Background
Panda, Durga Prasad was born on October 11, 1945 in Berhampur, Orissa, India. Arrived in United States, 1969, naturalized, 1982. Son of Maheswar and Sundarmani (Panda) Prasad.
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Durga Prasad Panda
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Education
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Regional Engineering College, Rourkela, Orissa, 1968. MEEE, Iowa State University, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy in Electronics Engineering, Purdue University, 1976.
Career
Electrical engineer Utkal Machinery Ltd. Kansbahal, 1968—1969. Research engineer Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1971—1972.
Faculty research associate University Maryland, College Park, 1976—1977. Senior-senior principal research scientist Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Minneapolis, 1977—1981, staff research scientist, 1981—1982. Section chief, signal & image processing science Honeywell Systems & Research Center, 1982—1987, manager, 1987—1989, associate director research, 1989—1990, Alliant Technology Systems Inc., Research & Tech Center, 1990—1992, technical director, since 1992.
Achievements
Membership
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (reviewer), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society (speaker 1984), Data Processing Management Association(speaker 1985), Advanced Target Recognizer Working Group (co-chairman artificial intelligence committee 1984), Society of Photo-Optical InstructingEngrs. (panelist application of artificial intelligence, since 1985), American Defense Preparedness Association, Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems, Society.of Photo-Optical and Instrumentation Engineers, Orissa Society of Americas, Incorporated., Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi. Current work: Research and development management in the areas of laser and Münchener Medizinische Wochenschrift sensor, multisensor algorithms, artificial intelligence and high speed processor architecture leading to precision weapons, and autonomous vehicles systems, advanced laser radar and millimeter wave sensors, fire control systems
Subspecialties: Artificial intelligence.
Connections
Married Fern Alane Lloyd, July 10, 1976. Children: Robin Development, Nina Anjali.
