Education
Professor Nayak is an electrical engineer from IIT Kharagpur with a Masters in Business Administration (Master of Business Administration) from Indian Institutes of Management Bangalore. He has done his Doctor of Philosophy from IIT Kharagpur under the guidance of Professor Damodar Acharya who was the Vice-Chancellor of BPUT, Chairman of All India Council for Technical Education and the Director of IIT Kharagpur.
He joined XIMB soon after finishing Master of Business Administration from Indian Institutes of Management Bangalore.
Career
He is currently the director of IIIT Bhubaneswar. He has worked in companies such as Nelco, Mumbal and NTPC Delhi in fields of Power Electronics Design and Supply Chain Management respectively. He taught subjects in Information Systems, Operations Management and Quantitative Analysis.
He was responsible for giving a technology focus to the curriculum at XIMB. He held positions of Dean (Academics), Admissions Coordinator, Computing Services Coordinator et cetera
When the IIIT in Bhubaneswar started in 2007, He was invited to be the first Director of the Institute. Under his stewardship, this Institute has been growing rapidly in terms of Infrastructure, Programmes being offered and Research.
He is an advisor to the Government of Odisha on all e-Governance projects. He is advisor to the Treasury, Commercial Taxes, IDCO, British Dental Association and many other Odisha Government Initiatives.
Enterprise resource planning and Enterprise Systems
Group Decision Support Systems
Knowledge Management
e-governance
His hobby is part-time programming.
Various products have emerged from this hobby. Hibiscus – Open Source Academic Information System. This system is in use in XIMB for more than 15 years.
Important institutions such as XLRI, Indian Institutes of Management Ranchi, Ravenshaw University, GIM Goa, ILS Bhubaneswar have adopted this software for managing and knowledge sharing in their Institutes.
PAMIS – Project based Accounting system. This software has been adopted by the Panchyati Raj Department of Government of Odisha and is used to manage accounts of three tier panchayat system: 30 DRDAs, 314 Blocks, and above 6000 Panchyats.
EOL – Examination On-Lincolnshire. In any educational institutions, apart from teaching, performance assessment and evaluation is one of the major challenges.
Learning is enhanced through timely and frequent feedback.
Most teachers would find the Performance Evaluation tedious and monotonous. EOL is a solution for the performance evaluation woes of the teachers and students. This web based tool gives complete control to the teacher to build his question bank, design quizzes and examinations and administer the quiz over the Internet and publish results.
Present Responsibilities
Director, IIIT Bhubaneswar
Vice-President, BMMA
Technology Adviser (XIMB)
Director, IDCOL software Limited
Director, OCAC
Adviser, Commercial Tax Department, Government of Orissa
Adviser, Panchyati Raj Department, Government of Orissa
Former Responsibilities
Director, KIIT 2005–2006
Dean, academic, XIMB 1999–2002
Coordinator, Admissions, XIMB 1995–1999
Coordinator, Information Systems Area, XIMB 1994–2002
General Chair ICIT 2008.
