Bikash Kumar Dey received the B.E. degree in electronics and
telecommunication engineering from Bengal Engineering College, Howrah, India, in1996, the M.E. degree in signal processing from the Indian Institute of Science,Karnataka, India, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical communication
engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, in 2003. From August 1996 to
June 1997, he worked with the Wipro Infotech Global R&D. In February 2003, he
joined Hellosoft India Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, India, as a Technical Member. In
June 2003, he joined the International Institute of Information Technology,
Hyderabad, India, as Assistant Professor. In May 2005, he joined the Department
of Electrical Engineering of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai,
India, where he is currently a Professor. His research interests include
information theory, coding theory, and wireless communications. Dr. Dey was
awarded the Prof. I.S.N. Murthy Medal from IISc as the best M.E. student in the
Department of Electrical Communication Engineering and Electrical Engineering
for 1998-1999 and Alumni Medal for the best Ph.D. thesis in the Division of
Electrical Sciences for 2003-2004.