

Revolutionizing how we keep track of time in cyber-physical systems

PCs that work while they sleep

Interview: Future of CPS, History and Passage of Time

Origins Podcast
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