MITHU BHATTACHARYA is a 4th year IST student at the RFID lab directed by Dr. Chao-Hsien. She is also co-advised by Dr. Tracy Mullen. Mithu's dissertation topic is titled RFID Implementation Issues in Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) and Pharmaceutical Value Chain. She claims it is only a tentative title at this time but she was very gracious in providing a brief description of her research. " I am using mixed method for my research work. My primary method is Content Analysis where I convert qualitative textual information into quantitative information and perform different statistical tests on the frequency data for drawing inference. For my data I use trade articles (industry press releases and white papers that are published) along with academic (published conference, journals, and academic magazines). So basically I am analyzing RFID Implementation issues for CPG retailers, CPG manufacturers, and Pharmaceutical manufacturers and then comparing across these sectors statistically for different issues"
Mithu has attended and presented in 2 conferences and managed already to publish three conference papers and one journal paper. She has two more journal papers under preparation. "Out of this 1 conference paper and 1 journal paper are not from my dissertation area. Those two papers came out as an outcome from my independent study".
Mithu is planning her proposal defense by the end of the Fall 08 semester or by early spring 2009 at the latest. "IST has given me a very wide perspective about academia and it has been a good journey."
Mithu research interest are very similar to mine as she is embracing a "business" versus a computer science approach to her research. However, I am more interested at the privacy and security aspects of RFID within the healthcare domain.
Mithu's publications based on Wen's blog:
Mary Beth Rosson, Hansa Sinha, Mithu Bhattacharya, Dejin Zhao: Design Planning in End-User Web Development. VL/HCC 2007: 189-196.
Mithu Bhattacharya, Chao-Hsien Chu, Tracy Mullen. RFID Implementation in Retail Industry: Current Status, Issues, and Challenges, Decision Science Institute (DSI) Conference, Phoenix AZ, 2007.
Mithu Bhattacharya, Chao-Hsien Chu, Tracy Mullen. A Comparative Analysis of RFID Adoption in Retail and Manufacturing Sectors. 2008 IEEE International Conference on RFID, Volume 16, Issue 17, April 2008 Page(s):241 - 249.
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