Subhasis Chaudhuri

Subhasis Chaudhuri (born 1963) is an India-based electrical engineer, computer vision researcher, academic administrator and corporate board member. He is the K. N. Bajaj Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), where he has been a member of the faculty since 1990. His research, primarily focused on solving ill-posed inverse problems, encompasses computer vision, image processing, machine learning and computational haptics, with contributions to depth estimation, image restoration and super-resolution, hyperspectral imaging, remote-sensing image analysis and haptic perception. He served as the Director of IIT Bombay from 2019 to 2024 and has been serving as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Limited since November 2024.

Over a career spanning research, teaching, and institutional leadership, Chaudhuri has worked across several areas of visual computing and signal processing. His academic honors include the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the Swarnajayanti Fellowship, the J. C. Bose National Fellowship, the G. D. Birla Award for Scientific Research and the NASI–Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Award. He is a Fellow of several national and international science and engineering academies and professional societies, and was elected a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) in 2025.