Ujjwal Maulik is an Indian computer scientist and a professor. He is the former chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at

Jadavpur University Jadavpur University is a public state university located in Jadavpur, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was established in 1905 as ''Bengal Technical Institute'' and was converted into Jadavpur University in 1955. In 2022, it was ranked fourth am ...

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

, West Bengal, India. He also held the position of the principal-in-charge and the head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at

Kalyani Government Engineering College Kalyani Government Engineering College (KGEC), Kalyani, West Bengal, India offers undergraduate (B.Tech.) and postgraduate (M.Tech., M.C.A.) engineering degree courses affiliated to the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology(MAKAUT) ...

Education

He did his schooling from

Nabadwip Bakultala High School Nabadwip Bakultala High School is a government-aided higher secondary boys' school situated at Nabadwip, West Bengal, India. This school was established in 1875 during British colonial period, British Colonial period of India. This school is now ...

, Nabadwip, Nadia and Rahara Ramakrishna Mission VC College, Rahara, 24 Parganas (North) both in West Bengal. Subsequently, he completed B.Sc. in Physics and B. Tech. in Computer Science from

University Of Calcutta The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University; CU) is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate State university (India), state university in India, located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Considered ...

, West Bengal, India in 1986 and 1989. He also received his M. Tech. in Computer Science and Ph.D. in Engineering in 1992 and 1997 at

, West Bengal, India. He did post-doctoral research at the University of New South Wales, Australia in 1999 and the

University of Texas, Arlington The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA or UT Arlington) is a public research university in Arlington, Texas. The university was founded in 1895 and was in the Texas A&M University System for several decades until joining the University of T ...

, U.S. in 2001.

Research and other activities

As an Alexander von Humboldt Experienced Researcher, he has worked at the

German Cancer Research Center The German Cancer Research Center (known as the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum or simply DKFZ in German) is a national cancer research center based in Heidelberg, Germany. It is a member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, ...

and

Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg } Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, (german: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; la, Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis) is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, ...

, Germany in 2010, 2011, and 2012. He was a senior associate of the

International Centre for Theoretical Physics The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) is an international research institute for physical and mathematical sciences that operates under a tripartite agreement between the Italian Government, United Nations Education ...

(ICTP), Italy from 2012 to 2018. He has also worked in Viswa Bharati University, India, Los Alamos National laboratory, USA, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, USA, Heidelberg University, Germany, Tsinghua University, China, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, University of Padova, Italy, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France, University of Warsaw, Poland, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is the Fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology,

Indian National Academy of Engineering The Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), founded in 1987, comprises India's engineers, engineer-scientists and technologists covering the entire spectrum of engineering disciplines. The Academy is registered under the Societies Reg ...

(INAE), National Academy Sciences India (NASI), the

International Association for Pattern Recognition The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), founded in 1978 by Purdue University computer scientist King-Sun Fu, is an international association of non-profit, scientific, or professional organizations (being national, multi-natio ...

(IAPR), and the

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

(IEEE). He is also a Distinguish member of ACM. He is also a Distinguish Speaker of ACM and Distinguish Lecturer of IEEE CIS. His research interests include

data science Data science is an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge and insights from noisy, structured and unstructured data, and apply knowledge from data across a br ...

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

bioinformatics Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, in particular when the data sets are large and complex. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combi ...

, and the

Internet of things The Internet of things (IoT) describes physical objects (or groups of such objects) with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other comm ...

. In these areas he has published twelve books, more than four hundred research papers including top journals like Nature Communications, ACM & IEEE Journals, mentored several start-ups, filed many patents and already guided twenty two doctoral students. He used to play cricket for Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) and North 24 Parganas District leagues. Also used to play many other games including Football. He was a short story writes for Bengali Magazines like Sandesh and Shuktara. He is extremely passionate to mentor young students and traveling extensively around the world.

Awards and recognition

*IEEE CIS Distinguish Speaker, 2022 *Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), Singapore, 2022. *Distinguish Member, ACM, 2021 *Elected Fellow, National Academy Sciences India (NASI), 2021 *Siksharatna Award, Government of West Bengal, 2021 *ACM Distinguish Speaker, 2021 *Elected Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE),2020 *Elected Fellow, International Association of Pattern Recognition (FIAPR), USA, 2018 *Elected Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE), India, 2014 *Senior Associate, International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), 2012–2018. *Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (AvH) for Experience Researchers, Germany, 2010

References

External links

Prof. Ujjwal Maulik

Ujjwal Maulik

Ujjwal Maulik: H-index & Awards - Academic Profile

ORCID
{{DEFAULTSORT:Maulik, Ujjwal 1965 births Living people Academic staff of Jadavpur University Indian computer scientists University of Calcutta alumni Jadavpur University alumni Fellows of the Indian National Academy of Engineering Fellow Members of the IEEE Bengali scientists Engineers from West Bengal