Prof. Amit Patra, received the B.Tech., M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1984, 1986 and 1990 respectively. During 1992-93 and in 2000 he visited the Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany as a Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1987 as a faculty member, and is currently a Professor in the Higher Academic Grade Pay. During 2018-19 he visited the University of Maryland, Baltimore County as a Senior Visiting Research Scientist and since his return, has been serving as an Honorary Adjunct Professor.
Current role
Deputy Director at NASA
Deputy Director at State of Arizona
Deputy Director at German Historical Institute in Rome
Deputy Director at Defense Intelligence Agency
Deputy Director at Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences