California Institute Of Technology, Pasadena (CA)

Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering, June 1996

Master of Science in Chemical Engineering, June 1993

Indian Institute Of Technology, Bombay (India)

Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering, July 1990

2010- present: Professor of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering

2004-2010:      Associate Professor of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering
                          University of South Florida

1997-2004:      Assistant Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
                          University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1995-2005:      Post-Doctoral Researcher
                          Center for Polymeric Interfaces and Macromolecular
                          Assemblies (IBM-Stanford-University of California at Davis)

1990-1995:      Graduate Research Assistant
                          California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

Outstanding Professor Award by AIChE Student Chapter at USF (2011, 2013, 2014, 2016)

Invited attendee, 2nd Frontiers of Engineering Education Symposium by National Academy of Engineering (2010)

Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teacher Award, University of South Florida (2009)

Member, Charter Class of Academy of Inventors, University of South Florida (2009)

Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, University of South Florida (2007-2008)

Million Dollar Researcher: Recognition of Outstanding Research Achievement by USF Sponsored Research (2005-06)

Daily Illini’s Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked Excellent (2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 1998)*

Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award by NSF (1999-2003)

Teaching Excellence Award, School of Chemical Sciences, University of Illinois (1999)

Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence, College of Engineering, University of Illinois (1999)

GE Scholar and Graduate of Teaching College, University of Illinois (1997-98)

*Top 30% of instructors at the University of Illinois

Bijith D. Mankidy, Babu Joseph, and Vinay K. Gupta*, "Photo-conversion of CO2 by Titanium Dixoide: enhancements by plasmonic and co-catalytic nanoparticles",Nanotechnology, 24, 405402 (2013).

Cecil Coutinho and Vinay Gupta*, “CMP Using Polymeric Additives and Composite Abrasive Particles” In Handbook of Plastics Engineering. Editor: M. Kutz, Elsevier Publishers (2011).

F. Fanord, K. Fairbairn, H. Kim, A. Garces, V. Bhethanabotla, and V. K. Gupta*, “Bisphosphonate-modified Gold Nanoparticles: A Useful Vehicle to Study Treatment of Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head”, Nanotechnology, 22(3), 035102/1-035102/11 (2011).

B. D. Mankidy, C. A. Coutinho, and V. K. Gupta*, “Probing the Interplay of Size, Shape, and Solution Environment on Macromolecular Diffusion using a Simple Refraction Experiment”, Journal of Chemical Education, 8 (5), 515–518 (2010).

C. A. Coutinho, B. D. Mankidy, and V. K. Gupta*, “A Simple Refraction Experiment for Probing Diffusion in Ternary Mixtures”, Chemical Engineering Education, 44(2), 134-139 (2010).

C. A. Coutinho and V. K. Gupta*, “Photocatalytic Degradation of Methyl Orange Using Polymer-Titania Microcomposites”, J Colloid and Interface Science 333(2), 457-464 (2009).

D. A. Walker and V. K. Gupta*, “Reversible End-to-End Assembly of Gold Nanorods using a Disulfide modified Polypeptide”, Nanotechnology, 19(43), 435603/1-435603/9 (2008).

C. A. Coutinho, Subrahmanya R. Mudhivarthi, Ashok Kumar, and V. K. Gupta*, “Novel Ceria-Polymer Microcomposites for Chemical Mechanical Polishing”, Applied Surface Science, 255(5,Pt. 2), 3090-3096 (2008).

C. A. Coutinho, R. Harrinauth and V. K. Gupta*, “Settling Characteristics of Composites of PNIPAM Microgels and TiO2 Nanoparticles”, Colloid and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 318, 111-121 (2008).

J. Y. Shim and V. K. Gupta*, “Reversible Aggregation of Gold Nanoparticles Induced by pH Dependent Conformational Transitions of a Self-Assembled Polypeptide”, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 316, 977-983 (2007).

C. A. Coutinho and V. K. Gupta*, “Formation and Properties of Composites Based on Microgels of a Responsive Polymer and TiO2 Nanoparticles”, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 116, 116-122 (2007).

Raghu Mudhivarti, Cecil Coutinho, Ashok Kumar and Vinay K. Gupta*, "Novel Core-Shell Type Abrasive Particles for Oxide CMP Applications", ECS Transactions, 3(41), 9-19, (2006).

V. K. Gupta, C. Coutinho, M. Trotz, Functional Composites formed from Colloidal Polymer Particles with Photocatalytic Metal Oxide (MOx) Nanoparticles, Patent Pending.

V. K. Gupta, A. Kumar, C. Coutinho, S. Mudhivarthi, Novel Composites of Inorganic Oxides with PNIPAM-Siloxane based Polymeric Microgels for Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) Processing, Patent Pending.

N. L. Abbott, J. J. Skaife, V. K. Gupta, T. B. Dubrovsky, and Rahul R. Shah, Optical Amplification of Molecular Interactions Using Liquid Crystals, World Intellectual Property (# WO-9963329A1), December 9, 1999; European Patent (# EP-1084394A1), March 21, 2001; US Patent (#6,284,197B1), September 4, 2001.

J. A. Kornfield, V. K. Gupta and A. Kratel, Polarization-Modulation Laser-Scanning Microscopy, U. S. Patent (#5,457,536), October 10, 1995