Dipankar Banerjee (metallurgist)

Dipankar Banerjee (born 15 February 1952) is an Indian physical metallurgist, materials engineer and a former chief controller of R&D at the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO).

[4] After gaining a master's degree, he pursued his doctoral studies at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) to earn a PhD in 1979.

[5] He became the director of DMRL in 1996 and held the position until 2003 when he was appointed as the chief controller of research and development of DRDO, overseeing the aeronautical and materials programs of the organization.

[10] The memberships of the board of governors of Mishra Dhatu Nigam and the strategic advisory committee of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America were some of his other past assignments.

[17] He received the Superconductivity Prize of the Materials Research Society of India in 2001,[18] followed by the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2003.