Research

Invited Talks and Keynotes Delivered

Invited talk by Pradeep Ray, “Technology Entrepreneurship from Computer and related Disciplines Perspective”, UNSW School of Computer Science and Engineering, Australia, September 5, 2024
Keynote address by Pradeep Ray “Sustainable Healthcare and SDGs”, Global Health Tehnopreneurship Workshop, University of Birmingham, UK, May 7th 2024
Invited Talk by Pradeep Ray “Silvercare: An Interesting Model for Care with Ageing Population”, Leeds University Business School (LUBS), University of Leeds, UK, May 2nd 2024
Seminar by Pradeep Ray, “Technology Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development”, Masood Entrepreneurship Centre, University of Manchester, UK April 30, 2024 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/technology-entrepreneurship-and-sustainable-development-tickets-877991234417?aff=oddtdtcreator
Invited talk by Pradeep Ray, “Digital Innovations to Support Healthy Ageing”, Centre for Digital Develooment, University of Manchester, UK, April 29, 2024
Distinguished Speaker Pradeep Ray at the 11th Conference of Bulgarian Association of Management Development and Entrepreneurship (BAMDE2023) at Varna, Bulgaria (Sept 11-14) "Technology Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development: Role of partnership across academic Institutions and Business"
Invited Talk at the Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS), University of Manchester on Sept 22, 2023 by Pradeep Ray "Mobile Technologies for Delivering Healthcare in Remote, Rural or Developing Regions"
Invited Talk at the University of Lincoln-UK on Sept 18, 2023 by Pradeep Ray "mHealth and Social Business Entrepreneurship in Healthcare"
Pradeep Ray, spoke at the virtual Panel “Innovation and entrepreneurship for sustainable development”at the International Business Acceleration Program Demo Day organised by neoBAY and partners on 15th June 2022 (program enclosed).
Pradeep Ray, Chaired the Panel with 12 international experts representing all the continents on Social Business Research Collaboration and Funding at the International Social Business Day 2021 on July 1, 2021, organised online by the Yunus Social Business Centre
Invited Talk “Pradeep Ray, Telehealth: World-Changing Technology”, IEEE Vision Innovation and Commitment (VIC) Summit, 13th May 2021
Conference Keynote Address “Pradeep Ray, Multidisciplinary Innovation in Social Business”, Annual Conference of the Australian Academy of Business Leadership (AABL), Sydney, Australia Feb 13th, 2020
Invited Talk “Pradeep Ray, Role of Entrepreneurship in Welfare Technologies in Developing Countries: A Perspective of mHealth in Belt and Road region”, EU Lifebots Exchange Workshop on Care Practices and Welfare Technologies, Trondheim-Norway, November 4, 2019,
Invited Talk “Pradeep Ray, Robots for the Emotional health of the Elderly, BIT 6 th Annual Global Congress of Knowledge and Economy”(GCKE2019), Qingdao-China, September 2019
Invited Talk “Advancing the Role of Entrepreneurship in mHealth (Healthcare using Mobile Technologies)” InfTech2018, Nanjing-China, May 2019
Invited Talk “Telepresence Robots for the Elderly: A project across Europe and Australia” World Congress on Robotics (WCR2018), Shenyang China, Aug 30-Sept 1, 2018
Invited Talk “Technology Entrepreneurship for Social Business in the Belt and Road Region”, Social Business Academic Conference (SBAC2018), Wolfsburg, Germany, Nov 2018
Keynote Address “Role of mHealth in Universal Health Coverage (UHC)”, IEEE Conference on eHealth Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom2017), Dalian China, October 2017
Panel presentation “Social Implications of eHealth/mHealth Technologies” at the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS2017), Sydney-Australia, August 11, 2017
Chair of the Closing Panel “Disruptive Technologies, Ethics and Global Development” at IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS2016), Trivandrum, India, Oct22, 2016
IEEE Distinguished Lectures on Social Implications of Technology at Bandung-Indonesia, Coimbatore-India, Dhaka-Bangladesh in Oct 2016
Keynote Address “Privacy and Ethics of Data Sharing across Jurisdictions in eHealth/mHealth Projects”, WHO Workshop on eHealth Information Network at the China Health Information Technology Exchange Conference (CHITEC2016), Nanjing-China, August 2016
Keynote Address “Towards an Intelligent and ubiquitous Healthcare Infrastructure: Challenges and Trends”, International Conference Biology and Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai , China, July 2016
Invited Speech “Cloud Based mHealth Service for Primary Care”, 6th Annual Academic Congress of Chinese Society of Digital Medicine and 1st International Conference on Digital Medicine, Nanjing China, June 17-19, 2016

Publications

Pradeep Kumar Ray, Rajib Shaw, Yasuhiro Soshino, Anirban Dutta, Teuku Aulia Geumpana, Technology Innovation for Sustainable Development of Healthcare and Disaster Management, Springer Singapore, 2024. ISBN: 978-981-97-2048-4, eBook ISBN: 978-981-97-2049-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-2049-1 , accessed November 2024
Pradeep Kumar Ray, Rajib Shaw, Yasuhiro Soshino, Anirban Dutta, Teuku Aulia Geumpana, Overview of Technology Innovation for Sustainable Healthcare and Disaster Management, Chapter 1 in Technology Innovation for Sustainable Development of Healthcare and Disaster Management, Springer Singapore, 2024. ISBN: 978-981-97-2048-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-2049-1_1 , accessed November 2024
Uttam Pudasaini, Pradeep Kumar Ray, Towards a Multidimensional Deployment Framework for the Use of Drones in Disaster Response, Chapter 11 in Technology Innovation for Sustainable Development of Healthcare and Disaster Management, Springer Singapore, 2024. ISBN: 978-981-97-2048-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-2049-1_11 , accessed November 2024
Teuku Aulia Geumpana, Pradeep Kumar Ray, A Generic Model to Capture Essential Information on Limited Capacity Mobile Devices During a Disaster, Chapter 12 in Technology Innovation for Sustainable Development of Healthcare and Disaster Management, Springer Singapore, 2024. ISBN: 978-981-97-2048-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-2049-1_12 , accessed November 2024
Guangtao Zhai, Huiyu Duan, Xiaoyu Ren, Pradeep Kumar Ray, Intelligent Eye-Tracking for the Early Diagnosis of Autism: A Mental Health Disaster with Families, Chapter 13 in Technology Innovation for Sustainable Development of Healthcare and Disaster Management, Springer Singapore, 2024. ISBN: 978-981-97-2048-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-2049-1_13 , accessed November 2024
Chongdan Pan, Pradeep Kumar Ray, Blockchain Technology for Preventing Disasters in Surgery: A Case Study on Plastic Surgery, Chapter 14 in Technology Innovation for Sustainable Development of Healthcare and Disaster Management, Springer Singapore, 2024. ISBN: 978-981-97-2048-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-2049-1_14 , accessed November 2024
Xiayou Ren, Yuanchen Bai, Huyiu Duan, Lei Fan, Erkang Fei, Geer Wu, Pradeep Ray, Menghan Hu, Chenyuan Yan, and Guangtao, Zhai, ChatASD, LLM based AI therapies for ASD, Chapter in Selected Papers of the 20th International Forum on Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communications (eds Guangtao Zhai, Jun Zhou, Long Ye, Ping An and Xiaokang Yang), Communications in Computer and Information Science (2067), Springer 2024, ISBN 978-981-97-3625-6 ISBN 978-981-97-3626-3 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-3626-3 , accessed June 2024
Nicholas Duthie, Keyvan Ansari, Mingzhong Wang and Pradeep Kumar Ray, "Design of a shared context-aware assistive robot for personalised aged-care services," Digital Medicine. 10(1):e23-00017, https://journals.lww.com/dm/fulltext/2024/03000/design_of_a_shared_context_aware_assistive_robot.17.aspx , accessed March 2024
Zheng Li, Caiwei Chen and Pradeep Ray, Robotics for Autism, Asian Hospital & Healthcare Management (AHHM), Issue 57, Asian Hospital and Healthcare Management Magazine, 2023 (pp60-63), https://www.asianhhm.com/e-book, accessed Oct 2023
Lei Fan, Guangtao Zhai and Pradeep Ray."Virtual Reality (VR) Tools for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)", Asian Hospital & Healthcare Management (AHHM), Issue 59, Asian Hospital and Healthcare Management Magazine, 2023 (pp48-53), https://www.asianhhm.com/latest-ebook, accessed Feb 2023
Pradeep Kumar Ray, and Rajib Shaw(eds), Technology Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development. SPRINGER VERLAG, SINGAPORE, 2022.ISBN 978-981-19-2053-0, https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/technology-entrepreneurship-and-sustainable-development/23174380 accessed June 2022
Tianyu Chen, Yuanchen Bai, Pradeep Ray, and Gang Zheng, Practicum-Oriented Entrepreneurship Education: A Systematic Literature Review, Chapter 3 in Technology Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development. SPRINGER VERLAG, SINGAPORE, 2022. ISBN 978-981-19-2053-0
Sheng Qiao, Gongyu Chen, and Pradeep Ray, Applicability of Business Model Canvas in the Context of Entrepreneurship in Asia: A Systematic Literature Review, Chapter 4 in Technology Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development. SPRINGER VERLAG, SINGAPORE, 2022. ISBN 978-981-19-2053-0
Sam Ro, Siqi Xiao, and Zhoumin Zhou, Starting Up STEAM in China: A Case Study of Technology Entrepreneurship for STEAM Education in China, Chapter 6 in Technology Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development. SPRINGER VERLAG, SINGAPORE, 2022. ISBN 978-981-19-2053-0
Samsul Alam, Md. Rakibul Hoque, and Pradeep Ray, The Role of Technology Entrepreneurship in Facilitating Corporate Donations: A Model for B2B Social e-Business Development, Chapter 8 in Technology Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development. SPRINGER VERLAG, SINGAPORE, 2022. ISBN 978-981-19-2053-0
Koel Ghorai and Pradeep Ray, Harnessing Mobile Technologies for Healthy Living: A Case Study on Smoking Cessation, Chapter 9 in Technology Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development. SPRINGER VERLAG, SINGAPORE, 2022. ISBN 978-981-19-2053-0
Sardar Masud Karim and Pradeep Ray, Linking Climate Action and Sustainable Development Goals by Activating Co-Benefits, Chapter 10 in Technology Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development. SPRINGER VERLAG, SINGAPORE, 2022. ISBN 978-981-19-2053-0
Kwee-Yan Teh, Soong-Chul Ro, and Pradeep Ray, Mapping Water Salinity in Coastal Areas Affected by Rising Sea Level, Chapter 12 in Technology Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development. SPRINGER VERLAG, SINGAPORE, 2022. ISBN 978-981-19-2053-0
Pradeep Ray, Kwee-Yan Teh. “Technology Entrepreneurship in Healthcare.” Asian Hospital & Healthcare Management (AHHM), Issue 56, 2022. https://www.asianhhm.com/magazine. Accessed May 2022.
Caiwei Chen, Yongqi Zheng, Pradeep Ray. “Healthcare Technology Entrepreneurship in China.” Asian Hospital & Healthcare Management (AHHM), Issue 55, 2022. https://www.asianhhm.com/magazine. Accessed March 2022.
Pradeep Ray, Siaw-Teng Liaw and Artur Serrano (eds), Digital Methods and Tools to Support Healthy Ageing, IET Press 2021, ISBN: 13: 978-1-83953-462-1
Soong-Chul Ro, Willy Huang and Karpurika Raychaudhuri, Global Demographic Changes and Ageing Population: An Overview, Chapter 3 in Digital Methods and Tools to Support Healthy Ageing, IET Press 2021, ISBN: 13: 978-1-83953-462-1
Sardar Masud Karim, Siaw-Teng Liaw and Pradeep Ray, Health Co-Benefits in Climate Action Policies for Healthy Ageing, Chapter 5 in Digital Methods and Tools to Support Healthy Ageing, IET Press 2021, ISBN: 13: 978-1-83953-462-1
Kasturi Bakshi, Jacqueline Blake and Pradeep Ray, Silvercare: A Model for Supporting Healthy Ageing Services, Chapter 7 in Digital Methods and Tools to Support Healthy Ageing, IET Press 2021, ISBN: 13: 978-1-83953-462-1
Nazia Akter, Yan Hanrunyu and Pradeep RayImplications of COVID-19 lockdown policies for aged population, Chapter 8 in Digital Methods and Tools to Support Healthy Ageing, IET Press 2021, ISBN: 13: 978-1-83953-462-1
Yuan You, Yan Hanrunyu and Pradeep Ray, Digital Health for Aged Care from a Service Perspective, Chapter 10 in Digital Methods and Tools to Support Healthy Ageing, IET Press 2021, ISBN: 13: 978-1-83953-462-1
Zhiyu Hao, Max Xu, Lina Li and Pradeep Ray, Role of Technology in Aged Care in China, Chapter 11 in Digital Methods and Tools to Support Healthy Ageing, IET Press 2021, ISBN: 13: 978-1-83953-462-1
Pan Chongdan, Minzhong Wang and Pradeep Ray, Telepresence Robots for Healthy Ageing, Chapter 16 in Digital Methods and Tools to Support Healthy Ageing, IET Press 2021, ISBN: 13: 978-1-83953-462-1
M. Wang, C. Pan and P. K. Ray, "Technology Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries: Role of Telepresence Robots in Healthcare," in IEEE Engineering Management Review, IEEE Engineering Management Review 49 (1), 20-26, March 2021
Soong-Chul Ro, Zhigang Zhang, Niharika Dayaneni and Renan Chen. "Technology and Innovation to Weather the Storm? – A Case Study of the Role of Technology and Innovation for Startup Survival in Shanghai". In The Future of Service Post-Covid-19 Pandemic, Vol.1. eds Jungwoo Lee and Spring Han. Springer, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-33-4126-5.
Pradeep Ray, Steven Wijaya and Junxiang Zhang, mHealth in China: A Growing Market, Asian Hospital and Healthcare Management (2021) Issue 51, https://www.asianhhm.com/magazine accessed Feb 2021.
Kwee-Yan Teh, Soong-Chul (Sam) Ro and Pradeep Ray, Student-Led Engineering Designs to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change and Public Health, IEEE Leader, October 2020, https://www.ieee-tems.org/student-led-engineering-designs-to-meet-the-challenges-of-climate-change-and-public-health/, accessed October 2020
Pradeep Kumar Ray, Naoki Nakashima, Ashir Ahmed, Soong-Chul Ro, Yasuhiro Soshino (Eds), Mobile Technologies for Delivering Healthcare in Remote, Rural or Developing Regions, IET Book Series on Health Technologies, 2020,ISBN 978-1-83953-047-0 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-83953-048-7 (PDF), https://shop.theiet.org/mobile-technologies-for-delivering-healthcare-in-remote-rural-or-developing-regions publisheed by IET Press, UK
Soong-Chul Ro, Sohel Ahmed, Andy Hsiao and Yulei Fu, Role of the university for sustainable development, Chapter 1 in Pradeep Kumar Ray, Naoki Nakashima, Ashir Ahmed, Soong-Chul Ro, Yasuhiro Soshino (Eds), Mobile Technologies for Delivering Healthcare in Remote, Rural or Developing Regions, IET Book Series on Health Technologies, 2020 (pp 3-22), IET Press, UK
Saradhi Motamarri, Shahriar Akter and Pradeep K. Ray, The status of healthcare service delivery systems: comparison, mobile health, and healthcare service design, Chapter 20 in Pradeep Kumar Ray, Naoki Nakashima, Ashir Ahmed, Soong-Chul Ro, Yasuhiro Soshino (Eds), Mobile Technologies for Delivering Healthcare in Remote, Rural or Developing Regions, IET Book Series on Health Technologies, 2020 (pp 323-234), IET Press, UK
Koel Ghorai, Jan M. Smits, Marten Kluitman and Pradeep K. Ray, Business and legal framework for the exchange of mHealth data for aged care across countries, Chapter 22 in Pradeep Kumar Ray, Naoki Nakashima, Ashir Ahmed, Soong-Chul Ro, Yasuhiro Soshino (Eds), Mobile Technologies for Delivering Healthcare in Remote, Rural or Developing Regions, IET Book Series on Health Technologies, 2020 (pp 357-380), IET Press, UK
Arni Ariani, John Lewis, Padmanesan Narasimhan, Soegijardjo Soegijoko and Pradeep K. Ray, Assessment of vulnerability to natural disasters for emergency management in Victoria, Australia, Chapter 24 in Mobile Technologies for Delivering Healthcare in Remote, Rural or Developing Regions, IET Book Series on Health Technologies, 2020 (pp 397-424), IET Press, UK
Bernard Le Moullec, Yan Hanrunyu and Pradeep Kumar Ray, The Financial Viability of eHealth and mHealth, Financecom2020 Conference, Helsinki, Finland, August 18, 2020, Proceedings in the Springer Lecture Notes on Business Information Processing (LNBIP), 2020
Pradeep Ray and Yan Hanrunyu, Innovations in Healthcare Financing, Asian Hospital and Healthcare Management (2020) Issue 48 (July 2020), https://www.asianhhm.com/healthcare-management/innovations-in-healthcare-financing, accessed October 2020
Pradeep Ray, Soon-Chul Ro and Junhua Li, Technology, e-health and telehealth key to combatting COVID-19, East Asia Forum (EAF), Special Feature Series, May 20, 2020, see https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/05/20/technology-e-health-and-telehealth-key-to-combatting-covid-19/, accessed October 2020
Karpurika Raychaudhuri and Pradeep Ray, mHealth Technology Privacy and Control, Asian Hospital and Healthcare Management (2019) Issue 46 (October 2019), https://www.asianhhm.com/healthcare-management/advancing-role-of-entrepreneurship, last accessed October 9, 2019
Gang Zheng, Horst Hohberger, Chengbin Ma, Pradeep Ray Interdisciplinary Education to Effective Global Engineers, Proceedings of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, June 2019
K. Ghorai and P.Ray “Factors Affecting the Acceptance of Mobile Based Multi-Feature Service For Smoking Cessation Using UTAUT” European Journal of Biomedical Informatics (EJBI), Volume 15 (2019), Issue 1
S.C. Ro, W.J. Huang and P.Ray “Advancing the Role of Entrepreneurship in the Healthcare Industry in Developing Countries” Asian Hospital & Healthcare Management (AHHM), Issue 44, 2019
Md Mahfuz Ashraf , M.Hasin, ABE. Salahuddin, S. Ahmed, SC Ro, P.Ray and MUH Uzir “The potential scope of m-health initiative into Grameen renewable energy in Bangladesh”, The International Technology Management Review, Vol. 7 (2018), No. 1, 144-150
Md Mahfuz Ashraf, Mohammed Abdur Razzaque, Siaw-Teng Liaw, Pradeep Kumar Ray, Md Rashadul Hasan, (2018) "Social business as an entrepreneurship model in emerging economy: Systematic review and case study", Management Decision, https://doi.org/10.1108/MD-04-2017-0343 Permanent link to this document: https://doi.org/10.1108/MD-04-2017-034
R.R. Mukkamala, R. Vatrapu, P.K.Ray, G. SenGupta and S. Halder, Blockchain for Social Business: Principles and Applications, IEEE Engineering Management Review, Issue Date: FOURTH QUARTER, DECEMBER 2018, Volume: 46 Issue: 4 , On page(s): 1-13, Print ISSN: 0360-8581, Online ISSN: 1937-4178, Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/EMR.2018.2881149
D. Kerr, A. Serrano and P.Ray, “The role of a disruptive digital technology for home-based healthcare of the elderly: Telepresence robot”, Digital Medicine2018; 4:173-9, Published by Wolters Kluwer
Y. Shen, H. Wu and P. Ray, “Why is Crowdfunded Medical Aid so Popular and Successful in China?”, Asian Hospital and Healthcare Management (AHHM 2018) Issue 41, pp 30-33
T.Lee, A. Ghapanchi, A. Talaei-Khoei and P.Ray, Strategic information system planning in healthcare organizations, Book Chapter in Global Business Expansion: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Appl.. 1048-1077. (2018), IGI Global, DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5481-3.ch048, ISBN: 1522554815
F. Khatun, J. U. Palas and P.Ray, Using the UTAUT model to analyse cloud-based mHealth service for primary care, Accepted (Aug 2017), Digital Medicine, a publication of International Society of Digital Medicine
M. Ashraf, N. Hasan, L.Lewis, R. Hasan and P.Ray, A Systematic Literature Review of the Application of Information Communication Technology (ICT) for the Visually Impaired, the International Journal of Disability Management, Volume 11, March 2017, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/idm.2016.6 (ERA A)
A. Bakshi, A. Talaei-Khoei, P.Ray and T. Solvoll, PoDMan: Policy Deviation Management, for the Australasian Journal of Information Systems Volume 21, 2017
J. U. Palas, M. Ashraf and P.Ray, Financing Universal Health Coverage: A Systematic Survey, The International Technology Management Review, Vol. 6 (2017), No. 4, 133-148
Pradeep Ray, Junhua Li, Arni Ariani and Vasvi Shah, Tablet-Based Well-Being Check for the Elderly: Development and Evaluation of Usability and Acceptability, JMIR Human Factors, 2017 (May 12); 4(2):e12
P.Ray and C. Zhang, Role of Entrepreneurship in Universal Health Coverage (UHC) using mHealth, Proceedings of the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society Conference (TEMSCON2017) June 2017, Santa Clara, USA
ST Liaw, A. Marcelo, P. Narsimhan, M. Ashraf and P.Ray, Global eHealth, Social Business and Citizen Engagement: a Natural Convergence?, Proceedings of the MedInfo2017 Conference
Arni Ariani, Vasvi Kapadia, Amir Talaei-Khoei, Junhua Li, Pradeep Ray, Challenges in Adoption of Assistive Robots among Seniors, The International Technology Management Review, (Oct, 2016), Volume 6, Issue 2, June 2016
J. Lewis, P.Ray and ST Liaw, Recent Worldwide Developments in eHealth and mHealth to more Effectively Manage Cancer and other Chronic Diseases – A Systematic Review, IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics, 2016 (pp 93-108), ISSN: 0943-4747, http://dx.doi.org/10.15265/IY-2016-020
Jacqueline Blake and Pradeep Ray, Facilitating Digital Communication in Seniors, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS2016), Trivandrum, India Oct 21-22, 2016

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