Nitya L. Karmakar earned his BSc (Hons), L.L.B, MSc and PhD. degrees in India. He obtained his Master of Computing-Information Technology (M.Comp-IT) from the University of Western Sydney, Nepean; Graduate Diploma in Adult Education (GradDipAdultEd), Master of Science in Computing (M.Sc) and Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
Dr Karmakar has had different senior roles in relation to teaching, research and academic governance at a number of institutions of higher education globally including King's Own Institute(KOI), Sydney.Dr. Karmakar had been visiting Professor of Information Systems in the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Canada and at the International College of Business and Technology Colombo. He had worked as post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Kiel, Germany, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, DESY, University of Hamburg, Germany, European Council of Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, U.S.A and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Trieste Italy.
He is regularly invited as a speaker and participated in seminars and workshops in various countries such as Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey, and Russia. He has published widely in journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Karmakar has been examiner for PhD theses on several occasions from Indian and European universities and acted as reviewer and committee member for a few US, Canada, India & Europe based international conferences.