Prof Pradeep Ray is the Founder of the Centre For Entrepreneurship (CFE) at the University of Michigan Joint Institute in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He leads the multi-disciplinary (Engineering, healthcare, business and entrepreneurship and social sciences), multi country (more than ten across Asia, Australia and Europe) initiative (since 2018) called Technology Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development (TESD) that led to four books since 2020 as listed in the publications. He taught in the UNSW Business School since 1999. He has been the founder Director (2013-2016) of the WHO Collaborating Centre on eHealth at the University of New South Wales (UNSW)-Australia where he is an Honorary Professor since 2016. In recognition to his global contribution in mHealth and eHealth, he was elected a Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Informatics.
Pradeep led to completion (2006-2009) the WHO Research on the Assessment of e-Health for Health Care Delivery (eHCD) involving a number of countries in the Asia-Pacific region (India, China, Vietnam and Philippines). Pradeep also led to completion a number of international initiatives, such as the ITU-D/IEEE Mobile eHealth Initiative for Developing Countries (2004-2009) and the Global Longitudinal Study on the Assessment of mHealth (2009-2012). This study involved a number of developing countries, such as Bangladesh, India, PNG and Indonesia. The highly cited work by APuHC on mHealth Bangladesh led to the formation of the UNSW Yunus Social Business Hub for Health, the first of its kind in Australia.
He is currently a Fellow of IET, UK (since 2023). Prior to that, he has been an active Senior Member of IEEE as IEEE Distinguished Lecturer on eHealth (2014-2022). He has been a founder and a Chair of IEEE eHealth Technical Committee (2009-2013) and the founder of IEEE Healthcom (1999-2019). He has been leading a number of collaborative research projects with reputed International Research Organisations all over the world, sponsored by the European Union, WHO, ITU and IEEE. He has been involved in organising a number of international conferences, sponsored by IEEE, ITU and WHO.
He has a Ph.D in Information Technology from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia , Masters in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and a Bachelor of Electronics Engineering from BHU-IT, Banaras, India. He has more than ten years' experience in technical and management positions in International Information Technology Business Organisations. Pradeep Ray has published more than two hundred and fifty articles in international refereed journals and conferences. He has nearly twenty years experience in course development and teaching of courses in Entrepreneurship, Information Systems, Technology and Management at postgraduate and under-graduate levels in universities and industry all over the world.
Research Student |
Research Area |
Status |
Publications (category) |
Steven Bleistein |
Goal-Oriented E-Business Patterns (Masters) |
Completed 2003 |
2B, 1A |
Bao Hua Michael Liu |
Network Performance Analysis Strategy (PhD) |
Completed 2005 |
5B, 2A |
Alfred Wong |
Ontology-driven agents for security management (PhD) |
Completed 2008 |
5B, 3A |
Junhua Li |
Methodology for the Assessment of eHealth Requirements (Masters) |
Completed 2007 |
3B, 2A |
Fredeick Yip |
Compliance management based on Ontology-based Multi-Agent Systems (PhD) |
Completed 2009 |
3B, 2A |
Weir Ying |
Design Methodology for Ontology-based Multi-Agent Applications (MOMA) |
Completed 2009 |
2B, 2A |
Amir Talaei-Khoei |
PAM: Policy-based Awareness Management (PhD) |
Completed 2011 |
6B, 4A |
Katherine Kosman |
Approach for Assessing Clinical Trial Informatics Systems and a Case Study of the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid’s (caBIG) Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS)-Masters |
Completed 2012 |
3A |
Shahriar Akter |
Service Quality Dynamics of mHealth in Bangladesh (PhD) |
Completed 2012 |
7B, 5A |
Junhua Li |
E-HEALTH PREPAREDNESS FOR A PANDEMIC: CASE STUDIES IN AUSTRALIA AND CHINA (PhD) |
Completed 2012 |
5B, 5A |
Alexander Rosewell |
Investigation of Disease Surveillance in PNG using mHealth (PhD) |
Completed 2013 |
2B, 3A |
Saradhi Motamarri |
Distinguishing mHealth from other Healthcare Alternatives in Developing Countries: A Study on Service Characteristics (Masters) |
Completed 2013 |
2B, 2A |
Aishwarya Bakshi |
Policy Deviation Management (PODMAN)- Masters |
Completed 2014 |
3B, 2A |
Alireza Rahimi |
Ontology Based Approach to Data Quality Management Chronic Diseases: Perspective of Diabetes (PhD) |
Completed 2014 |
2B, 4A |
Koel Ghorai |
mHealth Service using Pursuasive Design for Behavioural Change: Smoking Cessation Application (Masters) |
Completed 2014 |
3B, 2A |
Tejal Shah |
Integration of Primary and Oral Care using Ontologies (PhD) |
Completed 2016 |
4B, 2A |
Fatema Khatun |
Community Readiness of mHealth for Rural Healthcare in Bangladesh (PhD) |
Completed 2015 |
2B, 3A |
Teuku Guempana |
Mobile Cloud Framework for Disaster Management |
Completed 2018 |
4B, 1A |
Jitendra Jonnagaddala |
Identification of diabetes patients at risk of other chronic diseases from unstructured data using big data and semantic web technologies (PhD) |
Completed 2017 |
4B, 6A |
John Lewis |
Characteristics of information systems that can support GP led primary care services to manage the care of colorectal cancer patients(PhD) |
Started in 2015 |
4B, 2A |