Dr. Mrinal Kanti Bhowmik received his Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree with Distinction and Master of Technology (M.Tech.) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Tripura Engineering College, Govt. of Tripura (Now, National Institute of Technology Agaratala (NITA)), in 2004 and from Tripura University (A Central University), India in 2007 respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, in 2014.

From 7th January, 2008 to 14th July, 2010 he served as Lecturer (on contract) in Computer Science & Engineering Department of Tripura University and since 15th July, 2010, he has been serving as an Assistant Professor in the same department. He has around 80 research publications. Some of his research works are published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (Impact Factor: 4.046), IEEE Journal of Biomedical & Health Informatics (Impact Factor: 4.217), IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (Impact Factor: 7.816), Expert Systems with Applications (Elsevier, Impact Factor: 4.292), Image and Vision Computing (Elsevier, Impact Factor: 2.747), SPIE Journal of Optical Engineering (Impact Factor: 1.209), Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in Medicine (Springer, Impact Factor: 1.000), Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering (Elsevier, Impact Factor: 2.159), Infrared Physics and Technology(Impact Factor: 2.313), Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer, Impact Factor: 2.101) etc.

Some of his research papers are also published/ accepted in Tier 2 Conference Proceedings such as 25th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2018) and 26th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2019).

Dr. Bhowmik has received Rs. 2.02 Crores of research grant from various government authorities like MeitY, DBT, ICMR, DRDO, SAMEER etc. Till date he has successfully completed five research projects. Besides, for presenting his research works, Dr. Bhowmik has received several international travel grants from various government agencies like Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), All India Council for Technical Council (AICTE), SERC Division: ITS Section of Department of Science & Technology (DST), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Centre for Co-operation in Science & Technology among Developing Societies (CCSTDS) etc.

He has selected for Short Term Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-Department of Health Research (DHR) International Fellowship 2019-2020 as a Senior Indian Biomedical Scientists for bilateral cooperation in cross-disciplinary research area (i.e. biomedical diagnostic and inferencing system).

He has supervised M.Tech thesis of 34 master students till 2019. Currently, he is guiding 4 (Four) Ph.D. scholars in Computer Science & Engineering Department of Tripura University and two of them are in the verge of Ph.D thesis submission.

He has been an active reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Journal of Biomedical & Health Informatics, SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging, Elsevier Journal of Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, Australasian Physical & Engineering Sciences in Medicine (APES) Springer, IET Biometrics, IET Image processing, SPIE Journal of Optical Engineering.

He has been an IEEE Senior member (10th September, 2016), a member of SPIE, ACM. For attending international conferences, he has made international visits to Florida USA; Kean University, New Jersy; New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), Italy and Athens, Greece etc. and also made international collaboration with New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), Manhattan, New York. His research interests includes image/ video processing, data science, face recognition, computer vision, information security, medical imaging, infrared imaging, etc.