Dr. Siddhartha Bhattacharyya did his Bachelors in Physics, Bachelors in Optics and Optoelectronics and Masters in Optics and Optoelectronics from University of Calcutta, India in 1995, 1998 and 2000 respectively. He completed PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, India in 2008. He is the recipient of the University Gold Medalfrom the University of Calcutta for his Masters.
He is currently an Associate Professor and Head of Information Technology of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. In addition, he is serving as the Dean of Research and Development of the institute from November 2013. Prior to this, he was an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Information Technology of University Institute of Technology, The University of Burdwan, India from 2005-2011. He was a Lecturer in Information Technology of Kalyani Government Engineering College, India during 2001-2005. He is a co-author of a book for undergraduate engineering students of West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, India and about 130 research publications in international journals and conference proceedings. He has got a patent titled Low Cost Intelligent Colorimeter Using Color LEDs filed; Patent No. 886/KOL/2015. He was the convener of the AICTE-IEEE National Conference on Computing and Communication Systems (CoCoSys-09) in 2009. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Research on Computational Intelligence for Engineering, Science and Business; Publisher: IGI Global, Hershey, USA. He is the co-author of the book titled Soft Computing for Image and Multimedia Data Processing; Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Germany. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Research on Swarm Intelligence in Engineering; Publisher: IGI Global, Hershey, USA. He is the co-author of the book titled Hybrid Soft Computing Approaches: Research and Applications; Publisher: Springer India Ltd. He is the co-author of the book titled Multimedia Programming: A Practical Approach; Publisher: Vikas Publishers Pvt. Ltd. He was the member of the Young Researchers' Committee of the WSC 2008 Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications. He has been the member of the organizing and technical program committees of several national and international conferences. He served as the Editor-In-Chief of International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IJACI) published by IGI Global, Hershey, PA, USA from 17th July 2014 to 06th November 2014. He was the General Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (ICCICN 2014) organized by the Department of Information Technology, RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata in association with Machine Intelligence Research Labs, Gwalior and IEEE Young Professionals, Kolkata Section and held at Kolkata, India in 2014. He is the Associate Editor of International Journal of Pattern Recognition Research. He is the member of the editorial board of International Journal of Engineering, Science and Technology and ACCENTS Transactions on Information Security (ATIS). He is also the member of the editorial advisory board of HETC Journal of Computer Engineering and Applications. He is the Associate Editor of the International Journal of BioInfo Soft Computing since 2013. He is the Lead Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Hybrid Intelligent Techniques for Image Analysis and Understanding of Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier, B. V. He is the General Chair of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Research in Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (ICRCICN 2015) to be organized by the Department of Information Technology, RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata in association with IEEE Young Professionals Affinity Group, Kolkata Section at Kolkata, India in 2015. His research interests include soft computing, pattern recognition, multimedia data processing, hybrid intelligence and quantum computing.
Dr. Bhattacharyya is a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), USA. He is a member of International Rough Set Society and International Association for Engineers (IAENG), Hong Kong. He is a life member of Computer Society of India, Optical Society of India and Indian Society for Technical Education.
Mr. Pinaki Banerjee did his Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from Govt. Polytechnic, Dhanbad, Bihar, India, in the year 1986. He subsequently completed section A of AMIE in the year 1995. He is presently associated with M/s. Goldstone Infratech Limited, Hyderabad, India, as a Manager in the Rubber Compounding and Rubber Injection Moulding sections since 2005. He was associated with M/s. Polylink Polymers (India) Limited, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, as an Assistant Manager of the Maintenance Department from 2003 to 2005. Prior to this, he was associated with M/s. Swastik Polyvinyls Limited, New Delhi, India as an Assistant Manager in the Maintenance Department from 2001 to 2003. He was associated with M/s. Incab Industries Limited, Jamshedpur, India as a Superintendent of the XLPE Plant from 1987 to 2001. His research interests include hybrid intelligence and optimization processes of compounding of rubber compounds.Dr. Dipankar Majumdar did his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from NIT Silchar, Assam, India and Masters in Computer Technology from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India in 1999, 2006 respectively. He completed PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, India in 2011. He is currently an Associate Professor in Information Technology of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. Prior to this, he was an Assistant Professor in Information Technology B.P. Poddar Institute of Management and Technology, India from 2003-2010. He is a co-author of about 15 research publications. His research interests include Soft Computing, Quantum Computing and Software Engineering.Paramartha Dutta did his Bachelors and Masters in Statistics from the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta in the years 1988 and 1990 respectively. He afterwards completed his Master of Technology in Computer science from the same Institute in the year 1993 and Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering from the Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur in 2005 respectively. He has served in the capacity of research personnel in various projects funded by Govt. of India, which include Defence Research and Development Organization, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta etc.
Dr. Dutta is now a Professor in the Department of Computer and System Sciences of the Visva Bharati University, West Bengal, India. Prior to this, he served Kalyani Government Engineering College and College of Engineering and Management, Kolaghat, both in West Bengal as full time faculty members. Apart from this, he has remained associated to The National Institute of Management, Calcutta, Department of Statistics of The University of Calcutta, Department of Computer Science and Technology of The Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India, as well as Department of Computer Science and Engineering of The University of Tripura, India either as a Guest Faculty member from time to time. Dr. Dutta has been involved as the principal investigator funded by the All India Council for Technical Education, Govt. of India and Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. He has coauthored six books and has also four edited book to his credit. He has published about 160 papers in various journals and conference proceedings, both international and national. Presently, he is supervising four students for their Ph. D programme registered with Visva Bharati University and West Bengal University of Technology, apart from three who have earned their Ph. D already.
Dr. Dutta is a Life Fellow of the Optical Society of India (OSI), Life Member of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (OSI), Computer Society of India (CSI), Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Indian Unit of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IUPRAI) - the Indian affiliate of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), Member of Associated Computing Machinery (ACM), IEEE, Computer Society, USA.