About me

Dr. Biswanath Dutta is an Associate Professor at the Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC) of the Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore (ISI BC), India. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Physics (Vidyasagar University, 1999) and another Bachelor's degree in Library and Information Science (Vidyasagar University, 2000). He earned his Master's degree in Library and Information Science from ISI Bangalore (2003) and completed his Ph.D. in Library and Information Science at the University of Pune (2010), with research conducted at ISI Bangalore. His doctoral research focused on "Generating Semantic Information Services Using Semantic Web Technologies." Dutta was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) at the University of Trento, Italy (2009-2012), and has worked as a research assistant at the Department of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. He has also visited the Interactive Media Lab at the University of Toronto, Canada, and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPII), Germany. Notably, he contributed to the European Commission-funded research project ‘LivingKnowledge: Facts, Opinions, and Bias in Time’ (http://livingknowledge-project.eu/) and has worked on the ITPAR II and III projects. Currently, he is the Principal Investigator for two research projects funded by the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (details at https://www.isibang.ac.in/~bisu/covid19project.html) and the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi. He also offers consultancy services to various industries. Dr. Dutta has authored around 100 scientific papers and has published four books. His current research interests include Semantic Web, Ontology, Knowledge Graphs, Linked Data, Metadata, and Data Management.

Dr. Dutta is an active member of numerous national and international professional organizations, journals, and conferences. He serves as the Secretary of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) - India Chapter and is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies. He is also an Editorial Advisory Board Member of the Journal of Information and Knowledge (formerly SRELS Journal of Information Management), an International Editorial Board Member of BARTOC.org (Basic Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications) since 2021, and has contributed as a review committee member for several prominent journals and conferences, including: Springer “Artificial Intelligence Review”, Springer “Knowledge and Information Systems”, SAGE "Journal of Information Science", IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, ASIS&T "Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST)", Emerald “Journal of Knowledge Management”, Emerald "Data Technologies and Applications (DTAA)" (formerly “Program”), and NISCAIR “Annals of Library and Information Studies”. 

In addition to his academic pursuits, Dutta enjoys engaging in games and sports such as football, badminton, and volleyball. He also likes watching both Hollywood and Bollywood movies and is passionate about visiting new places, meeting people, and discussing a wide range of topics from cultural to academic. He is active on social networking platforms including Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

ORCID ID:  0000-0003-3059-8202  

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Web Of Science Researcher ID:  H-4963-2018 

Scopus ID: 36933713500 

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DBLP ID: 97/7261