Dr. Amlan Chakrabarti

Biography

Professor Amlan Chakrabarti is at present the Dean Faculty of Engineering and Technology and the Director of the A.K.Choudhury School of Information Technology, University of Calcutta. He has received the B.Sc. degree with Physics Honors (1996), M.Sc. in Electronic Science (1998) and M.Tech. in Radiophysics and Electronics (2001) from the University of Calcutta. He has done his Doctoral research on Quantum Computing and related VLSI design at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 2004-2008. He was a Post-Doctoral fellow at the prestigious School of Engineering, Princeton University, USA during 2011-2012. He was also a Design Engineer at Nikkel India (OrCAD Inc. subsidiary) Bangalore from 1998-2000. He is the recipient of BOYSCAST fellowship award in the area of Engineering Science from the Department of Science and Technology Govt. of India in 2011, INSA Visting Scienist Fellowship in 2014 and JSPS Invitation Fellowship in 2016. Dr. Chakrabarti has held Visiting positions at the Lincoln University College Malaysia in 2015, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering IIT Kharagpur in August 2014, University of Bremen Feb. 2014, GSI Helmohltz research laboratory Germany in Nov-Dec 2010 and at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the New York State University at Buffalo, U.S.A. during Sept-Oct., 2007. He has published around 100 research papers in referred journals and conferences. He is a Sr. Member of IEEE, Jt. Secretary of IEEE CEDA India Chapter and life member of Computer Society of India. He has been the reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Computers, ACM Journal of Emerging Technologies in Computing, IET Computers & Digital Techniques, Elsevier Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, Springer Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications.

Research Interest

Quantum Computing, VLSI design, Embedded System Design, Video and Image Processing Algorithms, Data Analytics.