Debasish Dutta
Debasish "Deba" Dutta is an American mechanical engineer and higher education administrator. He is currently senior advisor to the president of the University of Illinois System and, effective February 17, 2024, is serving as interim executive director of the Discovery Partners Institute.
Dutta has held various leadership positions, both at large public research universities and smaller regional institutions. He has served as Chancellor at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, at University of Michigan-Flint as Chancellor, as Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs and Diversity at Purdue University, and as Associate Provost and Dean of the Graduate College at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He was Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Rutgers University—New Brunswick and Edward and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dutta is an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
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