Dheerendra Mishra holds a Ph.D. in Cryptography from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. Prior to joining as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, he spent more than five years working as the Assistant Professor of Mathematics, The LNM Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India. Dr. Mishra's areas of research include Lattice-based cryptography, Multivariate Public-key Cryptography, Cloud Security, Security and Privacy accepts of Internet of Things, Security-related aspects in Sensor Networks and Vehicular Networks, Key agreement protocols, access control, privacy, and security accepts of Digital Rights managements systems, Blockchain-based Authentication. He has published more than 70 research papers in reputed international journals and conferences and has h-index 22 and i10-index 37. Included in the subject-wise ranking of the World's top 2% scientists by Stanford University.