About Arvind Gupta
Born 1961. Arvind Gupta is an Indian and Canadian computer scientist and academic administration.
Arvind Gupta (born 1961) is an Indo-Canadian computer scientist, was the 13th President of the University of British Columbia (UBC) and former CEO of Mitacs Canada.
Early life and education Gupta was born in Jalandhar in the Indian state of Punjab. Both his parents were academics. His mother was one of the first women to teach mathematics at a college in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Gupta lived in India and spoke Punjabi for his first five years until his family moved to Detroit where his father, a chemistry professor, had started a fellowship at Wayne State University. He then learned to speak English. Within two years, they moved to Timmins, Ontario after his father earned a job as a pollution chemist with a mining company.
He obtained a bachelor's degree in mathematics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario before earning a master's and a PhD at the University of Toronto, under the supervision of Stephen Cook and Alasdair Urquhart.
From 2000 until his appointment as President of UBC in 2014, Gupta served as CEO and scientific director of Mitacs Canada, a national non-profit that worked with government and industry to fund student researchers.
Gupta resigned abruptly from his position as President of UBC on August 7, 2015, after 13 months of service. The reasons for his resignation were not revealed and caused some public controversies.
In October 2015, the University of Toronto announced Gupta's joining them as a distinguished visiting professor for one academic year.
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Canadian university president
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Arvind Gupta was born in 1961 in Jalandhar.
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