Prof Babu Sena Paul received his BTech and MTech degrees in Radiophysics and Electronics from the University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India, in 1999 and 2003. He was with Philips India Ltd from 1999-2000. From 2000-2002 he worked as lecturer at the Electronics and Communication Engineering Department at SMIT, Sikkim, India. He received his PhD from the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati India.
Prof Paul has published over 60 research papers through international and national conferences, symposiums and peer-reviewed journals. He has supervised numerous postgraduate students and post-doctoral research fellows. He joined the University of Johannesburg in 2010. He was Head of Department at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technology, University of Johannesburg from 2015 to 2018. He is currently Associate Professor and Director at the Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Johannesburg. He was awarded the IETE Research Fellowship and is a life member of IETE and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).