K. SHANKAR is currently a Post Docotoral Fellow at Big Data and Machine Learning Lab, South Ural State University, Russia;. Collectively, Dr. K. Shankar authored/co-authored over 40 ISI Journal articles (with total Impact Factor of 107.749) and 150+ Scopus Indexed Articles. He has guest edited several Special Issues at many journals published by Inderscience and MDPI. He has served as Guest Editor and Associate Editor for SCI and Scopus-indexed journals such as Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, and MDPI. Dr. Shankar authored/edited conference proceedings, book chapters, and two books published by Springer. He has been a part of various seminars, paper presentations, research paper reviews, and is a convener and a session chair of several conferences. He displayed vast success in continuously acquiring new knowledge and applying innovative pedagogies and has always aimed to be an effective educator and have a global outlook. His current research interests include healthcare applications, secret image sharing schemes, digital image security, cryptography, Internet of Things, and optimization algorithms.