Dr. Manas Ranjan Nayak is working as an Assistant Professor in School of Computer Engineering, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar. He has completed his Ph. D. and M.Tech from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He has more than 3 years of experience in teaching at UG level. He has various publications to his credit in leading journals and conferences indexed in Scopus. His research interests includes Digital Watermarking, Data Security, Cryptography, Machine Learning.