Arijit Roy

Dr. Arijit Roy is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Luxembourg. Prior to that, Dr. Roy completed his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He received an MS (by research) and B.Tech degree in Information Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, and the West Bengal University of Technology, India, respectively. After completion of his B.Tech, he worked as a Network Engineer in IntecInfonet Pvt. Dr. Roy is also a co-founder and Director of a Start-up, named- “SensorDrops Networks Pvt. Ltd.” He is an area expert of IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee e-Health SIG on IoT. Dr. Roy is a member of IEEE and ACM. He is an Area Expert in IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee eHealth SIG on IoT.

Dr. Roy has research experience of more than 10 years and his works are published in many reputed SCI journals and conferences. Additionally, he has 7 Indian filed patents, which are along the same line as his research work. Among his publications, a few are awarded as best papers in different venues such as in IEEE Systems Journal and ICACIE, Springer. He is a recipient of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research Senior Research Fellowship (CSIR-SRF) in 2017. Dr. Roy has been recognized with several awards such as Samsung Innovation Award and IBM Day Award. One of his research projects was selected (among the top 9 worldwide) in the IEEE ComSoc Student competition in 2014. He received the prestigious Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award-2018, for socially relevant innovation, which was received from the honorable President of India. He has been awarded the Raman-Charpak Fellowship-2018 (only 4 researchers were selected in Engineering Sciences), for visiting a French university and pursuing short-term collaborative research. He has been selected as a young researcher to participate in the 6th Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2018, to be held in Heidelberg, Germany, in which only the 200 most qualified Young Researchers (worldwide) are given the opportunity to enrich and share the unique atmosphere of the Heidelberg Laureate.)

The broad research area of Dr. Roy is the Internet of Things. Specifically, it includes the Internet of Things, Sensor-cloud, Wireless Sensor Networks, Cloud Computing, and Wireless Body Area Networks. He, along with his team developed different societal impactful products and prototypes in the domain of healthcare and agriculture. 

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