Applied Big Data Analytics Evolution Platforms & Tools Use cases Benefits Impact and Paradox

Born in 1946, Professor Ajit Kumar Roy obtained his M.Sc. degree in Statistics and joined Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) as a Scientist in 1976. In recent past was engaged as National Consultant (Impact Assessment), for East & North Eastern States if India at National Agricultural Innovation Project (World Bank funded) of ICAR. Prior to that he was Consultant (Statistics) at Central Agricultural University, Agartala. Served at CIFA, ICAR, as Principal Scientist was involved in R & D activities in ICT, Bioinformatics, Statistics and Economics for the last 45 years. At International level he was deputed by Govt. of India as a Computer Specialist at SAARC Agricultural Information Centre (SAIC), Dhaka, Bangladesh for over 3 years. He has edited eighteen books and several conference proceedings covering the areas of statistics, bioinformatics, economics, and ICT applications in aquaculture/fisheries/agriculture.besides published over 100 articles in refereed journals, conference proceedings. Professor Roy is an acclaimed and award-winning keynote speaker, researcher and consultant. His recent popular books are 'Applied Big Data Analytics'; 'Applied Bioinformatics, Statistics and Economics in Fisheries Research.He has successfully organized many workshops on application of ICT in fisheries research at National and International level. Presently visiting Professor, question setter and examiner of College of Fisheries, Agartala & College of Post graduate Studies, Barapani under Central Agricultural University, Imphal; Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai; Orissa University Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, Indira Gandhi Agricultural University, Raipur and Institute of Genetic Engineering, Kolkata. He has vast experience in Statistical consulting, guidance and Analytics and has helped design academic curricula .for teaching at graduate and postgraduate level having spent most of his career in the application of Statistics/Bioinformatics/computational Biology in Fisheries and Agriculture and allied fields. Fully engaged as a freelance author, writing extensively in his areas of expertise: Analytics, Statistics, Bioinformatics, ICT & Knowledge management, Computational Biology, and Evaluation &Impact Assessment. He is widely recognized as an expert research scientist, teacher, author, hands-on leader in advanced analytics in a wide variety of Research and Development Activities.