Dr. Sudipta Saha

Biography

Present affiliation At present I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Sciences, in the discipline of Computer Science & Engineering, at Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar. Research interest My primary research interest is in large scale decentralized systems. Specifically, my current works are focused on the following areas - • Developing efficient and secure services for real world decentralized systems, mainly, Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet-of-Things, and cyber-physical systems, mainly, Power Generation Plant. • Understanding the dynamics of complex systems through mathematical modeling and computer simulation based techniques. The primary aim is to gain insights that can help to design better system. Education PhD in Computer Science & Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Kharagpur - 721302, West Bengal, India Advisor - Dr. Niloy Ganguly Thesis title - Dynamics of information dissemination: a structural and functional study Jul, 2010 - May, 2014 M Tech in Computer Science & Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Kharagpur - 721302, West Bengal, India Advisor - Dr. Jayanta Mukhopadhyay Thesis title - Protein secondary structure prediction using improved fuzzy min-max neural network Cumulative GPA 9.43 in a scale of 10, ranked 4 th Jul, 2006 - Jul, 2008 BE in Computer Science & Technology Bengal Engineering College (D.U.) (At present known as Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology) Shibpur, Howrah - 711103, West Bengal, India First Class with 71.4% of marks Aug, 1998 - Aug, 2002 Higher Secondary (10+2) West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE) First Division with 83.3% of marks Aug, 1996 - Aug, 1998 Secondary (10) West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) First Division with 86.4% of marks Aug, 1996 1 Professional experience Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Sciences, in the discipline of Computer Science & Engineering, atIndian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India. Feb, 2017 - Continuing Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the pillar of Information Systems Technology and Design (ISTD) pillar, at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore. Nov, 2016 - Jan, 2017 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, in the department of Computer Science, School of Computing, National University of Singapore. Worked in the project titled National Cyber-security R&D Laboratory, sponsored by National Research Foundation (NRF), Singapore. Feb, 2016 - Oct, 2016 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, in the department of Computer Science, School of Computing, National University of Singapore. Worked in the project titled Reliable Information Delivery in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks, sponsored by Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. Jan, 2015 - Feb, 2016 Research Associate, in the department of Computer Science, School of Computing, National University of Singapore,. Worked in the project titled Reliable Information Delivery in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks, sponsored by Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. Jun, 2014 - Jan, 2015 Senior Project Officer in several research projects sponsored by Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Department of Information Technology (DIT), Government of India as well as few international private organizations, at IIT Kharagpur. Mar, 2010 - Nov, 2013 Software Engineer in PowerSys Technologies Pvt. Ltd (http://www.powersys-tech.com). Led a team consisting of six members to design and develop a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for a large electrical power system simulation software called Power Network Simulator (PNS). The user-friendly GUI of this software provides an interface to design schematic diagram of large power system network and also allows to communicate with the back-end simulation engines to experiment with the designed network. Sep, 2008 - Feb, 2010 Associate Member of Technical Staff in Magma Design Automation Pvt. Ltd. Worked as a member of a team to develop a large scale VLSI testing and simulation software. Jun, 2008 - Aug, 2008 Teaching Assistant in Computing Lab (for MTech first year), Programming and Data Structure Lab (for BTech first year), in several semesters, during MTech and PhD tenures in the department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. 2007 - 2012 Lecturer, in the department of Computer Science & Engineering in Birbhum Institute of Engineering & Technology (BIET), (Affiliated to West Bengal University of Technology), Suri, Birbhum, West Bengal – 731101, India. Mar, 2003 - Jul, 2006 2 Publications PhD Thesis • Dynamics of information dissemination: a structural and functional study. Sudipta Saha, Doctoral Thesis, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

Research Interest

Cyber-physical systems; Wireless sensor networks; Internet-of-Things; Large scale decentralized systems; Complex systems.