Arpan Pal received both his B.Tech and M.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in Electronics and Telecommunications and PhD. from Aalborg University Denmark. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and is engaged in the innovation space in different industry bodies and start-up accelerators.<o:p></o:p>

He has more than 26 years of experience in the area of Signal Processing, Communication, Embedded Systems and Robotics. Currently he is with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), where, as Chief Scientist, he is heading the Embedded Systems and Robotics Research Area in TCS Research. His research interests include Unobtrusive Sensing, AI-driven Sensor Signal Informatics & Edge Processing for applications in Connected Health, Smart Cities, Smart Enterprises & Industry 4.0; and also Cognitive Robotics & Collaborative Drones for Telepresence & Disaster Handling.<o:p></o:p>

              Arpan has more than 140 publications and book chapters till date in reputed Journals and Conferences. He has also authored a complete book on IoT. He has filed for more than 100 patents and has 60 patents granted to him.  He has been on the editorial board for reputed journals like ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing and IT Professional Magazine from IEEE Computer Society. <o:p></o:p>