Somprakash Bandyopadhyay

Professor(retired) Indian Institute of Technology Bombay；Indian Institute of Management Calcutta

Prof (Dr.) Somprakash Bandyopadhyay is an internationally acclaimed academician and researcher in the domain of Computer and Management Science, having more than 40 years of diverse experience spanning across multiple disciplines, both in academia and industry, combining teaching, research, consultancy and technology development in several organizations of international repute. His journey includes a rewarding tenure of 21 years (2001-2022) as a Professor of Management Information Systems at the prestigious Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, where he also founded and directed the Social Informatics Research Group, a multi-disciplinary initiative exploring the impact of Internet-enabled Social Technologies on various facets of society. He was also a former faculty member in the Computer Science Dept. of Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (1994-95) and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (1986-94).

As a part of his entrepreneurial initiative, Prof (Dr.) Somprakash Bandyopadhyay was Co-founder-Director of Pervcom Consulting (2005-2015), the first Indian company to design, develop and productize devices and system solutions for remote tracking, monitoring and management of objects, human beings and environment using RFID tags, sensors and actuators with wireless mesh networking technologies.

The presentation will highlight the outcome of a five-year long multi-institutional project in India, funded by Information Technology Research Academy, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Govt of India.