OCIT 2025 Organizing Committee 

General Chairs

• Veena Goswami, KIIT-DU, India, veena@kiit.ac.in 
• Sharad Sharma, University of North Texas, USA, sharad.sharma@unt.edu

Program Chairs

• Siba Kumar Udgata, University of Hyderabad, India, skudgata@gmail.com
• Deepak Puthal, Indian Institute of Management, Bodh Gaya, deepak.p@iimbg.ac.in 
• Niranjan K Ray, KIIT-DU, India, niranjan.rayfcs@kiit.ac.in 

Organizing Chairs

• Debasmita Pradhan, KIIT, debasmita.fca@kiit.ac.in
• Tripti Swarnakar, NIT, Raipur, tswarnkar.mca@nitrr.ac.in
• Satya Ranjan Dash, KIIT, sdashfca@kiit.ac.in

Publication Chairs

• Rabindra Kumar Barik, KIIT-DU, India, rabindrafca@kiit.ac.in
• Pranab Mohanty, Meta, USA, pranabmohanty@gmail.com
• Ashok Kumar Pradhan, SRM-AP, ashokkumar.p@srmap.edu.in

Web Chair

• Abinash Tripathy, KIIT-DU, India, abinash.fca@kiit.ac.in
• Biswapratap Singh Sahoo -- Nokia , India, bpratap.cse@gmail.com 

Media Chairs

• Lov Kumar -- National Institute of Technology Kurukhetra, India, lovkumar@nitkkr.ac.in 
• Seema Gupta Bhol, KIIT-DU, India, seemaguptabhol.fca@kiit.ac.in 
• Umasankar Das -- Cognizant Technology, India, umasankar.das@gmail.com 

Special Session Chairs

• M B Srinivas, BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus, mbs_bits@yahoo.in
• Sudhansu Sekhar Patra, KIIT-DU, India, spatrafca@kiit.ac.in 
• Subhendu Rup,NIT,Raipur,srup.it@nitrr.ac.in

Student Research Forum Chairs

• Pradyumna K. Tripathy, Silicon University, India, ptripathy@silicon.ac.in
• Pradyut Kumar Biswal, IIIT, Bhubaneswar, pradyut@iiit-bh.ac.in
• Alakananda Mitra, Univ. of Nebraska Lincoln, USA

Finance Chairs

• Utpal Chandra De, KIIT-DU, India, utpal@kiit.ac.in
• Sumit Kumar Tetrave,KIIT, sumitkumar.fca@kiit.ac.in

Registration Chair

• Sadhna Sudershana, KIIT-DU, India, sadhnafca@kiit.ac.in
• Prachi Vijayeeta, KIIT-DU, India, pvijayeetafca@kiit.ac.in
• Ajit Kumar Sahoo, KIIT-DU, India, ajitkumarsahoo.fca@kiit.ac.in

Publicity Chairs

• Manas Mukul, KIIT-DU, India, mmukulfca@kiit.ac.in
• Bishnupriya Panda, KIIT-DU, India, bishnupriyapanda.fca@kiit.ac.in
• Chandan Samantaray, Virginia State University, USA, csamantaray@vsu.edu 
• Abu Sayeed,  Eastern New Mexico University, USA, md.sayeed@enmu.edu 
• Amit Joshi, MNIT, Jaipur, India, amjoshi.ece@mnit.ac.in 
• Sanjaya  Panda, National Institute of Technology Warangal, India, sanjaya@nitw.ac.in 

Steering Committee Chair/Vice-Chair

• Saraju P. Mohanty, University of North Texas, saraju.mohanty@unt.edu
• Niranjan K Ray, KIIT-DU, India, niranjan.rayfcs@kiit.ac.in