Roy Lab

Research

Invited Expert Talks

[1] Invited talk on "Beyond Artificial Neural Layers: Leveraging Attention Mechanisms for Drug Discovery," at NIPER Ahmedabad on 6th Feb 2026.

[2] Invited talk on "U-Net and its Role in Neuroscience", at Neuro AI Conclave at IIT Gandhinagar on 31st Jan 2026.

[3] Invited Expert talk on “Digital Health AI and Its Impact on Health Practices”, at International Symposium on Forensic Human Identification, organized by National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU), Gandhinagar, on 9 and 10 Oct 2024.

[4] Invited Expert talk on “Digital Healthcare and AI”, by National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training and Research (NITTTR) at Ahmedabad University on 10 May 2024.

[5] Invited Expert talk on “Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare”, at a SERB workshop, organised by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt of India, at North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU, a Central University), India, on 19 to 24 Sept 2022.

[6] Invited Expert Talk on “Application of Artificial Intelligence on Biological Sciences” at Bodoland University, Bodoland Territorial Council, India, on 27 June 2022.

[7] Department of Physics, Jagannath Barooah College, Jorhat, Assam, at a two-day workshop on “Applications of Laser-Based Imaging in Material Science (ALBIMS)” during 11-12 March 2022

[8] Invited expert talk, "International Conference on Convergence of Interdisciplinary Science", by SCINTIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION (https://www.srfglobal.org/), India, Feb 19-20, 2022

[9] Tutorial presented at 13th Annual Summit of Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA), Tokyo, Japan, 14 Dec 2021

[10] Expert talk on "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Healthcare " at Nirma University, Gandhinagar, on 22 July 2021

[11] North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU, Central University, Govt of India), Invited talk on "Recent Trends in Science and Technology” on 26th February 2021.

[12] Centre for Nanoscience & NanoTech, Dept of Physics, Punjab University (central university, Govt of India), Chandigarh on 7th Nov 2020. For a talk on "Artificial Intelligence in Materials Science."

[13]  Invitation as a Resource Person in the webinar on “Industry 4.0 and its Impact”, at Birjhora Mahavidyalaya, Assam, 31st July 2020

[14] Invited as a resource person for the  Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP) of MHRD, Government of India, for a talk on “Opportunities in AI and ML”, on 11 July 2020 at Jorhat Institute of Science and Technology (JIST), Assam.

[15] Northeast Centre for Technology Application & Reach (NECTAR), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, invited me as an expert for a brainstorming session to develop Northeast India, on 20 Nov 2019. 

AWARDS AND HONORS

1. Best Oral Presentation Award: at ICTMDD 2026 ( by NIPER Ahmedabad)

2. Best Paper Award: Recent and Future Trends in Smart Electronics Systems, SIU Pune (2022).

3. 2nd Prize (young scientist): at the Young Scientists’ Conference, India International Science Festival (IISF) 2020 by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.

4. Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore (2017–2019).

5. Korea University Graduate Achievement Award (for best performing graduate) by Korea University, Seoul, South Korea in Feb 2016 

6. Best Researcher Award: NBPL, Korea University (consecutively Dec 2014 & Dec 2015).

7. Outstanding Paper Award: Biochip 2014 Fall Conference, Korean Biochip Society.

8. IEEE Student Paper Award: IEEE Seoul Section (Dec 2014).

9. Brain Korea 21 Project Scholarship (2013 - 2016), Govt. of South Korea 

10. Korea University Ph.D. Scholarship (2011 – 2013) 

11. Meritorious Award by Indian Oil Corporation Limited BGR (Feb 2009)

12. Gold Medal (best Graduate): Tezpur University (Dec 2008).

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES:

[9] Editorial board Member, Nature Scientific Reports 

[8] Guest editor, Materials Today Proceedings Journal.

[7] Member, Board of Studies, Centre for Creative Learning, Rajiv Gandhi University (a Central University), Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, from Oct 2021 till date

[6] Session Chair at International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Vision, 24th September 2021.

[5] Executive committee member and treasurer  of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), IEEE Gujarat 

[4] Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for National Seminar on Computer Vision and Image Processing (NaSCoVIP) 2020, by IEEE Gujarat 

[3] Session Chair, 2018 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2018).

[2] Academic Mentor, Students Startup, and Innovation Policy, Govt of Gujarat. 

[1] Reviewer of Nature Scientific Reports Journal, IEEE Sensors Journal, Biomedical Optics Express Journal, Optics Express journal, Journal of Tissue and Cells, Springer Mobile Networks and Applications Journal, Proceedings of IEEE, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Optics and Lasers in Engineering, MDPI Algorithms, MDPI-Sensors.