Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay
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Prof. Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay is the Founder Director of the Web Intelligence & Distributed Computing Research Lab (WIDiCoReL) Centre and is a Professor & Head of Information Technology & MIS at Calcutta Business School. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab. He had worked earlier as a full Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the West Bengal University of Technology affiliated Engineering Colleges during 2001-2008. He was a Visiting Professor in the Division of Electronics & Information Engineering at Chonbuk National University in the Republic of Korea (October 2006 to February 2007). He also taught at Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey (1982-1984) and at Bengal Engineering College affiliated to Calcutta University, West Bengal (1980-1981).
He had earlier worked in IT industry for 16 years. During 1982-1994 and in 1999, he was in the USA. He had worked at Bell Communications Research, New Jersey, USA in its Computing Systems and Architecture Lab. Prof. Mukhopadhyay had also held the positions of President & CEO of Data-Core (India) Limited of Kuljian Corporation (USA) & DCPL (India), Technical Director of M.N. Dastur & Co Ltd, Director of SriSoft Corporation (Los Angeles), Dy GM of TIL Limited, and Senior Consultant of Tata Consultancy Services.
His research areas are in: Web Search Engines, Web Mining, Web-Page Prediction Models, Agent Technology, Middleware functions of the Distributed Systems, Interoperability among Large Heterogeneous Systems, and Data Engineering. He has authored numerous technical publications in international refereed journals and conferences. He has been invited to deliver talks in major universities and R&D organizations in the USA and India.
Prof. Mukhopadhyay holds a B.E. (Electronics) from Calcutta University (India) in 1977, a D.C.S. (Computer Science & Applications) from The Queen's University of Belfast (UK) in 1979, an M.S. (Computer Science) from Stevens Institute of Technology (USA) in 1984, and a Ph.D. (Computer Science) from Jadavpur University (India) in 1994.
He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India) and of the Institution of Electronics & Telecommunications Engineers (India), a Senior Member of the IEEE (USA), Member of the ACM (USA), Senior Member of the Computer Society of India, Member of All India Management Association. He is cited in the Who’s Who in the World. Prof. Mukhopadhyay was born & raised in Calcutta and lived in the UK for 1 year, in the USA for 13 years, and in Republic of Korea for 4 months. He has traveled extensively in many parts of the world for education, consulting, and delivering talks.
