Prof. Soumitro Banerjee (born 1960) did his B.E. from the Bengal Engineering College (Calcutta University) in 1981, M.Tech. from IIT Delhi in 1983, and Ph.D. from the same Institute in 1987. He was in the faculty of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, since 1986, and has moved to the Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Kolkata, in 2009. Dr. Banerjee's area of research interest is nonlinear dynamics. He has published three books: “Nonlinear Phenomena in Power Electronics” (Ed: Banerjee and Verghese, IEEE Press, 2001), “Dynamics for Engineers” (Wiley, London, 2005), and “Wind Electrical Systems” (Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2005). He is a recipient of the S. S. Bhatnagar Prize (2003), and was recognized as a “Highly Cited Author” by Thomson Reuters from 2004 to 2014. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the Indian National Science Academy, The World Academy of Sciences, and the IEEE.
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