Prof. Rout has twenty six years of experience in academic and research area in different national repute institutions. He has won the Best Faculty Award of the KIIT University on January 26, 2016. He is also certificated Mission10X Learning Approach Practitioners from Wipro Ltd. He has received the B.E. from UCE (presently known as VSSUT), Burla, M. Tech. from the Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, and Ph.D. from KIIT University, Bhubaneswar in 1991, 2001 and 2014 respectively. From 1991 to 1993, he was a Lecturer with the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, GIET, Bhubaneswar. From 1993 to 2002, he was a Lecturer with the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, OEC, Bhubaneswar. He also served as a Faculty Member of ICFAITech, Hyderabad from 2002 to 2007. He is currently working as a Professor with the School of Electronics Engineering, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. He has published a number of research papers in various refereed international journals and conferences. His current research interest includes active noise control, adaptive signal processing, image processing, soft computing and evolutionary computing.