Professor Govind S. Gupta received his PhD in Materials Engineering from the University of Wollongong, Australia, in 1991. From 1990 to 1997, he was with The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, as a Postdoctoral fellow, Research Associate, and Associate Lecturer before joining the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

His research interests are in the broad area of modelling of chemical/metallurgical processes and fundamental study of solid, liquid, gas, and powder interactions, as well as green steel and critical minerals.

He has published more than 90 papers in international journals and 70 conference papers. He has 1 national and 5 international
patents as well as authoured 9 books/book chapters. His SiC production technology and gas carburising software for heat treatment have been commercialised.

He served as a visiting professor in many countries such as Japan, Australia, Brazil, Poland, and China. He is a Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Engineering Systems Modelling and Simulation (IJESMS), UK. He has also received the Metallurgist of the Year Award from the Government of India in 2005. He is a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Metals (FIIM).

He is also a Director of RESCONS Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (RSPL), Bangalore, India, which has developed a technology to replace coal with raw biomass in the steel industry.