Dr. Datta is the former founding Senior VP for the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and Senior VP at the Object Management Group (OMG). His engagement with the MDPnP Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School is aimed at convergence of medical device interoperability with security and emerging tools from medical CPS and medical IoT. He has authored papers and articles related to evolution of the industrial internet (2003), intelligent software agents (2001), framework for predictive analytics, operations and supply chain management, sensors in healthcare platforms, renewable energy and various forms of digital transformation. He has served as advisor for corporations and governments including US Dept of Defense, UN, World Customs Organization, President’s Science and Technology Advisory Group (STAG) for the President of Taiwan. Dr Datta attended the University of Pittsburgh and earned his PhD from Rutgers University School of Medicine in collaboration with Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University.

He was a Research Fellow in Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He was a Research Associate at the Whitehead Institute at MIT and member of the MIT Human Genome Project. He was a Research Scientist at the University of California UCSF School of Medicine at San Francisco. Dr Datta has served the public sector to improve education and technology as Special Assistant to the City & County of San Francisco; Science Education Partnership at UCSF School of Medicine; Berkeley Pledge initiative at the University of California, Berkeley and Chair, National Task Force on Education, Workforce and Technology sponsored by ITAA, US Dept of Commerce and The White House Council of Economic Advisers.