I am an assistant professor in School of Instrumentation at Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya (DAVV) Indore (M.P.), India. Earlier, I was a Jay Chaudhry Chair Faculty of Software Innovation with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)- BHU Varanasi, India. I also worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Computer Science department at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India. I worked towards my PhD degree in Computer Science Engineering department at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore, India. I am a member of IEEE. I am currently serving as a chairman of IEEE Consumer Technology Society (CTSoc) chapter of Madhya Pradesh (MP) section from 2022. My research interests include Securing hardware intellectual property (IP) cores for DSP and IoT applications, Security aware High-Level Synthesis (HLS) and Biometric techniques for hardware (IP) security. I have authored/co-authored over 30 research publications and 10 book chapters. I have also co-authored hardware security computer aided design (CAD) tools published and hosted by ‘Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World at University of Florida (USA)’ and sponsored by ‘IEEE Council of Electronic Design Automation (CEDA)’ and IEEE Hardware Security and Trust Technical Committee. I am reviewer of reputed scientific journals such as IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, IEEE Transactions on computer aided design of Integrated Circuits (TCAD), IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine,  IEEE Letters of Computer Society, IEEE TDSC, ACM TODAES and IEEE Access Journals. I also served as a TPC member in IEEE conferences: ICCE- Las Vegas 2019, ICCE- Berlin 2019 and ICCE- Berlin 2020.