Manish K. Gupta

Manish K. Gupta has international and interdisciplinary working experience of more than 28 years in 8 countries: USA, Canada, Germany, Singapore, New Zealand, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and India. He is the founder of DA-IICT Centre for Entrepreneurship and Incubation (a section 8 not for profit company) which has incubated 19 start-ups/companies from 2007. Dr. Gupta is also the founder of Guptalab, which has produced well known 11 softwares in DNA nanotechnology. His DNA storage project was shortlisted as one of the top 5 innovations for the Prime Minister (India and Israel) demo at the India-Israel Innovation Initiative, in January 2018.

Dr. Gupta is a professor at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar. He has published more than 37 papers in international journals and conferences. And his research interests include mathematics and its elegant applications in emerging technologies: DNA digital data storage, DNA computing, chemical computing, coding theory, quantum computing, quantum machine learning, quantum error correction, cryptography, quantum algorithms, synthetic biology, DNA nanotechnology, and bioinformatics.

Email: mankg@guptalab.org

Website: https://www.guptalab.org/mankg/public_html/

DVP term expires December 2024

Presentations

How to store Elephants

Storage has been a fundamental need for every life on the planet. For example, Ants stores food and Humans stores data. Life has chosen DNA to store the blueprint of life. Storage is also a basic computing primitive. Unless you store the data you cannot process it. The representation of information can give you a different format for data storage. Humans are storing data from a very ancient time. Modern Humans are generating data every day from digital media such as cameras, Internet, phone, sensors and there is a pressing need for a technology that can store this data in the dense storage medium. It is predicated that soon the data generated will be in the order of Geopbytes from the Internet of Things. At present to store such big data we need large space and also it is very costly. Synthetic data storage seems to be the right technology emerging on the horizon. In 2013, Scientists showed how to store data on synthetic DNA with storage capacity of 2.2 petabytes on one gram of DNA. This talk will give a brief overview of our recent work in this new emerging area of DNA based data storage.

A Story of Quantum Error Correction

Error correcting codes are the backbone of the current information and communication technology (ICT). In 1994, with the discovery of polynomial time algorithms of discrete log and integer factorization on quantum computers by Shor, there were lots of activities by many researchers to work on the new area of quantum computing. However, fault tolerance in quantum computers was a big challenge. In 1995, Peter Shor himself discovered the [[9,1]] quantum error correcting code that can correct any single bit flip and phase flip in quantum computers. This talk will give an introductory overview of the story of quantum error correction. We will explain the key concepts that led to the discovery of quantum error correction by Shor.

The Magic of DNA

Life and Computation are the two sides of the same coin of information processing. At their intersection many new opportunities are emerging for scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs. Many branches of this beautiful golden coin are well established such as big data, quantum computing, DNA computing and synthetic biology. This talk will give an overview of this upcoming area and will focus on research problems in DNA computing. We will show how the magic of DNA can create wonderful things in the area of DNA nanotechnology. We will briefly describe our contribution in the area.