Dr. Santosh Pattar holds a Ph. D. degree from the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bengaluru. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at KLE Technological University, Belagavi Campus. He is a data-driven IoT researcher and his research work focuses on developing efficient mechanisms for resource discovery in an IoT ecosystem. Also, at present, he is working on a multitude of topics in deep learning techniques and their application to IoT and disease diagnosis; biological network alignment, and its application in bioinformatics, digital twins, and their applications in Industry 4.0. He has authored and published papers on the above topic in refereed international journals and conferences. He is on the organization committee of conferences IEEE 6GIoT, IEEE MICCIS, and ETDTCon, both in India and abroad. He has also served as conference session chair and given several invited talks at various workshops and conferences. He serves on the review panel of several high-impact journals and conferences such as IEEE Communications Magazine; IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics; Information Sciences, Elsevier; Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier; Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Elsevier, IEEE WiECON ECE, IEEE DISCOVER, IEEE ANTS, etc. He is also students' branch councellor for ACM and CSI chapters.