Indranil Sengupta obtained his B.Tech., M.Tech. and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Calcutta in the years 1983, 1985 and 1990, respectively. He joined Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, as a faculty member in 1988, in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, where he is presently a Full Professor. He is also the Managing Director of the Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Park (STEP) of the Institute. He has been the former Heads of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and School of Information Technology. He has over 26 years of teaching and research experience, guided 17 PhD students and published over 165 papers in peer reviewed journals and conferences. He has served as the Program Chair / General Chair in several Conferences in the areas of VLSI design and information security. His research interests include reversible and quantum computing, VLSI design and test, and network security. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.