Amitava Chatterjee received the B.E.E, M.E.E, and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, in 1991, 1994 and 2002, respectively. In 1997, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Jadavpur University, as a faculty where he is currently serving as a Professor.
He is a recipient of the Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship in 2003 and a recipient of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Post-Doctoral Fellowship in 2004. In 2004 and 2009 he visited University of Paris XII, Val de Marne, France, and in 2017 he visited University of Paris Est, as an Invited Teacher. Dr. Chatterjee became a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE) in 2018. He is a Fellow of IETE (India), a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India), a Senior Member of the IEEE (USA), and a Life Member of Operational Research Society of India. Dr. Chatterjee's key research interests include systems and control, signal and image processing, AI and ML, intelligent instrumentation, and robotics.
Dr. Chatterjee has co-authored two books and co-edited two books, all published by Springer Publishers. He presently serves/has served in the past as an Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, as an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence Journal (Elsevier), as an Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Open Journal of Instrumentation and Measurement, ISA Transactions Journal (Elsevier), Control Engineering Practice Journal (Elsevier) and Artificial Life and Robotics Journal (Springer). He has authored/coauthored more than 210 technical articles, including 124 international journal papers. This includes 45 papers in IEEE and 49 papers in Elsevier. Dr. Chatterjee is recognized in World Ranking of Top 2% Scientists from India in the Field of “Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing” published by scientists from Stanford University in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 (both in Life-Long Career category and in Single-Year category, in each year) and in 2024 (in Life-Long Career category).
He has also served as the Founder Secretary of Joint IEEE Control Systems Society and Instrumentation & Measurement Society (CSS-IMS) Chapter, Kolkata Section (2014-2015), as an Executive Committee Member of IEEE Kolkata Section (2015 – 2019), as the Chapter Advisor of IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society Madras Chapter (Chennai), India (2015 – 2017), and as a Member of the Technical Committee on “Imaging Measurements and Systems”, IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society, USA .