Prof. SOMSUBHRA CHAKRABORTY

Dr. Somsubhra Chakraborty is currently serving as an Assistant Professor (Soil Science) at the Agricultural and Food Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He was awarded various prestigious fellowships including the Australia Awards Fellowship from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He did his undergraduate and M.Sc degrees from BCKV and PAU in India, respectively, and PhD degree in Agronomy (Soil Science emphasis) from Louisiana State University, USA. He started his career as a post-doctoral researcher at West Virginia University, USA. He joined IITKgp as faculty in 2016. His research interest is the use of proximal and non-invasive sensors with machine learning for soil management. He has around 80 international journal publications. He is currently serving as the member of the editorial board of Geoderma, the global journal of soil science.
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