J. Karthikeyan received the Ph.D. degree from the Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore. He is currently a Senior Associate Professor with the School of Computer Science Engineering and Information Systems, VIT. He has more than 15 years of experience in teaching as well as expertise in data mining, machine learning, and federated learning domains. He has published more than 40 research articles in SCI, Scopus, and high-reputed journals. He has produced three bbreak scholars in IT domains.