Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (born 1968) is an Indian scientist specializing in
computational biology. A professor at the
Indian Statistical Institute,
Kolkata, she is a
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize winner in Engineering Science for 2010, I
Infosys Prize 2017 laureate in the Engineering and Computer Science category and
TWAS Prize winner for Engineering Sciences in 2018. Her research is mainly in the areas of
evolutionary computation,
pattern recognition,
machine learning and
bioinformatics. Since 1 August 2015, she has been the Director of the
Indian Statistical Institute, and she would oversee the functioning of all five centres of
Indian Statistical Institute located at Kolkata,
Bangalore,
Delhi,
Chennai, and
Tezpur besides several other Statistical Quality Control & Operation Research Units spread across India. She is the first woman Director of the
Indian Statistical Institute. Currently she is on the Prime Ministers' Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council. In 2022 she was given the
Padma Shri award for Science and Engineering by the Government of India.
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