Professor Sushantha Kumar Bhattacharyya after completing BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur, Bhattacharyya studied for MSc and PhD from the University of Birmingham. He has been conferred several honorary degrees by universities across the globe.

Prof. Bhattacharyya has been selected for one of the highest British civilian honours, the Knights Bachelor, in the Queen's New Year honours list. He is currently the director of the Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick. He has been honoured for his service to higher education.

Prof. Bhattacharyya has Hon.D.Eng UTM Malaysia, Hon D Business Administration. Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hon Dean Harbin Institute of Technology, FREng, FIEE, HonD Birmingham. He has published extensively in the field of manufacturing and is advisor to many companies and organisations around the world.

In 1998 he was awarded the Mensforth International Gold Medal by the Institution of Electrical Engineers. This was awarded for the outstanding international contribution to manufacturing engineering and management. In the same year he was also awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Institute for Logistics and Transport. This was followed in 1999 by the Institute's Sir Robert Lawrence Award for Services to Logistics.

He is a past member of the UK Council for Science and Technology, the Government's premier advisory body on major science and technology issues of strategic importance to the United Kingdom.
He has received many international Honours awards. In January 2002 Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya was awarded the Padma Bhusan by the President of India for services to science, technology and industry.

Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya advises the Government of South Africa on Science and Technology policy and is a past member of the Board of Transnet - the holding company for the state owned transport businesses from airlines to railways

In June 2004, Professor Bhattacharyya was elevated to the House of Lords, he was honoured with a peerage and he became, Professor Lord Bhattacharyya of Moseley.