* The Alumni Achiever’s list is based on the nominations ...nist.edu/bottomslider/link/2018.pdfDebasish Mishra Senior Engineering Manager, Capital One Debasish worked at Google as

National Institute of Science & TechnologyPalur Hills, Berhampur, ODISHA-761008Phone : 0680-2492421/422, Fax : 0680-2492627Web: www.nist.edu

* The Alumni Achiever’s list is based on the nominations received by the institute from its students, faculty members, and alumni.

Prof. Sangram Mudali, Director

Prof. Geetika Mudali, Placement Director

There’s an unbolted door awaiting you with heaps of

opportunities on the other side of it.

Grab hold of those this New Year and have a successful year ahead.

May this new year bring you

the treasure trove of happiness, health, and prosperity.

May all your dreams come true!

Arya DebabratResearcher in Data Science

Arya worked as the Business Analyst atCitibank; Manager, Bank of America;

VP, Goldman Sachs; VP, JP Morgan Chase & Coand presently a Researcher in Data Science.

Arya has spearheaded innovation throughoutthis data journey leading to filing of 9 patents with US Patent Office.

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Parthajit did his Ph. D from IISc, Bengaluru,and was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow withthe iTrust, Center for Research in Cyber Security, Singapore University of Technology and Design,Singapore. He is currently leading the WirelessCommunication and Security research group at IIT Kharagpur.

1st Jan: New Year | 14th Jan: Makara Sankranti

22nd Jan: Saraswati Puja | 26th Jan: Republic Day

Parthajit MohapatraAssistant Professor, IIT Kharagpur


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Debasish MishraSenior Engineering Manager, Capital One

Debasish worked at Google as Systems Analyst,Yahoo as Senior Technical Manager, Linkedin asSoftware Engineering Manager and Microsoft(Through Linkedin Acquisition) before he joinedCapital One. Besides being an Entrepreneur, he mentorsstart-ups and participates in Seed Funding of Start-ups andalso sits in the board of a couple of Start-ups in Silicon valley, USA.

Linchan Kumar PatroManager, Deloitte

Linchan has 13+ years of experience in SAP withexperience in Data analytics and in different

Business Processes. Presently, he is actingas a Data Migration Lead in Iowa, USA

for a client which manufactures SyntheticDNA called (Oligo) used for research, biotechnology,

clinical diagnostics, and pharmaceutical development.


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Sri Vidya AnnapragadaCloud Consultant, Google

Sri Vidya has been in the technology industry foraround 15 years, helping start-ups and enterprisesin their digital transformation journey. Prior toGoogle she was the Director of Global Support& Operations at Apigee and worked with variousstart-ups and enterprises including Salesforce.com and Oracle.

Rakesh ParidaSenior Engineering Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Rakesh was placed in Microsoft from NIST.He built Microsoft Azure (cloud suite) offerings

building its next gen business applicationsplatform. He enjoys building highly scalable,

COGS efficient and super performantdistributed cloud infrastructure.

He also loves working with and building high performance teams.


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Swetank RajguruVice President, Baggit

Sagar Sahu Country Head, ETG Agro Pvt. Ltd

Sagar has 11+ years of professionalexperience in managing diverse portfolios,

markets and roles. He worked withPhoenix Commodities Ltd as Country Manager,

Cote D’Ivoire; Olam International Ltdas the Business Manager, Accra, Ghana and a few others.

Besides being a successful Manager, Sagar is also a good SportsPerson, a prolific Writer, and an astounding Actor.

Swetank served many companies at differentmanagerial positions like Area Manager,Operations, Future Group; National Manager,Levi Strauss & Co; General Manager,Levi Strauss & Co; and National Head, Calvin Klein Jeans& FCUK; & Vice President, Sales and Marketing,Vogue International, Mumbai.


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Aurodeepta PattnayakCoex Lead Engineer, Intel Corporation

Aurodeepta, since college days, was passionateto make cutting-edge embedded products.He worked as a Project Lead at Global EdgeSoftware, Technical Consultant at SamsungResearch India, Engineer III at Qualcomm and thenCoex Lead Engineer at Intel Corporation. Aurodeepta has14 years of experience in commercialization of PC, Mobile handsets & itsvarious embedded sub Systems.

Shahbaz SarikSenior Engineer, Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd

Shahbaz joined Analog Mixed Signal group ofWipro VLSI. He was one of the founding members

of the SoilSense that has launched a Start-upcompany, PROXIMAL SOILSENS TECHNOLOGIES.

He is the co-inventor of 2 patents and is theauthor/co-author of 8 research papers. Before

he joined Qualcomm he worked with Intel as an R&D CAD Engineer.


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Nakini Rudra Prasad DasAssistant VP, Equities Technology, CITI, INDIA

Rudra Prasad has more than 12 years ofexperience in Verification and Validation(V&V) of Banking Domain softwares from allverticals (Retail, Wholesale, Credit-Cards,Online and Investment). Prior to this he alsoworked with L&T InfoTech Ltd and a few other IT companies.

Suchismita NayakDirector, Engineering, VISA Inc., USA

Suchismita’s journey from a fulltime mom to aprofessional career as Director of Engineering in

Big Data Platforms at Visa Inc, (USA) has beenvery remarkable. She also serves as a volunteer

at a leading NGO in USA and provides freefood to homeless people as part of her giving back to the

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14th Jul: Car Festival | 22nd Jul: Return Car Festival

Kedar MukherjeeRegional Area Manager, Amazon

Kedar started his career at Nokia SiemensNetwork as a Telecom Engineer and then moved

onto Process and Quality Team. He also workedwith Samsung Electronics as Assistant Manager,Logistics. Presently he is a Manager at Amazon,

managing Amazon Wholesale’sNorth India Operations. He is an avid reader and an eloquent Debater.

Sumeet ChoudhuryLead Automation Engineer, Adobe Systems

Sumeet is leading the Automation of AdobePhotoshop Lightroom. He has worked forADA on the Multi-Functional Display Panel ofthe Indigenous Supersonic Jet of India – LCA (Tejas)which got inducted in the Indian Air Force in 2016as the Flying Daggers 45. He is SIX SIGMA - GREEN BELT Certified.


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15th Aug: Independence Day| 22nd Aug: Id-Ul-Juha

Pijush GuptaAsst. VP, Product Management, Genpact & Author

Pijush has 14+ years of experience in Consultingand Product Management. He is a publishedauthor (fiction and non-fiction) and his latest book‘Mystery to Mastery – Ideation to ProductizationPlaybook’ has topped the charts in a short span of time.He is also an empanelled speaker at various industry forumsand B-Schools and believes in creating the journey from ’now’ to ’wow’.

Jubanashwa MishraFounder, Book My Talk

Jubanashwa worked 28 jobs in all the 28 statesof India for one week each, with jobs

ranging from mountain cleaner to TRP Analyst toTattoo maker to Rafting Trainee to CremationAssistant to Bullet Mechanic. He wrote a book

on the same, “28 Jobs 28 Weeks 28 States”.Presently he is working on his latest venture “Book My Talk”, India’s first

market place for speakers and organizers.


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Manas KumarFitness Model

Manas is a Sports Enthusiast and has beencovered multiple times by national dailies on his

themed marathons. He is a top fitness model.He got the 6th place in Mr Asia Championship

2017 in Muscle Model Category,represented India in 51st Asian Bodybuilding

and Physique Sports Championship as Sports Physique Athlete and ispreparing to be Mr India 2018.

Swastik ChoudhuryActor and Film ProducerSwastik is an Actor and Film Producer from Odisha.He is the founder of the production bannerSwastik Arthouse. The first film 'Capital I', wasthe first Odia film to be selected in the‘International Film Festival of Kerala’.His latest production, Khyanikaa - The Lost Idea,was premiered at Hidden Gems Film Festival, Canada.


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Anupam BaralWing Commander, Indian Air Force

Payeli GhoshFounder & Director, Option3

Payeli worked as a Project Lead at SatyamComputer Services Ltd, Project Manager atInfosys, Managing Partner at Expicient Inc,

Bangalore and eventually became theFounder and Partner @Option3.io. She has

17+ years of experience in Entrepreneurship,Enterprise Transformation & Global Solution Delivery.

Anupam was commissioned into Indian Air Force inAeronautical Engineering branch and has been inthis distinguished service for last 15 years. He gottrained on IAF's latest acquisition 'C-130J SuperHercules' aircraft at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Ltd,USA. He is presently discharging the duties as Joint DirectorEngineering for two premier fleets 'C-130J Super Hercules and C-17 Globemaster III'.


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Utkal PattanayakManager, Bosch CorporationUtkal is currently working as Group Manager atBosch Corporation, Japan. Prior to this,he worked with Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Japan. Past 14 years he has devoted himself to thefield of automotive electronics, developinggasoline/diesel ECU (Engine Control Unit) as Tier1 productfor future generation passenger cars in markets of US, EU, and APAC for OEMsGM, Honda and Toyota.

Ritwick SanyalAsst General Manager, Schneider Electrics

Ritwick is currently the Business IT Partner formultiple business units at Schneider Electrics.

He is responsible for delivery of strategicIT initiatives for Commercial (Sales),

Customer Care Center, HR, Marketing andFinance business units. Prior to this he was a Principal Consultant/ Manager

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Amit SuryavanshiAsst. Manager Retail, IOCL

Amit started his career from OCL as anInstrumentation Executive Engineer and thengot into IOCL as the Operations Officer.He got promoted to become the Assistant Managerat IOCL in the year 2015. He is working inthe Retail Sales Department looking after 44 retail outlets in Uttar Pradesh.

Subrat DasManager EM Automation/Instr., TATA Steel Ltd

Subrat is a diligent professional in the field ofautomation and instrumentation with 9 years ofvaluable experience. Presently he is working as

Manager, EM Automation/Instrumentation,Tata Steel. Prior to this he served Utkal Alumina

International Ltd as Assistant Manager,and Vedanta Aluminium Ltd as Associate Manager, Instrumentation.

Documents

* The Alumni Achiever’s list is based on the nominations ...nist.edu/bottomslider/link/2018.pdfDebasish Mishra Senior Engineering Manager, Capital One Debasish worked at Google as