Debidas Ghosh (PhD) is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Durgapur for more than 25 years. He has been the Founder-Head and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering for five terms. Professor Ghosh has also been Founder-Head and Head of the Department for two terms of Computer Applications Department (BCA/MCA) of the Institute. Besides, he is a former Director of NIT, Durgapur; he also served KIIT University, Bhubaneswar as its Pro-Vice-Chancellor.
His areas of interest include Theoretical Computer Science, Crypto-graphy, and Algorithmic Mechanism Design. He has published more than 50 research publications and presented research papers in various international conferences held in USA, China, Israel, UK, France and Denmark.