About PROF. UTTAM KUMAR ROY

Prof. Uttam K. Roy is an Architect and City Planner with more than sixteen years of academic, research and professional experience in the field of housing and urban planning and currently serving as Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture and Planning, IIT Roorkee. He has served as HUDCO chair faculty in Kolkata and has been instrumental in planning of New Town, Kolkata and many municipal towns prior to the present responsibility. His broad interest area is housing and city planning. He is a Recognized Trainer (RT) of Design of Training (D.O.T) by DOPT, Government of India and delivered more than fifty short term courses including Training of Trainers (TOT) courses. He is having a keen interest in teaching pedagogy/ andragogy and uses innovative methods of teaching. He is having numbers of reputed publications and delivered many expert lectures in renowned institutions. He has more than seventeen years of works in Urban Planning, Development and management. Earlier he conducted NPTEL course in Housing Policy and Planning which got huge success of more than four thousand enrollments in two phases.