Vinod P. is presently a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Padua and a Professor in the Department of Computer Applications at Cochin University of Science & Technology, Cochin, Kerala, India. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Mathematics, University of Padua, Italy, where he the part of the EU-H2020 project named TagitSmart. He was also a Postdoctoral researcher at Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, under the ISEA project on Mobile Security. He holds his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India. In 2020, he was awarded the Seal of Excellence for a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship by the European Commission. He has numerous research articles published in peer-reviewed Journals and International Conferences. He is a reviewer of a number of security journals such as IEEE Transactions of Information Forensics, IEEE Communication Surveys and Tutorials, and Elsevier Computer Communications, and is also serving as a programme committee member in International Conferences related to Computer and Information Security. Vinod’s area of interest is Adversarial Machine Learning, Malware Analysis, Context-aware privacy-preserving Data Mining, and Natural Language Processing.

"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful "