Bhubaneswar: Two scientists from Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA) Deemed to be University here have been ranked among the top 10 in India for their research work by Research.com, a leading academic research portal.
Prof. Pradipta Kishore Dash, Director of Multi-Disciplinary Research Centre of SOA, has been ranked 6th among the best Electronics and Electrical Engineering researchers in the country, while Prof. Kulamani Parida, Director of the University’s Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, has been placed 7th among best Chemistry scientists in India.
SOA occupies 10th place in the list of best Electronics and Electrical Engineering universities and 34th among Chemistry universities in the country.
Prof. Dash, the first Vice-Chancellor of SOA, previously worked as Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at NIT, Rourkela. He is a visiting Professor at National University of Singapore, Multimedia University (Malaysia), University of Washington, University of Manitoba and University of New Brunswick, both in Canada.
He was conferred with the Biju Patnaik Award for Scientific Excellence and Samanta Chandrasekhar Award for his outstanding research work.
Prof. Parida, on the other hand, is known for his work and research in Material Chemistry, has won 16 state and national-level scientific awards and authored 501 research articles. He also has 35 national scientific patents to his credit.
He served as Materials Chemistry scientist in various departments of the Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar, where he retired as Chief Scientist.
Prof. Dash and Prof. Parida both figured in the list of top 2 per cent scientists of the world drawn up by Stanford University.
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