Pankaj Kumar received the B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, and the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from the National University of Singapore, Singapore. Currently he is Professor and Additional Director at Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Prior to joining Nirma he has been affiliated with University of South Australia and University of Adelaide and also worked as Scientist and Associate Scientist at Defense Science and Technology Organization, Australia and Institute of Infocomm Research, Singapore, respectively. His research interests include computer vision, artificial intelligence, Machine learning large data mining and analysis, behavior analysis, multi-camera tracking, and surveillance. He is program committee member of several IEEE conferences and has served as guest editor for MDPI journal Technology. He has more than 100 publications in reputed conferences and journals and has worked on several funded projects.