Dr. Nitaigour Premchand Mahalik received his B.Sc. (Engg.) in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering in the year 1989 and Master of Engineering in Electronics Systems and Communication Engineering in December-1993 from the University College of Engineering (UCE), Burla. He did his Ph.D. in Engineering in June 1998 from the De Montfort University, U.K. and Postdoctoral research in June 2002 from Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea. He joined UCE, Burla functioning under the Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Orissa as a lecturer in the Department of Electronics and Telecom Engineering in 1990. He was promoted to the post of Senior Lecturer in 1994 and is presently continuing as Assistant Professor in the same Institute with an additional assignment of Controller of Examinations.

He is the recipient of the prestigious National Oversers Scholarship from the Govermment of India for Ph. D. study abroad in the field of Mechatronics, and Brain Korea-21 Fellowship from the Govermment of South Korea for Postdoctoral research in the field of “Real-time Intelligent Distributed Machine Control Systems” in the Department of Mechatronics at Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea.

He was invited as Visiting Professor to the Moscow State Technological University, Russia in the year 2001. Recently, Dr. Mahalik has completed editing a book “Fieldbus Technology; Industrial Network Standards for Real-time Distributed Control”. He is the author of more than 40 academic research papers that have already been published at National as well as International levels.

He is a member and associated member of the various professional bodies such as ISTE (I), MMF (UK), MMF (I), MISA (USA). He is the reviewer of the International Journal of American Society of Nuclear Energy and International Association for Science and Technology Development, Canada.