Manas Mukul has over 15 years of work experience out of which he has worked for 7 years in the IT Sector and the remaining in academics and research. He has worked in the field of Application Development and Maintenance performing roles of developer, project lead, onsite coordinator, business analyst, training and delivery manager. He is currently working as an Associate Professor in Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Bhubaneswar. His areas of teaching and research include Object Oriented Design and Programming, Software Engineering, Global Positioning Systems and GIS. He has numerous research publication in high impact international journals published by Springer, Elsevier and Nature.