I am an assistant professor in School of Instrumentation at Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya (DAVV) Indore, 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 with Dr. Urbi Chatterjee, Assistant Professor, in Computer Science department at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India. I worked towards my PhD degree under the supervision of Prof. Anirban Sengupta, Professor of Computer Science Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore, India. My research interests include Securing intellectual property (IP) cores for DSP and IoT applications, Security aware High Level Synthesis (HLS) and Biometric techniques for hardware (IP) security.