Partha P Chakrabarti is
a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering
at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He is also the
Professor-in-Charge of the Advanced VLSI Design Laboratory.
Presently he is holding the post of Dean SRIC (Sponsored Research
and Industrial Consultancy). He received the Bachelor's degree
in Computer Science from IIT Kharagpur, India, in 1985. His
Ph.D., is in Computer Science & Engineering from IIT Kharagpur
itself. Professor P P Chakrabarti's research interests include
Artificial Intelligence and CAD for VLSI. He is the principal
investigator of several contracts and grants, and a consultant
to industry and government in these areas. He has over 90 publications,
and has supervised 4 Ph.D. He is the Fellow of Indian National
Science Academy, New Delhi, Indian Academy of Science, Bangalore
and The West Bengal Academy of Science & Technology.