School of Computer Sciences

Faculty

Dr. Debasis  Gountia

Dr. Debasis Gountia Associate Professor

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  • Ph. D.
  • dgountia@outr.ac.in
  • 30-Nov--0001

About

Dr. Debasis Gountia received the M. Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India. He received the B. Tech. degree in CSE from the UCE Burla, India. He received the Ph. D. award in CSE from the IIT Roorkee, India after being recommended and highly praised by Ritsumeikan University Japan and North Texas University USA. He has over 21 years of teaching and research experiences in various organizations. He has authored 26 international referred journals including one IEEE/ACM Transaction and two ACM Transactions, 24 international conference proceedings, 3 books, 6 book chapters for CRC Press, 1 book and 2 book chapters for Springer Nature International Publishing, 1 book chapter for Wiley International Publishing, IEEE/ACM Transaction, and four filed patents in the aforementioned areas. He has been carrying out many international projects including two AI for Earth Azure Compute Grant of the Microsoft Pvt. Ltd., USA as Team Leader, and one SERB, Govt. of India as Principal Investigator. Section Editor for “Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence", International Journal on Computer and Telecommunication Engineering. He has been a reviewer of various journals, Transactions, along with conferences. He has organized/attended more than 110 conferences/seminars/workshops/Talks, and many more. He has achieved many awards/recognitions/ achievements such as Global Faculty Award of the Year 2023, Bharat Education Excellence Award of the Year 2022,  Emerging Scientist Award, Innovative Global Scientific Research Educationalist-Professionals Awards & Honors, Emerging Academician of the Year 2022, Best Faculty Award, Best Researcher Award, Outstanding Teacher Award, Perficio Award-2020, Appreciation  Certificate for having “Maximum Number of Sponsored Projects undertaken during the Academic Session 2022-23” by Odisha University of Technology and Research Bhubaneswar, etc. He is a professional member of ACM, IEEE, SMIE, FSIESRP, and IFERP.


Research Interest

Cryptography, Algorithms and Foundations of Chip Design, Machine Learning, Computer Security, Distributed System, Operating System

Publication

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Towards Scalability Trade-off and Security Issues in State-of-the-art Blockchain 2019 Journal Debasis Gountia View
Design-for-Trust Techniques for Digital Microfluidic Biochip Layout with Error Control Mechanism 2022 Journal Debasis Gountia and Sudip Roy View
Security Model for Protecting Intellectual Property of State-of-the-Art Microfluidic Biochips 2021 Journal Debasis Gountia and Sudip Roy View
Reliability Issues in State-of-the-Art Microfluidic Biochips: A Survey 2023 Journal Debasis Gountia View
A Novel Approach for Data Classification Using Neural Network 2023 Journal S. K. Jayasingh, Debasis Gountia*, N. Samal, and P. K. Chinara View
A Survey on Security and Privacy Challenges in State-of-the-Art Microfluidic Biochips 2024 Journal Debasis Gountia*, R.R. Behera, S. Tripathy, R. Champati, S. Pati View
A Technical Analysis on Digital Image and Video Processing 2024 Journal P. K. Sahoo, Debasis Gountia*, R. K. Dash, J. Mohammed View
Towards Performance Trade-off of State-of-the-Art TCP Linux Variants 2019 Journal C. Mohanty, Debasis Gountia*, and B. S. Nag View
An Experimental Approach to Detect Forest Fire using Machine Learning Mathematical Models and IoT 2024 Journal Suvendra Kumar Jayasingh, Satya Prakash Swain, Kumar Janardan Patra, and Debasis Gountia* View
Rule-based Database Intrusion Detection Using Coactive Artificial Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System and Genetic Algorithm 2022 Journal A. Brahma, S. Panigrahi, N. Samal, and Debasis Gountia* View
A Novel IOT Based Efficient Waste Management System 2023 Journal Manjit Kumar Nayak, Kajal Saji, and Debasis Gountia View
Security Issues in Cyberphysical Digital Microfluidic Biochips 2021 Journal Debasis Gountia View
Design-for-Trust Technique for Microfluidic Biochip Layout 2019 Conference Debasis Gountia and Sudip Roy View
Towards Security Aspects of Secret key Transmission 2018 Conference Debasis Gountia*, Ranjita Champati, Ashish Kumar Pradhan, Bhabendu Mohanta View
Checkpoints Assignment on Cyber-Physical Digital Microfluidic Biochips for Early Detection of Hardware Trojans 2019 Conference Debasis Gountia and Sudip Roy View
DecAuth: Decentralized Authentication Scheme for IoT Device Using Ethereum Blockchain 2019 Conference Bhabendu K. Mohanta, Anisha Sahoo, Shibasis Patel, Soumyashree S. Panda, Debasish Jena, Debasis Gountia View
Study of Blockchain Based Decentralized Consensus Algorithms 2019 Conference Soumyashree S Panda, Bhabendu Ku. Mohanta, Utkalika Satapathy, Debashis Jena, Debasis Gountia, Tapas Kumar Patra View
An Extension Application of 1D Wavelet Denoising Method for Image Denoising 2023 Conference Prasanta Sahoo, Debasis Gountia View
Trustworthy Management in Decentralized IoT Application using Blockchain 2019 Conference Bhabendu K. Mohanta , Utkalika Satapathy, Soumyashree S. Panda, Debasish Jena, Debasis Gountia View
A Blockchain Based Decentralized Authentication Framework for Resource Constrained IOT Devices 2019 Conference Soumyashree S. Panda, Utkalika Satapathy, Bhabendu K. Mohanta, Debasish Jena, Debasis Gountia View
A Novel Approach For Data Classification Using Neural Network 2018 Conference Debasis Gountia*, S. K. Jayasingh, P. K. Chinara, R. Champati, A. K. Pradhan, and N. Samal View
Trojan Detection in Digital Microfluidic Biochips via Image Classification: A Deep-Learning Based Approach 2025 Journal Debasis Gountia*, R. Behera, P. R. Bal, and S. Pati View
Context-Aware Adversarial Graph-Based Learning for Multilingual Grammatical Error Correction 2024 Journal N. Kumar, P. Kumar, S. Tripathy, N. Samal, Debasis Gountia, P. Gatla, Teekam Singh View
An AI-based Approach for Dynamic Routing in IoT Networks 2025 Journal Debasis Gountia*, P. Mishra, R. K. Dash, N. Pradhan, and S. N. Mohanty View
Experimentation, Taguchi and Machine Learning-Based Optimization of Parameters Concerning Heat Losses From The Trapezoidal Box Type Solar Cooker, 2024 Journal B. N. Panigrahi, J. Nayak, J. Bhatra, S. S. Sahoo, and D. Gountia, B. K. Choudhury View
A Secure Fault Detection for Digital Microfluidic Biochips 2024 Journal R . R. Behera, and Debasis Gountia* View
A Survey on Security and Privacy Challenges in State-of-the-Art Microfluidic Biochips 2024 Journal Debasis Gountia*, R.R. Behera, S. Tripathy, R. Champati, S. Pati View
Analyzing Cryptographic Algorithm Efficiency with in Graph-Based Encryption Models 2025 Journal Y. Banu, B. K. Rath, and Debasis Gountia View
AI Based Modified Approach in High-Resolution Image Reconstruction Techniques for Smart Healthcare System 2025 Journal P. K. Sahoo, Debasis Gountia*, R. K. Dash View
Interpretable and Explainable Convolutional Neural Network For Rice Leaf Disease Detection 2025 Journal S. Lipsa, R. K. Dash, and Debasis Gountia*, View
Decidable Regression Techniques for Statistical Modeling with Sustainable Agriculture Operations 2024 Journal Sanjith Bharatharajan Nair, Zuhair A Al-Hemyari, and Debasis Gountia* View
A Comprehensive Mathematical Verification and Analysis of Daily Temperature Data for the period 1981-2022: Global Warming, Environment and Sustainability 2025 Journal Zuhair A Al-Hemyari, Issa S. Al Amri, Sanjith Bharatharajan Nair, Debasis Gountia View
Integrating CCK8 and qPCR with xAI Models to Evaluate siRNA Effects on Cellular Viability and Gene Expression 2025 Conference Rakesh Ranjan Behera and Debasis Gountia View
A Novel Reversible Digital Image Watermarking Algorithm to Protect Medical Image and Patient Record Authenticity 2025 Journal P. K. Sahoo, Debasis Gountia*, R. K. Dash, “ ", , vol. PP, no. QQ, page 1- 13, 2025 View

Patents

1. Debasis Gountia*, S. Nayak, A. K. Das,  R. R. Behera, and P. K. Sahoo.: “A METHOD FOR SECURING DIGITAL MICROFLUIDIC BIOCHIP LAYOUT DATA TRANSMISSION”, Publication number: India Patent 202331010993 dated 10th March, 2023.

2.   D. Kumar, P. Bhambri, Debasis Gountia et al.: “METHOD FOR CYBER SECURITY IN EMAIL COMMUNICATION AMONG NETWORKED COMPUTING DEVICES”, Publication number: India Patent 202031002649 dated 07th February, 2020.

3. A. Kumar,  D. Kumar, C. J. Shelke, Debasis Gountia et al.: “SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTION AND CONTROL OF CYBERATTACKS IN LARGE NETWORK USING DATA MINING”, Publication number:  India Patent 202011005996 dated 29th February, 2020.

4.  S. Hota, I. Ankita, S. Chakrabarty, S. S. Sahoo, K. C. Bhuyan, M. C. Tripathy, and Debasis Gountia WATER EFFICIENT SENSOR CUM MECHANICAL BASED COMMODE”,Grant/Award India Patent Design No.: 390330-001 dated 14th  July, 2023.

5.Debasis Gountia*, S. Nayak, A. K. Das,  R. R. Behera, and P. K. Sahoo: “A METHOD FOR SECURING DIGITAL MICROFLUIDIC BIOCHIP LAYOUT DATA TRANSMISSION”, Grant/Award India Patent Design No.: 567392 dated 12th June, 2025


Books/Book Chapters

1.      Debasis Gountia, Dilip Kumar Dalei (DRDO), Subhankar Mishra (NISER Bhubaneswar), and Brajesh Kumar Kaushik (IIT Roorkee). Book: “Information Technology Security: Modern Trends and Challenges”, Springer Nature International Publishing, ISBN: 978-981-97-0407-1, 236 pages, 2024. 

     Available: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-0407-1

 2.Dilip Kumar Dalei and Debasis Gountia "Chapter 6: Hardware Trojans in Microfluidic Biochips: Principles and Practice” (Book: Advancing Computational Intelligence Techniques for Security Systems Design), CRC Press - Taylor & Francis Group Publishing, ISBN: 9781003229704 (ebook), pp. 87-104, 2022.

3. Debasis Gountia* and Utkalika Satapathy "Chapter 8: Security & Privacy Enhancing Technologies for Blockchain and Cryptocurrency”  (Book: Handbook of IoT and Blockchain : Methods, Solutions, and Recent Advancements), CRC Press - Taylor & Francis Group Publishing, ISBN: 978-0-367-42245-5 (hbk), ISBN: 978-0-367-85474-4 (ebook), pp.133-150, October 2020.

4.   Prasanta Sahoo, Debasis Gountia*, et al. "Chapter 07: An Extension Application of 1D Wavelet Denoising Method for Image Denoising” (Book: Algorithms for Intelligent Systems", Springer International Publishing), Electronic ISSN: 2524-7573, Print ISSN: 2524-7565 (ebook), pp.1-19, 2024

5.  Bhagaban Swain and Debasis Gountia "Chapter 18: Quantum Intelligent Systems and Deep Learning” (Book: Evolution and future of Quantum Computing), Wiley International Publishing, ISBN: 978-1-119-90486-1, pp. 313-325, 2023. Available online:

     https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/9781119905172.ch18

6.     Debasis Gountia* and Dipanwita Roy Chowdhury, Hard Disk Encryption, ISBN: 978-613-9-83283-5, 70 pages, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, May, 2018.http://faculty.iitr.ac.in/~sudiproy.fcs/web_files/amazonicon.png

7.    Babendu Kumar Mohanta and   Debasis Gountia* “A Novel Approach to Fully Homomorphic Encryption with Cloud Security”, ISBN: 978-613-9-86292-4, 53 pages, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, June, 2018.

8.      Neelamani Samal and Debasis Gountia* "Chapter 9: Security & Privacy in loT (Book: Handbook of IoT and Blockchain : Methods, Solutions, and Recent Advancements), CRC Press - Taylor & Francis Group Publishing, ISBN: 978-0-367-42245-5 (hbk), ISBN: 978-0-367-85474-4 (ebook), pp.151-164, October 2020.

9.    Manjit Kumar Nayak, Debasis Gountia, and N. K. Ray "Chapter 20: Intrusion Detection in IoT with Machine Learning and Deep Learning: A Systematic Review” (Book: Intelligent Computing on IoT 2.0, Big Data Analytics, and BlockChain Technology), CRC International Publishing (Taylor & Francis), ISBN: 9781003326236 (ebook), pp. 372-389, May 2024.

DOI https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003326236

10.  Jyotirmay Mahapatra, Manas Mohanty, and Debasis Gountia* "Chapter 02: Smart Crop Management for Increased Yield”, (Book: Optimizing Smart and Sustainable Agriculture), CRC International Publishing (Taylor & Francis), ISBN: 978-0-367-42245-5 (hbk), ISBN: 978-0-367-85474-4 (ebook), pp.151-164, 2024.

 11.  Neelamani Samal and Debasis Gountia* “A Fault Tolerant Token Based Atomic Broadcast Algorithm Relying On Responsive Property”, ISBN: 978-613-9-83774-8, 50 pages, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, May, 2018.

12.  Jyotirmay Mahapatra, Jagjeet Singh, and Debasis Gountia "Chapter 24. Tech-Enabled Sustainability: Leveraging Technology for a Greener Future through Smart Climate Agriculture”, (Book: Future of AI, IoT, and Sustainability), Springer International Publishing, Electronic ISSN: 3004-9598, Print ISSN: 3004-958X, pp.1-20, 2024.

Administrative responsibilities

Performing many administrative responsibilities such as Nodal officer for Centre of Excellence (CoE) on AI, IoT, Blockchain, 5G, Computer Vision in consultation with IIT Delhi,  P.I.C. of Income Tax Committee, Programme Officer of NSS, Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy (SRIC), Institution's Innovation Council, Coordinator for CoE on AI and Robotics (CAIR) in partnership with NITKAL Japan, Convenor for Project monitoring and Evaluation committee (OUTR Transformation),  Advisory Committee Member of NSS Bureau of OUTR Odisha Technical Committee member for Maintenance of IT Infrastructure of Wi-Fi and Wired Network Facility of OUTR, Bhubaneswar, Coordinator for Industry Exposure of technical students of OUTR BBSR, Jury in OUTR Internal Hackathon,  ODIAPRENEUR hackathon, and many more responsibilities.

Details of Ph. D Research Scholars

PH. D SCHOLARS 
  1. Manjit Kumar Nayak
  2. Mahesh Jena
  3. Rakesh Ranjan Behera
  4. Prasanta Kumar Sahoo
  5. Neelamani Samal
  6. Swarnalata Pati
  7. Alka Dash-Cloud 
  8. Gopal Krishna Behera
  9. Soumya Ranjan Mahanta
  10. Sumanta Kumar Singh
  11. Santosh Kumar Sahu 
  12. Amrita Dash
  13. Mrs. Yashmin Banu
  14. Mr. Mrutyunjay Senapati
  15. Rabinarayan Mohanty
  16. Rabinarayan Rout
  17. Ashok Das
  18. Ankita Puja Pradhan 
  19. Preethi S

Details of PG Dissertation Guided 3

27.

Himanshu Kumar Patra

EmoSense: Harnessing Sentiment Insights Using Machine Learning

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Running

May 2025

Supervisor

28.

S. Naveen

AI for Cattle Management

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Running

May 2025

Supervisor

29.

Sunil Kumar Sahoo

Detection of Brain Tumor using Convolutional Neural Network

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Running

May 2025

Supervisor

30.

Sangita Das

Driver’s Drowsiness Detection System

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Running

May 2025

Supervisor

31.

Pankaj Kar

Cattle Disease Prediction System using Machine Learning

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Running

May 2025

Supervisor

32.

Chitta Ranjan Mangaraj

Forest Fire Detection

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Completed

January 2025

Supervisor

33.

Nabajeeban

Panda

Forest Fire Detection

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Completed

January 2025

Supervisor

34.

Sangita

Das

Forest Fire Detection

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Completed

January 2025

Supervisor

35.

Chitta Ranjan Mangaraj

Deepfake Defense Mechanisms: An ML Perspective

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Running

May 2025

Supervisor

36.

Nabajeeban

Panda

Deep Learning Approach for skin lesion – Based Disease  Detection

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Running

May 2025

Supervisor

37.

Sangita Das

Heart Attack Risk Prediction: A Machine Learning-Based Approach

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Running

May 2025

Supervisor

38.

Prabodh Kumar Panda

Generating ML based initialization vector for X-CBC algorithm to address Vulnerabilities in Digital Microfluidic Biochips

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Running

May 2026

Supervisor

39.

Akash Beck

Quantum-Resilient Network Security Framework (QRNSF)

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Running

May 2026

Supervisor

40.

Monalisa Rout

ML-Based Encryption Algorithm for Bio Protocol Security in Cloud

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Running

May 2026

Supervisor

41.

Akash Beck

Post-Quantum Network Defense System (PQ-NDS): Real Time Threat Detection and Secure Communication

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Running

May 2026

Supervisor

Details of M. Tech. Dissertation Guided

Sl. No.

Name of the Student

Title of Thesis

University/Institute

Status (Completed/ Ongoing)

Date of Submission/ Awarded/ Enrolment

Your Role

1.       

Manjit Patra

A Hybrid Approach for Ransomware Detection: A Study on WannaCry and Phobos

Odisha University of Technology and Research, Bhubaneshwar

Completed

31 May 2025

Supervisor

2.       

Prasant Kumar Nayak

Crop Remommendation & Disease  Detection

Odisha University of Technology and Research, Bhubaneshwar

Ongoing

 

Supervisor

3.             

Manjit Patra

Filter the DDoS attacks and Analysis  using Reinforceme-nt analysis and Data Presentation

Odisha University of Technology and Research, Bhubaneshwar

Completed

15 May 2024

Supervisor

4.       

Prasant Kumar Nayak

Crop Remommendation & Disease  Detection

Odisha University of Technology and Research, Bhubaneshwar

Completed

28 May 2025

Supervisor

5.             

Jagadish Batra

Weather Data Prediction for Implementing Solar Energy System in Urban Buidings

Odisha University of Technology and Research, Bhubaneshwar

Completed

11 June 2024

Supervisor

       6.

Bhabendu Mohanta

A Novel Approach to Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) with the Cloud Security

BPUT Rourkela

Completed

18 June 2012

Supervisor

7.             

Neelamani Samal

A Fault-Tolerant Token-Based Atomic Broadcast Algorithm Relying on Resposive Property

BPUT Rourkela

Completed

18 June 2012

Supervisor

8.             

Madhusmita Sahu

Privacy Preserving Decision Tree Learning Using Unrealized Data sets

BPUT Rourkela

Completed

18 June 2012

Supervisor

9.             

Prakash K. Chinara

A Novel Approach for Data Classification Using Neural Network

BPUT Rourkela

Completed

18 June 2013

Supervisor

10.         

Rohit Sahoo

A  Secure Authentication & Privacy Preservation Protocol For VANETs

BPUT Rourkela

Completed

18 June 2013

Supervisor

11.         

Ranjita Rout

A New Approach to the Security aspects of an Image File

BPUT Rourkela

Completed

18 June 2011

Supervisor

Details of PG Dissertation Guided 1

Sl. No.

Name of the Student

Title of Thesis

University/Institute

Status (Completed/ Ongoing)

Date of Submission/ Awarded/ Enrolment

Your Role

1.       

Biswajit Behera

Multiple Disease Prediction Model                                   Using Machine Learning

BPUT Rourkela

Completed

18 June 2021

Supervisor

2.       

Tarun Kumar Nanda

Classification Of  Skin  Cancer Using

 Convolutional   Neural Network

 

BPUT Rourkela

Completed

18 June 2021

Supervisor

3.       

Khetramohan Mishra

Cotton Plant Disease Detection Using DEEP LEARNING

BPUT Rourkela

Completed

18 June 2021

Supervisor

4.       

Shesasmita Sahoo

Web Beauty Application: Map Integration & Razorpay

BPUT Rourkela

Completed

18 June 2021

Supervisor

5.       

Nitish Kumar Nayak      

Driver Drowsiness       Detection System

BPUT Rourkela

Completed

18 June 2021

Supervisor

6.       

Subham Rout

Detecting Fake News Tweets

From Twitter

BPUT Rourkela

Completed

18 June 2021

Supervisor

7.       

Smruti Ranjan Sahoo

CETC

(Android App of CET)

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Completed

18 June 2022

Supervisor

8.       

ANWESHA SAHOO

NOTEHUB WEBSITE FOR SHARING NOTES

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Completed

18 June 2022

Supervisor

9.       

Vishnu Priya

ONLINE EXAMINATION SYSTEM

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Completed

18 June 2022

Supervisor

10.   

LIPIKA DALAI

SECURE CHATS

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Completed

18 June 2022

Supervisor

11.   

VISHNU PRIYA

TESTIFYME

(ONLINE EXAMINATION SYSTEM)

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Completed

18 June 2022

Supervisor

12.   

Manoj Sinku

Loan Approval Prediction Using Machine Learning

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Completed

18 June 2023

Supervisor



Details of PG Dissertation Guided 2

13.   

Tanuj Tanmaya Pattanaik

Heart Diseases Prediction

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Completed

18 June 2023

Supervisor

14.   

Nishikanta Parida

Self-Driving Car

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Completed

18 June 2023

Supervisor

15.   

Jyotshnarani Sahoo

Automatic Text Generator Using NLP

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Completed

18 June 2023

Supervisor

16.   

Soloman Kanhar

Heart Diseases Prediction Using ML

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Completed

18 June 2023

Supervisor

17.   

Jyotshnarani Sahoo

Driver Drowsiness Detection System

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Completed

18 June 2023

Supervisor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

18.   

Subarna Pani

Prediction of Diseases in Cattle using AI

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Completed

18 June 2023

Supervisor

19.   

Animesh Panda

Default of Credit Card Clients

 

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Completed

15 January 2024

Supervisor

20.   

Siddhant Kumar Sahoo

Comment toxicity classification

 

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Completed

15 January 2024

Supervisor

21.   

Vishal Sharma

 Credit Card fraud detection

 

 

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Completed

15 January 2024

Supervisor

22.   

Dinesh Rout

 Phishing website detection

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Completed

15 January 2024

Supervisor

23.   

Animesh Panda

Default of Credit Card Clients

 

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Completed

15 January 2024

Supervisor

24.   

Diptesh Choudhury

AI FITNESS TRAINER

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Completed

28 May 2024

Supervisor

25.   

Vishal Sharma

SIMILAR QUESTION PAIR

IDENTIFICATION

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Completed

28 May 2024

Supervisor

26.   

Animesh Panda

INSURANCE FRAUD DETECTION

USING MACHINE LEARNING

OUTR Bhubaneswar

Completed

28 May 2024

Supervisor