Paramartha Dutta did his Bachelors and Masters in Statistics from the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta in the years 1988 and 1990 respectively. He afterwards completed his Master of Technology in Computer science from the same Institute in the year 1993 and Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering from the Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur in 2005 respectively. He has served in the capacity of research personnel in various projects funded by Govt. of India, which include Defence Research and Development Organization, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta etc.
Dr. Dutta is now a Professor in the Department of Computer and System Sciences of the Visva Bharati University, West Bengal, India. Prior to this, he served Kalyani Government Engineering College and College of Engineering and Management, Kolaghat, both in West Bengal as full time faculty members. Apart from this, he has remained associated to The National Institute of Management, Calcutta, Department of Statistics of The University of Calcutta, Department of Computer Science and Technology of The Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India, as well as Department of Computer Science and Engineering of The University of Tripura, India either as a Guest Faculty member from time to time. Dr. Dutta has been involved as the principal investigator funded by the All India Council for Technical Education, Govt. of India and Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. He has coauthored six books and has also four edited book to his credit. He has published about 160 papers in various journals and conference proceedings, both international and national. Presently, he is supervising four students for their Ph. D programme registered with Visva Bharati University and West Bengal University of Technology, apart from three who have earned their Ph. D already.
Dr. Dutta is a Life Fellow of the Optical Society of India (OSI), Life Member of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (OSI), Computer Society of India (CSI), Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Indian Unit of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IUPRAI) - the Indian affiliate of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), Member of Associated Computing Machinery (ACM), IEEE, Computer Society, USA.