Education: B.Sc. (Non - Medical), SCD Govt. College, Ludhiana (1988); M.Sc. Hons., Panjab University, Chandigarh (1990); PGDCA, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana (1992); M.E. Hons. (Computer Science & Engg.), Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala (1999); Ph.D. (Computer Science & Engg.), Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar (2007)

Positions held: Assistant Professor (1999-2008), Associate Professor, (2008-2014), Professor(2014 to till date), PAU Ludhiana, Associate Director, Information Technology ( 2023 to date)

Field of Specialization: Computer Science & Engg.

Research Interests: (Maximum up to three areas of interest)

1. Computer Science & Engineering
2. Network Design and Management
3. High Performance Bioinformatics

Research Projects:

1. Physical Mapping and Sample Sequencing of Wheat Chromosome 2A- International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (India), Funded by department of biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India (GOI) - Co-Principal Investigator
2. Designing a Digital Model to Promote Co-operative Learning for Producing High Quality Dairy Professionals, Funded by ICAR, under ICAR Extra Mural Research Projects, Govt. of India - Co-Principal Investigator
3. Design and Development of Solar Powered Farm, funded by NCPAAH, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Government of India
4. Decision Support System for Whitefly in Cotton, PAU Inter-department Project - Co-Principal Investigator

Selected Research Publications (maximum up to 5): The faculty member listing these publications should be either 1^st, 2^nd or corresponding author only.

1. R Appelset. al. (2018) Shifting the limits in wheat research and breeding using a fully annotated reference genome, Journal Science, 361 (6403), 17 Aug 2018.SCI - IP & Science -Thomson Reuters - Web of Science.
2. Rani, S. & Gupta, O P (2017) CLUS_GPU-BLASTP: accelerated protein sequence alignment using GPU-enabled cluster, J Supercomput (2017) 73: 4580. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-017-2036-4. ESCI - IP & Science -Thomson Reuters - Web of Science.
3. Thapar V and Gupta O P (2017) PI³ Performance Model of Software as a Service (SaaS) Cloud Environment, International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science, 8(3):926.
4. Thapar V and Gupta O P (2016) Creating and Configuring Cloud Computing Environment. International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security14(7): 22-27. ESCI - IP & Science -Thomson Reuters - Web of Science.
5. Rani S and Gupta O P (2016) Empirical Analysis and Performance Evaluation of various GPU Implementations of Protein BLAST. International Journal of Computer Applications151(7): 22-27.
6. Dhankher N and Gupta O P (2014) Implementation and Evaluation of mpi BLAST-PIO on HPC Cluster. International Journal of Computer Applications97(21): 18-23.

Awards/Honours/Distinctions: (Exclude best poster/paper presentations, Appreciation letters)

• Conferred with PAU University Meritorious Teacher Award for the year 2009-10
• Bagged Best Emerging School of Information Technology for the year 2010 instituted by RDS Media
• Bagged 3^rd position at e-India Awards for ICT initiative at PAU in the category for "Open and Distance Learning Initiative of the Year" for "Online PGDCA and Web based Learning project" for PAU students under dual degree program
• Bestowed with e-Gov Campusfor the year 2013-14 by Engineering Watch in collaboration with NIC, Govt. of India
• Bestowed with Best Citizens of India Award-2014