Dr Dayal Kumar Behera, is working as an Asst. Professor (II) in the School of Computer Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. He is an enthusiastic, proactive faculty member and researcher with more than fifteen years of experience teaching courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Supervised many IEDC-funded projects, MTech theses, and BTech projects. He has two patents and published more than 20 research papers in various reputed, peer-reviewed refereed journals and international conferences. He earned a Ph.D. from KIIT University and an M.Tech. from Odisha University of Technology and Research (formerly the College of Engineering and Technology). He obtained a B.E. degree with honours in Information Technology from the National Institute of Science and Technology, Berhampur, Odisha. He coached his team to victory at the 2017 Cisco IoT Hackathon. Mentored the "Trithon 2019" programming hackathon, and his team finished second. His research interest includes Recommender System, Time Series Analysis, Remote Sensing, Internet of Things, and Computer Vision. He is a lifetime member of the ISTE, OITS and IAENG societies.