Bhargab Bhattacharya's Biography

Bhargab Bhattacharya, Professor, Indian Statistical Institute

Dr. Bhargab B. Bhattacharya has been on the faculty of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, where currently, he is professor of computer science and engineering. He received the B.Sc. degree in physics, the B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in radiophysics and electronics, and the PhD degree in computer science all from the University of Calcutta, India. He held visiting professorship at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and at Duke University, USA, at the University of Potsdam, Germany, at the Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Japan, at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and at IIT Kharagpur, India. His research interest includes design and testing of integrated circuits, nano-biochips, digital geometry, and image processing architecture. He has published more than 250 technical articles, and he holds 10 United States Patents. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (India), and a Fellow of the IEEE.