Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay

Dr. Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay

Dr. Mukhopadhyay speaks at WI2006, Hong Kong
Born October 5, 1955(1955-10-05)
Residence Calcutta, India
Nationality  India
Alma mater Bengal Engineering College at Calcutta University,
The Queen's University of Belfast,
Stevens Institute of Technology,
Jadavpur University,
Bellcore
Occupation Scientist

Dr. Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay is a computer scientist and advisor in information technology. Born to Anima and Pramod Kumar Mukhopadhyay, he grew up in Calcutta. He is currently the Dean (Research & Development) of MIT Group of Institutions and Head of Information Technology, Maharashtra Institute of Technology in Pune, India. Mukhopadhyay is a Distinguished Adjunct Professor at Curtin University, Australia. He also holds Adjunct Professorship at Thapar University in Punjab, India, College of Engineering, Pune, India and at UGSM-Monarch Business School, Switzerland.

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Biography

Mukhopadhyay attended Bengal Engineering College at Calcutta University and graduated with a B.E. in electronics and telecommunication engineering in 1977. He proceeded to The Queen's University of Belfast (UK) on a G.P. Ghosh Scholarship awarded by Calcutta University and was awarded a postgraduate diploma in computer science and applications in 1979. After returning to India, he had a short stint as a research scholar at Indian Statistical Institute in its electronics and communications sciences unit in Calcutta. In 1982 he was awarded an assistantship by Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey (USA) from where he earned an M.S. in computer science in 1984. In the same year, he was inducted into the Iota Delta Chapter of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society - Eta Kappa Nu in New Jersey. He eventually received a Ph.D. (Engineering) degree majoring in computer science from Jadavpur University (India) in 1994. Title of his thesis was "Services needed to support interoperability in a distributed environment." Earlier he studied and worked in the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Republic of Korea. While in the USA, he had worked at Bell Communications Research, New Jersey in the area of distributed computing. He had also held senior level positions in a number of information technology organisations such as Tata Consultancy Services, M.N. Dastur & Company Private Limited, and Development Consultants Group (DC Group) in India and Bell Communications Research in the USA. He had taught at Stevens Institute of Technology, Bengal Engineering College, and West Bengal University of Technology affiliated engineering colleges. Mukhopadhyay was a visiting professor at Chonbuk National University in the Republic of Korea. He was the founding professor & head of information technology and MIS at Calcutta Business School, West Bengal for nearly three years. He had also asumed the position of the director of Balaji Institute of Telecom and Management Pune.

He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers [1](India) and of the Institution of Electronics & Telecommunications Engineers (India). He is also a Senior Member of the IEEE[2] (USA), ACM[3] (USA), and Computer Society of India. He is a member of the All India Management Association. He is cited in the Who’s Who in the World.[4]

Awards

Research

His research interests are in web mining, distributed computing, software engineering and data engineering. He has authored many research articles in international refereed journals and conference proceedings, a partial list of which can be found in the Computer Science Bibliography.[5] He has guided research scholars in computer science area for doctoral research. His major contributions have been in developing meta architecture to support interoperability in a distributed environment, offering confidence based web page ranking algorithms, and designing ontology based domain specific search engines. Mukhopadhyay is on the editorial board of a number of international journals and conferences. He is a frequent speaker at academia and research labs in the field of information technology.

Philosophy

An initiated disciple of Swami Gambhirananda, the 11th President of Ramakrishna Math and Mission, he is a follower of the teachings of Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda. He is closely associated with the various branches of the Ramakrishna Math in India and Vedanta Society of New York in the USA.

Performing Arts

He is also an accomplished artist in the field of reciting poetries and has a number of audio albums released to his credit. Mukhopadhyay has performed on TV, All India Radio and at various cultural programs in India and USA.

Research Publications

Research Papers authored or co-authored

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