Adjunct & Visiting Faculties

Prof. Durgamadhab Misra is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). His current research focus is VLSI, Nanoelectronics and study of nanoscale CMOS gate stacks. He has more than 140 publications in international journals and conferences. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of Electron Device Society of IEEE and a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society (ECS).

Prof. Chitta Baral
Professor, Computer Science, Arizona State University, USA

Chitta Baral is a professor at the Arizona State University. He obtained his B.Tech(Hons) degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1987 and his M.S and Ph.D degrees from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1990 and 1991 respectively. He has been working in the field of knowledge representation and logic programming since 1988, and his research has been supported over the years by National Science Foundation, NASA, and United Space Alliance. He received the NSF CAREER award in 1995 and led successful teams to AAAI 96 and 97 robot contests. He has published more than 100 articles in Logic Programming, Knowledge Representation, and Artificial Intelligence conferences and Journals. His book titled ``Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and Declarative Problem Solving'' is the first book about answer set programming and was published by Cambridge University Press in 2003. For more about him please see http://www.public.asu.edu/~cbaral/.

Prof. Jagdish C. Patra
Assistant Professor, NTU, Singapore

Jagdish C. Patra obtained B.Sc. (Engg. with Hons.) and M.Sc. (Engg.) degrees, both in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering from Sambalpur University, India in 1978 and 1989, respectively. He received Ph.D. degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 1996. He served as a faculty member at Regional Engineering College (now known as NIT), Rourkela during 1987-2000. Since 2001 he is serving as an assistant professor in the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests include intelligent signal processing using neural networks in the areas of digital communication, data security, sensor networks, image processing and bioinformatics. He has several publications in international conferences and journals of repute in these research areas. He had been to few international universities, e.g., Technical University, Delft, Netherlands, University of Iwate, Japan, University of Tampere, Finland, and University of Applied Sciences, HEIG-VD, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, as visiting researcher. He is a member of IEEE (USA).

Dr. Gagan Rath
Senior Research Scientist, INRIA, France

Dr Gagan Rath received the B.Tech (Hons) degree in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kharagpur in 1990, and the M.E. and Ph.D degrees in Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore in 1993 and 1999 respectively. He is currently a senior research scientist at INRIA in France. His research interests include signal processing for communications, wireless communications, and compressed sensing.

Dr. Taraknath V.K. Woddi
Nuclear Engineering
Risk and Reliability Analyst, Curtiss-Wright, Seattle, USA

Dr. Woddi obtained his MS and PhD degrees in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A&M University. He currently serves as the Risk and Reliability Analyst for Scientech: A Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Company and provides consulting services to nuclear power plants for meeting the regulatory standards. Dr. Woddi had served as a licensed reactor operator at CANDU nuclear power plant in India. He wrote the first thesis on the RACE project endeavor of waste transmutation in May 2005. He also contributed to non-proliferation studies through assessment of nuclear fuel of India. He is presently in the industry of nuclear power plant safety and risk assessment. He has published articles on the feasibility of temperature feedback accelerator-driven sub-critical reactor systems, nuclear fuel cycle of India and impact of the U.S.-India nuclear accord.

Dr. Shivajit Mohapatra
Motorola Research, USA

Shivajit Mohapatra is a Senior Researcher and Project Leader at the Pervasive Platforms and Architectures Lab at Motorola Research. His research focus is in the area of distributed and mobile middleware systems. He currently designs mobile middleware systems that enable energy efficient next-generation distributed and social applications on mobile systems. He is also interested in the areas of game theory, Incentive models and security for mobile environments. His professional service has included serving as program (co-) chair for CoPE 2009 and has served in the committees for ACM Multimedia, ACM WoWMoM, and ACM MMCN. He is also a recent inductee into the Marquis Who's Who in America. Shivajit holds a B.Tech from BITS, Pilani and an M.S. and Ph.D. from University of California, Irvine, all in Computer Science.

Raghavan Srinivasan
Senior Software Engineer, Cisco Systems Inc., USA

Raghavan Srinivasan is currently a Senior Software Engineer at Cisco Systems, San Jose, USA. He graduated with a Masters degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas, Austin, in May 2007. Before joining Cisco, Raghav worked as a Summer Intern at IBM. Raghav has also worked as a Research Assistant during his Masters at the Mobile & Pervasive Computing lab (MPC) at UT-Austin, under the guidance of Dr.Christine Julien. His main areas of research interests include context-sensitive communication, routing and distributed systems.

In his role as a Senior Software Engineer at Cisco, Raghav is involved in the Design, Development and Management of core infrastructure projects for the CRS Multi-chassis routers (High-end core routers), specifically focused in the areas of High Availability, Distributed Load-Balancing and Operating Systems with an eye for Scale and Performance.

Prof(Dr.)K.V.Jayakumar
Executive Director(CWRDM)

Prof K V Jayakumar obtained his B.Tech in Civil Engineering from the Karnataka Regional Engineering College Surathkal, M.Tech and PhD, specialising in Water Resources Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He has been teaching at National Institute of Technology Warangal since 1993 where he held many academic and administrative responsibilities. His area of research interest includes urban hydrology, environmental engineering and management, irrigation management, disaster mitigation and management and GIS and remote sensing applications. He was on the 8- member working group of the UNESCO on urban water management. He is a widely travelled academician both within and outside. He has supervised 5 PhD theses and over 50 M.Tech theses. Since July 2008, he has been the Executive Director of the Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM), Kozhikode. In addition he has been holding the Charge of the Director of the Kerala School of Mathematics (KSOM) and the Centre for Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development of the Government of Kerala .He is on many national and State level committees related to water and environment, like the Indian National Committee on Groundwater, Dam Safety Authority, Committee formed by the Ministry of Water Resources of Government of India to identify areas for research in water resources, Core Group of the DST Demonstration Projects , Disaster Management Agency etc.

Wing Commander Gorachand Barik
Social Entrepreneurship(Team Business School)

Wing Commander Mr.Gorachand Barik has completed B.Tech Degree from NIT Jamshedpur. Later he completed M.Tech from IIT Kharagpur. At present he is engaged in Social Entrepreneurship in field of education (TEAM Business School) and Real Estate (Truptikar Infra Pvt Ltd). He has total 10+ years experience in Software Product Development and System testing out of total 30 years if experience. He had worked three years in Microsoft R&D(India Development Center, Hyderabad) as Senior Manager from 2006-2008 in the platform development for Billing and Commerce.

He started his career as an IAF officer, and had got an opportunity to work in Operation and Maintenance of Radar, Telecommunication, Missile and Aircraft Systems in different operational Units. Then he worked as instructor in training and development of course materials in Air Force Technical Colleges and Air Defence Ground System Institute, Bangalore. He was Involved in following two R&D Projects. Project Management of MIS development for Large Inventory management and Real Time Software Application on PDP-11 and TDC-316.

Professor Premananda Das
Chairman, The Science Foundation for Tribal and Rural Resource Development(SFTRRD)

Prof.Premananda Das earned his B.Sc(Ag),M.Sc(Ag),Ph.D. degrees from Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, Calcutta University, Kolkota and Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Nadia, West Bengal respectively.

Prof.P.Das at Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar strengthened teaching and research on plant propagaton, floriculture, landscape horticulture and ecological aspects of plant environment interaction. In 1985, he moved to Regional Plant Resource Center, Bhuabaneswar, an autonomous body to work as its founding Director, he initiated research work on biodiversity conservation and assessment, plant biotechnology, molecular biology, conservation ecology of mangroves, restoration ecology in metalliferous and mining environments, and on greening of wastelands. He authored over 300 research articles, edited and authored a dozen of books, mentored large number of students including 3D.Sc and 21 Ph.D students.