Academic Credentials
  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 2024
  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 2020
  • B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2018
Professional Honors
  • Keynote Speaker and Session Chair at the Society for Engineering Sciences Conference (2025)
  • Best Poster Award at the Mach Conference (2023)
  • Hap Arnold Scholar (2022)
  • Graduate Student Poster Award at the Society for Engineering Sciences (2021)
  • JHU Departmental Fellowship (2018)
  • Blue Ribbon Poster Award at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Summer Student Poster Symposium (2017)
Languages
  • French (France)
  • Hindi

Dr. Gupta is a trained computational physicist and mechanical engineer who specializes in software, reverse engineering, and system architecture evaluation. He has contributed to a wide range of applications, from identifying software vulnerabilities in IoT devices to assessing the system architecture of medical devices for counterfeit resistance. In addition, Dr. Gupta is proficient in Discrete Element Modeling (DEM) and Finite Element Modeling (FEM), applying his expertise to a diverse set of problems, from munitions design to the additive manufacturing of metals.

At Exponent, Dr. Gupta conducts code reviews in support of intellectual property disputes and technical investigations, recovers and analyzes data from electronic devices in civil and criminal cases, and evaluates system architectures for interoperability and compliance with industry standards. He supports FIPS-201 compliance validation on smart cards and contributes to red-team efforts by designing and executing side-channel and fault-injection attacks (e.g., voltage glitching, EMFI) to assess device resilience. Dr. Gupta also performs technical analyses and software audits to support litigation and to evaluate products against privacy standards. In addition, he contributes to projects in particulate physics and material modeling, leveraging both Discrete Element Modeling (DEM) and Finite Element Modeling (FEM) to predict material response under various loading conditions.

Dr. Gupta earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, where he was a computational physicist at the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI). His research focused on modeling and predicting the mechanical behavior of granular materials under high-velocity impact by integrating analytical theory, numerical simulation, and experimental validation. In particular, he employed advanced imaging techniques such as high-speed X-Ray Phase Contrast Imaging (XPCI) and X-Ray Computed Tomography (XRCT), combined with computational models informed by Discrete Element Modeling (DEM), to predict mechanical response across multiple length scales.