Dr. Pallavi Vijay Chavan is Professor and head-IT at Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology, D. Y. Patil Deemed to be University, Navi Mumbai, MH, India. She has been in academia for the past 20 years working in the area of computing theory, data science, and network security. In her academic journey, she has published research work in the data science and security domain with reputed publishers including Springer, Elsevier, CRC Press, and Inderscience.