Pattnaik, Binay Kumar

Binay Kumar Pattnaik is currently working in the Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India as a senior professor. He has worked as the Director (VC) of Institute of Social and Economic Change, Bangalore. With three and half decades of experience in teaching and research at both IIT Bombay and IIT Kanpur, he has contributed handsomely to the area of social studies in science and technology, globalization and social movement studies. So far he has written and edited ten books including guest edited volumes of a few prestigious academic journals. That apart, his scholarly contributions include more than four dozen research papers in refereed journals of repute and articles in edited books. He has travelled extensively both inside and outside India to deliver lectures, keynote/ valedictory addresses and organize international sessions and symposia. Besides, he is a committed teacher andresearch guide of reputation