He is a program faculty in the Center for Imaging Sciences at RIT and a member of the Center for Coherence and Quantum Optics at the University of Rochester. Dr. Bhattacharya received the B.Tech degree in Engineering Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and the PhD degree from the University of Rochester. He held postdoctoral positions at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Arizona, and the University of Maryland, College Park, before joining RIT in 2011. Dr. Bhattacharya teaches freshman mechanics, modern physics, quantum mechanics and quantum optics. He reviews regularly for journals such as Physical Review Letters, the Journal of Physics B, and the American Journal of Physics.