Doctoral level guidance:

Two of my doctoral students have received their Ph. D. degrees. Dr. Rajat Kumar Pal, submitted his Ph. D. thesis on `Studies on the Computational Complexity and the Design of Algorithms for Multi-Layer Channel Routing' in Nov 1994. He was supervised jointly with Prof. Ajit Pal, Head and Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT, Kharagpur, 721302, India.

Dr. D. Chithra Prasad, submitted his Ph. D. thesis on `New visibility problems: Combinatorial and computational complexities' in July 1996. He was supervised jointly with Prof. Tamal Krishna Dey, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT, Kharagpur, 721302, India.

Fields of current research interest:

Discrete and computational geometry, algorithms and complexity, geometric modelling, internet computing, network traffic modelling and simulation, exact and robust geometric and algebraic computation, quantum computation and quantum information processing.

Awards and honours:

(1) I received the National Talent Search Scholarship from the National Council for Educational Research and Training, Delhi, India in 1978. I received this scholarship for 5 years during my B Tech in IIT Kharagpur.

(2) I received the Rajiv Gandhi Grant for Innovative Ideas in Science and Technology from the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India, and The Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, New Delhi, India, in Dec 1993.

(3) I was nominated member of the Technical Programme Committee for the Seventh National Seminar on Theoretical Computer Science, Chennai, India, June 1997.

(4) I presented an invited lecture in the Workshop on Computational Geometry, held on March 18-19, 2002, in Indian Satistical Institute, Kolkata. The talk was entitled ``The union of billiard-ball paths: Structure and complexity''.

(5) Erdos number 2. (What is Erdos number?)

(6) Member of programme committee of Trusted Internet Workshop, HiPC 2002 and HiPC 2003.
 

I have refereed for several international conferences and journals and examined two Ph. D. theses in the area of computational geometry.