Pranab Kumar Dey graduated in Electrical Engineering from Faraday House Engineering College, London, and joined Rutherford High Energy Laboratory, Berkshire, England as an engineer. He left Rutherford High Energy Laboratory to pursue postgraduate studies at the University of Nottingham after receiving a scholarship from the Berkshire County Council. But unfortunately, he returned to India without completing his course. He joined the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics in Calcutta. His keen interest in power electronics and control engineering drew him to join Hindustan Copper Ltd, an integrated copper complex, where he could find different applications of Power Electronics in mining and Process Controls in plants.