Rajesh Gupta is a Professor and holds a Qualcomm Endowed Chair in the Computer Science and Engineering department at UC San Diego. He is also an Associate Director of the Qualcomm Institute at UC San Diego. Gupta earned his Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford in 1994. Earlier he worked at Intel Corporation in Santa Clara and on the Computer Science faculty at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and UC Irvine. His current research is focused on energy efficient and mobile computing issues in embedded systems, and for this project he brings insights from a current NSF project, RoseLine, that is investigating time-aware protocol stacks (with Gupta as PI of the multi-university project). Gupta is also a pioneer in “codesign” of hardware and software for embedded microsystems. He has served as Editor in Chief of IEEE Design & Test of Computers and chair of the steering committee of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He is also a Fellow of the IEEE, and a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award.