I can't deny the fact that I enrolled at IST mainly because of my advisor, Dr. Prasenjit Mitra. I wasn't considering applying to Penn State University until I heard about the IST program from Dr. Prasenjit Mitra and consequently, had a discussion regarding the opportunities in information processing domain. Along came certain turn of events and the new chapter in my life ensued. Since then, I have come to learn more about interesting and inspiring aspects of his personality. Here are some excerpts:
Biography (taken from the personal web-page):
Redwood Shores CA
As most Bengali personals in academics, Dr. Mitra is very active in cultural activities and Bengali community. He and his wife, Mrs. Rini Mitra, also like to celebrate numerous auspicious occasions with his students by inviting them to dinner. Last visit to Dr. Mitra's home still reminds me of a very affable welcome and delicious Indian food.
Apart from participation in the cultural activities that he enjoys, he is also very active in sports. He is a part of an informal cricket club (which includes me as well) that meets every Sunday to have practices and matches. His enthusiastic participation in sports activities is one thing that came as a surprise to me.
With this little non-academic introduction of my advisor to the rest of the IST community, I rest my blogging endeavors to put more academic introduction in the next entry.
Biography (taken from the personal web-page):
Dr. Prasenjit Mitra received his Doctor of
Philosophy degree in Electrical Engineering
at Stanford University in 2004. Prior to
that, he had received a Master of Science degree in Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin in December,1994.
His Bachelor of Technology (with Honours) degree in Computer
Science and Engineering was from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
in May, 1993.
As most Bengali personals in academics, Dr. Mitra is very active in cultural activities and Bengali community. He and his wife, Mrs. Rini Mitra, also like to celebrate numerous auspicious occasions with his students by inviting them to dinner. Last visit to Dr. Mitra's home still reminds me of a very affable welcome and delicious Indian food.
Apart from participation in the cultural activities that he enjoys, he is also very active in sports. He is a part of an informal cricket club (which includes me as well) that meets every Sunday to have practices and matches. His enthusiastic participation in sports activities is one thing that came as a surprise to me.
With this little non-academic introduction of my advisor to the rest of the IST community, I rest my blogging endeavors to put more academic introduction in the next entry.
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