Biography
Puneet Gupta received the B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 2000 and the PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, San Diego, in 2007. He was with Blaze DFM Inc. since 2004 as co-founder and product architect.

Professor Gupta's research has focused on building high-value bridges between physical design and semiconductor manufacturing for lowered cost, increased yield and improved predictability of integrated circuits. He has authored over 40 papers and is a recipient of IBM Ph.D. fellowship. He holds one US patent and has 12 pending. He has given tutorial talks at ICCAD, WesCon, CMP-MIC, UC Santa Cruz and UC San Diego and is a short-course instructor at SPIE Advanced Lithography, 2007.

Research Interests
Manufacturing, device, circuit and CAD techniques to enable design aware manufacturing and manufacturing aware design. Test structure design for generating abstracted process and variation models. Techniques for leakage power modeling and reduction.