Professor L.M. Patnaik today took over as the Vice Chancellor of the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune. Sixty-one year old Prof. Patnaik served as a Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Automation at the prestigious Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore since July 1986 before taking over the new assignment.A doctorate in Computer Systems and Architecture, Prof. Patnaik brings with him a rich experience of 37 years at the IIS, Bangalore in Parallel and Distributed Computing, Computer Architecture, CAD of VLSI Systems, Theoretical Computer Science, Real-Time Systems, Soft Computing and Computational Neuroscience. He has published over 600 papers in international journals and conference proceedings and has been intimately involved in a large number of government-sponsored research projects. Besides Prof. Patnaik is a co-author of ten books in the areas of VLSI System Design and Parallel Computing. He has also been the President of the Advanced Computing and Communications Society and the Computational Intelligence Society of India.
Prof. Patnaik has won several awards and laurels including the Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Research Award in 1989, the Fourth Sir C V Raman Memorial Lecture Award in 2000, the Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru National Award for Engineering and Technology in 1999, the FICCI Award for Innovation in Material Science, Applied Research and Space Science for 2001-2002 and the Indian Science Congress Association’s Srinivasa Ramanujan Birth Centenary Award for 2007-2008.
He has throughly demolished the one time famous IAT. Now he plans to buildup a university on the ruins of old IAT. Destruction was easy for him. Construction is difficult, may be impossible for a selfish and corrupt person like LM Patnaik. God save IAT.
What a marvellous piece of news and what a wonderful choice to have Prof.Patnaik as the VC of DIAT.The search committee must be congratulated.I am sure DIAT will be known throughout the world thanks to Prof.Patnaik being there.A great edcationist at the right place though he has to sacrifice his acdemics.
The Defence Institute of Advanced Technology is the luckiest one to have an internationally acclaimed computer scientist and ablest administrartor, top notch educationist of the stature of Prof.L M Patnaik as its Vice Chancellor.Several IITs,IIITs,central and state Universities and other govt and private Institutions and others from abroad failed to lure Prof.Patnaik for similar and better offers;but the DIAT could do it. It is a loss Indian computer science research community; he is a role model for several upcoming computer scientists in India. It is a big gain to the DIAT.I only hope the DIAT faculty members realise the strengths of Prof.Patnaik and work with him to turn it into a world class University in Defence Science and Technology; there are very few such efforts in the world today.I wish the new VC and the DIAT all the best.