Gandharba Swain is a Professor by profession. He is a voracious reader, a prolific writer, and a passionate thinker. Presently he is working in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Vaddeswaram, Andhra Pradesh, India. Previously he had worked at GMR Institute of Technology, Rajam, Andhra Pradesh, India and at IACR Engineering College, Rayagada, Odisha, India. He received B.Sc (Hons) degree from Berhampur University in 1995, MCA degree from VSS University of Technology (VSSUT), Burla, in 1999, M.Tech (CSE) degree from NIT, Rourkela, in 2004 and PhD degree from SOA Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar in 2014. He has more than 20 years of teaching experience and more than 10 years of research experience. He has authored more than 65 research articles in international journals and conferences in the areas of Networks, Security and Digital Image Steganography. Some of his articles are published in reputed journals owned by reputed publishers like Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Hindawi, and Inderscience. As on 4 April 2019 his h-index is 14, i-10 index is 19 and his google scholar citation count is 535. He taught several subjects like Object Oriented Analysis & Design, Computer Networks, TCP/IP protocol suite, Digital Logic Design, Computer Organization & Architecture, Advanced Computer Architecture, C & Data Structures, Object Oriented Programming through C++ and Java, Design & Analysis of Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems, Software Testing Methodologies, Simulation and Modeling, and Secure Programming to undergraduate and post graduate engineering students. He has authored a book entitled “Object Oriented Analysis and Design through Unified Modeling Language”, published by Lakshmi Publications, New Delhi.