Dr. Chandranath Adak is a visiting fellow at FEIT, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), and an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna. Before that, he was an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science, Indian Institute of Information Technology Lucknow (IIITL). Prior to joining IIITL, he was an assistant professor at the Centre for Data Science, JIS Institute of Advanced Studies and Research, Kolkata, India. Previous to this, he was a researcher at CIBCI (Computational Intelligence & Brain-Computer Interface) Centre, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia.

He obtained his Ph.D. (Analytics) degree in May-2019 from UTS by carrying out the research under the supervision of Prof. Michael Blumenstein (principal), Prof. Bidyut B. Chaudhuri (co-), and Prof. C. T. Lin (co-). Prior to joining UTS, he was an HDR (Higher Degree Research) candidate at IIIS, School of ICT, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia. Previous to this, he worked as a research project-linked person at the CVPR Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, under the guidance of Prof. Bidyut B. Chaudhuri. Formerly, he completed his M.Tech. (2014) and B.Tech. (2012) studies from the University of Kalyani, India, and West Bengal University of Technology, India, respectively, both in Computer Science and Engineering.

His areas of interest are Computer Vision, Document Image Analysis, Data Science, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, and AI-related subjects.