Dr. Utpal Barman is a professor and dean at the Faculty of Computer Technology, Assam Down Town University, Guwahati. He graduated from Assam Engineering College, Gauhati University, followed by earning his M.E. and Ph.D. from the same university. His specializations include artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, agro-informatics, AI in healthcare, health informatics, and AI in education. As a result, Dr. Barman's research interests include AI applications for crop health monitoring (disease detection) and yield monitoring; AI applications in education technology; AI in healthcare, AR-VR in healthcare; drone-based technology for crop health monitoring and disease control; robotics applications in agriculture for the planting and harvesting of vegetables and fruits; and the development of AR-VR-based agro-computing technology for the betterment of farmers.