Sudip Poddar received the B.Tech. degree in computer science and engineering from the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (formerly known as West Bengal University of Technology), West Bengal, India, in 2008. He received the M.Tech degree in computer science and engineering from the University of Kalyani, India, in 2012. He obtained his PhD degree in Engineering (Computer Science) from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Kolkata, India in 2019. He is currently working as Postdoctoral Fellow at Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz, Austria. Prior to joining JKU, he worked as Postdoctoral Fellow at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), Taipei, Taiwan for six months (July 2019-December 2019). He has received Young Career Projects Award (2019) from Linz Institute for Technology (LIT), Govt. of Austria. He is the recipient of Research Associateship (RA) from CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), MHRD, Govt. of India (2017-2020). His research interests include computer-aided design for microfluidic lab-on-chip and soft computing. Bhargab B. Bhattacharya is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. Prior to that, he had been on the faculty of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, for over 35 years. He received the B.Sc. degree in Physics from the Presidency College, Kolkata, B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in Radiophysics and Electronics, and the PhD degree in Computer Science, all from the University of Calcutta. His research area includes digital logic testing, and electronic design automation for integrated circuits and microfluidic biochips. He has published more than 400 papers, and he holds ten US patents. Dr. Bhattacharya is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (India), and a Fellow of the IEEE.
