Nitin Gupta Topped IIT-JEE in 2000. He Now Studies How Mosquitoes Find You
- Nitin Gupta topped the IIT-JEE in 2000, graduated from IIT Kanpur in 2004, and later pursued research in the US.
- He completed his PhD at UC San Diego and later worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institutes of Health.
- Gupta returned to India in 2014 and now leads a laboratory at IIT Kanpur studying mosquito brain circuits.
- His research examines how mosquitoes process smells, including cues that help them identify and approach human hosts.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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