Manik Sharma is an Associate Professor and Dean Faculty of Computer Science & Technology, DAV University Jalandhar. He is MCA, UGC-NET qualified and has received his PhD degree in “Distributed Query Optimization” from IKG Punjab Technical University, Kapoorthala, India. Dr. Sharma has also been enlisted in the current year list (Stanford University, 2022) of prestigious top 2 per cent scientists in the world. Moreover, he is a senior member IEEE and a fellow member of European Alliance for Innovation, Europe. 

Dr Sharma has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience. His research interests include Machine Learning, Optimization Techniques, Health Informatics and Smart Systems. The thrust area is to design a smart and innovative Decision Support System for the effective diagnosis and management of different behavioral and mental disorders. Dr Sharma authored/coauthored over 50 International Journal articles, Conference Proceedings, and Book Chapters.

He is Co-Editor-in-chief of EAI Endorsed Transaction on Pervasive Health and Technology (Scopus Indexed). Additionally, he is a part of editorial board of several reputed international journals including Soft Computing (Springer), Cluster Computing (Springer), and IEEE Access.

He is also serving as a reviewer for various international Journals including IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, MDPI, and SAGE publications. Moreover, he has been on program committees of over 100 international conferences as a member of International Program Committees, Technical Program Committees, and Advisory Committees of several academics conferences (United Kingdom, Singapore, Mauritius, Thailand, Vietnam, USA, Hong Kong, Canada, UAE, and India).