Dr. Manish Gupta Director at Google Research India addressing the 7th Convocation Ceremony

We were honoured to have Dr Manish Gupta Director at Google Research India with us today as the guest of honour to confer the graduating students with PGP in Data Science and Cyber Security in association with IBM. He holds an additional appointment as Infosys Foundation Chair Professor at IIIT Bangalore. Previously Manish has led VideoKen a video technology startup and the research centers for Xerox and IBM in India. As a Senior Manager at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights New York Manish led the team developing system software for the Blue Gene/L supercomputer. IBM was awarded a National Medal of Technology and Innovation for Blue Gene by US President Barack Obama in 2009. Manish holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He has co-authored about 75 papers with more than 7000 citations in Google Scholar (and an h-index of 46) and has been granted 19 US patents. While at IBM Manish received two Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards an Outstanding Innovation Award and the Lou Gerstner Team Award for Client Excellence. Manish is a Fellow of ACM and the Indian National Academy of Engineering and a recipient of a Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Delhi.