Winner. Scientist of the Year 2020

Samarjit Roy

Academic title, degree: Ph.D. (Pre-submission thesis submitted), M. Tech in Information Technology
Fields of science: Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology
Research interest: Intelligent Musical Pattern Recognition and Information Retrieval
Institution: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal (formerly WBUT)
Position: UGC Senior Research Fellow
Country: India

Research Interests

Musical pattern recognition, music information retrieval, internet of music things, music as big data, humanized music information fusion, music recommendation systems, music cloud computing, edge, fog, and dew-based efficient music modelling, ml & dl based music analytics, music crowdsensing and crowdsourcing, musiconomics, music osmosis, music matrix factorization, human-machine interactions, music automata, and so on.

Publication Details

www.researchgate.net/profile/Samarjit_Roy2/research; scholar.google.com/citations?user=bPie8icAAAAJ&hl=en

Book Chapter

Samarjit Roy, Sudipta Chakrabarty, Debashis De, “Time-slot based Intelligent Music Recommender in Indian Music”, Intelligent Analysis of Multimedia Information, IGI Global, C-12, pp. 319-351, 2015.

Participation in Conferences/Seminars/Workshops

Conference: Acted as the Convener in the National Conference on Recent Trends in Computations and Mathematical Analysis in Engineering and Sciences-2015 (CRCMAS 2015), Sponsored by Jharkhand Council on Science and Technology (JCST), Govt. of Jharkhand, November 20-21, 2015, Techno India Silli, Ranchi-835102, Jharkhand.

Workshop: Acted as Organizer on “FOSS Program” organized by IIT-Mumbai, Venue: Techno India Silli, Ranchi-835102, Jharkhand.

Workshop: Acted as Co-Convener in Workshop on Industrial Automation in New Generation (IANG 2016), Sponsored by JCST, Govt. of Jharkhand, November 23-25, 2016, Venue: Techno India Silli, Ranchi-835102, Jharkhand.

Seminar: Acted as the Organizing Chair on the Seminar on Information Security and Challenges (ISC 2015) on August 26-27, 2015, Techno India Silli, Ranchi-835102, Jharkhand.

Faculty Development Programme: Organizing committee member in FDP on Sensors, IoT and Security, by NIT Patna, at MAKAUT, WB, 2017.

Faculty Development Programme: Two-Week ISTE STTP on CMOS, Mixed Signal and Radio Frequency VLSI Design, Techno India Chaibasa, Organised by IIT Kharagpur, 2017.

Workshop: Participated in National Workshop on Cloud Computing (CLOCOM-2015), Cambridge Institute of Technology, Tatisilwai, Ranchi-835103, Jharkhand.

Professional Course: Database Foundation, Oracle Academy, organized by Jharkhand Council on Science and Technology, 2016.

Professional Course: Java Foundation, Oracle Academy, organized by Jharkhand Council on Science and Technology, 2016.

Workshop: Participated in One-Week Workshop on Data Science with R, by TEQIP-III, MAKAUT, WB at GCECT, Kolkata, 2017.

Seminar: One Day International Seminar on Intelligent Computing, organized by Jadavpur University Salt Lake Campus, 2017.

Workshop: Participated in AI Knowledge Workshop-2018 at Biswa Bangla Convention Centre, organized by Dept. of IT & E, Govt. of WB, 2018.

Workshop: Participated in Embedded Technology Knowledge Workshop-2018 at Biswa Bangla Convention Centre, organized by Dept. of IT & E, Govt. of WB, 2018.

Professional Experience

Deputy Controller of Examinations; Member of Academic and Administrative activities, Core committee member of AICTE, Bihar and Jharkhand Chapter, Eastern region; Theory and Practical classes; Anti-Ragging and Grievance-Redressal committee member, Dy. Chief Warden etc.

Professional Memberships

• IEEE Student Membership (M’17), Kolkata Chapter

• Annual Member, Indian Science Congress Association

• Professional Member, Institute of Scholars (InSc)

• Associate Member, World Research Council

• Ranking in the merit lists and Recipient of Merit Scholarships of the Secondary and Higher Secondary Examinations by the Government of West Bengal;

• Coordinated several conferences, workshops, seminars etc. in institutions;

• Awards in several science seminars;

• Participation in numerous debates, quiz, recitations, tech-fests;

• Senior Diploma in Tabla and Vocal;

• Participation in several international and national conferences, workshops, seminars, symposiums.

Published several SCI-indexed journals, among them:

• Samarjit Roy, Dhiman Sarkar, Debashis De, “Entropy-aware ambient IoT analytics on humanized music information fusion”, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 2019

• Samarjit Roy, Debashis De, “Music, Mantra and Human Beings: A State-of-the-Art Computational Music Paradigm for Statistical Style Analytics”, In: West Bengal State Science and Technology Congress 2019, Govt. of West Bengal, Id: 16455517-B-SR-ENG, December 2019

• M. Rahaman, S. P. Mondal, A. A. Shaikh, P. Pramanik, S. Roy, M. K. Maiti, R. Mondal, D. De, “Artificial bee colony optimization-inspired synergetic study of fractional-order economic production quantity model”. Soft Computing, Springer, 2020
doi.org/10.1007/s00500-020-04867-y

• Samarjit Roy, Mousumi Biswas, Debashis De, “iMusic: A Session-Sensitive Clustered Classical Music Recommender System Using Contextual Representation Learning”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, 2020. 10.1007/s11042-020-09126-8

Communicated Articles

• Samarjit Roy, Debashis De, “Indian Music as Incorporeal Heritage Entertainment: A Probabilistic Event-Sensitive Computational Framework for Music Composition and Reconstruction”, Entertainment Computing, Elsevier, Ref. Id: ENTCOM-D-20-00018, 2020

• Samarjit Roy, Dhiman Sarkar, Debashis De, “DewMusic: Crowdsourcing based Internet of Music Things in Dew Computing Paradigm”, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Springer, Ref. Id: AIHC-D-20-00674, 2020

Awards

• INSC Young Achiever Award, Indian Institute of Science (IISC), Bengaluru, India, 2020

• TSAR 2020 Excellent Research Scholar Award, TIFR Mumbai, India, 2020

• International Best Researcher of the Year in MIR & MPR by WRC, Malaysia, 2020

• INSC Research Excellence Award by INSC, Bengaluru, India, 2020

Participation in Conferences/Seminars/Workshops

• Conference: 52nd Annual Convention of Computer Society of India (CSI) at Science City Auditorium, Kolkata, 2018

• Workshop: Participated in the Workshop on "A hands-on course on Modeling and Measurements of Musical Instruments", December 9-13, 2019, IIT-Dharwad, Karnataka

• Webinars: Participated in several national and international webinars and blended learning programs