Dr. Amit Kumar Das

Dr. Amit Kumar Das is a seasoned industry practitioner turned to a full-time academician. He is currently working as an Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering of Institute of Engineering & Management (IEM). He is an IEEE Senior Member.

Amit has done his PhD from University of Calcutta and Master of Technology (M. Tech.) from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani. Before that, he did graduation in Electrical Engineering from Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur (currently known as IIEST). He has done specialization in Data Science from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (through Coursera) and in Deep Learning from deeplearning.ai. He is currently a Visiting Scientist at the Data Science Lab, A.K. Choudhury School of IT, University of Calcutta. 

Amit has 25+ research papers in the area of data analytics and machine learning published in refereed international journals and conferences. He has also written text books on Machine Learning, Big Data, Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence published by Pearson, primarily for under-graduate students. He also has been a regular speaker in the area of data analytics and machine learning. 

Before joining academics, Amit has spent 20+ years in the IT industry in diverse roles and working with stakeholders across the globe. He started his career in Tata Consultancy Services. Then he was a part of the management team in Cognizant Technology Solutions focusing primarily on growing analytics and information management business. For a short stint he worked as Competence Development Partner in the Digital Engineering practice at LTIMindtree. He has worked in diverse industry segments (e.g. Telecom, Financial Services, Insurance and Life Sciences) and different geographies within and outside India.