Born 22 August 1942 in Mirpur, Jammu and Kashmir, India, is Professor of Mechanics at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi.

[1] Gupta works in the area of large deformations of metals and composites at low, medium and high rates of loading.

[2] Gupta has been a faculty member in the department of applied mechanics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi[3] since 1971 and has been a full professor since 1987 and retired in 2005.

He was invited as Mercator Guest Professor at RWTH Aachen, supported by the German Research Foundation for one year (2011–2012).

[citation needed] Gupta works in the area of large deformations of metals and composites at low, medium and high rates of loading.

[6] He was invited to deliver a keynote lecture at the 2008 World Congress of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM), held in Adelaide, Australia.

[12] Gupta's expertise in the mechanics of large deformation of metals and composites under impact loading has greatly augmented India's advance in technology, in particular, defence and aerospace researches.

He helped found IMPLAST, an international event held regularly in India and countries across the world, including Australia (2000), Germany (2007), and the USA (2010).

Gupta has been a voice of India in international forums in articulating the country's long-term vision on key scientific and technical issues.