Dr. Padmalaya Nayak is working as a Professor & Head of the Department of CSE/IT at Gokaraju Lailavathi Womens Engineering College, Hyderabad. Prior to that, she was working as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science Engineering at Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad since 2009.
Dr. Padmalaya Nayak obtained her doctoral degree from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India, in 2010. She has 20 years of teaching and research experience in the area of Ad hoc and Sensor Networks, Network Security, etc. She has published more than 65 research papers in various International Journals and Conferences and also contributed six book chapters. She visited many countries to present her research paper at International Conferences. She received many National/International Level awards for her academic contributions to the education system and research. She is the Reviewer of many IEEE/SPRINGER/ELSEVIER Journals and Conferences.
She worked with various funding projects sponsored by AICTE, UGC, and TEQIP Projects. She is a member of IEEE, IETE, CSI, and IEANG professional bodies. Prof. Nayak is the Editor of 2 books published by Taylor and Francis. She has one Indian Patent and one Australian Patent to her credit. She is also a member of the advisory committee and Technical Program Committee for several International Conferences and Professional bodies like IEEE, CSI, IETE, IAENG, etc. Prof. Nayak is the Convenor of an International Conference (ICWSNUCA), proceedings approved by Springer. Her Google scholar h-index is 14 and her i-10 index is 17. She has one thousand citations for her research credit.