e-mail: chhanda at iitj.ac.in, head_sme@iitj.ac.in
About myself: Chhanda Chakraborti is an active thinker, author, and a Professor of Philosophy. Recipient of many awards and fellowships, she has over 30 years of experience of research guidance, multidisciplinary research collaboration, curriculum development, and teaching as a tenure track faculty at premier Institutes in India, and had visited several universities abroad. After retirement from IIT Kharagpur, she has joined IIT Jodhpur to join hands in Institution-building effort.
Current role:
Head, School of Management and Entrepreneurship, IIT Jodhpur.
Chairperson, Committee for Celebration of Commemorative Days (CCCD, IIT Jodhpur)
Visiting Professor, School of Liberal Arts, IIT Jodhpur
Affiliated Faculty, School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, IIT Jodhpur
Research Projects:
Her two on-going sponsored projects are as follows:
1. ‘'An interdisciplinary study of Technologically Manipulated Information: Its ecosystem and its psycho-social impact'.
2. 'Digital Twins: negotiating identity and translocated heritage in the global age
Her forthcoming book from Springer Nature is ‘Introduction to Ethics: Concepts and cases’.
With over 100 publications, and a varied range of research interests, which includes the experience of working successfully with multidisciplinary teams, she is eager to learn and do more.
Her current research interests and active publication areas are:
Bioethics
Ethics and AI
Public Health Ethics
Logic
Philosophy of Mind.