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Rajendra Mishra School of Engg Entrepreneurship

Faculty

Aviru Kumar Basu

Basab Chakraborty

Bhaskar Bhowmick

Biswabandhu Jana

Mamoni Banerjee

Manoj Kumar Mondal

Mrigank Sharad

Prabha Bhola

Ram Babu Roy

Titas Bhattacharjee (Rudra)

Ram Babu Roy, IIT Kharagpur

Ram Babu Roy

Associate Professor

Rajendra Mishra School of Engg Entrepreneurship

+91-3222-282414

rambabu@see.iitkgp.ac.in

Awards and Accolades

Personal Webpage Bio Sketch

Research Areas

Business Analytics
Health Care Management
Complex and Social Networks
Digital Entrepreneurship
Image and Video Processing

His research interests include modelling and simulation of emergent complex networked systems, business analytics, technology entrepreneurship, computer vision, and healthcare operations management. He is involved in research on modeling and analysis of complex networks and improving the performance of Indian healthcare systems. He has published his research in international journals and conferences.

All Publications

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Completed Projects

Co-Principal Investigator

Assam Skill University (ASU) Management and Operating System Development KPMG ADVISORY SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED
Centre of Excellence for Unified AI-Enabled Craft Ecosystem Platform OFFICE OF THE DEVELOPMENT COMMISSIONER (HANDICRAFTS), MINISTRY OF TEXTILES,

Ph. D. Students

Abhik Kr Sarbajna

Area of Research: Data Analytics

Anneswa Bose

Area of Research: Social Media Marketing

Medha Nag

Area of Research: Digital Image Processing using Machine Learning

Navendu Maiti

Area of Research: AI-Enabled Micro-Enterprise Framework

Prasanta Kr Sen

Area of Research: IOT and Signal Processing Application

Pravin Kumar Shaw

Area of Research: Digital Technologies for Skill Development

Rajesh Mandal

Area of Research: AI-driven Knowledge Management

Conferences

Too Real to Resist: Generative AI, Impulse Buying, and the Counterfeit Crisis by Bose A., Mukherjee S. , Roy R. B. EBES Conference - (2026)
Eyes on You: TinyML-Powered On-Device Face Tracking for Low-Cost, Low-Power, Secure MCU Environments by Samanta R., Saha B., Ghosh S.K., Roy R.B. International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks, COMSNETS 1368-1370 (2025)
Second-Hand Goods: Exploring an Ethical Alternative to Counterfeit Consumption by Bose A., Mukherjee S. , Roy R. B. ANZMAC 2025 - (2025)
Fairness or Fakes? Morals, Brands, and the Counterfeit Mindset by Bose A., Mukherjee S. , Roy R. B. 23rd AIMS International Conference on Management - (2025)
TinyML-Powered Gesture Wizardry: Low-Cost, Low-Power Two-Stage CNN for Static Hand Gesture Classification on MCU in Appliance Control by Saha B., Samanta R., Ghosh S.K., Roy R.B. Proceedings of 4th International Conference on AI-ML Systems, AIMLSystems 2024 - (2025)
Aspirations on a Budget: Decoding Counterfeit Consumption at the Bottom of the Pyramid by Bose A., Mukherjee S. , Roy R. B. International Conference on Digital Technologies for Business Excellence and Sustainable Development and Creating Viksit Bharat@2047 - (2025)
Efficiency Redefined: Impact of Reducing Data Acquisition Rate for Optimized TinyML in Resource-Constrained IoT Devices by Saha B., Samanta R., Ghosh S.K., Roy R.B. International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks, COMSNETS 842-846 (2025)
Utilizing Masstige to Deter Counterfeit Consumption: A journey from Imitation to Authenticity by Bose A., Mukherjee S. , Roy R. B. 10th Indian Academy of Management (INDAM) Conference - (2025)
Enhancing Horticulture Field Security: Intruder Detection Utilizing Wi-Fi-CSI Technology with ESP32 Modules by Sen P.K., Sharad M., Roy R.B. Communications in Computer and Information Science 2207 CCIS 24-33 (2025)
Masstige or Counterfeit: Which Will BOP Prefer? by Bose A., Mukherjee S. , Roy R. B. ANZMAC 2024 - (2024)
From Wrist to World: Harnessing Wearable IMU Sensors and TinyML to Enable Smart Environment Interactions by Saha B., Samanta R. , Ghosh S. K., Roy R. B. International Conference on AI-ML Systems - (2023)
BandX : An Intelligent IoT-band for Human Activity Recognition based on TinyML by Saha B., Samanta R., Ghosh S., Roy R.B. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series 284-285 (2023)
TinyML-Driven On-Device Personalized Human Activity Recognition and Auto-Deployment to Smart Bands by Saha B., Samanta R. , Ghosh S. K., Roy R. B. International Conference on AI-ML Systems - (2023)
Prediction of clinical events in hemodialysis patients using an artificial neural network by Putra F.R., Nursetyo A.A., Thakur S.S., Roy R.B., Syed-Abdul S., Malwade S., Lia Y.-C. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 264 1570-1571 (2019)
A mobile app based smoking cessation assistance using automated detection of smoking activity by Thakur S. S., Roy R. B. ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science and Management of Data 352-355 (2018)
Comparing the Long-term Health Impact of Increasing Cigarette Price and Raising the Legal Age of Smoking in India by Kumar S., Roy R. B. 62nd National Annual Conference of Indian Public Health Association (IPHACON 2018) - (2018)
Designing Service Machine For Reducing Information Asymmetry In Health Insurance by Zuhair M., Roy R. B., Lillrank P. M. INFORMS Healthcare 2017 - (2017)
Identifying and Managing Dilemmas for Sustainable Development of Rural India by Yadav A., Das A. K., Roy R. B., Chatterjee A. , Allen J. K., Mistree F. International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE 2017 1-17 (2017)
Public Health Impact of Raising the Legal Age of Smoking in India by Kumar S., Roy R. B. XXI Annual Meeting of North Zone Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine 2017 - (2017)
Configuring Service Production Function for Emergency Medical Services by K. S. V., Roy R. B., Lillrank P. M. INFORMS Healthcare 2017 - (2017)
Modeling demand patterns of Emergency Medical Services in Rajasthan by K S. V., Roy R. B. Systems in Medicine and Biology (ICSMB) 87-90 (2016)
Integrating Knowledge, Attitude and Practice in Decision Model for Maternity Care in Emerging Economy by Amrita A., Roy R. B. IEEE GHTC 71-78 (2015)
A social network approach to examine the role of influential stocks in shaping interdependence structure in global stock markets by Roy R. B., Sarkar U. K. International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) 567-569 (2011)
Identifying influential stock indices from global stock markets: A social network analysis approach by Roy R. B., Sarkar U. K. Int. conf. on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies, Canada 442-449 (2011)

Journal

Counterfeit-induced cognitive dissonance in BOP consumers: a two-stage SEM-ANN prognostic approach by Bose A., Mukherjee S. , Roy R. B. Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice - (2025)
TinyTNAS: Time-Bound, GPU-Independent Hardware-Aware Neural Architecture Search for TinyML Time Series Classification by Saha B., Samanta R. , Roy R. B., Ghosh S. K. IEEE Embedded Systems Letters - (2025)
Understanding Counterfeit Product Choices Among BOP Consumers: ADual Analysis Using SEM and fsQCA by Bose A., Mukherjee S. , Roy R. B. Journal of InternatIonal Consumer MarketIng 1-18 (2025)
Personalized Human Activity Recognition: Real-Time On-Device Training and Inference by Saha B., Samanta R. , Roy R. B., Chakraborty C. , Ghosh S. K. IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine 14 84-89 (2025)
Real-time prediction of smoking activity using machine learning based multi-class classification model by Thakur S.S., Poddar P., Roy R.B. Multimedia Tools and Applications - (2022)
Eliciting key attributes of health insurance in rural India: a qualitative analysis by Zuhair M., Zhou F. , Pratap S. , Roy R. SN Business & Economics 2 1-23 (2022)
Eliciting relative preferences for the attributes of health insurance schemes among rural consumers in India by Zuhair M., Roy R.B. International Journal of Health Economics and Management - (2022)
Clinical Notes Mining for Post Discharge Mortality Prediction by Kumar V., Bajpai R. , Roy R. B. IETE Technical Review 1-7 (2021)
Predicting mental health using smart-phone usage and sensor data by Thakur S.S., Roy R.B. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing - (2020)
Sustainability of Healthcare Insurance in India: A Review of Health Insurance Scheme Launched by States in India by Zuhair M., Roy R. B. International Journal of Health and Medical Engineering 13 389-394 (2019)
Who do the women trust for maternity care: A knowledge network-based study in rural India by Amrita A., Roy R. B. Health Information Management Journal - (2018)
Artificial-Intelligence-Based Prediction of Clinical Events among Hemodialysis Patients Using Non-Contact Sensor Data by Thakur S. S., Abdul S. S., Chiu H. , Roy R. B., Huang P. , Malwade S. , Nursetyo A. A., Li Y. Sensors 18 01-16 (2018)
Equity-Constrained Dispatching Models for Emergency Medical Services by K. S. V., Roy R. B. Team Performance Management 23 28-45 (2017)
The socio-economic determinants for utilization of antenatal care and child vaccination in India by Zuhair M., Roy R. B. Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health 29 649-659 (2017)
A Social Network Approach to Change Detection in the Interdependence Structure of Global Stock Markets by Roy R. B., Sarkar U. K. Social Network Analysis and Mining 3 269-283 (2013)

Patent

Secure Gesture-Controlled Interactive System for Smart Environments Using Wearable and TinyML by Saha B., Samanta R. , Ghosh S. K., Roy R. B. - (2024)

Book Chapter/Section

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Vol 798 by Thakur S. S., Roy R. B. Smartphone-Based Ubiquitous Data Sensing and Analysis for Personalized Preventive Care: A Conceptual Framework 119-132 (2019)
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7867 by Roy R. B., Sarkar U. K. Identifying dominant economic sectors and stock markets: A social network mining approach 59-70 (2013)

Workshop

Machine Learning for the Prediction of Life Expectancy of Heart Transplant Patients by Praharaj I., Chaudhary P. , Roy R. B. 14th Women in Machine Learning Workshop (WiML 2019) 1-1 (2019)

Book

Designing Service Machines: Translating Principles of System Science to Service Design by Roy R. B., Lillrank P. , Sreekanth V. , Torkki P. - (2018)