Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering,
Head, Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship,
Professor-in-Charge, IIT Kharagpur Research Park, Kolkata, and
Joint Principal Investigator, National Digital Library Project
Brief Profile
Throughout his free-wheeling career Dr. Das has donned many hats. A teacher, an entrepreneur, a father and a mentor – Dr. Das completed his BTech, MTech and PhD from IIT – KGP and joined his alma mater as a faculty in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in 1988. In 1998, he joined Alumnus Software Ltd as a Business Development Manager. From 2001 to 2011, he worked for Interra Systems, Inc. as a Senior Director and headed its Kolkata Center. In 2011 he returned to the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT-KGP and has consistently featured amongst the teachers receiving top teaching feedback from students at the Institute. Dr. Das presently heads the Rajendra Mishra School of Engineering Entrepreneurship.
Research Interests
His current interests include Computer Analysis of Indian Classical Dance, Human Activity Tracking, Machine Learning, Technology-Enabled Education, and Software Engineering.
Awards
Dr. Das has received several recognitions including UNESCO/ROSTSCA Young Scientist (1989), INSA Young Scientist Award (1990), Young Associate-ship of Indian Academy of Sciences (1992), UGC Young Teachers’ Career Award (1993), INAE Young Engineer Award (1996), Interra Special (Process) Recognition (2009), and Interra 10 Years’ Tenure Plaque (2011).
Courses Taught
Dr. Das has taught the following courses in the last 5 years:
- Compilers [CS31003]
- Image Processing [CS40019]
- Principles of Programming Languages [CS40032]
- Programming & Data Structure [CS11001]
- Software Engineering [CS20006]
- Object-Oriented Analysis and Design [MOOCs]
- Programming in C++ [MOOCs]
- Introduction to Design of Algorithms [T10KT]
Publications (Selected)
Arpita Das, Basab Chakraborty & Partha Pratim Das, Qualitative and Semi-quantitative Estimation of Major Elements in Desktop Computer Motherboards, Management & Labour Studies 41(1), 37-44, 2016.
Tanwi Mallick, Partha Pratim Das & Arun Kumar Majumdar, Characterizations of Noise in Kinect Depth Images: A Review. IEEE Sensor Journal 14 (6), 1731-1740, 2014.
Jayanta Mukhopadhyay, Partha Pratim Das, Samiran Chattopadhyay, Partha Bhowmick, Biswa Nath Chatterji, Digital geometry in image processing, Research Monograph, CRC Press, 2013.
Dibyendu Das & Partha Pratim Das, PACWON: A Parallelizing Compiler for Workstations on a Network, Journal of Systems Architecture 45(2), 157-176, 1998.
Samiran Chattopadhyay & Partha Pratim Das, Parameter Estimation and Reconstruction of Digital Conics in Normal Positions, Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing: Graphical Models and Image Processing 54(5), 385-395, 1992.
Partha Pratim Das, Partha Pratim Chakrabarti & Biswa Nath Chatterji, Distance Functions in Digital Geometry, Information Sciences 42(2), 113-136, 1987.
Projects
Project Title : DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY (NDL) OF INDIA – TOWARDS BUILDING A NATIONAL ASSET
Principal Investigator : Partha Pratim Chakrabarti
Joint Principal Investigator : Partha Pratim Das
Co-Principal-Investigators : 5 others.
Sponsor : MHRD, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION, New Delhi
Budget: Rs. 39.81 Cr.
Period: 2015-18
Project Title : HANDS-FREE GESTURE CONTROL FOR IMMERSIVE IMAGE NAVIGATION
Principal Investigator : Partha Pratim Das
Sponsor : SAC Ahmedabad, ISRO
Budget: Phase I: Rs. 20.04 Lakh. Phase II: Rs. 21.16 Lakh
Period: Phase I: 2014-16. Phase II: 2017-19
Project Title : EFFECTIVE DRUG REPURPOSING THROUGH LITERATURE & PATENT MINING, DATA INTEGRATION & DEVELOPMENT OF SYSTEMS PHARMACOLOGY PLATFORM
Principal Investigator : Sudeshna Sarkar
Co-Principal-Investigators : Partha Pratim Das and 2 others
Sponsor :
Excelra Knowledge Solutions Private Limited, Hyderabad,
MHRD,DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION, New Delhi, and
DEIT, MCIT, New Delhi
(Under UAY – Uchhatar Abhishkar Yojana)
Budget: Rs. 2.66 Cr.
Period: 2016-19
Project Title : PREDICTING CANCER TREATMENT OUTCOMES OF LUNG AND COLO-RECTAL CANCER BY MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF ANATOMIC AND METABOLIC IMAGES
Principal Investigator : Jayanta Mukhopadhyay
Co-Principal-Investigators : Partha Pratim Das and 4 others
Sponsor : MHRD, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION, New Delhi
Budget: Rs. 1.85 Cr.
Period: 2014-18