Blockchain Technology and Applications

Dr. Manoj Kumar M V is currently an Associate Professor, in the department of Information Science and Engineering, Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bengaluru. He obtained Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal (through MHRD fellowship). He holds Bachelor and Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from VTU Belgaum. He has 11 years of teaching and research experience. He is a senior member of IEEE, Life Member of IEI, Life Member of ISTE, also he is an active member of IEEE task force on Process Mining. He has authored 40+ research articles in various reputed international journals/conferences/book chapters. He has been granted 2 Indian copyrights for the noteworthy works. He is an associate editor and handling editor for Frontiers special issue journals. He has successfully executed 03 international consultancy projects worth ¿12 Lakhs and one is under the development phase. He is currently executing the funded project worth ¿5 Lakh for, TEQIP VTU and VGST- Karnataka Govt.He has edited 2 books on topics related to computer science. He has received best paper awards at reputed conferences for noteworthy research findings. His teaching interests include courses like Machine Learning, Statistics, Programming in R, Data Mining, Exploratory Data Analysis, Computer Organization etc. His primary areas of research include Process Mining and Data Science. He has delivered 40+ national/international talks/ hands-on workshops of varying duration (from 1 days to 15 days) on topics such as Data Science, Statistics for data analysis, Mobile application development, and Hybrid application development. He has visited more than 6 countries for research interaction, research lab visit, and paper presentation.