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Board of Directors

The ones behind the scene.

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Swarup Dey, PhD

Director, Execution & Quality Assurance

Principal Scientist, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Albany, New York, USA

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Devika Kishnan, PhD

Director, Structure, Sysytem & Automation

Biomedical Engineer and Scientist, Germany

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Somnath Biswas, PhD

Director, Strategy & Development

Assistant Professor, TIFR Mumbai, India

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Nirmal Ch Dey

President & Trustee
Dhi-e Foundation Trust
Coochbehar, WB, India

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Kalpana Dey

Secretary & Treasurer

Dhi-e Foundation Trust
Coochbehar, WB, India

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Jadab Majhi, PhD

Director, Academic Affairs

Assistant Prof, IIT Dhanbad, India

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Sayan Banerjee, PhD

Director, Outreach, Research & Documentation

Product Engineer, Lam Research Corporation, USA

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Suvendu Karak, PhD

Ground Operations, Fundraising

Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Cambridge, UK

Teaching

Divided by Geography, United by the passion to nurture the future of India

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Abhik Manna, PhD

Teacher, English Proficiency (2025)

Post Doctoral Scholar, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

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Sangita Kundu, PhD

Teacher, English Proficiency (2026 - Current)

Postdoctoral Scholar,
University of Lyon, France

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Rupsa Manna

Teacher, English Proficiency (2026 - Current)

Accounting & Finance Professional, Kolkata, India

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Annonymous

Teacher, English Proficiency (2021 - Current)

High School Teacher, WB India

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Shouvik Dutta

Teacher, English Proficiency (2026 - Current)

Software Engineer, NY, USA

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Paramita Datta

Teacher, English Proficiency (2026 - Current)

Software Developer, NY, USA

Administration & Outreach

The administrative volunteers help in various crucial non-teaching works such as setting local classrooms, fundraising, grant writing, outreach, curriculum development etc.

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Saheli Dey

Manager, Operations & Outreach

BA Student, Haripal Vivekananda Mahavidyalaya, WB, India

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Pranab Santra

Digital Strategy Lead

UG Student of Computer Science & Engineering, SIST, Chennai, India

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Anup Dey

Creative Content Lead

UG Student of Political Science, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur Math, WB, India

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Dibyendu Mondal, PhD

Technical Consultant

Research Investigator, Incyte Corporation, USA

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Poushali De, MBBS, MD

Fundraising, Outreach

Assoc. Consultant, Dept. of Anaesthesiology, North Bengal Medical College, Siliguri, India

Local Moderators & Collaborators

The backbone of Dhi-e, Local Moderators are the ground volunteers who run logistics on ground. From managing local e-classrooms, help in ground outreach in their localities, and help students to wherever necessary. Our collaborators help us run ground logistics in places where Dhi-e does not have reach.

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Sanjay Mondal

Collaborator, Daspara Bihangam Welfare Soceity

Sagardwip, South 24-Parganas, WB, India

Officer, West Bengal Police

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Parag Kumar Maitra

Collaborator, Uddipan Educational Trust

Habra, North-24 Parganas, WB

Retired banker Governing Body member

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Parthasarathi Das

Local Moderator - Singur, Hooghly, WB

Art Teacher, Interior Decoration Artist

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Timir Pramanik

Local Moderator - Sagardwip, South 24 Pargana, West Bengal

Teacher, Rampushpa Muktabihanga Vidyalaya

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Tapasi Kar Kantha

Local Moderator - Jateshwar, Alipurduar

Housewife

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Shubojit Ghosh

Local Moderator -

Habra, North-24 Parganas, WB

Principal, Uddipan English Medium Primary School

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Raju Dutta

Local Moderator -

Habra, North-24 Parganas, WB

Teacher, Uddipan English Medium Primary School

Guests and past contributors

From sharing their research in a fun way in our "Practical Science Course", interacting with our students in English as part of the "Listening Podcast" progarm of the English Proficiency course to virtual course moderation - those who have provided their valuable time and support in various occassions.

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Tufan K. Mukhopadhyay

Content & social management (2023-24)

Wafer Assembly Front End Metrology Engineer, Intel, USA

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Pallavi Mitra

Teacher, English Proficiency (2025-26)

Algorithm Engineer, KLA, San Jose, USA

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Khemlal Nirmalkar

Lead, Dhi-e Hindi Division (2023-24)

Research Scientist, Arizona State University, USA

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Subhadip Senapati

English Proficiency Curriculum v1 Development (2024)

Sr. Researcher, Prayoga, Bengaluru, India

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Mahasish Shome, PhD

Teacher, English Proficiency Hindi (2024)

Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, USA

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Chetna Nirmalkar

Dhi-e core volunteer, Curriculum & Grading (2026)

B.Ed trainee, Sai College Institute Deurjhal, CG, India

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Mita Layek Chakraborty

Teacher, English Proficiency (2026)

IT professional, Albany, USA

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Andrew Bellinghiere

Guest, English Listening Podcast (2023)

PhD Scholar, Arizona State University, USA

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Late Soma Adhikari

Teacher, English Proficiency (2024-2025)
Thanks for your service.
See Obituary 

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Neelabja Chatterjee, PhD

Teacher, Quantitative Aptitude (2022-2024)
Asst. Prof., Dept of Mathematics,
NERIST, Arunachal Pradesh, India

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Jayita Patwari, PhD

Teacher, English Proficiency (2023-2025)
Deputy Editor, Physical Sciences, Wiley VCH, India

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Jay Shankar Sarkar, MTech

Teacher, Computer Coding (2023-2024)
Sr. Software Engineer,
Robert Bosch GmBH,
Coimbatore, India

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Dayita Saha, MS

Teacher, English Proficiency (2023-2024)

Product Support Specialist, Bruker Nano Analytics, USA

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Eshita Ghosh, MA

Teacher, English Proficiency (2023-2024)

University of North Bengal, Siliguri, India

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Samragni Banerjee, PhD

Teacher, English Proficiency (2021-24)

Quantum Chemistry Research, TCS Mumbai, India

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Ratnamala Mondal, PhD

Teacher, English Proficiency (2023-2024)

LTD Process Engineer, Intel Corporation, USA

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Sohini Mukherjee, PhD

Social Media Outreach (2023)

Sr. Scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim, USA

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Isabelle Tigges-Green

Guest speaker, English Listening Podcast, 2023

PhD Candidate, Princeton University, USA

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Di Liu, PhD

Guest, English Listening Podcast (2022)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Wyss Institute, Harvard Medical School, USA

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Bijoy Dey, PhD

Digital Infrastructure dev, Teacher (Financial Literacy-2022)

Postdoctoral Researcher, IISc Bangalore, India

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Santanu Singha, PhD

Guest Teacher, Practical Science (2022)

Postdoctroal Scholar, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, USA

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Imon Mondal, PhD

Teacher, Quantitative Aptitude (2022)

Postdoctroal Scholar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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Ankush Tyagi, MS - IIT Gandhinagar

Teacher, English Proficiency (Hindi division, 2023)

Field Application Scientist, NanoString Technology, USA

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Animesh Biswas, PhD

Teacher, Practical Science (2021-2022)

Sr. Scientist, Sygnature, UK

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Premashish Manna, PhD

Teacher, Practical Science (2022-Current)

Postdoctoral Scholar, Weizman Inst. of Science, Israel

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Leeza Abraham, MS

Guest, English Listening Podcast (2022)

Graduate Research Assistant, Arizona State University, USA

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Tomojit Chowdhury, PhD

Virtual course moderator (2021)

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago, USA

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Anupriya Biswas, M.Tech

Teacher, English Proficiency (2023)

IIT Kharahpur, India

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Shrabonti Bhowmick

Local moderator, Hooghly, WB (2022-2023)

B.Ed student, P.R.R.C.E

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