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Raja Datta

Also known as: R Datta

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

ORCID iD 0000-0001-8851-9381

About

Prof. Raja Datta is a Professor in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering (E & ECE) at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. He is presently the Head of Computer and Informatics Center at IIT Kharagpur.
Prof. Datta is a Senior Member of IEEE and has to his credit a number of publications in high impact factor Journals (that includes IEEE Transactions, IET, Elsevier, Springer, etc.) and Conferences. He has produced several PhDs and MS students in the area of Computer Communication Networks and Ad Hoc Networks apart from guiding numerous MTech and BTech projects. He is member of the editorial boards and reviewers of several International Journals and handles a number of projects funded by MHRD, DIT, ISRO, and Indian Railways. He was the Principal Coordinator of IIT Kharagpur for Train Ten Thousand Teachers (T10KT) Program under NMEICT from 2013 to 2018. He has been consultants to several organizations including Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) of India and was also in the core committee for securing Indian National Museum, Kolkata. He is associated with several Institutes and Universities as examiner, member of Academic Boards, etc.
Prof. Datta was the Chairman of IEEE Kharagpur section in 2014. He was also the Secretary and Vice-Chair of IEEE Kharagpur Section in 2012 and 2013 respectively. Apart from organizing a lot of activities, the section also received the best small section award in Region 10 during his tenure as an office bearer.
From February 2011 he is the Prof-in-charge of the Technology Telecom Centre (TTC) of IIT Kharagpur. TTC houses a 6000+ line capacity telephone exchange and is responsible for installation and maintenance of the entire voice communication facilities in the campus. TTC got revamped in the last few years and has added several new utility features to the telecommunication network of the campus.
His main research interests includes, but not limited to, Computer Communication Networks, Internet of Things (IoT), Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN), Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, Optical Networks, Vehicular Networks, Inter Planetary Networks, Computer Architecture, Distributed Operating Systems and Distributed Processing.

Employment

  • Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Professor
    2007 - Present

Education

  • Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur PhD
    2000 - 2004

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (127)