Suparna Bhattacharya

Suparna Bhattacharya is an Indian computer scientist known for her contributions to the Linux kernel, and also interested in applications of big data in artificial intelligence.[1] She is an Hewlett Packard Enterprise Fellow at Hewlett Packard Labs.[2]

Education and career

Bhattacharya is the daughter of C. G. Bhattacharya, a statistician at the Indian Statistical Institute.[2] She earned an undergraduate degree in electronics and electrical communication at IIT Kharagpur,[3] in 1993.[4]

Next, she worked for IBM from 1993 until 2014. She was elected to the IBM Academy of Technology in 2005,[3] and promoted to Senior Technical Staff Member in 2006, the first woman at that level in IBM India.[5] She moved internally to IBM Research in 2012.[3] While working for IBM, she completed a Ph.D. in computer science and automation at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc),[3] in 2013,[4] winning the IISc Alumni gold medal for her dissertation on power-aware software.[2]

After moving to Hewlett Packard Enterprise as a distinguished technologist, she was named as an HPE Fellow in 2023.[2]

Recognition

Bhattacharya was named to the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2020.[2] She was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2022, "for contributions to Linux kernel for enterprise and advanced data processing systems".[6]

In 2020, IEEE India recognized her as their Woman Technologist of the Year.[4]

References

  1. ^ "IITKGP Alum Suparna Bhattacharya (1993/E&ECE) Focuses on AI for Good". www.iitkgpfoundation.org. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
  2. ^ a b c d e Labs' Newest Fellow Tests the Boundaries of Linux and Trustworthy AI, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, January 25, 2023, retrieved 2023-07-15
  3. ^ a b c d Suparna Bhattacharya, Eminent Speaker, ACM India, retrieved 2023-07-15
  4. ^ a b c "IEEE-iSES 2021 Women in Engineering", IEEE ISES (Panelist biography), IEEE, 2021, retrieved 2023-07-15
  5. ^ "WIT Decade 2000", IBM Women in technology, IBM, retrieved 2023-07-15
  6. ^ IEEE Fellows directory, IEEE, retrieved 2023-07-15