Somprakash Bandyopadhyay [ Ex-Professor, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta ]

Prof (Dr) Somprakash Bandyopadhyay a PhD in Computer Science from Jadavpur University, Kolkata and B.Tech in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He was a post-doctoral fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany and fellow of the Japan Trust International Foundation, Japan.
He is having more than around 40 years of diverse experience spanning across multiple disciplines, both in academia and industry, combining teaching, research, consultancy and technology development in several organizations of international repute. He was a Professor of Information Systems at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta for the past 21 years (2001-2022) and retired from his service from 1 st Dec 2022. Before IIM Calcutta, he was associated with:
✦ Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute, Japan (2000-01)
✦ Price Water House Coopers Ltd. (1995-2000)
✦ Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (1994-95) ✦ Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (1986-94)
✦ German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Germany (1989-90)
✦ Jadavpur University, Kolkata (1981-1985) and ✦ Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai (1979-81)

He is a Co-Founder-Mentor of Nexconnect Ventures Pvt Ltd (2017 onwards) , a social business venture seeking to address issues of social exclusion by empowering communities by connecting them digitally.