Soumitro Banerjee (born 1960) is an Indian electrical engineer and a professor at the Department of Physical Sciences of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata. He is known for his studies on bifurcation phenomena in power electronic circuits and is an elected fellow of all three major Indian science academies: the

National Academy of Sciences, India The National Academy of Sciences, India, established in 1930, is the oldest science academy in India. It is located in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. Prof. Meghnad Saha was the founder president. Fellows *Suddhasatwa Basu * Sudha Bhattacharya * Ch ...

, Indian Academy of Sciences, and Indian National Science Academy. He is also a fellow of

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, West Bengal Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Academy of Engineering. The

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (IAST: ''vaigyanik tathā audyogik anusandhāna pariṣada''), abbreviated as CSIR, was established by the Government of India in September 1942 as an autonomous body that has emerged as the l ...

, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards for his contributions to Engineering Sciences in 2003.

Biography

Soumitro Banerjee, born on 17 October 1960 at Kolkata in the Indian state of

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, did his graduate studies at

Bengal Engineering College Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur (IIEST Shibpur), erstwhile Bengal Engineering College (also known as B.E. College), formerly Bengal Engineering and Science University (also known as BESU), is a public research u ...

of the

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 ...

from where he earned a BE degree in electrical engineering in 1981 and moved to the

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi The Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi is a public institute of technology located in New Delhi, India. It is one of the 23 IITs created to be Centres of Excellence for training, research and development in science, engineering and technolo ...

to gain an MTech in Energy Studies in 1983. After enrolling for PhD at IIT Delhi, he took up the post of a lecturer at the

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) is a public institute of technology established by the Government of India in Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. Established in 1951, the institute is the first of the IITs to be established ...

in 1985 and while serving there he received his doctoral degree in 1988 for his thesis, ''Magnetic Energy Storage Units for Improvement of Power System Stability''. He served IIT Kharagpur till 2009 during which period held the positions of an assistant professor (1990–98), associate professor (1998–2003) and a professor. In 2009, he moved to the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata where he serves as a professor.

Legacy

Banerjee's researches have been focused on nonlinear dynamics and bifurcation theory and his experiments and analyses widened the understanding of border collision bifurcations. He worked on hybrid dynamical systems such as switching electronic circuits and mechanical systems showing impacts or

stick-slip phenomenon The stick–slip phenomenon, also known as the slip–stick phenomenon or simply stick–slip, is the spontaneous jerking motion that can occur while two objects are sliding over each other. Cause Below is a simple, heuristic description of stick ...

and demonstrated border-collision bifurcation, a mode of dynamical transition, occurring in those systems. He developed a mathematical theory for elucidating these bifurcations and his studies are known to be in use in various applications. He has also worked extensively on nonlinear phenomena in power electronics. He has documented his researches by way of several articles; Google Scholar and ResearchGate, online article repositories of scientific articles, have listed many of them. Besides, he has made several presentations and has authored two books, ''Dynamics for Engineers'', which details modelling and analysis of

dynamical systems In mathematics, a dynamical system is a system in which a function describes the time dependence of a point in an ambient space. Examples include the mathematical models that describe the swinging of a clock pendulum, the flow of water in a p ...

, and ''Wind Electrical Systems'', the first Indian book on wind energy conversion. He has also edited a book, ''Nonlinear Phenomena in Power Electronics: Bifurcations, Chaos, Control, and Applications'', in which he has written a number of chapters. Banerjee was associated with three journals of the

; he served as the associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II (2003–05) and of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (2006–07) and is the associate editor of IEEE Circuits & Systems Society Newsletter since 2010. His efforts have been reported in the initiation of the ''National Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics'' (NCNSD) and he served as the convenor of the inaugural conference held at IIT Kharagpur campus in December 2003. he has also presented a number of papers at various editions of the conference. He is the general secretary of ''Breakthrough Science Society'', a non-governmental organization for the popularization of science and sits in the editorial board of its journal. He is also the editor of ''Prakriti'', a

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science magazine. He has sat in the Sectional Committees on Electrical Engineering of such science academies as Indian National Academy of Engineering (2005–07 and 2013–15), Indian National Science Academy (2012–14) and Indian Academy of Sciences (2010–12. He has also been associated with several government agencies which included the Engineering Sciences Research Committee of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Programme Advisory Committee in Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) as well as the Board of Members of West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Agency (WBREDA) and he is a member of the Screening Committee on Engineering for ''Inspire Faculty Award'' of the DST.

Awards and honors

Banerjee received the Boyscast Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology in 1996 which enabled him to carry out collaborative research at the

University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of M ...

. The

awarded him the

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, Applied science, applied or Fundamenta ...

, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2003. The next year, Thomson Scientific included him in the list of top 250 scientists in the world with the highest citation count in the Engineering category and awarded him the 2004 Citation Laureate Award. The same year, the Indian National Academy of Engineering elected him as a fellow and he became a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy in 2005 and 2007 respectively. He featured in the 2011 fellowship list of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology and the elected fellowship of

reached him in 2012, followed by fellowships of the

in 2013 and the National Academy of Sciences, India in 2014. The Department of Science and Technology selected him for the J. C. Bose National fellowship in 2015.

Selected work

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Outreach

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The Room of Lives Podcast

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Banerjee, Soumitro Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Engineering Science 1960 births People from Nadia district University of Calcutta alumni IIT Delhi alumni Academic staff of IIT Kharagpur Indian electrical engineers Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy Fellows of The National Academy of Sciences, India TWAS fellows Fellow Members of the IEEE Living people Fellows of the Indian National Academy of Engineering Indian scientific authors Scientists from Kolkata