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Chakraborty, Chinmay: - Chinmay Chakraborty is a Senior Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering, BIT Mesra, Jharkhand, India. His primary areas of research include WBAN, Internet of Medical Things, Medical Imaging and Telemedicine. Prior to BIT, he worked at the Faculty of Science and Technology, ICFAI University, Agartala, India as a Sr. Lecturer. He worked as a Research Consultant in the Coal India project at Industrial Engineering & Management, IIT Kharagpur. He worked as a project coordinator of Telecom Convergence Switch project under the Indo-US joint initiative. He also worked as a Network Engineer in System Administration at MISPL under Global Teleservice Ltd., India. He is the author of "PSTN-IP Telephony Gateway for Ensuring QoS in Heterogeneous Networks" (2014) and "Advanced Classification Techniques for Healthcare Analysis" (2019). He is an Editorial Board Member in the Journal of Wireless Communication Technology, Int. Journal of Telecomm. Engg. etc. and also a member of the International Advisory Board for Malaysia Technical Scientist Congress and the MIR Labs. He has been also editing four books on IGI, IET, CRC, and Pan Standford Publishing. He is a guest editor of Future Internet journal special issue (Internet of Healthcare Things (IoHT): Methods, Advances, and Applications) and SoCTA-19 Int. Conf., Patna on Computational Intelligence and Bioinformatics for Smart Healthcare Technology. He received a young research excellence award, Global Peer Review Award, Young Faculty Award, and Outstanding Researcher Award. He was the speakers for AICTE, DST sponsored FDP and CEP Short Term Courses.
