Dr. Soham Sarkar completed his  B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology(formerly WBUT), Kolkata, India in 2005 and  M.Tech in Radio Physics and Electronics from Calcutta University, Kolkata, India in 2007  . He received his Ph.D. degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering in the year 2016 from the Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. Dr. Soham Sarkar is currently serving as an Associate  Professor and Head of the Department in Electronics and Communication Engineering of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. He has more than 15 years of teaching experience in Academics. His research interests include Evolutionary Algorithms, Soft Computing Techniques, Pattern Recognition, and Digital Image Processing.  Mr. Sarkar has published his works in the leading journals and conference proceedings like IEEE Transactions, Elsevier and, Springer. Dr. Sarkar has 750+ Google Scholar citations till date. He has been associated with the program committees and organizing committees of several renowned regular international conferences including FUZZ-IEEE, SEMCCO, ICAPR, ICRCICN etc. He regularly reviewed several Journal and conference proceedings including IEEE, Elsevier, Taylor & Francis and Springer. He also co-edited 2 books with reputed publishers like Elsevier  and  Wiley .