Akshi Kumar received a B.Eng. degree (Hons.) in computer science and engineering from Maharishi Dayanand University, India, in 2003, an M.Tech. (Hons.) in computer science and engineering from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, in 2005, and a Ph.D. in computer engineering from the Faculty of Technology, University of Delhi, in 2011. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She has published widely in peer-reviewed and science-cited journals.