User:Surajit Borkotokey/sandbox/Surajit Borkotokey

Brief Description
Surajit Borkotokey is an Indian mathematician and at present Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Dibrugarh University, India. He is known for his work related to Game theory and Networks and its applications to Fuzzy Set Theory and Cognitive Radio Networks. He has also published articles in Aggregation Functions.

Surajit qualified his school leaving examinations from Margherita Public Higher Secondary School, Margherita, Assam, in 1989. Then, he took higher secondary education at Cotton College, Guwahati during 1989-91 and joined the Department of Mathematics, Cotton College again  for his Bachelors. After his B.Sc. degree in 1994, he did his masters and M.Phil from the University of Delhi. He then came back to Assam to establish the Department of Mathematics at Margherita College, Assam and then for a very brief period also joined MC College, Borpeta. Finally Surajit joined the Department of Mathematics at Dibrugarh University in 1999 as a lecturer. After joining Dibrugarh University he obtained his PhD degree there itself, which he received in 2005 for a thesis titled Studies in Fuzzy Algebra under the supervision of B. Banerjee.

After his PhD, Surajit shifted his research interests to the field of Cooperative Game Theory from Algebra. In 2011, he received the prestigious Indo-US Science and Technology Research Grant for 9 months to work with Prof. Sudipta Sarangi, Department of Economics, Louisiana State University, USA (now HoD, Economics at Virginia Tech, USA). Since then, he has visited Beijing Institute of Technology, China twice during 2014 and 2016 as visiting professor under their International talent project. In 2017, Surajit received another prestigious fellowship from the National Scholarship Program of SAIA, Slovakia and spent 3 months in the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak University of Technology with Prof. Radko Mesiar

At different time, Surajit has been involved in various administrative assignments within and outside the University. He has been the Director (i/c) and later Chairperson of the Centre for Computer Science and Applications, Dibrugarh University, besides currently holding the assignment of Head of the Department, Mathematics, Dibrugarh University. A singer by hobby, Surajit lives in the university campus with his wife Shrutidhara Mahanta, who is an Assistant professor of Education, DODL, Dibrugarh University and his only son Sushruta.

Awards and Honours:
Surajit received the best paper presentation award in the Mathematical Science section at the Indian National Science Congress held in Lucknow in 2002. He received the Indo-US Research Award in 2011 from the IUSSTF. He has been awarded with the prestigious UK-India Education Initiative (UKIERI) project (2017-2019) in collaboration with Rajnish Kumar from Queen's University, Belfast, UK, jointly  by the UGC, India and the British Council for their project on Game theory.

Professional Contributions
Borkotokey has written several research papers so far related to Cooperative Game Theory, Aggregation Functions and Network Games. He has so far guided 4 students under him for their Ph.D thesis. He has been also involved in popularizing Mathematics among the rural school students and giving several popular lectures for school and college students in different places of Assam as well as in other parts of the country. He has been visiting USA, France, Italy, Netherlands, China, UK for giving invited talks at different institutions.

He is a member of the editorial boards of the Mathematical Forum, the Departmental Journal of Mathematics and also the guest editor of Studies in Micro-Economics, SAGE, Special issue on Game Theory and its Applications to Social and Economic Networks.