Dr. Dutta has several years of professional and research experience in the field of enterprise IT infrastructure. Dr. Dutta's primary research interest is combining Operations Research principles with Computer Science systems knowledge to efficiently manage IT infrastructure. Dr. Dutta started his research career in middle-tier caching. He worked with a team of researchers and engineers to develop caching in application servers, which has now become a standard in all application servers. Dr. Dutta's research in caching has been published in  INFORMS Management Science, INFORMS Journal of Computing, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, European Journal of Operations Research, VLDB Journal and IEEE Transactions in Mobile Computing and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. For last few years, Dr. Dutta has worked on resource sharing for efficient management of IT infrastructure. In this area he has contributed in database storage management, grid computing scheduling, application server load balancing and sharing business controls. On resource sharing, Dr. Dutta has published articles in European Journal of Operations Research, INFORMS Journal of Group Decision and Negotiation and ACM Transactions on Storage. Currently Dr. Dutta is working on IT infrastructure for RFID systems.

Dr. Dutta also has several publications in various IEEE and ACM conference proceedings. He has received awards for conference papers and academic performances. Dr. Dutta has received several college-wide research award at FIU. He has served as ad-hoc reviewer for various INFORMS, IEEE, ACM journals and conferences. Currently, Dr. Dutta is the Area Editor (Database and Data Management) for Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software.

At FIU, Dr. Dutta teaches both managerial and technology courses in various graduate and undergraduate programs in College of Business. Primarily, he teaches "Organizational Information Systems" in Downtown MBA program; and "Web Management" in weekend professional MSMIS program and undergraduate program.

Prior to joining FIU, Dr. Dutta was Director of Engineering for Chutney Technologies, funded by KPCB Venture Capital, that developed solutions to improve the scalability and performance of enterprise web applications. Dr. Dutta has almost a decade of experience in software product development in India, Europe and the U.S. Dr. Dutta worked as a senior software engineer for Intarka Inc, an NEA funded company, and Wipro Ltd.