Soumitro Banerjee has been at the Indian Institute of Technology, in the Department of Electrical Engineering since 1985. He currently teaches courses on ‘Dynamics of Physical Systems’, ‘Signals and Networks’, ‘Energy Resources and Technology’, ‘Fractals, Chaos and Dynamical Systems’ and ‘Nonconventional Electrical Power Generation’. His research interests include bifurcation theory and chaos, and he has written and co-written over 43 papers on these subjects.