Rajiv Gupta

Rajiv Gupta is a Professor at the University of California, Riverside and holds the Amrik Singh Poonian Chair in Computer Science. He serves as Associate Dean for Academic Personnel in the BCOE Deans Office. His research spans Compiler Design, Computer Architecture, Graph Analytics, and Software Engineering, with a focus on Parallel & Distributed Heterogeneous Systems and Runtime Behavior Monitoring.

• Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh (1987); B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi (1982).

His work includes over 326 publications with an h-index of 69 and 9 US patents. He has supervised 42 PhD students, including two ACM SIGPLAN Outstanding Dissertation Award recipients and 5 NSF CAREER awardees. His supervised papers have won Best Paper Awards at ICSE, PACT, HiPC, and LCPC.

Scientific awards:

• ACM Fellow (2009)
• IEEE Fellow (2008)
• AAAS Fellow (2011)
• NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1991)
• UCR Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentor Award (2012)
• IITDAA Global Alumni Recognition Award (2025)

Professional service: Consecutive general/program chair roles at FCRC, PPoPP, ASPLOS, PLDI, and HiPC. Associate Editor for ACM TACO and IEEE TC, and current editorial board member for Parallel Computing and Computer Languages.