Varun Gupta is a PhD candidate at the School of Management of The University of Texas at Dallas. He received his B. Tech. degree in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering from IIT-Kanpur in 2007. He worked as a freelance researcher with Prof. Karmeshu at School of Computer and Systems Sciences of Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India. He has industry experience as a Business Analyst at Evalueserve in Gurgaon, India. His key responsibility there was to use primary and secondary research techniques to study market trends prepare business reports for global clients. As an Evalueserve employee; his work has been recognized with Performer of the week and Best short term project awards.