Prof Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay speaks on the Future Technology Roadmap at the AP Centenary function.

Описание: A panel discussion on "Future Technology Roadmap" was held on the occasion of the Inaugural day of the Centenary Celebration of the Department of Applied Physics, Calcutta University on January 24, 2024, at Dhono Dhanyo Auditorium, Kolkata.

The third speaker of the panel discussion on the "Future Technology Roadmap" was Professor Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Director, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

Professor Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay is an Indian computer scientist specializing in computational biology. A professor at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, she is a Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize winner in Engineering Science for 2010, Infosys Prize 2017 laureate in the Engineering and Computer Science category and TWAS Prize winner for Engineering Sciences in 2018. Her research is mainly in the areas of evolutionary computation, pattern recognition, machine learning and bioinformatics. In 2022 she was given the “Padma Shri” award for Science and Engineering by the Government of India.

The other speakers were Sri Parthasarathi Bhattacharya, Ex-Chairman of Coal India Ltd, Professor Mihaela Albu, Professor, National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Romania, and Sri Arup Raha, Air Chief Marshal (Rtd), Chancellor, Assam University. Prof Amitabha Dutta, Pro-VC, Jadavpur University was the moderator.