Sunny Gupta earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics, with a minor in materials, from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He earned his doctorate in materials science and nanoengineering from Rice University. He conducted postdoctoral research at University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and later served as a research scientist at Rice University. His research is centered on employing and developing theoretical and computational approaches for discovering new emergent quantum behavior in 2D materials, revealing their synthesis pathways, and ultimately integrate the novel electronic and spin transport phenomena into next-generation devices.