Dr. Sarat Chandra Nayak presently working as a Professor in GITAM, Hyderabad. He worked as a Post Doctoral Fellow at Yonsei University, South Korea with Brain Korea (BK21) fellowship. He obtained Ph.D. in CSE from VSSUT, India and M.Tech. in CSE from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India. His research interests are AI/ML, data mining, and soft computing. He has more than 90 publications in reputed international journals and conferences. He has 15 years of experience in teaching and research.