Suparna Bhattacharya is an Indian computer scientist known for her contributions to the Linux kernel, and also interested in applications of big data in artificial intelligence. She is an Hewlett Packard Enterprise Fellow at Hewlett Packard Labs.[1]

Education and career

Bhattacharya is the daughter of C. G. Bhattacharya, a statistician at the Indian Statistical Institute.[1] She earned an undergraduate degree in electronics and electrical communication at IIT Kharagpur,[2] in 1993.[3]

Next, she worked for IBM from 1993 until 2014. She was elected to the IBM Academy of Technology in 2005,[2] and promoted to Senior Technical Staff Member in 2006, the first woman at that level in IBM India.[4] She moved internally to IBM Research in 2012.[2] While working for IBM, she completed a Ph.D. in computer science and automation at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc),[2] in 2013,[3] winning the IISc Alumni gold medal for her dissertation on power-aware software.[1]

After moving to Hewlett Packard as a distinguished technologist, she was named as an HPE Fellow in 2023.[1]

Recognition

Bhattacharya was named to the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2020.[1] She was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2022, "for contributions to Linux kernel for enterprise and advanced data processing systems".[5]

In 2020, IEEE India recognized her as their Woman Technologist of the Year.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Labs’ Newest Fellow Tests the Boundaries of Linux and Trustworthy AI, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, January 25, 2023, retrieved 2023-07-15
  2. 1 2 3 4 Suparna Bhattacharya, Eminent Speaker, ACM India, retrieved 2023-07-15
  3. 1 2 3 "IEEE-iSES 2021 Women in Engineering", IEEE ISES (Panelist biography), IEEE, 2021, retrieved 2023-07-15
  4. ↑ "WIT Decade 2000", IBM Women in technology, IBM, retrieved 2023-07-15
  5. ↑ IEEE Fellows directory, IEEE, retrieved 2023-07-15
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