“Nick McKeown Chair in Computer Science” and “Pankaj Gupta Chair in Privacy and Decentralization”.
IIT Delhi alumnus Dr. Pankaj Gupta has signed an MoU with his alma mater to establish two chairs: “Nick McKeown Chair in Computer Science” and “Pankaj Gupta Chair in Privacy and Decentralization”.
Dr. Pankaj Gupta is a Senior Director of Engineering at Google Pay and leads its consumer efforts and teams in APAC. He joined Google in 2017 when his AI/ML startup, Halli Labs, was acquired by Google. He was an early employee at Twitter in San Francisco where he led the Personalization and Recommendations teams that were responsible for some of Twitter’s search, discovery, and relevance products. Speaking of the Chairs, Dr. Gupta said, “I am humbled to have an opportunity to contribute to my alma-mater IIT Delhi and in the process express my gratitude to my Ph.D. advisor at Stanford University, Prof Nick McKeown, for all I have learned from him, as well as help advance research in some exciting cutting-edge areas of Computer Science.”
