Prof. Sanghamitra Mohanty:
- Late Prof. Sanghamitra Mohanty (1 April 1953 – 1 July 2021) was an
Indian computer scientist. She had a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in physics. She
worked as a lecturer, reader and professor in computer science at Utkal
University from 1986 to 2011. She did research in the fields of
artificial intelligence, speech processing, image processing, natural
language processing, fractal geometry, weather prediction, and high
energy physics. Prof. Mohanty had thirteen Intellectual Property Rights
(IPRs) on Indian Language Technology Solutions. More than 160 of her research papers were
published in international journals and conference proceedings. She visited a number of
institutions in India and abroad for academic collaboration and research. She was the
recipient of the Samanta Chandrashekhar Award of Odisha Bigyan Academy of Science and
Technology Department, Government of Odisha for her contribution to engineering and
technology in 2012. She was a Fellow of the Women’s Engineering Society of United
Kingdom (FWES). Prof. Mohanty was the Vice Chancellor of North Orissa University during
2011 to 2014. She was the President of Odisha Bigyan Academy starting in January 2016.