Varun Gupta – Bio

2025 – Present: Professor, Operations and Information Systems, David Eccles School of Business, The University of Utah.

2023 – 2025: Visiting Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Northwestern University.

2016 – 2023: Associate Professor, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.

2012 – 2016: Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.

2011 – 2012: Postdoctoral Researcher, Google Research (NY).

2004 – 2011: Ph.D. student, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University. (Advisor: Mor Harchol-Balter)
Thesis title: Stochastic Models and Analysis for Resource Management in Server Farms [thesis]

Summer 2008: Research Intern, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs.

Summer 2006: Research Intern, Microsoft Research (Cambridge, UK).

2000 – 2004: B.Tech. student, Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Techology (Delhi, India). President's Gold Medal winner
Thesis title: Algorithms for Computational Biology: Sequence Analysis

Curriculum Vitae [pdf]
Research Statement [pdf]
Teaching Statement [pdf]