Chandana Roy completed her Ph.D. from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India (IIT Kharagpur). She served as a Teaching Assistant in the massively popular NPTEL MOOC course on Industrial Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 taken by Prof. Sudip Misra, Professor, IIT Kharagpur. She was an active member of the Smart Wireless Applications and Networking (SWAN) Lab at IIT Kharagpur. Additionally, she worked as an organizing committee member in various short-term courses and workshops organized at IIT Kharagpur. Dr. Roy received fellowships from the Ministry of Human Resources and Development (MHRD), India, and the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), India. She worked on various research projects at IIT Kharagpur from March-December, 2016 and November 2020-February, 2021. During her Ph.D., she pursued a research internship at the LIPADE lab, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France in 2019. She was invited to deliver a talk at an international conference ICACIE, Springer in June 2020.
Prior to this, she completed her M.Tech and B.Tech from the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India (NIT, Durgapur) with a specialization in Electrical Systems, and the West Bengal University of Technology, India, in Electrical Engineering, respectively. She worked as an Assistant Professor for more than three years (August 2012 – March 2016) in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Aryabhatta Institute of Engineering and Management (AIEMD), Durgapur.
Dr. Roy has 17 published research papers – 14 in reputed journals such as IEEE TVT, IEEE TSC, IEEE TITS, and IEEE IoTJ and 3 conferences such as IEEE ICC, WCNC, and GLOBECOM. She was also selected to present her research work at the IDRBT Doctoral Colloquium, 2019. She serves as a peer reviewer in reputed IEEE, Wiley, and Elsevier journals/transactions. Her research interests include the Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Sensor Cloud, and Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN).