Biography

Dipankar Dasgupta obtained his bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering in 1981 and his masters degree in Computer Engineering in 1986 in India. He received his Ph. D. in Computer Science from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, in 1993. Before his Ph. D., he was teaching Computer Science in India as an assistant professor.

He was a post doctorate researcher at the University of New Mexico from January of 1994 until August of 1995 and worked on an immune system based model for Novelty Detection in sensory data. He was a visiting faculty at the University of Missouri - St. Louis until December of 1996.

Dr. Dipankar Dasgupta joined the University of Memphis as an assistant professor in 1997 and became a full professor in 2004. He is the recipient of the 2011-2012 Willard R. Sparks Eminent Faculty Award, the highest distinction and most prestigious honor given to a faculty member by the University of Memphis.

Prof. Dasgupta is one of the founding fathers of the field of artificial immune systems, making major contributions in applying bio-inspired approaches to intrusion detection, spam detection, and building survivable systems . His latest book, Immunological Computation, is a graduate-level textbook published by CRC Press in 2008. He has also edited a Springer-Verlag book on artificial immune systems and another book on genetic algorithms.

Prof. Dasgupta has more than 292 publications. A search with his name in Google Scholar indicates more than 16,490 citations, and an academic search at Microsoft shows that he has collaborated with 106 co-authors -- extraordinary testimony to the broad influence of his contributions within the research community. With an h-index of over 57, he is featured on UCLA's list of prominent computer scientists.

In addition to Prof. Dasgupta's research and creative activities, he spearheads the University of Memphis' education, training, and outreach activities on Information Assurance. He is the founding Director of the Center of Information Assurance , which is a nationally designated Center for Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education and Research. He developed the University of Memphis' Graduate Certificate Program in Information Assurance and has established research collaborations with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He regularly serves as panelist, keynote speaker and offer tutorials in leading conferences, and has given more than 50 invited talks in different universities and industries. His research activities and achievements appeared in Computer World Magazine, NASA site, and in local newspapers.