Ujjwal Maulik is an Indian computer scientist and educator. He is a professor and former head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at

Jadavpur University Jadavpur University ( abbr. JU) is a public state funded research university with its main campus located at Jadavpur, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was established on 25 July in 1906 as ''Bengal Technical Institute'' and was converted into ...

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, West Bengal, India. He has worked in many countries including India, US, Germany, France, Australia, China, Italy, Poland, Mexico, Slovenia and Hungary. He also held the position of the principal-in-charge and the head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Kalyani Government Engineering College.

Education

Maulik did his schooling from Nabadwip Bakultala High School, Nabadwip, Nadia and Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College, Rahara, 24 Parganas (North) both in West Bengal. Subsequently, he completed B.Sc. in physics and B. Tech. in computer science from

University of Calcutta The University of Calcutta, informally known as Calcutta University (), is a Public university, public State university (India), state university located in Kolkata, Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal, India. It has 151 affiliated undergraduate c ...

, West Bengal, India in 1986 and 1989. He also received his M. Tech. in computer science and Ph.D. in engineering in 1992 and 1997 at

, West Bengal, India. He did post-doctoral research at the University of New South Wales, Australia in 1999 and the University of Texas, Arlington, U.S. in 2001.

Research and other activities

Maulik and his research group have contributed towards the development of science and engineering especially in the areas of AI in health care, Bioinformatics, intelligent transport system, supervised and unsupervised machine learning, and social and biological networks. Dr. Maulik has received Fulbright Fellowship and worked in

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

, USA as a visiting Professor, 2025. As an Alexander von Humboldt Experienced Researcher, he has worked at the

German Cancer Research Center The German Cancer Research Center (known as the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum or simply DKFZ in German language, German) is a national cancer research center based in Heidelberg, Germany. It is a member of the Helmholtz Association of German ...

and Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, Germany in 2010, 2011, and 2012. He was a senior associate of the

International Centre for Theoretical Physics The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) is a research center for physical and mathematical sciences, located in Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. The center operates under a tripartite agreement between the Gov ...

(ICTP), Italy from 2012 to 2018. He has also worked in Viswa Bharati University, India, Los Alamos National laboratory, US, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, US, Heidelberg University, Germany, Tsinghua University, China, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, University of Padova, Italy, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France, University of Warsaw, Poland and University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is the fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology,

Indian National Academy of Engineering The Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) was founded in 1987. It consists of India's engineers, engineer-scientists and technologists covering the entire spectrum of engineering disciplines. The academy is registered under the Socie ...

(INAE), National Academy Sciences India (NASI), the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), and the

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines. The IEEE has a corporate office ...

(IEEE). He is also a Distinguish member of ACM. He is also a Distinguish Speaker of ACM and Distinguish Lecturer of IEEE CIS. His research interests include

data science Data science is an interdisciplinary academic field that uses statistics, scientific computing, scientific methods, processing, scientific visualization, algorithms and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge from potentially noisy, stru ...

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...

bioinformatics Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field of science that develops methods and Bioinformatics software, software tools for understanding biological data, especially when the data sets are large and complex. Bioinformatics uses biology, ...

, and the

Internet of things Internet of things (IoT) describes devices with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other communication networks. The IoT encompasse ...

. In these areas he has published twelve books and more than 400 research publications, filed several patents, guided 26 doctoral students and mentor several startups.

Book

Multiobjective Optimization Algorithms for Bioinformatics, Springer, Germany, 2024 Quantum Inspired Meta-heuristic for Image Analysis, Wiley, UK, 2019 Soft Computing - Application to Image and Multimedia Data, Springer, Germany, 2013 Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms for Clustering: Applications in Data Mining and Bioinformatics, Springer, Germany, 2011

Awards and recognition

*Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowships (Research), United States-India Education Foundation, 2024-2025. *Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), Hong Kong, 2022 *Distinguish Speaker, IEEE CIS, 2022 *Awarded Research trip to France, French Institute in India (IFI), Embassy of France in India, 2022. *Distinguish Member, ACM, 2021 *Elected Fellow, National Academy Sciences India (NASI), 2021 *Siksharatna Award, Government of West Bengal, 2021 *ACM Distinguish Speaker, 2021 *Elected Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE),2020 *Elected Fellow, International Association of Pattern Recognition (FIAPR), US, 2018 *Elected Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE), India, 2014 *Senior Associate, International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), 2012–2018. *Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, 2010, 2011 and 2012 *BOYSCAST Fellowship, Dept. of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, 2001.

References

External links

Prof. Ujjwal Maulik

Ujjwal Maulik

Ujjwal Maulik: H-index & Awards - Academic Profile

ORCID
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