Workshop on Networking Humanitarian Technology for Healthcare (NetHealth)

Mr. Ashfaq Ashraf is holding M.Tech degree in clinical engineering from IIT Madras. He had a professional experience of 10 years. He has worked as a cold chain consultant for UNICEF and NHSRC, GoI. He has done fellowship in maternal and child health. He has also worked in C-DAC, CMC Vellore and a few startups. He leads team Bagmo, with a vision of making safe blood available to rural areas. His interests are in developing better medical equipment lifecycle management practices and developing affordable products for primary healthcare delivery.

Prof. Suchetana Chakraborty is working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur. Her research interests are broadly in the domains of Ubiquitous Computing, IoT and Edge Computing, Wireless sensor and mobile ad hoc networks, Distributed Systems and Smart city applications. She is one of the founding members of UbiSys Research Group in the department and actively involved in interdisciplinary research through IDRP - Smart Healthcare , IDRP - IoT & Applications and Centre of Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Development (CETSD). Currently, she is working as an Area Editor of Ad Hoc Networks journal, Elsevier. Also she is involved in organizing many conferences including IEEE ANTS 2021 (as Tutorial Co-chair), IEEE LCN 2021 , 2022, 2023(as TPC member), COMSNETS 2022, 2023 (as TPC member), ICDCN 2023, 2024 (as Workshop Co-chair) to name a few.

Supratik Mukhopadhyay is full Professor at the Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University (LSU) and a Data Science Fellow at the LSU Office of Data and Strategy. Prof. Mukhopadhyay led the DeepDrug team (DeepDrug (lsu.edu)) for automated drug discovery using Artificial Intelligence to the semifinals of AI XPRIZE (among 147 teams worldwide), the world’s top competition for using AI for solving moonshot challenges (DeepDrug | AI XPRIZE). Combination therapy discovered by the DeepDrug Artificial Intelligence Platform for COVID-19 underwent human studies at the Riverside University Health System, California (Riverside University Health System Medical Center, Skymount Medical Begin U.S. Clinical Trial for COVID-19 Oral Therapeutics Discovered Using Artificial Intelligence | County of Riverside (rivco.org)) It has also been approved for human trials by MHRA in the United Kingdom (Skymount Medical Receives UK MHRA Approval to Test New (globenewswire.com)). Apart from Drug Discovery, Prof. Mukhopadhyay has worked on AI for education, port and supply chain security, satellite image understanding, video and image analytics, design of intelligent buildings and transportation systems, wildfire prediction and detection, conservation of endangered species, intelligent cyber-physical-human systems, etc. His DeepSat framework for satellite imagery understanding forms the basis of NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) (see DeepSAT: A Deep Learning Approach to Tree-Cover Delineation in 1-m NAIP Imagery for the Continental United States - NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)). In the last 14 years, Prof. Mukhopadhyay has received more than $9 million in research grants. His research research has been funded by the NSF, DARPA, ARO, ONR, NGA, NASA, DOE, USDOT, NRL, state agencies, and private industry. Prof. Mukhopadhyay has published around 125 refereed publications in reputed journals and conferences. He has been awarded 4 US Patents and has 8 US patents pending. He has received numerous awards for his research. He cofounded a startup Ailectric for commercializing his research on sound, video, and image analytics (Ailectric | Home | Artificial Intelligence | Deep Learning). He serves as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence and Remote Sensing letters and has served in the program committees of AAAI. Professor Mukhopadhyay serves as a member of the Multidisciplinary Expert Group of the Innovation Facility, United Nations Environmental Program..

Sandip Chakraborty is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata in 2009 and Master of Technology (M Tech) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), both from IIT Guwahati, in 2011 and 2014, respectively. As a system researcher, his primary research interests is in the intersection of computer systems, human computer interaction and machine learning. More specifically, he work on various aspects of computer systems and networks, the development of assistive technologies for societal well-being, and the design of distributed, pervasive, and ubiquitous technologies over mobile devices and smartphones. He is coordinating the Ubiquitous and Networked Systems Lab (UbiNET) at IIT Kharagpur, focusing on various aspects of computer systems along with the design and development of ubiquitous and pervasive sensing systems. He is an active member of the COMSNETS Association, India, IEEE COMSOC, ACM SIGCOMM, and ACM SIGMOBILE. He is one of the founding members of ACM IMOBILE, the ACM SIGMOBILE chapter in India. Currently, He is also working as an Area Editor of Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks and Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing journals.