Dr. Nayan Kumar Sarkar is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, under the School of Computer Science and Engineering at IILM University, Greater Noida. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering (AIML) from the North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), under the Ministry of Education, Government of India. With extensive teaching and research experience across reputed institutions, Dr. Sarkar has previously worked at Galgotias University and Assam down town University, among others. His primary research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, image classification, and security. He has published several research articles in reputed SCI and Scopus-indexed journals and has also presented and published papers at international conferences. In recognition of his research contributions, he received the best paper awards at ICEAI 2023 (Malaysia) and SETSM 2025 (Vietnam). Dr. Sarkar also serves as the Co-Principal Investigator of a funded research project titled “Drone-integrated Automatic Pesticide Sprayer for Precision Agriculture,” supported by Assam down town University. Beyond his academic achievements, he has also qualified UGC-NET(LS). He is also the recipient of the prestigious Anundoram Borooah Award (2006) and the MHRD GATE Scholarship (2014–2016).