J. K. Mandal, M. Tech. in Computer Science from the University of Calcutta in 1987, was awarded Ph.D. (Engineering) in Computer Science and Engineering by Jadavpur University in 2000. Presently, he is working as a Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and was former Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Technology & Management, KU, for two consecutive terms during 2008-2012. He was Director, IQAC, Kalyani University, and Chairman, CIRM and Placement Cell. He served as a Professor of Computer Applications, Kalyani Government Engineering College, for two years, as an Associate Professor of Computer Science for eight years at North Bengal University, as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science, North Bengal University, for seven years, and as a Lecturer at NERIST, Itanagar, for one year. He has 32 years of teaching and research experience in coding theory, data and network security and authentication, remote sensing & GIS-based applications, data compression, error correction, visual cryptography and steganograp
