Dr. Chittaranjan Pradhan, Associate Professor, KIIT School of Computer Engineering has been conferred with the “Best Teacher Award” at the 3rd Universal Innovators Leadership Awards (UILA) – 2022 in association with International Conference on Innovative Computing & Communication (ICICC) – 2022 held at Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, New Delhi on 19th February 2022. He achieved this honour by dint of his hard work and sheer display of appealing educational competence. The jury members selected Dr. Pradhan as the topmost candidate due to his qualitative and quantitative contributions to teaching and refining the sustainable base of learning. UILA honours the determined efforts and achievements of change makers who have made their performance and innovative excellence in their respective fields. It also provides participants with an ideal opportunity to make their work visible to a wider audience.
About KIIT University
KIIT University (earlier Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology) is a co-educational, autonomous university located at Bhubaneswar in the Indian state of Orissa. It was one of the youngest institutions to be awarded the deemed university status in India and then the university status in 2004 and is recognised by Limca Book of Records.The University offers under-graduate and post-graduate courses in Engineering, Bio-technology, Medicine, Management, Law, Computer application, Rural management, Fashion, Film Studies, Journalism and Sculpturing. It has been ranked as 16 th in India, 5 th among private universities, and 4 th in the eastern region in the year 2009 by Times of India. It has also been ranked 18 th among private engineering institutes and 7 th in placement in 2008 by Outlook India.KIIT School of Management has been nominated as the mentor institution by AICTE for conducting faculty development programme in eastern India.