Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay

Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay is a computer scientist and advisor in information technology.
He is currently the Dean of Research & Development and Head of Information Technology at the Maharashtra Institute of Technology. Mukhopadhyay was 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 Monarch Business School, Switzerland.
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, , 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 assumed the position of the director of Balaji Institute of Telecom and Management Pune.

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