Santosh Kumar Pani is currently working as Professor in the School of Computer Engineering. He has over two decades of experience in teaching, research and administration in KIIT Deemed to be University. He has taught various core courses in Computer Science to the students of Under Graduate and Post Graduate Programmes. He has over twenty research publications indexed in global reputed databases and guided several Ph.D. Scholars and M.Tech students in School of Computer Engineering. He has served in various key administrative positions such as Controller of Examinations of KIIT, Deemed to be University over a period of four years. He has been actively involved in the design of the examination process in SAP implementation of KIIT, Deemed to be University. Under his leadership, KIIT Deemed to be University successfully conducted the online examinations as one of the first institute in the country for all the courses during the CORONA Pandemic situation. His recent research interests include program slicing, data flow analysis, internet of things and cloud services.