Dr. Anoop Gupta
Award Year: 2003 | Degree Year: 1980
Dr. Anoop Gupta was born in Delhi on December 15, 1958. He received his B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1980 from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Subsequently, he attended Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, where he completed Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1986.
For the next 11 years Dr.Gupta was on the faculty of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University. His research at Stanford spanned computer architecture, operating systems, programming languages, simulation and performance debugging tools, and parallel applications. Together with Prof. John Hennessy, he co-led the design and construction of the Stanford DASH (Directory Architecture for Shared Memory) multiprocessor system. This technology has been widely adopted in commercial products. At Stanford, he also led the Virtual Classroom project, where he explored compression and networking issues related to transmitting video over Internet, and use of streaming media technologies for distance education. In 1995, Dr. Gupta used the technology developed in that project to form VXtreme Inc., a provider of technology for streaming audio-visual content over the Web. VXtreme was acquired by Microsoft in 1997.
Dr. Gupta joined Microsoft in 1997 where he led the Collaboration and Multimedia Group. In 2001 he became Technology Assistant to Mr. Bill Gates, Microsoft’s Chairman and Chief Software Architect. In that role, he contributed to several initiatives related to the upcoming release of Microsoft® Windows® operating system, code- named “Longhorn.” He also helped define the company’s strategy for real-time collaboration.
Currently, Dr. Anoop Gupta is a Corporate Vice President of the Real-Time Collaboration business unit. He guides the company’s efforts to provide industry partners and customers with solutions for real-time communication and collaboration. His focus is on tools for information workers, including instant messaging, PC-telephony and Web conferencing.
Dr. Gupta has published more than 100 papers in major conferences and journals, including several that have won awards. With Professors David Culler and Jaswinder Pal Singh, he co-authored the book “Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware-Software Approach” in 1998. He is a co-inventor on over 35 patents filed on behalf of Microsoft. His earlier awards include NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1990-1995) and the Robert N. Noyce Faculty Scholar Chair at Stanford for 1993- 94. Earlier in 1980, he received the President’s Gold Medal from IIT Delhi.
In honouring Dr. Gupta, we recognise the outstanding contributions made by him as a researcher and technologist. Through his achievements, Dr. Gupta has brought glory to this Institute.
