SAYAN ROY (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Chandernagore, West Bengal, India. He received a B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, India, in 2010, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA, in 2012 and 2017, respectively.
Following a few full-time stints through 2017–2018; such as instructor at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; postdoctoral research fellow at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA; and visiting assistant professor at North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA; he is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and director of the Antennas and Wireless Communications Research Laboratory at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD, USA, since spring 2019. His research interests focus on the real-time applications of wireless sensors and composite antennas in such fields as 2D geometry, nanostructure, additive manufacturing, automotive, defense, healthcare, mining, Internet-of-Things, precision agriculture, space, and terrestrial communications. His teaching interests focus on applied electromagnetics and wireless communications. He is a member of the Honorary Electrical Engineering Society IEEE HKN.
