Born in 1961 in Chandannagar (a former French colony) in the state of West Bengal, Prof. Dipankar Pal had his early education there. He stood 2^nd in order of merit in his school leaving Board examination in 1977 and received national scholarship (Govt. of India) which he continued to get throughout, till his graduation. After completing his Higher Secondary in 1979, he joined IIT Delhi and did his graduation in Electrical Engineering in 1984. Prof. Pal completed his PhD in electronics in 1997 from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, working in the area of analog and mixed mode circuits and their digital control and tunability. He did his post doctoral research in the University College London (2002, 2007-08) and University of Bath, UK (2003-05) where he worked on wet-electronics, analog VLSI and ASIC with particular emphasis on current-mode circuits, biomedical and low power, low frequency applications.

Prof. Pal started his career in 1984 at the Central Research & Training Laboratories a unit of NCSM (under Ministry of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India) and was appointed Project Coordinator of Regional Science Centre, Bhopal from October 1990 till early part of 1998. Under his overall stewardship the Regional Science Cente, Bhopal was completed and inaugurated by the President of India in 1995. He left Central Research & Training Laboratories to join BIT Mesra as an Associate Professor in July 1998 where he became a Professor soon and headed the VLSI Research Group in the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering during the period from 2006 to 2008. Professor Pal was the Principal of Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College, Durgapur for about 2 years between 2008-end and mid-2011, when he went to the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information & Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, as Professor.

Prof. Pal has guided a number of PhD’s and has over 50 publications in peer reviewed international and national journals and conferences. He was selected for UKIERI Fellowship (2007-08), EPSRC (UK) Post Doctoral Fellowship (2003-06), INSA-Royal Society (UK) Post Doctoral Fellowship (2002), SICI-DFAIT (Govt. of Canada) Faculty Research Fellowship (2000), Nehru-Trust for Cambridge University Small Studies & Research Grant (1997-98) and Nehru-Trust for Cambridge University Visiting Fellowship (1997-98).   

Prof. Pal joined the North Eastern Regional Institute of Science & Technology (NERIST) as Director on 24 October 2011.