Dr. Arya received his PhD in Computer Science & Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T. Kanpur), Kanpur, India. He is now Professor of Computer Science at ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management (IIITM), Gwalior. He also served as Dean of Postgraduate Studies & Research at AKTU Lucknow. He has more than 29 years of experience teach undergraduate and postgraduate students and has guided more than 100 PhD and MTech dissertations. He has published 11 book chapters and more than 150 journal and conference papers in the fields of image processing, biometrics, and information security. Dr. Arya is co-author of the book, Security in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks, and editor of two books, Emerging Wireless Communication and Biometric Computing. Dr. Arya is on the editorial board of numerous international journals and a member of the organizing committee and program committees for various national and international conferences and workshops. He a is Senior Member of IEEE, Fellow of IETE, Fellow of IE, and Life Member of ISTE.