Arijit Roy

Dr. Arijit Roy is the Co-founder and Director of an IoT start-up,“SensorDrops Networks Pvt. Ltd.”. He did his Ph.D. studies from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur), India. Dr. Roy was a Senior Research Fellow of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, Govt. of India. Prior to that, he completed an MS (by research) degree and B. Tech degree in Information Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and the West Bengal University of Technology, respectively. After completion of B.Tech, he worked as a Network Engineer in IntecInfonet Pvt. Ltd., India. He has 9 years of teaching experience at IIT Kharagpur. Dr. Roy has experience in handling several government-funded national and international research projects. His research works are published in different reputed SCI journals (including IEEE/ACM Transactions) and reputed conferences (IEEE WCNC, IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, ACM ICDCN). He won the IEEE Systems Journal Best Paper Award 2020. Arijit delivered several talks in India and abroad. Additionally, he filed 6 Indian patents, which are along the same line of his research work. He received the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research Senior Research Fellowship (CSIR-SRF) in 2017. He has been recognized with several awards such as Samsung Innovation Award 2014 and IBM Day Award 2017. 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 (GYTI) Award-2018, for society relevant innovation (the award was received from the honorable President of India). He was awarded the prestigious India-France Raman-Charpak Fellowship-2018 (only 4 students were selected in Engineering Sciences from India), for visiting a French university and pursuing short-term collaborative research. Dr. Roy received different travel grants from IIT Kharagpur and Microsoft Research (MSR) for attending international conferences and research events. He was selected as a young researcher to participate in the 6th Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2018, organized 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 Forum. His research interests include Internet of Things (IoT), Sensor-cloud Architecture, Wireless Sensor Networks, Cloud Computing, Society 5.0, and Wireless Body Area Networks. Dr. Roy, along with his team, developed different societal impactful products and prototypes in the domain of healthcare and agriculture. Dr. Roy is a member of IEEE and ACM.