Ahana Patra is a Research Scholar in Computer Science and Engineering at NIT Durgapur, pursuing her Ph.D. since 2023. Beside her research, she has been working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Technology at RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, West Bengal, since 2020. She has over six years of teaching experience. Her research interests include Quantum Computing, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Pattern Recognition.

Ms.Patra received her M.Tech and B.Tech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Calcutta University, West Bengal, India in 2019 and 2017 respectively. She also completed her B.sc in 2013.

She started her career as guest lecturer in Computer Science and Engineering Department at Techno Main Salt Lake, West Bengal on March 2019. In August 2019 she joined as Assistant Professor in department of Computer Science and Engineering  at RCC Institute of Information Technology.