Rig is currently working as a Postdoctoral Researcher with Department of Health Technology of Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Before joining DTU, Rig has also worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate with University of Luxembourg and Research Assistant with Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy.

Rig has received his Ph.D. degree in Applied Electronics Engineering with European Doctorate Label from Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy, in April, 2018. He was a visiting researcher with the Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, in 2016. Rig has received his Bachelor of Technology and Master of Technology degree in Computer Science and Engineering, on 2007 and 2012 respectively, from India.

Rig's current research interests are EEG Signal Processing, BCI and Deep Learning. During his doctoral research his primary research goals were directed towards the application of deep learning methods in biometrics. As a Doctoral Fellow with Roma Tre University, he has contributed towards the physiological biometric traits such as EEG signal, Finger-vein and Face. His other research interests are image and video processing, steganography and steganalysis, signal processing, pattern recognition and machine learning.

• First prize winner for European Biometrics Research Award 2018 for the PhD thesis entitled “Deep Learning for Face, Vein and EEG Biometrics”, Darmstadt, Germany 26-Sept, 2018.

• Finalist of 3MT PhD Thesis presentation at EUSIPCO 2017, Kos Island, Greece, 28-Aug to 02-Sept, 2017.

• COST Action IC 1206 - Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) grant receiver for a research work titled “Deep Learning based De-Identified Face Analysis for Biometric Applications” at the Faculty of Engineering, Bar-Ilan University - Ramat Gan, Israel, 2016.

• Sun Certified Java Programmer for the Java Platform, Standard Edition 5.0 (SCJP 1.5) on November 01, 2008.

• Organizing Committee Member  of IEEE EUSIPCO 2018  and IEEE WIFS 2015.

• Visiting Research Fellow,  Faculty of Engineering, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, Mar - Apr, 2016

• Project Involvement: EU H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 "ENhancing seCurity and privAcy in the Social wEb: a user-centered approach for the protection of minors " (ENCASE) , 2016-2019

  • Innovators , Athens, Greece, Jul - Sept 2016.

  • Cyprus Research and Innovation Center (CyRIC), Nicosia, Cyprus, Oct - Jan 2017 and Mar - May 2018.

  • Telefonica I + D , Barcelona, ​​Spain, Jun 2018.

• Member of IEEE and IEEE Signal Processing Society - 2017

• Member of EURASIP - 2017

• Member of European Association for Biometrics (EAB) - 2018

• Reviewer:

  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) 2018, 2019

  • IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behaviour and Identity Sciences (TBIOM) 2019

  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS) 2019

  • IEEE Access 2018

  • Elsevier Journal of Signal Processing: Image Communication, 2017-2019

  • Elsevier Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation 2017

  • IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2016-2019

  • IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech & Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2019

  • International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP) 2018