Dr Manish Gupta is the Director of Google Research India, a new AI research lab recently announced by Google. He holds an additional appointment as Infosys Foundation Chair Professor at IIIT Bangalore. Previously, he has led VideoKen, a video technology start-up, and the research centres for Xerox and IBM in India.

A Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Delhi, he has co-authored about 75 papers, with more than 7,000 citations in Google Scholar (and an h-index of 45), and has been granted 19 US patents. At the IBM T. J. Watson Research Centre in New York, he led the team developing system software for the Blue Gene/L supercomputer which was awarded a National Medal of Technology and Innovation by US President Barack Obama in 2009.

Be there at Pragyan, this March and get inspired!