Sanku Kumar Roy

Research Project

 

• University of Alberta

  • Position: Graduate Research Assistantship Fellowship

  • Duration: May 2024 - August 2024​

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• University of Alberta

  • Designation: Grad Research Assistantship

  • Duration: September 2022 - April 2023​

  • Project: A scalable sensor network for pipeline vibration analysis

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• Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

  • Designation: Junior Research Fellow

  • Duration:  29.08.2020 - 07.01.2021

  • Department: Electrical Engineering

  • PI: Dr. Ketan Rajawat

  • Project: Design of a Generic UAV Communication and Networking Architecture

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• Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

  • Designation: Project Engineer

  • Duration:  17.12.2018 - 28.08.2020

  • Department: Electrical Engineering

  • PI: Dr. Ketan Rajawat

  • Project: Design of a Swarm Communication Architecture for UAV Networks

  • The objective of the project is to design a robust ad-hoc mesh networking architecture between the ground control station and the swarm of helicopters (distance > 20 Km) as well as within the swarm so that the helicopters can transmit video streaming with telematics data to the ground station for surveillance, monitoring, and controlling.

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• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur 

  • Designation: Junior Research Fellow

  • Duration:  01.10.2014 - 31.10.17

  • PI: Prof. Narendra Singh Raghuwanshi

  • Project: Sensor-Based Networking System for Improved Water Management of Irrigated Crops

  • Website: agrisys.iitkgp.ac.in

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• Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

  • Designation: Project staff

  • Duration:  01.05.2014 - 30.09.2014

 

• Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur

       (Formerly Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur)

• Designation: Project Assistant

• Duration: 01.11.2013 - 30.04.2014

• PI: Dr. Indrajit Banerjee

• Project: Fault-Tolerant Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks

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Industry

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• Pervcom Consulting Pvt. Ltd.

  • Designation: Product development and support Engineer

  • Duration: 01.10.2012 - 31.08.2013

  • Responsibility: Designing, programming, and assembling of Microcontroller-based networked

  • wireless communication modules. Designing various test modules and types of equipment for research and development purposes of the company.

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Teaching Assistants

• Security in a Networked World (CMPUT 333) 

  • Winter 2026, Winter 2025, Winter 2024, and Winter 2022 at the University of Alberta​​

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• Introduction to Computing (CMPUT 101)

  • Fall 2024, Fall 2023 at the University of Alberta​​​​​​​

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• ALGORITHMS I (CMPUT 204) 

  • Fall 2021 and Winter 2021 at the University of Alberta

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• Programming and Data Structures Lab (CS19001) 

  • Spring 2018, Autumn 2017, Spring 2017, and Autumn 2016 at IIT Kharagpur

 

Talks

 

• CMPUT 495 Honors Seminar

  • Presentation Title: Compression in Delay Tolerant Networks under Limited Storage

  • Duration: 50 minutes

  • Date: November 18, 2024

  • Audience: CS's 2nd-year to 4th-year students

  • Venue: University of Alberta

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• Short-Term Course: Architecting Wireless Sensor Networks for Internet of Things (February 20-24, 2017)

  • Topic: Hardware Design of Sensor Node and Real-life deployment of WSN

  • Duration: 3 hours

  • Audience: College Faculties and Students (Ph.D., MTech, and BTech)

  • Venue: IIT Kharagpur

 

• Short-Term Course: Internet of Things: Convergence of Sensing, Cloud, and Big-Data Networking (July 13-26, 2015), sponsored by AICTE/QIP

  • Topic: WSN Kit and Its Applications with Programming

  • Duration: 2 hours

  • Audience: College Faculties and Students (Ph.D., MTech, and BTech)

  • Venue: IIT Kharagpur

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