Prof (Dr) Vijay Anant Athavale was awarded PhD in Computer Science 2003 from Barkatullah University, Bhopal, India. He has a rich teaching, research and administrative experience of more than 33 years of serving in Government and Private Universities and Colleges in India and abroad. He has served academic assignments at Canada, the Republic of Yemen and the Republic of Sudan. He also served as an expatriate expert for the United Nations Development Programme to Ethiopia. He has been instrumental in shaping of several Institutes of repute offering Technical and Management Education in India. He has successfully led the transformation journey of some of the institutes, which has resulted in national and international accreditations. As a thought leader and a subject-matter expert, he has presented numerous sessions at Conferences, FDPs, and Workshops as Key Note speaker, Session Chair, Organizing Committee member, TPC etc. He is a reviewer for several SCIE, Scopus, WoS indexed journals. He has contributed several chapters in books & handbooks published by IGI Global USA, Taylor and Francis Group, UK, Springer etc.