Dr. Kalyanmoy Deb (Phd in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa)) is a Gurmukh and Veena Mehta Endowed Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Indian Institute Of Technology Kanpur) and the Director of the Kanpur Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (KanGAL) which he established in 1997.

Prof. Deb received his Bachelor’s degree from IIT Kharagpur (Mechanical Engg 1985). Before joining Alabama, Prof. Deb served with Engineers India Limited (New Delhi) between 1985 and 1987. He was also a Visiting Research Assistant Professor in the Department of General Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign between 1991 and 1992 and worked at Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (IlliGAL).

His research has a practical bend, because of which many researchers and applicationists refer to his research. His NSGA-II paper from IEEE Trans. on Evolutionary Computation (2000) is judged as the Fast-Breaking Paper in Engineering by ESI Web of Science and now this paper is awarded the ‘Current Classic’ and ‘Most Highly Cited Paper’ by Thomson Reuters. Immensely popular among his students and colleagues, Prof. Deb happens to be the most cited Indian researcher in the Computer Science area according Thomson Reuters for which he received ‘Thomson Citation Laureate Award’ in 2005. Overall ISI citation count of all his publications is over 15,000 (counted in December 2010) and over 30,000 using google scholar. His h-index according to Google Scholar (obtained from Harzing’s Publish or Perish) is 61.