Prof. Mrityunjoy Chakraborty

IIT Kharagpur

Mrityunjoy Chakraborty obtained Bachelor of Engg. from Jadavpur university, Calcutta, Master of Technology from IIT, Kanpur and Ph.D. from IIT, Delhi. He joined IIT, Kharagpur as a faculty member in 1994, where he currently holds the position of a professor in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engg. The teaching and research interests of Prof. Chakraborty are in Digital and Adaptive Signal Processing, VLSI Signal Processing, Linear Algebra and Compressive Sensing. In these areas, Prof. Chakraborty has supervised several graduate theses, and carried out carried out independent as well as sponsored research.

Prof. Chakraborty is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, part II. Earlier, he had been a senior editorial board (SEB) member of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine during 2017-2020, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, part I (2004-2007, 2010-2012) and part II (2008-2009), apart from being a member, SEB of the IEEE journal of Emerging Techniques in Circuits and Systems (2016-2017), Chair of the DSP Technical Committee (TC) of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2016-2018), a guest editor of the EURASIP JASP and special issues of TCAS-II, track co-chair (DSP track) of ISCAS 2015-2021, TPC co-chair of IEEE SIPS-2018, special Session Co-Chair of DSP-18, Gabor track chair of DSP-15, and a TPC member of ISCAS (2011-2014), ICC (2007-2011) and Globecom (2008-2011). Prof. Chakraborty is a co-founder of the Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA), has been a member of the APSIPA BOG (2013-2016) and also, served as the chair of the APSIPA TC on Signal and Information Processing Theory and Methods (SIPTM). He has also been the general chair of the National Conference on Communications – 2012, 2020.

Prof. Chakraborty is a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, and also of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE). He received the prestigious Chair Professorship of the INAE during 2019-2021. Recently he was awarded the Prithviraj and Swati Banerjee Chair Professorship of the IIT Kharagpur. During 2012-2013, he was selected as a distinguished lecturer of the APSIPA.

NOC: Introduction to Adaptive Signal Processing, IIT Kharagpur