Subhashis’ primary areas of research are computer vision and machine learning, with a special emphasis on geometric algorithms. He has been on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Computer Vision and Computers and Graphics, and has published in leading journals and conferences. He has also worked extensively on design of computing and networking infrastructure and IT services and in developing the supercomputing infrastructure at IIT Delhi, which is one of the largest in the country. He has been an academic visitor to several universities and research laboratories all over the world.

Recently he has also developed an interest in policy issues in digitalisation and society, including digital identity, electronic voting, data and privacy protection, and fairness and reliability of machine learning algorithms.

Subhashis graduated in electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University in 1982 and did his Master’s and PhD from the Indian Institute of Science in 1984 and 1989 respectively.