Abhirup Das Barman received the bachelors degree (B.Tech) in Electronics & Communication Engineering (ECE) from the Institute of Radio Physics & Electronics (IRPE), Calcutta Univ. and master degree (M.Tech.) in Electrical Engineering (EE) from IIT Kanpur and Ph.d from IRPE, Calcutta Univ. He worked few years in Indian Broadcasting Engineering Service (IES), Government of India in the areas of Satellite Communications, Digital Terrestrial Transmission (DTT), etc. Then he joined as a faculty in the Dept. of Radio Physics & Electronics, Univ. of Calcutta. Presently he is a Professor in this Department. In 2007 and 2009 he worked as a visiting researcher at the CNIT Photonic Networks National Laboratory, Pisa, Italy. In 2010-11 he worked as a researcher in Aalborg University, Denmark in the Dept. of Electronic Systems. In 2015 he worked as a visiting researcher at Limerick University Ireland, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering