User:Pradipta Biswas

Pradipta Biswas is an Indian computer scientist. He is an assistant professor at Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing and associate faculty at Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber Physical Systems at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is one of three co-chairs of the International Telecommunication Union's IRG-AVA - Intersector Rapporteur Group Audiovisual Media Accessibility and Rapporteur of Question 11/9 on Accessibility of ITU Study Group 9. Earlier he was a senior research associate at the University of Cambridge, a working group coordinator at the ITU-T focus group on audio visual media accessibility and a vice chairman at the ITU-T focus group on Smart TV. He was elected to a Title B1 fellowship at the Wolfson College, Cambridge in 2013. He was a member and later senior treasurer of Cambridge University Revolver and Pistol Club and took part in Cambridge-Oxford varsity shooting matches in 2010.

Academic Career
Pradipta graduated with a PhD in Computer Science from the Trinity College and University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. He received a Gates Cambridge Scholarship in 2006, which is offered to approximately 80 students worldwide each year. He works on eye gaze tracking, intelligent user interface for inclusive design , aircraft cockpit design  , human robot interaction and automotive user interfaces. Pradipta's research on assistive technology won a $75K award from Facebook Reality Lab in 2021 and Microsoft AI 4 Accessibility grant award in 2018. A new assistive technology involving an eye gaze controlled robotic arm for users with severe speech and motor impairment (SSMI) attracted significant media attention in science magazines like Disability Insider, Tech Explore and prominent Indian newspapers   and was also broadcasted in NDTV , All India Radio and IndiaScience channels. A different application of his research on eye gaze tracking for military aviation applications was featured in New Scientist and was demonstrated at Aero India 2019. He invented an eye gaze and finger movement controlled interactive head up display for cars and proposed algorithms to estimate cognitive load of drivers and pilots. Pradipta's doctoral research on Inclusive User Modelling is considered by W3  and ITU-T for standardization.

Personal Life
Pradipta was born and brought up in Kolkata, West Bengal and presently lives in Bangalore.