Basabi ChakrabortyBasabi Chakraborty received B.Tech, M.Tech and Ph. D degrees in RadioPhysics and Electronics from Calcutta University, India. She worked in National Center for Knowledge based Computing Systems and Technology affiliated to Indian Statistical Institut, Calcutta, India until 1990. From 1991 to 1993 she worked as a part time researcher in Advanced Intelligent Communication Systems Laboratory in Sendai, Japan. She received another Ph. D in Information Science from Tohoku University, Sendai in 1996. From 1996 to 1998, she worked as a post doctoral research fellow in Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Japan (under Telecommunication Advancement Organization (TAO) fellowship for a period of 10 months). In 1998 she joined as a faculty in Software and Information Science department of Iwate Prefectural University, Iwate, Japan and currently an Associate Professor in the same department. Her main research interests are in the area of Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, Soft Computing Techniques, Biometrics, Trust and Security in Computer Communication Network. She is a senior member of IEEE, member of ACM, Japanese Neural Network Society (JNNS) and Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), executive committee member of IUPRAI (Indian Unit of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence), IEEE JC WIE (Women In Engineering) and ISAJ (Indian Scientists Association in Japan). Read More Read Less