Ajit Kumar Roy

Award winning Key Note Speaker at International Level, Professor Ajit Kumar Roy is an acclaimed researcher and consultant. Prof. Roy obtained his M.Sc. degree in Statistics and joined Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) as a Scientist (Statistics) in 1976. In recent past was engaged as National Consultant (Impact Assessment), for East & North Eastern States of India at National Agricultural Innovation Project (World Bank funded) of ICAR. Prior...See more

Award winning Key Note Speaker at International Level, Professor Ajit Kumar Roy is an acclaimed researcher and consultant. Prof. Roy obtained his M.Sc. degree in Statistics and joined Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) as a Scientist (Statistics) in 1976. In recent past was engaged as National Consultant (Impact Assessment), for East & North Eastern States of India at National Agricultural Innovation Project (World Bank funded) of ICAR. Prior to that he was Consultant (Statistics) at Central Agricultural University, Agartala. Served at CIFA, ICAR, as Principal Scientist and was involved in R & D activities in ICT, Statistics, Bioinformatics and Economics. At International level he served as a Computer Specialist at SAARC Agricultural Information Centre (SAIC), Dhaka, Bangladesh for over 3 years. He has successfully organized many workshops on application of ICT in fisheries/agriculture research at National and International level. The author has more than 45 years of experience in Statistical Analysis, Analytics, and information management. He has edited eighteen books and several conference proceedings besides published over 100 articles in refereed journals, book chapters & conference proceedings. His recent best-sellers are Data Science-A Career Option for 21st Century'; 'Impact of Big Data Analytics on Business, Economy, Health Care and Society'; 'Self Learning of Bioinformatics Online'; 'Applied Bioinformatics, Statistics and Economics in Fisheries Research' and 'Self Learning of Data Science for Free '. Presently visiting Professor, question setter and examiner of four Indian Universities. He has vast experience in Statistical consulting, guidance and analytics. He has helped design academic curricula for teaching at graduate and postgraduate level having spent most of his career in R&D activities writing extensively in his areas of expertise: Statistics, Big data Analytics, Bioinformatics, ICT & Knowledge management, Computational Biology, and Evaluation & Impact Assessment. He is widely recognized as an expert research scientist, teacher, author, hands-on leader in advanced analytics. See less