Prof (Dr) Vijay Anant Athavale was awarded PhD in Computer Science 2003 from Barkatullah University, Bhopal, India. He has a rich teaching, research and administrative experience of more than 32 years of serving in Government and Private Universities and Colleges in India and abroad. He has served academic assignments at Canada, the Republic of Yemen and the Republic of Sudan. He also served as an expatriate expert for the United Nations Development Programme to Ethiopia. He has been instrumental in shaping of several Institutes of repute offering Technical and Management Education in India. He has successfully led the transformation journey of some of the institutes, which has resulted in national and international accreditations. He spearheaded many innovative initiatives including the industry academic integration. As a thought leader and a subject-matter expert, he has presented numerous sessions at Conferences, FDPs, and Workshops and his work has been cited in over 200 publications. He has published several research papers in International journals including those indexed in SCI, SCIE, Scopus, WoS etc. He regularly contributes in various International and National Conferences as Key Note speaker, Session Chair, Organizing Committee member, TPC etc. He is a reviewer for several SCIE, Scopus, WoS indexed journals. He has delivered several talks on Emerging Technologies in FDPs, STTPs etc. He has contributed several chapters in books & handbooks published by IGI Global USA, Taylor and Francis Group, UK, Springer etc.  He has a keen interest in game changing emerging technologies. In his current leadership role he is serving as Principal & Professor – Computer Science and Engineering at Walchand Institute of Technology (An autonomous Institute), Solapur, India