Bhargab B. Bhattacharya had been on the faculty of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, for more than three decades. He later joined the faculty of Computer Science & Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur as Distinguished Visiting Professor. He also served as Visiting Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Duke University, USA, at the University of Potsdam, Germany, at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and at NIT Rourkela. He received the B.Sc. degree in physics from the Presidency College, Kolkata, B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in Radiophysics and Electronics, and the PhD degree in Computer Science, all from the University of Calcutta.
Dr. Bhattacharya’s contributions encompass the domains of VLSI design and test, fault-tolerance, image analysis, and microfluidic lab-on-chips. He has published more than 400 technical articles, authored/edited five books, and he holds one Indian and ten US Patents.
Dr. Bhattacharya is the recipient of the VASVIK Industrial Research Award for Electronic Sciences and Technology (1999); India Semiconductor Association TechnoMentor Award (2008); INAE Outstanding Teachers Award (2014); IEI-IEEE Joint Award for Engineering Excellence (2018); Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to VLSI Testing (2019), and Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Research Award in Electronics and Information Technology (2022). He was named INAE Chair Professor (2016 – 2018), and AICTE-INAE Distinguished Visiting Professor (2018 – 2020). He is Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (India), Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), and Fellow of the IEEE.
