Dr. Sourav De did his Bachelors in Information Technology from The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, India in 2002. He did his Masters in Information Technology from West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata, India in 2005. He completed PhD in Computer Science and Technology from Indian Institute of Engineering & Technology, Shibpur, Howrah, India in 2015. He is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering Department in Cooch Behar Government Engineering College, West Bengal. Previous to this, he was an Assistant Professor for more than ten years in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Information Technology of University Institute of Technology, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, India. He is a co-author of one book and the co-editor of 6 books and has more than 38 research publications in internationally reputed journals, international edited books, and international IEEE conference proceedings and one patent to his credit. He served as a reviewer in several International IEEE conferences, international editorial books and reputed international journals. He has been the member of the organizing and technical program committees of several national and international conferences. He has been invited to different seminars as an expert speaker. His research interests include soft computing, pattern recognition, image processing, and data mining. Dr. De is a member of IEEE, ACM, Institute of Engineers (IEI), Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), Institute of Engineers and IAENG, Hong Kong. He is a life member of ISTE, India.