Gopal Gupta (computer scientist)

Gopal Gupta
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science, programming languages, software engineering, artificial intelligence, human–computer interaction
Institutions	University of Texas at Dallas
Website	Gopal Gupta

Gopal Gupta is the Erik Jonsson Professor and former head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Education

Gupta received a B.Tech. degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 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, in 1991.[1]

Career

Gupta is an Erik Jonsson Chaired Professor and head of the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas.[2] He also serves as a director of UT Dallas' Quality of Life Technology Labs along with Lakshman Tamil and Mehrdad Nourani.[3] He is the chief technology officer and co-founder of Interoperate.biz, Inc.[4][5] 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.[6]

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.[7]

Awards and honors

• President, Association for Logic Programming, 2010–2014.[8][9]
• Computer science outstanding teacher of the year, University of Texas at Dallas, 2008.
• Best paper award. European Conferences on Web Services 2005[10][11]

References

1. "Gupta, Gopal - Department of Computer Science - The University of Texas at Dallas – Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science". cs.utdallas.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-21.
2. Dallas, UT. "Leadership - Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas". engineering.utdallas.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-21.
3. "Quality of Life Technology Labs - People". www.utdallas.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
4. "Prof's Firm Untangles Problems With Old Software - UT Dallas News". www.utdallas.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
5. "- Gupta: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2018-02-21.
6. "American Logic Programming Organization". www.cs.nmsu.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
7. "dblp: Gopal Gupta". dblp.uni-trier.de. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
8. "EC Elections – Association for Logic Programming". www.cs.nmsu.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-21.
9. "Prof's Firm Untangles Problems With Old Software - UT Dallas News". www.utdallas.edu. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
10. Kona, Srividya; Bansal, Ajay; Simon, Luke; Mallya, Ajay; Gupta, Gopal; Hite, Thomas D.; Corp, Metallect. Abstract. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.99.4164.
11. "UTD Computer Science Professor, Students Win Best Paper Awards". www.utdallas.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-05-02. Retrieved 2018-02-22.