Subrata Dasgupta
| Subrata Dasgupta | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1944 Calcutta |
| Occupation | Computer scientist, creativity researcher, intellectual historian, writer |
| Spouse(s) | Sarmistha Dasgupta |
Subrata Dasgupta is a bi-cultural multidisciplinary scholar, scientist, and writer. Born in Calcutta (in 1944), he was educated in England, India, and Canada.
He received his schooling at Bemrose School, Derby (UK) and La Martiniere Calcutta. He holds a first class bachelor of engineering (B.E.) degree in metallurgy from the University of Calcutta having studied at Bengal Engineering College (later, Bengal Engineering and Science University, now the Indian Institutes of Engineering Science and Technology), India’s second oldest engineering school. His graduate studies were at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, where he obtained the M.Sc and Ph.D degrees in computer science in 1974 and 1976 respectively.
He has taught at Ohio State University, University of Alberta, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (where he was the first Dowty Professor of Computer Systems Engineering). Since 1993, he has held the Computer Science Trust Fund Eminent Scholar Chair in the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he is also a professor, Department of History and, from 1999 to 2013 was the Director of the Institute of Cognitive Science. He has held visiting appointments in Wolfson College, Oxford, the Computer Laboratory, Cambridge, Simon Fraser University (Vancouver), the Indian Institute of Science and the Center for the Development of Advanced Computing, C-DAC (Bangalore, India), Aachen Technical University, and the University of Oldenberg (both in Germany). He has served as a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Dasgupta has featured in interviews and articles in multiple BBC Radio programs, British national newspapers and magazines, Indian national newspapers, and regional Spanish and Canadian newspapers. His biographical entries appear in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, Writers Directory, and Contemporary Author.
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