Dr. Biplab K Datta is a mechanical engineer and has very wide industrial experience across various sectors of industry in India. He was an assistant professor at ISM (now IIT), Dhanbad, India before moving to Norway being invited to join Tel-Tek (Now SINTEFF) at Porsgrunn. In Norway, he worked with applied research in the field of powder technology and developing technology for process industry. He was also teaching at HiT (now University of South Norway) as a professor in powder technology. During his tenure at Porsgrunn, he collaborated with oil and gas sector industries for new technology development. Dr. Datta has been an inventor in three patents in collaborative innovation work with companies like National Oilwell, Statoil (Equinor), Rolls Royce Marine, etc. He has several publications in international peer reviewed journals and conferences. As a program manager at Kongsberg Devotek, Dr. Datta has managed several multi-discipline technology development (often with revolutionary technology) projects for the oil and seismic sectors industries (for customers like Statoil (Equinor), Hydro Oil & Gas, Fugro, etc.) from concept development to commercialization, which has resulted in several patents also. The author had the privilege of leading a few game-changing technology development projects related to subsea electrification in Norway for the oil industry and automatization for the seismic industry. Autonomous snow plough machine (now commercially available in Norway) started as a student project developing the concept under the author’s management. Dr. Datta has also worked as the head of Patent and Innovation in a patent company in Norway.Dr. Datta is currently working as the director for Innovation at NILU (Norwegian Institute for Air Research) in Norway. Dr Datta is a 'Standards Norway' expert member of Norwegian National Committee for Innovation Management. He is also a member of Norwegian National Committee for the investigation of misconduct in research.
