Dr. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay is at present the Director of Indian Statistical Institute. She joined the Machine Intelligence Unit of the Institute as a faculty member in 1999, after completing her PhD from the same Institute. She is a recipient of several awards including the Bhatnagar Prize, Infosys award, TWAS Prize, DBT National Women Bioscientist Award (Young), JC Bose Fellowship, to mention a few. Her current research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, soft and evolutionary computation, pattern recognition, data mining and various other applications. More about Prof. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay at https://www.isical.ac.in/~sanghami/