Jyotsna Kumar Mandal received his M.Tech. in Computer Science from the University of Calcutta in 1987, and his Ph.D. (Engineering) in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University in 2000. He is a Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, and was Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Technology & Management at KU from 2008-2012. He has also served as the Director of IQAC at Kalyani University; Chairman of CIRM; a Professor of Computer Applications at Kalyani Government Engineering College; Professor of Computer Science at North Bengal University; and a Lecturer at NERIST, Itanagar. He has 33 years of teaching and research experience in the field of coding theory, data and network security and authentication, remote sensing & GIS-based applications, data compression, error correction, visual cryptography and steganography. He was Guest Editor of Springer’s MST Journal (SCI indexed) and has published more than 400 research articles in national and international journals. Hehas also published 7 books, organized 34 international conferences. In addition he has served as a Corresponding Editor and Volume Editor for leading international publishing houses. He received the Siksha Ratna Award for outstanding teaching from the Government of West Bengal, in 2018; Vidyasagar Award from the International Society for Science Technology and Management at the Fifth International Conference on Computing, Communication and Sensor Networks 2016; Chapter Patron Award, CSI Kolkata Chapter at the CSI Annual Convention in 2014; Bharat Jyoti Award for meritorious services, outstanding performance and remarkable role in the field of Computer Science & Engineering in 2012 from International Friendship Society (IIFS), New Delhi; and the A. M. Bose Memorial Silver Medal and Kali Prasanna Dasgupta Memorial Silver Medal from Jadavpur University.