Dr. Rabi Mahapatra is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Texas A&M University. He was a faculty at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur prior to his joining at Texas A&M University in 1995. He has also held visiting faculty position at IBM T.J Watson Research Center during 2001. Dr. Mahapatra received his PhD in Computer Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology in 1992. He directs the Embedded System Research Group at Texas A&M University since 2002. He was editor of the special Issue on Codesign of Embedded Systems for International Journal on Microelectronics in 2003. He is a cofounder of Orissa Information Technology Society (OITS) and International Conference on Information Technology in 1998. Dr. Mahapatra was the Steering Committee Chair of ICIT during 2004 – 2005, and the Program Chair of IEEE Workshop on Embedded System Codesign. He served in the technical program committee of ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) during 2005-2007; IEEE Intl Workshop on Large-scale Real-time Embedded Systems (2005, 2006), International Conference on Parallel & Distributed Systems (ICPADS) in 2004; International Conference on Parallel Processing (2004), Intl Workshop on System on Chip, and many other International events. He served as the Chairman of IEEE Kharagpur Section during 1994-95. Currently, he is serving as a Faculty Senator from College of Engineering at Texas A&M University for two years and also Associate Editor of ACM transaction of embedded computing.

Dr. Mahapatra’s principal areas of research are Embedded Systems, System on Chip, Network Router Architectures, Low-power Designs, and Cyber Physical Systems. He has published more than 100 research articles in the refereed international journals and conference proceedings. His research has been supported by several federal agencies such as National Science Foundation, NASA, Department of Federal Aviation Agency (DoT), and industries like IBM, Boeing, BAE, Lockheed Martin and Xilinx Corp. Dr. Rabi Mahapatra is Ford Fellow, BOYS-CAST Fellow, Senior-Member IEEE Computer Society, and a Distinguished Visitor of IEEE Computer Society. Dr. Mahapatra is currently serving as ABET coordinator for Computer Science, Faculty Senator of Texas A&M University, and Graduate Admission Committee Member in Computer Science.

Dr. Laxmi Narayan Bhuyan is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, Riverside since January 2001. Prior to that, he was a professor of Computer Science at Texas A&M University (1989-2000) and Program Director of the Computer System Architecture Program at the National Science Foundation (1998-2000). He has also worked as a consultant to Intel and HP labs.

Dr. Bhuyan received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Wayne State University in 1982. His current research interests are in the areas of network computing, multiprocessor architectures, router and web server architectures, parallel and distributed processing, and performance evaluation. He has published more than 150 papers in these areas in IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), and many refereed conference proceedings. Dr. Bhuyan currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS). He is a past Editor of the IEEE TC, JPDC, and Parallel Computing Journal. He was the founding Program Committee Chairman of the HPCA in 1995, Program Chair of the IPDPS in 1996, General Chair of ADCOM-2001, and General Chair of HPCA-9 (2003). He was elected Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (1995-1998).

Dr. Bhuyan is a Fellow of the IEEE, the ACM, the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), and the WIF (World Innovation Foundation). He has also been named as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science. He has received other awards such as Halliburton Professorship at Texas A&M University, and Senior Fellow of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station. He was also awarded the IEEE CS Outstanding Contribution Award in 1997.

Dr. Prasant Mohapatra is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis. In the past, he was on the faculty at Iowa State University and Michigan State University. He has also held Visiting Scientist positions at Intel Corporation, Panasonic Technologies, Institute of Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore, and National ICT Australia (NICTA). Dr. Mohapatra received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 1993. He was/is on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on computers, ACM WINET, and Ad Hoc Networks. He has been on the program/organizational committees of several international conferences. He was the Program Vice-Chair of INFOCOM 2004, and the Program Co-Chair of the First IEEE International Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2004), Program Chair of QSHINE International Conference (2006), and a Guest Editor for IEEE Network, IEEE Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and the IEEE Computer.

Dr. Mohapatra's research interests are in the areas of wireless networks, sensor networks, Internet protocols and QoS. Dr. Mohapatra's research has been funded through grants from the National Science Foundation, Intel Corporation, Siemens, Panasonic Technologies, Hewlett Packard, and EMC Corporation. On the administrative side, Dr. Mohapatra served as the CTO of Polyphasic Corporation from 2001-2003, and has been serving the Chair of Graduate Group in Computer Science at UC Davis since 2003.

Neelamadhaba Mahapatro is a General Manager and Partner at Microsoft Corporation. Since 1988, he has played key roles at Microsoft in different product groups in the company such as tools, system and office. He has envisioned several new products providing vision, strategy, and architecture roadmap and foreseeing the successful development of several key new products. To his credit, he has built up strong teams from scratch, working closely with senior executives at Microsoft. He is also a key investor in several technology start ups engaged in development of enterprise software, application servers, and user software development. Neel holds a bachelor's degree in electronics and electrical engineering from IIT Kharagpur and owns several patents to his credit.

Sri Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra is a senior Civil Servant of the State from the Indian Administrative Service cadre. Besides serving in the Govt of India on important assignments, he also served as Commissioner-cum-Secretary of the Higher Education Department, Govt. of Orissa and as Collector of several  Districts in the State. He currently holds additional charge as the Secretary, Science and Technology Department, Govt. of Orissa.   As the Secretary IT, in the last one and half years, he has been instrumental in rolling out of a large number of e-Governance applications throughout the State and in furthering investment promotion into the IT & ITES sectors.   He has widely travelled across the globe including countries like US, France, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, Japan and Singapore.   Mr.Mohapatra has a very bright academic career. He is a M.Tech from the Indian School of Mines and holds a Management degree from the Queensland University, Australia.

Dr. Gopal Mohapatra is a business/planning advisor at Hess Corporation, an integrated oil and gas company in the U.S. Prior to joining Hess, he worked in Exxon Mobil, the largest public oil and gas company, for 10 years. His expertise is in oil and gas exploration and development. Dr. Mohapatra holds a Ph.D. in Geophysics from University of Arizona, Tucson, an MBA from University of Houston and a BS/MS degree in Geophysics from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Mr. Rabindra Gaan graduated from IIT-BHU with B.Tech degree in Electronics & Communication during 1985 and obtained his Master Degree from PII, Eindhoven, The Netherlands in 1990. During 1985-89, Mr. Gaan worked with Bharat Electronics, at Bangalore on design, development and testing of VHF wireless .equipment for Indian Defense Forces. He was also responsible for development of encryption equipments for Indian Army on wireless communications. Subsequently, he joined with Punwire Wireless Communications and worked on Digital Multi Access Radio Telephone (DMART) for Indian Defense Forces (Army) as Principal Engineer during 1990 to 1992. Mr. Gaan was working with Shyam Telecom during 1992-1998 where he was a General Manager (R&D). He was instrumental in success of projects like MART (Multi Access Rural Telephony wireless), Optical Multiplexer, ATE (Automatic Test Equipment) and SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) technologies.

Since 1999, Mr. Gaan has been working with Bell Labs at Murray Hill, New Jersey as a consultant with expertise on Satellite Radio Broadcast Systems. He has more than 21 years of experience in field of Communication Engineering and Technology that includes several innovations to his credits.

Mr. Binoy Dash is currently a Software Engineer in Cisco Systems at San Jose, USA. He graduated with a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M University in 2006. Before joining Cisco Systems, he worked as an Engineering Intern in wireless technology giant Qualcomm Inc. for several months, where he worked in WCDMA Physical layer Software, specifically the Cell Searcher algorithm implementation on the wireless chipset. In academics, he was the scholarship recipient from Foundation for Excellence Inc., USA and Industrial Affiliates Program (IAP) in Texas A&M University.

In his role as a Software Engineer in Cisco Systems, he is involved in the Design and Development of different applications and protocols that provides routing and switching infrastructure in IOS-XR Microkernel operating system, which drives the high end routers.

Maj Gen P.P. Das was commissioned into the Indian Army in June 1969 having been trained at The National Defense Academy (NDA). In the early stages of his career he took part in the 1971 INDO-PAK operations, in the state of Sikkim. He later went on to complete the Post Graduate program in Maintenance and Industrial Tribology at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

After a decade of service in the Army he was selected by the then Scientific Advisor to the Raksha Mantri to be part of the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO). During his tenure in the DRDO he worked in the specialized areas of satellites, electronic warfare, missiles and corporate governance. He spearheaded some projects to successful completion in the capacity of Project Director. He served as the interface of DRDO to promote Services’ interaction with a view to develop and design precision equipment to augment the actual requirements of Armed Forces under the Ministry of Defense and Corporate India as an Industry partner.

Mr. Ashok Mahapatra joined BIT as the Chief Operating Officer after serving in senior leadership positions in Fortune companies in the USA for about 18 years. He holds a MBA degree from Rutgers University, USA and a B.Tech in Computer Science from  NIT, Rourkela. Prior to joining BIT, Mr. Mahapatra was the GM for Target Corporation, USA. He is known for his Management philosophy and contribution to Supplychain and Logistics in Target Corp., UPS and CP Ships USA. He has left remarkable impressions in grooming future leaders and developing effective strategies and efficient IT systems architecture for AT&T, United Health, ICICI, TCS, Fujitsu, Target, UPS and CP Ships.

During his schooling Mr. Mahapatra held the 7th position in Orissa Board. He believes in grooming and holistic teaching philosophy, while he himself was a college blue from NIT, Rourkela, where he excelled in Tennis, Badminton, Table Tennis, Dramatics, Music, Group Discussion types of activities. His experience and passion for impactful higher technical education makes him a suitable management leader in BIT.

Prof. Sushil Kumar Sen came from Calcutta University where he was involved in research and teaching at various levels of graduate and honours programs in the Chemistry Department. As an UNESCO Fellow, Prof. Sen held postdoctoral research positions in J. Heyrovsky Institute at Prague, Czechoslovakia. He has presented a number of research papers in National & International events and published numerous papers in International Journals. Prof. Sen is a Fellow of Indian Chemical Society and a member of the Royal Chemical society, London. Currently, he is a professor of Chemistry and holding Interim-Director position at BIT.

 

Prof Sunil Kumar Sarangi is the first director of National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, the erstwhile Regional Engineering College (REC). Prof Sarangi was educated at Ravenshaw College. After studying mechanical engineering at IIT, Kharagpur, he joined the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1970 and was awarded PhD in Radiative Heat Transfer. Later in 1977, he joined Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad and then went on to join IIT, Kharagpur as a faculty.  His areas of interests are cryogenic Processes and Equipment, Heat Exchanger, Compression and Expansion Machines. He was a professor and head of the Cryogenic Department for a long time before joining as the NIT director. Prof. Sarangi is well known for his scholarly contributions and able administration.

Prof. Nayak graduated from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur in electrical engineering. He obtained Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from IIM Bangalore followed by a PhD from IIT, Kharagpur. Prof. Nayak has spent several years in industry such as Nelco and NTPC prior to joining academics. He is one of the founding Professors of Xavier Institute of Management (XIMB), Bhubaneswar. As the Professor of Information Systems, he was instrumental in transforming XIMB into the most technology intensive campus in India. He held important positions at XIMB such as the Dean (Academics). Prof. Nayak joined as the first director of the IIIT Bhubaneswar since 2007.

Mrs. Sumita Panda with a Masters degree in Arts from the Sambalpur University in 1984 has been directly and indirectly engaged in a number of social projects relating to poverty alleviation, adult education and awareness creation on environmental issues. She takes active interest in woman empowerment by inspiring and helping formation of Self Help Groups among rural and semi urban women from lower economic strata. She is a yoga exponent and an active member of the movement for vegetarianism. Mrs. Panda hails from a reputed Oriya family of freedom fighters and social workers." She is married with two children.

Dr. Sujata Mishra did her M.B.B.S at S.C.B. Medical College, Cuttack and M.D.at St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore. She worked as a faculty in the department of Bio-chemistry in M.V.J, Medical College, Bangalore and has also taught as a guest faculty at Institute of Bio-Technology and Bio-Informatics (IBAB), Bangalore. Currently she is a consulting physician. Dr. Sujata has done research on “Biochemical Correlation of Organ Specific and Cell Specific Tumor Markers in Ovarian Cancer”. She received the best poster presentation award in the Annual Conference of clinical Biochemists of India, 2000 held at Vellore for her paper titled “Serum TPS and Serum CA125 levels in selected cases of Ovarian cancer”. She was editor for Osmosis, a monthly news letter from the department of Biochemistry, St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore which is circulated to all medical colleges in Karnataka. Dr. Sujata has deep interest in Hindusthani Classical music and she is a practicing Hindustani vocalist. She is married with two children.