Dr. Gitanjali R. Shinde has overall 15 years of experience, presently working as Associate Professor in Department of Computer Engineering, Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology, Pune, India. She did her Ph.D. in Wireless Communication from CMI, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark on Research Problem Statement “Cluster Framework for Internet of People, Things and Services”. She obtained M.E. (Computer Engineering) degree from the University of Pune, Pune in 2012 and B.E. (Computer Engineering) degree from the University of Pune, Pune in 2006. She has received research funding for the project “Lightweight group authentication for IoT” by SPPU, Pune. She has presented a research article in the World Wireless Research Forum (WWRF) meeting, Beijing China. She has published 50+ papers in National, International conferences and journals. She is author of 10+ books with publishers Springer and CRC Taylor & Francis Group and she is also editor of books. Her book “Data Analytics for Pandemics A COVID 19 Case Study” is awarded outstanding Book of the year 2020.