Dr. Dipak Kumar Basu received his B. E. Tel. E., M. E. Tel., and Ph.D. (Engg.) degrees from Jadavpur University (JU), in 1964, 1966, and 1969, respectively. Dr. Basu has been a faculty member of JU since 1968 and he was the founder and Head of the Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) Department of JU, which was formed in the year 1988. He was also nominated for an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation post-doctoral fellowship in 1974. His long illustrious academic career includes his active participation and leadership in several innovative research and developmental activities. He was a member of the team that built ISIJU-I, an indigenously designed second-generation computer, which was commissioned in 1966 at JU. He was the Principal Investigator of a Govt. of India, funded project for developing infrastructure for transmission of ECG signal of a patient at any remote health center to P.G. Hospital, Kolkata. The main objective of this project was to provide state-of-the-art treatment by expert medical practitioners to the patients at a remote health center, which lacked proper medical facilities. He was the key person in setting up of a Centre for training personnel in developing Microprocessor based applications at JU in 1983 with a funding from M.H.R.D., Govt. of India. He has also given leadership in spreading computer education in schools. After his retirement in 2008, he was nominated as an A.I.C.T.E. Emeritus Fellow at the CSE Department of JU. He has published numerous research articles in internationally reputed journals and conferences in the fields of pattern recognition, image processing, multimedia systems etc. He has two US patents, published two popular text books and supervised 17 Ph.D. students in his illustrious career. He is a life senior member of the IEEE, U.S.A., Fellow of I.E. (India) and Fellow of W.B.A.S.T., Kolkata, India.