Dipak K. Bhunia

• International PhD Award:

Received an “International PhD Degree” with the grade “Cum Laude” from UAB, Spain.

• M.Tech. (Master of Technology) Project Award:

Received the “Best M.Tech. Project Award” in Maths and Computing from IIT Patna, India.

 Principal Applicant and Beneficiary of fellowships awarded through competitive peer-reviewed calls.

• • Spanish National Postdoctoral Fellowship — Juan de la Cierva 2024 (Mathematics Panel)

Host: Simeon Ball, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

Funding institutional: Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities

Amount: 84000 €, 

Date start/end: To be determined, 

Reference code:  JDC2024-053082-I

• • PhD Fellowship — AGAUR 2020 FI (ICT Panel)

Director: Cristina Fernandez Cordoba, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

Funding institutional: Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca AGAUR, 

Amount: 68197.78 €, 

Date start/end: 01/02/2021 - 31/01/2024, 

Reference code: 2020FISDU00475 (Certificate)

• Selected for a 3-year Postdoctoral Position in Coding Theory and Algebraic Techniques for Cryptography in the Mathematics Department, University of La Laguna, Spain.

• • Senior Research Support Technician (February 2025 – May 2025)

Awarded by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain (Link).

• • Full Postdoc Fellowship (March 20, 2024 – January 31, 2025)

Awarded by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona to pursue a Postdoc.

• • Institute Research Fellowship (January 2020 – January 2025), utilised for one year

Awarded by the Indian Institute of Technology Patna to pursue a PhD for five years, (Offer and resignation Letter).

• • Ministry of Human Resource and Development scholarship (July 2017 – July 2019)

Awarded by the government of India for M.Tech study through GATE in Mathematics.

• • Merit-Cum-Mean scholarship (July 2010 – July 2015)

Awarded by the government of West Bengal, India, for securing above 75% in the 12th standard and 55% in the bachelor.

• Travel grant (Food and accommodation)

Financial support for “IEEE ITW 2022” from the local committee, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, November 6 – 9, 2022.

• Travel grant (Food and accommodation)

Financial support for “MatSI 2024” from the local committee, University of Alicante, Spain, June 5 – 7, 2024.

I was involved in the following five research projects as a member of the work team, four of which have been completed and one of which is ongoing. 

• • Project: Optimal error correcting codes and their application software on coding theory, 

Principal investigator: Merce Villanueva and Cristina Fernandez Cordoba, 

Funding institutional: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación MICINN, 

Amount: 101875 €, 

Date start/end: 01/09/2023 - 31/08/2026, 

Reference code: PID2022-137924NB-I00,

Role: Researcher (Certificate).

• • Project: Códigos correctores de errores y sus aplicaciones: almacenaje distribuido y computación cuántica. Software en teoría de códigos, 

Principal investigator: Joaquin Borges Ayats and Merce Villanueva,

Funding institutional: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación MICINN, 

Amount: 44649 € 

Date start/end: 01/06/2020 - 29/02/2024, 

Reference code: PID2019-104664GB-I00,

Role: Researcher (Certificate).

• • Project: Matemáticas de la teoría de la informacion, MatSI, 

Principal investigator: Diego Napp, 

Funding institutional: Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Gobierno de España, 

Amount: 19000€, 

Date start/end: 01/06/2023 - 30/05/2025, 

Reference code: RED2022-134306-T,

Role: Researcher (Certificate).

• • Project: Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics, 

Principal investigator: Guillem Perarnau, 

Funding institutional: Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Gobierno de España, 

Amount: 20200€, 

Date start/end: 01/06/2023 - 31/05/2025, 

Reference code: RED2022-134947-T,

Role: Researcher (Certificate).

• • Project: Consolidate Research Group of Catalonia, 

Principal investigator: Maria Mercè Villanueva Gay, 

Funding institutional: AGAUR, Generalitat de Catalunya, 

Amount: 40000€, 

Date start/end: 01/01/2022 - 30/06/2025, 

Reference code: SGR2021-00643,

Role: Researcher (Certificate).

1. A Python-Powered Workshop on Linear Algebra and Numerical Methods

Indian Mathematics Professors Association and Infinity Research and Development Institute, India, July 28 - 30, 2025, (Certificate).

2. Online Workshop on Mastering Graph Theory with Advanced Tools (Python, SageMath, MATLAB and LaTeX Draw)    

Indian Mathematics Professors Association and Infinity Research and Development Institute, India, April 7 - 11, 2025,(Certificate).

3. Online Workshop SAGEMATH for Mathematicians: Unlocking Advanced Computation

Indian Mathematics Professors Association and Infinity Research and Development Institute, India, March 3 - 7, 2025, (Certificate).

4. Algebraic Coding Theory and Computation Workshop

Woxsen University, India, November 11 – 12, 2024, (Certificate).

5. Highlights of Algorithmic Coding Theory by Madhu Sudan from Harvard University

Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM), Spain, May 6 – 8, 2024, (Link), (Certificate).

6. Mathematics in the Society of Information (MatSI 2024 Meeting)

University of Alicante, Spain, June 5 – 7, 2024, (Link), (Certificate).

7. A two-day Workshop on Algebraic Codes and MAGMA Computation

Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India, November 10 – 11, 2023, (Link), (Certificate).

8. Contemporary Algebraic & Geometric Techniques in Coding Theory & Cryptography

Online summer school, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy, July 18 – 22, 2022, (Link), (Certificate).

9. The Algebraic Coding Theory Summer School (ACT22)

University of Zurich, Switzerland, July 4 – 8, 2022, (Link), (Certificate).

10. Noncommutative ring theory and its applications

Online conference, University of Artois, France, July 5 – 7, 2021, (Link), (Certificate).

11. International Workshop on Cryptography and Coding Theory

SGGS Institute of Engineering and Technology, Nanded, India, March 8 – 12, 2021, (Link), (Certificate).

12. NASI–TIMC Workshop on Coxeter Group

Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India, December 17 − 19, 2018, (Certificate).