Prof. Somprakash Bandyopadhyay is a PhD in Computer Science from Jadavpur University (1985), Calcutta, India and B.Tech in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (1979), India. He is currently working as Professor in MIS Group of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta from September, 2001. He is also acting as Project Director of ADHOCNET Project, sponsored by ATR Adaptive Communications Research Laboratories, Japan.

Prior to that, he was in charge of the Knowledge Management and Learning & Professional Development Group at PricewaterhouseCoopers Limited, Calcutta for 6 years.  Besides this industrial experience, Somprakash has more than 16 years of experience in teaching, research and  software development in Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute, Japan, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Germany, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay and Jadavpur University, Calcutta.

He was a fellow of the Japan Trust International Foundation and worked in Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute in Kyoto, Japan for 9 months in 2001 in the area of Ad Hoc Wireless Networks. He was also a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany and was involved in post-doctoral research at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbrucken for a year in 1989-90. He has more than 60 research publications in international journals and conference proceedings of repute. Recently, he has co-authored two books:  “Mobile Wireless Networks: Location Management and Routing”, published by Artech House Books, London SW1V 1AH UK, 2003; and “Networking Infrastructure For Pervasive Computing: Enabling Technologies and Systems”, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, MA 02061, 2003.

He has a variety of consulting experiences. During his stay at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, he was involved in developing two strategic documents in 1988 and 1989 to evaluate the status of Electronics Industries and Computer industries in India and suggested recommendations to help the Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India in drawing up a comprehensive fiscal policy.  In PricewaterhouseCoopers, he was involved in a number of consulting assignments including ERP projects. His current consulting assignment at IIMC is with ATR Adaptive Communications Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan for three years (1^st July 2002 to 31^st March 2005) on the design and development of MAC and Routing protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks using Directional Antenna and development of a test-bed.

Prof. Bandyopadhyay is also working as Vice-Chairman in the Board of Directors of a start-up company, PervCom Consulting Private Limited (www.pervcomconsulting.com). The company is focused on developing devices and system solutions for remote tracking, monitoring and management of objects, human beings and environment using Active RFID tags / sensors and actuators with wireless mesh networking technologies.