The senior student - Mithu Bhattacharya

Mithu Bhattacharya, the fourth year Ph.D student in IST, Penn State University, has worked in RFID lab more than one year. She is co-advised by Dr. Tracy Mullen and Dr. Chao-Hsien Chu, who is also my advisor. In this one year, she contributed a lot to RFID lab.

Her research interests include Human-Computer Interaction, RFID and supply chain. She is now focusing on the RFID adoption analysis in retail and manufacturing sectors. In her recent paper - "RFID Implementation in Retail Industry: Current Status, Issues, and Challenges", she proposed a framework for the benefits obtained from implementing RFID in the retail supply chains, and based on statistical analysis, she tried to prove that the benefits of RFID will vary from industry to industry based on their specific nature and requirements. Up until now, she has published three papers, which are listed as following:

1. Mary Beth Rosson, Hansa Sinha, Mithu Bhattacharya, Dejin Zhao: Design Planning in End-User Web Development. VL/HCC 2007: 189-196.

2. 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.

3. 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.

I am also working on RFID, and have gotten a lot of help from her. Before we came to RFID lab, there was only one Ph.D student there. She did lots of works there.