Information About IIT, Bhubaneswar

Sample messages from Professors from abroad

From: Jayadev Misra
Professor and Schlumberger Centennial Chair
Dept. of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712-0233, USA

It is not often that we see the birth of something significant, or even realize its significance. So it is with the establishment of the IIT in Orissa. For over 60 years, since the independence of the country, bright students from Orissa had to go elsewhere to prove their worth and Orissa had not welcomed its share of the bright students from elsewhere. All this is about to change dramatically. I look forward to full blossoming of this initiative in the years to come.
I remain committed to sharing my expertise, interests and hopes with all those who are involved in this noble endeavor.
From: Prasant Mohapatra
Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA 95616
Tel. (530) 754-8016, (530) 754-8380, Fax. (530) 752-4767
http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~prasant

I am delighted to hear about the opening of IIT Bhubaneswar, and take this opportunity to welcome the first batch of students. I hope to meet and personally congratulate the first batch in a few months. I am equally excited about the prospects of interacting and collaborating with the faculty of IIT Bhubaneswar. In a few years, I am hoping to see the graduates pursuing higher education at our University.
From: Gautam Das
Associate Professor, Head of Database Exploration Laboratory
Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Arlington
http://ranger.uta.edu/~gdas/

I am extremely pleased at the opening of IIT Bhubaneswar and admission of its first batch of students. I am a professor in the Department Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington and my research interests are in the areas of databases, data mining, information retrieval, and web technologies. I visit Bhubaneswar very regularly each year, most often in December-January as well as sometimes in June-July-August. I am excited about and look forward to interacting and collaborating with the faculty and students of IIT Bhubaneswar. I am open to teaching a few summer courses and guiding student projects if the opportunity arises. I hope some of the graduate of IIT Bhubaneswar will apply to the University of Texas at Arlington for higher studies.

Sample messages from Industries

From: Sanak Mishra
Chief Executive Officer, India Greenfield Projects, ArcelorMittal
11th Floor, A-Wing, IFCI Tower
61 Nehru Place, New Delhi 110019, India
Phone: 0091-1141306771(Direct), 0091-1141306772 (PA)
FAX: 0091-1141306773
Email : sanak.mishra@mittalsteel.com

To: Mr. Chinmay Basu
The Principal Secretary to the Govt. of Orissa
Department of Industries, Orissa Govt. Secretariat
Bhubaneswar 751001

Dear Shri Basu,

It is with great pleasure that we learnt that the Govt. of India has agreed that an Indian institute of Technology will be set up at Bhubaneswar. Heartiest congratulations to you and your team for all the efforts you have made towards this objective.
We at ArcelorMittal are particularly happy about this exciting development, in view of our proposed mega steel plant in Orissa, which will need a large number of bright young men and women graduate engineers. We hope that many of them will come from IIT Bhubaneswar.
We wish you great success in setting up the IIT and establish it as a premier world-class institution.
From: C. V. Krishnan, CEO, Vedanta University
Vedanta University welcomes IIT Bhubaneswar and looks forward to future collaboration and friendly competition between students, researchers and faculty of both.
At Vedanta Resources we are extremely pleased at the opening of IIT Bhubaneswar and admission of its first batch of students. We are excited about interacting and collaborating with the faculty and students of IIT Bhubaneswar and look forward to hiring students from IIT Bhubaneswar at various capacities at Vedanta Resources starting from internships, employees, and partners.