Suparna Bhattacharya

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Suparna Bhattacharya is an Indian computer scientist known for her contributions to the Linux kernel, and also interested in applications of big data in artificial intelligence. [1] She is an Hewlett Packard Enterprise Fellow at Hewlett Packard Labs. [2]

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Education and career

Bhattacharya is the daughter of C. G. Bhattacharya, a statistician at the Indian Statistical Institute. [2] She earned an undergraduate degree in electronics and electrical communication at IIT Kharagpur, [3] in 1993. [4]

Next, she worked for IBM from 1993 until 2014. She was elected to the IBM Academy of Technology in 2005, [3] and promoted to Senior Technical Staff Member in 2006, the first woman at that level in IBM India. [5] She moved internally to IBM Research in 2012. [3] While working for IBM, she completed a Ph.D. in computer science and automation at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), [3] in 2013, [4] winning the IISc Alumni gold medal for her dissertation on power-aware software. [2]

After moving to Hewlett Packard Enterprise as a distinguished technologist, she was named as an HPE Fellow in 2023. [2]

Recognition

Bhattacharya was named to the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2020. [2] She was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2022, "for contributions to Linux kernel for enterprise and advanced data processing systems". [6]

In 2020, IEEE India recognized her as their Woman Technologist of the Year. [4]

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References

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