Dipankar Dasgupta's research interests are broadly in the area of
scientific computing, tracking real-world problems through
interdisciplinary cooperation. His areas of special interests include:
- Artificial Immune Systems
- Intelligent techniques in computer and network security
- Evolutionary Computation
Dipankar Dasgupta obtained his bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering in 1981 and his masters degree in Computer Engineering in 1986 in India. He received his Ph. D. in Computer Science from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, in 1993. Before obtaining his Ph. D., he was teaching Computer Science in India as an assistant professor.
He was a post doctorate researcher at the University of New Mexico from January of 1994 until August of 1995 and worked on an immune system based model for Novelty Detection in sensory data. He was a visiting faculty at the University of Missouri - St. Louis until December of 1996.
Since January of 1997, he has been at the University of Memphis and is currently a professor of Computer Science.
He is a senior member of IEEE/IEEE Computer Society and also member of ACM and other societies.