Bhubaneswar: Governor and Chancellor of Universities Ganeshi Lal has appointed Dr Ashish Ghosh as the director of International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Bhubaneswar.
Ghosh will hold the position for a period of five years with effect from the date he assumes office as such or until further orders, whichever is earlier, according to an official notification.
He is currently leading the Data Science Research consortium project as the Theme Coordinator to manage a number of projects assigned to different reputed Indian Institutes under ICPS programme of DST, and is the Principal Investigator of the Technical Innovation Hub on Data Science established at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
Ghosh started as an electronic engineer (1983-’87) and then moved to computer science during his master’s (1987-’89), and finally to Artificial Intelligence (AI) during PhD (1993).
He has an experience of 28 years in teaching. He has authored 10 books and successfully guided 10 PhD scholars.
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