Brig. Umesh K. Chopra was commissioned into the Indian Army in May 1974. He earned his BE in Electronics and Telecommunications from the Military College of Telecommunications in 1983 and completed his ME in Computer Science & Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1987. Since October 2009, he has been part of Amity Lucknow Campus, currently serving as Director of AIITL. His expertise includes IoT, Cyber Security, Cryptography, Artificial Intelligence, Web Mining, and Data Science. He has published numerous papers in esteemed national and international journals and is renowned for organizing many international and national events.