There shall be four permanent members (for periods of four years) of the steering Committee, two from USA and two from India, elected by oits. In 2010 they became

1. Chita Das, das@cse.psu.edu (Steering Chair)

2. Prasant Mohapatra, University of California at Davis, prasant@cs.ucdavis.edu

3. Sudarshan Padhy, Math, uu, spadhy04@yahoo.co.in

4. G K Nayak, iiit Bhubaneswar, gopal.k.nayak@gmail.com,

Besides the above, there will be rotating members for any conference, consisting of the general chairs and the program chairs of the preceding conference, and, the president of OITS.

Thus for 2009 they were

5. Gautam Das, General chair, 2009,

6. Pritimoy Bhattacharyya, General chair, 2009,

7. Brajendra Panda, u.s.a., Program chair, 2009,

8. Arindama Singh, iit madras, Program chair, 2009,

9. S P Misra, advisor, oits,

Since Prof Padhy was already there as a permanent member, it was suggested that Prof S P Misra, advisor, oits may be there as a rotating member.