Dr. Santos Kumar Das is a R&D professional with more than 21 years of valuable experience on various Software developments and research activities both in industries and academics. At present he is working at National Institute of Technology Rourkela as an Associate professor. He worked at SDSU, California, US as an adjunct faculty for one month on Software Defined Network. He is academically astute and technically brilliant with a Master Degree specializing in Electrical Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, India and PhD Degree from National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India. His PhD research work was on “Quality of service estimation for an Optical Virtual Private Network over WDM/DWDM network”. His current research work is on IoT, sensor networking, optical networking, embedded system and software defined network (SDN). He has guided almost 52 BTECH and 42 MTECH projects in various domains. He has published 47 journals, 60 conference papers, 15 patents (4 granted) during his industry and academic work, 19 book chapters, one book. He has already completed 4 sponsored projects and at this moments, he is handling 4 sponsored projects in various domains.