Malancha Gupta is a professor in the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Southern California. She received her BS in chemical engineering from the Cooper Union in 2002. She received her PhD in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007 under the guidance of Professor Karen Gleason. From 2007-2009, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the department of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University working under the guidance of Professor George Whitesides. She has received several awards including the ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator Award in 2012, the NSF CAREER Award in 2013, and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Junior Faculty Research Award in 2014.