Vice- Chancellor

Prof Shyam Sundar Pattnaik, Vice Chancellor of Odisha State Open University (OSOU) a University of Govt. of Odisha established by the act in the year 2015. Prof.Pattnaik also served as the Director of National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research (NITTTR), Chandigarh which is an autonomous institute      (now a Deemed to be University) of Ministry of Education, Govt. of India, established in the year 1967. Before joining to the post of Director, Prof Shyam Sundar Pattnaik also served as Vice- Chancellor of Biju Patnaik University of Technology, a Technical University of Govt. of Odisha. He has more than 20 years of experience as Professor including HAG Professor. Prof Shyam Sundar Pattnaik completed his Post- Doctoral Research from University of Utah, USA and PhD in Engineering (Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering) from (UCE, Burla) Sambalpur University, Odisha. Under the able supervision and guidance of Prof SS Pattnaik, 24 students have completed their PhDs and one more is pursuing his PhD work. He has 57 ME thesis to his credit and has published about 307 papers in journals and conferences of repute. He has five international books and fourteen international book chapters to his credit. A recipient of BOYSCAST FELLOWSHIP from DST, Govt. of India, Prof Pattnaik also is awarded with SERC Visiting Fellowship, INSA Visiting Fellowship, UGC Visiting Fellowship, Distinguished Faculty Award, National Educational Excellence Award, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Award for Excellence, Bharat Excellence Award, Institutional Leader Excellence Award, Certificate of Commendation for excellent efforts in sponsored research scheme, Life Time Achievements in Technical Education, Merit certificate (National scholarship) Best paper Awards, etc. He is a Life Fellow of IETE, Life Member of ISTE and Senior Member of IEEE, USA. Prof Pattnaik is a known researcher in the field of antenna and soft computing and their application to biomedical and ICT. First time in the country in the year 2012, he used Google Hangout to conduct Live Faculty Training Programmes, thus opening a new approach in digital pedagogy. Prof Shyam Sundar Pattnaik is involved in the various national and international committees in the capacity of Chairman and member. He believes that socio-digital-pedagogy will be the new teaching-learning approach that will stand on the platform of partnership and networking. As an academic administrator his slogan is “United we work, Together we achieve and Team we win” He is a strong believer and preacher of “Think Good, Do Good and Be Good” and work in the mantra of “I can do it”.