Prof. Sumantra Dutta Roy received the degree of B.E. (Computer Engineering) from D.I.T., Delhi in 1993, and completed his M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi, in 1995 and 2001, respectively. He started his career in teaching and research in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Bombay, where he worked from 2001 to early 2007 as an Assistant Professor. From 2007 to 2018, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi. Since 2018, he has been a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi. He was a visiting faculty member at Hiroshima University in 2018 and 2019. He is a recipient of 2004 INAE Young Engineer Award (Indian National Academy of Engineering), and the 2004-05 BOYSCAST Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He has been an Associate Editor of the Pattern Recognition Letters since 2011. His research interests are in Computer Vision and Image Analysis, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Medical Informatics, Biometrics, Video and Image Coding, Music Information Retrieval, and Bioinformatics.
