Prof. Partha Pratim Chakrabarti

Prof. Partha Pratim Chakrabarti completed his B.Tech in 1985 and his PhD in 1988 from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. He joined the same department as a faculty member in 1988 and is currently a Senior Professor. He served as Director of IIT Kharagpur from July 2013 to July 1, 2019. He was the Professor-in-Charge of the state-of-the-art VLSI Design Laboratory, which he helped set up, and has served as Dean of Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy at IIT Kharagpur. He set up the Incubation Programme at IIT Kharagpur and was Head of the Advanced Technology Development Centre. He was also Co-Director of the strategic General Motors-IIT Kharagpur Collaborative Research Laboratory on Electronics, Controls and Software. In addition, he held additional charge as Director of IIT Patna and IIIT Kalyani.
His areas of interest include Artificial Intelligence (AI), Algorithms, Formal Methods, CAD for VLSI and Embedded Systems, and Fault Tolerance. Prof. Chakrabarti has made fundamental scientific contributions in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and Automated Reasoning, and has applied these techniques to solve important synthesis, optimization and verification problems, especially in VLSI Design and Embedded Systems. He has published two research monographs and more than 320 papers in international journals and conferences, and has supervised more than thirty PhD students.
He has worked closely with industry and government, and has successfully completed projects worth several hundred crores with organisations such as MHRD, DST, CSIR-NMITLI, MeitY, DHI, INSA, Volkswagen Foundation, Intel, Synopsys, Google, National Semiconductor, General Motors and ONGC. He was the founding architect and overall coordinator of national initiatives such as the National Digital Library of India, the NDLI-Fermi AI Tutor, the Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN), SPARC, IMPRINT and the PAN-IIT ONGC Initiative, which are emerging as game changers in India's education and research landscape. He is an Advisor to Ashoka University and TCG CREST.
Dr. Chakrabarti has received the President of India Gold Medal (1985), the INSA Young Scientist Award (1991), the Anil K. Bose Award (1995), the INAE Young Engineers Award (1997), the Swarnajayanti Fellowship (1997-98), the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (2000), the INAE Visvesvaraya Chair Professorship (2007-09), the J.C. Bose Fellowship (2013), and many other awards. He is an elected Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi; the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore; the Indian National Academy of Engineering; and the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology. He received a DSc (Honoris Causa) from Kalyani University in 2018, an Honorary DLitt from Techno India University in 2024, and an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering from the University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata, in 2026, for his contributions to science and technology.