Dr. Siddhartha Bhattacharyya earned his Bachelor in Physics, Bachelor in Optics and Optoelectronics, and Master in Optics and Optoelectronics from the University of Calcutta, India, in 1995, 1998, and 2000, respectively. He completed his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, India, in 2008. He also received the PhD (Habilitation) degree from VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, in 2023. He is the recipient of the University Gold Medal from the University of Calcutta for his Masters. He is the recipient of several coveted awards, including the Distinguished HoD Award and Distinguished Professor Award conferred by the Computer Society of India, Mumbai Chapter, India, in 2017, the Honorary Doctorate Award (D. Litt.) from The University of South America, and the South East Asian Regional Computing Confederation (SEARCC) International Digital Award ICT Educator of the Year in 2017. He has been appointed as the ACM Distinguished Speaker for 2018-2020. He was inducted into the People of ACM Hall of Fame by ACM, the USA, in 2020. He has been appointed as the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor for 2021-2024. He has been elected as a full foreign member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RANS) and the Russian Academy of Engineering (REA). He has been elected a full fellow of The Royal Society for Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce (RSA), London, UK. He received the Outstanding Associate Editor Award from IEEE Access in 2024 and Editor of Distinction Award from Springer Nature in 2025 for Evolutionary Intelligence Journal.
He is currently serving as a Senior Researcher in the faculty of electrical engineering and computer science at VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. He is also serving as the Scientific Advisor of Algebra Bernays University, Zagreb, Croatia. Before this, he served as the Principal of Rajnagar Mahavidyalaya, Rajnagar, Birbhum. He served as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Christ University, Bangalore. He was the Principal of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India, from 2017-2019. He has also served as a Senior Research Scientist in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, from 2018 to 2019. Before this, he was a Professor of Information Technology at the RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. He served as the Head of the Department from March 2014 to December 2016. Before this, he was an Associate Professor of Information Technology at RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India, from 2011-2014. Before that, he served as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Information Technology at the University Institute of Technology, The University of Burdwan, India, from 2005-2011. He was a Lecturer in Information Technology at Kalyani Government Engineering College, India, from 2001 to 2005. He is a co-author of 7 books and the co-editor of 114 books and has more than 400 research publications in international journals and conference proceedings to his credit. He has two PCTs and 20 patents to his credit. He has been a member of several national and international conferences' organizing and technical program committees. He is the founding Chair of several international conferences like International Conference on Research in Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (ICRCICN), International Symposium on Signal and Image Processing (ISSIP), Doctoral Symposium on Intelligence Enabled Research (DoSIER), the International Conference on Human-Centric Smart Computing (ICHCSC), International Conference on Computers, Information Processing and Advanced Education (CIPAE), International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Human Machine Collaboration ICISHMC), and Doctoral Symposium on Human Centered Computing (HUMAN). He was the General Chair of several international conferences like WCNSSP 2016 (Chiang Mai, Thailand), ICACCP (2017, 2019) (Sikkim, India), ICICC 2018 (New Delhi, India), and ICICC 2019 (Ostrava, Czech Republic).
He is the Senior Editor of IEEE Access and Associate Editor of several reputed journals, including Applied Soft Computing, Evolutionary Intelligence, and IET Quantum Communications. He is the editor of the International Journal of Pattern Recognition Research and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Hybrid Intelligence, Inderscience. He has guest-edited several issues of several international journals. He is serving as the Series Editor of the IGI Global Book Series Advances in Information Quality and Management (AIQM), De Gruyter Book Series(s) Frontiers in Computational Intelligence (FCI) and Intelligent Biomedical Data Analysis (IBDA), CRC Press Book Series(s) Computational Intelligence and Applications, Quantum Machine Intelligence, Intelligent Data Driven Technology for Sustainable Environment, and Advances in Disruptive Technologies and Generative Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier Book Series Hybrid Computational Intelligence for Pattern Analysis and Understanding, and Springer Tracts on Human Centered Computing.
His research interests include hybrid intelligence, pattern recognition, multimedia data processing, social networks, and quantum computing.
He is a life fellow of the Optical Society of India (OSI), India, a life fellow of the International Society of Research and Development (ISRD), UK, a fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, a fellow of Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), India, a fellow of Institution of Engineers (IEI), India, and a fellow of the Soft Computing Research Society (SCRS), India. He is also a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA, the International Institute of Engineering and Technology (IETI), Hong Kong, and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), USA.
He is the founding President of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), Kolkata, and the Immediate Past Chairman of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Kolkata Chapter. He is a life member of the Cryptology Research Society of India (CRSI), Computer Society of India (CSI), Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Indian Unit for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IUPRAI), Center for Education Growth and Research (CEGR), Integrated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ICCI), and Association of Leaders and Industries (ALI). He is a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, International Rough Set Society, International Association for Engineers (IAENG), Hong Kong, Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), USA, International Association of Academicians, Scholars, Scientists and Engineers (IAASSE), USA, Institute of Doctors Engineers and Scientists (IDES), India, The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP) and The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (SDIWC). He is also a certified Chartered Engineer of the Institution of Engineers (IEI), India. He is on the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Engineering and Technology (IETI), Hong Kong.

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