Dr. Nileshsingh V. Thakur received Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science Engineering from Government College of Engineering, Amravati, India and Master of Engineering degree in Computer Science Engineering from College of Engineering, Badnera under Amravati University and Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University in 1992 and 2005 respectively. He received Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India on 1^st February 2010.

He is having over 28 years of teaching and research experience. Presently he is Professor in Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Prof Ram Meghe College of Engineering and Management, Badnera-Amravati, India.

His research interest includes image and video processing; robotics and vision; pattern recognition and neural network; smart camera and sensor networks; big data analysis; nature based computing algorithms and evolutionary approaches.

He is the author or co author of more than 80 scientific publications in international journal, international conferences and workshops. He is the editor of the books published in 2009 and 2019 by Tata McGraw-Hill and Springer, respectively .

Presently, he is supervising 2 PhD research scholars in SGB Amravati University and 6 PhD research scholars awarded PhD by RTM Nagpur University and SGB Amravati University.

Dr. Thakur is the life member of ISTE, India, IAENG, and IAEME. Also, he is the member of IEEE Signal Processing Society’s IVMSP Technical Committee.

He acted as Programme Committee member for ICIT 2013 (Dubai), ISMS 2013 (Malaysia), AIMS 2013 (Malaysia), ISCI 2013 (IIT, Madras), CIMSim 2013 (South Korea), CIMSim 2011 (Malaysia), CICSYN 2013 (Spain), CICSYN 2012 (Thailand), ICETET 2011 (Mauritius), ICETET 2012 (Japan), EUROSIM 2013, UKSIM 2009, UKSIM 2010, UKSIM 2011, UKSIM 2012, UKSIM 2013 (UK), ISMS 2014 (Malaysia); ICIT 2014 (Dubai); ISCAIE 2014 (Malaysia); CSNT 2014 (Bhopal, India), ICEPIT 2014 (Bahrain), SmartCom 2019, SmartCom 2020.

Presently, he is reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Elsevier Journal of System and Software, IET Image Processing, International Journal on Simulation, System, Science and Technology, UK, Information Technology Journal, International Journal of Applied Sciences, and International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology.

Presently, he is an editorial board member of Journal of Applied Sciences; Information Technology Journal; Journal of Software Engineering; Journal of Artificial Intelligence; Singapore Journal of Scientific Research; International Journal of Computer Science and Applications; Undergraduate Academic Research Journal.

He delivered more than 60 keynote/expert talks on Image Processing, Data Mining, Data Processing, Neural Network, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Operation Research, and Advanced Computing at International and National Conferences, and training programmes.

He is certified ISO Auditor.

He got the recognition in Marquis Who’s Who in the World 2009 edition.

He worked as an External Expert in selection board for recruitment of Scientist-B for DRDO, India.

He worked as member of Expert Committee nominated by Government of Maharashtra for dealing with Microsoft.