Dr Sudha Panda has more than 30 years of experience in industry and academics in the field of architecture, planning and urban management. Graduating from Sir JJ College of Architecture, Mumbai, she went on to do Business Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur. She worked for almost 15 years in TATA STEEL before joining Academics. She completed her PhD from BIT, Mesra and has several well cited SCOPUS indexed papers and books to her credit. Under her leadership, the School has initiated several new postgraduate programs like Urban Design, Urban and Regional Planning and Interior Design. She has led several development programs in Odisha like spatial development planning for gram panchayats under Ministry of Panchayati Raj and preparation of Heritage Byelaws for National Monument Authority.