1. Prof. (Dr.) M.K.Ghose, a former Senior Scientist of Indian Space Research Organisation, Department of
Space, Govt. of India joined the Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology as and Professor and Head of the
Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Majitar,
Sikkim, India in June, 2006. As Professor & Head of CSE Department, Dr. Ghose has expanded the scope of
the department by starting M. Tech in CSE, One year PG Diploma course in Geo-Informatics, restarting BCA
course and recently started Dual Degree MCA.
In addition to his assigned responsibilities as HOD, Dr. Ghose was in additional charge of Dean (R & D) during
June 2010 to July 20132014 and negotiated and brought many sponsored
projects for himself as well as the institute. He had also carried out additional responsibilities of Head, SMU-IT
as overall in-charge of System Network, Internet, WiFi connectivity etc. of the entire university for the period
June 2008 to June 2010.
The present position of Dr. Ghose at SMIT since July 2014 is Dean (Academics).
During his tenure at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, ISRO, Trivandrum for the period from Sep 1981 to Dec
1994, he had contributed in the areas of Mission simulation & performance analysis and Quality & Reliability
Analysis of ISRO Launch vehicles and Satellite systems. During Dec 1994 to June 2006, he worked at Regional
Remote Sensing Service Centre, ISRO, IIT Campus, Kharagpur in the areas of RS & GIS techniques for the
natural resources management. He was also associated with Assam Central University, Silchar as COE and
HOD of Computer Science Department (1997-2000) and Regional Engg. College (NIT), Silchar (1979 – 1981)
as Teaching Asst.
His areas of research interest are Data Mining, Simulation & Modeling, Network, Sensor Network, Information
Security, Optimization & Genetic Algorithm, Digital Image processing, Remote Sensing & GIS and Software
Engineering. Dr. Ghose chaired a number of national/international conference sessions. He has conducted quite
a number of Seminars, Workshop and Training programs in the above areas and published 249 research papers
in various national and international journals of repute and presented/ published in several international/
national conferences. Till date, he has produced 8 Ph.Ds and 2 theses are under evaluation. Presently 8 scholars
are pursuing Ph.D work under his guidance. He is having 8 sponsored projects worth of 1 crore. Dr Ghose also
served as technical consultant to various reputed organizations like IIT, Chennai, IIT Kharagpur, WRI, Trichy,
SCIMST, KELTRON, HLL, Trivandrum.
He can be reached at mrinal.ghose@smu.edu.in; deanacad.smit@gmail.com