Sensors, Cameras & Robots for Smart Health, Green Building & Complex Environments: CPS Challenges, Solutions & Opportunities

Title of the Talk:Sensors, Cameras & Robots for Smart Health, Green Building & Complex Environments: CPS Challenges, Solutions & Opportunities
Speaker: Prof. Nirmalya Roy
Host Faculty: Prof. M.V Pandu Ranga Rao
Date: January 07, 2025
Time: 11:30 am to 1:00 pm
Venue: LH-C-11

Speaker Profile:

Dr. Nirmalya Roy is a Professor in the Information Systems Department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where he leads the Mobile, Pervasive, and Sensor Computing (MPSC) Lab. He also serves as the Director of the Center for Research in Use-Inspired Cyber-Physical Systems (CYPRESS) and the Associate Director of the Center for Real-time Distributed Sensing and Autonomy (CARDS) at UMBC. His current research interests include applied AI/ML with applications in smart health, cyber-physical systems, IoT, robotics, and autonomy. Dr. Roy has received numerous accolades, including best paper awards at IEEE/ACM DCOSS 2023, SmartComp 2023 and 2022, SPIE 2022, CHASE 2021, IGSC 2020, Elsevier PMC 2020, QShine 2009, and PerCom 2006. He has also earned best paper award nominations at SmartComp 2018 and PerCom 2011, as well as the Institute for Infocomm Research 2011 Best Research Paper Award. Dr. Roy is a co-PI on the ArtIAMAS (AI and Autonomy for Multi-Agent Systems) cooperative research agreement with the Army Research Lab (ARL), a collaboration with the University of Maryland, College Park, running from 2021 to 2026. He has secured funding from various prestigious sources, including the DoD, ARL, ONR, NSF (EAGER, CPS, US-India Collaborative Research, REU Site, CAREER, and GCTC), Alzheimer’s Association, Constellation E2: Energy to Educate, and UMB-UMBC Research and Innovation Partnership. Before joining UMBC, Dr. Roy was a Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University. He also worked as a Research Staff Member at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) in Singapore from 2010 to 2011 and as a postdoctoral fellow in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin from 2008 to 2009. Dr. Roy received his B.E. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University in 2001, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the same field from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2004 and 2008, respectively.