Prof. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay completed her B.Tech, M.Tech, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Calcutta University, IIT Kharagpur, and the Indian Statistical Institute, respectively. She then joined ISI as a faculty member and is currently the Director of the Institute. Her research interests include computational biology, soft and evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. She has authored or co-authored several books and a large number of articles in journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. Prof. Bandyopadhyay has collaborated with many institutes and universities worldwide.

She is the recipient of several honours and awards, including the Padma Shri from the Government of India, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering Science, the TWAS Prize, the Infosys Prize, the JC Bose Fellowship, the Swarnajayanti Fellowship, the INAE Silver Jubilee Award, the INAE Woman Engineer of the Year Award (Academia), the IIT Kharagpur Distinguished Alumni Award, the Humboldt Fellowship from Germany, the Senior Associateship of ICTP, Italy, young engineer/scientist awards from INSA, INAE, and ISCA, and the Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma Gold Medal and Institute Silver Medal from IIT Kharagpur, India.

She is a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), and the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology. She is also a member of the Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council of the Prime Minister of India (PM-STIAC).