Dr. Ajit Jha is an Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering Sciences, University of Agder, where he is actively involved in research focused on photonic sensing, robotics, spectrometry, computer vision, and ML with applied real-world application areas, such as ADAS functionalities, autonomous systems, textile recycling, industrial process automation, Structural Health Monitoring, Condition-based Monitoring, precision agriculture, and biomedical imaging. He has blended work experience in various industries, including as a Telecom Engineer at Nepal Telecom (Nepal); an R&D Engineer at the Center for Sensors, Instruments and System Developments (Spain); a Test and Validation Engineer at Idneo (Spain); and a System Engineer at Ficosa (Spain). Dr. Ajit received his joint Doctorate in Photonics Engineering, Nanophotonics, and Biophotonics (Technical University of Catalunya (UPC), Spain) and Mechanical Engineering (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany) under the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate (EMJD) program, EUROPHOTONICS, funded by the European Union (EU). He is also the recipient of the Erasmus Mundus joint master’s program, Master’s of Photonic Network (MAPNET). He has published 60 publications in various peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He has been the Co-PI of several research projects, actively participating in the peer review of scientic manuscripts and arranging conferences.