Kamakhya Prasad Ghatak Author & Editor

Professor Kamakhya Prasad Ghatak (h-index-34, i-10 index-168, maximum citation of a research paper = 359 & total citations-5297) obtained his PhD (Tech) degree from the famous Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics of the University of Calcutta in 1988 on the basis of 27 published research papers in eminent SCI journals which is still a record of the said Institute. He was the first recipient of the Degree of Doctor of Engineering of Jadavpur University, Kolkata in 1991 since the University inception in 1955 and in the same year he received the INSA visiting fellowship to IIT-Kharagpur. He was the first recipient of the Degree of Doctor of Engineering of Jadavpur University, Kolkata in 1991 since the University inception in 1955 and in the same year he received the INSA visiting fellowship to IIT-Kharagpur. Prof. Ghatak is the principal co-author of more than 400 research papers in SCI journals and 60 research papers in the proceedings of the conferences of SPIE and MRS held in USA. Prof. Ghatak is the Principal co-author of 7 monographs on various topics of Nano Science and Technology from Springer-Verlag Germany (Vol.170 in Solid State Science, Vols. 116, 137 and 167 in Materials Science, Vols. 255 and 260 in Tracts in Modern Physics (TMP) , 1 in Nano structured Science and Technology series) and vol. 1 in Nano-materials series of De Gruyter, Germany. He is the solo Author of Vols. 262 and 265 in TMP of the Springer-Verlag, Germany and two monographs (vols. 7 and 8) in the Series on the Foundations of Natural Science and Technology of World Scientific. He is the Principal Editor of the two edited monographs in series in Nanotechnology of NOVA, USA. This first time achievement of Prof. Ghatak is still a record in West Bengal, India. The score in Vidwan portal unit of Central Government of India, of Prof. K P Ghatak is 8.9 out of 10, the highest score among the nano-technologists of private engineering colleges and Universities in West Bengal, India. Prof. Ghatak has successfully supervised more than 30 PhD students in different topics of Nanotechnology/Materials Science and the list includes Director, Vice-Chancellor, Principal and Professor of different reputed Institute, University and College respectively. The AICTE has selected the first R & D project in his life for the best project award in Electronics and second best award considering all the branches of Engineering for the year 2006. In 2011, the UGC awarded a research project to him and placed him at the top in the list of awardees. He is the first recipient of the academic excellence award of the University of Engineering & Management, Kolkata from the Governor of West Bengal in its first convocation in 2017. He was Assistant Professor in the Department of Radio physics and Electronics of the University of Calcutta from 1983-1987, Associate Professor in the Department of ETCE of Jadavpur University from 1987-1994, Professor and HOD of Electronic Science of the University of Calcutta from 1994-2012, HOD and Dean of the National Institute of Technology, Agartala from 2012-2014 and from January 2015 he has joined in the IEM UEM group, Kolkata as Senior Professor and Dean Engineering. He was at the top of the merit lists in all the above cases. He is the referee of different reputed International Journals and his present research interest is Quantized Structures. His brief CV has been enlisted in many biographical references of USA and UK. Professor Madhuchanda Mitra received her BTech, MTech and PhD (Tech) degrees in 1987, 1989 and 1998, respectively, from the University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. She is a recipient of "Griffith Memorial Award" of the University of Calcutta. She is the principal co-author of 150 scientific research papers in International peer reviewed journals and is the supervisor of sixteen PhD candidates. Her present research interests are nano science and technology, identification of different biomarkers and biomedical signal processing which includes feature extraction, compression, encryption and classification of ECG and PPG signals. At present she is Professor in the Department of Applied Physics, University of Calcutta, India, where she has been actively engaged in both teaching and research in Instrumentation Engineering.