On March 21, 2021, Dutta was presented the award during a socially distant ceremony in Rourkela, India. The ceremony was presided by the India President Shri Ram Nath Kovind.

Dutta earned his bachelor’s (‘85) in electrical engineering from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India, his master’s (‘90) in computer science from New Jersey Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. (‘10) in electrical engineering from Columbia University.

Dutta, a senior scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, was appointed as chair of Engineering for Professionals’ Electrical and Computer Engineering program, on July 1, 2020. He was also named an IEEE Fellow on January 1, 2020.