Tarun Kanti Bhattacharyya is the Head of the Department. He has rich academic and industrial experience of more than 30 years. He has more than 200 publications in international journals and conferences and 8 patents in his name.  His focus on the development of sustainable technologies and technology transfer. Heading four groups under the multidisciplinary aegis which are as follows : 

The VLSI group is hosted at world-class laboratory having state of art facilities and advanced VLSI lab. This also includes state of art VLSI test laboratory developed in collaboration with Keysight Technologies. The nano-bio group focuses on nanosensors, chemical
sensing, disease detection at an early level and drug delivery devices. This group has won several awards including the DST Lockheed Martin Innovation Award 2016. The third one being the high-performance device lab which has state of the art multicluster MBE systems. The fourth group focuses on the development of MEMS-based sensors and actuators for aerospace applications. Group members include 15 research scholars.