Dr. Priyanka Kumar is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She received her Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT Hyderabad). She has many distinguished academic records to her credit including a Gold Medal in M. Tech in Computer Science and a Gold Medal in M.Sc. Electronics. She was awarded as the “Most Promising PhD Researcher” in ICDCN 2013, TIFR, Mumbai, India. She was awarded a “TCS scholarship” from TCS under the “Research Scholar Program” for the 9th Cycle and 6th Cycle, High Valued PhD Fellowship Award at IIT Hyderabad and IIT Patna. She was awarded as a ‘Young Woman in Engineering’ in Computer Science and Engineering at the 4th Venus International Women Awards - VIWA 2019. She has been awarded the “Certificate of Appreciation – Amrita Innovation & Research Awards (AIRA) 2021” for her publications. She has been granted innovation patents and published many papers in conferences and journals. She has guided several graduate and Undergraduate students. She has successfully carried out industry projects and academia. She serves as a technical committee member and session chair for several reputed conferences in India.