Indian-American Pradeep Gupta elected Mayor of Californian city

An Indian-American engineer has been elected as Mayor of South San Francisco city in the US state of California. 
●    Pradeep Gupta, an IIT Chennai alumni, was sworn in as the Mayor of the city early this month, a media release said. 
●    With this he has became the second Indian-American to be elected as the Mayor of the Californian city.
●    Gupta was appointed to the South San Francisco City Council for a one-year term on December 31, 2012 and was elected to a full four-year term in November 2013. 
●    Prior to his appointment to the City Council, he was on the South San Francisco Planning Commission for three years, serving as the Commission’s Chair in 2011.
●    He has a Master’s degree and a Doctorate from Purdue University in Electrical Engineering, specialising in the area of energy efficiency and long term planning of electric utility systems. 
●    He earlier served as Vice Mayor of the City. This election season, Savita Vaidhyanathan was elected as the new Mayor of Cupertino in California.