Academic Service | Partha Pratim Ray

Work Experience

Total Experience: 14+ years in teaching and academic service
December 9, 2020 – Present
Assistant Professor (Senior Scale), Academic Level 11
Department of Computer Applications,
Sikkim University (A Central University), India
July 20, 2012 – December 8, 2020
Assistant Professor, Academic Level 10
Department of Computer Applications,
Sikkim University (A Central University), India
January 9, 2012 – June 20, 2012
Assistant Professor
Surendra Institute of Engineering and Management,
Siliguri, West Bengal, India

Research and Professional Service

Editorial Roles Serving

2025– Associate Editor, Frontiers in Communications and Networks
2025– Associate Editor, Frontiers in Bioinformatics

Guest Editor, Chair, Special Issue, & Advisory Roles

Special Issue on “Multi-Omics for Drug Response and Combination Therapy Prediction”, Frontiers of Bioinformatics, 2026, Frontiers co-edited by Partha Pratim Ray, Pu-Feng Du, Wei Lan, Asim Bikas Das.

Special Issue on “SS01: Internet of AI Things (IoAT): Agentic Smart Computing for Human-Centric and Sustainable Intelligent Systems”, at 8th International Conference on Smart Computing and Informatics (SCI-2026), 28-29 April 2026, Swinburne Vietnam, Hanoi Location.

Special Session Chair, at 3rd International Conference on Computing Systems \& Intelligent Applications (ComSIA-2026), March 20-21, 2026, School of Open Learning, University of Delhi and Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women, University of Delhi.

Special Session Chair, on “SS10: Internet of AI Things (IoAT): Mathematical Foundations, Edge Intelligence, and Computational Paradigms”, at International Conference on Mathematical Sciences and Computational Intelligence (ICMSCI-2026), February 20–22, 2026, Department of Mathematics, P.G.D.A.V. College, University of Delhi.

Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue on “Pervasive Biomedical Informatics”, Frontiers in Bioinformatics, 2026 (with Rahula Singh Jasrotia, Wei Lan, Lihong Peng, Manor Kandpal).

Special Session Chair, “Innovations in Embedded Lightweight Machine Learning Models: Enabling TinyML at the Edge for Practical Applications”, 18th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN 2025), Springer, 16–18 June 2025, A Coruña, Spain.

Session Chair, “Deployment and Applications of Large Language Models in Edge-IoT Ecosystem”, IEEE Gaming, Entertainment and Media (GEM 2025), 16–18 July 2025, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Track Chair, The 43rd IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE 2025), 11–14 January 2025, Las Vegas, NV, USA.

Workshop Chair, “Designing Metaverse using Next Generation Internet of Things”, 2nd International Conference on Computing, Communication, Perception and Quantum Technology (CCPQT 2023), 4–7 August 2023, Xiamen, China.

Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue on “Security and Computing on IoT”, Computers, Materials & Continua (SCI-Expanded, IF: 3.024), 2020–2021 (with Nour Moustafa, UNSW, Australia; Kien Nguyen, Chiba University, Japan).

Guest Editor, Special Issue on “Blockchain and IoT Enabled Sensing for Smart City”, Sensors (MDPI) (SCI-Expanded, IF: 3.031), 2018–2019 (with Vidyasagar Potdar, Curtin University, Australia).

Advisory Board Member, EU Project DewSyS: Dew-Oriented Platform for Cyber-Physical Systems of Systems, 2019.

Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue on “Dew Computing: A Key Enabler of Future Internet of Things”, Elsevier Journal Internet of Things Engineering: Cyber Physical Human Systems, 2018–2019 (with Marc Frincu, West University of Timisoara, Romania; Yingwei Wang, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada; S.C. Karolj Skala, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia).

Editorial Advisory Board Member, Edited Volume on Cryptographic Security Solutions for the Internet of Things, IGI Global, 2018.

Editor, ICT Express (Elsevier), Indexed in SCI-Expanded, Scopus, ESCI (IF: 4.317).

Technical Program Committee

IEEE International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (IWBBIO 2026), 15–17 July 2026, Gran Canaria (Meloneras), Spain.

IEEE International Conference on Frontiers of Engineering and Emerging Technologies (FET’26), 22–23 April 2026, Kingdom of Bahrain.

The 9th IIEEJ International Conference on Image Electronics and Visual Computing (IEVC 2026), 16–19 March 2026, Hiroshima University, Japan.

The 3rd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM 2025), 25–28 December 2025, Vienna, Austria.

17th International Symposium on Evaluation Science and Engineering (Bench 2025), 3–4 December 2025, Chengdu, China.

24th IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 15–18 November 2025, London, United Kingdom.

IEEE 11th International Workshop on Mobile Applications (MobiApps 2025), co-located with FiCloud 2025 and MobiWIS 2025, 11–13 August 2025, Istanbul, Turkey.

IEEE Gaming, Entertainment and Media (GEM 2025), 16–18 July 2025, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

5th IEEE Middle East & North Africa Communications Conference (MENACOMM 2025), 20–22 February 2025, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon.

2nd International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM 2024), 26–29 November 2024, Dubai, UAE.

30th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (IEEE ICT 2024), 24–27 June 2024, Dead Sea, Jordan.

IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE-TW 2024), 9–11 July 2024, Taichung, Taiwan.

1st International Conference on Environment and Smart Education (ICENSE 2024), 7–8 August 2024, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM 2023), 13–14 December 2023, Dubai, UAE.

22nd IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 26–29 October 2023, Venice, Italy.

IEEE CTSoc Gaming, Entertainment and Media (GEM 2023), 19–22 November 2023, Barbados.

IEEE 13th International Conference on Consumer Technology (ICCE 2023), 2–5 September 2023, Berlin, Germany (IFA).

45th IEEE COMPSAC 2021, 12–16 July 2021, USA.

10th International Conference on Communication Systems and Network Technologies (CSNT 2021), 24–25 April 2021, Bhopal, India.

ICNBST 2021, 2–4 December 2021, Kolkata, India.

1st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Modern Assistive Technology (ICAIMAT 2020), 24–26 September 2020, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

12th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (CICN 2020), 25–26 September 2020, Nainital, India.

2nd IFSA Frequency & Time Conference (IFTC 2020), 23–25 September 2020, Porto, Portugal.

7th International Conference on Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Informatics (EECSI 2020), 23–25 September 2020, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Ahmad Dahlan International Conference on Engineering and Science (ADICS-ESIT 2020), 26–27 August 2020, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

3rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Applications & Information Security (ICCAIS 2020), 19–21 March 2020, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

IEEE Middle East & North Africa Communications Conference (MENACOMM 2019), 19–21 November 2019, Kingdom of Bahrain.

IEEE International Symposium on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (TEMS-ISIE 2019), 24–26 October 2019, Hangzhou, China.

IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2019), Demo Track, 14–17 October 2019, Thessaloniki, Greece.

5th International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (CSITEC 2019), 24–25 August 2019, Vienna, Austria.

AnSWeR 2019, Co-located with IEEE/RSJ IROS 2019, 4–8 November 2019, Macau, China.

Fifth International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP 2019), 15–17 November 2019, Waknaghat, India.

First IFSA Frequency & Time Conference (IFTC 2019), 23–25 October 2019, Barcelona, Spain.

International Conference on Computer Science, Information Technology, and Electrical Engineering (ICOMITEE 2019), 16–17 October 2019, Jember, Indonesia.

International Conference on Data and Smart Systems Engineering (DSSE 2018), 9–12 July 2018, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

International Conference on Information Society and Smart Cities (ISC 2018), 6–7 June 2018, Oxford, United Kingdom.

International Conference on Education and Social Development (ESD 2017), 20–22 October 2017, Xiamen, China.

International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (ICUC 2017), 19–20 June 2017, Pune, India.

Second International Conference on Advanced Wireless Information and Communication Technologies (AWICT 2017), Université Paris-Saclay, France.

World Symposium on Computer Applications & Research (WSCAR 2017), 2–4 April 2017, Istanbul, Turkey.

International Conference on Internet of Things and Machine Learning (IML 2017), Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom.

10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2017), 7–9 March 2017, New Delhi, India.

2nd International Conference on Modelling, Simulation and Applied Mathematics (MSAM 2017), 26–27 March 2017, Bangkok, Thailand.

International Conference on Informatics, Robotics, Network, Control and Systems (IRONCONS 2016), 23–25 November 2016, Bandung, Indonesia.

International Conference on Geoinformatics (ICGWC 2016), 15–16 October 2016, Suzhou, China.

International Conference on Internet of Things and Applications (IOTA 2016), 22–24 January 2016, Pune, India.

7th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (CICN 2015), 12–14 December 2015, Jabalpur, India.

1st International Conference on Computing and Communication Systems (I3CS 2015), 9–10 April 2015, Shillong, India.

Training Programs, Workshops, and Conferences Organized

Coordinator, Online Faculty Development Program on LaTeX, 24–30 May 2024, Sikkim University.

Organizing Member, International Workshop on Research Frontiers in Data Science and Modelling, 13–14 October 2023, Sikkim University.

Coordinator, Online Faculty Development Program on Moodle Learning Management System (LMS), 6–12 June 2022, Sikkim University.

Organizing Chair, 6th International Conference on Mathematica and Computing (ICMC 2020), 18–20 March 2020, Sikkim University.

Organizer, Three-Day Workshop on Blockchain Technology (BCT 2019), in collaboration with EICT Academy, IIT Guwahati, 28–30 March 2019, Sikkim University.

Organizer, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Awareness Workshop and Contest 2018, 6 March 2019, Sikkim University.

Organizer, One-Day Seminar on Green Computing, 28 August 2015, Sikkim University.

Coordinator, Two-Day Hands-on Workshop on LaTeX (TeX-2014), 15–16 November 2014, Sikkim University.

Organizer, Five-Day Workshop on ISI-SU Autumn School on Machine Intelligence and Applications (ASMIA), jointly with Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, 22–26 September 2014, Sikkim University.

Organizer, Five-Day Workshop on Theory and Tools for Language and Document Analysis and Research (TTLDAR), jointly with Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, 24–28 March 2014, Sikkim University.

Administrative Activities

Polling Officer, Student Union (SUSA) Election 2025–26, Sikkim University.

Member, Departmental Purchase Committee, Sikkim University.

Judge, Debate Competition on “This House Rejects Artificial Intelligence Generated Art”, organized by SUSA, Sikkim University, 13 April 2023.

Member, IEEE Consumer Technology Society (CTSoc) Internet of Things (IoT) Technical Committee, IEEE, 2023–.

Member, Admission Working Committee, nominated by the Vice-Chancellor, Sikkim University.

Member, SWAYAM MOOC Review Committee, Department of Computer Applications, Sikkim University.

Member, University Technical Committee for Review of Laboratory Equipment across Departments, Sikkim University.

Member, Procurement Committee for Professional Audio–Video Online Meeting Software, Sikkim University.

Member, College Inspection Committee for Affiliation Extension / Revision, Sikkim University.

Coordinator, Compulsory Audit Paper on National Service Scheme (NSS), Department of Computer Applications, Sikkim University.

Member, University ICT Policy Drafting Committee, Sikkim University.

Member, Board of Studies (BoS), Department of Computer Applications, Sikkim University.

Member, School Board, School of Physical Sciences, Sikkim University.

Member, Project Purchase Committee, NETRA Laboratory, Department of Computer Applications.

Member, Project Appointment Committee, NETRA Laboratory, Department of Computer Applications.

Micro-Observer, Lok Sabha Election, 2019.

Member, B.Voc Syllabus Drafting Committee, Sikkim University.

Member, Oracle Software Procurement Scrutiny Committee, Sikkim University.

Member, Departmental Review Committee, Department of Computer Applications, Sikkim University.

Chief Coordinator, IT Skill Courses, Sikkim University.

Member, Language Laboratory Setup Committee, Sikkim University.

Member, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development (IED) Cell, Sikkim University.

Member, University Purchase Committee, Sikkim University.

Member, Innovators’ Club, Incubator Cell Establishment, Sikkim University.

Member, B.Sc. Computer Science Syllabus Drafting Committee, Sikkim University.

Member, MCA Entrance Examination Committee, Sikkim University.

Member, Industry–Academia Interaction Committee, Meetings with General Managers of Industries in Sikkim.

Member, Technical Sub-Committee for Center of Endangered Languages (CEL), Sikkim University.

Member, Training and Placement Committee, Sikkim University.

Member, NAAC Criterion Committee (Infrastructure and Learning Resources), Sikkim University.

Member, IEEE–CSI Chapter Council Executive Body.

Member, Board of Studies (BoS), Department of Computer Sciences and Applications, Sikkim University.

Member, Convocation Committee, Sikkim University.

Member, Admission Committee, Integrated BCA–MCA Programme.

Member, Syllabus Drafting Committee, Integrated BCA–MCA Programme.

Member, Department Library Committee, Integrated BCA–MCA Programme.

Member, Question Moderation Committee, Integrated BCA–MCA Programme.

Member, Departmental Purchase Committee, Integrated BCA–MCA Programme.

Reviewer

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

IEEE Systems Journal

IEEE Internet of Things Journal

IEEE Access

IEEE Sensors Journal

IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine

Measurement (Elsevier)

Journal of Medical Systems (Springer)

ICT Express (Elsevier)

Computer Communications (Elsevier)

Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier)

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (Springer)

Sensors (MDPI)

Electronics (MDPI)

Applied Sciences (MDPI)

Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (Wiley)

International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley)

Various IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, and MDPI journals and conferences