Rahul Gupta is a tenure-track assistant professor of Electrical and Micro Engineering at the School of Engineering (STI) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and leads the Grid-Integrated  Energy Storage Systems (GRID-ESS) Lab.  His research focuses on scalable optimization and control frameworks for the reliable, efficient, and sustainable integration of distributed energy resources, energy storage, solar, etc., into power grids, addressing various types of uncertainties, measurement and model-less control schemes, model-identification techniques, and synthetic network generation. 

Before joining EPFL, he served as an assistant professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Washington State University (WSU), USA, from Jan 2025 to May 2026, and as a postdoctoral researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, from October 2023 to December 2024. He earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the EPFL, Switzerland, in 2018 and 2023, respectively, and a B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from the NIT, Rourkela, India, in 2014.  He has been awarded the Thesis Distinction in Electrical Engineering at EPFL and the ABB Research Award for his PhD work.