Deepanwita Datta

Assistant Professor

deepanwitad@iimsambalpur.ac.in

Deepanwita Datta

Dr Deepanwita Datta is currently an Assistant Professor in Information System Management at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Sambalpur. Prior to that, she was a full-time faculty in Computer Science and Engineering at Wrexham Glyndwr University, UK. Her areas of expertise include Data Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning and Image Retrieval with a special focus on Data Analysis and Text Analysis. With more than seven years of experience in academia, her skill set includes professional-level data engineering and data management. Previously she was working as a Research Fellow (Data Mining & AI) at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. There she was involved in an Innovate UK project where her goal was to develop machine learning models for cost and budget prediction for partners like Network Rail, Highways England, and Transport for London (TfL) among others. She has been conferred the prestigious ERCIM-Alain Bensoussan Fellowship for postdoctoral research at NTNU, Norway. She has also been a visiting scientist at VTT, Finland. She holds a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), India.