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Academic Council since 2013. Apart from these, he has actively served as an orga-
nizing member of several Faculty Development Programs and International Confer-
ences (ICCICN 2014) for RCCIIT. He has also acted as the Session Chair in an Inter-
national Conference (ICACCI 2013) and Member of Technical Committee for FICTA
2014. Before joining RCCIIT, Indrajit served Siliguri Institute of Technology, Darjeeling,
as a Lecturer in CSE/IT from 2005 to 2006.
Indrajit is a Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA;
and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), USA.
Dr Anirban Mukherjee did his bachelor’s in Civil Engineering in 1994 from Jadavpur
University, Kolkata. While in service, he achieved a professional Diploma in Opera-
tions Management (PGDOM) in 1998 and completed his PhD on Automatic Diagram
Drawing based on Natural Language Text Understanding from Indian Institute of Engi-
neering, Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, in 2014. Serving RCC Institute of
Information Technology (RCCIIT), Kolkata, since its inception (in 1999), he is cur-
rently an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Engineering Science &
Management at RCCIIT. Before joining RCCIIT, he served as an Engineer in the Sci-
entific & Technical Application Group in erstwhile RCC, Calcutta, for six years. His
research interest includes computer graphics, computational intelligence, optimization,
and assistive technology. He has coauthored two UG engineering textbooks: one on
Computer Graphics and Multimedia and another on Engineering Mechanics.Hehas
also coauthored more than 18 books on Computer Graphics/Multimedia for distance
learning courses He holds BBA/MBA/BCA/MCA/B.Sc (Comp.Sc.)/M.Sc (IT) of differ-
ent universities of India. He has a few international journal articles, book chapters, and
conference papers to his credit. He is in the editorial board of International Journal of
Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IJACI).
Dr Paramartha Dutta, born 1966, did his bachelor’s and master’s in Statistics from
the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, in the years 1988 and 1990, respectively. He
afterward completed his master’s degree of technology in Computer Science from the
same Institute in 1993, and PhD in engineering from the Bengal Engineering and Sci-
ence University, Shibpur, in 2005, respectively. He has served in the capacity of research
personnel in various projects funded by Government of India, which include DRDO,
CSIR, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, and others. 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 Col-
lege of Engineering in West Bengal as a full-time faculty member. Dr Dutta remained
associated as Visiting/Guest Faculty of several universities and institutes, such as West
Bengal University of Technology, Kalyani University, and Tripura University. He has
coauthored eight books and has also five edited books to his credit. He has published
about 185 papers in various journals and conference proceedings, both international
and national; as well as several book chapters in edited volumes of reputed interna-
tional publishing houses like Elsevier, Springer-Verlag, CRC Press, and John Wiley, to
name a few.
Dr Dutta has guided three scholars who already had been awarded their PhD.
Presently, he is supervising six scholars for their PhD program. Dr Dutta has served
as editor of special volumes of several international journals published by publishers
of international repute such as Springer. Dr Dutta, as investigator, could imple-
ment successfully projects funded by AICTE, DST of the Government of India.