Dr. Shamik Sengupta
Shamik Sengupta has been named chair of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). Sengupta holds engineering’s Ralph E. and Rose A. Hoeper Professorship and is the executive director of the UNR’s Cybersecurity Center.
Sengupta joined the UNR in 2013, coming from City University of New York, where he received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award in 2012. During his tenure in Reno, Sengupta has been the recipient of 12 NSF grants; the CSE Best Researcher award in 2016, 2018 and 2022; and Engineering’s Excellence Award in 2018.
Sengupta holds a Ph.D. from the University of Central Florida and a B.E. from Jadavpur University, India.
