Dr. D.V.N. Siva Kumar obtained his PhD on Precision and Privacy-Preserving Multi-Keyword Search over Encrypted Data from the CSE department, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, SURATHKAL, in 2020. He has over more than 6 years of teaching experience (2 years pre-PhD and 4.5 years Post-PhD). He has been working as an Assistant professor in the CSE department, GITAM university, Hyderabad campus since July, 2022.