Rajat Kumar Pal received the BE degree in electrical engineering from Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur, under the University of Calcutta, India, the MTech degree in computer science and engineering from the University of Calcutta, India, in 1985 and 1988, respectively, and the PhD degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, in 1996. Since 1994, he has been as a faculty with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Calcutta. He took a leave of absence to become professor with the Department of Information Technology, Assam University, India from 2010 to 2012. Presently, he is working as a professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Calcutta, India. His major research interests include VLSI design, graph theory and its applications, perfect graphs, logic synthesis, design and analysis of algorithms, computational geometry, and parallel computation and algorithms. He has published nearly 200 research articles, and has authored and co-authored two books. He also holds several international patents. He is a member of the IEEE