1. Soumitro Banerjee is known for his studies on bifurcation phenomena in power electronic circuits and is an elected fellow of all three major Indian science academies: the National Academy of Sciences, India, Indian Academy of Sciences, and Indian National Science Academy.
Soumitro Banerjee is a fellow of The World Academy of Sciences, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, West Bengal Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Academy of Engineering.
Soumitro Banerjee, born on 17 October 1960 at Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal, did his graduate studies at Bengal Engineering College of the University of Calcutta from where he earned a BE degree in electrical engineering in 1981 and moved to the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi to gain an MTech in Energy Studies in 1983.
Soumitro Banerjee served IIT Kharagpur till 2009 during which period held the positions of an assistant professor, associate professor and a professor.
Soumitro Banerjee worked on hybrid dynamical systems such as switching electronic circuits and mechanical systems showing impacts or stick-slip phenomenon and demonstrated border-collision bifurcation, a mode of dynamical transition, occurring in those systems.
Soumitro Banerjee developed a mathematical theory for elucidating these bifurcations and his studies are known to be in use in various applications.
Soumitro Banerjee has worked extensively on nonlinear phenomena in power electronics.
Soumitro Banerjee has documented his researches by way of several articles; Google Scholar and ResearchGate, online article repositories of scientific articles, have listed many of them.
Soumitro Banerjee has edited a book, Nonlinear Phenomena in Power Electronics: Bifurcations, Chaos, Control, and Applications, in which he has written a number of chapters.
Soumitro Banerjee's efforts have been reported in the initiation of the National Conference on Nonlinear Systems and Dynamics and he served as the convenor of the inaugural conference held at IIT Kharagpur campus in December 2003.
Soumitro Banerjee is the general secretary of Breakthrough Science Society, a non-governmental organization for the popularization of science and sits in the editorial board of its journal.
Soumitro Banerjee is the editor of Prakriti, a Bengali language science magazine.
Soumitro Banerjee received the Boyscast Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology in 1996 which enabled him to carry out collaborative research at the University of Maryland.
Soumitro Banerjee featured in the 2011 fellowship list of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology and the elected fellowship of The World Academy of Sciences reached him in 2012, followed by fellowships of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2013 and the National Academy of Sciences, India in 2014.