Brief Curriculum Vitae of Basudeb Datta

Personal Details
Title and full name Professor, Basudeb Datta
Affiliation Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Postal address Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
Telephone (91)(80) 2293 3211 (Office), (91)(80) 2360 3118 (Residence)
Email address dattab@iisc.ac.in, bdatta17@gmail.com
URL http://math.iisc.ac.in/ ~ dattab/

Academic Background
Degree Year Discipline/field Organisation and countryRemarks
Ph. D. 1988 MathematicsIndian Statistical Institute, India
M. Sc. 1980 Pure Mathematics Calcutta University, India Gold medalist
B. Sc. 1978 Honours in Mathematics Calcutta University, India

Employment History
Position held Organisation Department Period
Professor in HAG scale Indian Institute of Science Mathematics August 2016 - present
Professor Indian Institute of Science Mathematics June 2005 - July 2016
Associate Professor Indian Institute of Science Mathematics June 1999 - May 2005
Assistant Professor Indian Institute of Science Mathematics August 1992 - May 1999
Visiting Scientist ISI, Bangalore Stat-Math Unit December 1990 - July 1992
Visiting Mathematician ICTP, Trieste, Italy Mathematics March - November 1990
Visiting Fellow TIFR, Mumbai Mathematics July 1988 - February 1990
Research Scholar ISI, Calcutta Stat-Math Unit August 1983 - June 1988
Research Scholar (under a UGC project)Calcutta University, Calcutta Pure Mathematics March - July 1983

Awards and Honors
Year Awards/Distinctions
2014 Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India
2013 Delivered `26th P. L. Bhatnagar Memorial Award Lecture' of Indian Math. Society
2009 Elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences
2001 Received Sir C. V. Raman Young Scientist Award of the Govt. of Karnataka
1980Received Gold Medal from Calcutta University for 1st rank in M. Sc. (Pure Maths.)

Visiting Positions
Position held Institutions/Universities Period
Research MemberMathematical Science Research Institute (MSRI), Berkeley, CA 94720, USANovember 15 to December 15, 2017
Visiting AcademicSchool of Mathematics & Physics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072, AustraliaJuly 6 to 26, 2015
Visiting AcademicSchool of Mathematics & Physics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072, AustraliaMarch 3 to 29, 2014
Visiting ProfessorUniversität Leipzig, Augustusplatz 10/11, D-04109 Leipzig, GermanyJune 1 to 14, 2000
Visiting Assistant ProfessorFakultät für Mathematik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, GermanyMay 1 to 31, 2000
Maître de ConférencesU. F. R. de Mathématiques, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, FranceJune 1 to 30, 1996
Visiting ProfessorCentre de Mathématiques, École Polytechnique, F-91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France May 20 to 31, 1996

Sponsored Projects
Funding Agency Project title & number Principal Investigator(s) Budget Period
Department of Science & Technology (DST), India Study of degree-regular triangulations of surfaces and polyhedral structures of spheres, SR/S4/MS:272/05 Basudeb Datta Rs. 954,538 2006 to 2009
Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF) (DST, India and DIICCSRTE, Australia) Indo-Australian Joint Project on "Bulding triangulations for fast topological computing", DST/INT/AUS/P-56/2013(G) & AISRF06660 Basudeb Datta, Benjamin A. Burton (Univ. of Queensland) Rs. 609,500 + $ 295,972 2013 to 2016

Research Interest
(a) Combinatorial Topology and PL-Topology: Minimal triangulations of manifolds and homology manifolds; Triangulations of projective spaces; Tight and tight-neighbourly triangulations of manifolds; Stacked manifolds; Vertex transitive and degree-regular triangulations of surfaces; Crystallizations of manifolds.
(b) Convex and Discrete Geometry: Isoperimetric problems; Map colouring problems; Equivelar and semi-equivelar polyhedral maps; Vertex transitive maps; Stacked spheres and lower bound theorems; Flag spheres; Pachner graphs of 2-spheres.
(c) Differential Topology and Differential Geometry: Hypercomplex manifolds; Morse functions; Almost complex, symplectic and Kähler structures; Totally real submanifolds.

Research Activities
Number of research articles published in archival journals 41
Number of survey articles published in journals 1
Number of articles published as chapters of books/conference proceedings 3
Number of articles published in journals of science education 3
Number of extended abstract published in conference reports 1
Number of students guided for Ph. D. degree 4
Number of students guided for master and under graduate projects 8
Number of students guided for summer project under different fellowships 28

List of Ph. D. Students
(i) Prof. Nandini Nilakantan worked under my guidance and obtained Ph. D. degree from IISc in 2001. Currently, Prof. Nilakantan is an Associate Professor in IIT Kanpur.
(ii) Prof. Ashish Kumar Upadhyay worked under my guidance and obtained Ph. D. degree from IISc in 2005. Currently, Prof. Upadhyay is an Associate Professor in IIT Patna.
(iii) Dr. Nitin Singh worked under the joint guidance of myself and Prof. Vijay Natarajan, CSA, IISc. He obtained Ph. D. degree from IISc in 2014. Currently, Dr. Singh is a Researcher at the IBM Research Center in Bangalore.
(iv) Dr. Biplap Basak worked under my guidance and obtained Ph. D. degree from IISc in 2015. Currently, Dr. Basak is a post-doctoral fellow (with SERB Indo-US Postdoctoral Fellowship 2016) in Cornell University, USA.

Supervised Master Theses/Projects (List of Students)
(i) Mr. N. Arvind Kumar, M. E. Thesis, ECE, IISc, 1995.
(ii) Mr. David Andrianavalontsalama, Master Thesis, École Polytechnique, France, 1995.
(iii) Mr. Paolo Crisafulli, Master Thesis, École Polytechnique, France, 1995.
(iv) Mr. Dhrubajit Choudhury, M. S. dissertation, Int. Ph. D., IISc, 2006. Currently, Mr. Choudhary is an Assistant professor at Dibrugarh University, Assam.
(v) Ms. Soumya, S. H., M. Tech. project, Kuvempu University, Shimoga, 2006.
(vi) Ms. Madhulika Prasad, M. Sc. project, Mangalore University, 2007.
(vii) Dr. Hoel Queffelec, M. Sc. Internship Thesis, École Normale Supérieure de Cachan and Université Paris VI Jussieu, France, 2009. Currently, Dr. Queffelec is a Chargé de recherche CNRS, Institut Montpelliérain Alexander Grothendieck, France.

Member of Editorial Boards
Member of the Editorial Board, Lecture Notes Series, Ramanujan Mathematical Society from 2005 to 2013.

Member of Board of Studies
Expert member in the Board of Studies in Mathematics, Faculty of Science, M. S. University of Baroda, Vadodara from September 01, 2011 to August 31, 2013.

Referee / Reviewer
(a) Referee/Reviewer of several papers for the following international journals:
(i) Asia-Pacific J. of Operational Research, (ii) Contributions to Discrete Mathematics, (iii) Discrete & Computational Geometry, (iv) Discrete Mathematics, (v) European J. of Combinatorics, (vi) Graphs and Combinatorics, (vii) Israel J. of Mathematics, (viii) J. of Combinatorial Theory (A), (ix) J. Periodica Mathematica Hungarica, and (x) Mathematika.
(b) Referee/Reviewer of several papers for the following journals in India:
(i) Current Science, (ii) Indian J. of Pure and Appl. Maths., (iii) J. of Indian Institute of Science, (iv) J. of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society, (v) Mathematics Students, (vi) Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences (Math. Sci.), and (vii) Resonance.
(c) Reviewer for several DST, NBHM and CSIR Project Proposals.
(d) Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews and zbMATH.

Teaching (List of Courses Taught)
(a) In ISI Kolkata: (i) Complex variables in 1987-88.
(b) In ISI Bangalore: (i) Calculus on Manifolds in 1990-91, (ii) Algebraic Topology in 1991-92.
(c) In IISc Bangalore:
(i) MA 212: Algebra I in 2002-03, 03-04,
(ii) MA 213: Algebra II in 2004-05, 05-06,
(iii) MA 219: Linear Algebra in 2010-11, 11-12,
(iv) MA 215: Graph Theory in 1993-94, 94-95, 95-96,
(v) MA 231: Topology I in 2007-08, 08-09, 09-10, 13-14, 14-15,
(vi) MA 232: Introduction to Algebraic Topology in 2001-02, 12-13, 13-14, 15-16,
(vii) MA 247: Mathematical Methods in 1997-98,
(viii) MA 331: Topology II in 1992-93, 93-94, 94-95, 96-97, 98-99, 99-2000, 04-05, 05-06, 06-07, 09-10,
(ix) MA 332: Algebraic Topology in 1996-97, 98-99, 2000-01, 07-08,
(x) MA 335: Calculus on Manifolds in 1993-94,
(xi) UM 203: Elementary Algebra and Number Theory in 2015-16, 16-17.


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