Puneet Gupta (http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~puneet) is currently a faculty member of the Electrical Engineering Department at UCLA. He received the B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 2000 and Ph.D. in 2007 from University of California, San Diego. He co-founded Blaze DFM Inc. (acquired by Tela Inc.) in 2004 and served as its product architect till 2007. He has authored over 60 papers, ten U.S. patents, and a book chapter. He is a recipient of NSF CAREER award, ACM/SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award, European Design Automation Association Outstanding Dissertation Award and SRC Inventor Recognition Award. He serves as the Program Chair of IEEE DFM&Y Workshop.

Dr. Gupta's research has focused on building high-value bridges across application-architecture-implementation-fabrication interfaces for lowered cost and power, increased yield and improved predictability of integrated circuits and systems.