Manish Gupta is the Infosys Foundation Chair Professor, IIIT Bangalore & CEO & Co-founder, VideoKen.
He has served as the Vice President and Director of Xerox Research Centre India, and has held various leadership positions with IBM, including that of Director, IBM Research - India and Chief Technologist, IBM India/South Asia. He led the team developing system software for the Blue Gene/L supercomputer for which IBM was awarded a National Medal of Technology and Innovation from the erstwhile US President Barack Obama. Manish holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, has co-authored about 75 papers, and has been granted 19 US patents.