ECE’s Abhishek Gupta joins Frontier Center leadership team

Abhishek Gupta, associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University, recently joined Anant Agarwal, a professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Ardeshir Contractor, a visiting fellow at the Institute for Materials and Manufacturing Research (IMR) as center leaders. Their counterparts at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay are Physics Prof. Dinesh Kabra and Electrical Engineering Prof. Saurabh Lodha.

The IIT Bombay-Ohio State Frontier Center is a joint research center operated by Ohio State’s IMR and IIT Bombay. It builds on both institutions’ research strengths in renewable energy, electronics, photonics, materials, and quantum information technology. IIT Bombay Professor Emeritus Juzer Vasi and IMR Executive Director Steven Ringel serve as the center’s advisers.

Gupta’s research focuses on the intersection of applied probability theory, reinforcement learning, and optimization. His research has contributed to improved efficiency of transportation markets, cyberattack detection and mitigation in control systems, and new convergence proofs for reinforcement learning algorithms.

He completed his Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering in 2011, Master of Science in applied mathematics in 2012, and earned his doctoral degree in aerospace engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2014.

As an alumnus of IIT Bombay, having earned his Bachelor of Technology in aerospace engineering there in 2009, he said he is excited to continue the Frontier Center’s work on fostering collaborative efforts among researchers in the two universities. He will support the student researchers in two countries, build bridges with the industry experts, and support junior faculty in building international collaborative research programs. He will also contribute to the data science research in the Frontier Center. 

Outside of Ohio State, Prof. Gupta is also a founder of Rewardwise, a customer engagement app, and runs a consulting business Ensemble Control Inc. where he advises industry leaders on data science algorithms for solving important industrial problems.

Since joining Ohio State in 2015, Gupta has received the Lumley Research Award from Ohio State’s College of Engineering, the Kenneth Lee Herrick Memorial Award for Research Excellence from the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Mavis Future Faculty Fellowship from their College of Engineering at UIUC.