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{{Infobox scientist
|name = Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri
|native_name = {{lang-bn|বিদ্যুৎ বরণ চৌধুরী}}
|image = Bbc2015.jpg
|caption = Chaudhuri in [[Indian Statistical Institute|ISI]] at his Office, 2015
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1950|12|7}}
|residence = [[Baranagar]], [[Kolkata]], [[India]]
|nationality = [[Indian people|Indian]]
|field = [[computer science|Computer Science]]
|work_institution = [[Indian Statistical Institute]]
|alma_mater = [[University of Calcutta]] [[Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur]]
|doctoral_advisor =
|doctoral_students =
|known_for = [[Optical Character Recognition]] [[Computer Vision]] [[Pattern Recognition]] [[Natural Language Processing]]
|website = {{URL|http://www.isical.ac.in/~bbc/}}
|prizes = [[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers|IEEE]] Life Fellow (2016), [[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers|IEEE]] Fellow (2001), [[International Association for Pattern Recognition|IAPR]] Fellow (1998), [[The World Academy of Science|TWAS]] Fellow (2011), [[Om Prakash Bhasin Award]] (2011)
}}
'''Bidyut Baran Chaudhuri''' ('''B. B. Chauduri''') is a senior [[computer scientist]] and the pro-vice-chancellor (academic) of [[Techno India University]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]. He is also adjuncted to [[Indian Statistical Institute]] (ISI), where he was a Professor for about three decades.
He was the founding Head of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit (which was established in 1994) of [[Indian Statistical Institute|ISI]]. Moreover, he was a J.C. Bose Fellow and [[Indian National Academy of Engineering|INAE]]<ref name=inae1>{{cite web|title=INAE Expert Pool|url=http://expert.inae.in/index.php/bidyut-baran-chawdhuri|publisher=INAE|accessdate=20 November 2018}}</ref> Distinguished Professor at [[Indian Statistical Institute|ISI]].

He was the Vice-President of the Society for Natural Language Technology Research (SNLTR).<ref>{{cite web|title=Society for Natural Language Technology Research|url=http://www.nltr.org/|publisher=NLTR|accessdate=20 November 2018}}</ref>

His primary research contributes to the fields of computer vision, image processing and pattern recognition.<ref name=ieee2>{{cite web|title=IEEE Life Fellow Dictionary|publisher=IEEE|url=https://services27.ieee.org/fellowsdirectory/getdetailprofile.html?custNum=wuV%2FRGDgNqLkDSNuwOHoig%3D%3D&bccaptions=Chronological&bclocations=%2Ffellowsdirectory%2FmenuCHRONOLOGICAL.html%3FbeginYr%3D2001%26endYr%3D2001|accessdate=20 November 2018}}</ref>
He is a pioneer of "[[Languages of India|Indian language]] script [[Optical Character Recognition|OCR]]".<ref name=ieee2/>

==Education==
Chaudhuri received his BSc (Hons.), BTech and MTech degrees from [[University of Calcutta]], India in 1969, 1972 and 1974, respectively and PhD Degree from [[Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur]] in 1980.<ref name=inae1/> He did his Post-Doc work during 1981-82 from [[Queen's University Belfast|Queen's University]], U.K, through [[Leverhulme Trust|Leverhulme Overseas Fellowship]].

==Awards and recognition==
Chaudhuri has been elected as a Life Fellow of [[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers|IEEE]] "for contributions to pattern recognition, especially Indian language script OCR, document processing and natural language processing".<ref name=ieee2/><ref name=ieee1>{{cite web|title=IEEE Fellows in IEEE Region 10 Kolkata Section|publisher=IEEE|url=http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/calcutta/ieee_fellows.html|accessdate=20 November 2018}}</ref>
He has become a Fellow of [[IAPR|International Association for Pattern Recognition]] (IAPR) "for contributions to character recognition and speech synthesis in Indian language".<ref name=iapr1>{{cite web|title=IAPR Fellows|url=http://www.iapr.org/fellowsandawards/?ar=2#1998|publisher=IAPR|accessdate=20 November 2018}}</ref>
He is also Fellow of [[The World Academy of Science]] (TWAS),<ref name=twas1>{{cite web|title=TWAS Fellow|url=http://twas.org/member/chaudhuri-bidyut-baran|publisher=TWAS|accessdate=20 November 2018}}</ref>
[[Indian National Science Academy]] (INSA),<ref>{{cite web|title=INSA Fellow|url=http://insaindia.org/detail.php?id=P07-1431|publisher=INSA|accessdate=20 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304121316/http://insaindia.org/detail.php?id=P07-1431|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Indian National Academy of Engineering]] (INAE),<ref name="inae1"/> [[The National Academy of Sciences, India|National Academy of Sciences]] (NASI),<ref>{{cite web|publisher=NASI|title=NASI Fellows|url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=C|accessdate=20 January 2016|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315111634/http://nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=C|archivedate=15 March 2016}}</ref>
and [[IETE|Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering]] (IETE).
In 2011, Chaudhuri received the [[Om Prakash Bhasin Award]] for his contribution in the field of electronics and information technology.

Chaudhuri's interview on some of his works has been reported in Indian newspaper as well.<ref>{{cite news|author=The Telegraph|title= The Telegraph, India, Jan 29, 2004|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/a-script-on-his-keyboard/cid/1260303|accessdate=20 November 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|agency=TNN|author=Jayanta Gupta|work=[[The Times of India]]|date=21 August 2013|title=Now, software to decode Tagore's handwriting|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Now-software-to-decode-Tagores-handwriting/articleshow/21946189.cms|accessdate=20 November 2018}}</ref>

He is within World's Top 2% Scientists and Top-10 Indian [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] Scientists according to a study conducted by [[Stanford University]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Ioannidis J.P.A., Boyack K.W., Baas J.|title=Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators. PLoS Biol 18(10): e3000918, 2020.|doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918 |url=https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://www.isical.ac.in/~bbc/ ISI Official Homepage (old)]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304121316/http://insaindia.org/detail.php?id=P07-1431 INSA]
*[https://www.amazon.in/s/ref=sr_gnr_fkmr0?rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Abidyut+chaudhuri&keywords=bidyut+chaudhuri&ie=UTF8&qid=1450698577 Books at Amazon]
*[http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/c/Chaudhuri:Bidyut_Baran Publications from DBLP]

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