Committee Chairs
Professor Dr. Niladri Sekhar Dash
Head of Linguistic Research Unit at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
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Prof. Niladri Sekhar Dash is Head of Linguistic Research Unit at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Since 1992, he has been working in the areas of Corpus Linguistics, Technolinguistics, Language Documentation and Digitization, Computational Lexicography, Multimodal Language Teaching, Digital Humanities and Ethnography, Machine Translation, and Bilingual Aphasia. Prof. Dash was an International Visiting Fellow of the British Academy, UK (2018), a Visiting Scholar at the Language and Brain Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK (2019), and a Visiting Fellow of the University College London (2023). From 2018 to 2027, he is a Visiting Scholar at the School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences, the University of Reading, UK. To his credit, Prof. Dash has published 24 research books and 300+ research papers in international and national journals, anthologies, and conference proceedings. He has delivered academic lectures and taught courses in more than 150 universities and institutions in India and abroad. He is the Principal Investigator for 3 projects funded by the Government of India and international bodies. Details of his profile are available from the following sites:
https://lru.isical.ac.in/lru-faculty
https://sites.google.com/view/niladri-sekhar-dash
Prof. (Dr.) Zhengtao Yu
School of Information Engineering and Automation Kunming University of Science and Technology ,China
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Prof. Zhengtao Yu, Ph.D., is the dean of the Faculty of Information Engineering and Automation, the director of the Provincial Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing, and the Chief Professor of KUST innovation team of Intelligent Information Processing. He is graduated from Beijing Institute of Technology with Ph.D. on Computer Application Technologies in 2005. He visited Purdue University as a visiting scholar in 2009. He has over 100 publications in international journals and conferences, holds numerous patents and copyrights. He had won numerous awards including the first prize and the third prize of Yunnan Province Science and Technology Progress Award, the second prize of Yunnan Province Natural Science Award. Prof. Yu is specialized in Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Information Extraction. His research interests include: Chinese corpus and Southeast Asia minority languages corpus construction, linguistic information processing, question-answering system, cross-language information retrieval, multi-lingual machine translation, cross-language public opinion analysis.
Dr. Debasmita Mukherjee, Ph.D.
J. Herbert Smith Centre for TME. Electrical and Computer Engineering. University of New Brunswick, Canada.
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Dr. Debasmita Mukherjee is an Assistant Professor at the University of New Brunswick, where she holds a position in the Dr. J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship. Motivated by how human teams collaborate and the potential of working alongside adaptable AI, she is dedicated to creating safe and natural communication frameworks for human-AI interaction in social applications. Her research explores the factors that affect trust between humans and the AI assistants they work with. She focuses on personalizing deep learning models to user behaviors, leveraging affective computing, naturalistic feedback, and explainable AI. She brings together an interdisciplinary team for design of trustworthy AI systems using sociological, linguistic, and psychological perspectives. With R&D experience in industry and academia, including a tenure as a Senior Engineer at a multinational corporation, Dr. Mukherjee specializes in designing models for real-world deployment. Her work has been patented, published in prestigious journals, and featured in the media.
Dr. Bishwa Ranjan Das
Associate Professor, IIMT Bhubaneswar
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Dr. Bishwa Ranjan Das has completed MSc (Mathematics) and PGDCA from Sambalpur University in the year 1995-1997 and 1998 respectively. He has also completed MCA from IGNOU New Delhi in 2009 and subsequently ME (CSE) from Utkal University in 2012. He has been awarded with Ph.D. in Computer Science and IT from Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University, Baripada, Odisha, India in 2024. He has more than 24 years of teaching experience with major subjects in Computer Science and Engineering. His research areas are Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics, Machine Translation, Information Retrieval and Sentiment Analysis using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. He has published more than fifty research papers, apart from book chapters in various reputed international and national conferences and journals including Scopus, Elsevier, IEEE, ScienceDirect and Google Scholar, and He has attended more than fifty seminars, workshops, FDPs, symposiums, and short-term courses in both online and offline mode at various reputed institutes, colleges, and universities like IIT, NIT, ISI and Central University.
Prof. (Dr.) Rutuparna Panda
Dean Research, IIMT, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
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Prof. Rutuparna Panda (Member IEEE) was born in 1963. He received B.Sc Engg. (Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering) and M. Sc. Engg. (Communication Systems Engineering) Degrees from UCE Burla in 1985 and 1988, respectively. He obtained Ph.D. (Engg) degree from IIT, KGP in 1998. He is a former Professor in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, VSS University of Technology, Burla. He was the former HOD ECE Dept., HOD CSE Dept., DEAN, Academic Affairs, DEAN, SRIC, and DEAN Continuing Education Programme. He has guided 38 M.Tech. Theses and 10 Ph.D. Theses. He has over 200 papers in International/National Journals and conferences. Dr. Panda has more than 4000 academic citations with h-index of 35 and i10-index of 70 as per google scholar. He is the co-author of two books titled “AI Techniques for Biomedical Engineering Applications” and “Region based Approaches for Image Fusion”. He is the co-author of 8 Book Chapters. Currently, Dr. Panda is serving as an associate editor of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI). He is a member of IEEE and a Fellow of IETE(India). He is the reviewer of many reputed international Journals like IEEE Transactions and Elsevier Journals. He received ‘Highly Cited Research Award’ in Dec. 2016 from Swarm and Evolutionary Computation Journal, Elsevier. He received ‘Certificate of Appreciation Award’ for quality research Journal Publications for the year 2020 from VSS University of Technology, Burla. His one article is found in top ten popular articles of IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering. His area of research interests includes – Digital signal/image processing, Bioinformatics, Biomedical Engineering, VLSI Signal Processing, Soft Computing, Machine intelligence and AI.
Dr. Umaranjan Jena
Professor, I.I.M.T., Bhubaneswar, Head of Computer Sciences & Engineering (Cyber Security) and Professor-in-Charge Examination.
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Dr. Umaranjan Jena is a distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (Cyber Security) with over 35 years of experience. Holding a Ph.D. in Engineering, his specialization lies in Cyber Law & Policy. He has contributed extensively to academia, authoring 58 papers in international journals and presenting 106 papers in international and national conferences. His research involvement includes undertaking two R&D projects. His work reflects a commitment to advancing cybersecurity policies and legal frameworks.
Prof.(Dr.) Jayadev Kar, Ph.D
Director, I.I.M.T, Bhubaneswar
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Dr. Jayadev Kar is a distinguished academician and administrator with a robust background in human resource development, management, and multidisciplinary education. With an MBA in Personnel and Marketing from Utkal University and a Ph.D. in Human Resource Development with specialization in MIS & HR, Dr. Kar has over three decades of influential experience in academia, leadership, and institutional development. His extensive contributions span across student-centric curriculum design, research, and administrative innovation. Formerly a Professor and Dean at the Regional College of Management, Bhubaneswar, and Technical Head at Pathani Samanta Planetarium, he has guided numerous Ph.D. theses and authored multiple books in vocational education. Currently serving as Director at Interscience Institute of Management & Technology, Bhubaneswar, Dr. Kar continues to drive academic excellence and institutional progress through outreach, scholarship, and strategic academic leadership.
Dr. Anil Kumar Bandrana
Guildhall School of Business and Law, London Metropolitan University (LMU), London, United Kingdom (UK)
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For the last twelve years, Dr. Anil Kumr Bandrana has been associated with teaching and research. Before joining LMU, he was Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Decision Sciences at the Centre for Supply Chain Improvement, University of Derby, UK. He earned his Ph.D. in Management Science from ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India. He did his graduation in Mathematics (Hons) and M.Sc. (Mathematics) from Kurukshetra University, India. He earned his Master of Business Administration (MBA) and qualified National Eligibility Test (NET), in June 2011. He has contributed over 150+ research papers in internationally referred journals, and conferences at the international level. He has published his research work in A*/A as per ABDC indexed and 4*/3* as per ABS journals like the International Journal of Operations & Production Management (IJOPM), Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review (TRE), Journal of Business Research (JBR), International Journal of Production Research (IJPR), Government Information Quarterly (GIQ), Production Planning & Control (PPC), Technological Forecasting and Social Change (TFSC), Business Strategy and the Environment (BSE), Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services (JRCS), Journal of Cleaner Production (JCP etc. Due to his remarkable contributions to the literature, he has been listed in the ‘World Ranking Top 2%’ researchers by Stanford University-Elsevier list in October 2022. He is an Associate Editor of Heliyon-Information Science (Elsevier) (Impact Factor: 3.776, SCIE/SSCI & Scopus Indexed) and the International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management Sciences.
Prof.(Dr) Debashish Jena
IIIT, Bhubaneswar, India.
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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.
Prof. (Dr.) Pramod Kumar Prusty
Dean Academics, I.I.M.T, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
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Prof. Pramod Kumar Prusty is the Dean Academics of IIMT, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. He has received his Ph.D degree from Utkal University, Vani Vihar on Accounting and Finance based topic. He has supervised five Ph.D Scholars. He is the Author of 35 Research Articles and 3 Test Books i.e., Management Accounting, Cost Accounting and also Advanced Cost and Management Accounting which are useful for CA , CMA and MBA Students. He has supervised more than 300 Projects in different Disciplines. Prof. Prusty has Chaired as Key Note Speaker in many Conferences within the Country. During his Professional Career Prof. Prusty has performed his job as a successful Academician and Administrator around 40 years in different Govt., Govt Autonomous Colleges including Ravenshaw and also in different reputed Educational Institutions as Prof. and Dean of Commerce.
Mr. Alok Arun
MBA, NCMP Level 5, NCIAP, Ph.D. (Financial Economics) Continuing, Assistant Professor, I.I.M.T. Bhubaneswar
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Mr. Alok Arun has completed Integrated MBA from Ravenshaw University, Cuttack Odisha in 2019 with specialization in Finance & Financial Markets. He has achieved Level 5 certification from National Stock Exchange (NSE) as “NSE Academy Certified Market Professional (NCMP)” and “NSE Academy Certified Investment Analyst Pro Certification”. He has also several certifications from National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM) such as “NISM-Series- VII: Securities operations and Risk Management” and “NISM-Series- X-B: Investment Advisor Module”. He has done certificate course in ‘Use of Python in Finance” and “Tally”. Currently he is pursuing Ph.D. in Financial Economics.Important Dates
Paper Submission Date |
01st February, 2026 |
Final Submission Date |
01st May, 2026 |
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection |
31st May, 2026 |
Final version with Copy Right |
30th July, 2026 |
Last Date of Registration |
25th August, 2026 |
Date of Conference |
18th-19th September, 2026 |
