Bhu Dev Sharma currently Professor of Mathematics at JIIT-University, Noida, India did his Ph.D. from University of Delhi. He was a faculty at the University of Delhi (1966–1979) and earlier at other places. He spent about 29 years abroad 20 years (1988-2007) in USA and 9 years (1979-1988) in the West Indies, as Professor of Mathematics and in between as chair of the department.

Professor Sharma has published over 130 research papers in the areas covering Coding Theory, Information Theory, Functional Equations, Fuzzy Information, Intuitionistic Fuzzy Set Theory, Aggregation Operators and Statistics. He has successfully guided 24 persons for Ph.D. in India and abroad. He has also authored/co-authored 23 published books in Mathematics and some others on Indian studies. He is the Chief Editor of Jr. of Combinatorics, Information and System Sciences–JCISS (1976-present), and is on the editorial boards of several other journals.

He is member of several professional academic organizations: Past President of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics (FIM), Vice President of Calcutta Mathematical Society, Ramanujan Math Society, Vice President of Academy of Discrete Mathematics and Applications (ADMA). After returning to India, he is working on establishing a Center of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Mathematics (CEIM) in Delhi, India.

Professor Sharma has received several awards and recognitions in India and abroad. He is widely traveled that would include Germany and several other countries of Europe, Brazil, Russia, China, and Japan. He has organized several International Conferences on Math/Stat in India, USA, Europe, Australia, China and Japan. Currently four persons are registered for Ph.D. under his supervision.