Career
Her research is mainly in the areas of evolutionary computation, pattern recognition, machine learning and bioinformatics. Since 1 August 2015, she has been the Director of the Indian Statistical Institute, and she would oversee the functioning of all five centres of Indian Statistical Institute located at Kolkata, Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai, and Tezpur besides several other Statistical Quality Control & Operation Research Units spread across India. She is the first woman Director of the Indian Statistical Institute.
Education and Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay obtained a bachelor of science in physics from Presidency College, Kolkata before obtaining another bachelor"s degree (of technology) in Computer Science in 1992 from Calcutta University.
She then obtained a master"s degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur before pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy at the Indian Statistical Institute, obtaining it in 1998.
