Sushanta Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya, CBE (born 6 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi-born Indian British engineer, educator and government advisor. He was born in Dhaka (then part of British-India, now capital of Bangladesh). His father was a professor of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Bhattacharyya studied at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and the University of Birmingham where he attained an MSc in Engineering Production and Management and a PhD in Engineering Production.
In 1980 he became Professor of Manufacturing Systems at the University of Warwick and founded the Warwick Manufacturing Group. He has been Director of the Warwick Manufacturing Group, now rebranded as WMG, since its inception. WMG is focused on research, education and innovation in collaboration with private and public sector organisations in the UK and internationally
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