SCRA Best Faculty Award Winner -2017
Nomination File No.SBFR092017
He is currently the Principal of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India.
Dr. Siddhartha Bhattacharyya earned his Bachelor in Physics, Bachelor in Optics and Optoelectronics, and Master in Optics and Optoelectronics from the University of Calcutta, India, in 1995, 1998, and 2000, respectively. He completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, India, in 2008. He is the recipient of the University Gold Medal from the University of Calcutta for his Master. He is the recipient of the coveted National Award Adarsh Vidya Saraswati Rashtriya Puraskar for excellence in education and research in 2016. He is the recipient of the Distinguished HoD Award and Distinguished Professor Award conferred by the Computer Society of India, Mumbai Chapter, India, in 2017. He is also the recipient of the coveted Bhartiya Shiksha Ratan Award conferred by the Economic Growth Foundation, New Delhi, in 2017.
In addition, he is serving as the Dean (Research and Development and Academic Affairs) of the institute. Before this, he was a Professor of Information Technology of the institute. He served as the Head of the Department from March 2014 to December 2016. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor of Information Technology of the institute from 2011-2014. Before that, he served as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Information Technology of the 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.
His research interests include soft computing, pattern recognition, multimedia data processing, hybrid intelligence, and quantum computing.