Gupta has published more than 100 papers in major conferences and journals, including several that have won awards. He has 65+ issued US patents and numerous pending applications. With David Culler and Jaswinder Pal Singh, he co-authored the book “Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware-Software Approach” in 1998. He received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1990, and he held the Robert N. Noyce Faculty Scholar Chair at Stanford for 1993 and 1994. Before joining Stanford in 1987, Gupta was on the research faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, where he received his Ph.D. in computer science in 1986. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, where he graduated receiving the President’s Gold Medal in 1980.
About
Anoop Gupta is co-founder and CEO of SeekOut, a startup providing recruiting and engagement tools for hard-to-find and diverse technology talent.
Anoop spent 18 years at Microsoft. He was a Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research, leading Telepresence and Natural-User-Interface efforts; he directly reported to Bill Gates as his technology assistant; he headed all enterprise communications products (Exchange, Skype) as Corporate Vice President of Unified Communications; he was Corporate Vice President for Global Technology Policy for Microsoft.
Prior to Microsoft, Anoop was a tenured professor of Computer Science at Stanford, where he founded one of the earliest companies in the streaming media space that was acquired by Microsoft in 1997. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University. He holds over 85 issued US patents and has authored 100+ published research papers.