Shubhajit Roy Chowdhury, PhD

Expertise: Development of biomedical embedded systems, non invasive diagnostic systems for point of care testing of patients, low cost medical devices using near infrared spectroscopy and non invasive stroke diagnostic systems

Shubhajit Roy Chowdhury (M’13–SM’17) was born in Kolkata, India, in 1981. He received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Jadavpur University, in 2010. He is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Computing and Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi, India. He is a Life Member of the Indian Statistical Institute. He is keenly interested in the educational system and its necessary transformation. He has published over 100 papers in international journals and conferences. His research interests span around the development of biomedical embedded systems, non invasive diagnostic systems for point of care testing of patients, low cost medical devices using near infrared spectroscopy and non invasive stroke diagnostic systems. He is a member of the VLSI Society of India and a Life Member of the Microelectronics Society of India and the Telemedicine Society of India. He was a recipient of the University Gold Medal in 2004 and 2006, for his B.E. and M.E. degrees, respectively, the Altera Embedded Processor Designer Award in 2007, and four Best Paper Awards. He received the award of the Fellow of Society of Applied Biotechnology by the Society of Applied Biotechnology in 2012. He was awarded the Young Engineers’ Award by the Institution of Engineers, India (2012–2013), for his outstanding contribution in the field of electronics and telecommunication engineering. He is the recipient of Young Neurologists’Award from the World Stroke Organization in the year 2016 and also the recipient of Outstanding Reviewer Award from Elsevier’s Journal of Neuroscience Methods in the year 2018. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Medical Systems and IEEE ACCESS. He is a Reviewer for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VLSI SYSTEMS, the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, the Journal of Medical Systems, the Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, the Computers in Biology and Medicine, the Computers Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, and other reputed journals.