Krishnendu Roy, PhD

Associate Professor, Department Head, Computer Science at Valdosta State University
From Hahira, GA

Dr. Krishnendu Roy joined the Valdosta State University faculty in August 2009. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Science in electrical (computer) engineering, both from Louisiana State University, and a Bachelor of Technology in information technology and Bachelor of Science in computer science, both from the University of Calcutta. He holds membership in the Association of Computing Machinery and the Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education. He previously taught at Louisiana State University.

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Interests + Expertise

Computer Science Robotics Android Apps Computer Science Education in K12 Programming Coding US Legal Immigration Policies High Skilled Immigration

Education

Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
University of Calcutta

Work Experience

Department Head and Professor at Valdosta State University

July 2019 - Present

Department Head and Associate Professor at Valdosta State University

July 2018 - June 2019

Interim Department Head and Associate Professor at Valdosta State University

July 2016 - June 2018

Associate Professor at Valdosta State University

During this time period, I earned the following awards and recognitions:

* 2014 K. Roy. Valdosta Computes v2.0. Funding from Google CS4HS, $12,500

August 2014 - June 2016

Assistant Professor at Valdosta State University

During this time period, I earned the following awards and recognitions:

* 2013 K. Roy. Valdosta Computes. Funding from Google CS4HS, $12,000

* 2012 K. Roy. Android Devices for Research/Education (9 Android phones). Funding from Google, in-kind

* 2011 Z. Xu. and K. Roy. CUDA Teaching Center. Funding from NVIDIA, in-kind

* 2011 K. Roy. Computing Adventures @ VSU. Funding from Georgia Computes NSF BPC Grant, Georgia Institute of Technology, $4,999

* 2011 S. Chakraborty and K. Roy. "An Analytical Model for Estimating the Trustworthiness of a Cloud." Funding from VSU FRSG, $7,500

* 2011 K. Roy. Computing Summer Camps for Middle and High Schools Students. Funding from VSU Strategic Focus Initiative, $13,659

* 2010 K. Roy. Computing Adventures @ VSU. Funding from Georgia Computes NSF BPC Grant, Georgia Institute of Technology, $4,999

August 2009 - July 2014

Projects + Publications

“App Inventor for Android in VSU Computing Summer Camps”

presented at App Inventor Summit at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, July 2012.

July 2012 - Presentations

“App Inventor 2 Essentials”

Kamriani, F. and Roy, K. (2016). Packt Publishing Ltd.

Articles

“Closed Labs in Programming Courses: A Review”

Mihail, R. P. and Roy, K. (2016). In: Proceed- ings of the International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering (FECS), pp. 104.

Articles

“Position statement: App inventor instructional resources for creating tangible apps”

Roy, K. (2015). In: Blocks and Beyond Workshop. IEEE, pp. 119–120.

Articles

“K-Means Clustering Using Mahalanobis Distance”

Wang, M., Mao, G., Roy, K., and Drummond, D. (2014). In: Proceedings of 2014 Southeastern INFORMS Conference.

Conferences

“An SLA-based framework for estimating trustworthiness of a cloud”

Chakraborty, S. and Roy, K. (2012). In: 11th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Com- munications (TrustCom). IEEE, pp. 937–942.

Articles

“App inventor for Android: report from a summer camp”

Roy, K. (2012). In: Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education. ACM, pp. 283–288.

Articles

“Comparing the mobile novice programming environments: App Inventor for Android vs. GameSalad”

Roy, K., Rousse, W. C., and DeMeritt, D. B. (2012). In: Proceedings of Frontiers in Educa- tion Conference (FIE). IEEE, pp. 1–6.

Articles

“On the Fairness of the Georgia Ocial Spelling Bee Rules”

Wang, A. and Roy, K. (2012). In: Pro- ceedings of 2012 Southeastern INFORMS Conference.

Conferences

“Input-queued switches with logarithmic de- lay: necessary conditions and a recongurable scheduling algorithm”

Roy, K., Vaidyanathan, R., and Trahan, J. L. (2008). In: Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems. ACM, pp. 121–122.

Articles

“Routing multiple width communications on the circuit switched tree”

Roy, K., Vaidyanathan, R., and Trahan, J. L. (2006). International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, vol. 17 no. 02, 271–285.

Articles

“Configuring the circuit switched tree for multiple width communications”

Roy, K., Vaidyanathan, R., and Trahan, J. L. (2005). In: Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2005. IEEE.

Articles

“NEC: Node Energy Based Clustering Protocol for Wire- less Sensor Networks with Guaranteed Connectivity”

Dhar, S., Roy, K., and Kannan, R. (2004). In: 1st Int’l. Conf. on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology (ICDCIT). Springer Verlag, pp. 75–84.

Articles

“Configuring the Circuit Switched Tree for Point-to-Point and Multicast Communication”

Roy, K., Trahan, J. L., and Vaidyanathan, R. (2004). In: Proceedings of the IASTED Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS).

Articles

Curriculum Vitae