partha sarathi beheraraipur it is a matter of great pride and honour for iiitnr and chhattisgarh that the asiapacific artificial intelligence association aaia has conferred its highest honour the fellow of the association on dr pradeep k sinha the director of iiitnrconsidering dr sinhas contributions to the advancement of science technology and technical education the executive board of the aaia decided to bestow this honour upon him after recognizing him among the top scientists of the world with outstanding achievements in the area of distributed computingthe fellows of the aaia include some of the worlds eminent academicians and the members of iiitnr are proud that with this new development their institute joins the league of these top academicianforeseeing the immense demand arising for experts in data science and artificial intelligence in the near future dr sinha played a vital role in introducing new btech and mtech programs in data science artificial intelligence dsai in iiitnr in the year 2019 making iiitnr one of the first institutes in the country to have such a program today this branch of engineering is the most sought after branch among the students seeking admission in iiitnron receiving this recognition dr sinha thanked the state government for giving him the opportunity to setup a new technical institute in chhattisgarh he also thanked iiitnr members and all other stakeholders of iiitnr for their help and support in building iiitnr as a premier technical institute of the nation