Sambit Bakshi is currently with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India. He also serves as Head of the Centre for Automation Technology at National Institute of Technology Rourkela. His area of interest includes surveillance, biometric security, digital forensics, and social security analytics. He presently serves as associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, IEEE Transactions on Education and IEEE Systems Journal. He previously served as Associate Editor of IEEE IT Professional magazine, IEEE Access, Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering Springer: A NASA Journal, Expert Systems with Applications, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Image and Vision Computing, Multimedia Systems, Multimedia Tools and Applications, and Neural Processing Letters, Plos One, and Expert Systems in the past. He is a senior member of IEEE. He is Founding Chair of IEEE Rourkela Subsection and IEEE Kolkata Section Biometrics Council Chapter. He is a distinguished lecturer of IEEE Systems Council for 2023-2025 and distinguished lecturer of IEEE Women in Engineering for 2024-2025. He has published widely in more than 100 journals and conferences.