Amitava De completed his B. Eng degree from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST, formerly known as B E College), Shibpur and M. Tech and Ph.D. degrees from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur in 1989, 1991 and 1996, respectivel. Later, he has spent around two years at the Institute of Joining and Coating Technology, Technical University (TU) Berlin, Germany under DAAD fellowship. He joined Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay as an assistant professor in May'1998 and continued his career there to become associate professor and professor in 2005 and 2009, respectively. His research area includes joining science and technology, additive manufacturing and numerical process modelling. He has been the Dean of Academic Programmes at IIT Bombay from 2017 to 2021 and also served in several departmental and Institutional committees in India and abroad. He has been invited to deliver keynote lectures at several national and International conferences. He is currently serving as the key / principle reviewer, associate editor and editor for a few key journals in the broad subject area of joining science and technology, and, metal additive manufacturing.