Prof. Debashis De

Debashis De, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal, India. He earned his M.Tech from the University of Calcutta (2002) and his PhD in Engineering from Jadavpur University (2005). A Senior Member of IEEE, Fellow of IETE, Fellow NBSP and Life Member of CSI, ACM, IEI, Chartered Engineer. He has received prestigious awards such as the Boyscast Fellowship (India) to work at Heriot Watt University Scotland, Edinburgh, Endeavour Fellowship (Australia) from deputy Prime minister of Australia for his Postdoc at University of Western Australia, Perth, and URSI Young Scientist Award (2005) from president of India APJ KALAM at New Delhi and 2011 at Istanbul, TURKEY. He was honored with the JC Bose Research Award IETE New Delhi (2016). Shiksha-Ratna Award (2019) by Govt of West Bengal and the IETE Chartered Engineer for his contributions. He is IBM certified Quantum Systems Engineer.

He served in various committees of NAAC, UGC, AICTE inspection team and NBA. He served as AICTE Doctoral Fellow (ADF) coordinator of University 2000 -2025. He served as Vice Chairman of BOS of all Computer science and Engg. Courses of West Bengal under state technical University. He is currently serving as five member expert committee of West Bengal DSTBT, Govt of West Bengal for AI related projects in West Bengal. He served as HOD CSE and IT 2014-2018 and Director, School of Computational Science during 2018 to 2022. Currently he is serving as IQAC director of university since 2023. He delivered 1000+ talks in various conference and workshop with India and abroad. He is serving as International Research Expert of NRDIO - National Research Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH) Budapest, Hungary since 2024. He served as Vice Chair Dew Computing special technical Committee, IEEE USA 2021-2025.He is member of IEEE Consumer Communications Networks and Connectivity (CCN), IEEE, USA. With over 400+ journal papers,200+ conference papers, 20 books, 4 patents,2 copyrights he has led research projects funded by AICTE, UGC, DST, DST-FIST, World Bank, TEQIP I and TEQIP II coordinator, AMAZON WEB Services, and MeitY with total budget Twenty (20) crore. He received Ten Best paper Award in International conference. He has held leadership roles as Chairman of CSI and IETE Kolkata and EC Member of IEEE COMSOC Kolkata. He served as Governing council member of IETE, New Delhi during 20022 to 2024. His h-index is 49 with 11,800 citations, and he ranks among the top 2% of global scientists, Standford, USA and Ranked 122 in India by Research.com. He guided 27 PhD students, 200+ B.TECH, M.TECH students. He has organized more than 100 programs such as Conferences Chair, Seminars, Workshops, Symposiums, Webinars and Faculty Development Programs (FDP) for the benefit of scientific community. He is serving as president(2000-2023) and Vice president ( 2023 onwards) of Institute Innovation cell(IIC),MHRD of University. He established Centre of Mobile Cloud Computing.
Currently, he serves as Associate Editor for several reputed journals, including IEEE Access, Springer MST, Wiley IJCS, Elsevier and IET Quantum Communication. He is Editor in chief of Frontiers of Internet of Things. His research focuses on Edge Intelligence, Federated learning , Sustainable computing, Internet of Things, and Quantum Computing.



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Centre of Mobile Cloud Computing
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Academic:
M.Tech, University of Calcutta (2002)
Ph.D. (Engineering), Jadavpur University (2005),
Post-Doc. Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK(2008)
Postdoc, University of Western Australia, Australia, Perth(2009).

Membership:
Fellow IETE
Senior Member IEEE 92923377, CSI
Member: Institute of Nanotechnology, UK, IEE, URSI, Belgium, and ISCA,
American Nano Society, Membership Type: Full Member, Membership NO #: 113065.

Research Interests/Areas:

Mobile cloud Computing, crowd-sensing, IoT,
Block-chain, Computational Nanotechnology.

Academic:
M.Tech. (2002), The University of Calcutta,
Ph.D. (Engineering), Jadavpur University (2005),
Post-Doc. Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK(2008)
Postdoc, University of Western Australia, Australia, Perth(2009).

Awards and Achievements:
2025: Selected as a Chartered Engineer, IETE, New Delhi
2024: Two Best Paper Awards, Springer AAIDS 2024, Imperial College, London, UK
2023: Elected as Vice Chair, IEEE Computer Society, Dew Computing STC
2023: Elected as Chairman of the CSI Kolkata Chapter
2022: Elected as Chairman, IETE Kolkata Chapter
2022: Specialty Editor in Chief, Frontiers in the Internet of Things, IoT Services and Applications
2022: Vidyasagar Award at Utkal University, Bhubaneswar by CCSN
2021: IBM Quantum Challenge 2021 Achievement - Advanced
2020: Best Paper Award in IEEE WieCon 2020.
2020: Listed in the Top 2% Scientist List of the world, Stanford University, USA
2020: Excellence in Academics, BSAC & Academy of Research Bangladesh
2019: Siksha Ranta Award by the Government of West Bengal.
2018: IET London, UK, premium Best Research Paper Award,2018
2016. IETE, New Delhi, JC Bose Memorial Award.
2015: IEEE Senior Membership, CSI Life Membership
2014: Excellent Grade in UGC Major Research Project.
2014: BEST paper Award in Nanocon.
2013: DST Fast Track YS project.
2012: Best Poster Paper Presentation Award in ISCA, 2012
2011: Intellectual Ventures Invention Award.
2011: Young Scientist Award by URSI, Istanbul, Turkey.
2009-2010: Adjunct Research Fellow Award by the University of Western Australia, 2009-2012 for three (3) three-year duration.
2009: Endeavour Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from 2008 -2009, DEST Australia at University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, in the research group of Prof. Jim Williams.
2008: Boys cast Fellowship 2007-2008 Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India for research at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.
2005: Young Scientist Award, International Union of Radio Science (H.Q. Belgium). Young Scientist Award party with the President of India.
1998: The Elite Club Membership Award by The Telegraph, a leading newspaper in India, for Excellence in Academics.
1995: National Scholarship for 10+2 level.
1993: National Scholarship for Class 10 level.

Research Interests/Areas:

Mobile cloud Computing, crowdsensing,
blockchain, Computational Nanotechnology.
A. Projects as Principal Investigator (PI) DEBASHIS DE
1. “XAI-IOT based FPGA Product Design for Rapid Analysis of Next Generation Sequencing Genomics Data” Fund Scheme: Science and Engineering Research Board - State University Research Excellence (SERB-SURE) Govt. of India, Collaborating Organizations: National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani, West Bengal, Funds: INR 26,68,380, Duration: 3 Years (2024 - 2027)
2. Title: Federated Quantum Neural Network for Privacy-Preserving Classification of Retinal Images. Funding by MeitY, AMAZON AWS, 2023-2025: USD 3000
3. Year (2008-2010): Investigations on the Electronic, Mechanical, and optical properties of carbon Nanotubes and Quantum Wires of Nonlinear Optical, Optoelectronic and related nanomaterials. File No: 8023/BOR/RID/RID-95/2007-08, Duration: 2 years, Funding Authority: All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE). INR 6.30 L
4. Year (2013-2015): Department of Science and Technology, DST FAST Track project: Dynamic Optimization of Green Mobile Network: Algorithm, Architecture and applications, 2011-14, INR 24 L
5. Year (2012-2015): UGC Major Project, Quantum Cellular Automata Logic design, University Grants Commission, UGC, 2012-15. INR 14. 5 L
Total Funding: 115 L
B. Projects as CO Principal Investigator (CO-PI)
6. Investigation of the activity of graphene and its derivatives towards the biological systems with special relevance to C. elegans., Department of Higher Education, Science and Technology and Biotechnology, Government of West Bengal, 2019-2022, 23L
7. Project Title: “QoS Provisioning in Internet of Things”
Funding Agency: Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of India
Sanctioned Amount: Rs 82.40 Lacs
Duration: 4 Years (2015-2019)
Total Funding: 105.4 L

C. Institutional Projects as Coordinator and Nodal Officer
8. TEQIP III World Bank: 7 Cr. Role: Coordinator and Advisor
9. TEQIP II World Bank : 10.5 Cr Role : Coordinator and Nodal officer, Grade ‘A’
Total Funding: 17.5 Cr


Ph.D. Students :
Degree ( complete )

I. Dr. Kunal Das
Area:: Reversible logic circuit design by Quantum Dot Cellular Automata.
2007-2012

II. Dr. Anwesha Mukherjee; M.Tch(IT), DST INSPIRE FELLOW
Area:: Dynamic optimization of Green Mobile Network
2016

III. Dr. Anindita Ray
Area:: Green Wireless Sensor Networks
2016

IV. Dr.Tamoghna Purokyasta, UGC MRP FELLOW
Area: Quantum Cellular Automata
2019

V. Dr. Jadav Chandra Das
Area:: QCA logic design
2019

VI. Dr. Surajit Bari
Area:: QUANTUM Computing
2020

VII. Dr. Biswajit Baral
Area:: QUANTUM Computing
2020

VIII. Dr. Sudhanshu Mohan Biswal
Area:: QUANTUM Computing
2020

IX. Dr. Sahabul Alam, UGC FELLOW
Area:: Bioinspired Wireless Sensor Network
2021

X. Dr. Deepsubhro Guha Roy, TEQIP III FELLOW
Area:: Mobile Cloud computing
2021

XI. Dr. Kunal Biswas
Area: Graphene sensor
2021.

XII. Dr. Debarati Dey
Area:: Molecular Quantum computing
2021

XIII. Dr. Priti Deb, TEQIP III FELLOW
Area:: 5G Mobile network optimization
2021

XIV: Dr. Biplab Das
Area:: Actin Quantum computing
2022

XV. Dr. Bikash Debnath
Area:: QCA cryptography
2022

XVI. Dr. Samarjit Roy, UGC FELLOW
Area:: Internet of Music Things
2022, UGC Fellow

XVII. Dr. Arindam Sadhu
Area: Quantum Computing
2023, SERB FELLOW

XVIII. Dr. Subha Ghosh, DST INSPIRE FELLOW
Area: Game Theory-based optimization in 5G Mobile network
2024.

XIX. Mr. Amartya Mukherjee
Area: Internet of Drone Things for sustainable smart cities and society
2025

XX.Mrs. Aparajita Chowdhury
Area: Glowworm swarm optimization for Mobile wireless networks,
2025.

XXI. Mr. Sourav Hati
area: Sustainable smart city using IoT
2025

XXII. Mr. Sushavan Khatua
Area: TPP for IoT
2025

XXIII. Mrs. Kamalika Bhattacharya
Area: FL-based Internet of Underwater Drone Things
2026


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1. Tanusree Dey
Area: IoT enabled Agriculture using Federated Learning
2023 to 2026

2. Mr. Arnab Hazra
Area: Internet of Drone Things using GSO
2023 to 2026

3. Mr. Somnath Berra
Federated Learning in Agriculture crop production.
2024 to 2027
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4. Mrs. Payel Biswas
Federated Learning based IoDT
2025- 2028

5. Mr. Dipankar Hazra
Quantum spiking neural network
2025-2028

WAITING
6. Mrs. Shrayasi Datta
Federated Learning for internet of Music Things
2026-2028
7. vacant ....
8. vacant ....

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MPhil: two students (2012)

M.Tech: Students: 250 (2006 to 2023)