Dr. Vivek S. Deshpande, holds Bachelors and Masters of Engineering in Electronics & Telecommunications from Pune University and Doctorate from Nagpur University, India. He Has got 31 years of experience comprises of Industry and academia as well. Currently Dr. Vivek is Director at Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology, VIIT, Pune. He worked in VIT, Pune as Professor and Head for Computer Engineering Department. He is doing his research in Wireless Sensor Networks, embedded systems, IoT, Industry 4.0, High-Performance Computer Networks and AI Machine learning as well. Dr Vivek is pursued his Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship from Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria, Europe. He published more than 70 papers in international journals and conferences of repute. He filed 24 Indian patents, and all are published now. Dr Vivek is working on many research projects which tackles more social and industrial problems. Vivek is Senior member of IEEE, Pune Section (R10, India). He chairs Education Society and Industry Relations for Pune Chapter. He is also a Chair of conference committee of Pune Chapter. Dr Vivek recently developed a Wireless Network Lab in Pune. This lab is now converted into Center of Excellence for IoT. There are three verticals namely e-Health, Precision Agriculture and Smart City are targeted in this COE. Dr Vivek is also active member of the IP Lab, where industry automation is collaborated with Artificial intelligence and machine learning technology.