Organizing Committee Member
Ajit Kumar Roy
Professor
Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)
India
Biography
Award winning Key Note Speaker at International Level, Professor Ajit Kumar Roy is an acclaimed researcher and consultant. Prof. Roy obtained his M.Sc. degree in Statistics and joined Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) as a Scientist (Statistics) in 1976. In recent past was engaged as National Consultant (Impact Assessment), for East &North Eastern States of India at National Agricultural Innovation Project (World Bank funded) of ICAR. Earlier he had served as a Consultant (Statistics) at Central Agricultural University, Agartala. Earlier had served at CIFA, ICAR, as Principal Scientist and was involved in applied research in the areas of ICT, Statistics, Bioinformatics Analytics, and Economics. At International level, he served as a Computer Specialist at SAARC Agricultural Information Centre (SAIC), Dhaka, Bangladesh for over 3 years. The author with over 45 years of research and teaching experience in Statistical Analytics, and information & Knowledge management edited twenty books and several conference proceedings. Besides, published over 100 articles in refereed journals. His recent best-sellers are Big Data and Data Science Initiative in India - Upcoming Job Opportunities(Vol.-2) ‘Cashless Economy in India-Present Scenario, Potential, Prospect and Challenges Ahead’; Post Demonetization Budget-2017- Expectations, Apprehensions and Reality’; ‘Facts and Figures of Demonetization in India-Reactions, Views and Comments; Big Data and Data Science Initiative in India- Upcoming Job Opportunities:;'Applied Big Data Analytics'; 'Impact of Big Data Analytics on Business, Economy, Health Care and Society'; 'Data Science - A Career Option for 21st Century’; ‘Self Learning of Bioinformatics Online’; ‘Applied Bioinformatics, Statistics and Economics in Fisheries Research’ and ‘Applied Computational Biology and Statistics in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics’; Emerging Technologies of the 21st Century. He is Editorial Board Member of Nos. of reputed Journals. He now works as Visiting Professor, question setter and examiner of four Indian Universities.
Research Area
Biostatistics, Big data Analytics, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Econometrics.