Faculty Profile
The faculty are responsible for the excellence of our programme. In the class room, you encounter researchers, scholars, consultants, and above all, gifted and dedicated teachers.
These are individuals who love teaching and do it extremely well. They make themselves available for after-class discussion and devote long hours as advisors and guides to student teams.
These are also the people who work at the intersection of the Institute and the Industry. Whatever may be your particular area of interest, you will be learning from the finest minds of that field. Young, qualified and dedicated, their contribution to the development of the students and the institute is significant.
Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Education
PhD (Computer Science), IIT Bhubaneswar (Cont.), India
MTech (Computer Science), NIT Rourkela, India
Phone: 0674-30605-81
Email: ajaya@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB51
Prof. Dash’s research interests lie in the field of Augmented Reality and Human Computer Interaction. He teaches Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Image and Video Processing.
Assistant Professor, Basic Sciences
Education
Ph.D. (Computational Physics), Physics, IISc, Bangalore
M.Sc. (Solid State Physics), Physics, Utkal University, India
Phone: 0674-30605-63
Email: aloknayak@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB34
Prof. Nayak’s research interests include (a) Pattern formation in excitable media and biological systems, (b) High-Performance-Computing (HPC) studies of mathematical models, (c) Nonlinear dynamical systems, and (d) Complex living systems. He has published over 10 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals. He is also review editorial board member of (1) Frontiers: Computational Physiology and Medicine, (2) Nonlinear Dynamics, (3) Journal of Mathematical Biology, and (4) Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine journals. He teaches “Engineering Physics” and “Semiconductor Physics for Engineers” at BTech level, and “Computational Biophysics” and “Nonlinear Dynamics” at PhD level to those who are pursuing Doctoral programs under his supervision.
Dr. Anjali Mohapatra
Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Education
PhD
MTech
Phone: 0674-30605-16
Email: anjali@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: A208
Prof. Mohapatra teaches Bioinformatics, Design and Analysis of Algorithms and Computer Graphics. Her research areas include novel application areas of computer science such as Molecular Biology, Soft Computing and Algorithms. She has life membership of OITS, ACM, Electronics and Electrical Engineers (ACEEE) and Odisha Physical Society (OPS).
Dr. Bamadev Sahoo
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Education
PhD (Mechanical Engineering), Jadavpur University, India
MTech (Aerospace Engineering), IIT, Kharagpur, India
Phone: 0674-30605-25
Email: bamadev@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: A112
Prof Sahoo’s teaching interests are Machine Design, Mechanical Vibration, Nonlinear Dynamics, Mechanics of Composite Structures, Mechanics of Solids. He is researching on Nonlinear Dynamics, Bifurcation and Chaos, Composite Materials. He has published over 10 research articles.
Dr. Bharati Mishra
Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Education
PhD
MTech
Phone: 0674-30605-64
Email: bharati@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB35
Prof. Mishra’s research interest lies in the area of Information Security in Cloud Computing. She teaches C & Java Programming, Data Structures, RDBMS, Internet and Web Technology, Cryptography and Information Security. She brings in with her long years of industry experience. She is a professional member of ACM and Asian Wordnet.
Assistant Professor, Electronics and Telecom Engineering
Education
PhD - IIT Bhubaneswar, India
MTech
Phone: 0674-30605-46
Email: bijayananda@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB17
Prof. Patnaik’s research interests include Optical Communication, Non-linear Optics, Optical Signal Processing, IsOWC Systems, Remote Communication to Solar Lanterns.. He teaches Optical Communication, Digital Signal Processing, Communication Engineering, Basic Electronics, Radar and TV, Telecommunication Switching Systems, Wireless Communication, Satellite Communication, Mobile communication. He has published 12 research papers.
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Education
PhD (Mechanical Engineering), NIT, Rourkela, India
ME
Phone: 0674-30605-42
Email: biranchi@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB12
Prof. Padhi teaches Engineering Mechanics, Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Engineering Drawing, Fluid Mechanics. His research interests are in the areas of Solar Energy, Conjugate Heat Transfer and Computational Fluid Dynamics. He has published over 10 research articles.
Dr. Biswajit Pradhan
Assistant Professor, Basic Sciences
Education
Post Doc, Institute of Physics and IAMS, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
PhD, IIT Bombay, India
Phone: 0674-30605-23
Email: biswajit@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: A121
Prof. Pradhan teaches Physics and Physics of Semiconductor Devices. His research interests include Quantum Computation and Quantum Information and Laser Spectroscopy. He has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at Institute of Physics and Postdoctoral Fellow at IAMS, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He has published over 10 research papers.
Assistant Professor, Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Education
PhD
MTech (Power System), IIT Delhi, India
Phone: 0674-30605-77
Email: debani@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB47
Prof. Mishra teaches Network Theory, Power System, Electrical Machine and Electrical and Electronics Measurement. His domains of research are Power Quality and Power System. He is a reviewer of Electrical Power Components and Systems a Taylor and Francis Journal. He has published 7 research articles.
Dr. Debasish Jena
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Education
PhD, NIT Rourkela, India
MTech
MBA
Phone: 0674-30605-19/88
Email: debasish@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: A214/BG14
Prof. Jena has more than 15 years of Industry experience. He was consulting to Health Department, Govt. of Orissa for a period of 2 years. He is the author or co-author of over 50 publications and book chapters. His research interests are Information Security, Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks, and Network Security. He teaches Networking, Network and Information Security. His professional memberships include IEEE, ACM, ISTE, IACSIT, MIE (I), CSI, and OITS.
Dr. Hemanta Kumar Pati
Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Education
PhD (Computer Science & Engineering), IIT Kharagpur, India
MTech (Computer Science & Engineering), NIT Rourkela, India
Phone: 0674-30605-26
Email: hemanta@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: A110
Prof. Pati’s teaching interests are Computer Networks, Mobile Computing & Software Engineering. His research interest lies in the field of Quality-of-Service provisioning in Next Generation Networks. He has published over 18 papers in his research area. He had his post-doctoral internship program in “Distributed Systems Group” in the Computer Science Department, Trinity College and University of Dublin, UK. His current area of research is Quality of Service (QoS) Provisioning in Personal Communication Networks.
Dr. Hiranmayee Satapathy
Assistant Professor, Basic Sciences
Education
PhD, IIT Kharagpur, India
MSc
Phone: 0674-30605-56
Email: hiranmayee@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB27
Prof. Satapathy teaches Chemistry to freshmen and material sciences and environmental engineering to sophomores. Her teaching interests are Organic Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry, Materials science. She is researching on New and novel polymer synthesis and characterization, advanced composites, organic solar cell. She has published over 17 research articles. She also is a lifetime member of Odisha Chemistry Society.
Jolly Dey
Assistant Professor, Humanities
Education
MBA
Phone: 0674-30605-76
Email: jolly@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB46
Prof. Dey teaches Organisational Behaviour, Principles of Management, Entrepreneurship Development, and Training and Development. She is a professional member of NIPM. She is also the faculty in charge of E-Cell in the Institute.
Assistant Professor, Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Education
PhD (Cont.)
MTech
Phone: 0674-30605-70
Email: kshirod@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB40
Prof. Rout teaches Power Electronics and Microprocessor and Micro-controller. His domains of research are Power Electronics, Micro Controller, Embedded Systems and Robotics. He is a professional member of ISTE and Institute of Engineers, India.
Dr. Lipika Das
Assistant Professor, Humanities
Education
PhD
Phone: 0674-30605-58
Email: lipika@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB29
Prof. Das’s teaching interests lie in the areas of Business and Technical Communication, Linguistics, Corporate Readiness and Interpersonal Skills, Personality Development and Translation Studies. She teaches freshmen Business Communication and also conducts lab sessions on the same. She is a professional member of Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies and a permanent member of Shakespeare Society of India. She has three publications to her name till date and researches on Shakespeare translations.
Dr. Muktikanta Sahu
Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Education
PhD
MTech
Phone: 0674-30605-61
Email: muktikanta@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB32
Prof. Sahu’s research interests are areas of Neural Networks, Parallel and Distributed Computing. He teaches Data Structures, Operating System and Advanced Computer Architecture. His current research projects are on Parallel Computing and Process Mining.
Assistant Professor, Electronics and Telecom Engineering
PhD (Electronics Engineering), IIT Kharagpur, India
MTech
Phone: 0674-30605-37
Email: pradyut@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB07
Prof. Biswal’s teaching interests involve areas of VLSI Design, VLSI Architecture for Signal Processing, Digital Signal Processing, Advance Digital Signal Processing, Digital Image Processing, Digital Electronics. His research areas are VLSI Architecture for Signal Processing and Image Processing algorithms, Biomedical Signal and Image Processing. He has published over 9 research articles. He is a member of IEEE and MIE.
Dr. Puspanjali Mohapatra
Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Education
PhD
MTech
Phone: 0674-30605-57
Email: puspanjali@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB28
Prof. Mohapatra’s teaching interests include Soft Computing, Data Mining, Computer Organization, Systems Programming, MATLAB. Her research interests are the domains of Data Mining using Soft Computing Techniques and Computational Intelligence. She has published 11 papers. She is a member of OITS, ISTD, ISTE.
Dr. Rajat Kumar Giri
Assistant Professor, Electronics and Telecom Engineering
Education
PhD
MTech
Phone: 0674-30605-71
Email: rajat@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB41
Prof. Giri’s teaching interests include Basic Electronics, Analog Electronics Circuits, Digital Electronics Circuits, Analog Communication Techniques, Digital Signal Processing, Communication Engineering. His research areas include Communication System Engineering, Optical Communication and Signal Processing. He is a professional member of ISTE.
Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Education
PhD
MTech
Phone: 0674-30605-14
Email: rakesh@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: A210/B101
Prof. Balabantaray’s research interests lie in the areas of Intelligent Systems, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, and Natural Language Processing. He teaches Information Retrieval and Data Mining, Web Mining and Natural Language Processing. He has published over 50 research papers. He has copyrights for the software he has developed. He is also the principal investigator of a project on the Development of Cross Lingual Multiple Access sponsored by DIT, GOI.
Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Education
PhD
MTech, MNNIT Allahabad, India
Phone: 0674-30605-83
Email: rakeshkumar@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB53
Prof. Lenka’s research interests are in the fields of Fog / Mist Computing, IoT Sensing Infrastructure Deployment, DFA based Pattern Matching, Recommendation Systems, Geographical Information System, Sensor Networks, Formal Methods. He teaches Computational Intelligence, Operating Systems, Theory of Computation, Compiler Design, Software Engineering, Database Design, Algorithms, Software Project Management and Software Testing. He has published over 40 research articles in his name in reputed Journals and Conference Proceedings. He has served as a reviewer of various reputed international journals and conferences. He is a professional member of IEEE and International Association of Engineers (IAENG).
Assistant Professor, Basic Sciences
Education
Post Doc, NTU, Singapore
PhD
MA
Phone: 0674-30605-13
Email: rupaj@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: A212
Prof. Nayak teaches Engineering Mathematics, Optimization in Engineering, Discrete Mathematics & Numerical Mathematics. His areas of interest include Optimization using Interior Point Method, Quadratic Programming, Semidefinite Programming Problem, Support Vector Machine&Multi Choice Programming Problem.He is a member of IACSIT.
Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Education
PhD
MS (Engineering), IISC Bangalore, India
Phone: 0674-30605-72
Email: sabyasachi@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB42
Prof. Patra has spent two years in industry. His research interests are in the fields of Network Security and Speech Processing, Algorithms, Bioinformatics. He teaches Data Structure, Algorithm, Programming Languages (Java, C, C++). He has published 7 research papers.
Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Education
PhD (Computer Science & Engineering), IIT BHU, Varanasi
MTech
Phone: 0674-30605-84
Email: sanjay@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB54
Prof. Saxena’s research interests are in the field of Medical Image Processing. He teaches Image Processing, Java Programming, Computer Vision and Parallel Computing.
Assistant Professor, Electronics and Telecom Engineering
Education
PhD (Electrical Engineering), IIT Bombay, India
Phone: 0674-30605-44
Email: sanjeev@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB15
Prof. Mishra's teaching interests include Antenna Design, Analysis and Synthesis, Advanced Electromagnetic Engineering, Microwave Integrated Circuit, Satellite Communication, Wireless and Mobile Communication, Modern Radar Systems, Advanced Communication Engineering, EMI and EMC Techniques, Microwave Remote Sensing, Electronic System Design, Communications Systems, Adaptive and Smart Antenna, Phased Array Antennas, Microwave Semiconductor Devices, Advanced Communication and Radiating System, RFIC Design. His research areas include RF & Microwave Circuits and System Design, Antenna Design, Microwave Remote Sensing and Sensors, RF/Microwave Measurements.
Assistant Professor, Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Education
PhD (Cont.)
MTech (Machine Drives & Power Electronics), IIT Kharagpur, India
Phone: 0674-30605-45
Email: saroj@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB16
Prof. Mishra teaches Electric Drives, Power Electronics, Control Systems & Renewable Energy. His research interests Modeling and Control of Power Electronics Systems, Multi-phase DC/DC Power Conversion and Utility Interfaces for Renewable Generations. He is a professional member of LIMISTE and MIE.
Dr. Shanta Kumari Sunanda
Assistant Professor, Basic Sciences
Education
PhD, IIT Kharagpur, India
Phone: 0674-30605-78
Email: shanta@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB48
Prof. Sunanda’s teaching interests include vector calculus, numerical analysis and complex analysis. Her research interests lie in the domain of Functional Analysis. She is a professional member of Orissa Mathematical Society. She has published over 7 research papers.
Dr. Srichandan Shobhanayak
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Education
PhD
MTech
Phone: 0674-30605-86
Email: srichandan@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB56
Prof. Shobhanayak’s research interest lies in the area of Cloud Computing. He teaches Parallel and Distributed Computing, Wireless Sensor Networks, Computer Architecture.
Assistant Professor, Electronics and Telecom Engineering
Education
PhD, NIT Trichy, India
MTech, NIT Calicut, India
Phone: 0674-30605-85
Email: srinivasarao@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB55
Prof. Chintagunta’s teaching interests include Digital Signal Processing, Digital Communication, Analog Communication, Adaptive Signal Processing, Estimation And Detection, Advanced Digital Signal Processing. His research areas include Array Signal Processing, MIMO Radar, Parameter Estimation.
Assistant Professor, Electronics and Telecom Engineering
Education
PhD, IIIT Bhubaneswar, India
MTech, BESU, Shibpur, India
Phone: 0674-30605-74
Email: subrata@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB44
Prof. Mohanty teaches Digital Signal Processing, Digital Image Processing, Signal System, Wireless Communication, Digital Electronics Circuit, Analog Electronics Circuit, Basic Electronics Circuit, Satellite Communication. His research interests are in the domains of MIMO Wireless Communication & Powerline Communication and Video Surveillance System. He is a professional member of IEEE and ISTE.
Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Education
PhD (Computer Science & Engineering), NIT Rourkela, India
MTech
Phone: 0674-30605-82
Email: suraj@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB52
Prof. Sharma teaches DBMS, TOC, Compiler Design, OOP, Cryptography & Network Security, and WSN. His research areas are IoT, Security in IoT and WSN, Routing in WSN, Localization in WSN and IoT. He has published 8 papers. He is a professional member of IEEE and ACM.
Assistant Professor, Electronics and Telecom Engineering
Education
PhD (Electrical Engineering), IIT Kanpur, India
MTech (Electrical Engineering), IIT Varanasi, India
Phone: 0674-30605-68
Email: suryaprakash@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB38
Prof. Singh’s teaching interests include Microwave Engineering, Electromagnetic Theory, Digital Electronic Circuits. His research areas include Material Characterization and Imaging Techniques.
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Education
PhD (Computer Science and Engineering), NIT Rourkela, India
MTech (Computer Science and Engineering), Jadavpur University, India
Phone: 0674-30605-62
Email: suvendu@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB33
Prof. Rup has more than 13 years of teaching experience. His research interest lie in the areas of Image and Video Processing, Computer Vision, Machine Intelligence, Distributed Video Coding, Video Synopsis, Medical Imaging, Object and Scene Recognition, Virtual Reality for Historical Heritage, Image and Video analysis, Human Pose and Activity Recognition. He has more than 30 research papers in his name in reputed Journals and Conference proceedings. His teaching interest includes Database Engineering, Operating Systems, Information Theory & Coding, Data Structure, Image & Video Processing and Computer Vision. He is CO-CI of sponsored project ISEA-II funded by MeitY, GOI.
Dr. Swati Vipsita
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Education
PhD (Computer Science and Engineering), NIT Rourkela, India
MTech (Computer Science and Engineering), NIT Rourkela, India
Phone: 0674-30605-80
Email: swati@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB50
Prof. Vipsita’s research interests are in the fields of Computational Biology, Machine Learning, and Data Mining. She has authored 8 articles. She teaches Data Structure, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Soft Computing, and Software Engineering.
Dr. Tanutrushna Panigrahi
Assistant Professor, Humanities
Education
PhD
Phone: 0674-30605-24
Email: tanutrushna@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: A114
Prof. Panigrahi is an advanced scholar of American Literature. Her areas of research interests include English Fictions, Postcolonial Literature,Communication Studies, Critical Theory, English Literature and Language teaching and Sanskritist Studies. She is a Fullbright Fellow. She is the State Convener for the Fullbright programme. She has authored two books on communication. She is a professional member of ISTE,ELTAI,USIS and ICA, Fullbright Alumni Association. She has been a visiting faculty to universities in India and abroad.
Dr. Tapan Kumar Sahoo
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Education
PhD (Computer Science and Engineering), IIT Dhanbad, India
MTech
Phone: 0674-30605-22
Email: tapan@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB59
Prof. Sahoo’s research interest lies in the area of Pattern Recognition and Its Applications, Machine Learning, Soft Computing. He teaches Theory of Computation, Compiler Design, Database Management System, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Data Structure, Graph Theory.
Tushar Ranjan Sahoo
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Education
Ph.D. (Cont.),
MTech (Computer Science and Engineering), IIT Kharagpur, India
Phone: 0674-30605-75
Email: tushar@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB45
Prof. Sahoo teaches Programming and Data structure, Computer architecture & Operating System, Switching & Finite Automaton, Language Processor, Object oriented programming & Design, Data base Engineering. His domains of research are Fault Tolerance Analysis of Embedded Systems, Formal Verification of Digital VLSI and Bioinformatics.
Dr. Umamani Subudhi
Assistant Professor, Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Education
PhD
MTech
Phone: 0674-30605-60
Email: umamani@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB31
Prof. Subudhi teaches Power Electronics, Transmission and Distribution, Energy Conservation Devices and Control System. Her areas of research include Power Electronics and Drives. She has authored a book on Electrical and Electronic Measurement and Instrumentation. She is a member of ISTE.
Dr. Usharani Raut
Assistant Professor, Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Education
PhD
MTech (Control System), BIT Mesra, India
Phone: 0674-30605-59
Email: usharani@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB30
Prof. Rout’s research areas of interest include Sensorless Vector Control and Power Distribution Network Reconfiguration. She teaches Control Systems, EFW, Basic Electrical Engineering, Network Theory.
Assistant Professor, Electronics and Telecom Engineering
Education
PhD (Cont.)
MTech
Phone: 0674-30605-92
Email: venkatasridhar@iiit-bh.ac.in
Room No: CB62
Prof. Sridhar’s teaching interests include MPMC, VLSI, Digital Electronics. His research areas include Multi-core Architecture Design (SoC, NoC ), VLS