He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Aerospace Engineering in coordinated science lab of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with Cedric Langbort. He holds a PhD in Electromechanical Engineering (model predictive control) under the supervision of Robin De Keyser at Ghent University and under the advise of Jan Maciejowski as a Junior member of Wolfson College Cambridge. Dr. Dutta received MSc with distinction from the University of Edinburgh including an informatics prize for outstanding thesis.