The Xerox Research Centre India (XRCI) is Xerox’s global research location. Inaugurated in March 2010, the centre’s mission is to capture innovation opportunities for Xerox in emerging markets and to advance Xerox’s position as the leading global provider of document and business process services.

Researchers at the centre work on cutting-edge technologies, including cloud computing, crowdsourcing and business analytics. They develop innovative services and service delivery models aimed both at Xerox’s traditional document management businesses as well as its newer business process and information technology outsourcing businesses. In addition, its current research initiatives along these themes include automation and optimisation of document-intensive business processes for key verticals in emerging markets, crowdsourcing for business process services, Cloud-based technologies and solutions for optimized business process delivery.

Recently, Xerox announced appointment of Manish Gupta as vice president and director of the Xerox Research Centre in India. As XRCI director, Gupta will lead the centre’s mission to capture innovation opportunities for Xerox in emerging markets. He will also oversee efforts to nurture open innovation partnerships in India and across the globe.

 Gupta will report to Sophie Vandebroek, chief technology officer and president, Xerox Innovation Group.  Gupta has earlier served as director of

IBM Research in India and was IBM’s chief technologist for India and South Asia. From 2001 to 2006, he served as a senior manager at the TJ Watson Research Centre where he led a team developing system software for the Blue Gene/L supercomputer, which won a National Medal of Technology and Innovation honour from the US President in 2009.

Manish earned a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from IIT Delhi in 1987, a Master of Science degree from the Ohio State University in 1988 and a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 1992. He has co-authored more than 75 papers, with more than 5,000 citations in Google Scholar in the areas of high-performance computing, compilers and Java Virtual Machine optimizations, and has been granted more than 15 US patents. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).