Varun Gupta is Professor of Digital Innovation and Director of the Multidisciplinary Research Centre for Innovations in SMEs (MrciS) at Gisma University of Applied Sciences, Potsdam, Germany, and a researcher at Universidad de Alcalá, Spain. He has held positions at University College London (UCL), University of Toronto, Leicester University, Lund University, Sapienza Roma, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, University of South-Eastern Norway, Poznań University of Technology, and Uniwersytet Szczeciński. He holds three doctorates—Organizational Engineering (cum laude), Economics & Business Management (International/European Doctorate, cum laude), and Computer Science & Engineering—an MBA, Máster en Dirección Internacional de Empresas, M.Tech (by Research) in Computer Sc & Engg. and B.Tech (Hons.) in Computer Sc & Engineering. Prof. Gupta is Editor-in-Chief of IJCAET (Scopus) and Associate Editor for PeerJ Computer Science (SCIE Indexed), and former editor for IEEE Access, PLOS One, JCIT, and BJET. He has led EU and Spanish-funded projects and is included in the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists 2025. His research interests span evidence-based software engineering, innovation management, digital transformation, technology adoption in SMEs, entrepreneurship, and international business management.