About Us

The Odisha AI community is a global initiative creating a space for idea sharing, fostering collaborations, and discussing initiatives to increase the presence of Odia people in the field of AI.

Vision

Odias in AI is a global initiative creating a space for idea sharing, fostering collaborations, and discussing initiatives to increase the presence of Odia people in the field of AI. To this end, we run mentoring programs and maintain various fora for fostering partnerships and collaborations with industry and investors.

Mission

Odias in AI will help leverage the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning for the overall development of Odisha and Odia language through a platform for collaboration among Odia technologists, academicians, executives, policymakers, and the broader community–working strategically with technology and thought leaders in the space.

Activities

We undertake the following activities to achieve our mission by:

• celebrating the achievement of Odias in the field
• helping enhance skills levels in this area
• helping create entrepreneurial and career opportunities
• catalyzing rapid adoption of AI/ML technologies in Odisha by actively engaging with the policymakers
• creating a repository of knowledge in the area
• getting the best of technology leaders to work with us in the pursuit of our objective

For our detailed activities, please visit the initiatives page.

Key Challenges Addressed

• Shua, the spiritual predecessor of this community helped bringing Machine Translation to Odia Language.
• United the Odias across the world in the field of AI/ML across the professional, academic, investor, entrepreneur, and policymaker levels.

Core Team

Chapter Leaders

• Kumarika Mohanty - Women’s Chapter
• Soumendra Kumar Sahoo - Bengaluru Chapter
• Manmath Sahoo - Singapore
• Dr. Sukanta Kumar Jena - UK
• Col. Aditya Parida & Neelima Mishra - Sweden
• Dr. Sofen Kumar Jena - France
• Dr. Shantipriya Parida - Finland
• Saswat Mohanty - Germany
• Saroj Mahanta - South Africa
• Dr. Sitansu Sekhar Nanda - South Korea
• Manas Ranjan Kar - Canada
• Debendra Mahanta - Japan
• Shayani Parida - CT, USA
• Sudhir Sahu - CA, USA
• Madhusmita Nayak - UAE
• A K Mohanty - BBSR