Santanu Saha Ray

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Dr. S. Saha Ray is currently a Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India. He was also a Professor and former Head of the Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India. Dr. Saha Ray completed his Ph.D. in 2008 from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He received his M.C.A. (Master of Computer Applications) degree in 2001 from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), erstwhile Bengal Engineering College, Shibpur, India. He completed a master’s degree in applied mathematics at the Calcutta University, Kolkata, India, in 1998 and a bachelor’s (honours) degree in mathematics at St. Xavier’s College(currently known as St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata), Kolkata, India, in 1996. He was elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications, United Kingdom, in 2018.

The Stanford University, USA together with the publishing house Elsevier and SciTech Strategies, has released a report of the top 2% best scientists in the World in various fields. Dr. Saha Ray is enlisted in the World’s Top 2% Scientists List of Stanford University released recently and published in the open access Science journal PLOS (Public Library of Science). In India, Dr. Saha Ray is in No. 1 position in the field of “Numerical and Computational Mathematics” and his corresponding World Ranking is 55. He is at the top of the most coveted list of “WORLD RANKING OF TOP 2% SCIENTISTS” from India as per a subject-wise analysis conducted by a team of scientists at Stanford University, led by Dr. John PA Ioannidis. Stanford University’s new list of the top 2% scientists in the world in various fields includes over 1000 scientists from India. Recently, he was duly elected for Full Membership in Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honour Society, USA.

Dr. Saha Ray has more Twenty Two years of teaching experience at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in glorious Institutes like National Institute of Technology, Rourkela and two renowned private Engineering Institutes in Kolkata, West Bengal. He has more Twenty One years of research experience in various fields of Applied Mathematics. He has published many peer-reviewed research papers in numerous fields and various international SCI journals of repute. For a detailed citation overview, the reader may be referred to Scopus. To date, he has more than 258 research papers published in journals of international repute, including more than 227 SCI journal papers. He was awarded an IOP Publishing Top Cited Author Award 2018 from India in the field of Physics published across the whole IOP Publishing portfolio in the past three years (2015 to 2017), using citations recorded in Web of Science.

He has solely authored a book entitled “Graph Theory with Algorithms and Its Applications: in Applied Science and Technology” published by Springer. A solely authored book entitled “Fractional Calculus with Applications for Nuclear Reactor Dynamics” has been published by the CRC Press of the Taylor & Francis Group. Another solely authored book entitled “Numerical Analysis with Algorithms and Programming” has been also published in CRC press of Taylor & Francis group, USA. Another three books entitled “Wavelet Methods for Solving Partial Differential Equations and Fractional Differential Equations”, “Generalized Fractional Order Differential Equations Arising in Physical Models” and “Novel Methods for Solving Linear and Nonlinear Integral Equations” have been published by CRC press of Taylor & Francis group, USA. Recently his book entitled “Nonlinear Differential Equations in Physics” has been launched Springer Nature.

He has contributed papers on several topics, such as fractional calculus, mathematical modelling, mathematical physics, stochastic modeling, integral equations, and wavelet methods. He is a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS).

He was the Principal Investigator of the TWO Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences research project, with grants from by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India. He was also the principal investigator of a research Project financed by the SERB, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India and a research project financed by the National Board for Higher Mathematics, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, respectively. Currently, he has been acting as principal investigator of a research project financed by the SERB, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. Another research project is currently continuing which is funded by the National Board for Higher Mathematics, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India.

Under his sole supervision, SIX research scholars had been awarded with Ph.D. from NIT Rourkela. Another FIVE Ph.D. scholar will be conferred with Ph.D. degree very shortly.

It is not out of place to mention that he had attended the workshop organized by West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT) on “Review of Engineering Degree Curriculum of Mathematics” held at National Institute of Technical Teacher’s Training and Research (NITTTR) Kolkata, from 26th to 30th July 2004. In that Workshop Curriculum of Mathematics in Undergraduate level as well as Postgraduate level of West Bengal, University of Technology was revised.

He was invited to deliver lecture in a Short Term Training Programme on “Mathematical Modelling” organized by the Department of Science, National Institute of Technical Teacher’s Training and Research (NITTTR) Kolkata, from 4th-8th December 2006. 

It is worth noting to mention that he was invited to deliver lecture in a Workshop on “Fractional Order systems” organized by Instrumentation & Electronics Engineering Department, Jadavpur University, Salt Lake Campus, Kolkata sponsored by IEEE Kolkata Chapter, DRDL Hydrabad, BRNS (DAE) Mumbai, from 28th March to 29th March 2008.

Moreover, he was also invited to deliver lecture in a Short Term Training Programme on “Mathematical Modelling” organized by Department of Science, National Institute of Technical Teacher’s Training and Research (NITTTR) Kolkata, from 24th-28th November 2008.

He was invited as an expert speaker in the One Week Online Short Term Training Programme (STTP) on Fractional Calculus: Foundations to Frontiers (FCFF 2020) during December 28, 2020 – January 01, 2021 held in Applied Mathematics and Humanities Department, SVNIT, Surat.

He was also invited as an expert speaker and session chairman in the Conference on “Fractional Calculus: Analysis and Applications” during August 20, 2021 – August 21, 2021 held in the Center for Advanced Study, Department of Mathematics, Savitribhai Phule Pune University, Pune.

He also delivered an invited talk at the Second Online Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity, which took place at ISEP, Porto, Portugal, October 4-6 2021.

He delivered an invited talk in the “International Conference on Fractional Calculus -2022” organized by the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Hyderabad, India during 18th - 19th January, 2022.

He delivered an invited talk at the 3rd International Conference on Recent Development in Engineering & Technology (ICRDET-2022) which was held in the virtual mode under the auspices of the RTU, Kota, and Anand-ICE,(India), during February 25-26, 2022. 

Additionally, he was invited to present an invited lecture for the CONVERGENCE-2022 Webinar Series, which took place at SASTRA Deemed University on June 25, 2022.

He delivered an invited talk at the International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulations of Multiscale Transport Phenomena (ICMASMTP-2022) which was held through hybrid mode at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, during August 25-27, 2022.

Recently, he delivered a Keynote lecture at the International Conference on Differential Equations and Control Problems (ICDECP23) which was held through hybrid mode at Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India, during June 15-17, 2023.

He was convener of “Symposium on Recent Trends and Emerging Applications of Mathematical Sciences (SRTEAMS-2013)” sponsored by CSIR, New Delhi; DST, Govt. of India and INSA, New Delhi held on May 16 to May 17, 2013. He was chairman as well convener of “National Conference on Recent Advances in Mathematics and its Applications (NCRAMA-2018)” sponsored by NBHM, DAE, Govt. of India; SERB DST, Govt. of India and CSIR, Govt. of India, held at NIT Rourkela from December 7th to December 8th, 2018. Also, he was chairman as well convener of “1st International Conference on Applied Analysis, Computation and Mathematical Modelling in Engineering (AACMME-2021)” held at NIT Rourkela from February 24th to February 26th, 2021. He served as the editor of a proceedings book published by Springer titled "Applied Analysis, Computation and Mathematical Modelling in Engineering: Select Proceedings of AACMME 2021." Additionally, he served as the guest editor of the special issue of AACMME-2021 for the Elsevier journal "Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics". He recently organised a short term training programme (STTP) titled "Emerging Applications of Mathematics and Statistics in Engineering Science and Technology (EAMSEST-2022)" at NIT Rourkela in hybrid mode from May 9th to May 15th, 2022, sponsored by SERB and NBHM, for which he served as chairman and convener.

He had attended as an invited participant in “International Conference on Mathematical Modeling in Physical Sciences” held in Madrid, Spain from August 28th to August 31st, 2014. Also, he attended as an invited participant in “Global Conference on Applied Physics and Mathematics” held in Rome, Italy from July 25th to July 27th, 2016. Travel grant was sponsored by SERB, DST, Government of India.

He also served as an expert member of the Board of Studies in the Department of Mathematics of NIT Arunachal Pradesh from 2019 and in the Department of Mathematics of Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla, Odisha, from 2022, and as an expert examiner of Ph.D. defences and other examinations for various universities. He was also an expert member of the faculty recruitment interview board. He also served as an adjudicator for several national and international theses from various national and international universities/institutions.

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