Pradeep Kumar MallickDr. Pradeep Kumar Mallick is currently working as Professor and Head in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Vignana Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India. He has completed his PhD from Siksha Ó’ Anusandhan University, M Tech. (CSE) from Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT), and MCA from Fakir Mohan University Balasore, India. Besides academics, he is also involved various administrative activities, Member of Board of Studies, Member of Doctoral Research Evaluation Committee, Admission Committee etc. His area of research includes Algorithm Design and Analysis, and Data Mining, Image Processing, Soft Computing, and Machine Learning. He has published 5 books and more than 55 research papers in National and international journals and conference proceedings. Read More Read Less