Parimal Pal Chaudhuri received a B.E. degree in electrical engineering
in 1963 from Bengal Engineering College,
Sibpur - one of the oldest pioneering engineering institutes in India.
From 1963 to 1975 he was associated with IBM
World Trade Corporation in various capacities. Subsequently, he switched
over to academia and started his career at Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. In 1979 he received his Ph.D.degree.
He took a leading role at the Institute in establishing the undergraduate
and research programs in Computer Science and Engineering. He was also
closely associated with the growth of computer education in various institutions
in India. From 1984 to 1985 he was Director of Regional Computer Centre,Calcutta.
During the period of 1986-88 he was the Head of the IIT Computer Science
and Engineering Department. In 1991-92 he was a Visiting Professor at the
University of Illinois. Urbana-Champaign.
USA. for one semester and subsequently he worked for Cadence
Design Systems (India) as a Technical Adviser. During the early 1980s
he initiated a full scale research thrust and established an excellent
research base at IIT Kharagpur in the field of VLSI design and testing.
Since the late 1980s he has pioneered the study of the homogeneous structure
of Cellular Automata (CA) and developed matrix algebric tools in GF(2)
to completely characterize the autonomous sequential structure of CA machines.
He subsequently applied this theory to develop a wide variety of applications
in deverse fields. He has published more than one hundred reserch papers
in international journals and conference proceedings. His book ( coauthored
with his research students) entitled " Additive
Cellular Automata Theory and Applications Volume 1" cover the major
results of his research group in this field. He has also authored the book
"Computer Organization and Design", a textbook for undergraduate and graduate
level courses published by Prentice Hall of India in 1994. In November
1996 he was invited by Intel Corporation,
USA as a Visiting Faculty. He workd at Intel research labs at Portland,
Oregon, USA till the end of 1997. On his return he joined his Alma Mater
- Bengal Engineering College (an autonomous engineering university). His
research group at B E College has been developing the theory of GF(2**p)
CA and its applications in a wide variety of fields including simulation
of physical systems.