Dr. Hrudaya Kumar Tripathy is an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Engineering. He has completed Ph.D. from Berhampur University, M.Tech(CSE) from IIT, Guwahati, and received Post Doctoral Fellowship from the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia. Dr. Tripathy, having 20 years of teaching experience with post-doctorate research experience in the field of Machine Learning, Mobile Robotics, and Big Data Analysis. He had been a visiting faculty for a couple of years in Asia Pacific University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and the University of Utara Malaysia, Sintok, Malaysia.  Dr. Tripathy has awarded as Young IT professional award in 2013 on a regional level from the Computer Society of India (CSI). He is a senior member of IEEE, life member of CSI & having membership in other different professional bodies such as IET, IACSIT, IAENG.