Gopal Gupta (computer scientist)

Gopal Gupta is the Erik Jonsson Professor and 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.

Career
Gupta is an Erik Jonsson Chaired Professor and head of the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas. He also serves as a director of UT Dallas' 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, 2010–2014.
 * Computer science outstanding teacher of the year, University of Texas at Dallas, 2008.
 * Best paper award. European Conferences on Web Services 2005