Contemporary Advances in Innovative and Applicable Information Technology: Proceedings of ICCAIAIT 2018 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 812)

Prof Dr. Devadatta Sinha graduated from Presidency College with Mathematics Honours and did his post graduation in Applied Mathematics and then in Computer Science. He did his Ph.D in the field of Computer Science from Jadavpur University in 1985. He started his teaching career at the Dept. of Computer Engineering at BIT Mesra Ranchi, then at Jadavpur University and at Calcutta University from where he retired as Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He also served as Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He also served as Convener, Ph.D. Committee in Computer Science and Engineering and in Information Technology at University of Calcutta .He also served as Vice-Chairman, Research Committee in Computer Science and Engineering ,West Bengal University of Technology.During his career, he has written a number of research papers in National and International Journals, Conference Proceedings. He has also written a number of expository articles in periodicals, books, monographs. His research interests include Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Algorithms, Bioinformatics, Computational Intelligence, Computer Education, Mathematical Ecology, Networking. He has guided Research students for Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering and M. Tech., B. Tech. and M.Sc. students for their dissertation. He has a total teaching /research experience of more than 38 years. He was also in the editorial boards of different journals.conference proceedings. He also served in different capacities in the Program Committees and Organising Committees of different National and International Conferences. He was .Sectional President, Section of Computer Science, Indian Science Congress Association during the year 1993-94. He is an active member of different academic bodies in different institutions He is a Fellow and Senior Life Member of CSI and has been involved in different activities including organization of different computer/IT courses since a long time. He is also adjudged Distinguished Speaker by Computer Society of India