Arvind Gupta (born c. 1961) is an Indo-Canadian computer scientist who was the 13th President of the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the former CEO of Mitacs Canada.
[3] Gupta lived in India and spoke Punjabi for his first five years until his family moved to Detroit where his father, a chemistry professor, had started a fellowship at Wayne State University.
Within two years, they moved to Timmins, Ontario after his father earned a job as a pollution chemist with a mining company.
[4] From 2000 until his appointment as President of UBC in 2014, Gupta served as CEO and scientific director of Mitacs Canada, a national non-profit that worked with government and industry to fund student researchers.
[7] In October 2015, the University of Toronto announced Gupta's joining them as a distinguished visiting professor for one academic year.