Anandaroop Bhattacharya is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Dean, International Relations at IIT Kharagpur. His research interests lie in the areas of electronic thermal management, microfluidics, transport in porous media and energy sciences. Prior to joining IIT Kharagpur in 2015, he spent 12 years in the industrial R&D in USA and India working in various researcher and technology leadership roles at Intel, General Motors and GE Global Research. He has 21 patent filings, around 50 publications and several research projects with govt. agencies and industries.
Anandaroop is an ardent follower of Indian classical and folk music and an amateur vocalist himself. He started learning Hindusthani classical music from (Late) Shri Bipradas Nandi, senior disciple of the celebrated Shri Krishna Chandra Dey, at the age of 12 and continued for seven years in Kolkata. At present he continues his training under the guidance of Shri Abhijit Shenoy K. of Bangalore since 2012. Anandaroop also learnt the sarod for a few years from Padmabhushan Pandit Buddhadev Dasgupta of Senia-Shahjahanpur gharana.
Pallab Dasgupta is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. His areas of research includes Artificial Intelligence, Electronic Design Automation, and Formal Methods. He has over 200 research papers, and many research collaborations with academia and industry. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Science.
Prof Dasgupta learned to play the Indian instrument, Sitar, from Shri Partha Sarathy Sengupta of the Senia-Maihar gharana. Currently he collaborates with Pt. Ajoy Chakrabarty on the 100 raga mission for defining the deep structure of 100 ragas. He is also investigating the challenges of connecting machine learning with reasoning, by studying the pitfalls of learning Indian ragas purely through examples.
Joy Sen is a professor of Architecture and Regional Planning at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. His areas of research includes Community and Regional Planning, Livability and Sense-ability of urban systems, Urban and Regional Heritage documentation and mapping systems. He has over 100 research papers, 12 published books in English, 4 published books (historic thrillers) in Bengali, 32 research monographs, and many research collaborations with academia and industry. He is a Member of the Council of Architecture, Government of India and The Institute of Town Planners, India.
Joy learned to play the Indian instrument, Sitar, from Guru Shri Nirmal Chakraborty, son of Late Sri Suresh Chakraborty, the only personal secretary of Legendary Ustad Allauddin Khan Sahib of the Senia-Maihar gharana. Currently, he is the Principal Investigator of several Research and Consultancy Projects, some of which are Phase II extension activities of The Science & Heritage project (SandHI), IIT Kharagpur (2013-19). One, the Creative Economy & Arts Mapping Project of the British Council Global, GoUK in collaboration with the Center of Culture and Creative Economy, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom; two, the Design of Town Hall Museum and Art-Culture Resources Center, with Kolkata Museum Society, and Kolkata Municipal Corporation, Government of West Bengal, Kolkata; and the Regional Mapping Exercise and Design of Tribal Arts and Museum Complex in Koraput-Sambalpur-Hirakud belt, Odisha, under the CSR funding of MCL division of the Ministry of Coal (MCL), Government of India, are to name a few.
Arnab Roy is a Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He has over 15 years of teaching experience and around 70 publications. His research interests broadly include computational and experimental fluid dynamics and aerospace propulsion. He has worked on several projects funded by government and private agencies from India and abroad and has participated in research collaborations with foreign universities.
Arnab has completed his diploma in Rabindrasangeet from ‘Dakshinee’, Kolkata. He has participated as a singer in the Gitabitan live CD series of Dakshinee in 2002-2003. He had the privilege of receiving training from renouned artists of the genre, Shri Rano Guhathakurta and Smt Pramita Mullick.
Priyadarshi Patnaik (b. 1969) is Professor, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, and Chairman, Rekhi Centre of Excellence for the Science of Happiness, IIT Kharagpur.
He teaches literature, communication, community well-being and visual aesthetics. His research interests include Indian aesthetics, visual & nonverbal communication, subjective well-being, music audience response and translation.
He is a creative writer, painter, translator and photographer and a flute-maker. A number of his poems and short-fiction and art have appeared in various journals outside and in India including Ariel, Oyster Boy Review, Hudson View, Melic Review, Still, Toronto Review, Kavya Bharati, Indian Literature, and Muse India. His translations and critical writings on translation have appeared in Translation Today, Visva-Bharati Quarterly, Muse India and many edited volumes.
