Curriculum Vitae

Overview: I was a professor of computer science at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai till July, 2015. Since then, I am a professor of computer science at RKM Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, Belur, West Bengal (formerly known as RKM Vivekananda University). I am a Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences since 1998. I was an Adjunct Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur for three semesters during 2017-2018. National Board for Higher Mathematics, Government of India, awarded me a visiting professorship for a period of two years during 2016-2018. I worked as visiting scientists at many reputed universities and research institutes around the world, and gave several invited lectures in the national and international conferences, workshops and in the institutes in India and abroad. I have been regularly reviewing papers for reputed international journals and conferences. Also I worked as a guest editor for special issues in reputed international journals. I am the author of a book and around seventy five papers in the fields of computational geometry, discrete applied mathematics, geometric graph theory, algorithms (sequential, parallel, on-line and approximation) and robot motion planning. I supervised four Ph.D theses. Citations of my book and papers stand very high in international standards within the areas of algorithms and computational geometry. During 1988 - 2015, I taught several graduate courses on algorithms and discrete applied mathematics in TIFR. Since 2015, I have been regularly teaching MSc students of computer science at RKMVERI. I also taught courses for B.Tech and M.Tech students of computer science in IIT Kharagpur during 2017 -2018. I chaired many sessions in the National and International Conferences. I was a member of Program Committees for several National and International conferences. Specially, I was a PC Co-Chair of the Workshop on Algorithms and Computataion, 2013 (WALCOM 2013). During 2008-2015, I conducted twenty-two introductory workshops on graph and geometric algorithms for teachers and students (undergraduate, post-graduate and doctoral) of engineering colleges and universities at different states and union territories of India for motivating them towards algorithmic research. Since 2009, I have been involved in organizing several international schools in India for Ph.D. students of computer science and discrete mathematics. In 2015, I initiated a new annual international conference on algorithms and discrete applied mathematics (CALDAM). The 11th CALDAM will be held in February 2025. Since 2015, I am the Chair of the Steering Committee of CALDAM. Reseach Interests: 1. Computational Geometry and Applications 2. Robot Motion Planning 3. Geometric Graph Theory and Applications 4. Discrete Applied Mathematics 5. Algorithms: Sequential, Parallel, Randomized, Approximation and      On-line

Academic Qualifications: 1. B. Tech., Electronics and Tele-Communication Engineering, Bengal Engineering College, Calcutta University, 1975. 2. Post- Graduate, Computer Science, Jadavpur University, 1977. 3. Ph. D., Computer Science, TIFR/University of Bombay, 1987. Visits to foreign institutions: 1. Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A., September 1985 - August 1986. 2. Faculty Associate, University of Maryland, U.S.A, September 1986 - June 1987. 3. Visiting Scientist, Linkoping University, Sweden, July 1987 - August 1987. 4. Visiting Scientist, University of Saarlandes, Germany, June 1988 - August 1988. 5. Visiting Professor, INRIA, France, December 1995 - November 1996. 6. Visiting Scientist, Simon Fraser University, Canada, June 1997 - September 1997. 7. Research Fellow, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, April 2000 - June 2000. 8. Visiting Scientist, DIMACS, Piscataway, U.S.A, September 2002 - October 2002. 9. Visiting Professor, Simon Fraser University, Canada, May 2003 - May 2004. 10. Academic Guest, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Switzerland, May 2007 - June 2007. 11. Visiting Professor, University of Bonn, Germany, April 2009 - May 2009. 12. Visiting Professor, Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, September 2010 - October 2010. 13. Visiting Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, December 2011 - January 2012. 14. Visiting Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Switzerland, June 2012. 15. Visiting Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Switzerland, September 2013. 16. Visiting Professor, Karsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, June, 2015. 17. Visiting Professor, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, May 2018-July 2018. 18. Visiting Professor, Institut de Recherche en Informatique Fondamentale (IRIF), France, September 2021 - December 2021.

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