I am a faculty of DA-IICT, Gandhinagar (India) and am an alumnus of IIT Delhi and IIT Roorkee. I obtained my PhD degree in Physics from IIT Delhi in 1993. Prior to joining DA-IICT in 2003, I worked at Centre for Theoretical Studies at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (India) during 1993-94 followed by the Optical Fiber Group at IIT Delhi (India) till 1996. My main academic interest areas are sensors, Internet of Things, image processing, fiber optics, semiconductor physics, applications of technologies for humanitarian challenges.
I am a senior member of IEEE, a member of Optica (formerly Optical Society of America) and a member of Optical Society of India. After serving two terms as VP Technical Operations (2020-2023), I am currently the President-elect of IEEE Sensors Council (2024-2025). I was also the Chair of IEEE Conference Publications Committee (2019-2020). I have been the General co-Chair of many international conferences, such as: IEEE APSCON 2023, IEEE R10 HTC 2023, IEEE SENSORS 2018, INDICON 2009 and the Technical Program Committee co-Chair of IEEE APSCON 2025, IEEE APSCON 2024, IEEE International Symposium on Smart Electronic Systems (iSES 2023), INDICON 2019.
Some of the notable awards which I won are: 2019 IEEE India Council Section Chair Lifetime Achievement Award, 2017 IEEE Sensors Council Meritorious Service Award, 2012 IEEE MGA Leadership Award and 2010 IEEE Region 10 Outstanding Volunteer Award.
Applications of Image Processing, Fiber Optics and Optical Communication, High speed Semiconductor Devices, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Quantum Optics, Technologies for Humanitarian Challenges.
Priyanka Khaparde, Kamlesh S. Patle, Hitesh Borkar, Jitendra Gangwar, Anil K. Roy, and Vinay S. Palaparthy (2024), “Investigating an Impact of Leaf Bending Radius and Angle for Flexible Leaf Wetness Sensor,” in IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 1-4, Mar. 2024. DOI: 10.1109/LSENS.2024.3355371.
Samaksh Gupta, Yash Agrawal, Anil K. Roy, Ahlad Kumar, and Vinay S Palaparthy (2023), “Fractional Derivative Based TVD Smoothening and Baseline Correction for Extracting Leaf Wetness Duration From LW Sensor: A Novel Approach,” in IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 7, no. 12, pp. 1-4, Dec. 2023. DOI: 10.1109/LSENS.2023.3334147.
Priyanka Khaparde, Kamlesh S Patle, Yash Agrawal, Hitesh Borkar, Jitendra Gangwar, Anil K Roy, and Vinay S Palaparthy (2023), “Experimental Investigation of Leaf Wetness Sensing Properties of MoS2 Nanoflowers-Based Flexible Leaf Wetness Sensor,” in IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 1-4, Feb. 2023. DOI: 10.1109/LSENS.2022.3229145.
Nishith Kotak, Anil K. Roy, Sourish Dasgupta, and Tirthankar Ghosal (2022), “Consistency Analysis of NLP Approaches for a Conference Reviewer-Manuscript Match-Making System,” in 2021 IEEE 18th India Council International Conference (INDICON), pp. 1-6, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/INDICON52576.2021.9691571.
Nishith Kotak, Anil K. Roy, Sourish Dasgupta, and Tirthankar Ghosal (2021), “A Consistency Analysis of Different NLP Approaches for Reviewer-Manuscript Matchmaking,” In: Ke, Hao-Ren and Lee, Chei Sian and Sugiyama, Kazunari (eds) Towards Open and Trustworthy Digital Societies, International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries: Towards Open and Trustworthy Digital Societies. ICADL 2021, pp. 277-287, 2021, Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-91669-5_22.
Anjali Diwan, Rajat Sharma, Anil K. Roy, and Suman K. Mitra (2021), “Keypoint based comprehensive copy-move forgery detection,” in IET Image Processing, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 1298-1309, 2021. DOI: 10.1049/ipr2.12105.