Hitesh Mohapatra received the B.E. degree in information technology and the M.Tech. degree in computer science and engineering from the Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Rourkela, India, in 2006 and 2009, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering with a specialization in designing of fault-tolerant models for smart city with WSN and IoT from the Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla, India, in 2021. He is currently working as an Associate Professor with KIIT University (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, India. He has 11 years of teaching experience both in industry and academia. He has contributed more than 20 SCI and Scopus indexed research papers, 15 international/national conferences, and three books on Software Engineering, Smart City with WSN, and C Programming, respectively. His research interests include fault-tolerant wireless sensor networks, smart cities, and smart applications. Dr. Mohapatra has worked as a reviewer, the session chair, the technical chair, the editorial board member, the guest editor, and the TPC member for many national and international journals and conferences.