Role Professor Name Gopal Nayak | Children 1 Nationality India | |
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Occupation Director IIIT Bhubaneswar Spouse(s) Sanjukta Nayak (married 1988) Awards Long Service medals (25 years of service), XIMB Alma mater Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore |
Dr gopal krishna nayak iiit bhubaneswar on oitf 2012
Dr. Gopal Krishna Nayak is professor of information systems at XIMB. He is currently the director of IIIT Bhubaneswar. Prof. Nayak is an electrical engineer from IIT Kharagpur with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from IIM Bangalore. He has done his PhD from IIT Kharagpur under the guidance of Professor Damodar Acharya, who was the vice-chancellor of BPUT, chairman of AICTE and the director of IIT Kharagpur.
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- Dr gopal krishna nayak iiit bhubaneswar on oitf 2012
- Dr gopal krishna nayak director iiit bhubaneswar at 9th oitf 2017
- Research interests
- Software development
- Present responsibilities
- Former responsibilities
- References

He has worked in companies such as Nelco, Mumbal and NTPC Delhi in fields of power electronics design and supply chain management respectively. He joined XIMB soon after finishing MBA from IIM Bangalore. 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 etc.
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, BDA and many other Odisha government initiatives.
Dr gopal krishna nayak director iiit bhubaneswar at 9th oitf 2017
Research interests
Software development
His hobby is part-time programming. Various products have emerged from this hobby.