Faculty Achievements


Professor Arup Mitra, Faculty of Economics, delivered a keynote address, titled “Livelihood Issues During Pre- and Post-COVID Era”, at the ‘International Conference on Contemporary Economy in Post-COVID Era’, held at BJB College, Bhubaneswar, on February 17-18, 2023.

Professor Arup Mitra, Faculty of Economics, served as a subject expert for Odisha Public Service Commission for recruitment of Faculty in Economics in March 2023.

Dr. Reshma Rastogi, Associate Professor, Dept of Computer Science, FMCS, delivered a talk on “Machine Learning Techniques” at the Department of Mathematics, Satyawati College, University of Delhi on 18th April 2023.

Dr. Reshma Rastogi, Associate Professor, Dept of Computer Science, FMCS, delivered talk on ” Support Vector Machines and associated Loss Functions # Optimization ” during the symposium on “International Symposium On Optimization Theory And Its Applications
(ISOTA-2023)” organised by The Thapar University, Patiala on 15th April 2023.

Professor Sanjay Chaturvedi, Department of International Relations, was invited to serve on the International Research Committee, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Professor Sanjay Chaturvedi, Department of International Relations, was invited to serve on the Scientific Advisory Board of BOMOCULT (Borders, Mobilities , and Cultural Encounters) at University of Eastern Finland, Finland, for the period 2023-2026.

Professor Sanjay Chaturvedi, Department of International Relations, delivered a keynote lecture on ‘’Re-Spatializing the Southern (Global) Ocean: Constructions, Conversations and Contestations’, at the International Geographical Union (IGU) thematic conference on ‘The Oceans and Seas in Geographical Thought’, organized by University of Milano-Bicocca, 6-7 June 2023.

Professor Sanjay Chaturvedi, Department of International Relations, delivered a keynote lecture on ‘Re-thinking IR in Anthropocene’, at the conference ‘IR Conversations in a World of Uncertainties: Debating Theories and Practices’, organized by Department of International Relations University of Dhaka University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 27 February 2023.
Dr. Shweta Singh, Department of International Relations, has been appointed Program Co-chair for the 2024 Annual Convention of the International Studies Association to be held in San Francisco, United States.

Dr. Shweta Singh, Department of International Relations, has been invited to join the Editorial Board of Strategic Analysis, the bimonthly journal of the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi. Her one-year term began on May 1, 2023.

Dr. Soumita Basu, Department of International Relations, is part of the new team appointed to edit Review of International Studies, flagship journal of the British International Studies Association (published by Cambridge University Press). The team will begin its four-year term in January 2024.

Dr. Soumita Basu, Department of International Relations, has been appointed Chair of the Long Range Planning Committee of the International Studies Association, for the period March 2023 – March 2025.