{"id":1821,"date":"2023-04-03T12:23:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T12:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utkalaage.in\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2023-04-03T12:23:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T12:23:10","slug":"prof-p-k-nanda-takes-over-as-new-vice-chancellor-of-soa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/?p=1821","title":{"rendered":"PROF. P.K. NANDA TAKES OVER AS NEW VICE-CHANCELLOR OF SOA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Eminent researcher, Prof. Pradipta Kumar Nanda has taken over\nas Vice-Chancellor of the Siksha \u2018O\u2019 Anusandhan (SOA) Deemed to be University\nhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prof. Nanda, who was formerly Dean\n(Research and Development) at SOA was functioning as Pro-Vice Chancellor of the\nuniversity till his appointment as Vice-Chancellor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prof. Nanda had graduated from the\nVSS University of Technology (formerly University College of Engineering) at\nBurla in Electrical Engineering with First Class Honours in 1984 and obtained\nMaster\u2019s Degree in Electronics Systems and Communication from National\nInstitute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, in 1989. He obtained his Ph.D in\nComputer Vision from IIT, Bombay in 1996. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He worked as a faculty at NIT,\nRourkela from 1986 and became Professor and head of his department before\njoining SOA\u2019s Institute of Technical Education and Research (ITER) in 2009.\nDuring his tenure at NIT, Rourkela, he developed several laboratories and\nserved as Principal Investigator of the Centre of Excellence on Industrial\nElectronics and Robotics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Prof. Nanda\u2019s research interests involve Image Processing and Analysis, Bio-medical Image Analysis, Video-tracking, Computer Vision, Soft Computing and its Applications and Ad-hoc Wireless Sensor Networks. Currently, he is coordinating research activities in the Image and Video Analysis Laboratory at SOA. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. Nanda has served as an expert member in NBA and DRDO selection committees. He has published 103 papers in various journals and conference proceedings and has authored three research books. He has visited UK, USA and Malaysia in connection with academic programs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eminent researcher, Prof. Pradipta Kumar Nanda has taken over as Vice-Chancellor of the Siksha \u2018O\u2019 Anusandhan (SOA) Deemed to be University here. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prof. Nanda, who was formerly Dean (Research and Development) at SOA was functioning as Pro-Vice Chancellor of the university till his appointment as Vice-Chancellor. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prof. Nanda had graduated from the VSS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1823,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions\/1823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}