Who is Nitin Gupta, the IIT Kanpur professor who left tech for neuroscience, now decoding how the human brain drives behavior?
Professor Nitin Gupta of IIT Kanpur In 2000, when Nitin Gupta scored an All-India Rank 1 in the IIT-JEE and entered the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, the prospect was familiar: a high-performing engineer, likely headed for the tech industry. Instead, Gupta’s career took a quieter, more determined turn—in laboratories, neural circuits, and the unsolved…