Dr Divakar Yadav has been working as a Professor at the School of Computer and Information Science, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi, since Sept 2022. Before joining IGNOU, he worked as Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science& Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur (HP) from 2019-2022, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology (MMMUT), Gorakhpur (UP) from 2016-2019 and Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida (UP) from 2005-2016. He has more than 23 Years of teaching and research experience. He did his PDF from the University of Carlos-III, Madrid (Spain) in 2011-12, PhD (CSE) in 2010, M.Tech. (IT) from IIIT Allahabad in 2005 and B.Tech.(CSE) from IET Lucknow in 1999. He supervised 10 PhD theses,31 M.Tech. Dissertations and published more than 150 research articles in international journals and conference proceedings of repute. He is a senior member of IEEE and ACM; his research areas include machine learning, information retrieval, NLP, soft computing, etc.