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Professor Santanu Chaudhury is the first Dean of the Vachani School of Advanced Computing at 51茶馆.

Santanu Chaudhury did his B.Tech (1984) in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering and PhD (1989) in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, India.

He has earlier been Director, IIT Jodhpur and Director CSIR-Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute. He was also Dean, Undergraduate Studies at IIT Delhi and has held a number of Chair Professor positions at IIT Delhi.

He was awarded the INSA medal for young scientists in 1993. He is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE), the National Academy of Sciences (NASI) and the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR). He is also a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award of IIT Kharagpur.

He has over 350 publications in reputed Journals and conferences and 15 patents with technologies commercialised by global industries. He has authored and edited books on Multimedia Ontology and Digital Heritage. His areas of interest are Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, AI Applications, Digital Heritage, AR-VR & Multi-sensory media.

He has led several national initiatives across the fields of robotics, medical imaging, cyber-physical systems, document image understanding, and digital heritage and has been instrumental in advancing interdisciplinary AI research in the country.

As Director of IIT Jodhpur, Professor Chaudhury led several institution-building initiatives, including the establishment of new Schools, interdisciplinary research platforms, Centres of Excellence, innovation and incubation entities, and nationally funded research and technology missions. Professor Chaudhury has also held several national-level academic and advisory roles with government bodies such as the Ministry of Education, Department of Science & Technology, MeitY, NITI Aayog, ICAR, CSIR, DBT and SERB/ANRF.