B.D. Deebak is an associate professor in the Department of Computational Intelligence, School of Computer Science and Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India. Previously, he was at GMR Institute of Technology, Rajam as an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and before that in Middle East Technical University (METU) Northern Cyprus Campus. He has more than 12 years of teaching experience and research in various engineering institutions. His areas of research include multimedia networks, network security, and machine learning.