"Dr. Ramesh Kumar Thakur received the B.Tech. degree in information technology from the University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India, in 2014, and the M.Tech. degree in high performance computing from the NIT Durgapur, West Bengal, India in 2016. He has done his Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering at IIT Patna, Bihar, India in 2023.

From 2016 to 2017, he was an Assistant Professor with the Computer Science and Engineering Department, Smt. S. R. Patel Engineering College Unjha, Gujarat, India. From 2017 to 2022, he has been a Research Assistant with the Indian Institute of Technology Patna. From 2022 to 2023, he was an Assistant Professor with the Computer Science and Engineering Department, ITER, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, India. From July 2023, he is working as an Assistant Professor(II) in the school of computer engineering at KIIT Bhubaneswar. His research interests include deep learning, machine learning, image processing, computer vison, visual cryptography, and visual steganography.

Dr. Thakur’s awards and honours include the Child Scientist Award by the National Science Congress, in 2006, the District Topper Award in Intermediate Examination, in 2010, the First Class First and University Topper Award for his B.Tech. degree by the University of Kalyani, in 2014, and the Gold Medallist Award for his M.Tech. degree from NIT Durgapur, in 2016."