Dr. Kousik Dasgupta

Dr. Kousik Dasgupta

Head of the Department
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
+91 9830040558
Room 201, SNB Building, KGEC, Kalyani - 741235
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Dr. Kousik Dasgupta is the Head of the Department and Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Kalyani Government Engineering College (KGEC), West Bengal. With over 25 years of distinguished academic, research, and institutional leadership experience, he has spearheaded academic curriculum enhancements, state-of-the-art laboratory modernisation, and high-performance computing infrastructure development at KGEC.

He has been instrumental in mentoring winning national teams at the Smart India Hackathon (SIH 2017 & 2018) and ACM-ICPC Regional contests, and served as the Chairman of the Central Computing Facility, Coordinator of IIT Bombay Remote Centre, and Program Chair for the Springer CICBA International Conference.

Computer Vision Machine Learning Multimedia Steganography Cloud Computing & Load Balancing Evolutionary Computing (PSO / GA)
Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering (2017)
University of Kalyani, India

Dissertation: “Design and Implementation of Steganographic Engine for Secret Data sharing and Authentication of Videos: An Overture”

Master of Technology (M.Tech) in CSE (2007)
West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT / MAKAUT) — Graduated with Distinction

Thesis: “3D Object Extraction”

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electronic & Power Engineering (1993)
Nagpur University, India
Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (PGDBM, 1996)
Nagpur University, India
WBDST-FIST Project ₹ 9.00 Lakhs

Infrastructure Development for Modern Research Trends

Funded by Department of Science and Technology, Government of West Bengal. Modern GPU computing and research lab infrastructure setup.

Role: Principal Investigator & Academic Coordinator
AICTE RPS Project ₹ 5.26 Lakhs

Multimedia Security & Video Digital Rights Management (DRM)

Design and Development of Framework for Multimedia Security and Forensics to Provide Digital Rights Management of Video. Funded by AICTE, MHRD, Govt. of India.

Role: Principal Investigator
AICTE MODROBS ₹ 11.30 Lakhs

Modernization of High-End Network & Internet Infrastructure

Enrichment of Network and Internet Infrastructure Through State-of-the-Art High-End Equipment. Funded by AICTE, MHRD, Govt. of India.

Role: Principal Investigator

Algorithms in Machine Learning Paradigms

Publisher: Springer Singapore (ISBN: 978-981-15-1040-3, 2020)

Co-editors: Prof. J.K. Mandal (Univ. of Kalyani), Dr. S. Mukhopadhyay (Assam Univ.), Prof. Paramartha Dutta (Visva-Bharati). Comprehensive reference for meta-heuristic algorithms and predictive architectures.

Intelligent Volumetric 3D Image Processing

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Authors: Kousik Dasgupta, Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, and Paramartha Dutta. Advanced coverage of multi-layer neural networks and neuro-fuzzy architectures for 3D spatial object extraction.

Computational Intelligence, Communications, and Business Analytics

Publisher: Springer Singapore (CCIS 1030 & 1031)

Proceedings of Second International Conference CICBA. State-of-the-art advances in data science, intelligent networking, and machine perception.

Methodologies & Application Issues of Contemporary Computing Frameworks

Publisher: Springer (ISBN: 978-3-319-47223-2, 2018)

Contemporary computing paradigms spanning deep convolutional sequence models, natural scene text recognition, and cloud resource allocation.

Mr. Joydev Hazra (MAKAUT Scholar)
Energy Aware Intelligent Clustering of Hierarchical Wireless Sensor Networks
Mr. Ratan Kumar Basak (MAKAUT Scholar)
Study on Embedding and Extraction of Information in Animated Image Sequences
Ms. Gopa Mandal (MAKAUT Scholar)
Intelligent and Dynamic Load Balancing Strategies for Cloud Computing
Ms. Aditi Roy Chowdhury (MAKAUT Scholar)
Band Selection of Hyperspectral Images Using Hybrid Frameworks

Honors & Mentorship

  • Smart India Hackathon (SIH): SPOC & Mentor (2017 & 2018 winning mentor)
  • ACM-ICPC Asia Kharagpur: Mentor of Team BreakThrough (Top 100 rank)
  • IBM Great Mind Challenge: Mentor of Team nexuskgec
  • CSI Young IT Professional Award: Top 9 finalist across India

Professional Bodies

  • Professional Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Life Member, Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE)
  • Fellow Member, Optical Society of India (OSI)
  • Chartered Engineer & Associate Member, Institution of Engineers (India)