Manish K. Gupta received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 2000. Over his distinguished academic career, he has held academic positions at several prestigious institutions worldwide, including the University of Canterbury, New Zealand (2000-2002); National University of Singapore (2001); Arizona State University, USA (2002-2004); The Ohio State University, USA (2004-2005); Queen's University, Canada (2005-2006); Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology (IZI) in Germany (2019) and King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia (2019). He has spent a significant tenure at the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT) from 2006 to 2024. From August 2024, Dr. Gupta serves as the Director of Academics and a Senior Professor at Kaushalya: The Skill University (KSU), Government of Gujarat. A senior member of IEEE and an active member of the IEEE Computer Society, he has received an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor Award 2022. Dr. Gupta has made significant contributions to the Indo-American Education Society, Education USA serving as a board member from 2008 to 2015. Dr. Gupta is also a founder of the DA-IICT Centre for Entrepreneurship and Incubation (DCEI), a section 8 not-for-profit company, since 2006 and served as the chairman of the DCEI executive council from July 2016 to March 2019. His expertise is frequently sought by government committees on start-ups and innovations. He has served as Scientific Expert and Evaluator for research funding agencies such as the European Science Foundation (ESF), Dutch Research Council, Swiss National Science Foundation, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India, and the British Academy/Royal Society, contributing to expert peer review and evaluation of competitive research proposals across disciplines. Recognized for his contributions to the field, Dr. Gupta was selected as a featured reviewer in the February 2016 issue of ACM Computing Reviews. He is actively involved in setting standards in DNA data storage through Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), USA and contributes to the JPEG DNA standards of the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1 Committee. He is a principal member of the national committee on coding and processing of Audio, Picture, Multimedia and Hypermedia Information (LITD23), Electronic and Information Technology Department, Bureau of Indian Standards since February 2023. He has also been serving on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computation, Springer and AIMS Electronics and Electrical Engineering, AIMS Press since 2017. He is a lead editor of the Springer book “DNA Data Storage: Current Approaches and Emerging Trends”, one of the first comprehensive volumes in this rapidly evolving field. His areas of interest are the elegant applications of mathematics in emerging technologies: DNA digital data storage, DNA computing, AI, chemical computing, coding theory, quantum computing, quantum machine learning, quantum error correction, cryptography, blockchain, quantum algorithms, synthetic biology, DNA nanotechnology, bioinformatics. His Erdos number is 2.

His group (https://www.guptalab.org/) is well known for developing open-source software products (for example, DNA Pen, 3DNA, DNA Cloud) in DNA nanotechnology. His DNA storage project was shortlisted as one of the top 5 innovations for the Prime Minister (India and Israel) demo at the India- Israel Innovation Initiative in January 2018. His Linkedin is at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mankg/

Email: mankg@guptalab.org
Web: https://www.mankg.com
Lab: https://www.gupatalab.org