Dr. Antorweep Chakravorty is an associate professor at the University of Stavanger. His current research and development work is in the field of applied blockchains, big data, large-scale machine learning, and data privacy. He has an interest in real-world problems, especially development of privacy-enabled data-driven services in smart energy, health care, and smart city domains. Antorweep completed his Ph.D. in 2015 with a thesis on privacy-preserving big data analytics at the University of Stavanger, Norway. Along with having a background in applied research in data-driven solutions, he is also involved in mentoring, teaching, and supervision.