Debasis Mitra Scientist

Debasis Mitra (born November 3, 1944 in Calcutta) is an Indian mathematician, known for his numerous contributions to the theory of communication systems, control theory and queueing theory.He got his B.Sc. (1964) and Ph.D. (1968) in electrical engineering from University of London, on an Atomic Energy Research fellowship (1965-67), as well as being affiliated with the Control systems center at the University of Manchester. His work focused on control of nuclear power systems.He then joined Bell Labs as a member of the technical staff (1968), working on semiconductor networks, diffusion models for service adoption andtraffic modeling. Mitra was head of Mathematics of Networks and Systems research division (1986-99), and was vice president of the math and algorithmic science center. Mitra has served as editor and as part of the editorial board of numerous scientific publications, and was visiting professor at University of California (1984). Mitra retired from Bell Labs in 2013 and joined the Columbia University Electrical Engineering department. He holds ten patents.