Nandini Mukherjee

Nandini Mukhopadhyay
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Professor, Politician

Nandini Mukherjee or Nandini Mukhopadhyay is an Indian computer scientist and politician. She is a Professor of Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. She has a PhD from the University of Manchester, UK, with research in the fields of Parallel Computing, Grid Computing and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN).

Mukherjee contested from the South Kolkata Lok Sabha Constituency as the Left Front Nominated CPI(M) candidate in Parliamentary Elections. She was involved with the Students' Federation of India in her college days. Later on she associated with the movement for self-reliance in Science and Technology through the Forum of Scientists, Engineers and Technologists (FOSET) and the Vigyan Mancha.

She is Secretary of the West Bengal Free Software Mancha (FSMWB). She is active in the All India Democratic Women's Association(AIDWA), and is a state Secretariat Member of the All India Peace and Solidarity Organisation (AIPSO). In 2011 she contested the by-elections from Bhawanipore Assembly constituency.

Education

Mukherjee took her Madhyamik examination from Kamala Girls' High School. She studied for her Higher Secondary examinations from Patha Bhavan School. She earned her Bachelor of Engineering Degree from the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur in 1987. She earned her Master of Engineering Degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, in 1991. In 1996 she was awarded the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship for her PhD from the University of Manchester, in the UK, finishing in 1999.^[1]

Teacher

Mukherjee began teaching in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Jadavpur University in 1992. As of 2016 she was the Director of the University's School of Mobile Computing^[2] while advising multiple PhD students.

Research

Mukherjee's PhD work was in parallel computing. In 2001 she went to Newcastle University to research high performance computing. She published over 80 research papers.^[3][4]

She supervised research projects funded by different agencies of the Government of India. Mukherjee leads a collaborative research project to investigate the application of mobile computing and wireless sensor networks to Indian rural health systems.

Social activities

Mukherjee became the State Secretary of the Free Software Mancha of West Bengal. She is Joint Secretary of the Jadavpur University Teachers' Association (JUTA) and an active member of the West Bengal College and University Teachers' Association (WBCUTA). She was an elected teacher's representative in the Executive Council of Jadavpur University. Mukherjee is involved in the All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA). She is a State Secretariat member of the All India Peace and Solidarity Organisation (AIPSO). She was the Left Front CPI(M) candidate in the Bhawanipore by-elections in 2011. She contested in the Lok Sabha election of 2014 from the South Kolkata Constituency as the Left Front Nominated CPI(M) candidate.^[5]

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