Dr. Amlan Chakrabarti PhD is former Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Technology of University of Calcutta. He was a Post-Doctoral fellow at the School of Engineering, Princeton University, USA, and has almost 20 years of experience in education and research. He is the recipient of Indian National Science Academy Visiting Faculty Fellowship (2014), JSPS Invitation Research Award (2016), Erasmus Mundus Leaders Award (2017), Hamied Visiting Professorship from University of Cambridge (2018) and Siksha Ratna Award by Dept. of Higher Education Govt. of West Bengal (2018). He is Associate Editor of the Elsevier’s Journal of Computers and Electrical Engineering and holds 4 patents. His areas of research are Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Reconfigurable Computing, Cyber-physical Systems, VLSI CAD, and Quantum Computing.